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  1. Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz, and Rimalower family papers

    Contains correspondence, photographs, poems and various other documents relating to the persecution and incarceration of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, especially at Gurs concentration camp in France. Also contains information about attempts at emigration by members of the Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz, and Rimalower families.

  2. Ferdinand and Halina Birnhack letter

    The letter, sent by Halina and Ferdinand Birnhack to Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Beckenstein on 08 April 1949, expresses thanks for assistance and explain their need for clothing and food. The Birnhacks were "adopted" by the Beckensteins through B'nai B'rith. The letter also describes the Birnhack's plans for emigration to Israel.

  3. Selected records from the National Archives of Moldova

    Various documents relating to internment of Jews in several ghettos in Romania and Bessarabia; administration of the Chișinău ghetto (including census information); the ghetto in Bălți ; the ghetto in Soroca; activities of the police in the Chișinău ghetto; disposal of Jewish property; deportations of Jews from Bessarabia to Transnistria (Ukraine); and executions of Romanian Jews.

  4. Wrist watch with a brown leather strap removed from Sobibor

    The watch was removed from Sobibor, Poland by Zindel Honigman when he escaped.

  5. Luba Krugman Gurdus photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph album with approximately 46 images documenting the early life of Robert Michael Gurdus (1938-1942; donor's son) who died in the Holocaust, as well as the kindergarten in Netanyah, Israel, dedicated to his memory by his parents (1978).

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 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. The Liberators: The Liberation by the Criminal Army! Political poster of the French resistance group Manouchian network

  8. Joel Shapiro bronze sculpture

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7314
    • English
    • 1993
    • a: Height: 288.000 inches (731.52 cm) | Width: 180.000 inches (457.2 cm) | Depth: 102.000 inches (259.08 cm) b: Height: 96.000 inches (243.84 cm) | Width: 60.000 inches (152.4 cm) | Depth: 90.000 inches (228.6 cm)

    Joel Shapiro site-specific sculpture displayed outdoors in the 15th Street Plaza of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The towering work is constructed from two bronze forms suggesting a symbolic dialog addressing the disintegration of families and the tragedy of lives interrupted by the Holocaust. It was commissioned by the Museum's Art in Public Spaces program.

  9. Charles Marks photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken by Charles Marks while in the United States Army Air Forces. The photographs depict Red Cross workers uncovering buried bodies in Lyons, France in November 1944.

  10. Children in Berestowitz, Poland

    Children stand in front of BIBLIOTEKA.

  11. Bernard Rechnitz memoir

    This collection includes a memoir written by Bernard Rechnitz from 1946-1947. In the memoir Bernard records his thoughts on what happened during the Holocaust and recounts his family’s experiences from 1939-1943. Bernard writes about life before the war, moving his family from Katowice to Kraków, the German invasion, confiscation of Jewish property, and their imprisonment in the Płaszów labor camp. The collection also includes a translation of the diary.

  12. 157th Infantry Association records relating to the liberation of Dachau

    Contains information about the liberation of Dachau on 29 April 1945 by the 42nd and 45th U.S. Infantry Divisions. Additionally, donor Felix Sparks provides background on Dachau and his recollections of its liberation and aftermath (e.g., encounter with General George S. Patton Jr. over threatened courts martial of 45th Infantry Division members in connection with events during liberation). Also included are re-created excerpts of unit daily journals during the time of Dachau liberation with explanatory notes added by Sparks.

  13. Selected records from the Romanian Information Service

    Reports, lists, orders, correspondence, court documents, and testimonies relating to the surveillance of Romanian Jews (including Chief Rabbi Moses David Rosen), Jewish organizations, foreigners in Romania, and members of the Iron Guard (Garde de Fier) by the Serviciul Special de Informatii and other agencies; the special taxes, forced labor, and morale of Jews; the establishment of the Czernowitz (Chernivt︠s︡i) ghetto; the deportation of Jews from Transylvania and other locations to Transnistria (Ukraine); the emigration of Jews from Romania to Palestine; Romanian Jews in concentration cam...

  14. Records relating to the Jewish community of Melʹnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ (a.k.a. Melnitze or Melnica), Poland

    Contains information about the German invasion of Melnitsa, Poland, on 26 June 1941; the killing of Jews in Melnitsa suspected as communists; homes inhabited by Jewish families; and the fate of the Jewish families of the community during the Holocaust.

  15. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm (Sygn.72)

    Contains information about activities of Gendarmerie personnel in Schrimm (Srem), Poland; use of Poles from the Schrimm area for labor; activities of the SS, Gestapo, and local police in Poznań, Poland; treatment of POWs; treatment and persecution of Roma; members of the Reinefarthe Gruppe (police personnel from Schrimm) taking part in the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; participation of the gendarmerie in the expulsion of Poles from their homes and settlement of Germans in their places; Polish orphans transferred to the camp at Łódź, Poland; establishment of a youth camp at Ł...

  16. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Hermansbad (Ciechocinek, Poland) (Sygn. 71)

    Contains information about the persecution of Jews and Roma; resettlement of Polish and German nationals; homosexuals placed in preventive custody; deportations of Jews and non-Jews; Jewish communities; Jews transported to Chelmno killing center in April 1942; Jewish labor battalions; escaped prisoners of war; political prisoners; statistics on Jewish populations; expropriation of Jewish property; killing of Jews who tried to escape from Inowroclaw (a.k.a Hohensalza) Ghetto; transports; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; and compulsory and slave labor, Reel 1 contains collections of newsletters or Mel...

  17. Selected records from the Belarus Central State Archives, Minsk

    Contains orders, lists, reports, correspondence, and various other records relating to activities of the Haupteisenbahndirektion (HBD) Mitte; activities of the Reichsverkehrsdirektion(RVD) Mitte; railroad construction in occupied areas; railroad personnel; activities of partisans; combating partisans; use of labor in the railroad system; persecution of Jews and Roma; killing of Jews; transports to Minsk, Belarus; activities of the Organization Todt; activities of Einsatzgruppen; and activities of German police while fighting partisans. Also included are materials relating to investigations ...

  18. Market scenes in Warsaw

    Market scene. BAZAR sign. People, carts, horses. Shops line busy streets. Kiosks with posters. Some signs in Cyrillic.

  19. Romani people in Yugoslavia

    English intertitles. "Metrotone hits the Romany Trail: A Visit to a Camp of Cheerful Gypsies in the Balkan Mountains" Roma children and adults dancing and playing instruments (and seated, watching) outside tents. Some good MCU, mostly MS. Dust, bright sun, haze/smoke? Smiles everywhere. Great CUs of Roma boys singing. Kids swarm around visitor who is giving out "coppers." Romani woman reads fortune of visitor from cards.

  20. King Lear in Yiddish; Habima Players

    There are burn-in time codes on the intermediate Betacam SP (Protection) video. There is no way to order a clean copy. Prominent actor, Solomon Mikhoels, of the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, in his dressing room, applying makeup. Starkly lit closeup of Mikhoels as King Lear. Another prominent Jewish theater group in the Soviet Union, the Habima Players, perform an ancient Hebrew dance.