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  1. Jewish Brigade Group embroidered shoulder title patch worn by a Brigade soldier

    1. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    Shoulder title patch worn by Leo Englard when he served as a soldier in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II. The British Army established the group in September 1944. It included more than 5000 Jewish volunteers living in Palestine and was the only independent, national Jewish unit to serve in WWII. The unit served in combat during the final battles for the liberation of Italy. The British dissolved the Brigade in the summer of 1946. Leo remained in Palestine and married Fanny Dominitz, a German Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Palestine in 1947. The couple had known each...

  2. Bulgarian WWI officer's uniform hat, jacket, and pants worn during service in a forced labor brigade

    1. Nissim Farhi collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35856
    • English
    • 1914-1918
    • a: Height: 30.000 inches (76.2 cm) | Width: 22.500 inches (57.15 cm) b: Height: 39.750 inches (100.965 cm) | Width: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) c: Height: 3.620 inches (9.195 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Depth: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)

    Uniform hat, jacket, and pants worn by Nissim Farhi when he was drafted by Bulgaria to serve as an officer for a Jewish forced labor unit from 1940-1941. It was the same uniform that he had worn as an army officer during World War I. Nissim, with his wife, Carolina, and their sons David, Albert, and Mike, lived in Sofia, where Nissim was a private banker. After the Jews were expelled from Sofia, the family moved to Pleven and then to Shumen. The family returned to Sofia after Bulgaria was liberated by the Soviet Army on September 9, 1944.

  3. Polish Red Cross, Regional Agency in Częstochowa Polski Czerwony Krzyż. Oddział Terenowy w Częstochowie (Sygn.1050)

    This collection contains lists of Polish civilians murdered by the Germans during the occupation. The booklet contains lists submitted by the families of people killed in Częstochowa and during the September campaign, and the German occupation. Contains also a list of widows, orphans and other family members of fallen participants in the resistance movement. The lists include also Jewish names. Lists were compiled in 1945-1946.

  4. Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of 3 men sharing a bed as a fourth removes his shoes

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Photocopy of a drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994-1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel and 3 men sharing a hotel room in June 1946 in Lyon, France, on their way to board a ship for Palestine. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In March 1943, Pavel deserted the German army an...

  5. Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of 5 refugee men with knapsacks crossing a guarded gangplank

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Photocopy of a drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994-1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel and 4 men boarding a ship. In June 1946, Pavel boarded the Biria in Marseilles, France, as an illegal immigrant to Palestine. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In March 1943, Pavel desert...

  6. Autobiographical ink drawing of a passenger transfer at sea between two Ma’apilim ships

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel and other passengers being transferred between 2 ships mid-sea. In June 1946, Pavel was on the ship Biria bound for Palestine when it was discovered by the British near Cyprus. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, an...

  7. Autobiographical ink and pencil drawing of a sinking passenger filled boat

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel and other passengers packed on a boat deck. In June 1946, Pavel was transferred mid sea from the immigrant ship Biria to the coal boat Akbel en route to Palestine. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the ...

  8. Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of 3 adults and a child disembarking at a guarded port

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Photocopy of a drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrationscreated by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994-1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel, 2 adults, and a child disembarking a boat at port. In June 1946, Pavel arrived in port after his illegal immigrant boat was discovered by the British. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In...

  9. Autobiographical ink drawing of 2 uniformed men boarding a bus in the countryside

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel and another man boarding a bus. In July 1946, Pavel escaped from a detention camp in Palestine and boarded a passenger bus without money or papers. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In ...

  10. Autobiographical ink and pencil drawing of a woman on a storefront sidewalk and a man at an outdoor counter

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel standing an open-air soda fountain and a woman walking along a street in August 1946. Pavel, only in Palestine 1 month with limited Hebrew and no money, is welcomed with a free soda. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German nation...

  11. Autobiographical ink drawing of an armed man guarding a watertower at night

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel patrolling a neighborhood street corner. Pavel guarded the watertower in the Ramat-Gan neighborhood during the winter of 1946-1947. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In March 1943, Pave...

  12. Autobiographical ink drawing of 6 refugees trekking through the snow at night

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel and 5 other men hiking through deep snow in November 1945, disguised as Greek refugees illegally crossing the Czechoslovakian border en route to a displaced persons camp. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined ...

  13. Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of a uniformed man and his Russian interrogator

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Photocopy of a drawing from a series of 19 narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel standing in a Russian interrogation office. In November 1945, Pavel left a detention camp to get cakes, was arrested, then released. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In March 1943, Pavel desert...

  14. Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of Polish refugees disguised as Greeks crossing the border

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Photocopy of a drawing from a series of 19 narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his postwar experiences. It depicts Pavel and 3 men at a train station on the Polish border in November 1945, disguised as Greek refugees en route to a displaced persons camp. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In March 1943, Pavel deser...

  15. Autobiographical ink drawing of a man sitting in a bathtub under a running shower

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of 19 narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel taking a bath in August 1945, when he visited a bathhouse in Warsaw for his first bath in nearly a year after the war. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In March 1943, Pavel deserted the German ar...

  16. Autobiographical ink drawing of 2 men in uniform sharing a meal at a train station cafe

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel talking to a Polish Army recruiting officer in a cafe. Pavel arrived in Warsaw in August 1945 to look for relatives and had a drink with a Jewish security officer who asked him to join the Polish army. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed...

  17. Photocopy of an autobiographical ink drawing of 4 refugees peeling potatoes in a refugee camp

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Photocopy of a drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994-1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel and 3 refugees peeling potatoes in a refugee camp in March 1946, in Germany prior to leaving for Palestine. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In March 1943, Pavel deserted the German army...

  18. Autobiographical ink wash drawing of men, women, and children in a detention camp separated by barbed wire

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel at a detention camp divided by a barbed wire topped fence where he was sent by the British in Junre 1946 after arriving illegally in Palestine. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In Marc...

  19. Autobiographical ink drawing of a man walking along a traffic filled highway

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative illustrations created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel walking down a busy street in 1946. Pavel was without bus fare and walked 17 miles from Tel Aviv to Ramat-Gan. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In March 1943, Pavel deserted the German...

  20. French Médaille Militaire with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter

    1. Henri Engel collection

    French Military Medal awarded posthumously to 18 year old Henri Engel, a German Jew living in France, who died while fighting with the French resistance during World War II. The medal was awarded by the French Republic to honor acts of courage and dedication. It was awarded to Henri in 1960, and his sister, Margot, accepted it on his behalf in 1961. In September 1939, Henri and his mother, Lucie, were in Lyon, France, when Germany invaded Poland, prompting France and Great Britain to declare war against Germany. They were from Berlin, but were not allowed to leave and reunite with Henri’s s...