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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. David Trocki-Musnicki postcard collection

    The collections includes postcards sent to Mr. and Mrs. David Trocki-Musnicki, from friends and relatives in Brussels, when the couple was interned at Caserne Dossin (Malines), February through April 1944 as well as a family photographs.

  2. Camille Silberman family collection

    Contains documents illustrating the experiences of Camille Silberman [donor], who was in hiding in Belgium during the Holocaust.

  3. Reinhart family papers

    Collection of primarily restituion claims paperwork documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Lola and Israel "Jake" Reinhart.

  4. Joseph Winkler papers

    Identification and travel documents, news clippings, photographs (20), correspondence, and other materials documenting the experiences of Joseph (Jozef) Winkler, a Polish petroleum engineer, in his pre-war professional and academic life in Drohobycz and Lwow, Poland; his wartime exile in the Soviet Union; his immediate postwar years as a Polish commercial attaché in Washington, DC and New York; and his immigration to the United States with his wife, Aniela, and daughter, Marie, in 1947.

  5. Grausz family papers

    The collection contains documents and passes issued to members of the Grausz family in Budapest, Hungary, August - October 1944, including Swedish protective passes (Schutz-Passe) issued to Laszlo (Ladislaus) and Felicitas Grausz, a document signed by the Swedish legation attesting that documents issued to Laszlo and Jan-Pál Grausz are legitimate and can be used as passports, and Hungarian issued documents requiring Jan-Pál Grausz to register with the police on a weekly basis, and exempting him from wearing a yellow star. The collection also includes English translations.

  6. Escape attempt Print 6 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting a prisoner being shot for trying to escape when a Kapo actually knocked him out of a line of prisoners moving along the perimeter fence at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were m...

  7. Printed note, Kriminalpolizei, occupied Lithuania

    One note card, with stamp of police headquarters for unidentified location in Lithuania, requesting transfer of two Jewish women under custody (Golda Stiller, Rachela Lewinson), asking that they be sent from the jail to the office of the criminal police. March 1942. Signed by leader of that district's criminal police.

  8. Joodsche Weekblad flyer

    One flier, published by "Het Joodsche Weekblad," the publication of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, 10 July 1942 as an extra edition of the newspaper. The flier announces that approximately 700 Jews had been arrested that week, and were scheduled to be deported to a concentration camp in Germany.

  9. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate in several camps

    Striped concentration camp uniform jacket worn by Bernard Klajminc and likely issued in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in November 1943. He then wore it until April 1945 in Warsaw, Dachau, and Mühldorf concentration camps. When Germany invaded Belgium on May 10, 1940, Bernard, his wife Bertha, and their children Marie-Jose and Henri, were living in Brussels. In August 1942, the family was arrested and deported to France. Bernard was deported to Pithiviers internment camp and then transferred to Drancy transit camp in Paris. Bertha and the children also were imprisoned in Drancy. On S...

  10. Aichen family photograph collection

    Photographs (9), of various memebrs of the Aichen family from Stryj (now Stryi, Ukraine) and Lwow (now Lviv, Ukraine), Poland, 1927-1947.

  11. Book

    Book, Guide for young mothers to parenting children, owned by Judith Steinberger Hahn that features her young daughters, Irene and Sylvia, on the front cover. The family lived in Budapest, Hungary. They were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center and murdered upon arrival. Judith's older sister Ruth, who survived the Holocaust in Budapest, retrieved the book after liberation.

  12. Justice Ministry : Files of the Chief State Public Prosecutor's Office Vienna-until 1938 ; 1938-1945. Justizministerium : Akten der Oberstaatsanwaltschaft Wien-bis 1938; 1938-1945

    Administrative files of the Chief State Public Prosecutor's Office Vienna, such as personnel matters, arrest reports, and miscellaneous criminal cases for Vienna, Lower Austria and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Also features administrative records pertaining to the attempted Nazi putsch of July 1934.

  13. The hallucinatory vision of our typhic comrades, parked in barracks 8 Print 13 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting a blanket-wrapped prisoner has been detained in barrack 8 for those sick with typhus and forgotten about at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle of the night and ...

  14. Herbert Kammer family papers

    Correspondence, documents, and texts, related to the experiences of Herbert Kammer and his parents, Georg and Rosa Kammer, during World War II, as they fled their native Austria. Includes two letters sent by Herbert to his mother Rosa, in England, the first from the La Hille childrens home in Ariege, France, in May 1941, and a second letter following his arrival in Chicago in June 1941, as well as a third letter that Herbert had sent to his father in March 1941. Also included are documents related to the imprisonment of Georg Kammer at the Récébédou concentration camp, including a postca...

  15. Dr. Errol Rohr collection

    Consists of eight post-war photographs taken after the liberation of the Wöbbelin concentration camp on May 2, 1945 in Germany. The photographs display the burial of the exposed piles of corpses, which were located on the camp grounds.

  16. Hanna Moneta photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the Moneta family in Krakow, Poland before the war; members of the "Akiba" Zionist youth organization in Kielce, Poland during "Hachshara"; Hanka Moneta, who survived Płaszów, Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen, after the liberation in Sweden during recuperation; photographs of Mordechai Moneta (Hanka's husband) with his "Beitar" group.

  17. Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker

    Anti-Semitic Nazi sticker: "Gestorben am/5 Marz 33." Depicts a man lying in bed. Red, white and red ink on paper with adhesive backing.

  18. Rosenthal family papers

    Correspondence, affidavit, identification and immigration documents relating to the experiences of Erich and Maria (nee Goldschmidt) Rosenthal, originally of Hamburg, their daugther Elisabeth (born in the Netherlands), and other family members, primarily documenting wartime experiences, the immigration of Maria and Elisabeth to El Salvador after the war, and following Erich's death at Bergen-Belsen, and their subsequent immigration to the United States.

  19. Brown leather and cork men’s dress shoes crafted in Sedan Kaserne Ulm DP camp by a Jewish Polish soldier

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn47425
    • English
    • a: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) b: Height: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)

    Brown leather dress shoes crafted by Noel Galicki in Sedan Kaserne displaced persons camp in Ulm, Germany, between 1946 and 1949. Noel was taught and certified as a shoemaker in the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) vocational training program at the camp. Noel, 27, was a soldier in the Polish Army during the German invasion on September 1, 1939. Seventeen days later, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland and Noel was captured. On June 29, 1940, the Soviets deported Noel and his wife Henja to Komi ASSR. Henja died during childbirth on March 30, 1941, and their daughte...

  20. Hitler returns to Berlin in July 1940

    Camera pans over Upper Rhine. Hitler's motorcade crosses pontoon bridge eastwards; tracking shot shows children in swimsuits waving near a customs post and adults showing signs of love, loyalty and gratitude. Hitler, now aboard train, accepts flower from girl and shakes hands of HJ boy. Train journey continues past Marbach (Neckar), peasant on his plow, and stops at stations where Hitler autographs postcard portraits of himself. Camera shows Hitler in profile. Berlin prepares welcome; swastika flags fly, BDM girls spread flowers along route from Anhalter Bahnhof to Reichs Chancellery, polic...