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  1. Drawing of judge and US attorney 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 the Honorable Martin J. Travers, a federal immigration judge for the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), and three federal attorneys for the prosecution, including lead INS attorney James Grable. 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 accus...

  2. Drawing of a Holocaust survivor tesifying 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. Drawing of defendant and US attorney at trial of suspected 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 Detlavs on the witness stand begin questioned by United States attorney George Parker through a court-appointed Latvian interpreter. 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 ...

  4. Drawing of Holocaust survivor testifying 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. It depicts eyewitness Frida Michelson testifying that Detlavs was the guard who forced her to the execution pit during the massacre in the Rumbula Forest in December 1941. Michelson survived by hiding under a pile of discarded shoes. She identified Detlavs from a 1941 photo shown to her by Israeli police in the 1970s, but did not identify him in person at the trial. Detlavs was accused of withholding informatio...

  5. Drawing of Holocaust survivor testifying at trial of suspected 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, Holocaust survivor and prosecution witness, Boris Tsesvan, and Yiddish interpreter, Moses Aberbach. Tsesvan identified Detlavs as one of the uniformed guards who beat and took away another Jewish forced laborer from the Hotel Roma in Riga, Latvia, in June 1943. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war c...

  6. Drawing of guards and JDL protestors at trial of suspected 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 three courtroom officers approaching three Jewish Defense League (JDL) members protesting the Honorable Martin J. Travers, the federal immigration judge for the case, issuing a continuance to allow the prosecution to seek more evidence from Soviet sources. Detlavs was accused of withholding information on his petition for permanent residency by denying involvement in Nazi war crimes during W...

  7. Drawing of lawyer questioning eyewitness 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 Detlavs's lawyer questioning an unseen person, while standing next to a seated Detlavs and his daughter in a crowded courtroom. 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 ghett...

  8. Silver plaque with an engraved inscription presented to a Jewish woman for charitable work

    1. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection and Edwin Geist collection

    Silver wall plate preserved by Rosian Zerner. It is inscribed to her maternal grandmother Anna Blumenthal Chason by the Ostjudischen Vereins [Eastern Jewish Association] of Free State Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in January 1930. Anna, her husband Julius, and three of their four children immigrated to Palestine on October 24, 1935. This was the day after the birth of Anna's first granddaughter Rosian, to her daughter Gerta Bagriansky in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. After Germany's defeat in World War I (1914-1918), Danzig, previously part of West Prussia, was designated a Free City. It was the...

  9. Silver basket with floral emblem presented for charitable work

    1. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection and Edwin Geist collection

    Elaborate, silver repousse basket preserved by Rosian Zerner. It is inscribed to her maternal grandmother Anna Blumenthal Chason by the Ostjudischen Vereins [Eastern Jewish Association] of Free State Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in February 1930. Anna, her husband Julius, and three of their four children immigrated to Palestine on October 24, 1935. This was the day after the birth of her first granddaughter Rosian, to Anna's daughter Gerta Bagriansky in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. After Germany's defeat in World War I (1914-1918), Danzig, previously part of West Prussia, was designated a Free...

  10. Red leather sewing box recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman

    1. Maud Michal Beer family collection

    Red leather sewing box made for Käthe Stecklmacher by her father Max Steiner and preserved by her daughter Maud. Max and his brother Josef operated a custom leather goods business started by their father. Käthe gave the box to non-Jewish neighbors for safekeeping before her July 1942 deportation from Prostejov, Czechoslovakia, to Ghetto Theresienstadt. She recovered the box when she returned to Prostejov in May 1945. On July 2, 1942, Käthe, her husband Fritz, her two daughters, Maud, 13, and Karmela, 8, her parents Max and Steffi Steiner, and her uncle and cousin, Josef and Gustav Steiner, ...

  11. Drawing of a sleeping seminude woman sleeping on her side by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn110
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm) | Width: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm)

    Sketch of a sleeping, seminude 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 Jewish re...

  12. Drawing of a sleeping seminude woman by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn109
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm)

    Sketch of a sleeping, topless 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 Jewish ref...

  13. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Regina and Halina Goldwag collection

    Luggage tag used by Regina Zak Goldwag while sailing on the Marine Flasher, the first transport of refugees to the United States in May 1946. Regina and her two children, Halina and Ludwik, were living in Warsaw when the German army invaded Poland, on September 1, 1939. Ludwik soon left to join the Polish army, but after Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland, he got stuck behind the Soviet border. In October 1940, Regina and Halina were forced to relocate to Warsaw’s newly established Jewish ghetto. In the summer of 1942, they were introduced to someone who could smuggle them out ...

  14. Klapholz and Schlesinger family papers

    Contains birth certificates, passports and identification cards bearing photographs, and marriage certificates pertaining to Erna Meier (later Schlesinger Summerfield) and her daughter Irene Schlesinger's (later Woods Hofstein) lives in Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1939.

  15. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Regina and Halina Goldwag collection

    Luggage tag used by Halina Goldwag Rosenberg while sailing on the Marine Flasher, the first transport of refugees to the United States in May 1946. Halina, her mother, Regina and her brother, Ludwik were living in Warsaw when the German army invaded Poland, on September 1, 1939. Ludwik soon left to join the Polish army, but after Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland, he got stuck behind the Soviet border. In October 1940, Regina and Halina were forced to relocate to Warsaw’s newly established Jewish ghetto. In the summer of 1942, they were introduced to someone who could smuggle ...

  16. Book Hazkára |Gyaszimak es elmelkedesek halottemlekezteto unnepekre, evfordulora es sirlatogatasok alkalmara

    1. George Pick family collection

    Memorial book, Emlékezések könyve, with an inscription of future Yahrzeit or anniversary dates from 1935 through 1982 for Samu Kornhauser, the maternal grandfather of Gyorgy Pick. The book was used by Malvina Kornhauser to press flowers (1999.282.3.1) from the July 1935 funeral of her husband Samu. She pressed the blossoms between pages 35 and 35. The book was preserved during the war by Malvina, her daughter Margit Pick, Margit's husband Istvan and son Gyorgy. Malvina, ten year old Gyorgy, and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary was...

  17. Marian Miklin photograph collection

    1. Beryl and Marian Miklin collection

    The Marian Miklin collection consists of seven photographs depicting Beryl and Marian Miklin and their life in Neu Freiman displaced persons camp.

  18. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection

    1. Helen and William Luksenburg collection

    The William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of relatives of the Luksenburg and Chilewicz families in Poland. The photograph collection includes images of both Holocaust victims and survivors. The pre-war family photographs were taken in Da̧browa Górnicza and Sosnowiec, Poland. The wartime photographs were taken in Sosnowiec, Poland and feature members of the Hanoar Hatzioni Zionist Youth Movement. Additional wartime photographs include young Jewish women in the Sosnowiec ghetto wearing armbands with the Star of David. The pos...

  19. Rosenfeld family collection

    1. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin collection

    The Rosenfeld family collection consists of identification documents, restitution paperwork, correspondence, and photographs related to the Rosenfeld family of Adelsheim, Germany. The collection also relates to the Kindertransport experiences of Bertha, Edith, Ruth, and Esther Rosenfeld, and their lives in England during World War II. The identification documents includes Esther Rosenfeld and Bertha Rosenfeld’s travel documents, 1947; Esther Rosenfeld’s National Registration Identity Card, May 22, 1940 and her baggage tag, undated; and a probate court document related to Sol M. Alpher and t...

  20. Betti Blaugrund. Collection

    This collection contains : a children's desk and chair used by Aline and Jacques Klajn before their deportation in October 1942 ; clogs carved for Betti Blaugrund by Louis Ceulemans while she was in hiding at the Ceulemans-Gryson farm in Aarschot ; a pre-war suitcase used by Betti Blaugrund’s family to store photos ; photos of the extended Blaugrund-Berlinski family, including photos of the Klajn-Berlinski family, the Berlinski-Frenkiel family and the Guzy-Berlinski family ; pre-war photos of family vacations at the Belgian coast ; wartime photos of Betti Blaugrund with Louis and Odile Ceul...