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  1. "The Three Lives of the Polish War Hero; Emile H. Szlechter"

    Consists of one article entitled "The Three Lives of the Polish War Hero; Emile H. Szlechter," written by his stepson, Reinhold Beuer-Tajovsky. The article describes Szlechter's life as a lawyer in Lwów, fighting in the Polish Army immediately after the German invasion in 1939, and having to flee to Romania, leaving his wife and daughters, to avoid capture. From Romania, he made his way to France and joined the Free Polish Army, spending the war as a member of the French resistance group in the Toulouse-Haute Garonne region. After the war, he discovered his family had perished and married H...

  2. Panorama from the moving boardwalk at the Paris Exposition

    The Paris Exposition in July 1900 taken from the moving platform that was put on the boardwalk for the Exposition. People run on the moving boardwalk. Street vendors. National pavilions for the Paris Exposition are in the BG. Sign: "Champ de Mars Porte Rapp." Children fight in the corner. Pan taken from a bridge of a large building, trees. People walking.

  3. Belgian couples tour Germany; "Jews not wanted here" sign

    The de Brouwers and their neighbors Joseph and Yvonne de Hemptinne, continue on a self-guided tour through Germany in July 1936. Map of Germany and a sketch of the Neiderwald statue in Rudesheim with the title "Visite a le Germania." Landscape and towns by the banks of the Rhine taken from a boat. 00:14:39 Yvonne, Denise, and Joseph pose and walk towards the camera. 00:14:50 CUs of the Neiderwald monument. Tourists at the monument overlooking the Rhine. 00:15:01 Sketch of two beer steins and the title "Ein Zweite Prosit." Joseph and Carl drink in a restaurant. Men play a guitar and an accor...

  4. Josef Bosak photograph

    Photograph of former staff of the Zacharia Bosak metal wholesale shop, located at 6 Kupa Street in Krakow, Poland. The shop was overtaken and run by Germans.

  5. Prayer book

    Prayer book belonging to David Halberstam in which he inscribed dates and information about his and his first family's capture and experiences. David was originally from Gorlice, Poland, and survived multiple concentration camps. His wife and his father were deported and killed at Belzec killing center. After the war, he emigrated to North America.

  6. Regina Holczer collection

    Consists of one handwritten poem, in Polish, which was presented in Zbąszyń, Poland to Regina Holzer for her birthday on January 22, 1939. The poem was written and presented by German Jews who were ethnically Polish and were expelled to Zbąszyń, Poland, in 1938, and the text celebrates Holzer's assistance with cooking and food, noting that next year they will be in the United States. Also includes a copy print depicting a group of Jews sent to Zbąszyń, including Regina, taken in 1938. Includes an English language translation of the poem.

  7. Epstein family collection

    The Epstein family collection, circa 1920-1979, includes official documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the family’s experiences during World War II. The majority of the collection relates to Julian Epstein (1889-1943), a Jewish opera singer and jeweler, who was imprisoned in a series of French internment camps and died at the Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp in Poland. The collection includes a series of letters between Julian and his wife Margarete (1898-1988) written between 1938 and 1943. The collection also contains photographs of the Epstein family before and after ...

  8. Illustration 4 from a handmade portfolio of illustrations by Herbert Heyne and Erich Kästner

    Book of illustrations sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst. The book was a gift from Heyne to Furst and was written with Erich Kästner in 1945. It features color illustrations by Heyne and offers a comical and critical depiction of National Socialism and Nazi militarism.

  9. Wehrmacht Siege Game box, board, instructions, dice, and 29 tokens

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50725
    • English
    • 1941
    • a: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) b: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) c: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) d: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) e: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) f: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) g-k: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) l-q: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) r-t: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) u-v: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) w-x: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) y: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) z-ai: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)

    Belagerungs-Spiel (Siege game) Sturmangriff (Assault) board game with original box, instructions, 2 dice, and 29 playing pieces produced in Nazi Germany in 1941. This version features different divisions of the Wehrmacht, the unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany. The colorful game board has images of Army Panzers, Luftwaffe airplanes, including a Stuka dive bomber and a blimp, and paratroopers attacking and occupying a green, fertile landscape with rivers and plowed fields, with the game diagram of red and black connecting lines and intersecting dots. The siege or fortress game, a popular w...

  10. Family at their home in Belgium during World War II

    In COLOR, various scenes of the de Brouwers at St. Denis-Westrem. CUs of Denise in a fur coat relaxing in the family garden; Carl poses near the apiary; Denise gathers flowers and smokes at a table decorated with flowers and tea; Madeleine, the cook's daughter, and Colette watch the Jersey cows; CUs of a local worker; CUs of Carl and Denise playing with Jean-Marie. 00:19:34 Jacques and Birgitte recite a poem.

  11. Sally and Erna Isenberg tour Geneva and vicinity

    [VQ begins poor] Erna in bed. EXT of Geneva with apartments and river. Another view of Erna reading or writing in bed followed by city views. 01:00:34 An outdoor entertaining space on street level. Street scenes and lake-views. People with umbrellas on a platform. CUs of Erna eating. Cat jumps off ledge. Erna Isenberg walks by a train. Erna types on a typewriter. Scenic views of landscape. INT, pan of dining room with tables and waiters in tuxedos. Views of a boat on a lake from hotel window. City street scenes, bicycles, traffic. 01:04:05 Entrance to Hotel Beau Rivage in Geneva, Switzerlan...

  12. Gerhard (Gershon) Hoffman correspondence

    Two (2) letters written by Gerhard [Gershon] Hoffman (donor's father) from Hamburg, Germany in 1945. The first letter, originally written and sent to Herbert Mosheim in the United Kingdom in 1945, describes in great detail Gerhard's experiences during the war, beginning with the round-up of Jews in Hamburg in November 1941, and being sent with his family to the Minsk Ghetto, where he was a forced laborer from 1941 to 1943, and the mass liquidations and murders that took place. He also describes his transport to a succession of concentration camps beginning in September 1943, in Lublin, and ...

  13. German gramophone with a red painted bell and carved oak base

    Gramophone of the type used in German homes during the Nazi era, 1933-1945. Propaganda was an essential tool of the Nazi government. They understood the power of emerging technologies, such as phonographs, radio, and television, to disseminate their message into homes and workplaces. Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda encouraged the production of home listening devices at affordable prices.

  14. Dedication of land for Jewish refugees in the Philippines, 1940

    Dedication of Mariquina Hall in Manila on April 23, 1940. President Manuel Quezon offered this private land (called Mariquina Hall) to the Jewish Rescue Committee in order to provide housing for Jewish refugees. Guests gather outdoors. 01:02:51 Alex Frieder speaks to the audience, while President Quezon sits at the table to the side. 01:03:05 President Quezon addresses the crowd, Herbert Frieder in back. Quezon shakes hands with some men on the stage. Alex Frieder and President Quezon walk together through the crowd to survey the land. CUs, side views of President Quezon speaking. The camer...

  15. Hanna Keselman collection

    Consists of two Catholic prayer cards given to Hanna Rawicz (now Hanna Keselman) in the French convent of Viale Regina Margerita in Rome, Italy, in June 1944. The prayer cards, both of which seem to depict the Virgin Mary, have handwritten messages written by Catholic sisters noting on the verso that these cards are for Hanna's protection.

  16. Association of Former Residents of Glębokie photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting relatives and organizations in Glębokie, Poland (today: Glubokoe, Belarus) before the war and after the war when the survivors returned to memorialize their families murdered by the local residents and by the Germans. Collection of newspapers published in Glębokie in 1936-1938 (transferred to USHMM Library). Albums documenting Jewish life in Glębokie after the war and in Israel; manuscripts; correspondence and documentation of the activities of the Association of Former Residents of Glębokie.

  17. Moses and Esther Goldberg photographs

    Consists of three original post-war photographs and two copyprints of Moses and Esther Glodowska Goldberg, both of whom were originally from Poland. Includes small portraits of both Moses and Esther, a portrait of Esther taken in the Pocking displaced persons camp, and two copyprints of Moses working as a baker. The copyprints show that Moses had been given a tattoo on his right forearm.

  18. "Zug Bist Ahtzen"

    Consists of one typed memoir entitled "Zug Bist Ahtzen" ["Say You're Eighteen"] as told by Auschwitz survivor Gary S. Rubinstein to his grandson, Benyamin Moalem. In the memoir, Mr. Rubinstein describes the German invasion of his hometown of Wołomin, Poland. He describes being placed in a ghetto and his attempted escape to Łomża, Poland, in the fall of 1942. Almost immediately upon his arrival, the Jews of Lomza were marched to Zambrów , and, six weeks later, deported to Auschwitz. He was assigned to Kanada, where he sorted prisoner belongings and describes both the Nazi officers smugglin...

  19. Alex Frieder and family visit tobacco plantations and workers in the provinces

    A Filipino man riding a water buffalo takes Alex Frieder for a ride in a cart pulled by the buffalo. Tobacco field, possibly in the Cagayan Valley and other provinces in the Philippines. Native Filipino men stand before bamboo hut. Alex inspects tobacco leaves for purchase. Alex talks with villagers. Locals show him how to row a bangka (an outrigger canoe) across a stream. 01:02:22 Village women squat and sort tobacco leaves. Wider view of the hut with a thatched roof. 01:03:04 Frieder gets a tour. INTs, women pound grain and tobacco leaves. 01:03:29 A woman (with a cigar) and her young chi...

  20. Sgt. Edward Tinter collection

    Correspondence includes letters written by Sgt. Edward Tinter (donors' father) to his wife Clara Tinter, during his service in the 9th Armored Division of the US Army during WWII; dated 1944-1945, collection of "Stars and Stripes", dated 1944-1945, and photographs depicting Sgt. Edward Tinter during his military service.