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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Yellow cloth armband printed Deutsche Wehrmacht

    1. Gerald Schwab collection

  2. Porcelain souvenir dish of the Marchenbrunnen owned by a young German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Ruth Dublon Grossmann collection

    Basket shaped porcelain souvenir dish owned by Rosa Dublon, who in 1936, at the age of 9, left Germany with her mother Erna and five year old sister Herta for the United States. The dish has a painted image of the Marchenbrunnen, or fairy tale fountain, located in Hofgarten park in Dusseldorf. After 1933, the Nazi dictatorship that now governed Germany increasingly persecuted Jewish residents. Rosa's parents Erna and Siegfried divorced in the mid-1930s and Erna and the girls moved to her hometown of Mertloch. Erna's sister Helen Lederer had lived in the United States since at least 1930. Sh...

  3. Brass knuckles acquired by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Walter Fried collection

    gray metal knucklebusters taken by Walter Fried, a US Army interrogator, from a Gestapo officer in the SS criminal police division whom he was interviewing. Walter, 25, and his family, who were Jewish, fled Austria shortly after it was annexed by Germany in March 1938 for America. Walter joined the Army in November 1943 and deployed with the 243rd Combat Engineer Battalion. In April 1945, Walter was transferred to the Counterintelligence Corps to be a translator. After Germany surrendered on May 7, Walter was transferred to War Crimes Investigating Team, Judge Advocate Section as a translat...

  4. German State criminal police warrant disc acquired by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Walter Fried collection

    Staatliche Kriminalpolizei [State Criminal police] bronze warrant disc [dienstmarken], ID number 1978, taken by Walter Fried, a US Army interrogator, from a Gestapo officer in the SS criminal police division whom he was interrogating. After Himmler centralized the police forces in the mid-1930s, this was the official identification badge, stamped with the individual officer's number. The badge had the authority of a warrant and once displayed during an arrest, investigation, or search, it ensured compliance. Walter, 25, and his family, who were Jewish, fled Austria for America shortly after...

  5. Warsaw and Danzig, Poland, destruction and rebuilding circa 1946

    Bombed out multi-story YMCA building in Warsaw, Poland. Several workers chip away at the concrete structure, others collect and stack bricks from the rubble. Another worker examines window frames for damage. (This footage likely dates to 1946 - see notes section for further information). MS, low angle, a man and a woman walk down a bombed out street in Warsaw, toward the camera, snow covers the ground. VS of the destruction in the city, civilians mill about the streets, with torn, threadbare clothing, there are some Polish military personnel in these shots as well. Poles board a street car,...

  6. Silver souvenir spoon with the Bonn coat of arms with a fitted box owned by a young German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Ruth Dublon Grossmann collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn88136
    • English
    • a: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) b: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)

    Small souvenir spoon with a painted coat of arms and fitted box owned by Rosa Dublon, who in 1936, at the age of 9, left Germany with her mother Erna and five year old sister Herta for the United States. After 1933, the Nazi dictatorship that now governed Germany increasingly persecuted Jewish residents. Rosa's parents Erna and Siegfried divorced in the mid-1930s and Erna and the girls moved to her hometown of Mertloch. Erna's sister Helen Lederer had lived in the United States since at least 1930. She sponsored their 1936 emigration to New York to live with her in Queens. Helen also sponso...

  7. Salomon Berenholc papers

    The Salomon Berenholc papers concern Salomon Berenholc, a young French Jew who was arrested with his family after fleeing France and illegally crossing the border into Spain in 1942. After a brief internment in a Spanish prison, the family was released and ultimately immigrated to the United States in 1943 by way of Lisbon, Portugal. These papers are comprised of a diary Salomon kept during his efforts to flee France between 1942 and 1943 and documents from the post-war era regarding his and his brother, Victor’s education. The diary details their journey and the conditions of Salomon's cel...

  8. Fonds Joseph Gottfarstein (MDXL)

    Documents pertaining to the history of Joseph Gottfarstein family, include letters, writings, translations, correspondence, cards, workbooks, literary and scientific texts, and photographs.

  9. Prisoner identification tag stamped 85375 with leather band worn by a Polish Jewish inmate in several concentration camps

    1. Ludwika and Moses Myers collection

    Identification tag stamped KLM / 85375 / P issued to Moses Majerczyk at Mauthausen concentration camp and worn in Melk and Ebensee concentration camps from August 1944 to May 1945. He was required to wear the tag around his wrist and it is taped to a wrist watch band. On September 1, 1939, Germany occupied Poland. In January 1942, Moses was taken to the Krakow ghetto. In September, he was one of the first prisoners transferred to Płaszów forced-labor camp to build the facilities. On August 8, 1944, he was transferred to Mauthausen concentration camp, where he was assigned prisoner number 85...

  10. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 158831 owned by former inmate

    1. Arthur R. List collection

    Red inverted triangle badge imprinted with KL Dachau and prisoner number 158831 acquired by Arthur List at an unknown date. Arthur, 22, (then Adolf Lustgarten) was liberated in April 1945 while an inmate at Dachau with the prisoner number 159831. The badge resembles the patches prisoners had to wear on their uniforms. In September 1939, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. Around 1941-42, Adolf was picked up off the streets in Wadowice to do forced labor. He was eventually sent to Gross Rosen concentration camp and then to slave labor subcamps. Circa 1943 or later, he was transferred to Flo...

  11. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 85173 owned by former inmate

    1. Arthur R. List collection

    Red inverted triangle badge imprinted with KL Dachau and prisoner number 85173 acquired by Arthur List at an unknown date. Arthur, 22, (then Adolf Lustgarten) was liberated in April 1945 while an inmate at Dachau with the prisoner number 159831. The badge resembles the patches prisoners had to wear on their uniforms. In September 1939, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. Around 1941-42, Adolf was picked up off the streets in Wadowice to do forced labor. He was eventually sent to Gross Rosen concentration camp and then to slave labor subcamps. Circa 1943 or later, he was transferred to Flos...

  12. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 83918 owned by former camp inmate

    1. Arthur R. List collection

    Red inverted triangle badge imprinted with KL Dachau, prisoner number 83918, and a Star of David acquired by Arthur List at an unknown date. Arthur, 22, (then Adolf Lustgarten) was liberated in April 1945 while an inmate at Dachau with the prisoner number 159831. The badge resembles the patches prisoners had to wear on their uniforms. In September 1939, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. Around 1941-42, Adolf was picked up off the streets in Wadowice to do forced labor. He was eventually sent to Gross Rosen concentration camp and then to slave labor subcamps. Circa 1943 or later, he was t...

  13. Commemorative red triangle Auschwitz badge 140239 owned by former camp inmate

    1. Arthur R. List collection

    Red inverted triangle badge imprinted with a Star of David, KL Auschwitz and prisoner number 140239 acquired by Arthur List at an unknown date. Arthur, 22, (then Adolf Lustgarten) was liberated in April 1945 while an inmate at Dachau with the prisoner number 159831. The badge resembles the patches prisoners had to wear on their uniforms. In September 1939, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. Around 1941-42, Adolf was picked up off the streets in Wadowice to do forced labor. He was eventually sent to Gross Rosen concentration camp and then to slave labor subcamps. Circa 1943 or later, he wa...

  14. Commemorative red triangle Dachau badge 158831 owned by former inmate

    1. Arthur R. List collection

    Red inverted triangle badge imprinted with KL Dachau and prisoner number 158831 acquired by Arthur List at an unknown date. Arthur, 22, (then Adolf Lustgarten) was liberated in April 1945 while an inmate at Dachau with the prisoner number 159831. The badge resembles the patches prisoners had to wear on their uniforms. In September 1939, Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany. Around 1941-42, Adolf was picked up off the streets in Wadowice to do forced labor. He was eventually sent to Gross Rosen concentration camp and then to slave labor subcamps. Circa 1943 or later, he was transferred to Flo...

  15. Black Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Folding citizenship certificate case that belonged to Dr. Leo Nast, a chemical engineer, who left Hamburg, Germany, for the United States in July 1934. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Leo had long opposed the politics of Hitler and the Nazi Party and Leo and his wife Bertha decided to leave Germany. Their immigration was sponsored by the Catalin Corporation, a plastics company that employed Leo after his arrival in the US. The Nazi dictatorship enacted anti-Jewish laws and the persecution of Jews grew increasingly harsh. In 1939, Leo arranged for his mother, Frederica, t...

  16. Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to German Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Folding citizenship certificate case that belonged to Dr. Leo Nast, a chemical engineer, who left Hamburg, Germany, for the United States in July 1934. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Leo had long opposed the politics of Hitler and the Nazi Party and Leo and his wife Bertha decided to leave Germany. Their immigration was sponsored by the Catalin Corporation, a plastics company that employed Leo after his arrival in the US. The Nazi dictatorship enacted anti-Jewish laws and the persecution of Jews grew increasingly harsh. In 1939, Leo arranged for his mother, Frederica, t...

  17. Jewish community in Wrocław Synagogen Gemeinde zu Breslau Gmina Żydowska we Wrocławiu (Sygn.105)

    Contains records of the Jewish Community in Wrocław from 1796-1944 (Gmina Żydowska we Wrocławiu). Includes Board minutes,1922-1939; Board correspondence with offices,1796-1939, communities and Jewish associations as well as private individuals, including correspondence concerning the protection of refugees from Russia, Romania, Galicia, the Grand Duchy of Poland, 1867-1874, 1892-1907, 1914-1930; documentation on preparations to the Third Convention of the Association of German Jews in 1909, the District Association of Jewish Communities in Prussia in Breslau,1926-1933; correspondence with t...

  18. Hermann Göring's Nuremberg war crimes trial headphones

    1. IBM Corporation collection

    Headset used by Hermann Göring during the Nuremberg war crimes trials.

  19. Otto Herskovic memoir and papers

    Diary, handwritten, composed by Otto Herskovic, at the age of 15, immediately following the end of World War II. In it, he recounts his family's experiences during the German invasion of Belgium, his family's flight to southern France, and the experiences of him and his sister while at an O.S.E.-administered children's home, and later, as part of a convoy of children who were sent to the United States via North Africa in July 1942 with the help of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children (USCOM). Included are hand-drawn maps of places referenced in the diary, photograph...

  20. Stripounsky family papers

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    The Stripounsky family papers consist of identification, education, immigration, and military papers, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting the flight of Menachem (Nathan) and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel from Nazi-occupied Belgium to France in 1940 and from France to the United States in 1941 and Joseph Strip’s military service in 1945 and 1946. Biographical materials consist of identification papers, student records, ration cards, military records, employment records, citizenship records, and immigration records documenting the Str...