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  1. UNRRA embroidered patch worn by a survivor and DP camp relief worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Circular, red, UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) patch worn by Hans Finke (later John Fink) when he worked for the organization as a store manager in a refugee center in Germany from 1946-47. Hans was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen when it was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945. An electrician by trade, he began working for the British and then various aid groups after it became a displaced persons camp. Hans, his parents, and his sister, Ursula, lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies....

  2. Drawing of eyewitness and interpreter at trial of accused Latvian war criminal

    1. Charles R. Hazard and The Baltimore Sun collection

    Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the November 1977 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts It depicts Jacob Wagenheim, a Holocaust survivor and witness, testifying about Detlavs involvement, and the Yiddish interpreter, Moses Aberbach. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in...

  3. Sketch of three spectators at trial of accused Latvian war criminal

    1. Charles R. Hazard and The Baltimore Sun collection

    Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the 1979 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. The drawing depicts three courtroom spectators, including a man wearing a kippah. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in the Dwinsk ghetto in 1943, while a member of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police...

  4. Drawing of accused Latvian war criminal on the stand

    1. Charles R. Hazard and The Baltimore Sun collection

    Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the 1979 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts defendant Karlis Detlavs on the witness stand. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in the Dwinsk ghetto in 1943, while a member of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police during the German occup...

  5. Drawing of judge speaking to defendant, an accused Latvian war criminal

    1. Charles R. Hazard and The Baltimore Sun collection

    Courtroom drawing created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the November 1977 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. It depicts Detlavs, his daughter, and the Honorable Martin J. Travers, a federal immigration judge for the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for e...

  6. Drawing of judge at trial of suspected Latvian war criminal

    1. Charles R. Hazard and The Baltimore Sun collection

    Courtroom drawing depicting Judge Emil Bobek created by Charles (Hap) Hazard while on assignment for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the 1979 deportation trial of Karlis Detlavs held in Baltimore, Maryland. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during World War II (1939-1945). He was accused of executing Jews in the Riga ghetto and selecting Jews for execution in the Dwinsk ghetto in 1943, while a member of the Latvian Auxiliary Security Police during the German occupation. In 1950, Detlavs emigrat...

  7. Mickey Gliksberg. Collection

    This collection contains the following documents: the ketubah of Meyer Gliksberg and Sura Blumenkranz, 1919 ; photocopies of two letters from the National Railway Company of Belgium (NMBS/SNCB) to Meyer Gliksberg regarding luggage lost during the flight in May 1940 ; a file (6 documents and 6 photos) concerning the hiding of Mickey (Michla) Gliksberg at the pensionnat Saint-Charles in Herseaux, including photos of the site, the nuns and post-war photos of Mickey Gliksberg with other Jewish girls hidden at the convent ; a photocopy of a note dated 1943, sent by Henri, a fellow-prisoner of Mi...

  8. Enameled cooking pot with lid used by a German Jewish family forced to emigrate

    1. Berg and Hermanns families collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn601646
    • English
    • a: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm) | Depth: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) b: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Depth: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)

    Cooking pot and lid brought with Gisela Berg and her family to Kenya where they lived after fleeing Cologne, Germany, in May/June 1939. They used this pot when preparing for Passover. The family was warned by neighbors to leave their home in Lechenich prior to the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. Their homes were vandalized and the family decided to leave Germany. Jill's father Josef, his brother George, and cousin Ernest fled to the Netherlands. They were arrested, but their uncle, Herman Meyer, hired a lawyer and the men were detained but not deported. This gave the family tim...

  9. Small yellow suitcase used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Small yellow suitcase used by 6 year old Franziska (Ruth) Danzig when her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parent found a Jewish foster family, the Paste...

  10. Handmade storybook by a German Jewish girl rescued by the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Illustrated story book "The Lost Ones," made by Franziska (Ruth) Danzig who, at age 6, was sent by her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Jewish population was actively persecuted. During Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parents found a Jewish foster family, th...

  11. Aluminum pitcher used by a German Jewish family forced to emigrate

    1. Berg and Hermanns families collection

    Aluminum pitcher used by Gisela Berg and her extended family when they fled Cologne, Germany, in May/June 1939. The family was warned by neighbors to leave their home in Lechenich prior to the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. Their homes were vandalized and the family decided to leave Germany. Jill's father Josef, his brother George, and cousin Ernest fled to the Netherlands. They were arrested, but their uncle, Herman Meyer, hired a lawyer and the men were detained but not deported. This gave the family time to find a country where they could emigrate legally. A family friend g...

  12. Brown leather lace-up boots worn by a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    1. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn72131
    • English
    • 1964
    • a: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm)

    Brown leather lace-up boots bought for 2 year old Esther Rosenfeld by her parents in Germany and worn when she left on a June 1939 Kinderstransport to Great Britain, as her three older sisters Bertl, Edith, and Ruth, had done in March. As the adult Esther remembered: "The boots traveled with me from Germany as I left my home and parents when I was just two years old to start a new life in England. ... I suppose I wore them on the train, the ship, and then another train as I traveled to a new family. In Thorpe, I must have worn those boots for a long time. My foster father, who worked in a s...

  13. Houndstooth check cloth ankle boots worn by a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    1. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn72129
    • English
    • 1964
    • a: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Depth: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) b: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm)

    Brown and beige houndstooth cloth ankle boots owned by 2 year old Esther Rosenfeld who was sent on a June 1939 Kindertransport [Children's Transport] from Germany to Great Britain. Her older sisters, Bertl, Edith, and Ruth, had gone in March. Esther was placed with Dorothy and Harry Harrison and their son Alan in Norwich. Her foster father worked in a shoe factory and may have repaired these boots as Esther grew, as he did 2012.451.2, the other boots she brought from Germany. These childhood items were returned to Esther in 1964 by her foster brother as a gift from her foster mother who had...

  14. Isidor Gross papers

    1. Edward Isidor Gross collection

    The Isidor Gross papers consist of documents and photographs that concern the family, immigration, and United States Army service of German born Jewish man, Isidor Gross. After being arrested by the Gestapo in 1938, Isidor and his father Markus fled Aachen, Germany for the United States and successfully rescued his mother and two younger siblings from a holding camp. Included in this collection are several documents from Isidor’s childhood in Germany, among them, his birth certificate, school report card, and employment workbook. Also included are papers documenting Isidor’s naturalization ...

  15. Two-sided drawing of men in a canteen and a portrait of a woman by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn119
    • English
    • 1940
    • a: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) b: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm)

    Drawings of men in a canteen and a woman at Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewis...

  16. Two-sided drawing of women in barracks and woman doubled over by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn104
    • English
    • 1940
    • a: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) b: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.125 inches (15.557 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.125 inches (15.557 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm)

    Two-sided drawing of women in Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewish refugees. Li...

  17. Faux alligator suitcase issued to inmates released in Bergen-Belsen prisoner exchange

    Suitcase given to 20-year-old Toni Klar and her parents for their departure from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Palestine in July 1944 as part of an exchange of camp inmates for German prisoners-of-war in British custody. The suitcase was originally owned by Pauline Eisenhardt, who had perished in Theresienstadt. Toni and her parents were refugees from Germany who were deported from Amsterdam to Bergen-Belsen in January 1944. While in Amsterdam, they had obtained certificates for Palestine and received a Putkammer letter ensuring their safety. The inmates selected for the prisoner exch...

  18. Susan Warsinger papers

    The Susan Warsinger (Hilsenrath) papers comprise documents and photographs related to Susan Warsinger’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to the United States in 1941. Much of the collection pertains to Susan’s life while living in the OSE home Chateau les Morelles in Broût-Vernet, France, which she describes in a diary and through a series of correspondence to her parents and little brother in the United States. Also comprised is correspondence with the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and American Frien...

  19. Herman Neudorf papers

    1. Herman Neudorf collection

    The Herman Neudorf papers contain the papers of Herman Neudorf, a former concentration camp prisoner and Holocaust survivor. Documents include papers related to his internment at Kaiserwald and Buchenwald including identification cards and personal testimony. Other documents include identification and passes collected while he was a refugee after liberation, and numerous documents pertaining to his emigration to Paris and later Colombia. Also included are various items relating to relatives including death and marriage certificates.

  20. Brown strap wrist watch worn postwar by a former labor camp inmate and aid worker

    1. George Birman collection

    Dark brown leather wrist watch worn by Hirsch Birman after the war as a refugee in Vienna, Austria. Hirsch and his father Abel lived in Kovno, (Kaunas) Lithuania, which was occupied by Germany on June 22, 1941. They fled, but were caught and brought back. On August 15, they were forced into a sealed ghetto. Hirsch was sent to Kedahnen concentration/labor camp in September, and Abel arrived in spring 1943. When the camp was being evacuated on July 9, 1944, due to approaching Soviet forces, they escaped through holes that Hirsch cut with pliers in the barbed wire fences. They hid in the fores...