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  1. M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region

    M.52.DALO - Documentation of the State Archives of the Lwow Region History of the Archives: The State Archives of the Lwow Region was established in December 1939 on the basis of the State Archives of Lwow. The archive was called the Regional Historical Archives in Lwow until 1941. It was called the State Archive of the Lwow Region during 1941-1958, and was called the Regional State Archives in Lwow during 1958-1980. As of 1959 the documentation that was in the Regional Archives in Drogobych was transferred to it. Since 1980 it has been called the State Archives of the Lwow Region. The Sub-...

  2. Monogrammed napkin owned by Otto and Edith Frank

    1. Ryan M. Cooper collection

    Cotton napkin, embroidered with the initials of Otto and Edith Frank, gifted to them for their wedding on May 8, 1925. Otto and Edith had two daughters, Margot and Anne, and lived in Frankfurt, Germany. 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. Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, and under occupation, the Netherlands became subject to the Nuremburg laws. As restrictions continued to tighten, and antisemitism grew, Otto set up a hiding pl...

  3. Monogrammed tablecloth owned by Otto and Edith Frank

    1. Ryan M. Cooper collection

    Cotton tablecloth, embroidered with the initials of Otto and Edith Frank, gifted to them for their wedding on May 8, 1925. Otto and Edith had two daughters, Margot and Anne, and lived in Frankfurt, Germany. 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. Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, and under occupation, the Netherlands became subject to the Nuremburg laws. As restrictions continued to tighten, and antisemitism grew, Otto set up a hidin...

  4. Ministère de la Justice. Administration de la Sûreté publique. Police des étrangers. Dossiers généraux 2e série (Versement 2003)

    • Department of Justice. Public Security Administration. Foreign Police. General Files Series 2 (2003 Transfer)

    This fonds is, above all, a source of information on the role of the State in Belgian society, although its wealth goes far beyond this particular aspect of Belgium's political and social history. All the activities in which foreigners were involved on Belgian territory are mentioned. This ranges from religious orders to circuses and musicians, as well as (universal) exhibitions. The establishment of foreign companies was also the responsibility of the Foreign Police. Moreover, a multitude of subjects concerning foreigners such as the carrying of weapons, gambling, education, etc. were deal...

  5. Location Service

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    The Location Service files include lists of survivors, known dead, and inmates of concentration and refugee camps. The subseries also contains correspondence, reports, and other materials pertaining to displaced persons camps and survivors after the war. Box D46. Folder 1. Displaced persons location index, lists, memos, releases, 1942-1946 Box D46. Folder 2. Location service activity reports by Finkelstein, Chaim, 1943-1948 Box D46. Folder 3. Central roster, central registration, 1943-1945 Box D46. Folder 4. Central Location Index, 1944-1946 Box D46. Folder 5. American Red Cross, Washington...

  6. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jood, belonging to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Factory-printed Star of David badge worn by a member of Max Heppner’s family in Amsterdam, Netherlands, after the occupying Nazi administration mandated them on April 28,1942. Max was living with his German parents, Albert and Irene, in Amsterdam, when Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. The new civil administration run by the SS gradually tightened control on the residents, and required Jews to register their business assets. Albert’s work permit was rescinded in 1940, but he continued dealing illegally on a small scale. In 1942, the authorities raided their home for valuables on...

  7. 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...

  8. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Storage trunk used by the Heppner family to haul possessions in Germany, the Netherlands, and the United States. Albert and Irene Heppner fled Berlin, Germany to Amsterdam, Netherlands, after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933. Albert reestablished his art dealership, and their son, Max, was born later that year. In May 1940, Germany occupied the Netherlands, and established a civilian administration run largely by the SS. The occupying administration gradually tightened control on the residents, and required Jews to register their business assets. Albert’s...

  9. Knife taken from a German soldier and acquired by a German Jewish family in hiding

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Metal knife taken from a German soldier and acquired by a member of Max Heppner’s family in 1944. Max was living with his German parents, Albert and Irene, in Amsterdam, when Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. The new civil administration run by the SS gradually tightened control on the residents, and required Jews to register their business assets. Albert’s work permit was rescinded in 1940, but he continued dealing illegally on a small scale. In 1942, the authorities raided their home for valuables on multiple occasions, and began rounding up Jews for deportation in the summer....

  10. Set of tefillin buried for safekeeping and recovered postwar

    1. Gisela E. Zamora collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515327
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)

    Pair of tefillin buried for safekeeping by Marcus and Josef Zamojre while living in hiding in Taglio-di-Po, Italy. The tefillin, which had belonged to Marcus, were recovered by Josef after the war. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. In December 1940, Josef and Marcus fled from Frankfurt in Nazi Germany, to Graz on the Austrian-Yugoslav border. After several failed attempts to cross the border, they reached Zagreb in March 1941. In April, Germany invaded Yugoslavia and, in July, Josef and Marcus escaped to Italian occupied Ljublj...

  11. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection

    The Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection contains correspondence between Lawrence B. Goldsmith Sr., various members of the Schiffman and Marx families living in Germany, and United States government officials. The correspondence relates to the families’ requests for assistance in immigrating to the United States from Nazi Germany in the form of signed affidavits of support and financial assistance. The personal correspondence from the families in Germany provide a sense of growing desperation to leave Germany. Also included are Lawrence B. Goldsmith Sr.’s papers relating his activity wi...

  12. Large brown suitcase used by Hungarian Jewish refugees on the Kasztner train

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    Large suitcase carried by Dr. Bela Gondos when he was transported from Budapest, Hungary, to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on the Kasztner train in June 1944 with his wife Anna and 7 year old daughter Judit. They were advised to bring all their belongings. Each carried a suitcase filled with their best clothing since they believed they were going to Portugal. They used it as a bed, table, and chair on the cattle car to the camp. Jews were increasingly persecuted by the Hungarian regime, which had anti-Semitic policies similar to Germany's. Bela worked on 2 or 3 forced labor battalions un...

  13. Tefillin storage pouch buried for safekeeping and recovered postwar

    1. Gisela E. Zamora collection

    Tefillin storage bag buried for safekeeping by Marcus and Josef Zamojre while living in hiding in Taglio-di-Po, Italy. The pouch and tefillin, which had belonged to Marcus, were recovered by Josef after the war. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. In December 1940, Josef and Marcus fled from Frankfurt in Nazi Germany, to Graz on the Austrian-Yugoslavian border. After several failed attempts to cross the border, they arrived in Zagreb in March 1941. In April, Germany invaded Yugoslavia and, in July, Josef and Marcus escaped to Ita...

  14. Set of 10 Rorschach plates with folded cardboard enclosure owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee

    1. Leopold and Herta Stoer family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn616398
    • English
    • a: Height: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) b: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) c: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) d: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) e: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) f: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) g: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) h: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) i: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) j: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) k: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm)

    Rorschach ink blot test cards like those used by Dr. Leopold (Leo) Stoer to test patients in the United States following his emigration from Vienna, Austria, in September 1938. While studying for his dissertation in psychology, Leo learned how to use the cards to diagnose patients, which was still a new practice in the US. Leo lived in Vienna with his parents, Alfred and Karoline, and seven younger siblings: Juli, Grete, Hedi, Fritz, Erna, Trude, and Otto. In 1915, Alfred, a master decorator by trade, was selected to fight in World War I (1914-1918). Leo’s sister Hedi, died from whooping co...

  15. Enfants perdus, recueillis, recherchés, retrouvés entre 1940 et 1942

    Exode : livre du Pentateuque qui relate la sortie des Hébreux hors d’Égypte. : fuite massive de populations belges, luxembourgeoises, hollandaises et françaises en et lorsque l'Allemagne envahit la , le Luxembourg, les et une partie du territoire . « […] L'exode […] de mai à juin 1940 [apparaît comme un] épisode honteux de l'histoire de France, à peine avoué, relégué dans le prologue ténébreux de la guerre, sans aucun égard pour les douze millions de Belges, de Hollandais, de Français, civils ou militaires sans armes, qui en ont été les acteurs et les victimes Que n'étaient-ils restés chez ...

  17. Affaires militaires, prisonniers de guerre, tome 1

    . Les archives du Bureau d'Etudes (n°2607-2339) restent les plus abondantes. Outre les minutes du courrier général au départ, qui, de mai 1941 à octobre 1944, constituent une série chronologique à peu près complète, la correspondance avec différents organismes, tels que ministères, Croix-Rouge et surtout O.K.W., elles comportaient une série d'articles classés par sujets et portant des cotes constituées par des abrévations suivies de chiffres : (ex. CCa : congé de captivité ; TP ma : traitement matériel des prisonniers ; TP mo : traitement moral) ; la clé en a été donnée par une note intérie...

  18. 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...

  19. pièces 113 à 176 113 à 123 pièces de forme 124 déclarations faites par Bruneton à la presse les 25 décembre 1943 et 9 juin 1944 125 transcription de disques ayant enregistré des déclarations de Bruneton radiodiffusées en 1942

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 3 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 3 : 3w/106-3w/141
    2. Gaston BRUNETON Commissaire général à la Main d'oeuvre française en Allemagne à dater du 6 février 1943
    3. Gaston Bruneton. Dossier III

    pièces 113 à 176 113 à 123 pièces de forme 124 déclarations faites par Bruneton à la presse les 25 décembre 1943 et 9 juin 1944 125 transcription de disques ayant enregistré des déclarations de Bruneton radiodiffusées en 1942, 1943 et 1944 126 sous ce numéro est conservé un dossier comprenant 297 pièces provenant des archives du Commissariat Bruneton transférées du ministère des Pensions, classées en quatre sous-cotes allant de A à D : A Bruneton et la politique , pièces 1 à 132 politique générale, propagande vichyste 1° (de 1 à 26) 1 compte-rendu de M. Desmarest sur un déjeuner franco-alle...

  20. Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician

    1. Henry Baigelman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43164
    • English
    • a: Height: 23.125 inches (58.738 cm) | Width: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 31.125 inches (79.058 cm) | Depth: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm) c: Height: 29.125 inches (73.978 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) d: Height: 29.375 inches (74.613 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) e: Height: 28.125 inches (71.438 cm) | Width: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) f: Height: 15.125 inches (38.418 cm) | Width: 12.375 inches (31.433 cm) g: Height: 18.250 inches (46.355 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) h: Height: 18.375 inches (46.673 cm) | Width: 18.750 inches (47.625 cm) i: Height: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) | Width: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) j: Height: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) k: Height: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) l: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) m: Height: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) n: Height: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 0.060 inches (0.152 cm) o: Height: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 0.060 inches (0.152 cm) p: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) q: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) r1: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) r2: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) s: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) t: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) u: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)

    Violin, bows, case, and parts recovered from the Łódź ghetto in Poland and played by Henry Baigelman after the war. The instruments were hidden in an attic by Henry's brother David in the summer of 1944 after they learned that the Germans were going to destroy the ghetto. They were recovered by his brother-in-law after the city was liberated by the Soviets in January 1945. Two violins were recovered: this one and 2010.472.2; one was played by Henry in the ghetto; the other originally belonged to Henry's cousin. Henry was a professional musician in Łódź when Germany occupied Poland on Septem...