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

  2. Polish Red Cross, Regional Agency in Częstochowa Polski Czerwony Krzyż. Oddział Terenowy w Częstochowie (Sygn.1050)

    This collection contains lists of Polish civilians murdered by the Germans during the occupation. The booklet contains lists submitted by the families of people killed in Częstochowa and during the September campaign, and the German occupation. Contains also a list of widows, orphans and other family members of fallen participants in the resistance movement. The lists include also Jewish names. Lists were compiled in 1945-1946.

  3. Identification tag from the crematorium at Buchenwald

    Tag issued under the Nazi regime to be used for identification purposes of a deceased victim.

  4. Daniil Romanovsky collection

    Collection of testimonies of the Holocaust survivors and eyewitnesses recorded by historian Daniil Romanovsky and Mikhail Ryvkin in 1980-1990s in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.

  5. Selected records from the State Archives in Osijek, Croatia

    Records related to the history of the Jewish Community of Osijek, and the Osijek region, Croatia, which includes the towns of Nasice, Donji Miholjac, Čepin, and Baranja county. This collection includes selected records from various archival collections related to the confiscation and nationalization of Jewish property (houses, shops, factories etc.), inventories of Jewish property, petitions of local Jews to free members of their families who are imprisoned in concentration camps (Djakovo, Jacenovac and other), discriminatory orders and decrees of the local municipalities related to the Jew...

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 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.

  7. Book 2nd subtitle: "The Father of the Jew is a Devil" [trans.]

    Children's book disseminating anti-semitic propaganda

  8. Josef Hirschhorn collection

    Consists of a copyprint of a portrait of Josef Hirschhorn, originally of Oradea, Romania. Also includes a letter written by Hirschhorn on Sachsenhausen camp stationery, dated 13 August 1944, prior to his death, presumably at Sachsenhausen. It was the last letter the family received from Hirschhorn.

  9. Honey cookie crumbs from a package sent by her parents to a Hungarian Jewish girl

  10. Prayer book

  11. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center

    The Star of David was worn by Al Mondroe, or Mondrowicz, during the Holocaust while he was interned in the Łódź Ghetto. He hid the Star, returned to Łódź and retrieved it after the Holocaust ended.

  12. Oral history interview with Emma Lazar

  14. Leon Buchholz collection

    Collection of documents, newspapers and correspondence concerning the Union Générale des Israélites de France [UGIF], for whom Leon Buchholz (donor's great uncle) worked during World War II. Included in the collection is almost a complete weekly newspaper series issued by the UGIF entitled "Bulletin," as well as correspondence received by the UGIF, unused stationary for the American Joint Distribution Committee, receipts of packages sent from UGIF, and reports of Viennese Jewish Community and deportees.

  15. Ida Marcus collection

    Consists of photographs and portraits, mostly pre-war, of members of the extended family of Ida Marcus (née Vanowsky/ Yarnilyski, also known as Chaie Marksfeld, later Fentel), originally of Russia. The family members pictured, some of whom lived in Łódź, all likely perished in the Holocaust. Also includes copies of Ida Marcus's naturalization papers and a copy of her daughter Minna's birth certificate.

  16. Shoebrush made by underground resistance member

    Shoe brush made by an underground resistance member, Michael Bochner, while hiding underground, circa 1941-1945, Poland.

  17. Silent Heroes Entschädigungsamt Berlin. Unbesungene Helden (B Rep. 078)

    Contains a unique set of records documenting the cases of non-Jewish Germans who helped Jews hide. The collection contains unique stories of hiding of Jews in the West Berlin area through testimonies from helpers and survivors, including investigation if the information could be verified. The collection is a result of an early attempt and initiative of the Berlin senate between 1958-1966 to honor helpers in the Berlin area, on instigation of the Berlin Minister of Interior, Joachim Lippschitz. 1500 files were created which precedes Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations Initiative. It giv...

  18. RZ 214, Referat D/Abteilung Inland

    Contains records relating to Nazi party movements in Germany and other countries, concentration camps, elections, emigration, the Kapp Putsch, reports on Jews around the world, expatriations, individuals like Thomas Mann, the exile press, Vatican reports, Pius XII, and Bishop Hudal. Included also are reports on hostility against Germans around the world, records on “relocation” issues in Eastern Europe, youth movements in Europe, "Jewish Question'" around the world, Dienststelle Ribbentrop, Jews in Bulgaria, the sterilization of “ Rheinland Bastarde”, and on racial questions.

  19. Allach porcelain figurine found by a US Army nurse in Dachau concentration camp post-liberation

    Porcelain figure of a “Gaukler mit Dolch” (Juggler with Dagger) manufactured by slave labor and acquired by United States Army nurse Helen Rickert at Dachau concentration camp. Helen was deployed to the Mediterranean in March 1943, and served as an Operating Room nurse with the Second Auxiliary Surgical Group in Africa, Italy, France, and Germany. The Porzellan-Manufaktur Allach (PMA) was founded in 1935 in the Munich suburb of Allach. It produced decorative porcelain pieces with the goal of developing a new echelon of German artistic taste. The factory quickly became a pet-project of SS Re...

  20. Portfolio

    Set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski; published by Muencher Graphische Kunststalten GMBH, F. Bruckmann KG, 1948, Munich, Germany.