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  1. Handbill

  2. Handbill

    German Weekly Review, Nr.85

  3. Handbook

    Home health care manual given and inscribed to Marianne Schüler by Martin Gerson, a pioneer in the Hachshara movement, who knew her when she was in Gut Winkel, a Zionist youth camp in Germany. Martin Gerson did not survive the war. Marianne emigrated to the Dominican Republic in 1940.

  4. Handcrafted artifacts from prewar Poland collection

    The collection consists of artifacts handcrafted in Poland from 1920-1941.

  5. Handcrafted commemorative coin medallion created for a US crew member on an illegal immigrant ship

    Small medal commissioned by Paul Kaye to memorialize the imprisonment of the crew and passengers of the illegal immigrant ship, Hatikvah, on May 18, 1947, after their capture at sea by the British on May 17 during a voyage to Palestine. It was carrying nearly 1500 Jewish refugees, mostly Holocaust survivors. The medal was made from a hand flattened Cyprian piaster coin by an artist, name unknown, that Paul met in the internment camp on Cyprus. It is etched with the names, Hatikvah and Cyprus, an image of the ship, and an image of the detention camp; the initials of Paul’s nephew, Joseph Ros...

  6. Handkerchief

    White handkerchief that belonged to Eugen Fellner.

  7. Handkerchief of Sarah Goldberg. Collection

    This silk handkerchief shows the following embroidery: a forearm with the number 51825 and small triangle, the words "Auschwitz! Buchenwald! Belsen! N'oublions jamais…" and a red decorative border. On the back, in pencil, the words "Un jour à Laurenskirche" appear.

  8. Handkerchief received as a Hannukah present

    Handkerchief given to Ilse Meyer as a Hannukah present while at Rotterdam Kloster.

  9. Handknit green sweater worn by a young girl while living in hiding in the Lvov sewers

    Handknit, green, short sleeve sweater worn by 7 year old Krystina Chiger when she lived in hiding in the sewers of Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine), from June 1943 to July 1944. Krystyna had watched her paternal grandmother knit the sweater in the home they shared before the German invasion of Poland in 1939. After the German occupation of Lvov in June 1941, Krystyna watched from hiding as this grandmother and Krystyna’s young cousin, Inga, were loaded into a truck for deportation. Her grandmother waved in her direction and the guard hit her in the head with his rifle. The transport was presuma...

  10. Handmade American flag created by former concentration camp inmates and given to a U.S. liberator

    Handmade American flag given to U.S. Sergeant Donald Hall following the liberation of the Langenstein concentration camp in the spring of 1945. The flag was hand painted on a simple weave cloth, and given to Donald by grateful prisoners of the camp. Hall was drafted in August 1943 and served as a supply truck driver for the 331st Infantry Regiment, 83rd Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. In the weeks following the D-Day invasion in June 1944, the 83rd landed at Omaha Beach and fought in the Battle of the Bulge that December. In March 1945, they crossed Germany’s Rhine River and proceeded t...

  11. Handmade card sent to Walter Fuerst in 1950

    Handmade card sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst in 1950. The card was written and illustrated by Heyne.

  12. Handmade flax figure

    Small handmade braided flax figure with hat and shoes; mounted onto adhesive album page with “May 2, 1945” collaged separately beneath the doll; made for Irene on the occasion of her eighteenth birthday by a Polish Jewish girl who worked with Irene in the flax factory at Merzdorf, where they were liberated on May 8, 1945.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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...

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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...

  19. Handstreich gegen Kowno

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

  20. 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.