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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Crematorium tag, number 5896, acquired at Dachau postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused clay crematorium disc with the number 5896 acquired by 22 year old Lt. Charles Rudulph, United States Army, during a July 10, 1945, tour of the crematorium of Dachau concentration camp near Munich in Germany. This type of disc was placed with a body to identify the ashes after cremation. The numbers do not correspond to prisoner numbers. Rudulph found it in what he called the murder house, with the cremation urns in a cellar between the room where bodies were stored and the ovens. Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the SS in March 1933, originally for political pr...

  2. Over a distant, quiet jiord Nad dalekim, cichym fiordem [Book]

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    The book was given to the donor by her school friend, Basia Knap, in Busko-Zdrój, Poland; signed, "Zofia Tymejko" and dated Jan. 28, 1948.

  3. Identification card

    This "National Registration Identity Card" for children under the age of 16 was issued to Zofia Tymejko [donor] after she emigrated to London, England.

  4. Slap in the Face Drawing created by Karl Schwesig postwar depicting a beating he witnessed in a concentration camp

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Ink wash drawing created by Karl Schwesig in 1948 in Dusseldorf. The drawing depicts two guards beating a nude inmate in Noe internment camp in France, where Schwesig was held from February to March 1941. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, Schwesig, a Communist, was arrested and imprisoned for 16 months. After his release in 1935, he lived in Antwerp, Belgium. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. Schwesig was arrested and sent to Vichy France, where he was held in St. Cyprien, Gurs, Noe, and Nexon internment camps. In 1943, he was sent to Ulmer Hoeh prison in Dusseldorf, where...

  5. Drawing by Karl Schwesig satirizing the embrace of Fascism in France

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Drawing created by Karl Schwesig that was part of a series of 9 drawings entitled "Rosenmontag" representing early anti-Nazi satiric material. The image shows a Nazi military officer with arms outstretched standing on a platform (float?) with wheels beckoning to another man in formal attire and saying, "Komm in meine Liebeslauber." A cave labeled "I Solierzelle" and surrounded by tanks, guns, and soldiers is in the background. A sign to the left of the float says, "Heil Csar! Nieder Mit Uns Franzos."

  6. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Nazi followers as robots

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical ink drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, depicting a woman standing next to a robot and cannon. It is part of a series of eight satirical drawings published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was printed in Cologne and distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, ...

  7. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting the subjugation of Yugoslavia to Nazi Germany

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical ink drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, depicting a man and three scantily clad women protesting the Slavs. It is part of a series of eight satirical drawings published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was printed in Cologne and distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hitler came to power in J...

  8. Axis-Ionary Karl Schwesig political cartoon mocking a Nazi parade

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, with caricatures of soldiers, a Nazi officer, and Nazi eagles on a parade float. It is part of a series of eight political cartoons published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer in Cologne was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hitler came to power in Janu...

  9. Schwarzer Peter playing card deck with German social roles

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Deck of playing cards with a card featuring a dirty and unpleasant looking Jewish peddler labeled Jude. This deck of playing cards is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.

  10. German Gesteckpfeife style tobacco pipe and porcelain bowl with an antisemitic image

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn537368
    • English
    • 1850-1940
    • a: Height: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)

    German Gesteckpfeife (arranged pipe) style tobacco pipe with its accompanying bowl. This style of pipe is also known as a Jaeger Pipe, German hunter pipe, German Porcelain pipe, Tyrolean pipe, and Wine Pipe. The tobacco was packed in the porcelain bowl which was then placed in the reservoir (or abguss) of the pipe. The reservoir acted as a retainer for the juices and tar, and sometimes wine was placed in the reservoir to flavor the smoke. This style of pipe was popular in Central Europe from the 18th to the early 20th centuries and was most commonly associated with Germanic culture. The bow...

  11. Watercolor of a Jewish money clipper with scales

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Small, watercolor painting of a Jewish coin clipper at work, likely created in 18th century Europe. He is depicted with a beard and sidelocks, which are traditionally worn by Jewish men. Coin clipping was the illegal practice of removing small pieces of metal from coins. Until modern times, coinage was hammered from precious (and soft) metals such as silver or gold, resulting in coins that were not perfectly round. Furthermore, normal wear from use would exacerbate their irregular shapes. Unscrupulous individuals would take advantage of these irregularities and remove slivers off the edges ...

  12. Political Cartoon of Andrew Jackson and the French King dancing before a crowd of international leaders

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    This lithograph was created in 1836 as a satirical commentary on United States President Andrew Jackson's conflict with French King Louis Philippe over the Treaty of 1831, and the French reparations due to the US. Edward Clay and Henry Robinson, both of whom were prominent political cartoonists and regular critics of Jackson, produced the piece. In this cartoon, the French King has fallen at Jackson’s feet, while trying to keep pace as the President dances to the Cabinet’s music. Jackson celebrates receiving long-sought reparations from a reluctant France by holding aloft a moneybag so that...

  13. Print from a German periodical depicting two Jewish theatergoers conversing

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Full-page print from German humor magazine, Düsseldorfer Monathefte, with a satirical illustration and commentary on Jewish theatergoers complaining about prices being too high. Both men are depicted in evening attire and have prominent, stereotypical Jewish features: bushy eyebrows, hooded eyes, and hooked noses. This illustration is from 1854, printed in Volume 7, Issue 2 of the magazine, which was produced for 14 years in Düsseldorf, Germany. Satirical humor magazines that commented on social, economic, and political situations emerged in Europe during the mid-19th century and grew in ci...

  14. Walter Fried papers

    1. Walter Fried collection

    Consists of 13 photographs of the burial ceremony of camp victims near Regensburg, Germany, several documents relating to labor and food conditions at Regensburg, Germany, during World War II, and a report of the atrocities at the Buchenwald camp.

  15. Nazi feature film: Antisemitic and anti-British propaganda

    Amschel Rothschild (Erich Ponto) in Frankfurt and his sons Nathan (Karl Kuhlmann) in London and James (Albert Lippert) in Paris are part of an international network of Jewish bankers lending money to powerful people in their respective countries at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Due to their international contacts and ruthless materialistic attitude, the Rothschilds earn money every time non-Jewish soldiers give their blood, for instance when Nathan benefits from advance information about the outcome of the battle of Waterloo. Nathan appears with a strong Jewish accent and appeara...

  16. Looped metal whip that may have been used at Auschwitz given to a Ukrainian journalist covering the Nuremberg Trials

    1. Miroslav Hrijoriev Gregory collection

    Hand crafted metal whip given to Miroslav Hrijoriev Gregory, a Ukrainian journalist, in Nuremberg, Germany, in early 1947 while he was covering the proceedings of the Nuremberg Trials. The whip was supposedly used by an Auschwitz concentration camp guard, nicknamed Chocolata, and presented as evidence during trial proceedings. Miroslav was a Ukrainian journalist and illustrator, as well as a socialist who opposed the Soviet-style communist government of Ukraine during the early 1930s. Miroslav fled to Prague, Czechoslovakia, in the mid-1930s. He was married to a doctor, Eugenia, and in 1940...

  17. Béla Ingber family papers

    The collection consists of correspondence and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Béla Ingber, originally from Munkács, Hungary (now Mukacheve, Ukraine) as a forced-laborer in Hungary during World War II and as a Jewish refugee in Italy from 1945-1947. Correspondence includes postcards to Béla while he was a forced-laborer from his father Kálmán Ingber in Munkács, and post-war letters from his brothers Jóska, Miki, and Oli and his sister Libu. Photographs include depictions of pre-war family life, Béla and his brothers in the Czech Army, Béla as a forced-laborer in Hung...

  18. Wolf Zajac letter

    The letter was written by Wolf Zajac, in Poznań, Poland, on August 28, 1939, to Lydia Zajac (now Kessler) who was in England. A translation in English is also included.

  19. Elizabeth Mundlak collection

    The collection consists of photographs and documents regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Dora Juress-Mundlak and her husband Majer (Mielek) Mundlak, both originally of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Poland. Photographs depict the pre-ware lives of the Juress and Mundlak families in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, including Majer with his first wife and their child, Majer in his Polish military uniform, members of the Juress family, and a pre-war postcard of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Documents include forged identity cards for Dora and Majer under the respective false names of Janina Janiszewski and Karol J...

  20. Albert David Hamburger papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Albert David Hamburger and his parents Abraham and Rosa Hamburger of Gorinchem, Netherlands. Included are four letters written by Betty Bouten-Bergen, who hid David and his sister in Amsterdam; family photographs; copies of documents related to Albert’s release from Theresienstadt; and a Dutch translation of a diary written by Sergei Kaplan, husband of Olga Kaplan, who adopted Albert while he was in Theresienstadt.