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  1. Sketch of a Holocaust remembrance ceremony by Esther Lurie

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Ink sketch of a crowd assembled for a ceremony drawn by Esther Lurie depicting a Holocaust remembrance at Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, Israel, in the early 1960s. Esther, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine in 1934. She was visiting her sister in Kovno (Kaunus), Lithuania, in summer 1941 when it was occupied by Germany. She was confined to the ghetto and had to create artwork for the Germans. She also, at the request of the Jewish Council, dedicated herself to recording the daily life of the residents. In July 1944, the ghetto was liquidated. Esther was sent to Stutthof conce...

  2. Yellow damask purse made by a liberated slave labor camp inmate, saved by another inmate

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Handmade damask linen handbag saved by Esther Lurie. It was made in February 1945 by her tentmate and fellow prisoner, name unknown, soon after they were liberated from Leibisch slave labor camp in Lubicz, Poland. The woman died not long after. Esther kept the bag, but she never used it, or even washed it. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine in 1934. She was visiting her sister in Kovno (Kaunus), Lithuania, in summer 1941 when it was occupied by Germany. She was confined to the ghetto and had to create portraits and paintings for the Germans....

  3. WWI Red Cross merit medal, 3rd class awarded to German Jewish woman

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523075
    • English
    • overall: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    German Rothe Kreuz [For Merit in the Red Corss] medal, 3rd class, awarded to Hildegard Alexander for her service as a nurse in World War I (1914-1918). See 2003.361.19 for the Rothe Kreuz ribbon she was also awarded. Her husband, Moritz Henschel, had been decorated for his service in the German Army during the war. Moritz was an influential lawyer in Berlin when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As government persecution of Jews intensified, Moritz and Hildegard sent their daughters Marianne, 15, to Palestine and Lilly, 13, to England in 1939. Moritz was on the board of the R...

  4. Almanacs

    1. Dr. Kasriel Eilender collection

    Yiddish almanac, B'Midbar, obtained by Kasriel Ejlender in Fohrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany, where he lived from circa 1945-1948. After Germany invaded Soviet territory in June 1941, eighteen year old Kasriel and his family had to move into the Jewish ghetto in Dereczyn, Poland. In May 1942, Kasriel was deported to a German labor camp in Mogilev. For the next three years, he was transferred to a series of concentration camps: Majdanek, Płaszów, Gross-Rosen, and Langenbielau. He was liberated in spring 1945 by Soviet forces. He worked as a translator for the Soviet Army and when ...

  5. Concentration camp uniform jacket with post liberation Buchenwald patch worn by a Romanian Jewish inmate

    1. Elisabet Goldstein collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn520902
    • English
    • a: Height: 25.000 inches (63.5 cm) | Width: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm) b: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)

    Concentration camp uniform jacket that was worn by Isidor Goldstein, husband of Elisabet Goldstein, when he was an inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1944. The jacket is made from a thin striped material sometimes referred to as “pajama stripes.” An embroidered post-liberation Buchenwald patch with the number 110099 was stitched to the breast, but has since been removed. 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, alon...

  6. Łódź ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, acquired by Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto scrip, receipt value of 2 (zwei) marks acquired by Edgar Gaerber, possibly when his family moved to Łódź in 1945. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In...

  7. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin acquired by Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Łódź Ghetto 10 mark coin token acquired by Edgar Gaerber, possibly when his family moved to Łódź in 1945. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans began mass ...

  8. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin acquired by Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Łódź Ghetto 10 mark coin token acquired by Edgar Gaerber, possibly when his family moved to Łódź in 1945. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans began mass ...

  9. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin acquired by Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Łódź Ghetto 5 mark coin token acquired by Edgar Gaerber, possibly when his family moved to Łódź in 1945. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans began mass d...

  10. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin acquired by Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Łódź Ghetto 5 mark coin token acquired by Edgar Gaerber, possibly when his family moved to Łódź in 1945. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans began mass d...

  11. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin acquired by Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Łódź Ghetto 5 mark coin token acquired by Edgar Gaerber, possibly when his family moved to Łódź in 1945. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In March 1942, the Germans began mass d...

  12. Calendar with cover of a Jew leading a Bolshevik monkey

    1. Edgar Gaerber collection

    Antisemitic calendar with a caricature of a Jewish man holding the chain of a monkey that represents the Soviet Union owned by Edgar Gaerber. Ed, age 10, and his parents Dr. Bernard and Fanka Gaerber fled Lvov, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine] during the invasion by Germany in September 1939. The Soviet Union invaded from the east and the invaders divided the country; L'vov was in Soviet territory. In June 1941, Germany retook the region. The German occupation was brutal. Thousands of Jews were murdered in pogroms by local Ukrainians. In late 1941, Ed and his family had to relocate to the ghetto. In...

  13. Folding knife made from a screwdriver in a concentration camp by an inmate

    1. George and Shari Fine collection

    Pocketknife created by Getzel Fingerhut (George Fine), age 22, during his imprisonment in Kaufering X concentration camp, known as Dachau 10, where he worked repairing locomotives. The handle is repurposed from a screwdriver and the blade is handmade. He hid the knife under his pants, tied with string above his calf. In August 1941, George and his family were interned in the ghetto in Siauliai, Lithuania, by the Germans, after they occupied the area. George worked in a series of forced labor camps until July 1944, when the remaining Jews in the ghetto were deported to Stutthof concentration...

  14. Caliper used by a prisoner in a forced labor camp

    1. George and Shari Fine collection

    Caliper used by 17 year old Sari Marmor (Shari Fine) when she worked as forced labor in an underground Luftwaffe factory and supply depot in the Black Forest near Stuttgart, Germany. She was a team foreman and worked on a lathe making screws. The caliper was the only thing she took with her on the death march ordered to evacuate the camp. Sari and her family were deported by the Germans from Bistrita, Romania, to Auschwitz-Birkenau in April 1944. She and her 2 sisters, Ester and Chaya, were selected for forced labor; her parents, Salomon and Ita, and her brother, Shmaye, were selected for t...

  15. Handmade stationery folder brought with a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Anna Leist collection

    Handcrafted stationery portfolio given to Anna Zajac, 13, by her elder brother, Felix, in October 1938, after he was notified that he was being deported from Berlin, Germany, to Poland. Felix made the folder when he was 13 at summer camp circa 1935. Their father, Wolf, was deported in 1935. The nine siblings and their mother, Dora, were expected to join him. But Dora was ill with tuberculosis and, except for the two eldest, Felix and Samuel, the children were placed in the Ahawah orphanage in 1936. Dora died on January 5, 1938. Samuel then left for Poland. After Felix was deported, he and S...

  16. Certificate for a French Médaille Militaire awarded to German Jewish resistance fighter

    1. Henri Engel collection

    Certificate for the French Military Medal awarded posthumously to 18 year old Henri Engel, a German Jew living in France, who died while fighting with the French resistance during World War II. The medal was awarded in 1960, to honor Henri’s death while fighting for France. His sister Margot accepted it on his behalf in 1961. In September, 1939, Henri and his mother, Lucie, were in Lyon, France, when Germany invaded Poland, prompting France and Great Britain to declare war against Germany. They were from Berlin, but were not allowed to leave and reunite with Henri’s sister, Margot, and thei...

  17. Joseph interpreting the Pharoh's Dreams Lovis Corinth etching of a man in a loincloth and shackles addressing the Pharaoh and his consort

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41816
    • English
    • 1894
    • overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 23.375 inches (59.373 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)

    Drypoint etching created by Lovis Corinth in 1894 depicting Joseph as shackled slave in a loin cloth, standing before Pharaoh. He is gesturing as he explains: The dream of Pharaoh is one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. Genesis 41: 25-33. Corinth created the print for his first graphic series, Tragicomedies, plate five of nine etchings, one of only 20 that he printed. The series theme involved the use of unusual details to add a farcical element to great events, such as the almost caricatured figure of Joseph, usually depicted as handsome. Corinth was studying anatomy at...

  18. David Glick's trip to WWI battle sites in France in the late 1920s

    EXT, VS of unidentified town in France, in the vicinity of Verdun, France. Horses and carts pass by, townspeople move about the streets. Three Americans (David Glick, his wife, and an unidentified woman) standing in front of a monument and memorial to the fallen in World War I. The monument is in a town square, children are visible playing in the BG. It is difficult to make out the inscription on the monument due to the poorly shot footage, but the year inscribed on one of the stone pillars is "1918". Camera pans this pillar from top to bottom, a wreath lies at the foot of the monument. Ano...

  19. World War I Iron Cross medal that belonged to a Jewish veteran and concentration camp inmate

    1. Margot Hamburger family collection

    Medal awarded to Salli Joseph for his service in the German Army during World War I, 1914-1918. Salli and his family lived in Berlin, Germany, and he began searching for ways to get his family out of the country after the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933. They tried to get visas for the United States, since his wife's sister had lived there for some time. However, Salli and his wife, Martha, were placed on the very restrictive Polish quota system by the US because they were born in West Prussia. In 1939, they sent their 19 year old son, Bernard, to England and in 1940, their 1...

  20. Blue, white and red bar ribbon that belonged to a Jewish German WWI veteran and concentration camp inmate

    1. Margot Hamburger family collection

    Ribbon bar which belonged to Salli Joseph probably awarded for his service in the German Army during World War I, 1914-1918. Salli and his family lived in Berlin, Germany, and he began searching for ways to get his family out of the country after the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933. They tried to get visas for the United States, since his wife's sister had lived there for some time. However, Salli and his wife, Martha, were placed on the very restrictive Polish quota system by the US because they were born in West Prussia. In 1939, they sent their 19 year old son, Bernard, to...