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  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note, belonging to a German Jewish woman

    1. Ansbacher family collection

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, distributed to Selma Ansbacher and her family in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia between May 1943 and May 1945. At Theresienstadt, currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. Before the war, Selma’s husband, Ludwig Ansbacher, owned a fabric store in the small town of Dinkelsbühl, Germany. In 1937 they moved to Frankfurt. They sent their oldest son Manfred to an agricultural school near Hanover and he immigrated to Australia by 1939. In May 1942, their son Heinz was deported ...

  2. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, belonging to a German Jewish woman

    1. Ansbacher family collection

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, distributed to Selma Ansbacher and her family in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia between May 1943 and May 1945. At Theresienstadt, currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. Before the war, Selma’s husband, Ludwig Ansbacher, owned a fabric store in the small town of Dinkelsbühl, Germany. In 1937 they moved to Frankfurt. They sent their oldest son Manfred to an agricultural school near Hanover and he immigrated to Australia by 1939. In May 1942, their son Heinz was deported...

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note, belonging to a German Jewish woman

    1. Ansbacher family collection

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, distributed to Selma Ansbacher and her family in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia between May 1943 and May 1945. At Theresienstadt, currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. Before the war, Selma’s husband, Ludwig Ansbacher, owned a fabric store in the small town of Dinkelsbühl, Germany. In 1937 they moved to Frankfurt. They sent their oldest son Manfred to an agricultural school near Hanover and he immigrated to Australia by 1939. In May 1942, their son Heinz was deported ...

  4. ID patch stenciled 139905 worn by a Polish Jewish concentration camp inmate

    Prisoner identification patch with the number 139905 worn by 21 year old Shmuel Czyzyk when he was imprisoned in Dora Mittelbau slave labor camp, and its subcamp, Rottleberode, from January-April 1945. Shmuel, his parents, and three siblings were living in Łódź when Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany in September 1939. His father and brother left for eastern Poland but were caught by the Germans and interned in the Deblin ghetto. The rest of the family was sent from Łódź, and the family was held together in Deblin. In 1942, while Shmuel was at work, his parents and brother were deported to...

  5. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, acquired by a German Jewish man

    1. Edwin Bergmann collection

    Factory-printed Star of David badge acquired by Edwin Bergmann. On September 1, 1941, all Jews in the Reich six years of age or older were required to wear a badge, which consisted of a yellow Star of David with a black-outline and the word “Jew” printed inside the star in German. The badge was used to stigmatize and control the Jewish population. Edwin Bergmann, his brother, and two cousins were partners in a successful family business that manufactured hairpieces in Laupheim, Germany. After the Nazi party took control of the German government in January 1933, anti-Jewish decrees were pass...

  6. Watercolor with a variety of fruit painted by an orphan child at Lingfield House

    1. Alice Goldberger collection

    Post-war painting depicting a still-life bowl of fruit, including two green etrogs, a common citrus fruit used as part of Sukkot holiday. Sukkot is a weeklong Jewish holiday that celebrates harvest and commemorates the forty-year period during which the children of Israel were wandering in the desert. The drawing was made for Alice Goldberger by a child at Weir Courtney, an estate home in Surrey England where orphaned children who survived internment in concentration camps were cared for after the war. Alice, the matron of Weir Courtney, gave this and other artwork to former resident Judith...

  7. Abendstern, Fleischmann, and Meyerhoff families papers

    1. Abendstern, Fleischmann and Meyerhoff families collection

    The collection primarily consists of correspondence, photographs, and documents relating to the family of Elly (née Meyerhoff) and Otto Abendstern, their son Peter Abendstern (later Peter Aldin), and Elly's second husband Adolf Richard Fleischmann. It documents Otto's internment in several camps in southern France, Elly and Peter's survival in France during the war in Graulhet and Font-Romeu, and Adolf's internment at Les Milles Camp and Saint Nicolas in southern France. Included are birth and marriage certificates, immigration and travel documents, family correspondence, pre-war, wartime, ...

  8. Tefillin set found on the body of a concentration camp inmate by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Walter Fried collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn205
    • English
    • b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) c: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) d: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) e: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) f: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) g: Height: 22.125 inches (56.198 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) h: Height: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) i: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) j: Height: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) k: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) l: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm)

    Tefillin set with arm and head tefillin covers and 5 removed prayer scrolls found by Walter Fried, an American soldier and Jewish Austrian refugee, near Regensburg, Germany circa April 1945. Walter found the tefillin with a pouch (1988.118.a) on the body of a concentration camp inmate who died on a forced march and was buried in a shallow grave along a road near Regensburg. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. The Army arranged the re-burial of the bodies in a makeshift cemete...

  9. Moses Silberberg collection

    1. Moses Silberberg collection

    The Moses Silberberg collection consists of samples of camp scrip from Buchenwald concentration camp and two copies of "Buchenwald Lied," including the lyrics to several songs sung in the Buchenwald camp by Moses Silberberg and fellow inmates.

  10. Striped concentration camp uniform trousers worn by Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Moses Silberberg collection

    Striped summerweight concentration camp uniform trousers worn by Moses Silberberg while imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp from February 10 to April 11, 1945. On September 6, 1939, the German army entered Moses’s town, Konskie, Poland, and looted his family’s grocery store. In spring 1941, Moses and his parents, Berek and Matla, were interned in the ghetto. In October 1942, Moses, Berek, and Matla left for Krakow ghetto. Moses was a slave laborer in Krakau-Płaszów concentration camp. On March 13 and 14, 1943, the ghetto was liquidated and Berek and Matla were sent to Auschwitz-Birk...

  11. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, issued to inmate

    1. Moses Silberberg collection

    Buchenwald canteen coupon, 1 Reichsmark, issued to Moses Silberberg between February 10 to April 11, 1945, when he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. There were two types: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades. On September 6, 1939, the German Army entered Moses’s town, Konskie, Poland. In spring 1941, Moses and his parents, Berek and Matla, were interned in the ghetto. In October 1942, Moses, Berek, and Matla left for Krakow ghetto. Moses was a slave labor...

  12. Dark blue concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Moses Silberberg collection

    Dark blue concentration camp uniform cap worn by Moses Silberberg while imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp from February 10 to April 11, 1945. On September 6, 1939, the German army entered Moses’s town, Konskie, Poland, and looted his family’s grocery store. In spring 1941, Moses and his parents, Berek and Matla, were interned in the ghetto. In October 1942, Moses, Berek, and Matla left for Krakow ghetto. Moses was a slave laborer in Krakau-Płaszów concentration camp. On March 13 and 14, 1943, the ghetto was liquidated and Berek and Matla were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing cen...

  13. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 3 Reichsmark, issued to inmate

    1. Moses Silberberg collection

    Buchenwald canteen coupon, 3 Reichsmark, issued to Moses Silberberg between February-April 1945 when he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. There were two types: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades. On September 6, 1939, the German Army entered Moses’s town, Konskie, Poland. In spring 1941, Moses and his parents, Berek and Matla, were interned in the ghetto. In October 1942, Moses, Berek, and Matla left for Krakow ghetto. Moses was a slave laborer in Kraka...

  14. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 3 Reichsmark, issued to inmate

    1. Moses Silberberg collection

    Buchenwald canteen coupon, 3 Reichsmark, issued to Moses Silberberg between February-April 1945 when he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. There were two types: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades. On September 6, 1939, the German Army entered Moses’s town, Konskie, Poland. In spring 1941, Moses and his parents, Berek and Matla, were interned in the ghetto. In October 1942, Moses, Berek, and Matla left for Krakow ghetto. Moses was a slave laborer in Kraka...

  15. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 3 Reichsmark, issued to inmate

    1. Moses Silberberg collection

    Buchenwald canteen coupon, 3 Reichsmark, issued to Moses Silberberg between February-April 1945 when he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. There were two types: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades. On September 6, 1939, the German Army entered Moses’s town, Konskie, Poland. In spring 1941, Moses and his parents, Berek and Matla, were interned in the ghetto. In October 1942, Moses, Berek, and Matla left for Krakow ghetto. Moses was a slave laborer in Kraka...

  16. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 3 Reichsmark, issued to inmate

    1. Moses Silberberg collection

    Buchenwald canteen coupon, 3 Reichsmark, issued to Moses Silberberg between February-April 1945 when he was imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. There were two types: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades. On September 6, 1939, the German Army entered Moses’s town, Konskie, Poland. In spring 1941, Moses and his parents, Berek and Matla, were interned in the ghetto. In October 1942, Moses, Berek, and Matla left for Krakow ghetto. Moses was a slave laborer in Kraka...

  17. Offset lithographic printing plate depicting Percy Brand holding his violin

    1. Percy Brand collection

    Tinted, offset lithographic, metal printing plate with a photograph of Perec Brandt (later Percy Brand) holding his violin (2006.133.2a-j), the same one used while a concentration camp inmate in Latvia and Germany from 1941 to 1945 and a displaced person in Germany from 1945 to 1949. Perec was the concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony Orchestra in 1940 when the Soviets annexed Latvia. In June 1941, Latvia was under German occupation and Perec’s wife, daughter, and son were murdered by the SS Einsatzgruppen [mobile killing unit]. Perec was forced into the Riga ghetto, and later transfer...

  18. Red checked dress with smocking made for a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    Red checked dress with smocking made for Esther Rosenfeld by her maternal aunt Friederika Lemberger in Aachen, Germany. Esther, age 2, 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. See 2012.451 for two pairs of boots also brought on her journey. Esther was placed with Dorothy and Harry Harrison and their son Alan in Norwich. Hitler's assumption of power in 1933 resulted in increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish populace in Germany. Esther's extended family got affidavits of su...

  19. Stars and stripes dress worn by a German Jewish woman for a DP camp theatrical performance

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Stars and stripes costume worn by Margret Simon Hantman in a musical revue at Deggendorf displaced persons (DP) camp. The costume was designed by a Viennese couple, most likely Paul and Erna Sucher, and was made in a sewing group. In order to stay busy and bring some normalcy to their lives after the war, Margret and her friends formed a theater group and staged productions at the camp. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forc...

  20. Enameled metal soup plate used by a Jewish Polish man in a displaced persons camp

    1. Charles and Malka Bilfeld family Collection

    Enameled bowl used by Szapse (Charles) Bilfeld while living in Displaced Persons (DP) camps near Ulm, Germany, with his family between 1946 and 1949. Szapse, his wife Malka, their son Mozes, and their Bilfeld and Fuchs relatives were living in Majdan / Majdan Królewski (also known as Kolbuszowa), Poland, when German forces invaded on September 12, 1939. Majdan remained under German control when the Soviet Union annexed eastern Poland in mid-September. By the beginning of 1940, Jews in Majdan were only allowed to leave the village if they did so as part of a forced labor battalion. In July, ...