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

  1. Court of the First Instance in Lipsko on Vistula Sąd Grodzki w Lipsku nad Wisłą (Sygn.1053)

    This collection contain selected so-called “Zg.” files i.e. cases of declaring a person dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes those who perished during the Soviet and Nazi occupation: including those arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring a person dead, testimonies of two witnesses filled out on standard forms, and the correspondence and sentence of the court. The law determined who could be d...

  2. Collection of posters, announcements and leaflets Zbiór afiszów, plakatów i druków ulotnych (Sygn. 206)

    This collection includes ordinances from the Labor Office of Radom in Poland during the German occupation, as well as notices of identity cards for Jews, creation of a ghetto for the Jews of Radom, notices for registration for Jewish labor, antisemitic posters, and declarations of assets.

  3. District Court in Radom Sąd Okręgowy w Radomiu (Sygn.448)

    This collection contains documents of civil and criminal cases investigated by the court, as well as a registry of economic enterprises and cooperatives. The given survey included only a category of files resulting from applications to acknowledge the death of individuals submitted by other persons. They concern, almost always, people who died during the German occupation (collected from their homes by the Germans, taken away to forced labor, taken away to concentration camps, etc), who did not return home, as well as people murdered on the spot, whose death certificates had not been issued...

  4. Sondergericht. Staatsanwaltschaft bei dem Sondergericht in Radom Sad Specjalny w Radomiu. Prokuratura przy Sadzie Specjalnym w Radomiu (Sygn.399)

    This collection includes files of particular cases, including criminal cases (assaults, thefts, murders, document forgery, injuries); as well as administrative cases, which included cases related to the charges of illegal trade, espionage, the hiding of Jews, receiving correspondence from abroad, the refusal to turn in radio sets, or listening to foreign broadcasts, among others. Most of the defendants in the administrative cases are Poles and Jews. The files of the German Court and Higher German Court in Radom include the civil cases of the people of German origin.

  5. Court of the First Instance in Kozienice Sąd Grodzki w Kozienicach (Sygn.1029)

    This collection contains selected so-called “Zg.” files; that is, cases of declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes those who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including those arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of two witnesses filled out on standard forms, and the correspondence and sentence of the court. The law dete...

  6. Court of the First Instance in Zwoleń Sąd Grodzki w Zwoleniu (Sygn.1054)

    This collection contains selected so-called “Zg.” files; that is, cases of declaring someone dead or issuing a death certificate. This includes those who perished during the Soviet or, mainly, Nazi occupation: including those arrested either by Soviets or Germans, deported to the USSR or the Third Reich, sent to concentration camps, murdered in ghettos or in other places of extermination. The files (app. 5-20 pages) contain an application declaring the death of a person, testimonies of two witnesses filled out on standard forms, and the correspondence and sentence of the court. The law dete...

  7. Inspectorate of Home Army in Częstochowa Inspektorat Armii Krajowej w Częstochowie (Sygn.399)

    Records of the Armia Krajowa (AK), the Inspectorate in Częstochowa. Documents relate to organizational matters and orders of the Home Army Headquarters, quartermaster’s orders, military problems, budget, financial settlements, financial reports, and contain lists of the sanitation equipment. The collection also contains documents on AK Women's Military Service, the Warsaw insurgents, and guerrilla troops.

  8. Selected personal files of the beneficiaries of the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) Teczki osobowe beneficjentów Fundacji Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP)

    This collection contains copies of 20,534 personal files of those assisted by the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP). These files often contain beneficiary’s application (with individual call number) which details the places and conditions of work (forced labor); statements; accounts or testimonies; letters from the period of occupation and/or other documents (most often copies) in support of a claim; doctor’s certificates; notarized copies of archival documents; photographs; certificates from various institutions; and correspondence with the Foundation.

  9. Tin can used as a cup

    Given to Annya and Israel Sheynman by Italian troops. Saved throughout war by Annya and Israel Sheynman.

  10. Stamped envelope

    Addressed in ink to "Herrn Heinrich Potischel (sp?) Wien XII Hauptstrasse 2" with one 4-cent Deutsches Reich stamp and nine 12-cent anti-Nazi stamps attached. Also has five ink stamps dated 8.IV.43.

  11. Nazi flag

    Nazi flag acquired by Sergeant Charles Ottinger while serving in the US Army during WWII. Brought back to the US by Charles Ottinger, March 1945.

  12. Garment bag retrieved from Dachau postliberation by a US soldier

    Garment bag retrieved from Dachau Concentration Camp by by Joe Davis.

  13. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, acquired by a US soldier

    1 Reichsmark coupon issued at Buchenwald concentration camp acquired by Rudolph Cohen when he served in the US Army from 1943-1946. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of...

  14. Sketchbook of drawings created by a former concentration camp prisoner

    Sketchbook created by Adolf Frankl, depicting scenes from multiple concentration camps. It was likely created after the war, as a way for Adolf to process his experiences during the Holocaust. Adolf was living in his hometown of Bratislava with his wife, two children, and a large extended family, when the city became part of the Nazi puppet state of Slovakia in May 1939. When World War II began in September 1939, the family’s interior design store was confiscated and Aryanized. Adolf was able to continue working for the new owner, and received documentation protecting him and his family fro...

  15. SS Dachau Book

    Booklet produced by the United States 7th Army about Dachau concentration camp in Germany, not long after the Division liberated the camp.

  16. Star of David badge with Juif printed in the center

    Retrieved by Leonard Bloom while stationed in France.

  17. Gold ring taken by a Jewish youth when he escaped Treblinka death camp

    Gold ring missing the setting taken by 18 year old Yidl (Eddie) Wajnsztajn from Treblinka death camp where he was forced to sort the belongings of incoming inmates. Yidl, his mother Leah, and 20 year old brother Israel were deported by the Germans to Treblinka from Losice, Poland, on August 22, 1942. The next day, while waiting in line for water, he was shot in the chest by an SS guard. Israel hid him and dressed the wound, then went to get water and never came back. Yidl escaped and returned to Losice. He told the remaining Jews about the horrors he had seen, but no one believed him. His f...

  18. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note

    1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or kill...

  19. Bronze bust of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish woman who perished in Auschwitz

    Bronze bust of Etty Hillesum who was deported from Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands to Auschwitz where she perished, age 29, on November 30, 1943. The sculpture was created by Pieter Starreveld, circa 1986-1988.

  20. Nazi Banner retrieved after Liberation of a concentration camp

    Nazi Banner retrieved and brought back to the US after WWII by an unknown US soldier.