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  1. Watercolor of Auschwitz painted by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn618170
    • English
    • 1955-1980
    • overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 24.375 inches (61.913 cm) pictorial area: Height: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm) | Width: 21.875 inches (55.563 cm)

    Watercolor painting of Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland painted by Holocaust survivor Fred Veston in Albuquerque, New Mexico after his immigration in 1955. Fred was a jeweler who lived in Kraków, Poland, with his wife and two daughters, when Germany invaded on September 1, 1939. Within a week, Kraków was occupied and the Germans initiated immediate measures aimed at persecuting the Jews of the city. They took Fred’s store, the family’s apartment, and their valuables. The Germans began searching for Fred after learning he dealt in Jewish jewelry. Fred’s neighbor, a Ca...

  2. Oral history interview with Ibrahim Goga

  4. Gisela Rosenthal Tucker collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Gisela Rosenthal and her family. Includes birth certificates in German and Czech issued for Gisela Rosenthal in 1926, 1927 and 1935.; correspondence from the US Department of State to Samuel Rosenthal in London, where he fled with his wife Regina where they were awaiting US visas; a letter from Eleanor Roosevelt, dated March 21, 1945, thanking Samuel for a gift he sent; a naturalization certificate for Gisela Tucker, dated 1948; and photographs of Gisela as an baby and toddler with, potentially, her parents in Germany. Copy drawing ...

  5. Selected records of the Voivodship Office in Nowogródek Urząd Wojewódzki w Nowogródku (Sygn.1184)

    Monthly reports on the state of security, national minorities, social and political life, population movement, communist movement, activities of unions and associations, includes also confidential reports relating to members of communist organizations (Komunistyczna Partia Białorusi Zachodniej, KPZB), and a monograph of Jewish political organizations operating in the Nowogródek voivodship.

  7. War-time and post WW II trial records of soldiers and civilians, accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity during WW II

    Selected trials of members of the Gestapo and the SD, soldiers, people who collaborated with Germans, high-ranking members of the French armed forces, and civilians accused of war crimes against humanity during WWII. The trials took place at the Military Tribunals in several places, e.g. Bordeaux, Lyon, Marseille, Metz, Paris,Tunis, and others, and consider following subjects: Camps, Criminales de Guerre (Individuals tried for war crimes); Gestap-SD; Massacres. The trials did not necessarily took place in the geographical region where the crimes were committed. On the contrary, the trials a...

  8. Trials against Germans in the foreign countries of Europe: Reference files of Counselors

    The collection consists of 390 file volumes with documents from defence lawyers from trials against German defendants in court in Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Yugoslavia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Poland, Switzerland, Soviet Union, and Czechoslovakia. The largest proportion of the documents is from trials in France and Luxembourg. The trials took place between 1946 and 1960. About 90 % of the files come from law firms of the following lawyers: Dr. Kurt Behling, Berlin (148 volumes), P. H. Gordan, Gießen (8 volumes), Prof. Dr. Carl Haensel, Freiburg (11 volume...

  9. Antisemitic leaflet

    Contains a leaflet voicing support for Ferenc Szálasi, leader of the Arrow Cross Party and successor of Miklós Horthy.

  10. Simai Győrgy photographs

    Contains eight photographs, dated 1939 to 1947, showing Simai Győrgy, born in Budapest, Hungary in 1925. She was arrested and eventually deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp and then Spandau to perform slave labor, before being transffered to Oranienburg slave labor camp, where she was liberated in May 1945. After returning to Budapest, Győrgy met and married Ference Polgar, ultimately immigrating to Venezuela in 1956 with their daughter Eva.

  11. The Palestine Post clipping

    Newspaper: Front page from extra edition of The Palestine Post dated May 7, 1945 with banner headline "ALL GERMANS SURRENDER: Doenitz Announces Unconditional Capitulation."

  12. Oral history interview with Eugene Kohan

  13. Oral history interview with Ruth Neray

  14. Blake and Anna Schiff papers

    Documents, correspondence, identification papers, and photographs regarding the Holocaust-era experiences of Blake and Anna Schiff in the Warsaw Ghetto, Grodno, and in hiding in Novosiolki. Biographical material includes documents regarding Blake’s education and employment in the United States, Blake’s false identity card under the name Stephan Podolski used in post-war Poland, and social security cards. Correspondence includes letters sent by Blake to Mary and Helene Daily, his aunt and cousin in the United States, regarding his efforts to immigrate to the U.S. in 1939 as a student, and sc...

  15. Wooden Lazy Susan decorated with an inlaid windmill scene created by a Latvian in a displaced persons camp

    Handmade, Latvian, wooden turntable with an inlaid windmill scene created in Kleinkötz Displaced Persons (DP) Camp at Günzburg in the American Zone of Germany between 1945 and 1951. Latvia had a long tradition of woodworking, and many skilled artisans lived in DP camps following the end of World War II (1939-1945), where they made some additional income from the sale of pieces and trained others. Kleinkötz had a population between 1,000 and 2,500 refugees, and a large percentage of those were from the Baltic nations, including Latvia. Following the end of the war, Allied forces established...

  16. UNRRA selected records AG-018-010 : Austria Mission

    Consist of administrative files related to displaced persons, repatriation, emigration, tracing of people, child welfare, Children's Homes, welfare assistance by various international organizations; special monthly reports and statistics from British, French and American Zones; files of the displaced persons camps, narrative reports, correspondence, and registers from the particular UNRRA teams regarding operations of the displaced persons camps.

  17. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- Czech Jewish refugees arrive in Britain

    Appeal for Czech Jewish refugees who have arrived in Britain following the occupation of Czechoslovakia by Germany. The appeal was broadcast by Earl(?) Baldwin. Footage shows Baldwin at his desk, refugees at a tent camp, INTs mess hall, girls cleaning barracks, and young men writing letters.

  18. District Office in Třebíč Okresní úřad Třebíč

    District administrative records including decrees against Jews and expropriation and aryanization of Jewish properties in Třebíč (German: Trebitsch).

  19. Holocaust memoirs collection

    Contains Holocaust memoirs of Jehoash Alperovitch, Joseph Bainvoll, and Lilli Gontscheroff.

  20. Sydney Asher collection

    Photographs in envelopes of the Pedescala Massacre which took place between April 30th and May 2nd 1945 in Val d’Astico, Italy north of Vicenza in three municipalities, Pedescala, Forni, and Setteca`. The images were acquired by Donor’s husband, Sydney, who was in the 5th Army and who was a lawyer so given the task of investigating the atrocities. Includes an envelope labeled “Vittime di Pedescola” or Victims of Pedescola.