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  1. Enameled Dutch oven used by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp

    1. Helen and Joseph Matlow family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn513683
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) | Width: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Depth: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) b: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Diameter: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm)

    Red and brown enameled metal Dutch oven used by Chana and Josef Matlowsky (later Helen and Joseph Matlow) while living at Eggenfelden displaced persons camp in Germany, from 1947 to 1949. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland and gave the Soviet Union the eastern half, where Chana’s family lived in Zdzieciol (Dziatlava, Belarus). In summer 1941, Germany invaded eastern Poland. In December, Chana’s brother was sent to work in a forced labor camp in Dworzec (Dvarėts (Hrodzenskaia voblasts', Belarus).) In 1942, German authorities ordered all Jews to move into a ghetto in Zdzieciol, killed ...

  2. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee

    1. Ernest and Ruth Chambre collection

    Dark blue suitcase used by Ernest Chambre, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany. In 1933, Ernest, originally from Belgium, was a law student in Berlin when Hitler was appointed Chancellor. The persecution of Jews by the Nazi government caused him to flee to Belgium and then, in 1934/1935, to Palestine. Ernest left for Spain, presumably to get to the US, but was imprisoned in Miranda de Ebro internment camp. After his release, he returned to Palestine and married Ruth Elsoffer, a fellow refugee, in 1937. Ruth emigrated to the United States in 1946; Ernest arrived in October 1947.

  3. Violin, case and spare parts used by a Jewish Latvian musician while imprisoned in several concentration camps

    1. Percy Brand collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn45017
    • English
    • 1940-1949
    • a: Height: 24.500 inches (62.23 cm) | Width: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 28.750 inches (73.025 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) c: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 32.000 inches (81.28 cm) | Depth: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm) d: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) e: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) f: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) g: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) h: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) i: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) j: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Violin, case, and parts kept by Perec Brandt during his imprisonment in several concentration camps from 1943-1945. A family friend gave the violin to Perec as a Bar Mitzvah present in 1921. Perec was the concertmaster of the Riga Latvian Symphony Orchestra in 1940 when the Soviets annexed Latvia. In June 1941, Latvia was under German occupation and Perec’s wife, daughter, and son were murdered by the SS Einsatzgruppen [mobile killing unit]. Perec was forced into the Riga ghetto, and later transferred to Riga-Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps. In Buchenwald, he was or...

  4. David Glick's JDC mission to South America in the late 1930s

    Begins in color: A hydroplane is docked on the water in Trinidad. "Pan American Airlines" logo and lettering, crew members work on propellers and engine, walking along the wing, in the FG a young boy looks at the camera and watches the men on the "deck" of the plane. Several passengers board the plane, both men and women, all seem to be American or European. INT of plane: the cargo hold. MCU, camera pans interior of plane and passengers, some are working, writing notes on a tablet, others look out the window, and still others recline over several seats and go to sleep. EXT, MS, a young loca...

  5. Handmade Israeli flag made by a Polish Jewish girl in a DP camp to celebrate statehood

    1. Judith Weinstein collection

    Israeli flag made by 15-year-old Judith Wagner on November 29, 1947, immediately after hearing the announcement that the United Nations had voted to partition Palestine into 2 separate states. She was living at the displaced persons (DP) camp in Wels, Austria, when the news was broadcast over the camp loudspeakers. Judith ran home and made the flag in about 2 hours for use at the ensuing celebratory party. Judith grew up in Rudnik, Poland with her younger sister Charlotta, and their parents, Chana and Pinchos. In October 1939, a month after Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union...

  6. Silver vermeil cake server received as a wedding gift by a Jewish woman in prewar Germany

    1. Berg and Hermanns families collection

    Silver vermeil serving knife received as a wedding gift by Selma Herz upon her marriage to Hugo Pauly, circa 1927, in Eilendorf, near Aachen, Germany. It was a gift from Abraham Hollander, Anne Frank's maternal grandfather, who was a first cousin of Selma's mother, Caroline Menken Herz. The knife may have been a family heirloom that originally belonged to Rosa'a mother. Soon after the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, the Herz family businesses were boycotted because they were Jewish. In early 1936, Selma and Hugo emigrated to Palestine with their 5 year old son, Kurt. They th...

  7. Monogrammed pink silk pillow sham recovered by a Hungarian Jewish refugee postwar

    1. Gabriella Weinberger Neufeld family collection

    Silk damask pillow sham recovered for Gabriella Weinberger by a relative, possibly Blanka Cobel, in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, after the war. It was made for her sister Marta’s dowry and embroidered with her initials. The family hid the sham in their home during the war. In May 1944, 15 year old Gabriella, her mother, Iren, and 18 year old Marta were deported from the Nyiregyhaza ghetto to Auschwitz. In August, they were sent to Struthof-Natzweiler, and later to Ravensbrück, where Iren died. In February 1945, the sisters were deported to Bergen-Belsen, where Marta, too weak to walk, was taken aw...

  8. Rubber stamp from a Jewish refugee's postwar business

    1. George Ogurek Zimmerman family collection

    Rubber stamp used by Chaskiel Zimmermann for his apparel business in Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, where he lived as a refugee after World War II. Chaskiel was deported from Sosnowiec, Poland, to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. He was liberated during a death march from Blechhammer slave labor camp in January 1945. Nearly his entire family was killed in Auschwitz. He married Karola Ogurek in Esslingen on December 6, 1947. Karola had fled Kamionka, Poland, in fall 1943, with her son Jurek, 10, husband Alexander, and parents Helene and Izak Fiszer. In April 1944, they were sent to Sered...

  9. Tefillin and green velvet pouch used by a Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Isak Perelmuter family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518527
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) b: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) c: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)

    Set of tefillin and a green velvet storage sack used by Isak Perelmuter. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers worn by Jewish males during weekday morning services. After Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Isak, his wife, Chaja, and daughters, Dora, 13, and Cywia, 6, were imprisoned in Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto. Isak delivered flour and the others worked in a bra and corset factory. There was never enough food and disease was widespread. The Germans destroyed the ghetto in the summer of 1944. Isak defied the deportation orders and the family hid until they managed to join ...

  10. Silver plaque with an engraved inscription presented to a Jewish woman for charitable work

    1. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection and Edwin Geist collection

    Silver wall plate preserved by Rosian Zerner. It is inscribed to her maternal grandmother Anna Blumenthal Chason by the Ostjudischen Vereins [Eastern Jewish Association] of Free State Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in January 1930. Anna, her husband Julius, and three of their four children immigrated to Palestine on October 24, 1935. This was the day after the birth of Anna's first granddaughter Rosian, to her daughter Gerta Bagriansky in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. After Germany's defeat in World War I (1914-1918), Danzig, previously part of West Prussia, was designated a Free City. It was the...

  11. Silver basket with floral emblem presented for charitable work

    1. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection and Edwin Geist collection

    Elaborate, silver repousse basket preserved by Rosian Zerner. It is inscribed to her maternal grandmother Anna Blumenthal Chason by the Ostjudischen Vereins [Eastern Jewish Association] of Free State Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in February 1930. Anna, her husband Julius, and three of their four children immigrated to Palestine on October 24, 1935. This was the day after the birth of her first granddaughter Rosian, to Anna's daughter Gerta Bagriansky in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. After Germany's defeat in World War I (1914-1918), Danzig, previously part of West Prussia, was designated a Free...

  12. Purple velvet tallit pouch made by a woman for her fiance in a DP camp

    1. Lilly and Aaron Friedman family collection

    Purple velvet tallit bag with a Star of David sewn by Lili Lax, 21, for her husband-to-be Ludwig Frydman, 22, for their January 27, 1946, marriage in Celle displaced persons camp. It stores the tallit, or prayer shawl, used by observant Jewish men. Ludwig, his parents Michal and Gizella, and 11 siblings lived in Sevlus, Czechoslovakia, which was annexed by Hungary in 1939. In March 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and soon began the systematic deportation of all Jews to concentration camps. Ludwig was confined to Munkacs ghetto and then deported to Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Ludwig’s parents...

  13. Pencil portrait sketch of a German Jewish refugee

    Portrait sketch of Kurt Singer saved by his daughter, Margot. It was drawn by Clara Asscher-Pinkhof in 1942 in Amsterdam when he lived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Singer was a neurologist and the Director of the Berlin Opera. Soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he lost his position at the Opera due to a law that ousted Jewish civil servants from public positions. In May, he co-founded the Judische Kulturbund, a Jewish cultural organization. In 1938, his daughter, Margot, left for Switzerland, and in 1940, to Palestine. That October, Kurt left for a one year appointment at ...

  14. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection

    1. Helen and William Luksenburg collection

    The William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of relatives of the Luksenburg and Chilewicz families in Poland. The photograph collection includes images of both Holocaust victims and survivors. The pre-war family photographs were taken in Da̧browa Górnicza and Sosnowiec, Poland. The wartime photographs were taken in Sosnowiec, Poland and feature members of the Hanoar Hatzioni Zionist Youth Movement. Additional wartime photographs include young Jewish women in the Sosnowiec ghetto wearing armbands with the Star of David. The pos...

  15. To the Sanctification of the Name Faces of the Holocaust Many Holocaust Victims Pencil drawing depicting Holocaust victims by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Pencil drawing, one of multiple studies for a larger work, depicting concentration camp inmates who were killed, created postwar by Jacob Barosin in the United States. 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 Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transported to Gurs i...

  16. To the Sanctification of the Name Faces of the Holocaust Many Holocaust Victims Pencil drawing and overlay depicting Holocaust victims by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Pencil drawing with a partially completed overlay, one of multiple studies for a larger work, depicting concentration camp inmates who were killed, created postwar by Jacob Barosin in the United States. 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 Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, ...

  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. Pencil portrait of a man in a beret by Jacob J. Barosin

    1. Jacob Barosin collection

    Pencil portrait drawn by Jacob Barosin in early 1941 while he was in Langlade. It likely depicts a fellow prestataire, the name given to foreign laborers attached to the French army. 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 Sonia were arrested as enemy aliens, and Sonia was transp...

  19. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin family papers

    1. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin family collection

    Consists of family photographs of Rosenfeld family members and correspondence such as postcards, post-war photos of an exhibition relating to the Rosenfeld family in Adelsheim, Germany, and restitution-related paperwork and correspondence written by Edith Kaye, the donor's older sister, regarding their father Adolf Rosenfeld, as well as photocopies of files attesting to a court case brought against him.

  20. Ministère des Finances. Archives de Carl Requette, liquidateur du Commissariat belge au rapatriement

    • Ministry of Finance. Carl Requette Archives, liquidator of the Belgian Repatriation Commission

    The documents in this fonds are either the specific products of Carl Requette's activity as liquidator or copies and original documents collected by him to serve as debt instruments or documentation. They come from the archives of the Belgian Commission for Repatriation (C.B.R.) as well as files transmitted by the Ministry of Public Health concerning Minister Marteaux's "hospital re-equipment" operation. Within its limited volume, the fonds has a considerable documentary value. It shines a light on Carl Requette's work as liquidator, but also that of the C.B.R. By including the documents th...