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  1. Klarsfeld Beate

    • Klarsfeld, Beate, 1939-....
    • Klarsfeld, Beate
    • קלארספלד, ביאטה, ־1939

    13/02/1939

    Journalist. Nazi hunter.

  2. Weissmandel Michael Dov

    • Weissmandel, Michael Dov, 1904?-1957
    • וייסמנדל, רחמ״ד
    • וויסמאנדל, מיכאל דוב
    • ווייסמאנדל, מיכאל בער, ?1904־1957
    • ווייסמאנדל, חיים מיכאל דוב, 1957־?1904
    • ...

    1903

    1956

    Rabbi in Slovakia. Helped halt the deportation of Slovakian Jews for two years, through the organisation Working Group, who bribed German and Slovakian officials. Created the Europa Plan the rescue European Jews Jews in hte same way. In 1944 broadcast the so called Auschwitz Protocols about the mass exterminations. Escaped from Auschwitz, settled in the United States. \

  3. Brown leather and cork men’s dress shoes crafted in Sedan Kaserne Ulm DP camp by a Jewish Polish soldier

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn47425
    • English
    • a: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) b: Height: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)

    Brown leather dress shoes crafted by Noel Galicki in Sedan Kaserne displaced persons camp in Ulm, Germany, between 1946 and 1949. Noel was taught and certified as a shoemaker in the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) vocational training program at the camp. Noel, 27, was a soldier in the Polish Army during the German invasion on September 1, 1939. Seventeen days later, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland and Noel was captured. On June 29, 1940, the Soviets deported Noel and his wife Henja to Komi ASSR. Henja died during childbirth on March 30, 1941, and their daughte...

  4. Tennenbaum family in Nazi Vienna; departing on the Queen Mary ship

    November 1937. Robert (Bobby) Tennenbaum (donor) at age 2 in the Volksgarten park in Vienna with his mother, Ernestine (Erna). Shots of Bobby, wearing a winter coat and hat, smiling and running in the park, while his mother and grandfather look on. Closer views of Erna and grandfather. Erna wears a fur stole around her neck. Other park-goers are visible in BG. Shots of Erna and Bobby's grandfather. More scenes of Bobby with various adults, including his father Marcus. Leo Beller with his son Paul in St. Johann park. Paul poses for the camera and sits on a bench while his father combs his ha...

  5. Commemorative FNDIRP button cover engraved 178284 acquired by a Jewish Polish refugee

    1. Frances and Julian Hirshfeld family collection

    Button cover with number 178284 given to Julian Hirshfeld when he was a displaced person in Paris, where he was sent after his liberation from Buchenwald by US troops on April 11, 1945. The pin was issued by the Federation Nationale des deportes Internes resistants Patriotes (FNDIRP) in April 1945 to honor the memory of Charles Oschkor, 178284 was his prisoner number. Oschkor was a former kapo of Blechhammer concentration camp who sacrificed himself to save other prisoners. Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany in September 1939. Julian, a Jewish textile engineer, was interned in Łódź Ghetto ...

  6. Arthur Jacobs photograph collection

    1. Arthur Jacobs collection

    Collection consists of a photograph of German-American and Japanese-American internees at Ellis Island in 1943 and an aerial photograph of the Crystal City Internment Camp in Crystal City, Texas in 1944-45,

  7. UNRRA selected records AG-018-010 : Austria Mission

    Consist of administrative files related to displaced persons, repatriation, emigration, tracing of people, child welfare, Children's Homes, welfare assistance by various international organizations; special monthly reports and statistics from British, French and American Zones; files of the displaced persons camps, narrative reports, correspondence, and registers from the particular UNRRA teams regarding operations of the displaced persons camps.

  8. Robert Reams - Fish(ing Party)

    Ambassador Robert Borden Reams was interviewed about American diplomats during a fishing and golfing trip in Panama City, Florida. Ambassador Reams agreed to meet with Lanzmann on the condition that there would be no formal interview, and that topics such as the Bermuda Conference, governmental policies and the State Department during World War II would not discussed. He refuses to tell Lanzmann why he doesn't want to talk about them. Much of Lanzmann's and the Ambassador's time together is spent fishing and golfing, although he eventually opens up to Lanzmann's questions. FILM ID 3875 -- C...

  9. Jack and Sylvia Heisler papers

    The Jack and Sylvia Heisler papers contain correspondence, forms and other records pertaining to the Holocaust-era restitution claims of Jack Heisler and Sylvia Stern Heisler, filed against the West German government between 1958 and 1970, and related to their internment as forced laborers at Auschwitz, Sömmerda, and other camps. Jack Heisler’s earliest compensation claims in these files date from the late 1958 through 1961, when he filed claims on behalf of himself and his brother Edward, at the office that handled compensation claims for the state of Rheinland-Pfalz in Trier, Germany. He ...

  10. Ansbacher family papers

    1. Ansbacher family collection

    The Ansbacher family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Ansbacher family from Dinkelsbühl, Germany, Sigrid Ansbacher’s deportation to Theresienstadt with her parents, Sigrid’s transfer to Auschwitz, her recuperation from typhus in Sweden after liberation, and her immigration to the United States in 1946 to rejoin her parents. The papers include documents from the family’s internment in Theresienstadt, a postcard Selma Ansbacher wrote pleading that Sigrid be spared from the Auschwitz convoy, and a postcard Sigrid wrote...

  11. Synagogues and Jewish businesses in Paris; summer camp for children

    The facade of a synagogue in Paris' 18th Arrondissement. Daily life in the surrounding bustling neighborhood, signs of many businesses include French and Hebrew script. Trash fills the gutters and cars and horse-drawn carts share the street. Scenes of an outdoor flea market at the nearby Porte de Clignancourt. Two uniformed soldiers march through the market. A view of the Sacre-Coeur basilica rising above the rooftops of the neighborhood. 01:02:32 Children on a beach at a summer camp on the Ile de Ré, off the coast of La Rochelle, in France. Their fists raised, interact with filmmaker Rober...

  12. Margaret Kagan photograph collection

    The collection consists of 25 photographs relating to the experiences of Margaret Kagan and her family before and during World War II. Margarita (Mara) Shtromaite (later Lady Margaret Kagan) was born in Riga, Latvia, and grew up in Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania.

  13. Linhard family papers

    1. Alfred Linhard family collection

    The collection contains documents, original and copied, as well as photographs, correspondence, and a manuscript memoir documenting the experiences of the Linhard family of Vienna, Austria and their efforts to emigrate following the German takeover in 1938. Includes a manuscript memoir by Alfred Linhard; copied documents related to his parents, Regina and Bernhard Linhard, including birth, marriage and death certificates; and letters Bernhard wrote to American aid organizations appealing for their assistance in helping him and his family to emigrate. Also includes family photographs, a pray...

  14. Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 25 cents, acquired by a US soldier

    1. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, valued at 25 cents, acquired by Captain Sidney Cooley while he was serving as an officer in the US Third Army and military government in Bayreuth, Germany, from 1945 -1946. On January 1, 1945, Sidney’s Division was deployed to Marseilles, France, and quickly advanced north into Germany. The 63rd Infantry crossed the Siegfried Line and fought through central Germany, arriving in Landsberg am Lech by April. Sidney was promoted and assigned to General Louis Hibb’s staff. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. Sidney was promoted to Captain, assigned to th...

  15. Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 10 cents, acquired by a US soldier

    1. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, valued at 10 cents, acquired by Captain Sidney Cooley while he was serving as an officer in the US Third Army and military government in Bayreuth, Germany, from 1945 -1946. On January 1, 1945, Sidney’s Division was deployed to Marseilles, France, and quickly advanced north into Germany. The 63rd Infantry crossed the Siegfried Line and fought through central Germany, arriving in Landsberg am Lech by April. Sidney was promoted and assigned to General Louis Hibb’s staff. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. Sidney was promoted to Captain, assigned to th...

  16. Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 5 cents, acquired by a US soldier

    1. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, valued at 5 cents, acquired by Captain Sidney Cooley while he was serving as an officer in the US Third Army and military government in Bayreuth, Germany, from 1945 -1946. On January 1, 1945, Sidney’s Division was deployed to Marseilles, France, and quickly advanced north into Germany. The 63rd Infantry crossed the Siegfried Line and fought through central Germany, arriving in Landsberg am Lech by April. Sidney was promoted and assigned to General Louis Hibb’s staff. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. Sidney was promoted to Captain, assigned to the...

  17. Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 5 dollars, acquired by a US soldier

    1. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, valued at 5 dollars, acquired by Captain Sidney Cooley while he was serving as an officer in the US Third Army and military government in Bayreuth, Germany, from 1945 -1946. On January 1, 1945, Sidney’s Division was deployed to Marseilles, France, and quickly advanced north into Germany. The 63rd Infantry crossed the Siegfried Line and fought through central Germany, arriving in Landsberg am Lech by April. Sidney was promoted and assigned to General Louis Hibb’s staff. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. Sidney was promoted to Captain, assigned to t...

  18. Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 50 cents, acquired by a US soldier

    1. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection

    Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, valued at 50 cents, acquired by Captain Sidney Cooley while he was serving as an officer in the US Third Army and military government in Bayreuth, Germany, from 1945 -1946. On January 1, 1945, Sidney’s Division was deployed to Marseilles, France, and quickly advanced north into Germany. The 63rd Infantry crossed the Siegfried Line and fought through central Germany, arriving in Landsberg am Lech by April. Sidney was promoted and assigned to General Louis Hibb’s staff. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. Sidney was promoted to Captain, assigned to th...

  19. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Wooden trunk used by John and Alice Redlich Fink for travel to the US. Alice was a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany after the war. Alice left Nazi Germany in 1938 for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, left for the Bergen-Belsen dp camp to care for children and young women. Her mother, father, brother, and grandmother were all murdered in Auschwitz. She met and married Hans Finke, a fellow German Jewish relief worker, at the camp...

  20. Lore and Simon Rosen family papers

    Identification documents, military records, immigration documents, postcards, and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Lore (née Baron) and Simon Rosen, both of whom survived in England. Documents include is Lore’s 1939 Kindertransport identification card, British Army pay books and Soldier’s Release Books, Simon’s British passport, documents related to the Rosen’s immigration to Canada from Israel in 1954, and a copy of Simon’s relative Edna Rosine’s immigration paperwork to Liverpool, England in 1918. Also included are postcards of Malemort-sur-Corrèze, France, where L...