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  1. Invitation to memorial ceremony at Tomb of Rachel, Passover 1946

    One printed invitation letter, announcing a memorial ceremony for victims of the Holocaust, to be held at the Tomb of Rachel, Bethlehem, Passover 1946.

  2. The Task of the Woman of To-Day

    Pamphlet: 'The Task of the Woman of To-Day' published in Berlin, Germany in 1936 on the occasion of the Conference of Women at the Reich Party Rally of Honor; In English

  3. Szereschewski family papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Szereschewski family in Danzig before the war; Charlotte Szereschewski's experiences in England after arriving there on the Kindertransport; and her parents, brother, and other immediate family members' experiences in Mauritius and Egypt after their attempted illegal immigration to Palestine and prior to their immigration to the United States.

  4. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn47061
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)

    Wooden comb and paper case given to 21 year old Esther Dykman by a friend on December 27, 1944, when they were slave laborers in an AEG Factory in Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga, Latvia. The friend found the comb on the side of the road and made the holder from materials taken from the factory where she and Esther worked. Germany invaded Soviet controlled Poland in June 21,1941, and three days later occupied Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) where Esther lived with her parents and 8 year old sister Cyla. By July, they enacted policies to persecute the Jews. German mobile killing units, aide...

  5. Wolf and Hirschen families collection

    Contains a letter and photographs illustrating the Wolf and Hirschen families in Germany. The letter was written between June 5 and September 4, 1942 by Emma Wolf in Offenbach, Germany to her children, Lisl, Gretl and Richard, who had immigrated to the United States. Photographs primarily illustrate the extended family's pre-war life in Germany.

  6. Stephen Alexander collection

    Contains a Swiss protective passport issued to Bela Alexander, and a document from the Hungarian Jewish Committee stipulating that Istvan Alexander [donor] has the right to be outside past curfew in the Budapest ghetto.

  7. Schwarz-Krakowiak family papers

    Collection consists of 79 postcards sent to Hildegard Krakowiak (later Schwarz), of Shanghai, by her mother, Frieda Krakowiak, of Berlin, 1939-1941; as well as autograph album of Hildegard Krakowiak, 1919-1928.

  8. Annemarie Warschauer papers

    The Annemarie Warschauer papers document the pre-war lives of the Israelski, Munter, and Warschauer families in Berlin, Germany and as refugees in Shanghai, China during the Holocaust. The collection includes biographical material, immigration papers, a small amount of correspondence, restitution papers, and photographs. Materials include passports, birth and marriage certificates, Yahrzeit memorial books, forced labor documents, restitution paperwork, dental profession papers, immigration and naturalization papers, and family photographs. The biographical material includes passports, drive...

  9. Torah fragment from the Pforzheim synagogue

    Fragment of a desecrated torah scroll discovered by Max Hausspiegel (later Houss) in the rubble of the Pforzheim synagogue in the days following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. He took the torah fragment with him when his family emigrated to the United States in the spring of 1939.

  10. Margarete Borchardt Rund memoir

    Consists of one memoir, with copies in the original German and in English translation, written in 1973 by Margarete Borchardt Rund, originally of Berlin, Germany. In the memoir, Mrs. Rund, who was born in 1885, describes her unhappy childhood and difficult marriage to Sigismund Rund, who was the Consul General to Panama and Estonia in the Weimar Republic. During their marriage both her husband (and later she) were unfaithful. She describes the changing life in Berlin after 1933 and her husband's immigration to Switzerland in 1934. She documents the Nazi confiscation of money and her efforts...

  13. Dr. Alain Goldschläger collection

    Consists of three photograph albums and a memoir collected by Dr. Alain Goldschlager. Includes a photograph album of copyprints of liberation photographs, including those from the Strasbourg University Anatomical Institute, and a photograph album of images of commemorative structures at the location of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Also includes a photograph album containing photographs and captions of a female youth Reichsarbeitdienst camp in Bernstein am Wald, Germany, between 1938-1939, as well as a memoir written from 1958-1981 in German shorthand by Ludwig Link, who spen...

  14. Bulgarian labor camp photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken in Bulgarian labor camps of groups of workers. Isaac Varsano is one of the workers depicted in the photographs.

  15. Photograph of crematorium at Dachau

    Consists of one photograph depicting American soldiers standing outside the crematorium in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. The soldiers are examining a pile of corpses.

  18. Robert Greene collection

    Consists of postcards sent to Robert Greene of Utica, NY, by members of the Grünbaum family of Radzanów, Poland, between 1940-1941, as well as individual postcards written by Wolf Aronowicz and Aron Gottlieb, also of Radzanów. Includes a holiday card sent from the Lechfeld displaced persons camp in 1947, post-war restitution documentation and requests for information related to Mayer Greene, Myrel Grynbaum Lipscyc, Hersch Grynbaum (Grünbaum), and Faiga Grynbaum (Grünbaum).

  19. Helena Rubinstein affidavit

    Consists of one typed affidavit, in English, dated May 27, 1941, attesting that Helena Rubinstein (born Helena Gourielli), president of the cosmetics company Helena Rubinstein, Inc., was submitting the affidavit in support of the immigration of Rubin and Dina Lewinson, who where then in Cannes, France. The affidavit lists other refugees sponsored by Ms. Rubinstein and describes her means to support them should they be given American visas. The Lewinsons did not ultimately immigrate to the United States, though they did survive the war.

  20. Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection

    The Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection consists of copies of documents and photographs, in German and English, related to Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling, who was born in 1902 near Leipzig, Germany, and was a member of the anti-Nazi resistance. Schilling was arrested in 1939 and imprisoned in Sachsenhausen, where he died in November 1939, supposedly of natural causes. Copies include pre-war Schilling family information, copies of letters Schilling wrote from Sachsenhausen, and post-war material memorializing his life and resistance work. Collection compiled and biography written by Schillin...