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  1. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 158831 owned by former inmate

    1. Arthur R. List collection

    Red inverted triangle badge imprinted with KL Dachau and prisoner number 158831 acquired by Arthur List at an unknown date. Arthur, 22, (then Adolf Lustgarten) was liberated in April 1945 while an inmate at Dachau with the prisoner number 159831. The badge resembles the patches prisoners had to wear on their uniforms. In September 1939, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. Around 1941-42, Adolf was picked up off the streets in Wadowice to do forced labor. He was eventually sent to Gross Rosen concentration camp and then to slave labor subcamps. Circa 1943 or later, he was transferred to Flo...

  2. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 85173 owned by former inmate

    1. Arthur R. List collection

    Red inverted triangle badge imprinted with KL Dachau and prisoner number 85173 acquired by Arthur List at an unknown date. Arthur, 22, (then Adolf Lustgarten) was liberated in April 1945 while an inmate at Dachau with the prisoner number 159831. The badge resembles the patches prisoners had to wear on their uniforms. In September 1939, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. Around 1941-42, Adolf was picked up off the streets in Wadowice to do forced labor. He was eventually sent to Gross Rosen concentration camp and then to slave labor subcamps. Circa 1943 or later, he was transferred to Flos...

  3. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 83918 owned by former camp inmate

    1. Arthur R. List collection

    Red inverted triangle badge imprinted with KL Dachau, prisoner number 83918, and a Star of David acquired by Arthur List at an unknown date. Arthur, 22, (then Adolf Lustgarten) was liberated in April 1945 while an inmate at Dachau with the prisoner number 159831. The badge resembles the patches prisoners had to wear on their uniforms. In September 1939, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. Around 1941-42, Adolf was picked up off the streets in Wadowice to do forced labor. He was eventually sent to Gross Rosen concentration camp and then to slave labor subcamps. Circa 1943 or later, he was t...

  4. Commemorative red triangle Auschwitz badge 140239 owned by former camp inmate

    1. Arthur R. List collection

    Red inverted triangle badge imprinted with a Star of David, KL Auschwitz and prisoner number 140239 acquired by Arthur List at an unknown date. Arthur, 22, (then Adolf Lustgarten) was liberated in April 1945 while an inmate at Dachau with the prisoner number 159831. The badge resembles the patches prisoners had to wear on their uniforms. In September 1939, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. Around 1941-42, Adolf was picked up off the streets in Wadowice to do forced labor. He was eventually sent to Gross Rosen concentration camp and then to slave labor subcamps. Circa 1943 or later, he wa...

  5. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 158831 owned by former inmate

    1. Arthur R. List collection

    Red inverted triangle badge imprinted with KL Dachau and prisoner number 158831 acquired by Arthur List at an unknown date. Arthur, 22, (then Adolf Lustgarten) was liberated in April 1945 while an inmate at Dachau with the prisoner number 159831. The badge resembles the patches prisoners had to wear on their uniforms. In September 1939, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. Around 1941-42, Adolf was picked up off the streets in Wadowice to do forced labor. He was eventually sent to Gross Rosen concentration camp and then to slave labor subcamps. Circa 1943 or later, he was transferred to Flo...

  6. Black Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Folding citizenship certificate case that belonged to Dr. Leo Nast, a chemical engineer, who left Hamburg, Germany, for the United States in July 1934. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Leo had long opposed the politics of Hitler and the Nazi Party and Leo and his wife Bertha decided to leave Germany. Their immigration was sponsored by the Catalin Corporation, a plastics company that employed Leo after his arrival in the US. The Nazi dictatorship enacted anti-Jewish laws and the persecution of Jews grew increasingly harsh. In 1939, Leo arranged for his mother, Frederica, t...

  7. Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Folding citizenship certificate case that belonged to Dr. Leo Nast, a chemical engineer, who left Hamburg, Germany, for the United States in July 1934. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Leo had long opposed the politics of Hitler and the Nazi Party and Leo and his wife Bertha decided to leave Germany. Their immigration was sponsored by the Catalin Corporation, a plastics company that employed Leo after his arrival in the US. The Nazi dictatorship enacted anti-Jewish laws and the persecution of Jews grew increasingly harsh. In 1939, Leo arranged for his mother, Frederica, t...

  8. Jewish community in Wrocław Synagogen Gemeinde zu Breslau Gmina Żydowska we Wrocławiu (Sygn.105)

    Contains records of the Jewish Community in Wrocław from 1796-1944 (Gmina Żydowska we Wrocławiu). Includes Board minutes,1922-1939; Board correspondence with offices,1796-1939, communities and Jewish associations as well as private individuals, including correspondence concerning the protection of refugees from Russia, Romania, Galicia, the Grand Duchy of Poland, 1867-1874, 1892-1907, 1914-1930; documentation on preparations to the Third Convention of the Association of German Jews in 1909, the District Association of Jewish Communities in Prussia in Breslau,1926-1933; correspondence with t...

  9. Hermann Göring's Nuremberg war crimes trial headphones

    1. IBM Corporation collection

    Headset used by Hermann Göring during the Nuremberg war crimes trials.

  10. Otto Herskovic memoir and papers

    Diary, handwritten, composed by Otto Herskovic, at the age of 15, immediately following the end of World War II. In it, he recounts his family's experiences during the German invasion of Belgium, his family's flight to southern France, and the experiences of him and his sister while at an O.S.E.-administered children's home, and later, as part of a convoy of children who were sent to the United States via North Africa in July 1942 with the help of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM). Included are hand-drawn maps of places referenced in the diary, photograph...

  11. Stripounsky family papers

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    The Stripounsky family papers consist of identification, education, immigration, and military papers, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting the flight of Menachem (Nathan) and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel from Nazi-occupied Belgium to France in 1940 and from France to the United States in 1941 and Joseph Strip’s military service in 1945 and 1946. Biographical materials consist of identification papers, student records, ration cards, military records, employment records, citizenship records, and immigration records documenting the Str...

  12. Henry and Grete Salomon collection

    The Henry and Grete Salomon collection contains primarily identification documents for both Henry Salomon and Grete Nathan Salomon. Both escaped Germany in 1939, and later married in England. Grete worked odd jobs while Henry enlisted in the British Army. Documents include identification papers such as certificates concerning parents, travel documents, certificate of good conduct, household goods directory, registration identity cards, and various other items. Other documents include newspaper clippings, correspondence, and reparations information. The Henry and Grete Salomon collection con...

  13. Process of isolating, labeling, deporting, murdering Jews

    DER KRIEG. Germans enter Poland. Lwow pogrom amateur footage; stills. Nazis entering towns via truck; Hitler speeches; clips from Nazi propaganda and newsreels, Jews forced to work for Germans in occupied territory, roundups in Jonava, Latvia. Hangings in occupied territory. German raid, checking papers, in various Polish locations. Riga scenes of harassing Jews. (locations and images intermixed) Jews in Balti, Romania, moved in large numbers along road. Krakow ghetto created, Jews moving in, others moving out. 10:06:45 [01:06:12] DAS GHETTO. Warsaw Ghetto scenes (includes b/w version of sc...

  14. UJA officials in Israel

    Private footage taken on a trip to Israel by Julian Venezky. Venezky worked with Henry Montor and others on fundraising activities for the United Jewish Appeal. Together with Samuel Rothberg, Venezky also raised substantial funds for the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A man sits on a lawn with a young girl on his knee and she kisses him on the cheek. He gets up and waves as he walks away. Panning shots of ocean, beach and boardwalk. Underexposed shots of a woman walking out of a restaurant and a sign reading "Hotel Gat-Rimmon." Middle-aged men stand by a car and talk. Julian Venezky walks ...

  15. Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres papers

    The collection contains correspondence, identification papers, photographs, testimonies, and restitution claims documenting the experiences of Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres in Poland, Lithuania, and Italy during the Holocaust, and their post-war experiences in Italy prior to immigrating to Canada. Included are papers regarding their time as displaced persons in Bari, Italy; and their work with the Joint Distribution Committee; their immigration to Canada; testimonies; and restitution claims. The restitution papers also reflect Regina's attempts to reclaim funds from a Swiss bank that her f...

  16. Shallow pewter bowl with etched Hebrew owned by a German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Bertha and Morris Berk collection

    Pewter bowl with etched Hebrew letters owned by Moritz Berk, who decided to leave Nazi Germany for the US in 1938. When Hitler came into power in January 1933, Moritz, his wife Berta, and their daughter Fraenze were living in Schwanfeld, where Morris's family had lived for generations. Under the Nazi government, Jews were persecuted and increasingly banned from areas of German society. Faced with rising anti-Semitism, Moritz, Berta, Fraenze, and Berta’s mother Jette, decided to immigrate to the United States. Berta’s brother, Max Lonnerstaedter, sponsored their 1938 emigration to New York. ...

  17. Handmade paper photo pocket owned by a German Jewish prewar emigre to the United States

    1. Bertha and Morris Berk collection

    Paper photograph packet owned by Moritz Berk, who decided to leave Nazi Germany for the US in 1938. When Hitler came into power in January 1933, Moritz, his wife Berta, and their daughter Fraenze were living in Schwanfeld, where Morris' family had lived for generations. Under the Nazi government, Jews were persecuted and increasingly banned from areas of German society. Faced with rising anti-Semitism, Moritz, Berta, Fraenze, and Berta’s mother Jette, decided to immigrate to the United States. Berta’s brother, Max Lonnerstaedter, sponsored their 1938 emigration to New York. Moritz’s brother...

  18. The Narrow Bridge Remembrance of a Jewish Childhood during the Second World War

    Consists of one typed memoir, 631 pages, entitled "The Narrow Bridge: Remembrance of a Jewish Childhood during the Second World War," written in 2014 by Dr. Zwi Barnea (born Herbert Zwi Chameides), originally of Katowice, Poland. In the memoir, Dr. Barnea describes going into hiding under the direction of Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky and the Metropolitan's brother, Klement Sheptytsky, head of the Studite monastic order. He reflects on his childhood before the war; the family's move to Shchyrets' in 1939; life under the Soviet occupation; learning of the aktions, particularly in Lviv and S...

  19. Klick-Klack handheld pinball game with box brought with a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Anneliese Centawer Marx family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn90818
    • English
    • a: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)

    Klick Klack, a handheld pinball game brought with 8 year old Anneliese Centawer when she and her parents James and Recha fled Nazi Germany in July 1938. After Hitler and the Nazi regime's seizure of power in 1933, the Jewish population was subjected to increasingly harsh persecution. 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, red haired girl of trying to pass for German. In July 1938, with sponsorship from Recha's half-sib...

  20. Curt Gutsmuth papers

    1. Eric Gutsmuth collection

    The Curt Gutsmuth papers include biographical material, correspondence, a photograph, and printed material relating to Curt and Nelly Gutsmuth and their family’s experiences escaping Germany and hiding in the Netherlands during the war. This collection also includes biographical material, testimony, and printed material relating to other victims of Holocaust. Curt was a philatelist and some of the document relating to other victims were acquired by Curt while obtaining his collection. Gutsmuth family papers include an ID card from Theresienstadt and a repatriation card issued to Hedwig Schw...