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  1. Engraved lighter from a displaced persons camp

    1. Tibor Stern collection

    Engraved lighter made for Tibor Stern by a Spanish acquaintance as a memento of Tibor's stay in the Cinecitta displaced persons camp in Rome, Italy, after World War II. In 1942, Tibor tried to escape from Nazi-allied Hungary, but was caught and sentenced to 10 years hard labor. In 1945, he was sent to Dresden and placed under SS control to help clean debris after the bombing of the city, then taken on a death march until he was liberated by Russian forces. He ended up in the Cinecitta DP camp, from which he emigrated to the United States in 1948.

  2. Wooden thread spool from tailoring shop in Paris

    1. Isaac Kornowski family collection

    Spool of light brown thread used by Isaac (Jacques) Kornowski in the tailoring business he operated with his wife, Chaja, in Paris, France. Germany occupied France in 1940. Kornowski, a German-Jewish immigrant who had lived in Paris since 1920, was arrested by the German authorities on August 23, 1941, and imprisoned in the Drancy transit camp. The next year he was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp where he was killed. His wife, Chaja, and their two sons, Henri and Paul, survived the war: Chaja in southern France; the boys in the OSE La Foret children's home in Switzerland.

  3. Infant’s open back blouse with blue monogram made in DP camp

    1. Vladimir Brandwajn collection

    Open back white smock made for newborn Vladimir (Wowa) Brandwajn, after his birth on August 14, 1946, in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany. It was made by his mother, Luba, and embroidered with his initials. Vladimir was the first baby born in the DP camp. His parents, Luba and Rachmiel, had married in 1941 in Soviet occupied Poland. During the war, Luba lived in the Soviet Union and Rachmiel fought in the Soviet Army. After the war ended in May 1945, they relocated to Germany.

  4. Infant’s open back white blouse with a light blue monogram made in DP camp

    1. Vladimir Brandwajn collection

    Open back white smock made for newborn Vladimir (Wowa) Brandwajn, after his birth on August 14, 1946, in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany. It was made by his mother, Luba, and embroidered on the front with his initials. Vladimir was the first baby born in the DP camp. His parents, Luba and Rachmiel, had married in 1941 in Soviet occupied Poland. During the war, Luba lived in the Soviet Union and Rachmiel fought in the Soviet Army. After the war ended in May 1945, they relocated to Germany.

  5. Wolf and Schlesinger families papers

    The collection documents the pre-war lives of Rudolf Wolf and Gretel Schlesinger Wolf and their families in Frankfurt, Germany, as well as their immigration and post-war experiences in the United States. Included are biographical materials such as identification papers, diaries, and genealogical research; pre-war correspondence along with war-time letters written from family and friends in Germany as well as those who fled; immigration papers; restitution papers; and pre-war and post-war photographs of family and friends in Frankfurt and the United States. The biographical materials primari...

  6. To the Slaughter Arthur Szyk caricature of Himmler holding a list of planned executions

    1. Arthur Szyk collection

    Brightly colored portrait of Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi SS, drawn by Arthur Szyk when he was living as a refugee in London in 1939. Himmler holds a list naming the Poles and Jews to be executed. Germany invaded and occupied Poland in September 1939. On September 7, Himmler created the Reich Security Main Office which would coordinate the annihilation of European Jews. Szyk often made clear in his work how practical and deliberate the Nazis were in planning their killing operations. Szyk, a Jewish emigre artist, originally from Łódź, Poland, left London for the United States in 1940....

  7. Eisenstadt family papers

    The collection contains pre-war photographs of the Eisenstadt family of Pinsk, Belarus, and post-war photographs of Boris Eisenstadt and his wife Rachel Eisenstadt (née Bak, later Burstein) of Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania and her son Alex in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany. The documents are identification papers of Rachel from Landsberg and Israel. There is also a letter regarding her visa application to the United States from Canada, 1957.

  8. Brown knit hat with a J triangle patch and initials worn by a Yugoslavian political prisoner

    1. John Bole collection

    Brown cap with two patches worn by Ivan (Johann) Bole, 29, in Buchenwald concentration camp from November 1944 until April 1945. The J (for Jugoslawisch) and the red inverted triangle indicated the wearer was a Yugoslavian political prisoner. The striped patch represents the Yugoslavian flag. Ivan, a Catholic, was a lawyer in Laibach, Yugoslavia (Ljubljana, Slovenia) when the Axis powers, led by Nazi Germany, invaded in April 1941. Laibach was annexed by Italy. Ivan went to Venice with the Slovenian Red Cross. In September 1944, he was arrested by the German SS for smuggling a radio transmi...

  9. Button flap cloth pouch used by a Yugoslav political prisoner

    1. John Bole collection

    Military style brown cloth pouch used by Ivan (Johann) Bole, 29, in Buchenwald concentration camp where he was held as a Yugoslavian political prisoner from November 1944 until April 1945. Ivan, a Catholic, was a lawyer in Laibach, Yugoslavia (Ljubljana, Slovenia) when the Axis powers, led by Nazi Germany, invaded in April 1941. Laibach was annexed by Italy. Ivan went to Venice with the Slovenian Red Cross. In September 1944, he was arrested by the German SS for smuggling a radio transmitter into Trieste. In November, Ivan was sent to Buchenwald in Germany and assigned prisoner number 67186...

  10. Drawing of a man using the latrine given to a Yugoslavian political prisoner

    1. John Bole collection

    Pencil portrait of a prisoner defecating in a concentration camp latrine given to 29 year old Ivan (Johann) Bole in Buchenwald concentration camp, where Ivan was held as a Yugoslavian political prisoner from November 1944 to April 1945. The artist was probably another inmate and it is signed N. Pinat, but nothing is known about him. Ivan, a Catholic, was a lawyer in Laibach, Yugoslavia (Ljubljana, Slovenia) when the Axis powers, led by Nazi Germany, invaded in April 1941. Laibach was annexed by Italy. Ivan went to Venice with the Slovenian Red Cross. In September 1944, he was arrested by th...

  11. Aluminum ring with a letter and prisoner number owned by a Yugoslav political prisoner

    1. John Bole collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn44120
    • English
    • overall: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Diameter: 0.900 inches (2.286 cm)

    Engraved aluminum ring that belonged to 29 year old Ivan (Johann) Bole, who was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp from November 1944 - April 1945. It is engraved with a J (Jugoslawisch) and an inverted triangle, the symbols Ivan was labelled with to identify him as a Yugoslavian political prisoner. Ivan, a Catholic, was a lawyer in Laibach, Yugoslavia (Ljubljana, Slovenia) when the Axis powers, led by Nazi Germany, invaded in April 1941. Laibach was annexed by Italy. Ivan went to Venice with the Slovenian Red Cross. In September 1944, he was arrested by the German SS for smuggling...

  12. 2 sided drawing of a seated inmate in an overcoat given to a political prisoner

    1. John Bole collection

    Double sided portrait of a prisoner given to 29 year old Ivan (Johann) Bole in Buchenwald concentration camp, where Ivan was held as a Yugoslavian political prisoner from November 1944 to April 1945. On the front is a man in an overcoat sitting on a bunk bed, the back has a sketch of his head. The artist was probably another inmate and it is signed N. Pinat, but nothing is known about him. Ivan, a Catholic, was a lawyer in Laibach, Yugoslavia (Ljubljana, Slovenia) when the Axis powers, led by Nazi Germany, invaded in April 1941. Laibach was annexed by Italy. Ivan went to Venice with the Slo...

  13. 2 sided ink drawing of a shirtless male inmate given to a Yugoslavian political prisoner

    1. John Bole collection

    Double sided portrait of a prisoner given to 29 year old Ivan (Johann) Bole in Buchenwald concentration camp, where Ivan was held as a Yugoslavian political prisoner from November 1944 to April 1945. The artist was probably another inmate and it is signed N. Pinat, but nothing is known about him. It depicts a shirtless man with short hair fixing his shirt, sitting near bunk beds. The back has sketches of several faces. Ivan, a Catholic, was a lawyer in Laibach, Yugoslavia (Ljubljana, Slovenia) when the Axis powers, led by Nazi Germany, invaded in April 1941. Laibach was annexed by Italy. Iv...

  14. Satiric sketch of two skeletal doctors with a patient given to a Yugoslavian political prisoner

    1. John Bole collection

    Caricature with two "doctors" and an anxious prisoner/patient given to 29 year old Ivan (Johann) Bole in Buchenwald concentration camp, where Ivan was held as a Yugoslavian political prisoner from November 1944 to April 1945. The artist was probably another inmate and it is signed N. Pinat, but nothing is known about him. Ivan, a Catholic, was a lawyer in Laibach, Yugoslavia (Ljubljana, Slovenia) when the Axis powers, led by Nazi Germany, invaded in April 1941. Laibach was annexed by Italy. Ivan went to Venice with the Slovenian Red Cross. In September 1944, he was arrested by the German SS...

  15. Yellow cloth armband printed Deutsche Wehrmacht

    1. Gerald Schwab collection

  16. Porcelain souvenir dish of the Marchenbrunnen owned by a young German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Ruth Dublon Grossmann collection

    Basket shaped porcelain souvenir dish owned by Rosa Dublon, who in 1936, at the age of 9, left Germany with her mother Erna and five year old sister Herta for the United States. The dish has a painted image of the Marchenbrunnen, or fairy tale fountain, located in Hofgarten park in Dusseldorf. After 1933, the Nazi dictatorship that now governed Germany increasingly persecuted Jewish residents. Rosa's parents Erna and Siegfried divorced in the mid-1930s and Erna and the girls moved to her hometown of Mertloch. Erna's sister Helen Lederer had lived in the United States since at least 1930. Sh...

  17. Veit Wyler papers Nachlass Dr. iur. Veit Wyler (1908-2002)

    Private papers of Veit Wyler (August 28, 1908 - October 18, 2002), attorney, Swiss refugee aid worker, Jewish community official, and Zionist delegate. The collection consists of photographs, certificates from schools, doctoral studies, military service records, records of his early activities as a lawyer, files of the federal prosecutor, documentation of his commitment to Jewish refugees and of the David Frankfurter trial, autobiographical writings and reports, private and business correspondence, honors, press articles, obituaries, a diary, poems, records of his family history, edited new...

  18. Berg family papers

    1. Salomon and Berg families collection

    Consists of a handwritten songbook, report card, United States visa card, passport (Fremdenpass), a copy of a letter, magazine page, and two photographs owned by Alfred Berg, originally of Vienna, Austria. Berg's visa card and passport were obtained when he immigrated to the United States in 1939 as part of the "50 children" group facilitated by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The magazine page shows photos of the children and of the Krauses and drew attention to their story. Also includes a photograph of Berg as a "Seabee" in the mid-1940s and a photograph of Elfriede Toch, circa 1944, who was ...

  19. Silver souvenir spoon with the Bonn coat of arms with a fitted box owned by a young German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Ruth Dublon Grossmann collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn88136
    • English
    • a: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) b: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)

    Small souvenir spoon with a painted coat of arms and fitted box owned by Rosa Dublon, who in 1936, at the age of 9, left Germany with her mother Erna and five year old sister Herta for the United States. After 1933, the Nazi dictatorship that now governed Germany increasingly persecuted Jewish residents. Rosa's parents Erna and Siegfried divorced in the mid-1930s and Erna and the girls moved to her hometown of Mertloch. Erna's sister Helen Lederer had lived in the United States since at least 1930. She sponsored their 1936 emigration to New York to live with her in Queens. Helen also sponso...

  20. Star of David badge imprinted with Jude worn by a German Jewish man

    1. Abraham Levi family collection

    Star of David badge worn by Adolf Daniel de Beer in Oldenburg, Germany. Adolf was president of the synagogue in Oldenburg and operated a large laundry with branches outside the city. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and instituted government policies to persecute Jews. People were encouraged to boycott Jewish businesses and, in August 1936, Adolf closed his stores. The synagogue was destroyed during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. Adolf's wife, Mathilde, had converted to Judaism prior to their marriage and was issued the identification card of a non-Jew. They ...