Hamy Gal and Holocaust related documentation

Identifier: irn90029
Language of Description: English
Level of Description: Collection
Source: EHRI Partner

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https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn90029

Acquisition

The collection was aquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2014.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal; photographs of Atlit detainee camp created during the Holocaust; photographs of Warsaw Ghetto, and of German-occupied Warsaw; a Treblinka extermination camp testimony; manuscript drafts of poetry by Itzhak Katzenelson; documents related to Jewish detainees in camps in Kenya and Eritrea; and Anti-Semitic brochures, newsletters, and ephemera, United States.

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Photographs of Warsaw Ghetto, and of German-occupied Warsaw
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539598
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 8 months ago
Contains 13 photographs, taken by an unidentified photographer, presumably German, and mounted on a photo album page, circa 1939-1942. One on side of the album page, is the caption "Das jüdische Getto in Warschau," with seven photographic prints pasted on, depicting various street scenes, including people being conveyed in carts, people pulling carts laden with sacks of goods, and a street with a fence blocking off one side of it. The verso of this page includes six images, including destroyed buildings in Warsaw, two German soldiers sitting at a cafe on the banks of the Vistula River, and ...
Treblinka extermination camp testimony
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539673
- English
- 1943
- folder 1
- Updated 8 months ago
Printed testimony, one leaf, folded to produce eight pages, of a narrative account of the experiences of a Jewish prisoner who had escaped Treblinka in 1943. This pamphlet was produced in Tel Aviv in 1943.
Manuscript drafts of poetry by Itzhak Katzenelson
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539679
- English
- 1935-1936
- folder 1
- Updated 8 months ago
Three manuscript poems, written by Itzhak Katzenelson, consisting of the following: "MiShirei Ha'Aretz," "Frishman," a tribute to the literary critic David Frishman, and "Le-N'S," a poem in memory of Nahum Sokolov. Also included are two undated newspaper clippings about Katzenelson.
Collection of documents related to Jewish detainees in camps in Kenya and Eritrea
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539697
- English
- 1946-1948
- oversize folder 1
- Updated 8 months ago
Correspondence, map, newsletter, and other documents related to the imprisonment of members of Jewish paramilitary groups (the Irgun and the Stern Gang) by British authorities, in detainment camps in Kenya and Eritrea between 1946 and 1948. Documents in this collection include a handwritten letter from a representative of the detainees in the Sembel camp (near Asmara, Eritrea), Dov Ha Levi Milman, and addressed to the chief rabbi of Eretz Israel, Yitzhak Isaac HaLevi Herzog, on 22 February 1946; a hand drawn map of barracks in the Sembel camp, undated, drawn on the verso of a form that had ...
Antisemitic brochures, newsletters, and ephemera
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539735
- English
- 1934-1975
- folders 6
- Updated 8 months ago
Collection of brochures, leaflets, newsletters, and periodicals, published by a variety of antisemitic organizations in the United States between the 1930s and 1970s. Items include broadsides and leaflets issued by Robert Edward Edmondson between 1934 and 1939; issues of the periodical founded by Gerald L.K. Smith, "The Cross and the Flag," 1952 and 1956; a newsletter of the Keep America Committee, Los Angeles, 1956; various leaves from newsletters titled "Women's Voice," 1946-1954; a leaflet titled "Mysterious Jew Power" from Gordon Winrod, Gainesville, Missouri, 1967; a leaflet titled "Be...
Atlit detainee camp photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn600461
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 8 months ago
Contains five photographs related to the Atlit detainee camp, which was established south of Haifa by British authorities to hold Jewish refugees attempting to enter Palesting.
Drawing
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607716
- English
- overall: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Drawing
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607717
- English
- overall: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Drawing
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607718
- English
- overall: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Drawing
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607719
- English
- overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Drawing
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607720
- English
- overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Watercolor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607721
- English
- overall: Height: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm) | Width: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Watercolor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607722
- English
- overall: Height: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm) | Width: 12.625 inches (32.068 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Watercolor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607723
- English
- overall: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Watercolor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607724
- English
- overall: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Watercolor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607725
- English
- overall: Height: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm) | Width: 12.625 inches (32.068 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Watercolor
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607726
- English
- overall: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Drawing
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607727
- English
- overall: Height: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm) | Width: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Drawing
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607728
- English
- overall: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 8.813 inches (22.385 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.
Drawing
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607729
- English
- overall: Height: 12.598 inches (31.999 cm) | Width: 8.661 inches (21.999 cm)
- Updated 8 months ago
Part of the illustrations and watercolors by Hamy Gal.