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  1. Marcel Zauberman collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Marcel Zauberman, originally of Lens, France, who fled German-occupied France and survived the war from 1943-1945 in Hôme de la Forêt, a Swiss boys home in Geneva. Included is Marcel’s Swiss-issued refugee identification document (Flüchtlingsausweis) and photographs documenting his time at Hôme de la Forêt. The photographs are numbered by the donor and he has provided the following descriptions (descriptions run left to right): 1. Kneeling: Jean Levy-Loeb, Michel Levy-Loeb, Rudolph; Standing: Annie (staff), Leopold, Victor (staff), Simon...

  2. Luger P08 pistol, holster, and magazine captured by a Yugoslavian partisan

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn709051
    • English
    • 1920-1922
    • a: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) b: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) c: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm)

    Luger P08 pistol, holster, and magazine captured by Shmuel Mizrahi from a German sergeant during a battle in the fall of 1944, near Zvornik and the Drina River in Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina). The Luger P08 was first designed in 1898 by Georg Luger and manufactured by Deutsche Waffen und Munitions Fabriken (DWM). Production of P08 Lugers would last until 1942, with a total of approximately two million units produced. Shmuel Mizrahi lived in the North Macedonian region of Yugoslavia, and was active in the communist party and Hashomer Hatzair, a Zionist youth movement. On April 6, ...

  3. Emigration Fund for Bohemia and Moravia, Office in Brno Auswanderungfonds für Böhmen und Mähren (B 392)

    Consists of records pertaining to expropriated and liquidated Jewish businesses and real estate, includes individual cases, 1939-1942. The collection also features documentation about the deportation and transports to concentration camps of Czech Jews.

  4. Gerta Solan collection

    Collection of approximately 27 family photographs documenting Gerta Solan with her parents, grandparents, family and friends before and after WWII in and around Prague.

  5. Selected records of the Sondergericht bei dem Landgericht Zichanau Sąd Specjalny przy Sądzie Krajowym w Ciechanowie (Sygn. 644/III) : Wybrane materialy

    Criminal cases against Poles and Jews for theft, smuggling, fencing, illegal trade of meat, bread, and helping Jews. The accused people were sentenced to very severe punishments: death penalty, concentration camp, a prison camp, and a fine. Most of the prisoners did not survive.

  6. Selected records of the Office of the District Starosta in Łódź Starostwo Grodzkie Łódzkie (Sygn. 334) : Wybrane materiały

    Cases and registers of foreigners, and the index of Polish citizenship certificates.

  7. Orbach family papers

    The collection primarily consists of Holocaust-era photographs of the Orbach family, originally of Częstochowa, Poland. Includes depictions of Elias and Dobra Orbach, their sons Heniek (in the center) and Cadok. The photograph of Cadok (on the left) was taken in France shortly after he was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included is Zeev Orbach’s Association des Anciens Prisonniers Hitleriens Israel card which lists him as a prisoner of the Tschenstochau (Częstochowa) and Buchenwald camps.

  8. Sightseeing in Berlin and German-occupied Paris

    Side street. German officer stands next to a car: “M30 Pf4 4 To.” He kneels beside the car and talks to a mechanic working underneath it. He climbs up to the driver’s seat. River. People ride bikes. The Schlossbrücke bridge in Mitte, Berlin, with the Berliner Dom in the BG. The Pont d'Iéna bridge across the River Seine in Paris, and the Eiffel tower. Large building with a dome. Other Paris buildings. The Luxor Obelisk at the Place de la Concorde, with the L'église de la Madeleine in the BG shot from the Pont de la Concorde. The Arc de Triomphe on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées. Corner of Rue...

  9. Louis Lex, Jr. collection

    Contains a black-and-white photographic print of a pile of corpses in the newly-liberated Dachau concentration camp, kept in an envelope from Rays Photo Service, La Crosse, Wisconsin; no inscription on verso. The image was part of a series taken by the Yugoslav Prisoner Committee and widely distributed to American soldiers; dated May 4, 1945. Acquired by Private Louis Lex, Jr. (donor’s father) who served in the US Army during WWII as a member of the 66th Black Panther Division, 264th Regiment, 3rd Battalion, Company L.

  10. Collection of materials for the history of the Jewish population in Łódź Zbiór materiałów do dziejów ludności żydowskiej w Łodzi (Sygn.205)

    This collection contains records relating to the history of the Jewish population in Łódź between 1939-1945. Includes bulletins, lists of various economic investments, a city administration telephone directory and correspondence, a collection of documents related to the creation of the ghetto, information leaflets (NSDP), court files in civil cases, correspondence of the Police (Gestapo. Geheime Staatspolitzei Litzmannstadt), lists of displaced people to Germany, Himmler directives, military messages from Hitler's headquarters, statistical summaries on the Łódź real estate, name lists of te...

  11. Rosenzweig family collection

    Telephone directory, dated November 1939, of immigrants in Shanghai, China. Alphabetical directory containing the names of each Shanghai resident, their original city [such as Vienna, Austria], their profession and their Shanghai address. Also included are the names of the Shanghai Jewish committee. Used by Nuta and Dina Rosenzweig [donor’s paternal grandparents] who fled with their son from Frankfurt, Germany in winter 1938-39 for Shanghai after Nuta was arrested and imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp.

  12. Command of the uniformed Government police in Brno Velitelství uniformované vládní policie v Brně (B 327)

    Administrative matters, including anti-Jewish and anti-Roma measures; directives and orders; records pertaining to forced laborers, partisans, prisoners-of-war, the deportation of Jews, and other relevant records.

  13. Arrow Cross execution photographs

    Consists of 34 photographs depicting the executions of Arrow Cross leaders. Included are images of Ferenc Szálasi's execution on 12 March 1946 alongside Gábor Vajna, Károly Beregfy, and József Gera.

  14. Naomi Waldman collection

    Contains four photographs depicting young people, including Holocaust survivors, in Anvers and Brussels, Belgium, dated 1944-1945; all captioned on verso, some with personal inscriptions.

  15. Emil Engl collection

    Contains a Deutsches Reich Reisepass issued to Emil Engl (donor's father); marked with red "J" stamped on first page; issued in Vienna, Debruary 27, 1939. Emil fled Vienna and immigrated to Palestine in 1939, where he joined the Haganah.

  16. Judenrat in Wilno Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej, 1939-1944. Judenraty Rada Żydowska Wilno (Sygn. 269)

    Records of the Judenrat in Wilno. Contains private documents of Szlam Prener: a proof of payment, a registration certificate, and a request to pay the tax applicable to the Jewish population in Vilnius.

  17. British Pathé Newsreel -- Austrian and German refugees take part in an Americanization program at a Quaker camp

    RKO-Pathe News. Titles read: "HAVEN - QUAKERS ESTABLISH NY REFUGEE FARM". At West Park American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), several shots of Austrian and German refugees of various ages sitting on steps and chairs outside a building and learning about the American way of life in 'Americanization Classes'. Adults and children work together in picking fruit and vegetables in fields on the Quaker camp. Commentator says the program is designed to re-establish the refugees socially and spiritually. Several shots of young people diving into a lake and swimming about.

  18. British Pathé (Unissued/Unused) -- Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann confesses to his role in the Holocaust

    Various shots inside the courtroom in Jerusalem, where a tape-recorder is being played. This is playing back the confession of the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Shots of Eichmann, the judges, etc. Note: The confession is heard in German and then translated by the voice-over. He downplays his role in the Holocaust but admits his guilt and offers to be hanged in public as a deterrent to others. He had fled from Germany to Argentina after the war.

  19. Wendy Ramirez photograph collection

    Set of boxed images with type-written and corresponding printed list of images, all stamped with corresponding number on reverse. Images depict United States Armed Forces.

  20. Ruth Pizyc Berlinger collection

    Contains a memoir (photocopy of an original held by Yad Vashem) written by Miriam Pizyc Flint (donor's sister) regarding the Warsaw ghetto uprising; a letter and envelope written to Ruth in Sweden after the war by Casimier Bieberstein (later Casimir Biebers) in Canada, in English; letter in Polish written to Ruth from a friend dated June 19, 1946; family photographs and copy print of Ruth with her husband and friends in Stockholm after the war; and a glass negative with image of Ruth and her pet dog taken in pre-war Warsaw, circa 1936-1937.