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  1. Handmade lace challah cover with a Hebrew inscription owned by Gertrude Straus

    A challah cover is a textile used during the Jewish Sabbath and festival meals to cover hallot (loaves of bread), which are often baked in an elborate, plaited shape. Religious inscriptions are often added to the covers, most commonly with embroidery or paint.

  2. Handmade newsletter/card

    Handmade newsletter/card sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst. The card was written and illustrated by Heyne, who dated the card 1950.

  3. Handmade Star of David pendant given to an American liberator by a Polish Jewish slave laborer

    Handmade, beaded, Star of David pendant given to US Private First Class Marvin Dorf by a young Polish woman, who he helped free from a forced labor transport near Munich, Germany, in April 1945. Marvin grew up in New York City, the son of Jewish immigrants. After Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Germany’s subsequent declaration of war on the United States, Marvin enlisted in the United States Army in October 1942, where he was assigned to Troop E of the 92nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squad (Mechanized), 12th Armored Division. In April 1945, He arrived in Europe in the fa...

  4. Handmade table knife made in the Kovno Ghetto

    Knife made by the Lubetzky family while living in the Kovno Ghetto and later carried to Stutthof concentration camp and a Russian labor camp.

  5. Handmade white flag with a blue Star of David made by a German refugee in Shanghai

    White flag with a blue Star of David sewn by Ruth Linden in 1945 in Shanghai, China, to express her vision of the future flag of Israel. The flag was sewn in the "Ladies Secondhand Store," owned by the Linden family. They provided clothing goods and tailoring services to the community in Shanghai.

  6. Handmade wooden hanukiah with Hebrew inscription made by Kindertransport refugees

    8-branched Hanukkah menorah with central holder for the 9th candle made for Louis Judah and Etty Cohen by 3 male student refugees at the Whittingehame Farm School in East Lothian, Scotland. One evening, the students requested that Mr. Cohen and his family come to the school and, in a heartfelt ceremony, presented the handcrafted menorah to the couple to thank them for what they had done for them. Judah and Etty were governors of the school, and members of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation which established the school in 1939. Its mission was to care for German and Austrian Jewish children a...

  7. Handstreich gegen Kowno

    Contains the cover of a German propaganda booklet entitled "Handstreich gegen Kowno" [Coup Against Kovno] about the German invasion of Kovno.

  8. Handwritten copies of original Nuremberg documents

    Contains a custom-made wooden box containing seven oversized copies of original handwritten Nuremberg documents and two oversized OSS R&A report pages.

  9. Hanetzotz (The Spark)

    Bound periodical from late 1945, apparently from United Zionist Movement among Jewish survivors in Germany.

  10. Hanff Family Papers

    Contains passports, a marriage license, and other documents concerning the experiences of Kurt Hanff and Frieda Hirschfeld Hanff, who were married in 1936 in Berlin, before fleeing to Shanghai, China and eventually to the United States.

  11. Hanging of Nazis

    Convicted Nazi war criminals are hanged as American military observers watch. Men escorted to scaffold with chaplain or priest, blindfolded and hanged against backdrop of castle wall. Bodies removed, placed in coffins. Very sobering.

  12. Hangings Print 14 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting two prisoners being hanged from scaffolds in front of the entire camp under the direction of the commander and SS doctor at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht an...

  13. Hangings; Russian Correspondents at Nuremberg Trial

    Hangings. 10:07:34 (Paris 494) Trip of the Russian Correspondents to Germany, January 12, 1946. Russian correspondents accompanied by American officers walking around factory yards and interviewing foremen and workmen. Cars bearing the group enter gates at Bad Tolz. Party on tour of grounds and buildings. Group interviews a German woman at window of her home. MS, Russian taking notes. LS, group on grounds of Heidelberg University. Party entering Bucholz prison. Group watches military execution by hanging of a German accused of murdering unarmed American prisoners. MS, group getting into thr...

  14. Hank Freedman collection

    The collection includes a color copy of a journal written by Hank Freedman while a POW in Germany, first at Stalag IXB in Bad Orb and then Stalag IXA in Ziegenhain. In the journal Hank keeps lists of foods to eat, things to do after liberation, names and addresses, and notes about his experiences as a Prisoner of War. The collection also includes two copy prints of Hank Freedman taken during his military service with the US Army during WWII, serving with the 106th Infantry Division.

  15. Hanka Ehrlich collection

    Consists of two photographs. One an Image of Hanka Granek, the donor, with her friend Moniek Taitelbaum, who perished in Auschwitz; the photograph was taken in Bystra, Poland in summer 1939 during their last vacation before the war. The second image was taken in 1940 in the Bedzin ghetto, Poland, of Rachela Pszerowska Ingster seated at a desk, a Star of David on her dress. Rachela, who perished in Auschwitz, was the sister-in-law of Szewa Ingster.

  16. Hanka Gorenstein papers

    The Hanka Gorenstein papers consists of a photograph of Hanka Gorenstein as a young woman and a re-transcribed memoir describing her experiences in Kamieniec Podolski and the Łuck ghetto, escaping the ghetto liquidation, hiding under a non-Jewish identity and working as a farmhand in Wołyń, and returning to Łuck after the war. In addition to the Polish version of the memoir, the collection also includes an English translation of the same.

  17. Hanka J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanka J., who was born in Piaski Luterskie, Poland in 1931. She recalls brief German and Soviet occupations, then German takeover of Piaski; ghettoization; round-ups and deportations; her brother being killed after he was denounced for black marketeering; hiding with her family during round-ups; from their hiding place, hearing a baby being killed by the SS; obtaining false papers and escaping; hiding with Poles in a nearby village; being joined by her sisters who had been hiding in Warsaw; returning to the ghetto when their funds ran out; her father being killed in w...

  18. Hanka K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanka K., who was born in Che?m, Poland in 1930. She recalls her traditional childhood; her parents' Zionist background; the outbreak of war; brief Soviet occupation; hiding during a pogrom; German invasion; her father's arrest during a round-up (she never saw him again); hiding with her mother and sister in a cellar; her mother's killing; escaping with her baby sister to the Rejowiec ghetto; hiding her sister while working as a maid; her sister's death; deportation to Majdanek, then Skarz?ysko-Kamienna, Cze?stochowa, and Bergen Belsen; witnessing cannibalism in Belse...

  19. Hanka L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Hanka L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. She recalls her close, extended family; celebrating Jewish holidays; attending Jewish school; German invasion; Germans looting her parents' store; standing on the food line with her brother because they did not "look Jewish"; ghettoization; crowding, starvation, and frequent deaths; clandestine schools and cabarets (the black humor raised their spirits); forced factory labor; reciting the seder while hiding with her brother during a round-up for deportation; her father's and brother's deaths; volunteering with her moth...

  20. Hanna and Benedikt play in the river, prewar Poland

    Hanna and her father walk around a beach. She plays in the water. He stands around. They sit together next to what appear to be small railroad tracks. Pan up to a large flagpole (flag with circle in the middle).