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  1. Anti-Semitic & Anti-Communist Poster

    Jews Hiding Under a Table; printed for the "Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition" in Belgrade. Image of Joseph Stalin inviting Churchill and Roosevelt to sit at the table under which Jews are hiding reading a book titled "a plan to bolshevize England and America."

  2. Photographic print of Elie Wiesel, 1977

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613482
    • English
    • overall: Height: 8.810 inches (22.377 cm) | Width: 13.440 inches (34.138 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.810 inches (22.377 cm) | Width: 13.440 inches (34.138 cm)

    Gelatin silver print depicting Elie Wiesel in 1977.

  3. Vilna broadside

    Bekanntmachtung Nr. 19 des Buergermeisters der Stadt Wilna [Notice No. 19, Mayor of Vilnius]; Vilnius, Lithuania; in German, Lithuanian, and Polish; Broadside issued on August 22, 1941 three months after the German occupation of Vilnius, ordering the refugees who arrived in the town after September 1, 1939, and who did not get Lithuanian citizenship until June 1940, to register in the municipal offices. The broadside also calls all of Vilnius residents to register in the police headquarters in their neighborhood and get an identity card. At the end, the broadside states that the decree does...

  4. Two short films: Hansi eats; Hansi grows up; amateur film equipment and studio; toys

    Lizzy Film Produktion. “Bei der Sause” Two people, possibly Jakob and mother, talk while a man eats with Hansi [Hans Otto Kessler]. Lizzy? (Hansi’s mother) sits down to eat. The family drinks coffee and breaks bread. “Wenn munt’re reden sie begleiten…” Hans learns how to cut bread. “Speck und jam passen gut zum kaffee” Hans feeds the man. “Die fetten bissen verschlingt der patterbom” The man with a mustache, possibly Lizzy’s father, cuts food for Hans. “Ende” 01:03:09 Lizzy Film Produktion “Dem leben eines” “Filmstars” “1 Teil” “Hansi beschӓftigt sich” “Die morgen lekture” “Hansi ist hier 2...

  5. Prayer book

    4 volume sete of holiday mazhors: First Days of Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot, and Last Days of Passover.

  6. Photographic print of two sisters

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613480
    • English
    • overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) pictorial area: Height: 7.310 inches (18.567 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of two sisters in a village in Carpathian Ruthenia, ca. 1935-38.

  7. Moses and Mainzer families collection

    The collection consists of documents and correspondence, a Pentateuch, ID cards, and passports relating to the experiences of Meta Moses and Fritz Mainzer before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  8. Lubomir Skrovina correspondence

    Personal correspondence of Lubomir Skrovina (donor's father) from the period of his deployment on the Eastern Front during WWII

  9. Shpatsiren zenen mir gegangen | Tants a bisele mit mir

    Relatively rare Soviet Yiddish recordings that obliquely document anti-Jewish policies in the postwar USSR. A: Shpatsiren zenen mir gegangen; B: Tants a bisele mit mir. Folksinger Zinovy Shulman (1904-1977) was imprisoned in 1949. The song on Shulman's "B" side, here called "Tants a bisele mit mir" (Dance with me a while), was the source for the Vilna ghetto song, "Hot zikh mir di shikh tserisn" (I've torn my shoes). Phonograph record 4 (purple label): Cyrillic, 2 sides. Zinovy Shulman, voice N. G. Valter, piano (Leningrad & Moscow, 1949: Gramplasttrest 11617-11618)

  10. Songs recorded in Henonville DP camp

    Spool 06. 22 min. Psychologist David Boder recorded interviews in displaced persons camps in France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy in 1946. His wire spool recordings were deposited at the Library of Congress and later transferred to tape in 1995. USHMM located this lost recording with songs of Henonville in 2017. "Songs of Henonville" was recorded in Henonville, France on September 13, 1946. Songs include: 1. "Dos yidishe lid" (The Jewish Song) by Anshel Schorr and Sholom Secunda (USA, 1926). Performed in Yiddish as "Golus-lid" (Exile Song) by Dzhuel [Joel] Prizant. 2. "Aheym" (Homeward). ...

  11. Kinder Juhren | Blimelech zwei

    Phonograph record 1. Syreno Electro. The disc dates from circa 1929 and preserves rare repertoire from the Polish-Yiddish stage. The operetta "Rumännische Chassene" (The Romanian Wedding), with libretto by Moyshe Shor and music by Peretz Sandler (and featuring contributions by several other songwriters), premiered in New York in 1923 and toured to many European venues, including a lengthy run in Warsaw. Side A: Kinder Juhren (Kinder-yorn). From the operetta "Rumännische Chassene" (Rumenishe khasene). Words and music: Mordecai Gebirtig. Herman Fenigstein, vocals, with unnamed orchestra. Side...

  12. Klezmorimlekh | Tif in veldele

    A: Klezmorimlekh; B: Tif in veldele. Folksinger Epelbaum (1894-1957) was imprisoned in 1949. Phonograph record 3 (red label): Cyrillic, 2 sides. Mikhail Epelbaum, voice Moscow State Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor: Yakov Kukles (Moscow, 1939: Gramplasttrest 9019-9020)

  13. Randy Comins collection

    Photographs: family photographs of Zelda Field's (donor's aunt) family in Vilna, Poland, who died during the Holocaust.

  14. József Essösy papers

    Collection of documents relating to József Essösy's rescue activities in Hungary. Essösy was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations in 2016.

  15. Vitta family papers

    The collection consists of letters written by Benvenuto Mario Vitta (Mario) in 1944 to his wife Ines and daughter Adriana who were in hiding. The letters were likely written in Milan and the Fossoli di Carpi concentration camp. There is also one letter to Mario from his friend Alessandro Sgatti who was hiding Mario's son Adolfo with his family in Marina di Carrara.

  16. Rachel Rottersman correspondence with Grace Cohen Grossman

    Correspondence from Rachel Rottersman, a social worker who had worked with UNRRA at displaced persons camps in Germany following World War II, and Dr. Grace Cohen Grossman, curator at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, dating from 1979-1980. The correspondence largely deals with requests from Rottersman regarding research about a mass grave near Baumholder, Germany; efforts to recognize a Polish couple, Victor and Ludmila Gromadski, as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem; and proposals to interview people who Rottersman knew from the displaced persons camps where she had worked.

  18. East Prussia, Breslau

    Several short documentaries with titles on East Prussia, Silesia, Transylvania, Refugee Camp in Denmark

  19. Samuel Kramer papers

    Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs and similar materials collected by Samuel Kramer, an attorney who was legal counsel to Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and who worked closely with Rabbi S. Gourary and his father-in-law, the Lubavticher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in attempts to secure visas for several dozen rabbis and students of the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva, first so that they could leave Lithuania for Japan, and then from Japan onward, 1940-1941. The “Correspondence” series is the largest component of the collection, and consists primarily of letters fr...

  20. Trip to Italy, 1930s

    Ponte Vechhio, the Duomo, The David, Colosseum, fisherman sitting at the harbor, various Italian sites