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  1. Tallit owned by a German Jewish man

    1. Ilse and Horst (Harry) Abraham collection

    A tallit owned by a male member of Ilse Brilling or Horst Abraham’s family, and carried from Germany to Ecuador in the late 1930s. A tallit is a specialized shawl worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Following Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, anti-Jewish decrees and persecution made life in Germany increasingly difficult. Horst Abraham immigrated to Ecuador from Leipzig, Germany, in 1937, after hearing a rumor that he might be arrested. His parents, Nanette and David, and one of his two brothers, Kurt, joined him there later. In 1939, Ils...

  2. Mezuzah and tombstone pendants on a necklace made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp

    1. Izy Freudenreich collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn512920
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) c: Height: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm)

    Mezuzah and tombstone metal pendants on a chain necklace made and worn by Izy Freudenreich after the war in Landsberg displaced persons camp, Lager 7, in Germany, May-June 1945. Izy made the headstone in memory of his father Leib who died in Kaufering VII slave labor camp on February 2, 1945. It is engraved with his name and that date. In February 1940, several months after Germany occupied Poland, Izy, 20, and his parents, Leib and Tauba, were forced into Łódź ghetto. Izy developed a relationship with Irma Herzfeld, 23. Following mass deportations in summer 1944, Izy’s parents arranged a h...

  3. Cigarette holder made by a former concentration camp inmate in a DP camp

    1. Izy Freudenreich collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn512919
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) b: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) c: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)

    Green plastic case with cigarette holder and case made and used by Izy Freudenreich after the war in Landsberg displaced persons camp, Lager 7, in Germany, May-June 1945. In February 1940, several months after Germany occupied Poland, Izy, 20, and his parents, Leib and Tauba, were forced into Łódź ghetto. Izy developed a relationship with Irma Herzfeld, 23. Following mass deportations in summer 1944, Izy’s parents arranged a hiding place for them, but could not secure a place for Irma’s sister Ruth. Irma refused to go without her, so they all stayed and, in August, were sent to Auschwitz. O...

  4. First lieutenant dress jacket, medals and shirt worn by German Jewish US soldier

    1. Rudolph Daniel Sichel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn46743
    • English
    • a: Height: 32.625 inches (82.868 cm) | Width: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) b: Height: 30.000 inches (76.2 cm) | Width: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm)

    Olive drab dress uniform jacket with shirt and medals worn by Rudolph Sichel, a Jewish refugee from Frankfurt, Germany, who was a US Army officer in Europe from July 1944-June 1946. In May 1936, unable to return to Germany from England because of anti-Jewish regulations, Sichel went to the US. His parents Ernst and Frieda joined him in 1940. In April 1943, Sichel enlisted in the Army and was sent to Camp Ritchie for military intelligence training. In July 1944, Sichel, Chief Interrogator, Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13, landed on Utah Beach in France, attached to the 104th Infant...

  5. Justophot light meter and suede pouch used by German Jewish US soldier

    1. Rudolph Daniel Sichel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn46793
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) b: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Justophot light meter with suede pouch owned by Rudolph Sichel, a Jewish refugee from Frankfurt, Germany, who was a US Army officer in Europe from July 1944-June 1946. In May 1936, unable to return to Germany from England because of anti-Jewish regulations, Sichel went to the US. His parents Ernst and Frieda joined him in 1940. In April 1943, Sichel enlisted in the Army and was sent to Camp Ritchie for military intelligence training. In July 1944, Sichel, Chief Interrogator, Interrogation of Prisoners of War Team 13, landed on Utah Beach in France, attached to the 104th Infantry, the Timber...

  6. Enameled Dutch oven used by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp

    1. Helen and Joseph Matlow family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn513683
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) | Width: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Depth: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) b: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Diameter: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm)

    Red and brown enameled metal Dutch oven used by Chana and Josef Matlowsky (later Helen and Joseph Matlow) while living at Eggenfelden displaced persons camp in Germany, from 1947 to 1949. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland and gave the Soviet Union the eastern half, where Chana’s family lived in Zdzieciol (Dziatlava, Belarus). In summer 1941, Germany invaded eastern Poland. In December, Chana’s brother was sent to work in a forced labor camp in Dworzec (Dvarėts (Hrodzenskaia voblasts', Belarus).) In 1942, German authorities ordered all Jews to move into a ghetto in Zdzieciol, killed ...

  7. Sam and Regina Spiegel photograph albums

    1. Regina and Samuel Spiegel collection

    The collection consists of two photograph albums of Sam and Regina Spiegel, both of whom were survivors of Auschwitz and other concentration camps. One albums depicts the family from the 1940s-1960s. The other album depicts Sam and Regina's wedding in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in 1946.

  8. Brown leather work boots worn by a Hungarian Jewish man for forced labor and in hiding

    1. George Pick family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn514722
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) b: Height: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)

    Leather work boots bought by Istvan Pick in Budapest, Hungary, in spring 1943 when he received a summons to report for forced labor. He wore them in two forced labor battalions, and when he went into hiding in Budapest. Istvan, his wife Margit, and their ten year old son Gyorgy lived in hiding in Budapest from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany and adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 because he was Jewish. He was conscripted into Hungarian labor battalions in 1940, 1943, and 1944. After German setbacks in ...

  9. Sam Rafel visits his hometown of Gombin in 1937

    1937 trip to Gombin, Poland (123 km northwest of Warsaw) filmed by Sam Rafel at the request of Nathan Zolna Solomon, who had emigrated from Gombin to Newark NJ and provided Sam Rafel with the camera. The first shot is a grainy, dark interior shot of a crowd of people. This might be the crowd that assembled for Sam Rafel's 1937 visit. He wrote, "the affair took place in the Firemen's Hall, in the presence of three thousand people, virtually the whole Jewish population of Gombin." The quality is much improved in the next scenes, which are street portraits, where Rafel posed people in groups a...

  10. Silver vermeil cake server received as a wedding gift by a Jewish woman in prewar Germany

    1. Berg and Hermanns families collection

    Silver vermeil serving knife received as a wedding gift by Selma Herz upon her marriage to Hugo Pauly, circa 1927, in Eilendorf, near Aachen, Germany. It was a gift from Abraham Hollander, Anne Frank's maternal grandfather, who was a first cousin of Selma's mother, Caroline Menken Herz. The knife may have been a family heirloom that originally belonged to Rosa'a mother. Soon after the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, the Herz family businesses were boycotted because they were Jewish. In early 1936, Selma and Hugo emigrated to Palestine with their 5 year old son, Kurt. They th...

  11. William Begell papers

    1. William Begell collection

    The William Begell papers consist of a military ID certificate, death announcements, and forty-nine photographs relating to the experiences of William Begell (born Wilhelm Beigel) and his family, namely his father Ferdinand Beigel, before and during the Holocaust. There are eighteen photographs in the collection that depict the donor and his family’s pre-war experiences, including photos of William’s parents and some uncles and aunts, eleven photographs taken in the Vilna ghetto, eleven post-war photographs of the donor in Gailingen, six photos of the Marine Marlin and some of its passenger...

  12. Rubber stamp from a Jewish refugee's postwar business

    1. George Ogurek Zimmerman family collection

    Rubber stamp used by Chaskiel Zimmermann for his apparel business in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, where he lived as a refugee after World War II. Chaskiel was deported from Sosnowiec, Poland, to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. He was liberated during a death march from Blechhammer slave labor camp in January 1945. Nearly his entire family was killed in Auschwitz. He married Karola Ogurek in Esslingen on December 6, 1947. Karola had fled Kamionka, Poland, in fall 1943, with her son Jurek, 10, husband Alexander, and parents Helene and Izak Fiszer. In April 1944, they were sent to Sered...

  13. Dried flowers kept within a memorial book saved by a Hungarian Jewish family while in hiding

    Dried flowers preserved from the funeral for Samu Kornhauser by his widow Malvina. She pressed the flowers in the memorial book, Emlekezesek Konyvet, [Book of Remembrance] between pages 34 and 35. The book is record 1999.282.4. The book was preserved during World War II by Malvina, her daughter Margit Pick, her 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, an ally of Nazi Germany, had adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 becau...

  14. Drawing of accuser and accused 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, his daughter, and their attorney, looking at 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 r...

  15. Drawing of eyewitness identifying defendant at trial of 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 and his daughter looking at the Yiddish interpreter, Mr. Smolar, and a Holocaust survivor and witness for the prosecution. 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 gh...

  16. Double sided drawing of expert witness at trial of suspected Ukrainian war criminal

    1. Charles R. Hazard and The Baltimore Sun collection

    Two sided drawing of Raul Hilberg, government's opening witness, created by Charles (Hap) Hazard at the deportation trial of George Theodorovich in 1985 in Baltimore, Maryland. In August 1983, the OSI brought charges against Theodorovich for killing unarmed Jews. Theodorovich was stripped of his US citizenship in 1984. His disappeared from his home and was the subject of a federal manhunt. After his capture in Philadelphia, he was tried for moral turpitude and failure to disclose wartine activities. In 1987, Theodorovich was found guilty and ordered deported in 1988 because of his involveme...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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 ...

  20. 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...