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

  1. Lea Freund Goldbrenner correspondence

    Contains letters and postcards written in 1940-1941 by Lea Freund Goldbrenner (donor's grandmother) in Berlin, Germany to her children in Paris and Nancy, France, updating them on events in Berlin and the fate of family members, and thanking them for news of their lives in France.

  2. Torah fragment found in the ruins of a desecrated synagogue

    Torah fragment found in the ruins of a desecrated synagogue by Charles Braun, circa 1945, in Jaszbereny, Hungary. On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and began to deport all Jews to concentration camps. Charles' wife was deported and he was sent to a labor camp. After the war ended in May 1945, Charles returned to Jaszbereny. His wife had been killed in the the gas chambers.

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  4. Damaged Torah scroll from a synagogue in Marburg desecrated during Kristallnacht

    Desecrated Torah scroll from a synagogue in Marburg, Germany, that was vandalized during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938. The scroll was given to Joseph Tauber in the late 1960s for safekeeping by an unnamed German woman who told him that the scroll was desecrated during the Night of Broken Glass or Kristallnacht. It had been given to her to preserve by the person who took it from the synagogue in order to protect it.

  5. Richard Lyons photographs

    Collection of photographs documenting survivors and victims found in the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation; dated April 1945. Photographs given to Richard Lyons by his neighbor Agnes "Sue" Sullivan who herself had received them from a friend. Ms. Sullivan worked as an interpreter/translator/court reporter at the Nuremberg Trials.

  6. Leon Denski photograph

    Contains a photographic print, black and white, showing two American soldiers standing next to large pile of bodies to buried; taken in an unidentified concentration camp after liberation; dated April-May 1945. This photo was brought home from WWII by Leon A. Denski (donor's father) whose job after liberation was to bury the bodies that were found in the camps into mass graves.

  7. "With Only a Toothbrush"

    "With Only a Toothbrush" is a 12 page manuscript written by Jacky Erwteman in 2004. In the manuscript, Erwteman describes her family background, the family efforts to flee Amsterdam when the Germans invaded and the Dutch Royal Family fled, and their escape by boat to England, where they found employment. Includes information about Erwteman's aunt and uncle, who traveled to the United States and to Curacao, eventually working for the newly established World Bank. After the war, the family discovered that those family members who were unable to escape had been killed in Auschwitz.

  8. Cut and uncut granite stones from a quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp

    Granite blocks quarried from the site of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria in the ‘Anschluss’, and in April established the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke (GmbH-DESt, German Earth and Stone Works Inc.) to exploit the labor of concentration camp prisoners. In August, a concentration camp was established three miles from the town of Mauthausen, near the Wiener Graben stone quarry. Built by prisoners detailed from Dachau concentration camp in Germany, it originally functioned as a forced-labor camp, and later became a transfer point to subcamps and ...

  9. Jolan Moskowitz collection

    Postcard: sent to Iszak Rottstein in Tasnád, Hungary (nowTășnad, Romania) from his cousin Sali (last name illegible), in a forced labor camp at Waldsee. In the card he states that he arrived in good health, gives regards to relatives, and anticipates a reply, A stamp on recto states that the reply must be 30 words, in German, and sent through the Association of Hungarian Jews in Budapest; not dated; in German and Hungarian.

  10. Ingeborg Price collection

    The collection consists of a printed leaflet containing a wartime poem, "La Terrible Epreuve"; a leaflet with an image of Marshal Petain on a horse, with a handwritten message to a child, addressed to Therese Majewski and counseling her to work hard, persevere, and be loyal; a broadside containing a mock testament from Adolf Hitler; and a copy of a French newspaper ("La liberte du centre"), announcing the surrender of the German army, May 1945.

  11. Marburg family collection

    The Marburg family collection consists of letters and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Lily Marburg, originally of Vienna, Austria. The family correspondence from Vienna, Luxembourg and the Bayogne detention camp relates to the attempts of various family members to escape and emigrate from Austria.

  12. Star of David button used to identify a Bulgarian Jew

  13. Jacqueline Levy-Geneste collection

    Consists of photographs and a photograph album from the collection of Jacqueline Levy-Geneste, a German-Jewish woman who worked as a kindergarten teacher in various French internment camps, including Limoges, Rivesaltes, and Gurs. Includes photographs of life in the internment camps and the children with whom she worked, many of whom were Spanish Republicans. Also includes a small photograph album entitled "Le Petit Monde" depicting life in the Petit Monde OSE children's home in post-war France, of which Jacqueline Levy-Geneste was the director.

  14. Irving Schaffer manuscript

    Consists of three notebooks, handwritten by Irving Schaffer, circa March 1986, in which he wrote his memoir, which was published in 1991 as "Don't Give Up: Be Strong and We Will Meet Again." In the memoir, which is rough draft form, Mr. Schaffer describes his childhood in Kolochave, his deportation to Auschwitz in April 1944, his forced labor cleaning the site of the Warsaw ghetto, a forced march to Dachau and then sent to Landsberg. He was liberated by the American Army, describes life in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, and his emigration to the United States in 1947.

  15. Henry Sharp collection

    The Henry Sharp papers consist of identification and registration papers documenting Sharp’s immediate post-war life as a Holocaust survivor in liberated Germany. The collection also includes photographs of Buchenwald after liberation.

  16. Walter Rockler collection

    Consists of a bound manuscript of clippings, transcripts, and articles related to the life of Walter J. Rockler, who was a prosecutor at Nuremberg. Includes information and articles related to his experiences in the Pacific during World War II, his work at Nuremberg, and his later critiques of American foreign policy and of the prosecution of war crimes. Also includes the transcript of an oral history which Jeffrey Burt conducted with Walter Rockler in December 2001.

  17. Michael Spillias collection

    Consists of six photographs taken by Michael Spillias, a member of the 11th Armored Division, after the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp. The photographs depict the collection and reburial of corpses as well as of survivors who were liberated at the camp.

  18. Sonnenmark family correspondence

    Correspondence between members of the family of Robert Sonnenmark, of Prossnitz, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Prostějov, Czech Republic). Most of the letters are from Robert, while he was imprisoned at Buchenwald, addressed to his wife, Marta and daughter, Miriam in Prossnitz, and dated from October 1939 to March 1940. Many of these letters were forwarded by Marta to her father and brother in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, who added their own comments in the margins and forwarded them to Peter Sonnenmark, the son of Marta and Robert, who was living in Palestine. Other correspondence in...

  19. "The Holocaust's Second Victims"

    Consists of a typed testimony, in English, entitled "The Holocaust's Second Victims" by Paul Keller. In the testimony, which was written for a Holocaust commemoration, Mr. Keller describes the effects of the Nuremberg Laws and on antisemitic persecution on his education and life as a child in Germany. He describes the culture shock he experienced as a German-Jewish refugee when his family immigrated to the United States in 1937.

  20. "Das Krematorium in Dachau"

    Consists of one original document, 2 pages, entitled "Das Krematorium in Dachau," a typed eyewitness report given by Willy Furlan-Horst shortly after the liberation of Dachau. The report describes the interior of the crematoria, the gas chambers, the procedures for torture and execution of prisoners, the duties of the crematoria Kommandos, and the facilities for housing the SS attack dogs.