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Language of Description: Danish
Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Consists of photographs taken by an unknown photographer after the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. Also includes photographs of the liberation of Paris, and post-war postcards of Baden-Württemberg and Schorndorf, Germany.

  2. Poster, "Deliver us from evil" Buy War Bonds

    American WWII poster, "Deliver us from evil"/Buy War Bonds. Black and white photograph of a child's face superimposed on a swastika.

  3. Deligdisch family collection

    Consists of six photographs of the Deligdisch family, originally of Cernauti, Romania (present day Chernivtsi, Ukraine). Includes a photograph of Siegfried Deligdisch in a Romanian reserve military uniform; photographs of his son, Otto Deligdisch, as a young teenager; and post-war photographs of Greta Deligdisch Beer with her husband, Simon Beer, in Italy. Also includes a letter, three pages, dated May 2, 2013, from Stuart Eizenstat to Greta Beer, expressing his deep appreciation for the pivotal role she played in alerting the United States government to the issue of Jewish-owned Swiss bank...

  4. Leather ID bracelet with tag worn by a concentration camp inmate

    Prisoner identification bracelet issued to Edwin Chwedyk at Majdanek concentration camp in October 1942. It is stamped with his prisoner number 17215.

  5. Selma Wideroff papers

    The Selma Wideroff papers consist of correspondence, reports, and photographs documenting Selma Wideroff’s work for the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Germany from 1945‐1946 in the Bergen‐Belsen displaced persons camp and later at the Blankenese children's center on the Warburg Estate near Hamburg. Correspondence and reports include descriptions of Wideroff’s work in Europe, the use of the Warburg estate, activities in the British Zone, displaced communities in cities around Germany, directives for education programs. This series also includes JDC letters of introduction and of recom...

  6. Presentation by Meyer Zar and Rose Zar

  7. Census from the city Cluj, Romania, 1924 and 1938

    The collection contains an inventory of the Romanian citizens in Cluj county, dating from 1924-1952; as well as lists of Jews and Christians in Cluj, Gherla, Mociu commune, Câțcău commune, Dej, and Turda, Romania, compiled in 1938, 1945 and 1949. Lists complaied in 1938 are mainly based on the lists of 1924.

  8. Embroidered blouse worn by a concentration camp inmate after liberation

    Embroidered blouse selected and worn by Ruth Gold immediately after her liberation from Malchow concentration camp by the Soviet Army in 1945.

  10. Imre Winkler collection

    Consists of three photographs of Imre Winkler, circa 1940, while he was part of a Hungarian forced labor batallion. Includes photographs of laborers on a train and walking in the mud. Also includes a handwritten note from Winkler to his wife letting her know that he can't come home, dated January 3, 1944.

  11. Andrássy family collection

    Consists of correspondence, agreements, meeting minutes, and notes related to the ownership and management of the Friss Ujság newspaper in Budapest between 1940-1944, and the purchase of the Kincses Ujság newspaper in Budapest between 1941-1944. Many of the documents relate to the sale of the Friss Ujság from the Zolnay family (who were Jewish) to Count Imre Andrássy, and Andrássy's payments to Lászlo Zolnay. Also includes documents, 1943-1944, related to the newspaper's purchase of extensive amounts of wine to serve as a future distraction to Russian troops; family history about Count and ...

  12. Motorboat used to take Jewish people in Denmark to safety in Sweden

    Motorboat named Lurifax (later Filuren and Solskin), used by members of the Helsingør Syklub (Elsinore Sewing Club), a Danish resistance group, to transport Danish Jews from German-occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden across the Øresund Strait in October 1943. The boat was one of several the group used to rescue the Jewish refugees and their non-Jewish relatives facing deportation to concentration camps. Later, it ferried weapons and supplies, as well as resistance members, back and forth to Sweden. Between October 1943 and May 1944, the Club transported approximately 1,400 people across the ...

  13. Hugo Cohen passport

    German passport issued to Hugo Meyer Cohen (donor's friend), September 1938, Hamburg, Germany. "Deutsches Reich Reisepass"; letter "J" stamped in red ink; contains immigration visa for United States dated December 9, 1938; German border stamp issued at Hamburg on December 21, 1938.

  14. The Eternal Jew Poster for an anti-semitic film

  15. Sign used to identify the home of a Jew

    Small sign identifying the residence of a Jew. Signs such as this were posted in order to humiliate Jews in Germany.

  16. Sign used to identify the home of a Jew

    Small sign identifying the residence of a Jew.

  17. Concentration camp uniform coat worn by an Austrian Catholic inmate

    Concentration camp uniform knee length coat worn by Karl Unterthiner, an Austrian Catholic political prisoner in Dachau concentration camp from March 25, 1944, to April 29, 1945. Karl lived in Sterzing, (Vitipeno) Italy, an alpine village, which was part of Austria until World War I. In June 1939, Germany and Italy agreed this area would be Italianized. Residents who wished to retain their German culture and language were given the option to go to Germany or Austria which was part of the German Reich. Karl was Austrian, and he refused to leave his home and spoke out against Fascism and Nazi...

  18. Levy and Lazar family collection

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the Levy and Lazar families from the area of Boćki, Poland. Most of those pictured perished in the Holocaust. Also includes a wedding invitation in Yiddish, from 1933 in the Biaystok, Poland area for the marriage of Rózy Lazarównej and Abramem Seleckim [Raizl Lazar and Avrum Seletsky].

  19. US War Bonds poster of three small children under the shadow of a swastika

    U.S. War Bond poster designed by Lawrence Beall Smith in 1942, after America's entry into World War II. It features three young children, apprehensive and fearful, as they are enveloped by the large, dark arm of a swastika shadow. The poster was distributed by the United StatesTreasury Department and implied that purchasing war bonds would keep the children safe from the Nazi threat. War bonds were offered by the United States Government for purchase by the public; purchasers would keep the bond and be reimbursed for its return at a later date. Purchasing bonds was considered patriotic and ...

  20. The Schmidt and Englander families collection

    Contains documents and correspondence regarding the experiences of the Schmidt and Englander families in Stuttgart and Konstadt, Germany and their flight from Nazi occupation.