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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Pair of leather slippers received from Oskar Schindler by a Jewish Polish worker

    1. Sam Klasner collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516672
    • English
    • a: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) b: Height: 10.375 inches (26.353 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Pair of leather slipon shoes given to Sam Klasner by Oskar Schindler from a store of Red Cross supplies shortly before liberation. From October 1944-May 1945, Sam worked at the armament factory owned by Schindler in Brunnlitz (Brnenec) in German occupied Czechoslovakia as a subcamp of Gross Rosen concentration camp. Schindler protected his workers from deportation, kept German camp personnel out of the camp, and did his best to provide food, although shortages were severe. In October 1944, when Schindler moved his factory from Płaszów to Brunnlitz, his workers were processed at Gross Rosen....

  2. Sailboat shaped picture frame with a red sail created for a labor camp inmate by a fellow inmate

    1. Leah Derera collection

    Picture frame in the shape of a sailboat made for 25 year old Leia Kreimer in 1944 when she was imprisoned in Vapniarka concentration camp in Transnistria. It was made by Lazar, who had been a fellow inmate, in Rabnita prison as a gift for Leia. It has a red sail to represent communism. He had it smuggled to her with other inmates released from jail and sent back to Vapniarka. The inmates in Rabnita were forced to make sailing type items that were then sold. Lazar was executed in Rabnita. In mid-1941, the Fascist, antisemitic government of Romania sent Leia and her husband, Mechel, to Dorne...

  3. Handcrafted miniature book of poetry created for a labor camp inmate by a fellow inmate

    1. Leah Derera collection

    Tiny leather book made for 24 year old Leia Kreimer in 1943 when she was imprisoned in Vapniarka concentration camp in Transnistria. It is dedicated to Leia by Sender, a fellow prisoner and poet whom Leia cared for before he died of tuberculosis on December 13, 1943. It has several pages of Ionesco influenced poetry. In mid-1941, the Fascist, antisemitic government of Romania sent Leia and her husband, Mechel, to Dornesti prison camp, where they were separated. In summer 1941, Leia was sent to a Jewish refugee camp in Zaleszczyki, Poland. In July 1942, she was deported to Swidowa labor camp...

  4. Plaid handkerchief monogrammed HG given by Hermann Goering to an American guard at Nuremberg

    1. Herbert C. Durkee collection

    Handkerchief embroidered HG and given by Hermann Goering to Herbert C. Durkee, an American guard at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, between August 1945 and January 1946. Herbert guarded Goering and helped him control his drug dependency to paracodeine. Goering gave Durkee the handkerchief, one of his last personal possessions, in appreciation of Durkee’s kindness. During the war, 2nd Lt. Durkee was a platoon officer in a field artillery unit and fought in France. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. In August, 1st Lt. Durkee was transferred to se...

  5. Postcard with New Year's wishes and a drawing of a barracks sent from Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp

    1. Israel Lichtenstein collection

    Postcard sent by Menachem Mendel Lichtenstein to his family wishing BONNE ANNÉE 1942 [Happy New Year] with a drawing of his barracks at the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp in France. Menachem was imprisoned there from 1941-1942. When France declared war on Germany in 1939, Menachem volunteered for the French Army. Demobilized when France surrendered in May 1940, he returned to Paris, where he was arrested on May 14, 1941. He was sent to Beaune-la-Rolande, then to Auschwitz death camp on June 27, 1942, where he was killed. His 10 year old son, Israel, was sheltered through the early war ye...

  6. Uri Orlev photograph collection

    1. Uri Orlev collection

    The collection consists of two photographs of Uri Orlev (born Jurek Henryk Orlowski) depicting him pre-war in Poland and post-war in Palestine.

  7. Jerzy Ogurek papers

    1. George Ogurek Zimmerman family collection

    The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Jerzy Ogurek, originally of Katowice, Poland, and his family during the Holocaust.

  8. Set of tefillin buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35052
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm)

    Tefillin pair buried for safekeeping by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. They were used by her husband Bernhard who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. Tefillin are small boxes that contain prayers that are attached to leather straps and worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Johanna brought the tefillin with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and by 1942 there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewi...

  9. Pouch and medical instruments used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523813
    • English
    • 1938-1949
    • a: Height: 17.750 inches (45.085 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) b: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm) c: Height: 5.635 inches (14.313 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) d: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) e: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) g: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) h: Height: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) i: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)

    Medical kit and contents used by Alice Redlich while she served as a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former concentration camp in Germany after the war. The British Army liberated Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, and it then became a DP camp. Alice and her family were German Jews living in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship. In 1938, 18 year old Alice left for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, she left for the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp to care for childr...

  10. UNRRA embroidered patch worn by a survivor and DP camp relief worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Circular, red, UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) patch worn by Hans Finke (later John Fink) when he worked for the organization as a store manager in a refugee center in Germany from 1946-47. Hans was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen when it was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945. An electrician by trade, he began working for the British and then various aid groups after it became a displaced persons camp. Hans, his parents, and his sister, Ursula, lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies....

  11. Portrait of a Jewish Lithuanian partisan, drawn by Alexander Bogen

    1. Alexander Bogen collection

    Sketch of Tuvia Szeres, a 24 year old partisan fighter known as Tevko the Tiger, created by Alexander Bogen while he was a partisan fighter in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia during World War II. Bogen was an art student in Vilna (Vilnius) in June1941 when Germany occupied Lithuania. In the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews interned there by the Germans. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped and joined the partisans, who carried out sabotage and other actions against the occ...

  12. Modern watercolor painting of a German-American internee as a child

    1. Arthur Jacobs collection

    A watercolor artistic interpretation of the experience of Arthur Jacobs as he was transported by the United States Army from Bremen to Ludwigsburg, Germany in January 1946. Arthur was born in New York to German parents. In November 1944, his father, Lambert Dietrich, was arrested on unsubstantiated information and interned at the Ellis Island Immigration Station as an enemy alien. In February 1945, Arthur, his brother, and his mother voluntarily joined Lambert at Ellis Island. At the end of April, the family was transferred to the Crystal City Texas Family Internment Camp. Facing deportatio...

  13. Barbed wire and a key in a shadow box display belonging to a German-American internee

    1. Arthur Jacobs collection

    A collection of objects commemorating the February 1946 stay of Arthur Jacobs at Camp 76, a detention center for German repatriates used by the United States Army at Hohenasperg in Asperg, Germany. Arthur was born in New York to German parents. In November 1944, his father, Lambert Dietrich, was arrested on unsubstantiated information and interned at the Ellis Island Immigration Station as an enemy alien. In February 1945, Arthur, his brother, and his mother voluntarily joined Lambert at Ellis Island. At the end of April, the family was transferred to the Crystal City Texas Family Internmen...

  14. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note acquired by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate

    1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    Łódź scrip valued at 2 marks that belonged to Ladislav Glattstein. The scrip was issued in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans after occupying the city in September 1939. When the Germans transferred Jews to the ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. Ladislav, 18, and his family lived in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), when it was annexed by Hungary in fall 1938. In 1942, La...

  15. Black textured leather trifold wallet used by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate

    1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    Black leather wallet with three pockets that belonged to Ladislav Glattstein. Ladislav, 18, and his family lived in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), which was annexed by Hungary in the fall of 1938. In 1942, Ladislav was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion. He was sent to Nagybana labor camp, and, in 1944, to the Ukraine and Balf labor camp. In January 1945, Ladislav was transported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and in March, via death march to Gunskirchen subcamp. The camp was liberated by the US Third Army on May 5, 1945. Ladislav's father Juliu...

  16. Leather wallet with an embossed floral design used by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate

    1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    Embossed leather billfold that belonged to Ladislav Glattstein. Ladislav, 18, and his family lived in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), which was annexed by Hungary in November 1938. In 1942, Ladislav was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion. He was sent to Nagybana labor camp, and, in 1944, to the Ukraine and Balf labor camp. In January 1945, Ladislav was transported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria and, in March, via death march to Gunskirchen subcamp. The camp was liberated by the US Third Army on May 5, 1945. Ladislav's father Julius and his sisters...

  17. Hungarian 5 pengo paper note issued by the Soviet Army owned by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate

    1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    Soviet Army occupation currency, value Öt (five) pengo, that belonged to Ladislav Glattstein. The note was issued by the Soviet Army during its occupation of Hungary in 1944. Ladislav, 18, and his family lived in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), when it was annexed by Hungary in fall 1938. In 1942, Ladislav was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion. He was sent to Nagybana labor camp, and, in 1944, to the Ukraine and Balf labor camp. In January 1945, Ladislav was transported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and in March, via death march to Gunskirchen ...

  18. Allied Military currency for France, 100 franc bank note owned by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp inmate

    1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    Allied Military currency, 100 franc note, that belonged to Ladislav Glattstein. The currency was issued jointly by the US and Great Britain prior to the invasion of France in June 1944. Ladislav, 18, and his family lived in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), when it was annexed by Hungary in fall 1938. In 1942, Ladislav was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion. He was sent to Nagybana labor camp, and, in 1944, to the Ukraine and Balf labor camp. In January 1945, Ladislav was transported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and in March, via death march to G...

  19. Republic of Czechoslovakia, paper currency, 50 korun note owned by a Hungarian Jewish former concentration camp inmate

    1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    Fifty korun note bank note that belonged to Ladislav Glattstein. Ladislav, 18, and his family lived in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), when it annexed by Hungary in fall 1938. In 1942, Ladislav was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion. He was sent to Nagybana labor camp, and, in 1944, to the Ukraine and Balf labor camp. In January 1945, Ladislav was transported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and in March, via death march to Gunskirchen subcamp. The camp was liberated by the US Third Army on May 5, 1945. Ladislav's father Julius and his sisters, Edi...

  20. Mexico, paper currency, 1 peso owned by a Hungarian Jewish youth and former concentration camp inmate

    1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    Mexican one peso bank note issued in January 1945 that belonged to Ladislav Glattstein. Ladislav, 18, and his family lived in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), when it was annexed by Hungary in fall 1938. In 1942, Ladislav was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion. He was sent to Nagybana labor camp, and, in 1944, to the Ukraine and Balf labor camp. In January 1945, Ladislav was transported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and in March, via death march to Gunskirchen subcamp. The camp was liberated by the US Third Army on May 5, 1945. Ladislav's father ...