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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Our Path March 1937 issue of Unser Weg owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré Die Pfadfinderzeitung

    1. John Honig collection

    March 1937 issue of the Boy Scout journal, Unser Weg, related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  2. Our Path February 1937 issue of Unser Weg owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré Die Pfadfinderzeitung

    1. John Honig collection

    February 1937 issue of the Boy Scout journal, Unser Weg, related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  3. Accordion ABC Akkordeon ABC book of accordion sheet music owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré Leicht verstandliche Schule fur Piano Akkordeon

    1. John Honig collection

    Akkordeon ABC book related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  4. Accordion and case owned by a Jewish Austrian émigré

    1. John Honig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn708164
    • English
    • a: Height: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Depth: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) c: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) | Depth: 15.500 inches (39.37 cm)

    Rauner accordion with case related to the Holocaust-era experiences of John Honig (born Gerhart Honig) and his parents Gertrude and Walter Honig, including their flight from Vienna, Austria to England in September 1938, their immigration to the United States in 1939, and John’s enlistment in the United States Army in 1943.

  5. Nazi propaganda: anti-Polish

    This feature film opens in the German village of Emilienthal in the Polish district of Luzk in March 1939 as Polish authorities close a German school to turn it into a military police post. The teacher Maria Thomas constantly complains to the Polish mayor. Other Germans are angry about higher taxes for ethnic Germans and growing expropriations of land and houses. Maria's husband refuses to sing the Polish anthem and he is beaten up by Polish thugs who are said to thrive for the 'annihilation of...German pigs'. He dies because the police and the hospitals refuse to help Germans at all. Maria...

  6. Friedl Wollmerstedt papers

    1. Friedl Herzfeld Wollmerstedt collection

    The bulk of the collection is composed of correspondence and documents relating to Friedl Herzfeld Wollmerstedt and her family's life in prewar Germany, her immigration to England, restitution matters and life in Germany after her return to Germany, from 1916 to 1975. The photograph album contains images from the Herzfeld family's life in Germany prior to World War II.

  7. Identification card

    This "National Registration Identity Card" for children under the age of 16 was issued to Zofia Tymejko [donor] after she emigrated to London, England.

  8. Pencil and ink drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting a skeletal Hitler atop an airplane

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical ink drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, depicting a skeleton with the face of Hitler entering the burning Cologne train station. It is part of a series of eight satirical drawings published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was printed in Cologne and distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hitl...

  9. Slap in the Face Drawing created by Karl Schwesig postwar depicting a beating he witnessed in a concentration camp

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Ink wash drawing created by Karl Schwesig in 1948 in Dusseldorf. The drawing depicts two guards beating a nude inmate in Noe internment camp in France, where Schwesig was held from February to March 1941. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, Schwesig, a Communist, was arrested and imprisoned for 16 months. After his release in 1935, he lived in Antwerp, Belgium. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. Schwesig was arrested and sent to Vichy France, where he was held in St. Cyprien, Gurs, Noe, and Nexon internment camps. In 1943, he was sent to Ulmer Hoeh prison in Dusseldorf, where...

  10. Drawing by Karl Schwesig satirizing the embrace of Fascism in France

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Drawing created by Karl Schwesig that was part of a series of 9 drawings entitled "Rosenmontag" representing early anti-Nazi satiric material. The image shows a Nazi military officer with arms outstretched standing on a platform (float?) with wheels beckoning to another man in formal attire and saying, "Komm in meine Liebeslauber." A cave labeled "I Solierzelle" and surrounded by tanks, guns, and soldiers is in the background. A sign to the left of the float says, "Heil Csar! Nieder Mit Uns Franzos."

  11. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Nazi followers as robots

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical ink drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, depicting a woman standing next to a robot and cannon. It is part of a series of eight satirical drawings published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was printed in Cologne and distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, ...

  12. Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig postwar of Jewish prisoners in a concentration camp

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Ink wash drawing created by Karl Schwesig in 1948 in Dusseldorf. The drawing depicts Jewish women from Baden in Noe internment camp in France, where Schwesig was held from February to March 1941. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, Schwesig, a Communist, was arrested and imprisoned for 16 months. After his release in 1935, he lived in Antwerp, Belgium. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. Schwesig was arrested and sent to Vichy France, where he was held in St. Cyprien, Gurs, Noe, and Nexon internment camps. In 1943, he was sent to Ulmer Hoeh prison in Dusseldorf, where he was l...

  13. Pity, that the boy is called David Pity the Young David Heisst Cartoon by Karl Schwesig of Nazi soldiers bowing to a part human/part animal puppet

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical ink drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, depicting Nazi soldiers bowing to a marionette caricature of the Duke of Windsor, formerly Edward VIII of Great Britain, whose given name was David. He abdicated the throne in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson. The couple accepted an invitation from Hitler's government and visited Nazi Germany in October 1937. It is from a series of eight political cartoons published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Mond...

  14. Do not make a Halifax Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Hitler greeting a British diplomat

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical ink drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, depicting Hitler kissing the hand of a British man in front of his home of Berchtesgaden. It is part of a series of eight satirical drawings published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was printed in Cologne and distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hit...

  15. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Nazi soldiers as pigs

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical ink drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, depicting Himmler measuring the udder of a cow with a milking machine. It is part of a series of eight satirical drawings published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was printed in Cologne and distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hitler came to power i...

  16. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting the subjugation of Yugoslavia to Nazi Germany

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical ink drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, depicting a man and three scantily clad women protesting the Slavs. It is part of a series of eight satirical drawings published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was printed in Cologne and distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hitler came to power in J...

  17. Food Distribution Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig with a scene of soldiers and inmates in a concentration camp

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Ink wash drawing created by Karl Schwesig in 1948 in Dusseldorf. The drawing depicts inmates receiving soup in Noe internment camp in France, where Schwesig was held from February to March 1941. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, Schwesig, a Communist, was arrested and imprisoned for 16 months. After his release in 1935, he lived in Antwerp, Belgium. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. Schwesig was arrested and sent to Vichy France, where he was held in St. Cyprien, Gurs, Noe, and Nexon internment camps. In 1943, he was sent to Ulmer Hoeh prison in Dusseldorf, where he was li...

  18. Axis-Ionary Karl Schwesig political cartoon mocking a Nazi parade

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, with caricatures of soldiers, a Nazi officer, and Nazi eagles on a parade float. It is part of a series of eight political cartoons published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer in Cologne was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hitler came to power in Janu...

  19. Work (Working) Etching by Karl Schwesig of 3 inmates at work under an armed guard in a prison camp

    1. Karl Schwesig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn513900
    • English
    • 1948-1949
    • overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 18.125 inches (46.038 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm)

    Etching created by Karl Schwesig between 1948 and 1949 in Dusseldorf. The drawing depicts three inmates missing limbs and is based on Schwesig’s experiences in internment camps in Vichy France. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, Schwesig, a Communist, was arrested and imprisoned for 16 months. After his release in 1935, he lived in Antwerp, Belgium. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. Schwesig was arrested and sent to Vichy France, where he was held in St. Cyprien, Gurs, Noe, and Nexon internment camps. In 1943, he was sent to Ulmer Hoeh prison in Dusseldorf, where he was lib...

  20. The Murdered is Guilty Satirical etching by Karl Schwesig showing men in academic robes saluting a corpse

    1. Karl Schwesig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn513907
    • English
    • 1949
    • overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 18.625 inches (47.308 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)

    Etching created by Karl Schwesig in 1949 in Dusseldorf, depicting six men and a military officer saluting over a corpse. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, Schwesig, a Communist, was arrested and imprisoned for 16 months. After his release in 1935, he lived in Antwerp, Belgium. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. Schwesig was arrested and sent to Vichy France, where he was held in St. Cyprien, Gurs, Noe, and Nexon internment camps. In 1943, he was sent to Ulmer Hoeh prison in Dusseldorf, where he was liberated by American forces in April 1945.