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  1. Gray and blue beer stein with images of anti-Jewish fables and politicians

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Late 19th century ceramic beer stein with designs celebrating well known antisemitic politicians, amid scenes of caricatured Jews growing rich by abusing, cheating, and stealing from Germans, and ending with scenes foretelling the expulsion of the Jews by 1910. The stein was distributed in 1893 in Cologne, Germany. The constitution of the newly unified Germany, adopted in 1871, emancipated all Jews. The following decades saw a surge in anti-semitism. It was more vicious and openly expressed, and became a popular cause for several political parties. The lid and handle are decorated with port...

  2. Embroidered Fürth patch saved by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Embroidered, blue green patch belonging to Norbert Müller (later Norman Miller) a 15 year old German Jewish refugee who came to London, England in September 1939. The patch is likely related to the large Jewish High School he attended in Fürth, Germany. He lived in Nuremberg, but was required to take a streetcar to school in Fürth once Jewish children were banned from German public schools. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by l...

  3. Tallit katan brought to England by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Tallit katan belonging to Norbert Müller (later Norman Miller), a 15 year old German Jewish refugee who came to London, England in September 1939. A tallit katan is a religious garment worn by Jewish men and boys with their daily dress. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the st...

  4. UNRRA selected records AG-018-026 : Poland Mission

    Consists of the Central Registry-Subject Files: correspondence and cables; reports of the office of the Chief Mission Welfare and Repatriation Division; financial documents of the Department of Finance, and reports and correspondence of the Departments of Supply. Records relate to welfare of displaced persons, child care and maternal welfare, movement of Jewish children to France and Belgium, 1944-1949; repatriation from Germany; welfare activities of the International Student Service, Save the Children Fund, Unitarian Service Committee, Quakers and other organizations.

  5. Prayer book

    1. George Pick family collection

    Imakonyv, a prayer book for women, with a clasp and a slipcase, used by Gyorgy Pick's maternal great aunt, Gizella, during the war when she lived in a Swedish protected house in Budapest, Hungary. Ten year old Gyorgy and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany and adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 because he was Jewish. He was conscripted into Hungarian labor battalions in 1940, 1943, and 1944. After German setbacks in the war against the Soviet Union in ...

  6. Book

    1. George Pick family collection

    Memorial book, Kegyelet, received by Malvina Kornhauser at the funeral for her husband Samu Kornhauser, who died July 19, 1935, in Budapest, Hungary. The book contains an obituary for Samu, as well as mourner's prayers for various family members. Malvina used the book to press flowers (1999.282.3.1) from his funeral, between pages 10 and 11, the widow's prayer. The book was preserved during the war by Malvina, her daughter Margit Pick and Margit's husband Istvan and son Gyorgy. Malvina, ten year old Gyorgy, and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 194...

  7. Theodora Basch Vrančić Klayman photographs

    1. Theodora Basch Vrančić Klayman collection

    The Theodora Basch Vrančić Klayman photographs consist of photographs of the Apler family, the Deutsch family, and the Basch families in Yugslavia, dating from 1924-1959. The photographs include candid and group photographs of various family members as well as Jewish children in hiding.

  8. Deutsche Gebete zum Gebrauche bei der häuslichen und öffentlichen Andacht [Book]

    1. Maud Michal Beer family collection

    German prayer book inscribed for Maud Stecklmacher, 14, by her father Fritz in February 1943 when the family was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia. It includes a photograph with black tape to mark his death in May 1943. On July 2, 1942, Maud, her parents, Fritz and Käthe, her younger sister Karmela, 8, her grandparents Max and Steffi Steiner, and her uncle and cousin, Josef and Gustav Steiner, were sent from Prosjetov to Thereseinstadt. On July 28, Gustav, 16, and Josef were deported to Baranowicze, Poland, and murdered upon arrival. Max died o...

  9. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 100 cent note

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Voucher, valued at 100 cents, distributed in Westerbork transit camp. While at the camp, inmates were compelled to work, and a special currency was issued to incentivize work output, but the money had no real monetary value outside the camp. Westerbork was established by the Dutch government in October 1939, for Jewish refugees who had crossed the border illegally following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. After Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, the German authorities began using Westerbork as a transit camp, holding internees until they were deported to forced labo...

  10. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 50 cent note

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Voucher, valued at 50 cents, distributed in Westerbork transit camp. While at the camp, inmates were compelled to work, and a special currency was issued to incentivize work output, but the money had no real monetary value outside the camp. Westerbork was established by the Dutch government in October 1939, for Jewish refugees who had crossed the border illegally following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. After Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, the German authorities began using Westerbork as a transit camp, holding internees until they were deported to forced labor...

  11. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 25 cent note

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Voucher, valued at 25 cents, distributed in Westerbork transit camp. While at the camp, inmates were compelled to work, and a special currency was issued to incentivize work output, but the money had no real monetary value outside the camp. Westerbork was established by the Dutch government in October 1939, for Jewish refugees who had crossed the border illegally following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. After Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, the German authorities began using Westerbork as a transit camp, holding internees until they were deported to forced labor...

  12. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Voucher, valued at 10 cents, distributed in Westerbork transit camp. While at the camp, inmates were compelled to work, and a special currency was issued to incentivize work output, but the money had no real monetary value outside the camp. Westerbork was established by the Dutch government in October 1939, for Jewish refugees who had crossed the border illegally following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. After Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, the German authorities began using Westerbork as a transit camp, holding internees until they were deported to forced labor...

  13. Ehrenfeld family. Collection

    This collection contains: one portrait of the extended Ehrenfeld family ; five photos of Anna Lambrechts walking down a street or at the Antwerp Stadspark (city park) in the company of Marcel and/or Sylvain Ehrenfeld, sons of her employer Jacques Ehrenfeld ; a photo of brothers Marcel and Sylvain Ehrenfeld walking down a street ; a wartime ID card of Anna Lambrechts' husband August Bosmans

  14. Henri Oerlemans. Collection

    This collection contains ten paint containers, a paint brush, a book on world history and a sticker book which belonged to Sylvain Honigwachs, a chess board and chess pieces which belonged to Mala (Malka) Zimetbaum and two statues (named Sylvain and Myriam) created by Henri Oerlemans. After winning a number of prizes and exhibiting his art work in several different places, Henri decided to stay a free artist. Thus inspired by his heart and his emotions, sculptures such as Myriam and Sylvain were born, both Jewish friends of his. She was a skinny, fragile, sweet girl. Henri pictured her as h...

  15. M.41.GAMog - Documentation from the State Archive of the Mogilev Region

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 10431971
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1944
    • Appeal to the authorities Application Correspondence List of forced laborers List of healthcare workers List of Jewish residents List of residents List of workers Official documentation

    M.41.GAMog - Documentation from the State Archive of the Mogilev Region History of the State Archive of the Mogilev Region The Archive was established on 05 July 1938, and its documentation is comprised of documentation that was found in the regional archives of Mogilev and Kalinin. In 1941, it included 1,316 original collections that contained 650,000 conservation units. During the war, some of the documents were evacuated but most were destroyed (1,200 original collections). The Archive resumed its activity in the city of Krichev in 1943, and in Mogilev in 1944. During the same time all o...

  16. Ferenc Hevesi papers

    1. Ferenc Hevesi family collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi in Budapest, Hungary, including a fictionalized personal narrative about Ferenc’s wartime experiences, correspondence, a speech, and copyprints. The bulk of the collection consists of a fictionalized account of Ferenc’s wartime experiences in Budapest, titled "Episode, novel by Francis Hevesi." The novel is a three-volume typescript set written in English. Other documents include two wartime letters written to Ferenc describing the situation in Hungary and asking for help locating a missing family member. Both of thes...

  17. Ringer-Vandormael family. Collection

    This collection contains: a pre-war photo of Salomon Ringer and two friends walking down a street, 1936 ; a wartime photo of Salomon Ringer and his fiancée Alice Vandormael walking down a street, 1942 ; two passport photos of Leopold Ringer ; two passport photos of Augusta Ringer ; photocopies of two index cards attributed to Leopold and Augusta Ringer, filled out when the Nazis forcefully relocated the siblings to the Limburg province in 1941 ; an envelope from the SS-Sammellager Mecheln (Dossin barracks) used by the camp administration to store the documents carried by Chana Ringer (born ...

  18. [Princess Radziwill]

    1. Bern Trial, Bern, Switzerland, 1934-1935

    The documents are correspondence regarding Princesse Catherine Radziwill. The correspondence shows the attempt to gather as much information about Princesse Catherine Radzwill who was a key witness in the Bern trial with a past of controversial statements. Some crucial documents with findings about Radziwill came from Pichel in New York and were forwarded by the Welt-Dienst to Freyenwald, who also investigated. The main issue about Princess Radzwill is an article from the Black Hebrew from 25.02.1921, which is an interview with Landmann. Radziwill claimed the protocols were written 1904 alt...

  19. [Princess Radziwill]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The documents are correspondence regarding Princesse Catherine Radziwill. The correspondence shows the attempt to gather as much information about Princesse Catherine Radzwill who was a key witness in the Bern trial with a past of controversial statements. Some crucial documents with findings about Radziwill came from Pichel in New York and were forwarded by the Welt-Dienst to Freyenwald, who also investigated. The main issue about Princess Radzwill is an article from the Black Hebrew from 25.02.1921, which is an interview with Landmann. Radziwill claimed the protocols were written 1904 alt...

  20. [Princess Radziwill]

    1. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

    The documents are correspondence regarding Princesse Catherine Radziwill. The correspondence shows the attempt to gather as much information about Princesse Catherine Radzwill who was a key witness in the Bern trial with a past of controversial statements. Some crucial documents with findings about Radziwill came from Pichel in New York and were forwarded by the Welt-Dienst to Freyenwald, who also investigated. The main issue about Princess Radzwill is an article from the Black Hebrew from 25.02.1921, which is an interview with Landmann. Radziwill claimed the protocols were written 1904 alt...