Carl Rosner Collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn539408
• English
• 1920-2010
• box oversize boxes 1 2
• Updated 7 months ago

The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Carl Heinz Rosner of Hamburg, Germany including his stay at a Jewish orphanage from 1937-1942; the deportation Rosner and his brother Joseph to the Buchenwald concentration camp; and his life as a post-war refugee in Stockholm, Sweden. The collection also includes a small amount of material related to the experiences of his wife Frieda Rosner and her parents Zelman and Judith Zeidshnur of Wilno, Poland (modern day Vilnius, Lithuania). Included are biographical materials such as passports, naturalization certificates, birth certificates, ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548880
• English
• overall: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm)
• Updated 7 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548882
• English
• overall: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm)
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2 Reichsmark coupon issued at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Armo...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548883
• English
• overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm)
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1 [eine] mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland beginning in May 1940 until the ghetto was liquidated in summer 1944. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and occupied Łódź one week later. Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and, by February 1940, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population of 160,000 into a small, sealed ghetto. All residents had to work and many were forced laborers in ghetto factories. Residents were forbidden to have German currency, and the Jewish Council was ordered to create a system of Quittungen [receipts] that could be used only in...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn548884
• English
• Updated 7 months ago