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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Boxed Tisch-Tennis set with net, paddles, and 6 balls brought with a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Anneliese Centawer Marx family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn90823
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Depth: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Depth: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) c: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) d: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) e: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 38.000 inches (96.52 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) f-k: | Diameter: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) l: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm)

    Boxed Tisch-Tennis (Table Tennis) or ping pong set with net, 2 paddles, 6 balls, and instruction sheet brought with 8 year old Anneliese Centawer when she and her parents James and Recha fled Nazi Germany in July 1938. After Hitler and the Nazi regime's seizure of power in 1933, the Jewish population was subjected to increasingly harsh persecution. In 1936, Anneliese's family was forced to move from their home in Nuremberg when their block was declared Judenfrei (Free of Jews.) Anneliese was beaten up on the street by a Hitler Youth who accused the freckled, red haired girl of trying to pas...

  2. Mosheim and Marx families papers

    The Mosheim and Marx families papers measure 1.0 linear foot and date from 1914‐1952, 1988, 1994, and 1999. The collection contains biographical materials, correspondence files and translations, Inge Moss’s early life story, photographs, clippings, and research files documenting Herbert and Inge Moss’ immigrations to the United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened to them. Biographical materials document the education and immigration of Inge Marx and Herbert Mosheim. Materials inclu...

  3. Reinsch family papers

    Consists of legal, financial, taxation, construction, and restitution documents and correspondence related to the efforts of the Reinsch family, particularly Hannie Reinsch, to regain the property her family owned in Berlin and Leipzig prior to World War II. Includes some family documents regarding the pre-war lives of the family, including participation in World War I and the purchase of investment properties, which were confiscated before and after the family fled Europe. Also includes digital images of the family's pre-war, wartime, and post-war photograph albums. The vast majority of th...

  4. Łódź Ghetto grave marker for a Jewish woman recovered by her daughter

    Engraved marker for the grave of Chaja Gitla Fortunska recovered in Łódź, Poland, after the war by her daughter Alicja Dworzecka. On January 28, 1943, Chaja, 55, was buried in the Jewish cemetery in Łódź Ghetto, having passed away after unsuccessful intestinal surgery at the ghetto hospital. Chaja, husband Jankiel, children Dawid, Alicja, and Moniek, with their spouses, were residents of Łódź, which was occupied by Germany in September 1939. Many punitive restrictions were placed on the Jewish populace, including forced labor and confiscation of property. Jews were interned in a ghetto whic...

  5. Erwin Schattner family papers

    The Erwin Schattner family papers contain documents and correspondence related to the career of Dr. Erwin Schattner, a Polish-born physician in Vienna, his wife Ernestine, and their two daughters, Ruth and Hannah. Includes birth, education, residency, citizenship, academic, legal, and professional documents related to Erwin Schattner’s education and career in Austria, his emigration with his wife and daughters from Vienna to the United States in 1938-1940, his establishment as a physician in New York, and attempts to gain restitution in the 1960s. Also contains correspondence related to eff...

  6. Liberation: Germany; Czechoslovakia: Soviet and American Armies

    VS, high angle, woman in an overcoat walking down street; man in U.S. Army uniform holding a box, walking down street. Two separate shots of the woman walking. Cut to VS, pan of sky and clouds, for a brief moment a small plane is visible, flying low. Plane on an airstrip, the man in Army uniform seen earlier in a very LS walking on a concrete walkway between two buildings, presumably a U.S. Army base of some sort. Two airplanes are parked on the air strip. A group of boys and girls (4-6 years old) in FG, all dressed in red shorts and white shirts, walking hand in hand in an open field, tree...

  7. Lob family papers

    The collection primarily documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Marcel Pierre Lob, originally of Paris, Frace, including his arrest and deportation to Auschwitz II-Birkenau and return to Paris after liberation. It also includes documents related to the experiences of his wife Helene Lob (née Bybelezer), a survivor of Drancy, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen, and tracing documents regarding the Holocaust fates of his mother Lucie Levy Lob, sister Stephanie Carrance, her husband Ernest Carrance, and their daughter Jacqueline Carrance, all of who perished at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. ...

  8. Dina Ostrower photographs

    1. Dina Ostrower collection

    Collection of ten photographs depicting Josef Ostrower, Dina Pickholz's husband, as a student in the Jewish Gymnasium in Stryj, Poland in 1931 and images showing Dina Pickholtz and Josef Ostrower and friends in DP camps in Germany and Cyprus after the war.

  9. Rabbi Jacob G. Wiener papers

    1. Jacob G. Wiener collection

    Consists of pre and post-war documents, pamphlets, correspondence, and photographs of Jacob Wiener (born Gerd Zwienicki) and his family's experiences from 1936-1948. Included in this collection is his copy of a 1942 pamphlet on "Questions and Answers on Regulations Concerning Aliens of Enemy Nationalities" from the U.S. Department of Justice; Josef Zwienicki's (Jacob's father) 1916 driver's license; a 1948 marriage certificate issued to Gerd Zwienicki and Gertrud Farntrog (Jacob's wife); correspondence from Selma Stiefel Zwienicki (Jacob's mother), dated 1937-1938; correspondence from Jacob...

  10. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    1. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    Correspondence between Manfred and Anita Gans.

  11. Raus marchen der Bruder Grimm Children's book

    1. Ruth Mondschein Zimbler collection

    Child's book of fairy tales brought with Hella and Markus Mondschein when they left Vienna in fall 1939 to join their children, Ruth, 11, and Walter, 6, in the United States. Nazi Germany annexed Austria in March 1938. Anti-Jewish laws were immediately enacted. Markus was arrested on Kristallnacht, November 9-10, and sent to Dachau concentration camp. He was released on the condition that he leave the country. He arranged for Ruth and Walter to escape on the first Kindertransport [Children's Transport] to the Netherlands on December 10, 1938. The children later were sent to an aunt in the U...

  12. Goldmann family papers

    The Goldmann family papers consist of correspondence, biographical records, immigration documents, school notes and records, photographs, and military documents relating to Kurt Goldmann's prewar life in Germany, immigration to the United States in 1939, experience as a student at Pennsylvania State University, service in the United States Army during WWII, and his postwar life in the United States. Also included are documents related to Kurt’s parents, Paul and Hedwig (Hede) Goldmann, and their emigration from Germany to England and the United States, as well as prewar documents relating t...

  13. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers

    The Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers contain correspondence, identification documents, immigration documents, school certificates, photographs, and a photograph album relating to the Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families living in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) before and during World War II and the Holocaust. The correspondence centers on the emigration of Max and Irma Czerner from Prague to the United States with their infant son in 1939. The correspondence relates their efforts to secure visas and transportation for their young daughters, Helga and Raya Czerner...

  14. Wooden sculpture of a grieving woman made by a Lithuanian Jewish artist

    Wooden sculpture depicting a woman grieving over a loved one’s body carved by Jakovas Bunka to commemorate the Jews who were massacred in Plungė, Lithuania in 1941. In August 1940, Lithuania was annexed by the Soviet Union. On June 22, 1941, German forces invaded Soviet-occupied Lithuania, and Jakovas’ family fled east into the Soviet Union. Many Jews from Plungė were unable to flee, and within days local collaborators locked them all in the Great Synagogue with no food, water or fresh air. On Sunday, July 15, the Jews were marched to a forest where the adults were shot by drunken guards ...

  15. Leather coin purse with 3 pins, a Dutch coin, and a metal key carried by a young Jewish Austrian refugee to the US

    1. Doriane Kurz collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41715
    • English
    • a: Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Diameter: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Diameter: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) c: Height: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) d: Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) e: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) f: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Coin purse (a) with miniature life preserver pin (b), Sweden pin (c), Dutch coin (d), metal cameo pin (e), and metal key (f) carried by 10 year old Doriane Kurz when she emigrated from Sweden to the United States in July 1946. Doriane and her family fled Vienna, Austria, in early 1939 after the annexation with Nazi Germany the previous year. They went to the Netherlands which was occupied by Germany in May 1940. Her father, Meilach, was deported to Auschwitz death camp in August 1942. Doriane, her mother Klara, and her 7 year old brother, Alfred, were deported to Bergen Belsen concentration...

  16. Lola and Walter Kaufman papers

    1. Lola and Walter Kaufman collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Lola Kaufman (born Loncia Rein), originally of Czortkow, Poland (Chortkiv, Ukraine) and her husband Walter Kaufman, originally of Połaniec, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of pre-war and post-war family photographs, including depictions taken in the Eschwege displaced persons camp. Also included is a pre-war autograph book and several post-war songbooks used while Lola was in Eschwege.

  17. Gisela Zamora papers

    1. Gisela E. Zamora collection

    The papers consist of a copy of a document issued to Guiseppe (Joseph) Zamoire, husband of Gisela Zamora, stating that he was a prisoner in Auschwitz and a pass issued to Gisela Eckstein [donor] when she was returning from a concentration camp giving her permission to pass through the town of Zgorzelice (Görlitz), Germany, and cross the bridge in Friedberg, Germany, along with two men.

  18. Set of tefillin buried for safekeeping and recovered postwar

    1. Gisela E. Zamora collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515327
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)

    Pair of tefillin buried for safekeeping by Marcus and Josef Zamojre while living in hiding in Taglio-di-Po, Italy. The tefillin, which had belonged to Marcus, were recovered by Josef after the war. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. In December 1940, Josef and Marcus fled from Frankfurt in Nazi Germany, to Graz on the Austrian-Yugoslav border. After several failed attempts to cross the border, they reached Zagreb in March 1941. In April, Germany invaded Yugoslavia and, in July, Josef and Marcus escaped to Italian occupied Ljublj...

  19. Tefillin storage pouch buried for safekeeping and recovered postwar

    1. Gisela E. Zamora collection

    Tefillin storage bag buried for safekeeping by Marcus and Josef Zamojre while living in hiding in Taglio-di-Po, Italy. The pouch and tefillin, which had belonged to Marcus, were recovered by Josef after the war. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. In December 1940, Josef and Marcus fled from Frankfurt in Nazi Germany, to Graz on the Austrian-Yugoslavian border. After several failed attempts to cross the border, they arrived in Zagreb in March 1941. In April, Germany invaded Yugoslavia and, in July, Josef and Marcus escaped to Ita...

  20. Leather creaser with a pointed triangular head used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army

    1. Simon Gelbart collection

    Arrow shaped leather creasing tool used by Simon Gelbart, who was conscripted into the Soviet Army from 1943-1945 because of his shoemaking skills. Simon was a master shoemaker and kept his shoemaking kit with him all through the war. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Simon kept moving his family, his wife, Sara, and sons David, 9, and Haim, 5, east to escape persecution. Soon after they reached Soviet territory, the family was arrested and sent to Siberian Labor Camp #70, where a daughter was born. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, they were released. Due to...