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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Edith Fraenkel/Hamburg found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  2. Dried pressed flower brought to the US by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    Dried pressed flower found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  3. Dried pressed flower brought to the US by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    Dried pressed flower found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  4. Dr. Ilsen About collection

    Consists of eight photographs of members of the SS in Oświęcim, Poland, in September 1939 and in Leżajsk, Poland in October 1939. Captions are written on the verso.

  5. Prayer book

  6. Prayer book

  7. Prayer book

  8. An Unknown World, Stories of Jewish Family Life of Judae Eine Unbekannte Welt...

    Contains a book entitlted "Eine Unbekannte Welt," published in 1907 by Laenger & Friedberg, Frankfurt am Main, about stories of Jewish family life.

  9. Devotion Book for Mourning and Death Anniversaries Andachtsbuch für Trauer und Jahrzeit [Book]

    Jewish mourning book to commemorate death of a relative.

  10. Documents from memorial book for Simon Mannheimer

    Contains four photographs of tombstones and one Yahrtzeit leaflet, found inserted into a Jewish memorial book issued for Simon Mannheimer.

  12. Prayer book

  13. Arditti family photographs

    The Arditti family photographs consist of 62 family photographs mounted on photograph album pages. The images depict members of the Arditti family, a Turkish Jewish family from Smyrna, who emigrated from Turkey to France in 1920. Identified family members include Jacques Arditti, his parents, his brother and sister, his sister’s son, Jean-Pierre Franck, and his wife, Jacqueline Guiard. Photographs also depict Leon and Nelly Jaffe and their children, Albert and Liliane, who were relatives on Jacques’ mother’s side. Most of the photographs were taken in France, in Joinville-le-Pont, Deauville...

  14. Marko Spitzer photographs

    The Marko Spitzer photographs include three photographs of the family of Marko Spitzer’s uncle Sandor in Osijek, Yugoslavia (today Croatia). The photographs depict Sandor, Ema and Ivica with Ema's family in Osijek; Ivica walking in Osijek circa 1939; and Sandor and Ema with Ivica circa 1930.

  15. Clarence Kuhn photographs

    Consists of photographs and photographic postcards taken and collected by Clarence W. (Toby) Kuhn, a medic in the United States Army during World War II. Includes images taken at the Dachau concentration camp and at Berchtesgaden (including both original and Signal Corps photographs), photographs collected from German soldiers, and postcards.

  16. Dress worn by a child while in hiding

  17. Eric Otto Sonneman collection

    Consists of documents and photographs related to Eric Otto Sonneman, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes documents for application for a U.S. visa: his resume, school records, letters of recommendation for his work as a pharmacist’s apprentice and for his role as leader of the Jewish youth group Bund Deutsch-Jüdischer Jugend, character references, and forms prior to his emigration to the United States in 1939. Also includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Sonneman and family, as well as testimony written by his father, Kurt Sonnemann, describing the circuitous journey th...

  18. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket

    The jacket was issued to Henry Mikols in the Buchenwald concentration camp.

  19. Hemda Gold photograph collection

    Collection of pre-war family photographs which depict the Barzyslewski and Goldin family in Poland; dated 1920s-1939; most captioned on verso in Yiddish

  20. Supreme National Tribunal Sprawy organizacyjne Najwyższego Trybunału Narodowego (NTN), (Sygn.196)

    This collection contains selected records relating to the general organization of the Supreme National Tribunal (NTN), including are lists of completed cases, official correspondence of the NTN Secretariat, reports, minutes, and the logbook of correspondence.