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  1. Going to church in central Poland

    In Lowicz, a young, attractive Polish peasant women is putting on her costume, she wears several layers of skirts, a cropped jacket, and long braids. In the BG a large thatched-roof building is visible. Older peasant woman, who stops while walking along a road to kiss a tree, she then continues on. Quick shot of two women entering a church, dipping their fingers in holy water before entering. CU of older peasant man atop a carriage, the women are piling on their belongings. Young girls, women and men entering the church in traditional costume. One women is dressed in contemporary, Western-s...

  2. Gola A. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape recording of Gola A., who was born in Tarno?w, Poland in 1921. She recalls her orthodox childhood; attending public school; membership in a Zionist organization; German invasion; round-ups and shootings; ghettoization with her family; hiding with her mother during round-ups; a mass killing in the Jewish cemetery; a non-Jew briefly hiding her brother's children; forced labor in a clothing factory; one brother's deportation; deportation with two brothers to P?asz?ow in September 1943 (she never saw her parents, eldest brother, and other relatives again); slave labor; transfer to Aus...

  3. Golbert-Zagrai-Lazar family

    This collection contains: two pre-war ID photos of Sura Foder Lazar, a post-war membership ID of the national association of former prisoners of the Dannes labour camp issued to Georges Golbert-Zagrai, a post-war support card sold to fund the establishment of a memorial for the forced labourers and victims of the Dannes labour camp, a post-war certificate issued by the United Nations International Bureau of the Declaration of Deaths regarding the death of Sura Foder Lazar who had been deported from the Dossin barracks to Auschwitz-Birkenau via Transport VII and who had been murdered.

  4. Gold bracelet made from melted-down coins owned by an Austrian Lutheran émigré

    Gold bracelet designed by Elizabeth Deutschhausen and commissioned by her parents before she fled Vienna, Austria in 1939. The bracelet was made using 98.6-percent gold from Austrian ducats (coins), which were melted-down and repurposed into panels depicting different Alpine flowers. Elizabeth and her husband, Lutheran Pastor Wilhelm Deutschhausen, were living in Vienna when Germany annexed Austria during the March 1938 “Anschluss.” Many in the Austrian Protestant Church, which included Lutheranism, supported the creation of the “Reich Church” in Germany and a “nazified” version of Christia...

  5. Gold colored patch with 2 triangles with a Reichsadler and the letters G L

  6. Gold family collection

    Collection of documents relating to Jacob Gold (b. 1908) and Hela Chaja Ost Gold (b. 1914) [donor's parents] who survived the Holocaust in Siberia, USSR. Includes affidavits, citizenship papers, and immigration documents, circa 1949-1956.

  7. Gold hoop earrings worn by a hidden child in Poland

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522825
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a.: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b.: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.190 inches (0.483 cm)

    Gold hoop earrings worn by Sophia Kerpholz while she lived in hiding as a child from 1942-1944 in Poland. In early 1942, 9-year-old Sophia and her parents, Natan and Sarah, were imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto in Trembowla, Poland (Terebovlia, Ukraine) by the occupying German authorities. Sophia’s mother had to turn the earrings over to the Gestapo, but they were returned because they were too small and not valuable enough to take. When Sophia emigrated to Israel she was told that she was a new immigrant because she had earrings. Her father had escaped to Lvov, but ended up in the ghetto th...

  8. Gold pendant with the initials of a girl and her parents from her aunt

    Gold pendant sent by Inda Leah Lypski to her 8 year old niece Rose Mary Stine in Indiana for the occasion of Rose Mary’s brother’s bar mitzvah in 1923. The pendant is engraved with the initials of Rose Mary, her father Jacob, and her mother Fanny, Inda’s sister who left Russia for America in 1907. Inda and her husband Aaron owned a jewelry store in Warsaw, Poland. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and, in October 1940, established the Warsaw ghetto. Inda died in the ghetto in 1940. Inda’s family and her sister Pesza also perished in the ghetto.

  9. Gold ring taken by a Jewish youth when he escaped Treblinka death camp

    Gold ring missing the setting taken by 18 year old Yidl (Eddie) Wajnsztajn from Treblinka death camp where he was forced to sort the belongings of incoming inmates. Yidl, his mother Leah, and 20 year old brother Israel were deported by the Germans to Treblinka from Losice, Poland, on August 22, 1942. The next day, while waiting in line for water, he was shot in the chest by an SS guard. Israel hid him and dressed the wound, then went to get water and never came back. Yidl escaped and returned to Losice. He told the remaining Jews about the horrors he had seen, but no one believed him. His f...

  10. Gold-colored sequined mask

    The mask was used before World War II.

  11. Golda L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Golda L., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1935. She recounts her grandparents were orthodox, but her parents being atheists; not understanding she was a Jew; her father taking her to Frankfurt in 1939; travelling to Freiburg, then Paris where she lived with her aunt and her aunt's boyfriend (they married later); terrible loneliness and longing for her parents; fleeing south with her aunt and her boyfriend; two weeks in Gurs; living on a farm in Montauban; attending school; hiding in a convent one night, then entering Switzerland illegally in 1943 with the help of a...

  12. Golda Meir; Israeli truce; Mid East peace

    Part Two of the event. Meir addresses an assembly in New York. This address was simultaneously broadcast in 19 other US cities via closed circuit TV. The main focus of Meir's speech is the need for the existence of an independent Jewish state and peace in the Middle East. The following people give their closing remarks: Sam Rothberg Abraham Feinberg Story ends abruptly.

  13. Golda Meir; Israeli truce; Mid-East peace

    Part One. Meir addresses an assembly in New York. This address was simultaneously broadcast in 19 other US cities via closed circuit TV. The following people speak before Golda Meir addresses the crowd: Edward Ginsberg Dr. William A. Wexler, President of B'nai Brith Mr. Max Fisher, Honorary President of UJA Mr. Sam Rothberg introduces Golda Meir The main focus of Meir's speech is the need for the existence of an independent Jewish state and peace in the Middle East.

  14. Golda S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Golda S., who was born in Sokal?, Poland (presently Ukraine) in 1922, one of eight children. She recounts a weaving apprenticeship in L?viv; increased antisemitism in the mid 1930s; Soviet occupation of Sokal? in 1939; German invasion in 1941; anti-Jewish violence and restrictions; ghettoization; escaping from a deportation train; returning home; being hidden in a monastery; leaving when her life was in danger; encountering a woman on a train who offered her a job in Krako?w; discovery and incarceration in P?aszo?w; escaping four weeks later; obtaining false papers; w...

  15. Golda Szajniak registration form

    Consists of one document registering Golda Szajniak, born December 30, 1926 in Eichstädt, at her local police station. The document, which is undated, identifies her as Jewish, includes her fingerprint, and is stamped with a Third Reich police and SS stamp.

  16. Golda Wainberg Tatz collection

    Contains a photocopy of Oswaldas Balakauskas's score for cello, piano and string quartet entitled "Betsafta" ("Together"), composed in 1995, which was premiered by Golda Wainberg Tatz with the Vilnius String Quartet; and a photocopy of a newspaper clipping about Golda Wainberg Tatz's memories of the Holocaust experiences of her mother, Judith, and of her own musical career in Lithuania and the United States.

  17. Goldberg family collection

    Contains photographs of Szlameck and Jack Goldberg. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Goldberg family papers

    Contains five legal documents and twenty-one photographs pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of the Goldberg family.

  19. Goldberg-Goldberg family. Collection

    This collection contains: pre-war and wartime pictures of Sarah Goldberg’s family, and a group photo of repatriated female Auschwitz survivors ; a testimony written post-war by Sarah Goldberg, documenting her experiences in the concentration camps ; documents regarding the wartime and post-war life of the family of Jacques Goldberg, future husband of Sarah Goldberg, in hiding as the Goffin family, including several fake Belgian IDs ; propaganda leaflets ; three worn yellow stars ; photocopy of a letter sent by Sarah Goldberg and her fiancée Henri Wajnberg after their arrest to Henri’s famil...

  20. Goldberg-Kardimann family. Collection

    This collection contains: a studio portrait of the deported Bernhard Goldberg reading a book ; a studio portrait of the deported Rosa Kardimann, married Goldberg ; a portrait of spouses Majer and Malka Goldberg-Goldberg.