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  1. Der Baalschem von Michelstadt : Kulturgeschichte. Erzahlung [Book]

    1. Isaac Ossowski family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7130
    • English
    • 1921-1922
    • a: Height: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) b: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)

    Cultural history book from the library of Isaac Ossowski, a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin, Germany, who emigrated in 1938 to avoid the increasing persecution of Jews by the government of Nazi Germany. It is a narrative of the culture, history, and traditions of the Hasidic movement. The greeting card probably was received by Sol Oster for his ninth birthday in 1925. It offers blessings for Yom Kippur, best wishes for the New Year, and birthday congratulations. Rabbi Ossowski was head shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel [practitioner of ritual circumcision], sofer [scrib...

  2. Rosh Hashana card with a photo of a young woman made in Celle DP camp

    1. Lilly and Aaron Friedman family collection

    Rosh Hashana greeting card for September 1947 made for, most likely, Eva Lax, a sister of Lili Lax Friedman, in Celle displaced persons camp in postwar Germany. It has a photograph of Eva and greetings for the New Year. During the war, Eva, her father Yitzhak, and four siblings, Lili, Faige, Mechel, and Eli were deported circa Junre 1944 from Munkacs, Hungary, to Auschwitz concentration camp. Her father and two brothers were gassed immediately. Eva and her sisters were sent to Płaszów slave labor camp in Krakow. As the Soviets approached, they were sent back to Auschwitz, and then to a slav...

  3. Rosh Hashana card with a photo of a family made in Celle DP camp

    1. Lilly and Aaron Friedman family collection

    Rosh Hashana card for September 1947 made for Aron and Lili Lax Friedman, and, most likely, Lili's sister Eva, in Celle displaced persons camp in postwar Germany. It has a photograph of the three, with Lili holding her baby daughter. Lili and Aron met at the camp in June 1945 when Lili was waiting in line for food rations and Aron was working in the kitchen. He began bringing extra food for Lili and her sisters. She was not interested at first, but Aron was persistent and they married on January 27, 1946. During the war, Lili, her father Yitzhak, and younger siblings, Faige, Eva, Mechel, an...

  4. Wedding gown made from a white rayon parachute worn by multiple Jewish brides in a DP camp

    1. Lilly and Aaron Friedman family collection

    White wedding dress worn by Lili Lax, 22, for her marriage to Ludwig (Aron) Frydman, 21, on January 27, 1946, in a synagogue near Celle displaced persons camp in Germany. Lili told Ludwig that she had always dreamed of getting married in a white dress, so he obtained a white rayon parachute from a former German airman for 2 pounds of coffee and cigarettes. Lili used her cigarette rations to hire a seamstress, Miriam, to sew the gown. Miriam used the leftover material to make a shirt for Ludwig, 1999.126.1. Six months later, Lilly's sister wore the gown when she married, and then their cousi...

  5. Wedding veil and train worn by multiple Jewish brides in a DP camp

    1. Lilly and Aaron Friedman family collection

    Wedding veil and train worn by Lili Lax, 22, for her wedding to Ludwig (Aron) Frydman, 21, on January 27, 1946, in a synagogue near Celle displaced persons camp in Germany. Lili told Ludwig that she had always dreamed of getting married in a white dress, so he obtained a white rayon parachute from a former German airman for 2 pounds of coffee and cigarettes. The veil and train are made from 11 feet of cotton netting, and could be styled in different ways. Six months later, Lilly's sister wore the gown, 1999.7.12 a, and veil when she married, and then their cousin Rosie wore them. Lilly lent...

  6. Pair of 2 button gloves worn by multiple Jewish brides in a DP camp

    1. Lilly and Aaron Friedman family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn13650
    • English
    • c: Height: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) d: Height: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm)

    Pair of white cotton knit, wrist length gloves worn by Lilly Lax, 22, for her wedding to Ludwig (Aron) Frydman, 21, on January 27, 1946, in a synagogue near Celle displaced persons camp in Germany. Lili told Ludwig that she had always dreamed of getting married in a white dress, so he obtained a white rayon parachute from a former German airman for 2 pounds of coffee and cigarettes. Six months later, Lilly's sister wore the gown, 1999.12.a, and, presumably gloves, when she married, and then their cousin Rosie wore them. Lilly lent the wedding ensemble to many more brides, although she quit ...

  7. Floral embroidered apron worn by a Jewish Czech woman in a DP camp

    1. Lilly and Aaron Friedman family collection

    White apron with floral embroidery worn by Lili Frydman, 22, on Shabbat while working in a kosher kitchen in Celle displaced persons camp ca. 1945 to 1948. She wore a plain white apron the rest of the week. Lili lived in Zarici, Czechoslovakia, with her father Yitzhak Lax and four younger siblings, Faige, Eva, Mechel, and Eli, which was annexed by Hungary in 1939. In March 1944, Germany invaded Hungary. Soon they began the systematic deportation of all Jews to concentration camps. Circa June, Lili and her family were deported from Munkacs ghetto to Auschwitz. Lili’s father and brothers were...

  8. Two-sided drawing of men in a canteen and a portrait of a woman by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn119
    • English
    • 1940
    • a: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) b: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm)

    Drawings of men in a canteen and a woman at Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewis...

  9. Two-sided drawing of women in barracks and woman doubled over by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn104
    • English
    • 1940
    • a: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) b: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.125 inches (15.557 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.125 inches (15.557 cm) | Width: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm)

    Two-sided drawing of women in Gurs internment camp, drawn by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewish refugees. Li...

  10. Large suitcase with a broken handle used by a young Austrian Jewish refugee during emigration

    1. Herta Griffel Baitch collection

    Large rectangular suitcase used by Herta Griffel when she emigrated from Vienna, Austria to the United States in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor camp, and t...

  11. Two decks of Patience cards with 3 boxes brought with a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Anneliese Centawer Marx family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn90821
    • English
    • a: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) b: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) c-bd: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) be: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) bf-dg: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)

    Boxed set of Patience playing cards, one red, one blue, brought with 8 year old Anneliese Centawer when she and her parents James and Recha fled Nazi Germany in July 1938. The ace of hearts in each deck is stamped with a government control stamp with the Nazi eagle. After the Nazi regime's seizure of power in 1933, the Jewish population was persecuted with increasingly severity. In 1936, Anneliese's family was forced to move from their home in Nuremberg when their block was declared Judenfrei (Free of Jews.) Anneliese was beaten up on the street by a Hitler Youth who accused the freckled, r...

  12. Kurt and Hennie Reiner papers

    The collection includes documents, correspondence, and photographs regarding the Holocaust experiences of Kurt and Hennie Reiner of Vienna, Austria including their emigration from Vienna in 1939 into Milan, Italy and Marseille, France; Kurt’s internment at Les Milles; and their immigration to the United States in 1940. Biographical material includes identification papers of Kurt and Hennie Reiner, Kurt’s grades at the technical school of Vienna, papers related to his employment in the United States, and a copy of the their marriage certificate. Also included is a small amount of paperwork r...

  13. Small white bag with a button saved from the coat of a young Jewish girl deported to Auschwitz

    1. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    Small, sealed, cloth pouch containing a button from the coat of 10 year Fryda Hirshfeld who was deported from Łódź Ghetto and murdered in Auschwitz in 1942. The button was returned to her father, Julian, after the war in late 1940s in Paris, by Mr. Mechtiger, a prewar family neighbor from Łódź, Poland. Julian sewed the button in the pouch and attached the string. Łódź was occupied by German troops on September 8, 1939. Fryda, her father, and her mother, Hela, were forced into the sealed Jewish ghetto in February 1940. Fryda was deported and murdered in Auschwitz in 1942 and Hela met the sam...

  14. Embroidered white pillowcase used in hiding in Poland

    Pillowcase that belonged to Helena Amkraut Lusthaus, embroidered with the initial's of her maiden name. She used the pillowcase while she and her daughter, Elzbieta, lived in hiding under assumed identities as Catholics in Milanowek in German occupied Poland. When the war began in 1939, Helena and Elzbieta were living in Tarnow in German-occupied Poland with Helena's mother, Sophie Lieberman Schiff. On June 11, 1942, the Germans came to the house searching for Jews to deport to the concentration camps. Four year old Elizabeth hid, but her grandmother was taken by the Germans and shipped to ...

  15. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521020
    • English
    • 1938-1939
    • a: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Depth: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) b: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)

    Imperial IIA small piano accordion and case belonging to Hilde Anker, 13, who took it with her on a Kindertransport from Berlin to Great Britain on June 12-14, 1939. Hilde's sisters, Eva, 17, and Dodi, 15, were also sent away by their parents, Georg and Gertrud, on the same Children's Transport. In 1933, Hitler's Nazi regime implemented policies to persecute the Jewish population. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in early November 1938, Georg decided the family must leave. The girls applied for spots on the Kindertransport and George's brother Leo in England agreed to look after them. Eva was...

  16. Pencil drawing

    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...

  17. Pencil drawing

    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...

  18. Sketch

    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...

  19. Pencil drawing

    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...

  20. Pencil drawing

    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...