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  1. Fundraising poster depicting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Poster and mailing tube created as a fundraiser for the Committee for the Ghetto Memorial Museum in Montreal circa 1960. The poster features an imagined scene of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Christo Stefanoff.

  2. Hanff Family Papers

    Contains passports, a marriage license, and other documents concerning the experiences of Kurt Hanff and Frieda Hirschfeld Hanff, who were married in 1936 in Berlin, before fleeing to Shanghai, China and eventually to the United States.

  3. Striped prisoner pants worn by a concentration camp inmate

    Prisoner trousers worn by Laszlo Nussbaum while an inmate of Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps from May 1944-May 1945.

  4. Greta and Fred Burg papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Manfred (Fred) and Greta (née Neumann) Burg, both originally from Vienna, Austria, who separately fled Europe to Sosúa, Dominican Republic during World War II. The collection includes letters to Fred in England and Sosúa from his family in Vienna and Lwów, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine); two immigration documents regarding Fred’s attempts to bring his mother and brother to Sosúa; Greta’s birth certificate and naturalization certificate; and photographs of the Burg and Neumann families, including depictions of family life in the Dominican Republic.

  5. Norbert Krasnosielski photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting Norbert Krasnosielski and his experiences while serving with the Polish Army and Russian Army during WWII.

  6. French Campaign

    Luftwaffe pilots, Paris, Red Cross nurse, officers, overflight, airfield (color film), Fieseler Storch, military cemetery

  7. Guggenheim and Goldman families collection

    Collection of photographs depicting Erna Guggenheim (donor's mother), born December 22, 1917 in Hamburg, Germany, with her family and friends, during activities in "Kadima Blau-Weiss" Zionist Youth movement, and family vacations; wedding photographs of Erna and Moshe Martin Goldman, born May 14, 1914 in Dessau; Erna and Moshe met in the youth movement but Moshe immigrated to Palestine in 1933; Erna and her mother Rosa Guggenheim immigrated to Palestine in 1935 after the death of Theodor Guggenheim in 1934; Erna and Moshe married in 1935 in Tel Aviv in "Palatin Hotel."

  8. Nazi officials dining; January 1940 document

    People descend stairs of stone building, the Berglandschaft in the Tatra mountains, a place for high-ranking German officers during the Nazi occupation. Pan up to Nazi flag. Women and children enter through a door. Nazi officials drink beer and eat in a large dining room with patterned curtains. 01:08:39 CU, handwritten document 2749-PS signed by Heinrich Himmler dated 28 January 1940. 01:08:44 Frank and two other men (possibly Bühler to the left and Dr. Karl Lasch to the right) in civilian clothes eat dinner in same dining room. Quick shot of spire (possibly the Kressendorf castle).

  9. German soldiers in Karelia and Lapland

    Winter, soldiers, sauna, patrol, dead man on sledge, motorcycle in snow, lake, wounded man on stretcher.

  10. Oral history interview with Ruth Kohner

  11. 93 Infantry Division private films

    93rd Infantry Division. People, horses, gun scenes, French prisoners of war. Short sequence in color: grooming horses in a stream.

  12. Oral history interview with Hanna Green

  13. 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...

  14. French Campaign, North African Campaign 1940

    Submarine, Swearing-in of Tunisian volunteers

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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

  18. Buchenwald negatives

    Contains thirteen original negatives documenting the liberation of Buchenwald.

  19. 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...

  20. 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.