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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Prayer book

    1. Michael M. Garber collection

    Siddur taken by Michael [Mojsej] Garber, 21, when he fled Warsaw, Poland, for Soviet territory soon after the September 1939 German invasion. Attached to the cover is a glass plate with a photograph of the Teznia w Ciechocinku, 19th century graduated wooden cooling towers in Ciechocinek, Poland. The towers, used to evaporate brine from water, were built in 1825 and 1859, and at 53 feet, were the largest of their kind. Michael received this prayer book from his parents when he was a 12 year old boy preparing for bar mitzvah. He took it, and his tefillin, with him when he escaped. The Soviet ...

  2. Michael Garber photograph collection

    1. Michael M. Garber collection

    The collection primarily consists of photographs documenting Michael Garber and his family, originally of Warsaw, Poland. Included are depictions of Michael Garber, his parents, Aron and Frajda Pentman Garber, and his sister, Bronia, in Warsaw, Poland, before and during World War II.

  3. Black leather bi-fold wallet used by a Jewish family in hiding

    1. Lea Abramowicz family collection

    Black leather wallet used by Lea Abramowicz and her husband Mendel while the couple lived in hiding in German occupied Belgium from September 1942 to September 1944. Lea and Mendel were living in Brussels when Germany invaded on May 10, 1940. After the Germans began large scale deportations of Jews in September 1942, they went into hiding under the false surname Abeloos. One month later, Lea had a son, Georges, who was hidden separately. Lea and Mendel stayed in their apartment for a year and a half, then moved to the outskirts of Brussels, assisted by Oskar and Nana Ruyts. Lea eventually h...

  4. Star of David badge with letter J owned by Jewish Belgian couple

    1. Lea Abramowicz family collection

    Star of David badge worn by Lea or Mendel Abramowicz in Brussels, Belgium, until the couple went into hiding in September 1942. On May 27, 1942, the German authorities decreed that all Belgian Jews had to wear a Star of David badge to identify them as Jews. Belgium was invaded by Nazi Germany on May 10, 1940. After the Germans began large scale deportations of Jews in September 1942, the couple went into hiding under the false surname Abeloos. One month later, Lea had a son, Georges, who was hidden separately. Lea and Mendel stayed in their apartment for a year and a half, then moved to the...

  5. Beige purse with cross stitched initials used by a Jewish woman in hiding

    1. Lea Abramowicz family collection

    Monogrammed cloth clutch used by Lea Abramowicz and her husband Mendel while the couple lived in hiding in German occupied Belgium from September 1942 to September 1944. The couple used the purse to store photographs and correspondence. It might originally have been Lea's mother's, Tauba Mescherowsky. Lea and Mendel were living in Brussels when Germany invaded on May 10, 1940. After the Germans began large scale deportations of Jews in September 1942, they went into hiding under the false surname Abeloos. One month later, Lea had a son, Georges, who was hidden separately. Lea and Mendel sta...

  6. Hand sewn green skirt and matching jacket saved from Berlin and worn by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Anni Zajac Leist collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn514630
    • English
    • 1937
    • a: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 29.500 inches (74.93 cm) b: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 23.500 inches (59.69 cm)

    Dark green skirt suit worn by Anna Zajac that was being made by her mother Dora when she died of tuberculosis on January 5, 1938, in Berlin, Germany. Anna retrieved it after her mother's funeral and her sister Lydia finished the hem. She also had it altered to fit her better and wore it on Yom Kippur for the next several years. Anna, her parents Dora and Wolf, and 9 siblings were living in Berlin when, in 1933, the Nazi regime came to power. In 1935, her father, a tailor, was deported to his native Poland by the government in its efforts to cleanse Germany of Jews. In 1936, the children, ex...

  7. Crocheted tablecloth pattern in 4 pieces saved by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515879
    • English
    • a: Height: 9.375 inches (23.813 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) b: Height: 9.375 inches (23.813 cm) | Width: 12.625 inches (32.068 cm) c: Height: 9.375 inches (23.813 cm) | Width: 12.625 inches (32.068 cm) d: Height: 9.375 inches (23.813 cm) | Width: 12.625 inches (32.068 cm)

    Tablecloth pattern separated into 4 sections that belonged to Peter Victor, who lived as a Jewish refugee from Berlin to Shanghai, China, from 1938-1947. The collection includes the pattern for the tablecloth: 2004.524.15, which was made in Berlin and brought by Peter or his parents to Shanghai. Peter, age 18, left Germany to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government in 1938. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. With the aid of the American Joint Di...

  8. Blue velvet tallit pouch with an embroidered monogram owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    Navy blue velvet tallit bag that belonged to Peter Victor, who lived as a Jewish refugee from Berlin in Shanghai, China, from 1938-1947. The pouch originally belonged to his father, Carl Victor, whose initials are embroidered on one side. The bag was used to store a tallit, a prayer shawl worn by Jewish males for morning services. Peter, age 18, left Germany to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government in 1938. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died of tropical disease on Novmber 29, 1940, and Elsa on May 9, 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the Un...

  9. Laced leather billfold with a painted harbor owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    Decorated leather billfold acquired by Peter Victor when he lived as a refugee in Shanghai, China, from 1938-1947. The name of his wife, Berta Manis Victor, is inscribed inside the wallet. They met in the United States after Peter's emigration from Shanghai in December 1947, and married in 1951. Berta left Germany for the US in 1938. Peter, age 18, left Berlin for Shanghai in 1938 to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on Septe...

  10. NSDAP pin owned by a deaf Jewish refugee who fled to Shanghai

    1. Hans Praschkauer collection

    Nazi Party membership pin (Parteiabzeichen) acquired by Hans (Heinz) Praschkauer, a Jewish child who lost his hearing at a young age. All members of the Nazi Party wore these pins. They were typically worn on the lapels of their civilian clothing and some uniforms. Heinz Praschkauer was attending the School for the Hard of Hearing in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Soon thereafter, anti-Jewish decrees were passed that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. Following the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms, Heinz...

  11. NSDAP pin owned by a deaf Jewish refugee who fled to Shanghai

    1. Hans Praschkauer collection

    Nazi Party membership pin (Parteiabzeichen) acquired by Hans (Heinz) Praschkauer, a Jewish child who lost his hearing at a young age. All members of the Nazi Party wore these pins. They were typically worn on the lapels of their civilian clothing and some uniforms. Heinz Praschkauer was attending the School for the Hard of Hearing in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. Soon thereafter, anti-Jewish decrees were passed that restricted every aspect of Jewish life. Following the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms, Heinz...

  12. Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 50 cents, issued to a German Jewish couple

    1. Fred and Lola Sauerbrunn collection

    Scrip, valued at 50 cents, issued to Fred and Lola Sauerbrunn in Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany in 1945-1946. Before the war, the couple lived in Berlin, Germany. After Kristallnacht in November 1938, they sent their 16 year old daughter, Marion, by Kinderstransport to England. They remained in Berlin to care for Lola’s 82 year old father. In 1943, they were deported on one of the last transports to Theresienstadt concentration camp-ghetto. The Soviet Army freed the camp inmates on May 9, 1945. Fred and Lola were sent to Deggendorf. The family soon was reunited. Marion had joi...

  13. Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 10 dollars, issued to a German Jewish couple

    1. Fred and Lola Sauerbrunn collection

    Scrip, valued at 10 dollars, issued to Fred and Lola Sauerbrunn in Deggendorf displaced persons camp in Germany in 1945-1946. Before the war, the couple lived in Berlin, Germany. After Kristallnacht in November 1938, they sent their 16 year old daughter, Marion, by Kinderstransport to England. They remained in Berlin to care for Lola’s 82 year old father. In 1943, they were deported on one of the last transports to Theresienstadt concentration camp-ghetto. The Soviet Army freed the camp inmates on May 9, 1945. Fred and Lola were sent to Deggendorf. The family soon was reunited. Marion had j...

  14. Metal school supply box inscribed in Yiddish used by a Polish Jewish teenager

    1. Judith Weinstein collection

    Metal school supply box sent by the South Africa Jewish Wars Appeal to the Wels displaced persons (DP) camp in Austria, and received by teenager Judith Wagner while she was living there from 1947-1951. The box originally held crayons, scissors, thread and needles, and writing materials, which Judith viewed as luxuries. Judith grew up in Rudnik, Poland with her younger sister Charlotta, and their parents, Chana and Pinchos. In October 1939, a month after Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union, the Germans deported the Wagners, with all other Jews in Rudnik, to Soviet-occupied ter...

  15. Happy Holidays! American Joint Distribution Committee booklet on Hanukkah used by a Polish Jewish teenager

    1. Judith Weinstein collection

    Booklet on Hanukkah distributed by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in the Wels displaced persons (DP) camp in Austria, and received by teenager Judith Wagner while she was living there from 1947-1951. Judith grew up in Rudnik, Poland with her younger sister Charlotta, and their parents, Chana and Pinchos. In October 1939, a month after Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union, the Germans deported the Wagners, with all other Jews in Rudnik, to Soviet-occupied territory. Judith and her family refused to take Soviet citizenship, so they were exiled to Siberia....

  16. Handmade stationery folder brought with a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Anna Leist collection

    Handcrafted stationery portfolio given to Anna Zajac, 13, by her elder brother, Felix, in October 1938, after he was notified that he was being deported from Berlin, Germany, to Poland. Felix made the folder when he was 13 at summer camp circa 1935. Their father, Wolf, was deported in 1935. The nine siblings and their mother, Dora, were expected to join him. But Dora was ill with tuberculosis and, except for the two eldest, Felix and Samuel, the children were placed in the Ahawah orphanage in 1936. Dora died on January 5, 1938. Samuel then left for Poland. After Felix was deported, he and S...

  17. Weinberger family papers

    1. Gabriella Weinberger Neufeld family collection

    The papers consist of 14 photographs relating to the experiences of the Weinberger family in Hungary and Sweden during the Holocaust.

  18. David Glick's trip to WWI battle sites in France in the late 1920s

    EXT, VS of unidentified town in France, in the vicinity of Verdun, France. Horses and carts pass by, townspeople move about the streets. Three Americans (David Glick, his wife, and an unidentified woman) standing in front of a monument and memorial to the fallen in World War I. The monument is in a town square, children are visible playing in the BG. It is difficult to make out the inscription on the monument due to the poorly shot footage, but the year inscribed on one of the stone pillars is "1918". Camera pans this pillar from top to bottom, a wreath lies at the foot of the monument. Ano...

  19. French Deaf-Mute National Cup soccer medal awarded to a German Jewish athlete

    1. Max Feld and Rose Feld-Rosman collection

    FSSMF [La Fédération Sportive des Sourds-Muets de France (French Deaf Mute Sports Federation)] National Cup soccer medal awarded in 1938 to Max Feld. In 1938, he left Berlin for Paris to be with Raisa Steinberg, whom he had met when they were students at the Israelite School for the Deaf in Berlin. They married in 1939, and had a daughter, Esther, in 1940. Paris was occupied by the Germans in the summer of 1940 and foreign Jews were targeted for arrest. In May 1941, Max was sent to Beaune-la-Rolande interment camp; in July 1942, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Rais...

  20. French Deaf-Mute National Cup basketball medal awarded to a German Jewish athlete

    1. Max Feld and Rose Feld-Rosman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn44077
    • English
    • 1938
    • overall: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.900 inches (2.286 cm)

    National deaf-mute championship basketball medal awarded in 1938 to Max Feld. In 1938, he left Germany for Paris to be with Raisa Steinberg, whom he had met when they were students at the Israelite School for the Deaf in Berlin. They married in 1939, and had a daughter, Esther, in 1940. Paris was occupied by the Germans in the summer of 1940 and foreign Jews were targeted for arrest. In May 1941, Max was sent to Beaune-la-Rolande interment camp; in July 1942, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Raisa went into hiding with Esther in July 1942 in the countryside outside ...