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  1. Owl head hand puppet made by a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran

    1. Albert Günther Hess collection

    Handmade, papier-mâché hand puppet of an owl created by Albert Guenther Hess in New York as a way to cope with his experiences as a Holocaust survivor and soldier in World War II. Albert Guenther Hess’s family owned a successful chemical factory in the town of Pirna, Germany. Albert studied law, but also had a passion for music and film. In 1933, Albert was fired from his legal position in the Ministry of Justice because he was Jewish. He then took a position as a legal advisor for his family’s business. In 1937, he began working in Belgium as a representative for his family’s company. On M...

  2. Hand puppet of a woman created by a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran

    1. Albert Günther Hess collection

    Handmade, papier-mâché hand puppet of a dark haired woman created by Albert Guenther Hess in New York as a way to cope with his experiences as a Holocaust survivor and soldier in World War II. Albert Guenther Hess’s family owned a successful chemical factory in the town of Pirna, Germany. Albert studied law, but also had a passion for music and film. In 1933, Albert was fired from his legal position in the Ministry of Justice because he was Jewish. He then took a position as a legal advisor for his family’s business. In 1937, he began working in Belgium as a representative for his family’s ...

  3. Bearded man hand puppet created by a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran

    1. Albert Günther Hess collection

    Handmade, papier-mâché hand puppet of a bearded man created by Albert Guenther Hess in New York as a way to cope with his experiences as a Holocaust survivor and soldier in World War II. Albert Guenther Hess’s family owned a successful chemical factory in the town of Pirna, Germany. Albert studied law, but also had a passion for music and film. In 1933, Albert was fired from his legal position in the Ministry of Justice because he was Jewish. He then took a position as a legal advisor for his family’s business. In 1937, he began working in Belgium as a representative for his family’s compan...

  4. Orange and blue hand puppet created by a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and World War II Veteran

    1. Albert Günther Hess collection

    Handmade, papier-mâché hand puppet with hands created by Albert Guenther Hess in New York as a way to cope with his experiences as a Holocaust survivor and soldier in World War II. Albert Guenther Hess’s family owned a successful chemical factory in the town of Pirna, Germany. Albert studied law, but also had a passion for music and film. In 1933, Albert was fired from his legal position in the Ministry of Justice because he was Jewish. He then took a position as a legal advisor for his family’s business. In 1937, he began working in Belgium as a representative for his family’s company. On ...

  5. Skull faced hand puppet created by a German Jewish Holocaust survivor and World War II veteran

    1. Albert Günther Hess collection

    Handmade, papier-mâché hand puppet with a skull head, created by Albert Guenther Hess in New York as a way to cope with his experiences as a Holocaust survivor and soldier in World War II. Albert Guenther Hess’s family owned a successful chemical factory in the town of Pirna, Germany. Albert studied law, but also had a passion for music and film. In 1933, Albert was fired from his legal position in the Ministry of Justice because he was Jewish. He then took a position as a legal advisor for his family’s business. In 1937, he began working in Belgium as a representative for his family’s comp...

  6. Bunte Luftballons [Book]

    1. Janet Beasley collection

    Illustrated poetry book used by 9 year old Jutta Grybski (Janet Beasley) in the Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp. The book was found by Jutta in the ghetto. She had brought an identical copy of the book with her to the camp when she was deported from Berlin, but then lost it. The book she found may be the same one that she lost. She wrote a note inside the book recounting this history. The cover illustration features a young girl who looks like very much like a bisque Kewpie style doll, 1996.76.1, that Jutta also brought with her to Theresienstadt. Jutta had a Jewish mother, Kaethe, and a C...

  7. Pencil drawing of a soldier napping on board a ship by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps

    1. Edward Herzbaum Hartry collection

    Pencil drawing of a man sleeping on board a transport ship created by 26 year old Edward Herzbaum on November 1, 1946, during the voyage from Italy to England with other veterans of the 2nd Polish Corps. The Corps, a unit of the British Army, was in Italy when the war ended May 7, 1945. In October 1946, the British government finally granted the veterans permission to immigrate to England. Edward had served as a soldier in the 5th Kresowa Infantry Division. Edward, age 19, left Łódź, Poland, shortly after Nazi Germany occupied the country in September 1939 to stay with family in Soviet cont...

  8. Leather briefcase owned by Runia Korman Maizels and Szlama Maizels

    1. Korman and Maizels families collection

    Leather briefcase used by Runia and Szlama Majzels (later Samuel Maizels) when they emigrated from Hamburg, Germany, to Baltimore, Maryland in 1950. Runia and Szlama were both born in Kraśnik, Poland. In September 1939, in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Germany invaded western Poland while the Soviet army annexed eastern Poland. German forces occupied Kraśnik on September 15. In February 1941, Runia was forcibly transported from Krasnik to the city of Lublin, and transferred to Majdanek killing center after it was constructed that fall. Runia worked as a forced laborer until s...

  9. Leather clutch purse owned by Runia Korman Maizels

    1. Korman and Maizels families collection

    Leather clutch purse used by Runia and Szlama Majzels (later Samuel Maizels) when they emigrated from Hamburg, Germany, to Baltimore, Maryland in 1950. Runia and Szlama were both born in Kraśnik, Poland. In September 1939, in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Germany invaded western Poland while the Soviet army annexed eastern Poland. German forces occupied Kraśnik on September 15. In February 1941, Runia was forcibly transported from Krasnik to the city of Lublin, and transferred to Majdanek killing center after it was constructed that fall. Runia worked as a forced laborer unti...

  10. Hand stamp, European Executive Council of the American Joint Distribution Committee, used by a council member

    1. Gaston Kahn collection

    Rubber hand stamp used by Gaston Kahn in Paris, France, from 1945 to 1946, when he served on the European Executive Council of the American Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC.) From 1936, Gaston was the Director of the Comite d'Assistance Aux Refugies (CAR), an affiliate of the AJDC. In 1939, he assisted the refugees from the Ms. St. Louis, after its forced return from Cuba. After Germany invaded France in May 1940, Gaston, his wife Jeanne, Danny-Claude, age 14, and Marcel-Francis, age 10, fled Paris for Limoges. In November 1941, Gaston was asked by a Vichy official to direct the Union Gen...

  11. Tallit with Great Seal, Star of David and 10 commandments used by a US Army chaplain

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Tallit, or prayer shawl with embroidered insignia worn by Rabbi Judah Nadich for his work as a Jewish chaplain in the United States Army from 1942-1946. Designed per US Army regulations, the tallit has the US coat of arms above the Jewish chaplain's insignia: a Star of David and the tablets of law. Nadich arrived in Paris just after its liberation on August 24, 1944. He conducted the first religious service after liberation in the rue de la Victoire synagogue, and preached to the assembled congregation of Jewish GIs and survivors in both French and English. On Passover 1945, Nadich conducte...

  12. Cardboard backed Star of David badge worn by a Jewish Romanian forced laborer

    Yellow cloth Star of David badge worn by Ancsel Feuerwerker (later Arthur Feuer) while serving in a Hungarian forced labor battalion in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania, from October 1942 to September 1944. Ancsel, his parents, 7 siblings, and many relatives lived in Craciunesti, Romania, an area of northern Transylvania ceded to Hungary, a German ally, in August 1940, as part of the second Vienna Award. In October 1942, Ancsel was conscripted into a labor battalion based in Szaszregen (Reghin), Romania. Ancsel’s battalion put-up tar-covered telephone poles for 8 or 9 months, and was then moved...

  13. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand with a line of boxcars based on her memories of transport to multiple concentration camps

    1. Daisy Brand collection

    Ceramic wall sculpture juxtaposing boxcars and the stripes of a concentration camp uniform created by Daisy Brand to evoke her ordeal of being imprisoned in multiple concentration camps from 1944-1945. Daisy's art became infused with her Holocaust experience in the 1980s. Her references are suggestive and deliberately ambiguous and she keeps the exact meaning of the symbolism in her work private, thus more evocative and universal. Daisy and her family lived in Chust, Hungary, when it was occupied by the Germans in March 1944. By May, Daisy and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

  14. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand based on memories of her overnight stay in a gas chamber

    1. Daisy Brand collection

    Ceramic wall sculpture of stairs descening into an underground chamber created by Daisy Brand to evoke her ordeal of being imprisoned in multiple concentration camps from 1944-1945. Daisy's art became infused with her Holocaust experience in the 1980s. Her references are suggestive and deliberately ambiguous and she keeps the exact meaning of the symbolism in her work private, thus more evocative and universal. Daisy and her family lived in Chust, Hungary, when it was occupied by the Germans in March 1944. By May, Daisy and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Her fath...

  15. Mixed media wall sculpture in three sections by Daisy Brand memorializing the betrayal and destruction of Jewish culture and religious faith during the Holocaust

    1. Daisy Brand collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn42651
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 25.750 inches (65.405 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Depth: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) b: Height: 16.125 inches (40.958 cm) | Width: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm) | Depth: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) c: Height: 15.125 inches (38.418 cm) | Width: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) | Depth: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)

    Three part ceramic wall sculpture depicting Torah scrolls, train tracks, and a remote chamber created by Daisy Brand to evoke her ordeal of being imprisoned in multiple concentration camps from 1944-1945. Daisy's art became infused with her Holocaust experience in the 1980s. Her references are suggestive and deliberately ambiguous and she keeps the exact meaning of the symbolism in her work private, thus more evocative and universal. Daisy and her family lived in Chust, Hungary, when it was occupied by the Germans in March 1944. By May, Daisy and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birken...

  16. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand evoking cherished memories of the her childhood

    1. Daisy Brand collection

    Ceramic wall sculpture of a faraway landscape viewed through wire created by Daisy Brand to evoke her happy childhood in Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Daisy's art became infused with her Holocaust experience in the 1980s. Her references are suggestive and deliberately ambiguous and she keeps the exact meaning of the symbolism in her work private, thus more evocative and universal. Daisy and her family lived in Chust, Hungary, when it was occupied by the Germans in March 1944. By May, Daisy and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Her father went directly to the gas chamb...

  17. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand evoking her memories of arrival at a concentration camp and the crematoria

    1. Daisy Brand collection

    Ceramic wall sculpture with steps and iron bars created by Daisy Brand to evoke her ordeal of being imprisoned in multiple concentration camps from 1944-1945. Daisy's art became infused with her Holocaust experience in the 1980s. Her references are suggestive and deliberately ambiguous and she keeps the exact meaning of the symbolism in her work private, thus more evocative and universal. Daisy and her family lived in Chust, Hungary, when it was occupied by the Germans in March 1944. By May, Daisy and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Her father went directly to the...

  18. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand memorializing the destruction of Jewish culture during the Holocaust

    1. Daisy Brand collection

    Ceramic wall sculpture showing rubble within a temple created by Daisy Brand to evoke her ordeal of being imprisoned in multiple concentration camps from 1944-1945. Daisy's art became infused with her Holocaust experience in the 1980s. Her references are suggestive and deliberately ambiguous and she keeps the exact meaning of the symbolism in her work private, thus more evocative and universal. Daisy and her family lived in Chust, Hungary, when it was occupied by the Germans in March 1944. By May, Daisy and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Her father went directly ...

  19. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand depicting graveled train tracks entering a concentration camp

    1. Daisy Brand collection

    Ceramic wall sculpture showing train tracks entering a concentration camp created by Daisy Brand to evoke her ordeal of being imprisoned in multiple concentration camps from 1944-1945. Daisy's art became infused with her Holocaust experience in the 1980s. Her references are suggestive and deliberately ambiguous and she keeps the exact meaning of the symbolism in her work private, thus more evocative and universal. Daisy and her family lived in Chust, Hungary, when it was occupied by the Germans in March 1944. By May, Daisy and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Her f...

  20. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand depicting arrival at a concentration camp

    1. Daisy Brand collection

    Ceramic wall sculpture showing 2 sets of train tracks entering camp gates created by Daisy Brand to evoke her ordeal of being imprisoned in multiple concentration camps from 1944-1945. Daisy's art became infused with her Holocaust experience in the 1980s. Her references are suggestive and deliberately ambiguous and she keeps the exact meaning of the symbolism in her work private, thus more evocative and universal. Daisy and her family lived in Chust, Hungary, when it was occupied by the Germans in March 1944. By May, Daisy and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Her f...