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  1. Fritz and Adelaide Kauffmann papers

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    The Fritz and Adelaide Kauffmann papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and restitution files documenting the Kauffmann’s, particularly their time in Shanghai between 1931 and 1949. Biographical materials include address books, financial records, diaries, citizenship records, identification papers, medical records, student records, personal narratives, travel documents, estate documents, and business records for the Kauffmann’s company Merchants & Traders. Correspondence includes letters between Fritz and Adelaide and with their familie...

  2. Orden Zasluge Za Narod 3rd class awarded to a Yugoslavian partisan

    1. Yugoslavian Partisan collection

    Yugoslav Ордена Заслуге за Народ III р. (Order of Merit to the Nation (People), 3rd class), awarded to Vlaimir Carin in recognition of his service as a partisan during the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1945. The medal was awarded to those who distinguished themselves in the struggle for liberation and merit in securing and organizing the Yugoslav government and army, and for achievement in the economic, cultural, and social spheres. Vladimir was working as a graphic artist in Zagreb, Yugoslavia when Germany and its allies invaded and occupied the country on April 6, 1941. Centr...

  3. Medalja za Hrabrost awarded to a Yugoslavian partisan

    1. Yugoslavian Partisan collection

    Yugoslav Medalja za Hrabrost (Medal for Bravery), awarded to Vlaimir Carin in recognition of his service as a partisan during the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1945. The medal was awarded to partisans and civilians for acts of bravery during both peace and wartime. Vladimir was working as a graphic artist in Zagreb when Germany and its allies invaded and occupied Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941. Central Yugoslavia, including Zagreb, was formed into the independent state of Croatia, ruled by the Ustasa. After the invasion, Vladimir fled to Split, where he was captured by the Italian...

  4. Orden Zasluge Za Narod 3rd class awarded to a Yugoslavian partisan

    1. Yugoslavian Partisan collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7346
    • English
    • a: Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Diameter: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) c: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm)

    Yugoslav Ордена Заслуге за Народ III р. (Order of Merit to the Nation (People), 3rd class), awarded to Dudo Montiljo on April 1, 1949, in recognition of his service as a partisan during the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia from 1941 to 1945. The medal was awarded to those who distinguished themselves in the struggle for liberation and merit in securing and organizing the Yugoslav government and army, and for achievement in the economic, cultural and social spheres. Dudo lived in Prnjavor, where he worked as a merchant when Yugoslavia was invaded and partitioned by Germany and its allies in Apr...

  5. Stein marching compass in a hinged case acquired by a British officer

    1. Cyprus detention camp collection

    German marching compass in a hinged Bakelite case acquired by Lt. D.P. Grehan, a Royal Irish Fusilier in the British Army who served as a commanding officer in a Karaolos detention camp on Cyprus from March 1947 to June 1948. This compass was manufactured by the German company Carl von Stein around 1939, and often used by the German military. It is likely a variation of the TYP 39, although it does not have a sighting slot cut into the lid or inner disk. The internees were Ma'apilim, illegal immigrants, most Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, captured while trying to reach Eretz Israel with...

  6. Cartoon of Mickey and Minnie Mouse created prewar by a Romanian high school student

    1. Ladislaus Farkas collection

    Cartoon belonging to Ladislaus Farkas drawn by Kalman Wavrek depicting Mickey and Minnie Mouse. In 1922, Wavrek graduated from the Oradea Gymnasium in Romania with classmate Ladislaus Farkas. Ladislaus later received a Ph.D in chemistry and worked at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut fur Physikalische Chemie in Berlin, Germany. On April 7, 1933, a law was enacted forbidding Jewish civil servants from holding public positions. Farkas lost his job. He went to work in England, and then in 1935, emigrated to Palestine after accepting an offer from Chaim Weizmann to teach at Hebrew University. During ...

  7. Leorah Kroyanker photograph collection

    1. Ladislaus Farkas collection

    One of the photographs depicts a man in a horse-drawn wagon, and the other photograph depicts two men sitting in a car.

  8. French Army ID tag worn by a Jewish Lithuanian emigre soldier

    1. Alexander and Raya Magid Markon family collection

    Dog tag issued to Owsiez (Alexander) Markon, a Jewish emigre from Lithuania, when he served in the French Army from 1927-29. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, France declared war on Germany. Alexander was recalled to the Army and served ten months on the Maginot Line. Germany invaded France in May 1940. After the surrender of France in June, Alexander was demobilized. He joined his wife, Raya, who had fled to Toulouse, where their son Alain was born in June 1941. The couple applied for US visas and received them in 1942. The family sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, and arrive...

  9. Autobiographical painting of partisans and Soviet soldiers view the hanging of 3 German soldiers

    1. Arie Singer collection

    Painting by Arie (Aryeh) Singer depicting himself as a teenaged partisan, observing with Gilda, a fellow partisan, and 3 Soviet soldiers, the hanging of 3 German soldiers in the forest. It is from a series of works detailing events from his youth as a 13 year old partisan fighter in the forests northeast of Vilna, Poland, (Vilnius, Lithuania) and in Belarus from 1943-1944. After the Soviet occupation of Vilna in late 1939, Arie's family fled to Glembokie (Hlybokaye, Belarus). When Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the area was assaulted by German mobile killing units, who with the help o...

  10. Medal for Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 awarded by the Soviet Union to a Czech Jewish soldier

    1. Joseph Hauptman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522514
    • English
    • 1947
    • a: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)

    Soviet Medal for Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 with striped ribbon awarded to Josef Hauptman for bravery as a soldier during the war against Nazi Germany. He received the medal with a certificate (see 2004.643.1) in 1947. In 1938, Czechoslovakia was dismantled and its territory absorbed by Nazi Germany and its allies. Josef, 18, was drafted into the Soviet Army that year. He fought with Soviet forces for the rest of the war. He was wounded for the second time and hospitalized when the war ended on May 8, 1945. Sometime that summer, Josef became a member of the Cz...

  11. [Newspaper]

    1. Alexander Bogen collection

    Two issues of a newspaper which Alexander Bogen helped produce when he was a member of a partisans group in the Naroch forest in Belarus: 1 is handwritten and 1 is printed.

  12. Markov-Grinberg photograph of 8 white horses pulling wagons in a barren landscape

    1. Mark Markov-Grinberg collection

    Photographic print of horses pulling carts, created in 1936 by Mark Markov-Grinberg, a Soviet Jewish photographer and World War II correspondent. Markov-Grinberg was a major Social Realist photographer during the Stalinist era of the 1930s-1940s. He worked for major newspapers and journals, including TASS. He was a war correspondent during the Soviet-Finnish War from 1939-1940 and, in 1941, was drafted to fight in World War II. While a soldier, he continued his work as a photographer and army correspondent. After the war, he returned to his job at TASS.

  13. Markov-Grinberg photograph of the crowd celebrating as Soviet planes fly over the State Historical Museum

    1. Mark Markov-Grinberg collection

    Photographic print of a parade in Red Square by Mark Markov-Grinberg, a Soviet Jewish photographer and World War II correspondent. The print documents a parade given in honor of the Cheluskin polar expedition participants. The expedition was sent to see if a non-icebreaker ship could pass through the Northern Maritime Route in a single navigation season. The ship sank in an ice field on February 13, 1934, and the crew was rescued in April by aircraft. Markov-Grinberg was a major Social Realist photographer during the Stalinist era of the 1930s-1940s. He worked for major newspapers and journ...

  14. Markov-Grinberg photograph of soldiers driving horse drawn wagons while planes fly overhead

    1. Robert Capa and Mark Markov-Grinberg collection

    Photograph of soldiers in Kiev on military maneuvers by Mark Markov- Grinberg. Markov-Grinberg was a major Social Realist photographer during the Stalinist era of the 1930s-1940s. He worked for major newspapers and journals, including TASS. He was a war correspondent during the Soviet-Finnish War from 1939-1940 and, in 1941, was drafted to fight in World War II. While a soldier, he continued his work as a photographer and army correspondent. After the war, he returned to his job at TASS.

  15. 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...

  16. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier

    1. Carl Werner Lenneberg collection

    Das Ehrenkreuz des Weltkriegs 1914 1918 [The Honor Cross of World War 1914/1918) awarded to Carl Werner Lenneberg for serving in combat in the German Army during the First World War. The award was established by President Paul von Hindenburg, on July 13, 1934. This was the first official WWI service medal of the Third Reich, often referred to by an unofficial name, Hindenburg Cross. Hindenburg, Field Marshal of German forces during WWI, appointed Hitler as Chancellor in January 1933, and soon a Nazi dictatorship ruled the country. Anti-Jewish policies put increasingly harsh restrictions on ...

  17. Brass knuckles acquired by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Walter Fried collection

    gray metal knucklebusters taken by Walter Fried, a US Army interrogator, from a Gestapo officer in the SS criminal police division whom he was interviewing. Walter, 25, and his family, who were Jewish, fled Austria shortly after it was annexed by Germany in March 1938 for America. Walter joined the Army in November 1943 and deployed with the 243rd Combat Engineer Battalion. In April 1945, Walter was transferred to the Counterintelligence Corps to be a translator. After Germany surrendered on May 7, Walter was transferred to War Crimes Investigating Team, Judge Advocate Section as a translat...

  18. German State criminal police warrant disc acquired by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Walter Fried collection

    Staatliche Kriminalpolizei [State Criminal police] bronze warrant disc [dienstmarken], ID number 1978, taken by Walter Fried, a US Army interrogator, from a Gestapo officer in the SS criminal police division whom he was interrogating. After Himmler centralized the police forces in the mid-1930s, this was the official identification badge, stamped with the individual officer's number. The badge had the authority of a warrant and once displayed during an arrest, investigation, or search, it ensured compliance. Walter, 25, and his family, who were Jewish, fled Austria for America shortly after...

  19. Leon Goldensohn papers

    The Leon Goldensohn papers consist largely of original, typescript notes of 137 interviews conducted by Dr. Goldensohn with Nazi defendants and witnesses during the trials of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, from January to July, 1946. Goldensohn served in the United States Army as a prison psychiatrist during this period, and conducted these interviews with the aid of a translator. In addition to interview typescripts, this collection contains resumes drafted by some of the defendants, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, texts of speeches delivered by Goldensohn, as we...

  20. Self portrait in red conte crayon by a Hungarian Jewish musician while living in hiding

    1. Emeric Lazar collection

    Self portrait by Emeric Lazar in 1944 while he was living in hiding Paris, France, after his February 1943 release from Drancy internment camp. Emeric had come to Paris from Budapest in 1928 to study music. He was the house composer at Le Casino de Paris when Nazi Germany invaded France in May 1940. France surrendered in June and Paris became the seat of the German military occupation. Anti-Jewish measures were enacted and, in August, an internment camp for foreign Jews was established in Drancy, a northeastern suburb of Paris. Emeric was imprisoned there on August 21, 1941. The camp became...