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  1. Rochman-Malberg family. Collection

    This collection contains: pre-war photos of Syma Tema Malberg and her children Chaim Rochman, Szaja alias Charles Rochman, Ruchla Rochman and Bernard Rochman ; pre-war photos of Chaim Rochman, his wife Brajna Mejerzon, their son Joseph Abraham Rochman and other relatives ; pre-war photos of Szaja alias Charles Rochman with comrades such as Emile Lovenvirth and Aba Arhimovici ; two pre-war albums with photos of Szaja alias Charles Rochman and his wife Laja (also Loli or Liliane) Celmanska, including holiday pictures and photos taken during outings with fiends ; pre-war photos of Laja Celmans...

  2. Monique Joseph papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Monique Joseph (born Helga Kaufmann), originally of Cologne, Germany, her parents Caroline and Sallly Kaufmann, as well as her Husband Theophile Joseph and his family. Included are identification papers, false-identity documents, an autograph album, immigration papers, correspondence, memoirs, and photographs. Biographical material related to Monique includes address books, an autograph album, identification papers including a French passport; false-identity documents under the name of Monique Colin; post-war documents regarding her ...

  3. Ministère des Affaires économiques. Direction de l'organisation professionnelle

    Les archives inventoriées ici constituent une mine d'informations pour qui s'intéresse à l'organisation et au fonctionnement de l'économie belge sous l'occupation allemande, à la collaboration économique, ou à la persécution des juifs.

  4. Question juive liasse 1 1 et 2. note sur la question juive en France

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 9 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 7 : 3w/217-3w/250
    2. 3. POLITIQUE INTERIEURE
    3. Dossier A Alignement de la France sur l'Allemagne au point de vue intérieur

    Question juive liasse 1 1 et 2. note sur la question juive en France, s.d. (novembre 1940), note manuscrite et copie dactylographiée (conseiller Helbronner ?) 3. projet de loi sur l'exercice des fonctions publiques et de certaines professions privées 4. note sur les réfugiés d'Allemagne menacés par les persécutions nazies, novembre 1940 5. note d'intervention du Maréchal Pétain auprès du Chef du Gouvernement en faveur des Israélites français internés au camp de Drancy 19 juillet 1943 6. note pour M. de Brinon : le Maréchal estime ne pouvoir signer le pro jet de loi sur les Juifs, 24 août 19...

  5. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 9 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 7 : 3w/217-3w/250

    DOSSIER PETAIN. Le dossier Pétain comprend un noyau initial de neuf cartons (3W 277 à 285) qui constitue le "dossier" d'information proprement dit tel qu'il a été constitué sous l'impulsion du procureur général Mornet lui-même, plus un fichier de ces cartons constitué par les archivistes de la Haute Cour (3W 286) Les dossiers suivants comprennent : 3W 287 documents divers (ce qui a été retenu par la Haute Cour de la malle Pétain et des archives de l'hôtel du Parc, scellés constitués par le président Beteille, scellé Darlan, documents parvenus après la clôture de l'instruction) 3W 288 scellé...

  6. Germanisation de l'Alsace-Lorraine liasse 1 Protestations du Gouvernement français 1-2. liste des notes adressées par la Délégation Française à la Commission allemande au sujet de l'Alsace et de la Lorraine du 6 juillet 1940 au 23 avril 1943 et lettre d'envoi au Cabinet civil du Chef de l'Etat 3. protestation contre les mesures prises dans les départements du Haut-Rhin

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 9 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 7 : 3w/217-3w/250
    2. 3. POLITIQUE INTERIEURE
    3. Dossier A Alignement de la France sur l'Allemagne au point de vue intérieur

    Germanisation de l'Alsace-Lorraine liasse 1 Protestations du Gouvernement français 1-2. liste des notes adressées par la Délégation Française à la Commission allemande au sujet de l'Alsace et de la Lorraine du 6 juillet 1940 au 23 avril 1943 et lettre d'envoi au Cabinet civil du Chef de l'Etat 3. protestation contre les mesures prises dans les départements du Haut-Rhin, du Bas-Rhin et de la Moselle (remplacement des préfets par des fonctionnaires allemands), 10 juillet 1940 4. protestation contre les expulsions de citoyens français d'Afrique du Nord des départements de la Moselle, du Haut-R...

  7. Pewter mustard pot owned by Otto Frank

    1. Ryan M. Cooper collection

    Pewter mustard pot owned by the Frank family. Otto Frank was one of three children born to Michael and Alice Frank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He had three siblings, Robert, Herbert, and Helene. Michael had founded a family banking business, which his wife and sons took over after his death in 1909. Helene moved to Basel, Switzerland, with her husband in 1931, and Herbert immigrated to France in 1932. After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January 1933, authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews, and boycotting their businesses. Shor...

  8. Navy blue pinstriped jacket and pants worn by the groom at his wedding to another survivor in a DP camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516093
    • English
    • a: Height: 33.000 inches (83.82 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) b: Height: 40.250 inches (102.235 cm) | Width: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm)

    Blue pin-striped suit worn by Welek (William) Luksenburg, 24, for his wedding to Hinde (Helen) Chilewicz, 21, on March 2, 1947, in the displaced persons camp in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany. The couple met in 1944 as prisoners in Gleiwitz concentration camp. In 1941, Welek, his parents, and brother Szlomo were in the Jewish ghetto in Dabrow Gornicza in German occupied Poland. In 1942, his parents Rozalia and Simcha were deported and killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Welek got Szlomo released from a labor camp hospital and escaped a prison camp to care for him. When Welek was arrested, Szlom...

  9. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    Postage stamp commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto Memorial, acquired by Irene Silberstein Frank and Henry Frank, former inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Originally called the National Suffering Memorial, it was established in 1947 by the newly reinstated Czechoslovakian government and was renovated in 1975. The stamp depicts the large, granite, 7-branched menorah in the Jewish cemetery outside the crematorium building, along with flames, the red flowers planted in the 1945 National Cemetery, and barbed wire ...

  10. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    Postage stamp commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto Memorial, acquired by Irene Silberstein Frank and Henry Frank, former inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Originally called the National Suffering Memorial, it was established in 1947 by the newly reinstated Czechoslovakian government and was renovated in 1975. The stamp depicts the large, granite, 7-branched menorah in the Jewish cemetery outside the crematorium building, along with flames, the red flowers planted in the 1945 National Cemetery, and barbed wire ...

  11. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    Postage stamp commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto Memorial, acquired by Irene Silberstein Frank and Henry Frank, former inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Originally called the National Suffering Memorial, it was established in 1947 by the newly reinstated Czechoslovakian government and was renovated in 1975. The stamp depicts the large, granite, 7-branched menorah in the Jewish cemetery outside the crematorium building, along with flames, the red flowers planted in the 1945 National Cemetery, and barbed wire ...

  12. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate

    1. Irene and Henry Frank family collection

    Postage stamp commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Terezin (Theresienstadt) Ghetto Memorial, acquired by Irene Silberstein Frank and Henry Frank, former inmates of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Originally called the National Suffering Memorial, it was established in 1947 by the newly reinstated Czechoslovakian government and was renovated in 1975. The stamp depicts the large, granite, 7-branched menorah in the Jewish cemetery outside the crematorium building, along with flames, the red flowers planted in the 1945 National Cemetery, and barbed wire ...

  13. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women

    1. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

    This paper merchandise bag was made for use in the children’s clothing store that Hilda Schwarzbart ran with her mother, Pauline, in Vienna, Austria. The bag was brought to the United States by Hilda’s sister, Herta Schwarzbart Stoer, when she immigrated in February 1939. Hilda lived in Vienna with her parents, Pauline and Arthur Schwarzbart, and four siblings: Herta, Fritz, Ella, and Hansi. Arthur died from tetanus in November 1914 during his military service in World War I. As a result, Pauline had to close the lingerie business they ran together before the war, and send the younger child...

  14. Paper merchandise bag from a clothing store run by Austrian Jewish women

    1. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

    This paper merchandise bag was made for use in the children’s clothing store that Hilda Schwarzbart ran with her mother, Pauline, in Vienna, Austria. The bag was brought to the United States by Hilda’s sister, Herta Schwarzbart Stoer, when she immigrated in February 1939. Hilda lived in Vienna with her parents, Pauline and Arthur Schwarzbart, and four siblings: Herta, Fritz, Ella, and Hansi. Arthur died from tetanus in November 1914 during his military service in World War I. As a result, Pauline had to close the lingerie business they ran together before the war, and send the younger child...

  15. Nehemiah Robinson

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Institute of Jewish Affairs
    3. Executive Files and Correspondence

    Included in the Nehemiah Robinson papers, beginning in box 31, are files pertaining to war crimes and restitution, as well as files pertaining to special inquiries made in reference to missing persons and claims. Box C16. Folder 7. Correspondence, 1945-1946 Box C16. Folder 8. Correspondence, 1946-1948 Box C16. Folder 9. Correspondence, 1949 January-February Box C16. Folder 10. Correspondence, 1949 March-April Box C16. Folder 11. Correspondence, 1949 May-June Box C17. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1949 July-August Box C17. Folder 2. Correspondence, 1949 September-October Box C17. Folder 3. Corre...

  16. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier

    1. Kurt Schlesinger family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn372
    • English
    • 1914-1948
    • a: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)

    Iron Cross, 2nd class medal awarded to Kurt Schlesinger for his service in the German Army during World War I (1914-1918). The Iron Cross was first issued in 1813 and was intended only to be issued in times of war. It was reinstated in August 1914, and awarded for bravery and distinguished deeds in combat during the Great War. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. Kurt and his second wife, Christine, were very concerned about Hitler’s policies, and immigrated to Amsterdam, Netherlands. Kurt left behind his teenage daughter, Irene, who lived in Berlin with her ...

  17. Gold painted metal box with heart and initials made by a Jewish Polish slave labor camp inmate

    1. Regina and Samuel Spiegel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn11859
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)

    Small gold painted metal box made by 22 year old Shmuel Spiegel to carry soap when he was a prisoner at Gleiwitz I slave labor camp from September1944 - January 1945. He engraved it with RG and SS, for Regina Gutman and Shmuel Spiegel, with a heart pierced by an arrow. Shmuel and Regina met in Pionki labor camp circa 1942. They were separated when the inmates were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau in fall 1944 and had promised to meet after the war. In April 1941, Regina, 15, escaped the Radom ghetto in German occupied Poland for Pionki. She worked in a munitions factory, where she met Shmu...

  18. Pouch with a false base used by a German Jewish émigré to smuggle money out of the country

    1. Erna Meier Schlesinger Summerfield collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn4376
    • English
    • a: Height: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) | Diameter: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) b: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm)

    Leather pouch with a false bottom used to smuggle money out of Germany by Erna Schlesinger (later Summerfield) and her daughter, Irene, when they immigrated to the United States in July 1939. The pouch was originally used to store detachable men’s shirt collars at the turn of the Twentieth Century. Jews emigrating from Germany were not allowed to remove valuables or money from the country, so Erna glued approximately 1,000 Reichs marks (about $250 US dollars) to the underside of the false, cardboard bottom. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. Erna’s sister, ...

  19. Embroidered dress worn by a Polish Jewish girl in hiding

    1. Lola and Walter Kaufman collection

    Embroidered dress made for Lola Rein by her mother Dvoire in the ghetto and worn while she was in hiding near Czortkow, Poland, from approximately May 1943 to March 1944. In September 1939, the Soviet Union occupied Czortkow. Germany invaded in June 1941. Lola’s father Yidl died in the ghetto in 1942. On March 21, 1943, her mother was shot and killed while going to work. In May, Lola’s maternal grandmother Ekka sent Lola to hide with a Ukrainian woman. In August, the woman’s son-in-law threatened to turn Lola in to the Gestapo, so she took Lola to her sister’s farm. Lola and three other Jew...

  20. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Helen and William Luksenburg collection

    Blue and gray striped winter weight jacket issued to Welek Luksenburg, 21, in Oranienburg concentration camp in January 1945, and also worn in Flossenbürg and Regensburg concentration camps. It is worn through at the neck from the pressure of the ropes used to haul rocks as a slave laborer. In April 1945, Welek collapsed during a death march and was rescued by a German farmer. As American troops moved through the area, a soldier approached Welek with a razor saying, "A souvenir" and removed his Star of David and prisoner number 187295 patch. A red triangle was also removed. The soldiers too...