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Language of Description: English
Country: United States

  1. Faun Abel Pann-Jerusalem

    Contains a special edition of "Faun" devoted to the artist, Abel Pann. His artwork portrays the mistreatment of Jews in Lithuania.

  2. Mayer and Mané family papers

    The collection consists of original and photocopies of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs related to Eugene and Selma Mané’s prewar life in Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1937, as well as their family’s wartime experiences in Germany and France. Biographical material includes an affidavit, immigrant identification card, and report cards for Eugene, as well as newspaper clippings and research of family history and the fates of family members. Family correspondence includes letters between family members in the United States and Europe, including le...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- French refugees, German prisoners, bombing of Paris

    The French army in action: tanks, soldiers shooting, dead horses by the side of the road. German prisoners behind barbed wire. Close-ups of individuals as they are questioned and registered by their French captors. Scenes of destroyed buildings shot from a moving vehicle; French soldiers attempt to shoot down a plane. Refugees traveling along a road. Women and children are helped from a truck. One woman is carried on a stretcher. Paris being bombed. Burning buildings, dead cows in a field. Badly destroyed houses, shops and cars. People pick their way through the rubble; a woman runs past a ...

  4. Eric M. Lipman documents

    Contains documents and photocopies of documents collected by Eric Lipman while he served as an intelligence specialist with the United States Third Army and in the following months when he helped to assemble evidence for possible use in the Nuremberg Trials. Includes correspondence and reports regarding Theresienstadt and Ohrdruf.

  5. Alex Feuer photographs

    Contains photographs of Alex Feuer after liberation taken in Memmingen, Germany in June 1945, and of a group of Greek Jews with Hauptmann Hoffman, the camp commander at Turkheim. Mr. Feuer, fifteen upon liberation, was a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- VE Day in London

    Huge crowds in Parliament Square in London. Flags of the victorious nations fly from the Office of Works building. Shots of the people in the crowd, some of whom hold British flags. Police attempt to keep back the crowds, which surge to surround a vehicle carrying American soldiers. They are followed by a parade and a double-decker bus trying to get through the crowd. People climb up on the railings outside the House of Commons. The crowd listens to Churchill declare the unconditional surrender of Germany. His speech is intelligible in parts, but the sound is bad. After the speech the crowd...

  7. Helena Sztajnberg memoir

    Contains a memoir, 37 pages, regarding the Holocaust experiences of Helen Sztajnberg. She was born in 1919, in Skarzysko Kamienna, Poland. After the German invasion she and her son Jurek were forced into a ghetto, where she attempted to obtain false papers as Helena Andrzejczak. She traveled from town to town throughout the war and was liberated in April 1945. Her parents and brothers perished in Treblinka and her husband was murdered by Poles after the war.

  8. Ley speaks after crushing labor unions (consolidation of power)

    Title on screen: "Schutz der deutschen Arbeit! Nach der Befreiung der Gewerkschaften von den Marxistischen Leiter hoeren 200,000 Arbeiter und Angestellte in Berliner Lustgarten die Rede des Leiters der Aktions-Komitees Dr. Ley. [Protection German labor! After the freeing of the labor unions from Marxist leaders 200,000 workers listen to the speech of the leader of the Action Committee, Dr. Ley, in the Berlin Lustgarten]." Shots of Ley speaking interspersed with low aerial shots of the huge crowd. After Ley finishes his speech, the crowd sings, accompanied by a band. The German labor unions ...

  9. Epstein family papers

    Contains documents and correspondence pertaining to Max, Hans, and Nella Weissmann Epstein's emigration from Vienna, Austria, in 1938. Includes passports, birth and marriage certificates, official correspondence, and travel documentation.

  10. Jane Ponczek photographs

    The Jane Ponczek photographs document her family before World War II in Poland. Photographs and copy prints include a wedding portrait of Holocaust victims Munisch Labiner and Sara Shajter Labiner in 1934 in Skała-Podolska, Poland; a photograph of the Shajter family in Skała-Podolska (Sara Labiner at the top left and Beila Shajter in the doorway); and a photograph of Chaim Weizmann with Holocaust survivor Jane Ponczek and other orphans in Wrocław, Poland after the war (Jane has her hand on Weizmann’s right shoulder).

  11. Shoah: an eyewitness testimony

    Consists of the testimony, 9 pages, of John E. Pfeiffer, presented at a Yom Hashoah remembrance ceremony on May 2, 1997. Mr. Pfeiffer was a part of a reconnaissance squad that discovered Dachau on April 29, 1945. He describes his memories of the conditions there and how his experiences affected him in later life.

  12. Föhrenwald kitchen photograph

    Contains one photograph taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp. The photograph shows a group of people standing outside of a building, identified by Paula Lebovics [donor] as the kitchen.

  13. Fred Salomon photo album

    Contains a dark green photo album with photographs pertaining to Fritz (Fred) Salomon's experiences in Montintin, Villa Helvetia, and Home de la Foret (Switzerland) children homes, operated by the OSE (Oeuvre de Secours Aux Enfants).

  14. Esther Frydenberg photographs

    Consists of seven post-war photographs of Esther Frydenberg and others in Sweden after her liberation from the Ravensbrück concentration camp. Photographs include those taken at her job at a clothing factory and of a 1947 Chanukah party.

  15. Blum family papers

    Contains letters written to Richard J. Blum from Hans Wagner on March 26, 1938, and from Leo Haas on December 4, 1938. The letters describe the authors' fear of persecution of themselves and their wives because they were Jewish. Also contains a photograph of Liesel Haas.

  16. Sam Kiss collection

    Contains photographs from the collection of Israel Kisnitzer (now known as Sam Kiss). Two of the photographs depict persons hanging from gallows; in one of the photographs a sign is shown describing the persons as German soldiers. Another photograph shows a close-up of piles of corpses near a train track. Mr Kisnitzer acquired these photographs after the war; the locations shown in the photographs is unknown.

  17. March of Time -- outtakes -- Benes of Czechoslovakia; Raczkiewicz and Sikorski of Poland; ceremony at Paris synagogue

    War preparations in Paris. Sandbag fortifications around the Arc de Triomphe and the Tomb of the Unkown Soldier. Edvard Benes, exiled president of Czechoslovakia, is received by Czechs living in Paris. The dope sheet states that the meeting took place at the same house on the Rue Bonaparte where Benes and Tomas Masaryk founded the Czech Republic after World War I. A group of men rises and claps as Benes enters in the company of Stefan Osusky, the Czech ambassador. A man identified as Stransky welcomes Benes. Benes speaks. Scenes inside the Polish embassy showing Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, the P...

  18. Hungarian Jews' applications for compensation (MOL XXIX-L-2-o)

    Applications by Jewish residents through the Budapest branch of West Germany's Allgemeine Wertverkehrs Bank AG, all dated July 1, 1966 and addressed to the "Chief Administrative Office" in Cologne. Under Article V of the Federal Restitution Law (BEG, Bundesentschaedigungsgesetz) these applicants were able to seek compensation for their loss of freedom during wartime, for having had to wear the Jewish star, for damage to their health, and the death of a spouse.

  20. Set of tefillin acquired by a Soviet Jewish soldier

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515329
    • English
    • 1943
    • a: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm)

    Pair of tefillin purchased by Shimon Meszel, a Jewish soldier in the Soviet Army, for five rubles in Kharkov, Russia, in 1943. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Shimon eventually emigrated to Israel.