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  1. Watercolor painting of a mountain village by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Unfinished watercolor depicting the mountain village of Florac, painted by Jacob Barosin on February 16, 1943. He had intended to return and finish it, but Jacob was arrested the following morning and transported to Gurs internment camp. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May 1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and So...

  2. Small house in the vineyard Watercolor painting of a rural cabin by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Painting depicting a rural cabin near Florac, a town in France where Jacob and Sonia Barosin hid between November 1942 and April 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May 1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2...

  3. Unused factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, owned by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Uncut, unused factory-printed Star of David badge acquired by Jacob Barosin, following its issue by German authorities in occupied France on June 7, 1942. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internm...

  4. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  5. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  6. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  7. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  8. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Drawing depicting Jacob Barosin’s experiences while interned or living in hiding in southern France from June 1940 to August 1943. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp. On June 2, Jac...

  9. Watercolor portrait of three young girls by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Watercolor painting depicting three girls, completed by Jacob Barosin in 1942. It was likely completed in the spring near the town of Lunel, where Jacob lived and worked on a nearby farm until German forces occupied the area in November 1942. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May 1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob a...

  10. Watercolor painting of a garden scene by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Painting depicting a garden scene in Soisy-sous-Montmorency, a northern suburb of Paris, where Jacob and Sonia Barosin hid from September 1943 to August 1944. In June 1933, Jacob and Sonia Barosin (previously Judey) immigrated illegally to Paris, France, in order to escape the anti-Jewish laws passed following the appointment of Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany in January. Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military following the 1939 German invasion of Poland. In May1940, Germany invaded France, Jacob and Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs int...

  11. Yugoslavian Order of the Partisan Star awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman

    1. Jamila Kolonomos collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43741
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) b: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) c: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) d: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Yugoslavian Order of the Partisan Star, 3rd class, medal set awarded to Jamila (Zamila) Kolonomos on March 18, 1952, in recognition of her efforts as a partisan fighter during the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia from 1941-1945. This medal was awarded to military leaders for successfully commanding military units and for bravery displayed during WW II. On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, invaded and partitioned Yugoslavia. The Macedonian region, including Bitola where Jamila and her family lived, was occupied by Bulgaria. Jamila worked with resistance grou...

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

    1. Kurt Schlesinger family collection

    Honor Cross, combatants medal awarded to Kurt Schlesinger for his service in the German Army during World War I (1914-1918). The Honor, or Hindenburg, Cross was established by President von Hindenburg in July 1934. It commemorated distinguished deeds in combat, and individuals had to apply to the government to receive it. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. Kurt and his second wife, Christine, were very concerned about Hitler’s policies, and immigrated to Amsterdam, Netherlands. Kurt left behind his teenage daughter, Irene, who lived in Berlin with her mothe...

  13. Carl and Mina Weiler papers

    1. Carl Weiler and Mina Kaufmann Weiler families collection

    The Carl and Mina Weiler papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, emigration and immigration files, photographic materials, printed materials, and a recipe book documenting Carl Weiler’s and Mina Kaufmann’s German educations, American immigrations, and unsuccessful efforts to bring their family members to the United States. The collection also includes a World War I photo album and scrapbook documenting the military service of Mina’s uncle, Julius Oppenheimer, in Moselle. Biographical materials include birth, marriage, naturalization, and death certificates; passports and d...

  14. Operation Annie - January 8, 1945

    1. Operation Annie broadcasts

    TRACK 1 1:40: Headlines 2:09: Front news: Change in the Ardennes Battle (Battle of the Bulge). The German tanks in the west are being mobilized towards better defense posts. The Americans have partially taken over the reinforcement routes and streets. There is a snowstorm in the Ardennes. German troops that were surrounded at Wingen were able to make it back to their own lines yesterday. The heavy battles south of Bitche are still ongoing. The German troops are now by in large retreating from the Ardennes in order to defend more maintainable lines. The Americans are pushing south from the n...

  15. Blanket issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Blanket issued to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner in Shanghai, China, by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in August 1945. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht program in November 1938, and Heinz’s subsequent arrest, the family began looking at emigration options. Eighteen-year-old Ernst and his mother secured passage on a ship to Shanghai, China, where they arrived in March 1939. Ernst soon got a job working for a toy store...

  16. 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...

  17. Bootjack used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag

    1. Salomon Strauss-Marko collection

    Bootjack used by Salomon (Salek) Strauss in his assumed identity as Timofiej Marko when he was a prisoner of war in Stalag II A in Germany and a leader of forced labor groups in Wiener-Neustadt concentration camp in Austria. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland and Salomon was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army. On September 16, he was captured as a prisoner of war and taken to Stalag II A. Salek feared discovery as a Jew and a Communist and created an identity as a Ukrainian, Tomasz Timofiej Marko. He maintained this identity from September 1939- May 1945 ...

  18. Rubber truncheon used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag

    1. Salomon Strauss-Marko collection

    Rubber baton used by Salomon (Salek) Strauss in his assumed identity as Tomasz (Timofiej) Marko when he was a labor group leader in Wiener-Neustadt concentration camp in Austria. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland and Salomon was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army. On September 16, he was captured as a prisoner of war and taken to Stalag II A in Germany. Salek feared discovery as a Jew and a Communist and created an identity as a Ukrainian, Tomasz Timofiej Marko. He maintained this identity from September 1939- May 1945 in several POW stalags and concentr...

  19. Brass knuckles used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag

    1. Salomon Strauss-Marko collection

    Brass knuckles used by Salomon (Salek) Strauss in his assumed identity as Tomasz (Timofiej) Marko when he was a labor group leader in Wiener-Neustadt concentration camp in Austria. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland and Salomon was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army. On September 16, he was captured as a prisoner of war and taken to Stalag II A in Germany. Salek feared discovery as a Jew and a Communist and created an identity as a Ukrainian, Tomasz Timofiej Marko. He maintained this identity from September 1939- May 1945 in several POW stalags and concen...

  20. War Medal 1939-1945 with ribbon awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

    1. Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger family collection

    War Medal 1939-1945 and ribbon awarded to Dr. Edmund Lusthaus by the British government for his service in the 2nd Polish Corps, a unit of the British Armed Forces during World War II. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Lusthaus was drafted into the Polish Army. Seventeen days later, the Soviet army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet government released the Polish POWs to join the fighting. Lusthaus joined...