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Language of Description: Romanian

  1. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  2. Wooden horse and wagon pull toy

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn512925
    • English
    • 1940-1945
    • overall: Height: 12.598 inches (31.999 cm) | Width: 9.449 inches (24 cm) overall: Height: 18.110 inches (45.999 cm) | Width: 5.906 inches (15.001 cm) | Depth: 7.087 inches (18.001 cm)

    The toy was created by for Max Arpels-Lezer by his rescuer while he was in hiding in the Netherlands during the Holocaust. Max (Marcus) Lezer was born Oct. 9, 1936, in Assen, Netherlands, to Flora (Arpels) and Solomon Lezer. In the summer of 1942, Solomon and Flora sent Max to his grandparents in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, for a holiday. During Sept. 1942 Flora was arrested and sent to Westerbork transit camp and then to Auschwitz where she perished. After Flora's arrest, Solomon felt he could no longer care for Max and arranged for him to be placed in hiding.

  3. German POWs

    Captured German POWs are marched in a column by American soldiers, who smile into the camera. Motorcycles drive past the column of prisoners. The camera pans across POWS, some of whom are wounded. POWs sit in a field. They stand in rows and are counted. POWs shown removing dead/wounded Allied soldiers from a field. A crowded shot of POWs shown lying or sitting switches to much smaller groups of three or four, who look at the camera. Wounded, including a man with a large bandage over his eye. POWs receiving medical treatment. Supplies being unloaded from a truck. Prisoners behind barbed wire...

  4. Ushomirsky family letters

    Contains the photocopied official documents, personal letters, postcards, and handwritten poems of the Ushomirsky family. The letters span the 1940s through the 1950s, while the official documents are primarily from before the Second World War.

  5. Policajné riaditeľstvo v Bratislave

    • Police Directorate in Bratislava

    The fonds contains documents of the Police directorate in Bratislava, the police and state security body with competences over the territory of the capital of Bratislava and several nerby towns. It contains documents on anti-Jewish persecution during the period of year 1938 – 1945 such as various lists of Jews created by the state administration and police bodies in Bratislava. It also contains the applications of individuals for the recognition of non-Jewish origin/status or applications of indivituals for the exemption from the obligation to wear the mandatory sign of a Jew. There are als...

  6. Magyar Izraeliták Országos Képviselete iratai. Jogügyi Osztály

    • Documents of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites. Legal Department

    The largest part of this vast collection was created in the years 1959 to 1963 and contains ample information on what happened to individuals and families during the Holocaust in Hungary. The documents were collected by the Magyar Izraeliták Országos Képviselete Jogügyi Osztálya (the Legal Department of the National Representation of Hungarian Israelites). They were employed as evidence in Holocaust-related legal cases such as compensation cases and cases to determinate pensions. Next to personal recollections, the collection includes testimonies taken by notaries and certificates issued by...

  7. Selected records related to evacuation from the State Archive of the Republic of Mari El, Russian Federation

    Contains various records and correspondence files created by the Soviet Government and Communist Party authorities related to the evacuation of civilians to the Republic Mari El during WWII. It includes lists of evacuees, statistical data, information about food and medical supplies etc provided by the above-named authorities to the evacuated population.

  8. Simon Silver collection

    Consists of one typescript biography, 44 pages, entitled: "Simon: from Darkness at the Break of Noon 'til Dawn's Early Light, an Abridged Oral History" by Dave Hunterman (pen name), written in 2011. Huntermann describes the experiences of his father, Simon Silver, who was born in Chelm, Poland. After the German invasion and after briefly spending time in the Warsaw ghetto, he returned to Chelm and managed to briefly escape deportation. He was sent on a death march and bribed a Nazi soldier with a gold coin to avoid being shot. Simon, his brother, brother-in-law, and friend escaped during a ...

  9. Documentation of the Minsk District administration, 1941-1944

    Documentation of the Minsk District administration, 1941-1944 The Collection includes commands and orders for restricting the rights of Jews in the Minsk area; correspondence of the area administrations regarding two Jews; list of Jews from the Ostroshitskiy Gorodek Ghetto; list of Jews who paid an agricultural tax to the District administration in Ostroshitskiy Gorodek, 1941-1942; correspondence of the Minsk District Police with the (Gebietskommissar) District Commissioner regarding Jews and children of mixed marriages residing in the Minsk District, 1942; official documentation regarding ...

  10. Mutual Credit Bank in Kielce. A Cooperative Ltd. Kielecki Wzajemny Kredyt Spółdzielnia z o.o. (Sygn. 1405)

    Financial records of one of the Jewish banks in Kielce, including are: a statute, minutes of the General Assembly of the Supervisory Board and Board of Directors, minutes of sessions of the Board of Cooperative, books of registers and shares, and a cash book.

  11. Records of the Jewish organization Karen Hayesod (East Galicia - Malopolska branch) (Fond 335, Opis 1)

    The collection includes fundraising appeals, circulatory letters of the Central Bureau of the organization in Jerusalem, annual reports concerning various activities of the organization in the region during the interwar period. The bulk of collection consists of various correspondence files with the local branches of the organization, sister organizations worldwide and membership lists.

  12. Five Cities

    Yiddish titles. English title, "Jewish Life in Vilna" Pan, overview of the city of Vilna, showing broad streets, traffic, large buildings, pedestrians. Shows Vilna's famous landmarks: the Strashun Library, Shnipeshiker Cemetery, and the YIVO Institute. Elderly woman prays. In Jewish quarter, clocks displayed on EXT of buildings, Yiddish signs, narrow streets with shops, people engaged in the rituals and realities of daily existence at work selling wares on the street, resting. Men with horses and buggies wait for passengers at square. CUs, children. Street scenes, pedestrians, shops, signs,...

  13. Broder Family collection

  14. Documentation of the German rule in Grodno, 1941-1942

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 13242665
    • English, Hebrew
    • 1941-1942
    • Appeal to the authorities Approval Correspondence Instruction List of craftspeople List of forced laborers List of Jewish residents List of workers Official documentation Questionnaire

    Documentation of the German rule in Grodno, 1941-1942 The Collection includes an appeal by the Jewish community to the municipal administration asking to install a sewer system in the main synagogue; an appeal by the person in charge of the Polish cemetery to the municipal administration regarding the payment of salaries to Jewish workers; permit granted by the mayor of Grodno to have a worker enter the ghetto for repair work; correspondence of the municipal administration with the Municipal Governor (Stadtkommissar-City Commissioner) regarding the confiscation of the Jewish bathhouse and i...

  15. Kurt L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Kurt L., who was born in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1910. He recalls his father's prosperous cattle business; attending law school; Hitler's ascent to power; antisemitic laws prohibiting him from practicing law; studying in Basel; an unsuccessful attempt to establish a business in Casablanca; living in Paris and Brussels; returning to Germany; obtaining a ten-day visa to visit the United States; traveling to New York; spending three months in Havana obtaining documents to return to the United States; his parents' visit in 1937; their return to Germany, not liking the U.S.;...

  16. Sentencing Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg Trial (SOUND ONLY)

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen,. SOUND ONLY. Sentences pronounced by tribunal: Arthur Seyss-Inquart: Death (02:08:54) Albert Speer: 20 years (02:08:18) Constantin von Neurath: 15 years (02:09:45) Martin Bormann: Death in absentia (02:10:06) 02:10:27 British Justice Geoffrey Lawrence registers dissent of the Soviet Justice on the ver...

  17. Michele Sabatello papers

    The collection consists of false identity cards belonging to Renate Piperno and Fausto Sabatello; letters and notes written by Michele Sabatello in the Fossoli concentration camp; a document excluding a representative of a cheese factory from work; a document from the Archbishop of Florence; a document from Massalombarda SA; an identity pass permit for work along with a photograph for Pietro Ansuinelli (a false identity of Fausto Sabatello); a ration card for bread and soup; and an announcement by Fausto Sabatello, searching for his brother Michele Sabatello.

  18. Selected records from the National Archives of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

    Records relate to the Fünfbrunnen concentration camp. Included are name lists of Jews deported from Luxembourg to Poland, Sipo reports on arrested Jews and resistance members, investigation files and survivor accusation statements against Gestapo man Fritz Hartmann, and excerpts from the trial of Gestapo man Klöker and many others charged with war crimes in 1948.

  19. Frieda and Max Reinach diary

    Contains a handwritten diary by Frieda (née Schwarzschild, 1887–1942) and Marcus (Max, 1878–1942) Reinach. Frieda and Max Reinach kept a diary in Berlin from September 1, 1939 to October 24, 1942. On October 26, 1942, they were deported to Riga, and later Kaiserwald concentration camp where they were murdered. The diary describes their life under the Nazi occupation. The collection also includes an English translation, a short history of how the diary reached the United States, and three photographs of the Reinach family members: Ilana Schwartz with her mother, Ilana Schwartz with her fathe...

  20. The unshed tears

    Although written as fiction, many of the details in "The unshed tears" are based on the experiences of Edith Hofman Birkin and her family during the Holocaust. It describes how the main character, Judith Baron, was deported from Prague to the Łódź ghetto and later to Monowitz; forced to work in Kristianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen; and later participated in a death march. The manuscript also details her liberation and her attempts to return to a normal life. "The unshed tears" was written in 1950, soon after Edith Birkin arrived in England.