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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Etching by Karl Schwesig showing a fellow prisoner writing in a concentration camp

    1. Karl Schwesig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn513906
    • English
    • 1948-1949
    • overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 18.250 inches (46.355 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 five inmates writing, three of whom are missing a limb, 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 ...

  2. Fieldwork Ink drawing by Karl Schwesig showing one legged inmates working in a field in a concentration camp

    1. Karl Schwesig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn513905
    • 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 four inmates working in a field, three of whom are missing a leg, 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 ...

  3. To Work Etching by Karl Schwesig showing one legged inmates going to work in a concentration camp

    1. Karl Schwesig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn513904
    • English
    • 1948-1949
    • overall: Height: 17.625 inches (44.768 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.625 inches (26.988 cm) | Width: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm)

    Etching created by Karl Schwesig between 1948 and 1949 in Dusseldorf. The drawing depicts two inmates missing legs 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 libera...

  4. Etching by Karl Schwesig showing inmates bartering bread and cigarettes in a concentration camp

    1. Karl Schwesig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn513903
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.625 inches (26.988 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)

    Etching created by Karl Schwesig between 1948 and 1949 in Dusseldorf. The drawing depicts an inmate trading cigarettes for bread with a civilian 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 D...

  5. In Camp Noé (Old Couple Talking) Drawing created by Karl Schwesig postwar based upon his experiences as a political prisoner

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Ink wash drawing created by Karl Schwesig in 1948 in Dusseldorf. The drawing depicts people 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 liberated by Ameri...

  6. Hospital in Camp Noe Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig postwar based on his experiences in an internment camp

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Ink wash drawing created by Karl Schwesig in 1948 in Dusseldorf. The drawing depicts the hospital 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 liberated by...

  7. Caricature of a Jewish man in a top hat with exaggerated facial features

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Small, color print with a crudely exaggerated caricature of a Jewish schnorrer. The print may be a trade card, an illustrated advertising card distributed by businesses to promote their goods or services. The cards often featured colorful and vivid images designed to attract consumer’s attention. However, some images played on popular prejudices and stereotypes of Native Americans, Near and Far Eastern cultures, and Jewish minorities. A widely held antisemitic stereotype of the time was the schnorrer, a Judeo-German term for a Jewish beggar. During the Chmielnicki pogroms in Poland (1648-57...

  8. Rabbi’s Speech Front page of a Polish magazine with a caricature of a Rabbi

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Cover of a Polish humor magazine, Zagłoba, with a satirical caricature and commentary on Jews as foreigners. Their foreignness is emphasized by not speaking Polish or Russian. An article on the reverse page claims that Jews often speak about their plans to gain wealth and power. The double-sided sheet is from the October 4, 1919 edition of Zagłoba, edited by Wacław Jeziorowski, who was also the editor of the periodical, Muchy. Zagłoba shares its name with Jan Onufry Zagłoba, a patriotic character from the popular 19th-century Polish series, The Trilogy. Satirical humor magazines were popula...

  9. Béla Ingber family papers

    The collection consists of correspondence and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Béla Ingber, originally from Munkács, Hungary (now Mukacheve, Ukraine) as a forced-laborer in Hungary during World War II and as a Jewish refugee in Italy from 1945-1947. Correspondence includes postcards to Béla while he was a forced-laborer from his father Kálmán Ingber in Munkács, and post-war letters from his brothers Jóska, Miki, and Oli and his sister Libu. Photographs include depictions of pre-war family life, Béla and his brothers in the Czech Army, Béla as a forced-laborer in Hung...

  10. Canetti family photographs

    The collection primarily consists of photographs depicting Regine Canetti, her parents Albert and Rachelle Canetti, and siblings Denise, and Maurice before the war in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. Also included are depictions of Albert in Israel, 1956, Regine at her graduation ceremony of Notre Dame de Sion school in 1940, and Regine wearing her nun's religious habit after joining the Sisters of Zion in Israel.

  11. Eva Rindner papers

    The collection consists of documents, a personal narrative, and photographs primarily documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Eva Rindner (née Schultzmann) and her mother Lola Blonder (previously Lola Zipser and Lola Schutzmann), including Eva’s treatment for tuberculosis as a child, her father’s death in 1937, and the family’s emigration from Vienna, Austria to Haifa, Palestine (Haifa, Israel) in 1938. Included are documents related to Lola’s work as a volunteer nurse during World War I, financial documents, and letters. The letters were addressed to Eva from her parents, and were rec...

  12. Chaim Melamed papers

    The Chaim Melamed papers consists of postcards, correspondence, and photographs relating to the Melamed family before, during, and after World War II in Łódź, Poland, and Hannover, Germany. Pictured in the photographs are Chaim Melamed, Maryla Melamed, Peretz Lipka, Dawid Lipka, Isuchor Melamed and Fajga Melamed.

  13. Bella and Hermann Zucker papers

    The Bella and Hermann Zucker papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, a Piaski property file, and restitution files documenting the lives of a Polish couple from Serock and Piaski, Bella Zucker’s experiences hiding under a false identity in Germany, and the couple’s experiences as displaced persons in Germany after the war, abandoned plans to open a bakery in Israel, and unsuccessful attempts to receive restitution. Biographical materials include identification and registration papers for Bella and Hermann Zucker, including the papers Bella Zucker used under her false ident...

  14. Lichtenstein family photograph collection

    1. Israel Lichtenstein collection

    The collections consists of seven photographs documenting the experiences of Israel Lichtenstein and his family in the Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp and at the Masgelier children's home in France during the Holocaust.

  15. Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien - Wiener Bestand Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna-Vienna component collection

    Contains the Holocaust related archival records of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community Vienna), including material predating the annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany in 1938, and post war records related to social welfare cases and personal inquiries from survivors worldwide received by the Jewish Community Vienna, Cataloging is in process (Sept. 2020)

  16. The World Jewish Congress New York office records. Series B (Political Department)

    Contains records of the Political Department represented the WJC with governments and international organizations such as the United Nations, the Organization of American States, and the Council of Europe. Records relate to the departmental activities reflected antisemitism, human rights, migration, minorities, genocide, statelessness, prosecution of war crimes, relations between Christians and Jews, peace and disarmament, reparations, the situation of Jews in specific countries (notably the USSR and North Africa). Contains also papers of three persons: Maurice L. Perlzweig, Robert S. Marcu...

  17. Lewis Shabasson collection

    The photograph collection documents the prewar lives of Lewis Shabasson (born Levi Szabason) and his family in Kozienice, Poland; wartime life in the Kozienice ghetto; and postwar life in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp and Munich, Germany. The collection also documents the prewar and postwar lives of Lewis’s wife, Lifcia Najman, and her family, originally from Radom, Poland, and her relatives in the Birenbaum family.

  18. The World Jewish Congress New York Office. Series D. Relief and Rescue Department

    Contains records relating to social relief and rescue activities, location of survivors, immigration and migration, refugees, displaced persons, extermination of Jews, reaction to Hitler's Final Solution, and relations with international relief organization including the UNRAA and Red Cross. Seven sub-series of World Jewish Congress New York Office records, Series D contains the following files: 1. Executive files, 1939-1969: The majority of the material deals with applications and affidavits for individual immigration cases; 2. Immigration Division, 1940-1953: Includes correspondence and r...

  19. Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien - Jerusalemer Bestand Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna-Jerusalem component collection

    Contains the Holocaust related archival records of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community Vienna), including reports, letters, emigration and financial documents, deportation lists, card files, books, photographs, maps, and charts detailing the final years of the once-largest German-speaking Jewish community in Europe. The current part of the collection, microfilm reels 960-1231, contains emigration questionnaires.

  20. Klara Salamon papers

    The Klara Salamon papers comprised documents created primarily by Salamon while she was held in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from 1943-1945. These papers include a diary made of toilet paper sewn together by Salamon, as well as notes and a birthday card passed between her and a friend, Nina, while both were interned in the camp. In her diary, Klara muses, in four different languages, about her friends and a particular boy named Alek in an adjacent camp whom she was attracted to. During her internment, Klara wrote love notes to Alek, which she passed to him through a friend. Ultimate...