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  1. Varian Fry letter to Jean Gemähling

    Jean Gemähling (1912-2003) was a French Catholic educated at an English boarding school and worked as one of Varian Fry's assistants in Marseilles. In his January 9, 1945 letter to Gemähling, Fry asks for news of Gemähling’s survival and arrests in Vichy France and describes his 1945 memoir Surrender on Demand, his work at the New Republic and establishing the American Labor Conference on International Affairs, and his personal life as well as those of common friends and acquaintances. Among others, he mentions Jay Allen, Heinz Behrendt, Daniel Benedite, Georg Bernhardt, Victor Brauner, And...

  2. Fred Manasse collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs depicting the Holocaust-era experiences of Manfred Manasse (Fred), originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, including pre-war and wartime photographs of his parents Alfred and Trude Manasse and his sister Miriam, all of whom perished in the Holocaust. Other photographs include depictions of Fred and his brother Gustav in an orphanage in Lisbon, Portugal waiting to immigrate to the United States, having previously fled Germany on a Kindertransport. Documents include Fred’s immigration visa, affidavit in lieu of passport, and alien registratio...

  3. 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...

  4. My Mother Child’s crayon drawing of a flower in a pot made by an Austrian Jewish refugee for his mother

    1. Alice and John Morawetz collection

    Crayon sketch of a flower made by 7 year old Hans Morawetz for his mother, Therese, on May 13, 1928, when they lived in Vienna, Austria. In March 1938, Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. The Germans enacted persecutory measures towards Jews and the family apartment was confiscated. Hans’s father, Franz, was able to obtain US immigration visas for Hans, his mother, and his older brother, Walter. In May 1940, they left Vienna for Genoa, Italy, and sailed for New York aboard the US United States. His father was deported on July 29, 1942, from Vienna to Theresienstadt; two years later he was ...

  5. Victory ribbon distributed by Canadian troops in the Netherlands given to a young child who had lived in hiding

    1. Miep Kaempfer-van Engel collection

    Liberation ribbon given to 6 year old Miep van Engel in May 1945. It was distributed by Canadian troops after their liberation of the Netherlands. The country had occupied in May 1940 by Nazi Germany. In 1943, Miep’s father, Bernard, decided that the family needed to go into hiding because his employer, Phillips Electronics, could no longer keep Jewish employees exempt from deportation. With the assistance of the underground movement, Miep was sent to live with a Protestant family, Dirk and Sjoukje Hellinga, in Nij Beets in Friesland. They got her false identification documents and she was ...

  6. Portrait by Josef Nassy of a Red Cross doctor in a physician's smock done when both were prisoners

    1. Dr. Francis W. Roscoe collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn34244
    • English
    • 1944
    • overall: Height: 28.750 inches (73.025 cm) | Width: 24.500 inches (62.23 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) pictorial area: Height: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) | Width: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm)

    Portrait painted by Josef Nassy as a gift for Dr. Francis W. Roscoe when both men were prisoners of war in Laufen internment camp in Germany. Nassy painted two portraits of Dr. Roscoe, this one in his doctor's smock, and 2006.491.1 in civilian clothes, in appreciation for his efforts in improving health conditions in the camps. Dr. Roscoe was a senior medical officer and inspector for the International Red Cross for Allied prison camps in Germany. In 1943, he condemned conditions at a Jewish concentration camp, Tittmoning, and was arrested on the scene by Heinrich Himmler and sent to Laufen...

  7. Portrait by Josef Nassy of a Red Cross doctor in a suit done when both were prisoners

    1. Dr. Francis W. Roscoe collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn34241
    • English
    • 1944
    • overall: Height: 30.250 inches (76.835 cm) | Width: 26.000 inches (66.04 cm) | Depth: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) pictorial area: Height: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) | Width: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm)

    Portrait painted by Josef Nassy as a gift for Dr. Francis W. Roscoe when both men were prisoners of war in Laufen internment camp in Germany. Nassy painted two portraits of Dr. Roscoe, this one in civilian clothes, and 2006.491.2 in doctor's smock, in appreciation for his efforts in improving health conditions in the camps. Dr. Roscoe was a senior medical officer and inspector for the International Red Cross for Allied prison camps in Germany. In 1943, he condemned conditions at a Jewish concentration camp, Tittmoning, and was arrested on the scene by Heinrich Himmler and sent to Laufen. Th...

  8. Nuremberg: War Crimes Trials - Soviet compilation

    Russian film produced by the Central Studio of Documentary Films in Moscow about the War Crimes Trial (IMT) in Nuremberg, 1945-46. War footage: Warsaw destroyed, Operation Barbarossa, transports. Courtroom scenes: prosecutors and defendants enter, seated. Courtroom. Gen. Rudenko, Soviet prosecutor. Reel 1 begins with shots of defeated Berlin, Allied troops marching, hoisting flags and piloting tanks. MS of Nazi officers surrendering. Tracking and still MSs of Goering, Keitel, Doenitz, Goebbels' corpse, Jodl, Ribbentrop. Tracking shot of empty bombarded Nuremberg juxtaposed with archive foot...

  9. Anti-Jewish propaganda film: migration of Jews

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts. REEL 2 Further scenes shot in Warsaw, Poland, October 1939. More shots of Jewish...

  10. Richard Grune lithograph of a chained concentration camp prisoner suspended on a pole

    1. Richard Grune collection

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  11. Richard Grune lithograph with an image of a child looking at a hanging victim

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50608
    • English
    • overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm) pictorial area: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 12.625 inches (32.068 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  12. Richard Grune lithograph of a torture scene witnessed in a concentration camp

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50607
    • English
    • overall: Height: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) pictorial area: Height: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Width: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those supected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which punis...

  13. Richard Grune lithograph of a concentration camp guard and a prisoner with a noose in the background

    1. Richard Grune collection

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  14. Richard Grune lithograph of concentration camp prisoners in a barracks

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50605
    • English
    • overall: Height: 16.125 inches (40.958 cm) | Width: 22.625 inches (57.468 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.125 inches (23.178 cm) | Width: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  15. Prisoner in the Electric Fence Richard Grune lithograph of a concentration camp prisoner crouched near barbed wire

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50604
    • English
    • overall: Height: 22.750 inches (57.785 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm) | Width: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  16. Richard Grune lithograph of concentration camp prisoners throwing dead bodies into a fire

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50602
    • English
    • overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 11.250 inches (28.575 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  17. Richard Grune woodcut of a guard marching roped concentration camp prisoners

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50600
    • English
    • 1945
    • overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) | Width: 12.875 inches (32.703 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  18. Richard Grune lithograph of a group of concentration prisoners gathered around 2 dead comrades

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50599
    • English
    • overall: Height: 12.598 inches (31.999 cm) | Width: 18.898 inches (48.001 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 17.125 inches (43.498 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  19. Richard Grune lithograph of a concentration camp guard threatening a cowering prisoner

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50598
    • English
    • overall: Height: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  20. SS man forces a prisoner to work Richard Grune lithograph of a concentration camp guard beating a prisoner

    1. Richard Grune collection

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...