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Language of Description: German
Language of Description: English

  1. Westerbork Deportation

    Deportations at Westerbork transit camp. People with Star of David on their coats at railroad station, with bundles. Barracks can be seen in the background. Well dressed men and women. People getting onto freight cars. Confusion. MS, crowd in front of freight car. Two officers walking by. People wave goodbye from inside of train. Sick woman (Ms. Frouwke Kroon - 1882-1944) lying on a wooden cart being wheeled into train station. Guards with dogs. 00:07:38 Sophia de Groot at far left of the door opening on train wagon #9, gesturing to someone on the platform. Boxes filled with food, cigarette...

  2. Muselmann—Kippensammler Muselmann—Cigarette Butt Collector

    1. "Music of the Holocaust" web exhibition

    Kulisiewicz’s self-described “tragic parody” vividly evokes his encounter with a camp Muselmann, an emaciated inmate who had lost the will to live. According to Kulisiewicz, such prisoners were sent to Stehkommando, where they were forced to stand for hours on end in the latrine as punishment for no longer being able to work. Kulisiewicz first sang “Muselmann” for his friends in Cell Block 65 toward the end of July 1940. (Like Kulisiewicz, the protagonist of “Muselmann” was a political prisoner whose uniform, as noted in the song, was branded with a “red triangle badge.”) Kulisiewicz added ...

  3. Kutschmann file from Moskovits Office Legajo Walter Kutschmann

    Records from the the office of Mr. José Moskovits, a Holocaust survivor and attorney in Buenos Aires. Consist of correspondence, memorandums, photographs and newspaper clippings relating to Nazi war criminal Walter Kutschmann who lived in Argentina after World War II under the false name Pedro Ricardo Olmo.

  4. Morgan and Morgan-Ruffner papers

    The papers consist of correspondence, draft play scripts, newspaper articles, scrapbooks, news cuttings, photographs and ephemera, which together document the lives of an Austrian Jewish actor who died at Buchenwald before the war and his wife who became a prominent journalist and socialite.

  5. Fanny and Leo Englard papers

    1. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    Documents, correspondence and photographs regarding Fanny Dominitz, who survived several concentration camps, and her husband Leo Englard, who served in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II.

  6. Dr. Nathan Salczberger and Kahnt family collection

    The Dr. Nathan Salczberger and Kahnt family collection consist of documents concerning Dr. Salczberger, a Jewish doctor in occupied France during World War II, and his claims against his former landlords in Paris, the Lavergne family, who had denounced him and confiscated his property while he was imprisoned by the Germans. The collection also contains digital images of documents and photographs concerning the love affair of the Lavergne's daughter, Georgette, with a German soldier, Erich Kahnt, and their post war life together. Among the materials related to Dr. Salczberger include testimo...

  7. Medal for Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 awarded to a Jewish Polish veteran of the Soviet Army

    1. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection

    Medal for Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 with ribbon awarded to Kalman Barakan for his service as a soldier in the Soviet Army during World War II. When Germany invaded Poland in June 1941, Kalman Barakan was a 30 year old lawyer in Bialystok. His home was destroyed and he had to move into a Jewish ghetto and do rough manual labor. He escaped in 1943 and lived in hiding, constantly on the move. In August 1943, the ghetto was destroyed; Kalman’s entire family was murdered in a death camp. In July 1944, the Soviet Army liberated the area and Kalman was forced into a...

  8. Krzyz Walecznych (Cross of Valor) medal and presentation box awarded to a Jewish conscript in the Soviet Army

    1. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn37886
    • English
    • 1944
    • a: Height: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) b: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)

    Krzyz Walecznych (Cross of Valor) medal with striped ribbon awarded to Kalman Barakan by Poland for his service in the Soviet Army in 1944. When Germany invaded Poland in June 1941, Kalman Barakan was a 30 year old lawyer in Bialystok. His home was destroyed and he had to move into a Jewish ghetto and do rough manual labor. He escaped in 1943 and lived in hiding, constantly on the move. In August 1943, the ghetto was destroyed; Kalman’s entire family was murdered in a death camp. In July 1944, the Soviet Army liberated the area and Kalman was forced into army service until the end of the wa...

  9. Woman's engraved gold wrist watch given to one inmate by another in Auschwitz

    1. Esther Vardi collection

    Gold and silver engraved wrist watch given to 22 year old Esther (Edit) Schaechter in Auschwitz concentration camp around January 1945. The person who gave Esther the watch told her that she knew that Esther was going to survive and she wanted it preserved. Esther kept the watch through the death march to and imprisonment in Bergen-Belsen. Esther had been arrested by the Germans with false papers in Budapest in 1944 where she was active with the Zionist youth movement resistance activities. She was sent to Auschwitz in June 1944, given the number A-10 674, and selected for work duty as a se...

  10. Shanghai Millionaire board game made by 2 German Jewish refugee children

    1. Manfred Lobel collection

    Handmade board game, Shanghai Millionaire, created by 10 year old Manfred and 14 year old Siegfried Lobel in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai in 1946. It was based on Monopoly and made from a US Army cardboard "K" rations box. The boys fled Berlin, Germany, with their parents, Gustav and Dora, in 1940, due to the persecution of Jews under the Nazi dictatorship. Since Gustav and Dora were born in Romania, exit visas for the United States did not seem to be an option because of the high quotas. In 1940, they received permits to leave Germany for Shanghai, China. American troops entered the city...

  11. Giza Wiernik papers

    Papers consist of documents, postcards, and photographs relating to the experiences of Giza Wiernik before World War II in Jamna, Poland, her experiences posing as a Ukrainian woman during the war, and her journey to Israel via displaced persons camps in Germany and onboard the Exodus 1947.

  12. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail

    1. Henry F. Kahn collection

    The Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail primarily consists of envelopes, letters, postcards, and philatelic materials Kahn collected between approximately 1945 and 1985. The materials document mail systems in and around Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps and, by extension, the survivors and victims who passed through them or perished in them. Kahn arranged the materials in three annotated scrapbooks, providing context and history for the ghettos, camps, and mail systems. Most of the materials date from the 1930s and 1940s while the reproductions and commentary date fro...

  13. Henry Kalmus papers

    The Henry Kalmus papers consist chiefly of correspondence received by Kalmus from Vilmos Forgács, and from other friends and professional colleagues that he knew from his time in Budapest, when he worked as an engineer at Orion Radio (Hungarian Tungsten Lamp Works). Most of the correspondence dates from 1938 - 1948, beginning in the year that Kalmus left Hungary to immigrate to the United States. Initial letters inquire after Kalmus’ life abroad as well as report on day to day events in Budapest. In a few letters, references are made to attempts to emigrate from Hungary, both on the efforts...

  14. Portrait photograph by Judy Glickman of Danish resistance leader and intelligence officer

    1. Judith Ellis Glickman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41817
    • English
    • 1992
    • overall: Height: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm) | Width: 18.120 inches (46.025 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.380 inches (33.985 cm) | Width: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm)

    Black and white photographic print taken by Judy Glickman in 1992 of Otto Blixenkrone-Moller, a leader in the Danish resistance and a member of the Danish Military Intelligence Service. Otto reported to the Allies and the Special Operations Executive and sustained a leg and hip wound in an attempted arrest by the Gestapo in 1945. Germany occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, but allowed the Danish government to retain control of domestic affairs. Jews were not molested and the German presence was limited. After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and began to face military setbacks, a...

  15. Portrait photograph by Judy Glickman of a Danish man who organized rescue efforts

    1. Judith Ellis Glickman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41822
    • English
    • 1993
    • overall: Height: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm) | Width: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.380 inches (33.985 cm) | Width: 9.120 inches (23.165 cm)

    Black and white photographic print taken by Judy Glickman in 1993 of Dr. Ole Secher, a Danish rescuer. As a medical student, Ole organized rescue efforts for Jews hiding at Bispebjerg hospital. Germany occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, but allowed the Danish government to retain control of domestic affairs. Jews were not molested and the German presence was limited. After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and began to face military setbacks, a Danish resistance movement developed. On August 29, 1943, the Germans declared martial law and began to address the Jewish problem. A mas...

  16. Selected records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Poland in London. Office for War Crimes Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie. Biuro ds. Zbrodni Wojennych (Sygn. GK 159)

    This collection contains materials related to the research and investigation of perpetrators of war crimes such as: witness testimonies after the invasion of Germany in September 1939, reports of crimes committed against Poles on Polish territory and in Germany, lists of local German officials, Gestapo chief officers, guards of concentration camps, data related to concentration camps, German police authorities, accounts of Polish refugees about the conditions of life in Poland and crimes committed against civilians by the occupation authorities and Wehrmacht in the initial period of occupat...

  17. Martin Dannenberg papers

    1. Martin Dannenberg collection

    The Martin Dannenberg papers include Dannenberg’s Counter Intelligence Corps basic training materials, his records from an advanced security intelligence course, his motor vehicle operator’s permit, and photographs of Nuremberg and of Dannenberg with a fellow officer in the bank vault in Eichstatt where he recovered the original texts of the Nuremberg Laws, as signed by Adolf Hitler.

  18. Card indexes of Jews persecuted during World War II

    The Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic (FJC) has several card indexes at its disposal: The central card index served the occupation authorities during World War II to keep an overview of most Jewish persons from Bohemia and Moravia. Before the end of the war, the Nazis tried to destroy the majority of important documents that could, inter alia, attest to their part in the extermination of Jews. They were particularly thorough with destroying the cards of deported persons. Yet they were not successful in destroying all the evidence. Some of the cards were preserved, and m...

  19. Konzentrationslager Lichtenburg

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Im Zuge von Rückführungen deutscher Akten aus den USA, die dort nach einem dem Einheitsaktenplan (EAP) der Wehrmacht zu Grunde liegenden Schema alfa-numerisch geordnet worden waren, gelangte der Bestand im Jahre 1962 in das Bundesarchiv. Archivische Bewertung und Bearbeitung Anfang 1963 wurde zunächst ein vorläufiges Findbuch erstellt. Dieses Provisorium wird durch die nunmehr vorliegende Findmittel-Fassung ersetzt. Das Findmittel wurde den gültigen Erschließungsrichtlinien angepasst und standardisiert. Bestandsbeschreibung Der Bestand enth...

  20. Hammer, Walter (Hösterey, Walter)

    1. Nachlässe

    Durch den testamentarischen Willen Hammers wurde dem Institut für Zeitgeschichte sein gesamter wissenschaftlicher und literarischer Nachlass vermacht - zusammen mit einem ansehnlichen Geldbetrag, der nach Hammers Tod am 09.12.1966 in Hamburg die Sichtung und Ordnung seines Archivs im IfZ ermöglichte. Bei der Übernahme durch das Institut für Zeitgeschichte bestand das "Archiv Walter Hammer" sowohl aus Büchern, Broschüren und Zeitschriften, Zeitungen und Informationsdiensten, wie auch Korrespondenzen, Berichten und Manuskripten. Um die Übersichtlichkeit unserer Sammlungen in Archiv und Biblio...