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  1. Granite stone from a concentration camp owned by a former Polish Catholic inmate

    1. Julian Noga collection

    Granite stone from Flossenbürg concentration camp owned by Julian Noga, a Polish Catholic camp inmate from August 1942 to April 1945. The stone was meaningful to him because he learned his trade as a stone carver while a camp prisoner. Julian, a Polish Catholic from Skrzynka, found a Polish Army rifle two months after Germany occupied Poland in September 1939. It was illegal to keep weapons, and Julian was reported. In December, he was sent to Austria as a forced laborer for the Greinegger farm near Michaelnbach. Julian, 18, and the farmer’s daughter, Frieda, 17, fell in love. Under German ...

  2. Building stone from a concentration camp owned by a former Polish Catholic inmate

    1. Julian Noga collection

    Gray building stone from Mauthausen concentration camp owned by Julian Noga, a Polish Catholic who was a forced laborer in Wels, a town near the camp, from October 1941-spring 1942. The stone was meaningful to him because he learned his trade as a stone carver while a camp prisoner. Julian, a Polish Catholic from Skrzynka, found a Polish Army rifle two months after Germany occupied Poland in September 1939. It was illegal to keep weapons, and Julian was reported. In December, he was sent to Austria as a forced laborer for the Greinegger farm near Michaelnbach. Julian, 18, and the farmer’s d...

  3. Plastic doll with handmade clothes received by girl in DP camp

    1. Paul and Sally Comins Edelsberg family and Kurt Clark collection

    Small plastic doll with blonde hair and handmade clothes received by Zelda Kamieniecki as a child in Neu Ulm displaced persons camp in Germany in 1947. Zelda was an infant in August 1941 when German troops occupied her birthplace, Rovno, Poland (Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine). Zelda and her mother Chana Bebczuk Wachs were relocated to a labor camp. Chana worked digging ditches in the nearby forest. In 1943, the Gestapo came to the camp with orders to transport 5000 people, including Zelda and Chana, to a different camp. Everyone was loaded into wagons and taken toward the woods where t...

  4. Pair of child's brown leather ankle boots received by girl in DP camp

    1. Paul and Sally Comins Edelsberg family and Kurt Clark collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn85148
    • English
    • a: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Depth: 5.125 inches (13.017 cm) b: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 5.125 inches (13.017 cm)

    Brown leather ankle boots received by Zelda Kamieniecki as a child in Neu Ulm displaced persons camp in Germany in 1947. Zelda was an infant in August 1941 when German troops occupied her birthplace, Rovno, Poland (Rivne (Rivnensʹka oblastʹ, Ukraine). Zelda and her mother Chana Bebczuk Wachs were relocated to a labor camp. Chana worked digging ditches in the nearby forest. In 1943, the Gestapo came to the camp with orders to transport 5000 people, including Zelda and Chana, to a different camp. Everyone was loaded into wagons and taken toward the woods where the ditches had been dug. Chana ...

  5. Maurice Rossel - Red Cross

    As a representative of the Swiss Red Cross in 1944, Maurice Rossel was asked to inspect Theresienstadt. He admits that he gave Theresienstadt a clean bill of health and would probably do so again today. He was also given a tour of Auschwitz, which he did not realize was a death camp. Lanzmann's questioning points to the degree to which Rossel and others were manipulated by the Nazis and to what extent they were willing to be fooled because of their own politics and prejudices. This interview is the basis of Lanzmann's 1999 documentary "A Visitor from the Living" [Un vivant qui passe]. FILM ...

  6. Yehuda Lerner - Sobibor

    One of the leaders of the revolt in Sobibor, Lerner talks about his knack for escaping from camps - he escaped from eight camps before arriving at Sobibor. He relates the Sobibor revolt in great detail, including his role in killing two Germans. Lanzmann found this interview so compelling that he used none of it in Shoah but instead made a separate film about Lerner, called "Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 P.M." The interview took place over four hours in Mr. Lerner's apartment in Jerusalem. FILM ID 3334 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:07 to 01:33:27 01:00:46 Lerner, seated in front of a window ...

  7. Oil portrait of her grandmother by a Jewish teenager in hiding

    1. Ava Kadishson Schieber collection

    Oil painting of her paternal grandmother, Hermina Hirschel, painted by Ava Hegedish in 1941, when she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) Ava also did a oil portrait of her, 2007.521.4. In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a farm nea...

  8. Drawing of her grandmother in profile created by Jewish teenage girl in hiding

    1. Ava Kadishson Schieber collection

    Pencil drawing of her paternal grandmother, Hermina Hirschel, drawn by Ava Hegedish at the farm where she lived in hiding from spring 1941 to October 1944 near Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia.) Ava also did an oil painting of her, 2007.521.4. In April 1941, Nazi Germany and its Axis partners partitioned Yugoslavia. Belgrade was under German control. Ava's father Leo decided the family's best chance of survival was to separate and go into hiding. He returned to Novy Sad; her mother and her sister Susanna remained in Belgrade. Susanna's Greek Orthodox husband had Serbian relatives with a far...

  9. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee in the British army

    1. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, distributed in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp, acquired by Manfred Gans, a German Jewish refugee who served as a Marine Commando for the British Army from May 1944 to May 1945. The scrip was issued in the camp his parents had been deported to in 1943 and he placed this note into his Soldier’s Book. In 1938, to escape Nazi-controlled Germany, Manfred immigrated to England. After Great Britain declared war against Germany on September 3, 1939, he was classified as an enemy alien, arrested, and sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man. Manfred later...

  10. British Army paratrooper's jacket worn in combat by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    British Airborne paratrooper's Denison jacket with a camouflage pattern worn by 22 year old Manfred Gans, a Jewish refugee from Germany, while serving as a Marine Commando for the British Army from May 1944 to May 1945. The Denison smock was designed with an adjustable tail flap, and worn over standard battle dress to keep gear secured when a paratrooper deployed his parachute. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of Germany and implemented anti-Jewish laws. In July 1938, Manfred went to England. On September 3, 1939, Great Britain declared war against Germany, and Manfred wa...

  11. Multi-colored acrylic painting of a ghetto street and buildings painted by a Polish Jewish artist

    1. Judith Evan Goldstein art collection

    Acrylic painting of a street and buildings during the liquidation of the Vilna ghetto in September, 1943, created by Holocaust survivor Judith Evan Goldstein from her memory as a child living in the ghetto. Judith was a child living in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lituania) when the country was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, occupied Vilna, and initiated measures targeting the Jewish population. Jewish property was vandalized and taken, men were abducted and conscripted into forced labor battalions, and the Jewish p...

  12. Mixed media painting of Jewish children behind a ghetto fence, painted by a Polish Jewish artist

    1. Judith Evan Goldstein art collection

    Mixed media painting of Jewish children forced to play behind the fence of the Vilna ghetto, created by Holocaust survivor Judith Evan Goldstein in 1996 from her memory as a child living in the ghetto. Judith was a child living in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lituania) when the country was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, occupied Vilna, and initiated measures targeting the Jewish population. Jewish property was vandalized and taken, men were abducted and conscripted into forced labor battalions, and the Jewish popula...

  13. Collage painting of a crying woman created by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust

    1. Judith Evan Goldstein art collection

    Painting with collage elements created by Holocaust survivor Judith Evan Goldstein in 1997 from her memory as a child living in the ghetto. The crying woman is Yetta, Judith’s mother, who suffered through the Holocaust alongside her daughter and cried for the safety of her family. After liberation, she mourned the death of her husband and the rest of Europe’s Jewish population who were killed. Judith was a child living in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lituania) when the country was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, occu...

  14. Collage painting of a Jewish man’s beard being cut off created by a Polish Jewish artist

    1. Judith Evan Goldstein art collection

    Painting with collage elements of laughing Nazi soldiers cutting off a Jewish man’s beard and payah, painted by Holocaust survivor Judith Evan Goldstein in 1997 from her memory as a child living in the ghetto. Forcibly removing beards and payot, Jewish cultural symbols, from men was a common method of persecution against Jews during the Holocaust. Judith was a child living in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lituania) when the country was occupied by Germany and the Soviet Union in September 1939. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, occupied Vilna, and initiated measures targeting th...

  15. Large doll with long blond hair given to a former hidden child by her father when reunited postwar

    1. Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger collection

    Large doll with a gingham dress, acquired later, given to 7 year old Elzbieta Lusthaus as a gift from her father Edmund when they were reunited after four years apart in September 1945 in Ancona, Italy. It was the first doll Elzbieta ever owned. The family was separated when the war began in September 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. Dr. Lusthaus had enlisted in the Polish Army and was with his parents in Stryj when he was captured by the Soviets and sent to a prisoner of war labor camp in Siberia. Elzbieta, her mother, and her maternal grandmother Sophie Schiff were confin...

  16. Circular, geometric-patterned earring owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

    Single damascene earring brought to the United States by Herta Schwarzbart Stoer when she emigrated from Vienna, Austria, in February 1939. The earring likely belonged to her mother, Pauline Schwarzbart (née Flesch). Herta lived in Vienna with her mother and father, Arthur Schwarzbart, and four siblings: Hilda, 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. Her daughter, Hilda began making and selling children’s clothing out of a storefront...

  17. Partial gold dental bridge with crown owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection

    Partial gold dental bridge with false tooth and crown likely brought to the United States by Herta Schwarzbart Stoer when she emigrated from Vienna, Austria, in February 1939. The bridge likely belonged to her mother, Pauline Schwarzbart (née Flesch). Herta lived in Vienna with her mother and father, Arthur Schwarzbart, and four siblings: Hilda, 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. Her daughter, Hilda began making and selling chil...

  18. Max Amichai Heppner papers

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    The Max Amichai Heppner papers consist of address books and calendars, correspondence, lessons and notes, personal and travel narratives, photographs, printed materials, scrapbooks titled “Remembrance of the Holocaust,” subject files, and writings documenting the Heppner family from Berlin, their prewar refuge in Amsterdam, their wartime refuge on Harry and Dina Janssen’s farm, their liberation, their immigration to the United States, and their efforts to assist and publicly recognize the Janssen family. Address books and calendars include wartime calendars and address books used by the Hep...

  19. Party archives of the Crimean regional committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, city of Simferopol, Crimean ASSR

    • Партийный архив Крымского областного комитета Компартий Украины, г. Симферополь Крымской АССР
    • Державний архів в Автономній Республіці Крим
    • П-849
    • English, Russian
    • 1921-1992
    • 1154 files. Inventory 1. Documents of the Party archive of the Crimean Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. 501 files. Inventory 3. Recollections of former participants of Sevastopol defense and of the members of the underground and partisan movement in Crimea during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45. 318 files.

    Inventory 1. Documents of the Party archive of the Crimean Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. 501 files. File 115. Review of the documents of the Crimean underground movement (Patriotic War). 1959. 26 pages. File 116. References and attachments to them on the partisans and members of underground patriotic organizations of the WWII period, confirmed by the Crimean Regional Party Committee. 06.02.195-10.02.1959. 10 pages. File 127. References and attachments to them on the partisans and members of underground patriotic organizations of the WWII period, confirmed by the Crim...

  20. Lady Rose Henriques Archive

    The Henriques Archive comprises the working papers of Rose Henriques from 1945 to 1950, when she served as head of the Germany Section of the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad (JCRA) and led one of the Jewish Relief Units (JRU) into the former concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen.