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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. German siege of Warsaw, Poland 1939

    Dead woman with a basket over her head. MS, two women and one man approach this woman's body when she is still laying face down in the dirt, they roll her over, she is now lying face up, the basket is next to her head (I don't believe it has been placed over her head yet), and then they walk on. The man looks back at the camera a few times after passing the dead woman's body. Cut to MS, three women in the field digging for potatoes, CU of an injured woman. Cut to MS, refugees of the bombing teaming around their destroyed neighborhood, the site seems to be the former cemetery that is also me...

  2. Cremona civilian internment scrip, 0.50 lire note, stamped with a Star of David

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Scrip, valued at 0.50 Lire, distributed in Cremona concentration camp in Cremona, Italy. Under German pressure, Italian fascists passed antisemitic legislation in 1938, and later established domestic concentration camps for military and civilian internees. However, the Italian authorities resisted participating in the mass murder and did not permit deportations of Jews from Italy. Although the camps were called Campi Di Concetramento (Concentration Camps) the conditions and treatment of their internees were equivalent to prisoner of war (POW) camps for military and civilians. Prisoners, inc...

  3. Cremona civilian internment scrip, 1 lire note, stamped with a Star of David

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Scrip, valued at 1 Lire, distributed in Cremona concentration camp in Cremona, Italy. Under German pressure, Italian fascists passed antisemitic legislation in 1938, and later established domestic concentration camps for military and civilian internees. However, the Italian authorities resisted participating in the mass murder and did not permit deportations of Jews from Italy. Although the camps were called Campi Di Concetramento (Concentration Camps) the conditions and treatment of their internees were equivalent to prisoner of war (POW) camps for military and civilians. Prisoners, includ...

  4. Cremona civilian internment scrip, 2 lire note, stamped with a Star of David

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Scrip, valued at 2 Lire, distributed in Cremona concentration camp in Cremona, Italy. Under German pressure, Italian fascists passed antisemitic legislation in 1938, and later established domestic concentration camps for military and civilian internees. However, the Italian authorities resisted participating in the mass murder and did not permit deportations of Jews from Italy. Although the camps were called Campi Di Concetramento (Concentration Camps) the conditions and treatment of their internees were equivalent to prisoner of war (POW) camps for military and civilians. Prisoners, includ...

  5. Cremona civilian internment scrip, 5 lire note, stamped with a Star of David

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Scrip, valued at 5 Lire, distributed in Cremona concentration camp in Cremona, Italy. Under German pressure, Italian fascists passed antisemitic legislation in 1938, and later established domestic concentration camps for military and civilian internees. However, the Italian authorities resisted participating in the mass murder and did not permit deportations of Jews from Italy. Although the camps were called Campi Di Concetramento (Concentration Camps) the conditions and treatment of their internees were equivalent to prisoner of war (POW) camps for military and civilians. Prisoners, includ...

  6. Cremona civilian internment scrip, 10 lire note, stamped with a Star of David

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Scrip, valued at 10 Lire, distributed in Cremona concentration camp in Cremona, Italy. Under German pressure, Italian fascists passed antisemitic legislation in 1938, and later established domestic concentration camps for military and civilian internees. However, the Italian authorities resisted participating in the mass murder and did not permit deportations of Jews from Italy. Although the camps were called Campi Di Concetramento (Concentration Camps) the conditions and treatment of their internees were equivalent to prisoner of war (POW) camps for military and civilians. Prisoners, inclu...

  7. Cremona civilian internment scrip, 20 lire note, stamped with a Star of David

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Scrip, valued at 20 Lire, distributed in Cremona concentration camp in Cremona, Italy. Under German pressure, Italian fascists passed antisemitic legislation in 1938, and later established domestic concentration camps for military and civilian internees. However, the Italian authorities resisted participating in the mass murder and did not permit deportations of Jews from Italy. Although the camps were called Campi Di Concetramento (Concentration Camps) the conditions and treatment of their internees were equivalent to prisoner of war (POW) camps for military and civilians. Prisoners, inclu...

  8. Cremona civilian internment scrip, 50 lire note, stamped with a Star of David

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Scrip, valued at 50 Lire, distributed in Cremona concentration camp in Cremona, Italy. Under German pressure, Italian fascists passed antisemitic legislation in 1938, and later established domestic concentration camps for military and civilian internees. However, the Italian authorities resisted participating in the mass murder and did not permit deportations of Jews from Italy. Although the camps were called Campi Di Concetramento (Concentration Camps) the conditions and treatment of their internees were equivalent to prisoner of war (POW) camps for military and civilians. Prisoners, inclu...

  9. Emigration of Jewish displaced persons to Palestine

    Consists of copies of reports and memoranda relating to the emigration of Jewish displaced persons from the British Zone in Germany to Palestine. Included is information about the emigration of orphans during operation "Grand National Junior," the emigration of Jewish displaced persons during operation "Journey's End," emigration restrictions on Jewish men of military age, and the acquisition of exit permits for the British Zone and entry visas for Palestine.

  10. Lucien Dreyfus papers

    The Lucien Dreyfus papers primarily consist of five parts of a seven-part diary written by Lucien Dreyfus from 1940 to 1943. An intelligent and discerning man, Lucien used his diary to document his intellectual and social life as a refugee in the south of France, his observations on the rise of antisemitic laws and violence, his cardiac condition, his daughter’s family and their emigration to the United States, and his efforts to retrieve his confiscated property. The diary includes information about Lucien’s students, his opinions about the limited utility of assimilation in fighting antis...

  11. Ajlkichen and Fleichaker families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Ajlkichen family of Brussels, Belgium, including the efforts of Kiwa Ajlkichen and his wife, Tcharna Fleichaker, to hide their children Roza and François, and the deportation of their daughter, Dora, in 1942 and her murder at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Documents include identification papers, a Polish passport, correspondence, a family book, a personal narrative describing Roza’s experiences, and material related to the family’s effort to learn the fate of Dora. Photographs include prewar family photographs of the Ajlkiche...

  12. Ann Benjamin Goldberg papers

    The collection consists of a health card, certificate issued in Bremen, Germany, and photographs depicting Ann Benjamin Goldberg's family in Dyatlovo, Poland (Dzi︠a︡tlava, Belarus) before the Holocaust, her time as a student in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, and her stay and work as a nurse in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II. Additional photographs depict visits to the Föhrenwald and Eschwege displaced persons camps.

  13. Ruth Gellis photographs

    Pre-war photographs depict Ruth Gellis (born Ruth Wuhl) and her parents, Joel and Clara Wuhl, before they fled Germany and were later forced into hiding in France. The photographs also document Ruth and her friends she met while in France, including Clara Meletz.

  14. Collection of the Union Général des Israélites de France (UGIF) (22 P 3065-3078)

    Consits of an alphabetical card file listing names of Jews deported from France.. The collection was reconstituted from dispersed documents in individual name files used to support claims in the SHD Archives in Caen. Originally, it was a card file transmitted to the French Ministry of Veterans’ Affairs after WW II to provide information on deported Jewish victims. Since the documents in the individual files are no longer in use to back individual claims by survivors or their heirs against the Nazi regime or the Vichy government, it was decided that the Union Général des Israélites de France...

  15. Mania and Martin Novak papers

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Mania and Martin Novak including their marriage in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp and their immigration to the United States in 1946. Included is their marriage certificate from Zeilsheim DP camp, their certificates of identity in lieu of passports, naturalization certificates, and leather naturalization certificate holders. Also included are photographs of Mania and Martin displaying the concentration camp number tattoos on their arms and a depiction of Martin’s family by a tombstone. Identified in the photograph are Anja, Gershon,...

  16. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich papers Nachlass Prof. Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007)

    Private papers of Prof. Dr. Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007), a Swiss Jewish religious philosopher. Consists of certificates, photographs, family history, school and studies history, reports, refugee files, documents regarding reparation and inheritance, prizes and honors, articles for books and magazines, press articles, letters to the editor, radio and television articles, teaching material, and correspondence, e.g. with Leo Baeck, Peter Nathan Levinson, Gertrud Luckner, Franz Mussner, Rolf Rendtorff, Julius Schoeps, Albert Speer, Herbert Strauss; correspondence between the Christian-Jewi...

  17. Crkveno-śkolska everejska opśtina, Beograd Jewish Synagogue and school community in Belgrade Jüdische Synagogen-Ausbildung, Gemeinde Belgrad (Fond 1429)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Contains bylaws, minutes, lists of members of the Jewish community of Belgrade, correspondence with Jewish charitable societies and with various individuals on the construction of buildings, on establishing Jewish schools, shelters, and choir, on raising funds for the community fund, and on providing material aid to community members in need; birth registers and marriage contracts (1866-1940); a resolution on the payment of pensions to community employees; contracts with various firms and private individuals regarding the purchase of equipment and the leasing of buildings; lists of persons ...

  18. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. European Executive Bureau in Paris, France (Fond 722)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Consist of records of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. European Executive Bureau in Paris: an organization statute, registration forms, files of the New York office; correspondence with branches in Riga, Budapest, Warsaw, and other European cities; and the Red Cross. Includes correspondence on visas and aid for emigrants, on the arrest of JDC official Isaac Gitterman, funding the evacuation of the Executive Committee from Paris to Bordeaux, and plans for refugee settlement in Haiti and South America. Other documents include cables on the hardships of Jews in Warsaw, a repor...

  19. I'm An American -- Rabbi Stephen Wise

    1. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

    On December 8, 1940 Rabbi Stephen Wise spoke with Marshall E. Dimock, Second Assistant Secretary of Labor, about America being a safe haven for freedom loving people who have been displaced by their native country. Rabbi Wise tells Mr. Dimock he doesn’t believe birthplace makes someone an American. He believes common faith and ways of thinking are the secret to American unity. Rabbi Wise refers to the “new American” as a true patriot with the pioneering spirit of America’s forefathers. He shares his thoughts on the struggles democracy faces in the world. He suggests the current world crisis...

  20. Cremona concentration camp scrip, 1 Lire note with a Star of David stamp

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Scrip, valued at 1 Lire, distributed in Cremona concentration camp in Cremona, Italy. Under German pressure, Italian fascists passed antisemitic legislation in 1938, and later established domestic concentration camps for military and civilian internees. However, the Italian authorities resisted participating in the mass murder and did not permit deportations of Jews from Italy. Although the camps were called Campi Di Concetramento (Concentration Camps) the conditions and treatment of their internees were equivalent to prisoner of war (POW) camps for military and civilians. Prisoners, includ...