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  1. Rectangular locket with 3 photos owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    Gold colored locket that belonged to Fritz Kauffmann, or his wife, Adelaide. Fritz was a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. Adelaide was a non-Jewish British citizen and active partner in his business. Adelaide and Fritz were married on January 23, 1941, in Shanghai. Fritz was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 for b...

  2. Arthur Szyk lithograph of Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address

    1. Arthur Szyk collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn520124
    • English
    • 1946
    • overall: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm)

    Print of an Arthur Szyk painting and illumination of the closing words of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address of 1865, with a portrait of Lincoln, flags of Allied nations of World War II, and US military symbols. Szyk, a Jewish emigre artist, originally from Łódź, Poland, left London for the United States in 1940. After the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, his work was focused on anti-Nazi political cartoons. In the US, Szyk became a leading anti-Fascist editorial caricaturist, creating works that brought attention to the mass murder of Europe’s Jews by Nazi Germany.

  3. Luftwaffe teaspoon acquired by a Romanian Jewish woman at Salzwedel

    1. Elisabet Goldstein collection

    Teaspoon with the Nazi German Luftwaffe insignia engraved on the end. The spoon was acquired by Elisabet Goldstein in 1945 while a prisoner at Salzwedel, a wire and metal goods factory that was a satellite of Neuengamme concentration camp in Germany. Elisabet was from Cluj, Romania. After the area was annexed to Hungary in 1940, Jews suffered economically and physically. Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, and in May, Elisabet and her family, along with 18,000 other Jewish people in the area, were sent to the Kolozsvár ghetto. Within a month the ghetto was liquidated and the prisoners w...

  4. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Romanian Jewish inmate at Buchenwald

    1. Elisabet Goldstein collection

    Concentration camp pants worn by Isidor Goldstein, husband of Elisabet Goldstein, when he was an inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp. The pants are made from a thin striped material sometimes referred to as “pajama stripes.” Elisabet was from Cluj, Romania. After the area was annexed to Hungary in 1940, Jews suffered economically and physically. Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, and in May, Elisabet and her family, along with 18,000 other Jewish people in the area, were sent to the Kolozsvár ghetto. Within a month the ghetto was liquidated and the prisoners were transported to Aus...

  5. Gaerber family papers

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    The papers consist of 17 false documents that enabled the Gaerber family of Lvov, Poland (Lʹviv, Ukraine) to survive the Holocaust.

  6. US propaganda poster depicting World War II and Revolutionary War soldiers

    1. David and Zelda Silberman collection

    US propaganda poster featuring World War II soldiers marching in front of Revolutionary War soldiers. The poster associates World War II soldiers with Continental Army soldiers and, with the large caption, implies that the United States was fighting in World War II for the same reasons the nation fought the Revolutionary War at the end of the 18th century. The image was created by American-Jewish artist, Bernard Perlin, who studied at the Art Students League in New York and created post office murals for the Works Projects Administration (WPA) prior to the war. During the war, he created pr...

  7. Security of War Information Campaign poster about safeguarding convoy movement information

    1. David and Zelda Silberman collection

    Security of War Information Campaign poster warning people to guard what they say in public because it could lead to the death of military personnel. The poster was designed by Stevan Dohanos, an illustrator and painter known for his “American Realist” style and depictions of everyday life. The poster was part of the Security of War Information Campaign, also known as the “hush-hush campaign.” This cooperative project was undertaken by the Office of War Information (OWI) with the oversight of a Security Committee, which included representatives from the OWI, the Army, Navy, FBI, and other a...

  8. Ernst Berl papers

    Correspondence, documents, printed articles, news clippings, documenting the experiences of chemical engineer Ernst Berl, following his removal from the faculty of the Technische Hochschule in Darmstadt, and his immigration to the United States in 1933. Included is correspondence with other emigre academics from Austria and Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, correspondence concerning attempts to help others immigrate from Austria and Germany and obtain academic positions in the United States, as well as materials documenting Berl's efforts to help persecuted Jews in Darmstadt with scholars...

  9. Fabrique Nationale Browning Model 1922 used by a Yugoslavian partisan

    1. Yugoslavian Partisan collection

    Browning Model 1922 pistol used by Dudo Montiljo, while he was a member of a partisan group that fought the Nazi occupation forces and Ustaše collaborators in Yugoslavia during World War II. The Model 1922 was developed by American gun designer, John Browning, and manufactured in Belgium by Fabrique Nationale. The gun was adopted by many European militaries, including Yugoslavia, and appropriated by Germany after their occupation of Belgium during World War II. Dudo lived in Prnjavor, where he worked as a merchant when Yugoslavia was invaded and partitioned by Germany and its allies in Apri...

  10. Mentkewicz (Mentken) family papers

    1. David Mentken family collection

    The papers consist of documents and correspondence relating to the immigration of the family of David and Regina Haar Mentkewicz (later Mentken) and their sons, Robert and Edgar, originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes documentation related to their lives in Vienna, immigration to the United States in September 1938 on the SS Pennland, and material related to the pre-war business of Salomon Mentkewicz, David's father. Includes pre-war photographs of the extended Mentkewicz and Haar families and restitution claims for property that was confiscated.

  11. Frank Liebermann family papers

    The Frank Liebermann family papers contain biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and restitution files documenting the lives of the Liebermann and Orgler families in Upper Silesia before and during the Holocaust; Frank Liebermann’s family’s immigration to the United States and their lives during and after the war in Dayton, OH; and their efforts to obtain restitution for losses and damages suffered under the Nazi regime. Biographical materials include records documenting the lives of Hans, Lotte, and Frank Liebermann; Fritz Liebrecht; and Alfred, Helmut, an...

  12. Menzer and Steiner family photograph collection

    1. Iris Avni-Menzer family collection

    The collection consists of three photographs of members of the Menzer and Steiner families from Nitra, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) who were killed in 1942.

  13. Painting of a young boy protecting people with Judenstern from German soldiers

    1. Arie Singer collection

    Painting by Arie (Aryeh) Singer depicting a wishful fantasy of a young boy saving Jewish villagers from soldiers wearing Nazi insignia in the Glembokie ghetto. It is from a series created from 1985-2000 based upon memories and events from his youth as a 13 year old partisan fighter in the forests northeast of Vilna, Poland, (Vilnius, Lithuania) and in Belarus from 1943-1944. After the Soviet occupation of Vilna in late 1939, Arie's family fled to Glembokie (Hlybokaye, Belarus). When Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the area was assaulted by German mobile killing units, who with the help...

  14. Autobiographical painting of partisans shooting 2 German soldiers

    1. Arie Singer collection

    Painting by Arie (Aryeh) Singer depicting 2 partisans, within the forest, shooting 2 German soldiers. It is from a series created from 1985-2000 detailing memories and events from his youth as a 13 year old partisan fighter in the forests northeast of Vilna, Poland, (Vilnius, Lithuania) and in Belarus from 1943-1944. After the Soviet occupation of Vilna in late 1939, Arie's family fled to Glembokie (Hlybokaye, Belarus). When Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the area was assaulted by German mobile killing units, who with the help of the local populace, murdered thousands of Jews. Arie an...

  15. Autobiographical painting of partisans holding German prisoners at gunpoint after battle

    1. Arie Singer collection

    Painting by Arie (Aryeh) Singer depicting the line-up of captured German soldiers; in the background are the bodies of partisans, including a medic, sickened by an illness that struck the camp near the end of the war. It is from a series of works detailing events from his youth as a 13 year old partisan fighter in the forests northeast of Vilna, Poland, (Vilnius, Lithuania) and in Belarus from 1943-1944. After the Soviet occupation of Vilna in late 1939, Arie's family fled to Glembokie (Hlybokaye, Belarus). When Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the area was assaulted by German mobile ki...

  16. Autobiographical painting of partisans led by young boy meeting soldiers near Kiev

    1. Arie Singer collection

    Painting by Arie (Aryeh) Singer depicting himself carrying the flag for a group of partisans meeting with Soviet soldiers in southern Ukraine, near Kiev. It is from a series of works detailing events from his youth as a 13 year old partisan fighter in the forests northeast of Vilna, Poland, (Vilnius, Lithuania) and in Belarus from 1943-1944. After the Soviet occupation of Vilna in late 1939, Arie's family fled to Glembokie (Hlybokaye, Belarus). When Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the area was assaulted by German mobile killing units, who with the help of the local populace, murdered t...

  17. Autobiographical painting of partisans running past 2 dead German soldiers

    1. Arie Singer collection

    Painting by Arie (Aryeh) Singer depicting 2 partisans running into the forest, past 2 dead German soldiers. It is from a series created from 1985-2000 based upon memories and events from his youth as a 13 year old partisan fighter in the forests northeast of Vilna, Poland, (Vilnius, Lithuania) and in Belarus from 1943-1944. After the Soviet occupation of Vilna in late 1939, Arie's family fled to Glembokie (Hlybokaye, Belarus). When Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the area was assaulted by German mobile killing units, who with the help of the local populace, murdered thousands of Jews. ...

  18. Watercolor of concentration camp prisoners cremating bodies in a fire pit

    1. Arie Singer collection

    Watercolor by Arie Singer imagining a scene of concentration camp prisoners burning naked bodies in a large outdoor pit. It is from a series of works created from 1985-2000. Unlike this work, most of the work is based upon memories and events from his youth as a 13 year old partisan fighter in the forests northeast of Vilna, Poland, (Vilnius, Lithuania) and in Belarus from 1943-1944. After the Soviet occupation of Vilna in late 1939, Arie's family fled to Glembokie (Hlybokaye, Belarus). When Germany invaded Russia in June 1941, the area was assaulted by German mobile killing units, who with...

  19. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    20 mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in German...

  20. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 50 mark note, given to a US soldier by a refugee

    1. Igor Belousovitch collection

    50 mark note receipt from the Łódź ghetto, one of 5 pieces of scrip given to Igor Belousovitch, a US soldier, in early April 1945 by a refugee walking west on the same road Igor's unit was taking east across Germany near Leipzig. As Igor was looking at the line of refugees, one looked over at him and they made eye contact. The man, emaciated and dressed in rags, walked over to Igor, reached in his pocket, pulled out several bills, and gave them to Igor. They exchanged a few words and then both continued on their way. The scrip was created in the Łódź ghetto, renamed Litzmannstadt, in German...