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  1. David and Dora Ruskin collection

    Collection of materials documenting the experiences of David and Dora Ruskin (donor’s parents) and their experiences during the Holocaust. Includes a manuscript entitled “The Journey Home” by Michael Ruskin about his his parents experiences during 1939-1945 during the Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, Kaunas, Lithuania and the Kovno ghetto; post-war documents from the International Red Cross; marriage certificates; copy of a certificate of incarceration; and certificates from the International Refugee Organization Displaced Persons Professional Testing Board and the Central Committee of Li...

  2. French Campaign, North African Campaign 1940

    Submarine, Swearing-in of Tunisian volunteers

  3. Deportation of Dresden Jews to Hellerberg

    Text: "Zusammenlegung der letzten Juden in Dresden in das Lager am Hellerberg am 23./24. November 1942.""[Last Jews in Dresden into the camp at Hellerberg on 23/24 November 1942] Text: "Abholen des Gepäcks” [Pick up the luggage]. Street sign "Sporer-Gasse". House number 2, full garbage cans, windows with curtains 10:00:48 Entrance to the house, men in civilian clothes, Gestapo, furnishings are being loaded onto a truck, Jews with star of David carry the tables, chairs, bookshelves, sewing machines (a woman with an umbrella walks through the picture). 10:01:41 Suitcases with inscriptions loa...

  4. Memorial leaf for Patria victims

    One leaf, printed, with text in Hebrew, issued in the name of the "Mishmar Ha Yishuv," commemorating the victims of the sinking of the ship, S.S. Patria, in Haifa harbor, Palestine, on 25 November 1940. The ship was sunk by the explosion of a bomb, planted by members of the Haganah, who hoped to disable the ship so that it would not be able to transport over 1,000 refugees to a British-run internment camp in Mauritius. Instead, the explosion sank the ship, killing 267 passengers and injuring 172. This leaflet, issued as a memorial by the Haganah, in the name of the "Mishmar Ha Yishuv," reme...

  5. Funeral service for Theo Croneiss

    AGFA 1942. Title in German. Funeral service for Theo Croneiss, Messerschmittwerk in Regensburg, on November 10 and 11, 1942. Includes Gauleiter Wächler, SS Obergruppenführer and General der Police Dr Martin

  6. Buchenwald negatives

    Contains thirteen original negatives documenting the liberation of Buchenwald.

  7. Maria-Anita Menkes Gol Papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Maria-Anita Menkes (donor's mother) who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919 and lived in Lvov, Poland [present day Ukraine]. Included are documents issued to Helena Babijczuk and used by Maria to obtain false documents in the name of Helena Babijczuk Keck, allowing her to pass as a Roman Catholic. Also included is post-war documentation illustrating her chronology during the war in Piaseczno and Lvov, Poland; her experiences and those of her mother, Stella Menkes, who was killed in the Katyn massacre in Poland in 1940; and the exp...

  8. Sketchbook with paintings and sketches

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn592728
    • English
    • a: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) c: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) d: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) e: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) f: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) g: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) h: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)

    Sketchbook belonging to Dora Ajlkichen (1926-1942) who was deported from Brussels on 15 August 1942 and was murdered at Auschwitz.

  9. Selected records from the District Office of Liquidation in Kielce Okręgowy Urząd Likwidacyjny w Kielcach (Sygn. 336)

    Correspondence and reports of the District Office of Liquidation in Kielce. Included are records of abandoned property that belonged to Jews before World War II, and German deserted property.

  10. Sudetenland tour

    Private films. Teelnitz at the foot of the Ore Mountains, Karl-Weis-Warte on the Nollendorfer Pass, SA sports festival, train ride via Mariaschein pilgrimage site to Teplitz-Schönau, steamboat ride on the Elbe, 1941: flood in Aussig. From Wannow to the Schreckenstein thermal baths, Erzgebirge ridge, Ebersdorf, ski jump in front of Adolfsgrün, Trip through the protectorate, trip to Prague, Wenceslas Square, Hradschin, Charles Bridge, HJ collecting, Zwickau in Bohemia, winter in the Ore Mountains.

  11. Rabinowitz family photographs

    Collection of photographs related to the experiences of the Rabinowicz family from Gorlice, Poland, who fled to Lwów before being deported to a labor camp near Novosibirsk. After their release in 1942 they moved to Kuybyshev, then to Jambul (today Taraz) in Kazakhstan. After the war the family returned to Poland before moving to the Heidenheim displaced persons camp; eventually they immigrated to Israel in July 1949.

  12. The Blue Card, Inc. Records

    The collection contains correspondence, minutes of meetings, brochures, news clippings, and printed material, documenting the history of The Blue Card, Inc., in particular its role as a New York-based charity that aided Jewish-German emigres who had fled Europe during the Holocaust. The collection includes minutes, by-laws and articles of incorporation from its inaugural meeting in September 1943; minutes of membership, board of directors, and executive committee meetings; newspaper and magazine clippings about the organization; correspondence, chiefly related to donations to the organizati...

  13. United Credit Society of Merchants and Reality Proprietors, Ltd. in Kielce Zjednoczone Towarzystwo Kredytowe Kupców i Właścicieli Nieruchomości w Kielcach (Sygn. 1392)

    The financial book of one of the Jewish banks in Kielce. Each page of the book contains a description of financial transactions (shares, dividends etc.), of the shareholder and the date of its adoption. In total, the bank had 182 shareholders.

  14. County Command of the State Police in Kielce Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Kielcach (Sygn.112)

    Police orders, circulars, various reports and investigative protocols, registers of the political organizations, social and sporting events. Included are records related to Jewish organizations, Jewish trade unions, and situation of the political and criminal prisoners.

  15. Records of Rawa Mazowiecka Akta miasta Rawy Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1022)

    Various records related to the town of Rawa Mazowiecka, Poland, mostly from the period prior to World War II, including minutes of the sessions of the Municipal Council of 1926-1939, examination of estates, lists of men who were recruited into the army, certification of craftsmen, and lists of businesses and their owners of 1941-1945.

  16. The Court of Appeal in Warsaw Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie (Sygn. 1602)

    Collection consists of records of criminal cases related to collaboration with the German authorities and the police, which were tried in post-war Poland. Cases relate to criminal activities against Jews and Poles such as participation in the roundups, pacifications, deportations and executions, denunciations of Jews, collaboration with the Gestapo, blackmailing Jews, requisitioning of property, surveillance and other crimes.

  17. Artillery practice; aircraft demonstration

    “Zingst - Luftübungen 1938.” Bombing exercises in Zingst. Soldiers practice with artillery in a field. They fire and reload an 88mm anti-aircraft gun. Clouds appear in the sky as the shells explode. Materials cascade from the sky. Plumes of smoke rise off the field in the horizon. Planes fly overhead, a demonstration. Large clouds of smoke rising from the earth from bombs dropped by the planes above. Soldiers stand to the side and watch. A house goes up in flames, black smoke rising off of it. 10:06:03 Hitler descends a staircase, followed by Göring and Erich Raeder and more Nazi officials....

  19. Igo Krischer papers

    The collection contains correspondence, certificates, booklets, flyers, and photographs, related to the musical career of Igo Krischer (1906-1993), a Polish jazz drummer, singer, and composer, and to his activities during World War II, which he spent in exile in Iran and Palestine. Included is correspondence from his family who remained in occupied Poland; photographs of family, friends, and bandmates, from approximately the 1930s and 1940s, as well as later images of Krischer; identification documents used by Krischer, ranging from his birth certificate to his union membership card; and pr...

  20. Woman's story of the German occupation

    A Boehner Film. German culture, woman driving a car, hilly landscape, three girls, historic buildings, street scenes, children playing, German Occupation, School of the SS, cyclists