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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Darning needle and case used in the Warsaw ghetto

    1. Irena Urdang de Tour family collection

    Darning needle used by Irena Ehrlich vel Sluszny and her family in the Warsaw ghetto. Irena, her parents, Felicia and Seweryn, and younger sister, Danuta, were confined to the Warsaw ghetto in 1940. In March 1943, 19 year old Irena escaped to the Christian sector of Warsaw. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the annihilation of the ghetto. Her father, aged 39, was killed during the uprising. Her mother and 14 year old sister escaped and were hidden for the rest of the war by Juana Dylag. ...

  2. Cream colored handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto

    1. Irena Urdang de Tour family collection

    Handkerchief that belonged to Irena Ehlrich vel Sluzny's s maternal grandmother, Leokadia Lubelczyk. Leokadia was deported, and it is believed, killed in a concentration camp around 1943. Irena, her parents, Felicia and Seweryn, and younger sister, Danuta, were confined to the Warsaw ghetto in 1940. In March 1943, 19 year old Irena escaped to the Christian sector of Warsaw. April 1943 brought the Warsaw ghetto uprising and its violent suppression by the Germans, with mass deportations of all Jews in Warsaw and the annihilation of the ghetto. Her father, aged 39, was killed during the uprisi...

  3. Selected records from the collections of the Olt branch of the Romanian National Archives

    This collection contains records from the following groups: 1. The Mayorship of the town of Slatina, including correspondence relating to Jews and Roma, the forced labor of Jews, and confiscation of real estate; 2. The Police of the Town of Caracal, containing records relating to the control of refugees, Poles, Jews, Bulgarians, and Germans, census of Jews, surveillance of Iron Guard, and recruitment of young Jews; 3. The Prefecture of the sub-district of Caraca,l containing name-lists of Jews in agricultural forced labor, and records relating to the liquidation of debts of Jews interned in...

  4. Dried pressed flower brought to the US by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    Dried pressed flower found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  5. UNRRA selected records AG-018-024 : Luxembourg Mission

    Consists of correspondence and reports of the mission. Records relate to tracing of displaced persons, settlement of non-repatriable Poles, and help to deported Jews.

  6. Nuremberg: Medical Case No. 1 - Trial of Karl Brandt & others

    Short film produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive for screening at a medical conference in Berlin on December 9, 1996. Final Edit dated November 21, 1996. Audio Only from RG-60.2210: Roll call over opening title. From RG-60.2376: HAS, courtroom. Audio Only from RG-60.2210: "The secretary will call the roll of the defendants..." [barely audible]. Intertitle. From RG-60.2376: Secretary calls "Karl Brandt". Audio Only from RG-60.2210: Defendants names are called, including Karl Gebhardt, Kurt Blome, Rudolf Brandt, Gerhard Rose, Siegrie...

  7. Herman Löwenberg family papers

    The Herman Löwenberg family papers include correspondence files, property exchange files, KKL debenture files, and restitution files documenting the family’s exchange of their property in Görlitz for property in Portland, Oregon, their immigration to the United States, the efforts of their family members to emigrate from Germany as well, and their efforts to recover or receive compensation for assets expropriated from them, particularly debentures in Palestine that the German government blocked when the family abandoned its Palestinian emigration plans in favor of the United States. Corresp...

  8. Eva Baumohl papers

    The Eva Baumohl papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, personal narratives, and photographs documenting Eva Baumohl’s family in Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Antwerp; her father’s and brother’s expulsion into Poland in 1938; Eva’s survival in Auschwitz with her sister Erna; and her husband, Naftali Baumohl. Biographical materials include Eva’s wartime and postwar foreigner identification card in Belgium, her Belgian travel card for foreigners, and her son Bernard’s business card. Correspondence include letters and postcards among Eva Baumohl, her parents, and her siblings in Berl...

  9. Goldfarb family papers

    The Goldfarb family papers document the experiences of Polish-born Leopold Goldfarb, his Belgian-born wife Jenny, and their daughter Nina; as they sought to escape Belgium following the German invasion in 1940, and immigrate to the United States, by way of Portugal, Jamaica, and Cuba, following Jenny’s death in France. The papers contain identification and immigration documents, correspondence, including over a dozen postcards sent to Leopold Goldfarb by members of his extended family in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940-1941, family photographs, and correspondence related to Goldfarb’s efforts to ...

  10. Wang family papers

    1. Ellen T. Meth collection

    Contains a false baptism certificate issued to Ellen Meth's father, a certificate issued by the Polish Consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, stating that Mr. Szymon Wang, his wife, daughter, and brother are all Roman Catholics, a Red Cross message sent by Ellen T. Meth to Jacob Ungar inquiring about her mother, and a Red Cross message sent by Ellen T. Meth to her mother, Emilia Wang in Lvov. The certificate was signed by Wojciech Rychlewicz from the Polish consulate in Istanbul, Turkey who issued thousands of certificates to Jewish refugees enabling them to obtain visas and enter countries who lim...

  11. Herbst family papers

    The papers consist of nine photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family in the Ansbach displaced persons camp, two photographs depicting the experiences of the Herbst family before World War II, two identification cards issued to Sabina Herbst [donor's mother] and Ziunia Herbst [donor] in Ansbach, three documents relating to Sabina and Ziunia Herbst's emigration to the United States in 1948, and two letters (with envelopes) written to Sabina Herbst while she was living in New York, N.Y.

  12. Mordechai Weinryb photograph collection

    The photographs depict Mordechai (Motek) Weinryb [donor] and his friends during their years of organizing illegal emigration to Palestine and later during his internment in Cyprus. The images consist of studio portraits of the donor and friends as well as one informal group photograph.

  13. Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection

    The Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection contains primarily photographs of Arthur Gelbart, who was a resident of Częstochowa ghetto and several labor camps, and Rose Grosman, who was kept hidden throughout the war. The photographs show both at several separate displaced persons camps as well as life prior to the war.

  14. Larry Rosenbach papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Larry Rosenbach (born Eliezer Lajziu Rosenbach) and his family, originally of Leżajsk, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of photographs depicting the Föhrenwald and Zeilsheim displaced persons camps in Germany, the Bielski partisans, and passengers on board the "Champollion" en route to Palestine. Also included are three postcards from Larry’s mother, Ewa Rosenbach, written in Zaklikov (Zaklików), Poland to cousins in Przemyśl, Poland describing the first deportation that occurred in her town and begging her cousins to t...

  15. Beige leather purse with decorative piping used by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection

    Beige leather handbag with shoulder strap bought by Lilli (Karoline) Schischa in Great Briatin where she was sent on a Kindertransport from Austria on July 13, 1939. Lilli bought the purse in England ca. 1945 and used it to store the seventy letters she received from her brother Edi from Palestine. In March 1938, Nazi Germany marched into Austria and made it part of the Third Reich. The clothing store owned by Lilli's parents, Wilhelm and Johanna, in Wiener Neustadt was seized. Lilli's brother, Edi, 24, left for Palestine in October 1938. Her father was arrested during the Kristallnacht pog...

  16. Peach handkerchief with a pink monogram carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection

    Pale orange handkerchief with her initials KS kept by 11 year Lilli (Karoline) Schischa when she was sent on a Kindertransport from Austria to Great Britain on July 13, 1939. In March 1938, Nazi Germany marched into Austria and made it part of the Third Reich. Jewish persecution. The clothing store owned by Lilli's parents, Wilhelm and Johanna, in Wiener Neustadt was seized. Lilli's brother, Edi, age 24, left for Palestine in October 1938. Her father was arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom that November, but released after ten days. Her parents were able to get Lilli out of the country...

  17. Light blue handkerchief with a pink monogram carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection

    Light blue handkerchief with her embroidered initials KS kept by 11 year Lilli (Karoline) Schischa when she was sent on a Kindertransport from Austria to Great Britain on July 13, 1939. In March 1938, Nazi Germany marched into Austria and made it part of the Third Reich. Jewish persecution. The clothing store owned by Lilli's parents, Wilhelm and Johanna, in Wiener Neustadt was seized. Lilli's brother, Edi, age 24, left for Palestine in October 1938. Her father was arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom that November, but released after ten days. Her parents were able to get Lilli out of ...

  18. Light green handkerchief with a pink monogram carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection

    Light green handkerchief with her embroidered initials KS kept by 11 year Lilli (Karoline) Schischa when she was sent on a Kindertransport from Austria to Great Britain on July 13, 1939. In March 1938, Nazi Germany marched into Austria and made it part of the Third Reich. Jewish persecution. The clothing store owned by Lilli's parents, Wilhelm and Johanna, in Wiener Neustadt was seized. Lilli's brother, Edi, age 24, left for Palestine in October 1938. Her father was arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom that November, but released after ten days. Her parents were able to get Lilli out of...

  19. Yellow plastic comb with cardboard case carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521885
    • English
    • a: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Comb with case kept by 11 year Lilly (Karoline) Schischa when she was sent on a Kindertransport from Austria to Great Britain on July 13, 1939. It was a kit made for use while traveling. In March 1938, Nazi Germany marched into Austria and made it part of the Third Reich. Jewish persecution. The clothing store owned by Lilly's parents, Wilhelm and Johanna, in Wiener Neustadt was seized. Lilly's brother, Edi, age 24, left for Palestine in October 1938. Her father was arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom that November, but released after ten days. Her parents were able to get Lilly out of...

  20. Travel sewing box with 16 floss spools carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection

    Travel sewing kit with a decorated box with 16 spools of thread bought for 11 year old Lilli (Karoline) Schischa to take on the Kindertransport from Austria to Great Britain on July 13, 1939. In March 1938, Nazi Germany marched into Austria and made it part of the Third Reich. Jewish persecution. The clothing store owned by Lilli's parents, Wilhelm and Johanna, in Wiener Neustadt was seized. Lilli's brother, Edi, age 24, left for Palestine in October 1938. Her father was arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom that November, but released after ten days. Her parents were able to get Lilli o...