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  1. Rosary received by a Jewish child who was converted to Catholicism while in hiding

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    Child's rosary given to 7 year old Selma Scwarzwald in January 1945 in celebration of her communion. She was living in hiding with her mother as a Polish Catholic under the name Zofia Tymejko and completely adopted this identity. She attended church and, after liberation by Soviet troops, celebrated her First Communion. Selma and her mother, Laura, escaped from the ghetto in German occupied Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) after her father was shot by the Gestapo in 1942. They adopted false identities as Catholics and lived briefly in Krakow, then moved to Busko Zdroj. They emigrated to England...

  2. St. Anthony statuette received by a Jewish child who was living in hiding as a Polish Catholic

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    St. Anthony figurine given to 7 year old Selma Scwarzwald. She was living in hiding with her mother as a Polish Catholic under the name Zofia Tymejko and completely adopted this identity. She attended church and, after liberation by Soviet troops, celebrated her First Communion. Selma and her mother, Laura, escaped from the ghetto in German occupied Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) after her father was shot by the Gestapo in 1942. They adopted false identities as Catholics and lived briefly in Krakow, then moved to Busko Zdroj. They emigrated to England in 1948 after there were violent anti-Jew...

  3. Miniature doll's suitcase given postwar to Jewish child who had lived in hiding as a Polish Catholic

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    Doll's miniature suitcase given to 10 year old Selma (Zofia) Scwarzwald before she left Poland in 1948. Selma, born Jewish, had lived during the war in hiding with her mother as a Polish Catholic under the name Zofia Tymejko and completely adopted this identity. She attended church and, after liberation by Soviet troops, celebrated her First Communion in January 1945. Selma and her mother, Laura, had escaped from the ghetto in German occupied Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) in 1942 after her father was shot by the Gestapo. They adopted false identities as Catholics and lived briefly in Krakow,...

  4. Buchenwald camp at liberation - the dead and the living

    Slate: "Capt. Carter, Prod #186, Buchenwald C-31, Date: 4-19-45" MS of a truck bed piled with bodies, clothed and unclothed. CU of a bearded man lying on the ground. His arms are crossed over his chest, his tattooed number visible on his forearm. Medium, direct shot of a truck bed of corpses. Extreme CU of corpses, slow pan over their heads and feet. Extreme CU of three heads and feet. MCU of a clothed corpse lying on a low wheeled stretcher. CU of a man's face who had apparently been beaten. A picture of Jesus is pinned to his clothing. Extreme CU of the same inmate at different angles. MS...

  5. Steven Vogel papers

    1. Steven Vogel collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Steven Vogel of Budapest, Hungary including his deportations to the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Mauthausen concentration camps and his immigration to the United States in 1945. Included are pre-war identification documents of Steven, his parents Ödön and Vilma (née Deutsch) Vogel, and other relatives in the Vogel and Deutsch families; birth certificates; report cards; immigration paperwork; tax and selective service forms; family history; an oral history interview transcript; restitution claims; and correspondence. Included with the correspon...

  6. Imperial Japan, 10 yen note, issued for use in occupied China acquired by a US soldier

    1. James Edward Kirkebo collection

    Japanese 10 yen note acquired by Captain James (Jim) Edward Kirkebo,who served in the US Army from 1940-1945, and fought in Europe with the Thunderbolt Division from December 1944-May 1945. This currency was first issued in 1930 by the Bank of Japan but then used, with variants, as a military banknote as Japan expanded their occupation of China in 1938. This variant has 2 red seals on the front. Kirkebo, 19, enlisted in the US Army in 1940 and, in August 1942, 2nd Lt. Kirkebo became commanding officer, C Company, 21st Armored Infantry Battalion, 11th Armored Division. In December 1944, Kirk...

  7. Two-sided 11th Armored Division, US Army, after action poster of battle events received by a soldier

    1. James Edward Kirkebo collection

    Double sided 11th Armored after action report poster received by 24 year old Captain James (Jim) Kirkebo in May 1945 while serving with the Thunderbolt Division in Germany. Kirkebo, age 19, enlisted in the US Army in September 1940. In August 1942, 2nd Lieutenant Kirkebo became commanding officer of C Company, 21st Armored Infantry Battalion, 11th Armored Division, Third Army. In December 1944, Kirkebo's unit landed in Normandy, and defended Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge. The 11th Armored spearheaded the Allied advance into Germany and pushed through to Austria. Kirkebo received a...

  8. The Schiffer family visits Mohács

    The Schiffer family visits Mohács, Erzsébet’s hometown on the Danube, in summer 1932. (00:16) Adults and children in bathing suits. They swim in a wooden structure moored to the shore of the Danube. János and his mother, Erzsébet Schiffer. (01:29) János and his cousins play in Klári and János Molnar’s yard with a toy stroller and ball. (01:53) Nurse-maid (brief). The children play outdoors. (02:42) MS, Erzsébet's mother Jenny Tornai (nee Reicher) and Klári seated at an outdoor table, smile and nod for the camera. Three children sit at a table. The family group eats a meal. The three childre...

  9. Bernard and Sarah Widman papers

    1. Bernard and Sarah Widman collection

    Collection of documents, identification papers, correspondence and photographs relating to Bernard (Baruch)and Sarah Widman and their experiences during the Holocaust. The majority of the papers are restitution papers filed by the Widmans and include medical reports, testimonies, forms, receipts, and legal correspondence. Also includes immigration and naturalization papers, family photographs and Baruch Widman’s DP identification card.

  10. Margret Hantman papers

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    The Margret Hantman papers include biographical material, Margret’s ten page memoir describing her Holocaust-era experiences in Germany and concentration camps, photographs of theatrical performances at the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, a Theresienstadt reunion program, and picture postcards of Theresienstadt. Biographical material includes Margret’s Czechoslovak Repatriation Office registration, instructions for sending mail to Deggendorf residents, and Margret’s passenger ticket for the Marine Perch. Margret’s ten page memoir describes her experiences growing up in Bernau and Berlin,...

  11. Tsiyon [Zion] shaped stone Shabbat candleholder and base carved in a Cyprus detention camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518912
    • English
    • 1948
    • a: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) b: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Depth: 5.380 inches (13.665 cm)

    Shabbat candleholder crafted by Maurice Grauer while at a British detention camp in Cyprus from 1947 to 1948. It was carved from a floor tile using a sardine can as a carving tool. Grauer and his wife, Natalia, were on the ship, Ben Hecht, en route to Palestine when it was stopped by the British authorities. All the passengers, many of them, like the Grauers, Holocaust survivors, were detained in Cyprus. Palestine was under British control and the immigration policy was very restrictive. The Grauer's first child, Sophie, was born in the camp in 1948. Early that year, the British began to wi...

  12. Pencil caricature of William Randolph Hearst and Adolf Hitler in a boat for Anti-Hearst Day

    1. Harold Lehman collection

    Pencil sketch by Harold Lehman for the design of a boat float with Adolf Hitler and William Randolph Hearst with revolving, interchangeable heads sitting back to back in the center. The float was meant to sail along the beach of Coney Island on July 4, 1936 which was proclaimed Anti-Hearst Day by the Anti-fascist movement. William Randolph Hearst was one of the largest newspaper and magazine publishers in the United States. In the 1930s he commissioned Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, and other high ranking Nazis to write columns for his papers. The float was made by the Siquieros Experiment...

  13. Link family papers

    1. Link family collection

    The papers consist of two postcards from Markus and Ida Link that were sent from the ghetto in Opole Lubelskie, Poland, to a non-Jewish neighbor and friend, L. Lippert, in Vienna, Austria.

  14. Photograph of Markus and Ida Link

    1. Link family collection

    The photograph depicts Markus and Ida Link who were arrested during the Holocaust and taken to the ghetto in Opole, Poland. Their final fate is unknown.

  15. Portfolio of handmade French Resistance mementos given to former Vice President Henry A. Wallace by female French partisans

    1. Vice President Henry A. Wallace collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn565270
    • English
    • 1947
    • overall: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 19.875 inches (50.483 cm) 1: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 19.875 inches (50.483 cm) 2: Height: 10.625 inches (26.988 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) 3: Height: 10.625 inches (26.988 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Portfolio containing handmade cloth trinkets presented to former Vice President Henry A. Wallace by female French partisans when he visited the country in 1947. The portfolio was given to Wallace as a gift by the Union des femmes françaises (UFF) when he gave a speech at the Sorbonne in Paris, calling for international cooperation at a time of rising Cold War tensions. The UFF was a World War II resistance movement that was officially organized by a congress in December 1944, at the initiative of the French Communist Party and worked with the Front National, a major resistance organization...

  16. Watercolor of Rivesaltes internment camp created postwar by a nurse/rescuer who worked there

    Watercolor created by Friedel Bohny-Reiter in 1994 depicting the Rivesaltes internment camp in France where she worked for Suisse Secours aux Enfants [Swiss Aid to Children] as a nurse in 1941-1942. The Vichy regime, which governed unoccupied France, interned thousands of refugees in detention camps. By spring 1942, Rivesaltes was a central transit point for the frequent deportations of Jews to killing centers. Friedel dedicated herself to finding safe havens for children to save them from deportation. She placed many in orphanages operated by Secours Suisse and in 1943, was appointed co-di...

  17. Bible received by a Jewish girl while in hiding at a Catholic school

    1. Sara Lamhaut Boucart collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn27592
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Bible and cover given to Sara Lamhaut in December 1943 as part of her confirmation while in hiding at a convent school in Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium. Sara was born in Brussels in 1931, to Polish parents, Icek and Chana Lamhaut. After Belgium was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Chana and Icek began participating in resistance activities, including covertly printing Jewish newspapers in their apartment. On May 26, 1942, Chana and Icek were taken into custody by gestapo and SS officers. Icek was released, but Chana was imprisoned and tortured for six months in the Saint Gilles prison. She was th...

  18. Abridged prayer book for Jews in the armed forces of the United States used by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Berthold Meier collection

    Abridged prayer book for Jewish soldiers in the United States armed forces owned by German Jewish refugee Berthold Meier during his service in the US Army from April 6, 1943 to March 17, 1946. The book included the principal Jewish prayer services for times when the owner was unable to attend regular synagogue services. Berthold grew up in Littfeld, Germany with his mother, Toni. His father, Seligmann, died when Berthold was 8 years old. His mother was killed in the Holocaust after being deported to Poland’s Zamosc Ghetto in April 1942. Berthold was working as a butcher in Littfeld when Hit...

  19. Watercolor still life painting created by David Goychman while imprisoned in Compiègne internment camp

    1. Waldman family collection

    Watercolor still life painting of fruit and a pitcher created by artist David Goychman while he was a prisoner in Compiègne internment camp in 1941. The painting was acquired by George Waldman, who was held in Compiègne from December 1941 to July 1943. George, Betsy, and their teenage son, John, were American citizens who lived in Paris to manage their paper import-export business. In response to the German invasion of Poland, France declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939. In May of 1940, Germany invaded and quickly defeated France, occupying the northern half of the country. In 1941,...

  20. Fruma Gulkowitz-Berger papers

    1. Fruma Gulkowitz Berger collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Fruma Gulkowitz-Berger (pen name of Frances Berger) and Murray Berger, both of whom joined the Bielski partisans in Western Belorussia (Belarus). The collection includes identification papers and immigration documents of Fruma, Murray, and Murray’s brother Elliot; manuscripts of essays and poems by Fruma Gulkowitz-Berger along with clippings of her articles; and pre-war and post-war photographs. Biographical materials include identification cards issued by the Red Cross, DP identification cards, and Italian identification documents. ...