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

  1. Mezuzah pendant kept during his imprisonment by a concentration camp inmate

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8744
    • English
    • overall: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 0.980 inches (2.489 cm)

  2. Moskovits Archive: Court cases against Dierig Holding Company Archivo Moskovits: Prozess gegen Firma Dierig Holding

    Legal cases and correspondence related to the trial against Dierig Holding AG company that used forced and slave labor during Nazi era. It consist of lawsuits of Holocaust survivors and former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps against Dierig Holding company who worked as forced labors at company's branches in Nazi Germany. The trial took place in 1999.

  3. Moskovits Archive: Publications Archivo Moskovits: Publicaciones

    Contains 139 antisemitic publications published in Argentina between 1919 and 1987.

  4. Oral history interview with Robert L. Behrman

  6. Oral history interview with Rubin Minsky

  7. Harc! (New York, New York) [Newspaper]

  8. Leica camera and camera case

    The camera was purchased with money awarded as war reparations.

  9. Country Security Division, Prague Zemský odbor bezpečnosti Praha (300)

    Miscellaneous records related to evidence collected by the Czech secret police in the course of the investigation of Nazi crimes committed in the occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II. The following file is a small sub-collection within the larger collection of 9.5 linear meters. A large accretion of the files to follow at a later date.

  10. Minutes of the Commission of Spain Procès-verbaux de la Commission d'Espagne (B CR 212 PV)

    Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Spain and consists of correspondence, reports and minutes of the Commission. Contains documentation on military and civilian prisoners, visits to the internment...

  11. ICRC, Spanish Civil War Guerre d'Espagne (C ESCI)

    Records related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formed the so-called Commission d'Espagne (Commission of Spain) on August 26, 1936 which directed and coordinated all of the ICRC's humanitarian activities and operations within both the Republican and Nationalist territories. The collection covers the ICRC's humanitarian activities in Spain, in particular its work to identify prisoners and missing persons, facilitate prisoner exchanges, reunite families, and convey personal messages. Contains...

  12. U.S. War Bonds anti-Nazi leaflet

  13. Shoe worn by female prisoner in a concentration camp

    Shoe was worn by Lenke Keszler who was interned in a sub-camp of Riga. While Lenke was in Latvia, her foot became sore. She wrapped a blanket around her foot instead of wearing the shoe. Lenke was pulled away and killed in Latvia. Her daughter Clari saved the shoe and kept it while she was in hiding.

  14. Suitcase carried by a man emigrating from Nazi-occupied Germany

  15. Nazi banner removed from concentration camp

    Nazi war banner removed from a concentration camp.

  16. Tablespoon with scratched initials used by a German Jewish concentration camp inmate

    Stainless steel tablespoon with scratched initials used by Hans Finke while imprisoned in Auschwitz and several subcamps: Gleiwitz, Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg, and Bergen Belsen. Hans carried the spoon, a crucial piece of property, in his shoe during transfers, including a death march, from March 1943 until liberation in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship from 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. In February 1943, Hans, 23, an electrician, was a slave laborer for Siemens when he was hospital...

  17. Anti-Jewish propaganda printed between false cover of American dollar bill

  18. Parakowski family collection

    Photographs, documents, and correspondence from before, during and after WWII relating to the experiences of Jadwiga Wolinska (b. October 6, 1919 in Blizyn) and her husband Bronislaw Parakowski (b. October 29, 1914 in Niedrzwica Duza), both Roman Catholics who were taken to Germany as forced laborers in Leipzig, she in the HASAG factory and he in the Mansfeld machine works. Bronislaw had previously been posted in Sarny as a member of the KOP (Korpus Ochrony Pogranicza [Border Defense Corps]), captured near Tarnów, taken to Łódź and then Stalag IV-G (Oschatz) and later Wilhelmsdorf Thuringia...

  19. Yehudit Charasz Berkowitz photograph collection

    Collection of nine photographs documenting the donor's stay in "Kibbutz Buchenwald," a Zionist collective started by a group of survivors of the Buchenwald concentration camp. In July 1945 the kibbutz was moved to Geringshof, the site of the pre-war Jewish agricultural school.

  20. Miriam Raz photographs

    Contains five photographs depicting Miriam (b. April 10, 1933) and her brother Josef (b. 1935); her father Alter Zunszajn, textile merchant from Wereszczyn, Poland, and portraits of two friends: Moszek Gryff and Ryfka Kuperstok, whom Miriam befriended in Helenowek children’s home.