Luneberg, Germany, and Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp documents and realia collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517785
• English
• 1904-1960
• boxes oversize folders 2 2
• Updated 7 months ago

The Hinsel family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and World War I diaries documenting the Hinsel family in Lüneburg, their relatives in Lüneburg and Hamburg, Hinsel and Leandrin family members’ military service during World War I, and Christine Hinsel’s survival in Theresienstadt during the Holocaust. Biographical materials include death announcements, ration cards, and business cards documenting Christine and Clemens Hinsel, their daughters, and other relatives. This series also includes a list of residents at Gertrud and Bruno Simo...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517786
• English
• overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Star of David yellow cloth badge with the German word, Jude, for Jew, worn in Lüneburg (alternate spelling Lueneberg), Germany. In September 1941, the Nazi government ordered all Jews over the age of 6 to wear a badge with a Judenstern [Jewish star] on their outer clothing at all times to mark them as outcasts from German society and to make them easy to identify. In most places, the Jews were responsible for the manufacture and distribution of the badges. This type was printed on rolls of cloth with dotted cutting guidelines and cut off as needed. .

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517787
• English
• overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Star of David yellow cloth badge with the German word, Jude, for Jew, worn in Lüneburg (alternate spelling Lueneberg), Germany. In September 1941, the Nazi government ordered all Jews over the age of 6 to wear a badge with a Judenstern [Jewish star] on their outer clothing at all times to mark them as outcasts from German society and to make them easy to identify. In most places, the Jews were responsible for the manufacture and distribution of the badges. This type was printed on rolls of cloth with dotted cutting guidelines and cut off as needed.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517788
• English
• overall: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Star of David yellow cloth badge with the German word, Jude, for Jew, worn in Lüneburg, Germany. In September 1941, the Nazi government ordered all Jews over the age of 6 to wear a badge with a Judenstern [Jewish star] on their outer clothing at all times to mark them as outcasts from German society and to make them easy to identify. In most places, the Jews were responsible for the manufacture and distribution of the badges. This type was printed on rolls of cloth with dotted cutting guidelines and cut off as needed. They were printed with dotted guidelines as aids for cutting one out neatly.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517789
• English
• overall: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Handmade white cloth armband presumably worn by an inmate at Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp. It has a medical stamp and KZ. L Terezin handwritten on the center. The camp was run by the German SS but a Jewish Council of Elders organized municipal services, such as a health care system run by imprisoned doctors and nurses. Theresienstadt existed from November 24, 1941, until May 9, 1945, in the German controlled Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in the former Czechoslovakia. Terezin operated as a transit camp and and ghetto/labor camp for Jews deported from the Greater German Reich. It wa...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517792
• English
• overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Broken necklace found in Lüneburg, Germany, after the war. During the Nazi dictatorship, from October 1941 - spring 1945, the Lüneburg State Institute operated a special children's ward that participated in the euthanasia program to secretly kill mentally and physically disabled children. At least 300 children were murdered at Lüneburg by lethal overdose or starvation. The methods and implementation of the child-killing policy were left to each hospital. The policy was issued by the Office of the Fuhrer as part of the plan to create a master race and to cleanse the German population of gene...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517793
• English
• overall: Height: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Depth: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

Haeberlein-Metzger Nuremberg lebkuchen packaging chest decorated with colorful images of gingerbread people, Christmas angels and ornaments. Lebkuchen is a biscuit similar to gingerbread cookies traditionally baked as a Christmas treat. It has been associated with Nuremberg since the 14th century and a variation known as Nuremberg Lebkuchen by law can only be produced in that city. The boxes and tins are often collected. This version was produced circa 1945 during the Nazi era in Germany.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517888
• English
• 1960
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517889
• English
• 1968
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn517890
• English
• 1957
• Updated 7 months ago