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  1. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  2. Léon Prays photograph collection

    Contains three black-and-white photographs of the donor visiting Miraville in Belgium, the children's home where he lived after the war; photos taken in 1956, when donor was on leave from military service.

  3. Eduard Wirths collection

    The Eduard Wirths collection relates to SS-Standortarzt Dr. Eduard Wirths (1909-1945), his family, and colleagues, before and while he was stationed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The collection consists of fifteen original photographs, some taken at Solahütte, a resort for Nazi personnel located at Auschwitz, and of other physicians, including Dr. Carl Clauberg (1898-1957). The collection also includes a 1944 presentation album, entitled, "SS Truppenlazarett erbaut von der Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei, Auschwitz OS 1944" which was created to document the const...

  4. Selected personal files of the beneficiaries of the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP) Teczki osobowe beneficjentów Fundacji Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP)

    This collection contains copies of 20,534 personal files of those assisted by the Fundacja Polsko-Niemieckie Pojednanie (FPNP). These files often contain beneficiary’s application (with individual call number) which details the places and conditions of work (forced labor); statements; accounts or testimonies; letters from the period of occupation and/or other documents (most often copies) in support of a claim; doctor’s certificates; notarized copies of archival documents; photographs; certificates from various institutions; and correspondence with the Foundation.

  5. Selected records of the social insurance institution in Żyrardów Ubezpieczalnia Społeczna w Żyrardowie (Sygn.105)

    Contains registers of people employed by Jewish enterprises: brick factories, sawmills, bakeries, tanneries in Biała Góra, Błonie, Grodzisk Mazowiecki, Izabelin, Milanówek, Skierniewice, Sochaczew and Warsaw, and the people employed by the Board of Jewish Religious Communities.

  6. Rose Shwarz collection

    Documents, correspondence, and photographs illustrating the experiences of Rose Shwarz in postwar German Displaced Persons Camps Bergen-Belsen and Mergentheim in Germany, and the United States, circa 1945-1948. Thesis written postwar by physician who interviewed survivors in Hocking.

  7. Mickey Mouse figurine in a handmade frame

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn519804
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.953 inches (7.501 cm) | Width: 1.181 inches (3 cm) c: Height: 3.937 inches (10 cm) | Width: 2.756 inches (7 cm) e: Height: 4.055 inches (10.3 cm) | Width: 2.205 inches (5.601 cm) | Depth: 0.709 inches (1.801 cm) f: Height: 5.197 inches (13.2 cm) | Width: 3.150 inches (8.001 cm) | Depth: 1.378 inches (3.5 cm) g: Height: 5.197 inches (13.2 cm) | Width: 3.150 inches (8.001 cm) | Depth: 0.709 inches (1.801 cm)

    Box containing small Mickey Mouse figure framed by an artificial flower garland that belonged to Pierre Seel, who at age 18 was arrested on May 3, 1941, in Mulhouse in German occupied France for homosexuality. His mother created the boxed setting with the toy as a memorial device to remember and protect her son. The flower garland was originally part of her wedding veil. Pierre was brutally tortured for 10 days by the Gestapo and then sent to Schirmeck-Vorbruck, a re-education camp near Natzwiller Struthof concentration camp in Alsace. The torture and abuse continued and he was a forced lab...

  8. Eve Lasch Whyte Drazen photograph collection

    Collection of photographs of Eve Lasch (later Eve Whyte and Eve Drazen) [donor's mother] before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes photo of her as a child in Czechoslovakia (c. 1938), and as a teenager after the war. Eve, who was Jewish, was imprisoned in the Liebenau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  9. Selected records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Poland in London. Office for War Crimes Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie. Biuro ds. Zbrodni Wojennych (Sygn. GK 159)

    This collection contains materials related to the research and investigation of perpetrators of war crimes such as: witness testimonies after the invasion of Germany in September 1939, reports of crimes committed against Poles on Polish territory and in Germany, lists of local German officials, Gestapo chief officers, guards of concentration camps, data related to concentration camps, German police authorities, accounts of Polish refugees about the conditions of life in Poland and crimes committed against civilians by the occupation authorities and Wehrmacht in the initial period of occupat...

  10. American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC), Kaunas office (Fond 1236)

    The collection contains financial records of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) in Kaunas and its branch offices across Lithuania.

  11. Dienemann family collection

    Photo album and loose photographs depicting the Dienemann family from Breslau and Waldenburg, Germany, sent to Lilo Dienemann (donor's mother) who left Germany on a Kindertransport to Sweden; photographs showing Lilo in Sweden. Includes a partial envelope in which the photo album was sent to Sweden. Documents include original and copies of birth certificate for George Dienemann (donor's maternal grandfather) (b. Boguszyce on 10/29/1895); birth certificate of Liselotte Dienemann (b. 10/3/1929 in Breslau); marriage certificate of George and Emma Johnsan Dieneman, married on 3/18/1926 in Walde...

  12. Licco Haim and friends on a late winter ski trip

    AGFA 8 1939. Title in Bulgarian with 1941 date, "Spring Snow on Maliovitsa" (a peak in the Rila mountains). A photo of the group of friends posing in ski clothing with names and the dates 22-25 March, Anny, Vasko, Shatsi, Licco, Ruska, Maria. Cross-country and downhill skiing on a mountain. Beautiful scenery. 01:11:20 Title with the group of named friends with the dates 5-7 April, Ruska, Vasko, Shatsi, and others. Additional skiing shots and mountain vistas, including the Rila monastery at 01:12:41. AGFA 8 1939 [8 distinguishes the film gauge of 8mm].

  13. Selected records of applications for distinctions for SS and police officers in the General Government Zbiór wniosków na odznaczenia dla funkcjonariuszy SS i Policji w Generalnym Gubernatorstwie (Sygn. GK 107),

    This collection contains legal regulations concerning the granting of distinctions and applications of SS and police chief officers of various ranks submitted to superior authorities in order to decorate subordinating officers with: crosses and war medals, the Iron Cross, distinctions for “courage,” “gallantry," and “fighting bandits.” Also included is correspondence related to the confirmation or rejection of applications. The applications for distinctions contain the following data: last and first names of the officer to be distinguished; date and place of birth; service attachment (home ...

  14. Selected redords of the Commission for the Investigation of Hitlerite crimes in Rawa Mazowiecka Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich (KBZH) w Rawie Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1029)

    Protocols of witnesses’ investigation of 1971-1984 concerning the crimes committed against Jews and the ghetto of Biała Rawska, a questionnaire concerning the crimes committed by the Wehrmacht in 1939, a register of places and facts of crimes committed in the area of Rawa Mazowiecka county, lists of those killed beyond the county boundaries, list of those murdered in camps, lists of those murdered on unidentified places.

  15. Eisenstadt family papers

    The collection contains pre-war photographs of the Eisenstadt family of Pinsk, Belarus, and post-war photographs of Boris Eisenstadt and his wife Rachel Eisenstadt (née Bak, later Burstein) of Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania and her son Alex in the Landsberg displaced persons camp in Bavaria, Germany. The documents are identification papers of Rachel from Landsberg and Israel. There is also a letter regarding her visa application to the United States from Canada, 1957.

  16. Ludwig Stern narrative about Theresienstadt

    One mimeographed typescript narrative, 16 pages, by Ludwig Stern, of Giessen, Germany, describing his experiences of being deported and interned at Theresienstadt from 1942-1945, as well as other experiences of persecution as a Jew in Germany prior to that. Written circa 1945. Stern describes various facets of life in Theresienstadt and of his own experiences there, including the conditions of lodging, the division and separation of families, the census of November 1943, visits to the camp by various delegations, including the visit of the Danish Red Cross, poor sanitary conditions, hospita...

  17. Selected records of the City Grodzisk Mazowiecki Akta Miasta Grodziska Mazowieckiego (Sygn. 36), 1869-1950

    Consists of ordinances of German authorities, registers of physicians and Jews obligated for forced labor; files of the Commissioner’s Administration of Jewish Properties, the resettlement of Jews to the "Jewish Housing Quarter”, and personal files of Jewish municipal workers, including Bernard Kampelmacher, who later was a member of “Oneg Szabat” (The Ringelblum Archives).

  18. Rabbi David Eliach collection

    Collection of photographs depicting the "Teheran Children," a group of approximately seventy observant children out of a group of 861 Jewish orphans, who were placed in the "Motza" children's agricultural colony under the leadership of David Eliach.

  19. Sylvia Holtzman Gavurin collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, correspondence, and transcripts concerning the experiences of Sylvia Holtzman Gavurin (donor's great aunt), who served as a stenographer and court reporter for the US Army during the Dachau War Crimes Trials following WWII.

  20. Bernard Beckerman photograph collection

    Contains a hand-made photo album and six loose photographs, assembled by Bernard Beckerman (donor’s father), who served in the 45th "Thunderbird" Infantry Division. Includes comments from Sergeant Beckerman about what he witnessed upon the liberation of Dachau in April 1945.