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

  1. Green metal Werk Kratzau labor camp badge worn by an inmate

    Green painted identification pin impressed Werk Kratzau issued to Helen Waterford at Kratzau-Chrastava labor camp, a satellite camp of Gross Rosen concentration camp, where she was interned from October 1944 until May 1945.

  2. Jewish refugees arriving in Sweden from Denmark

    Daily news segment showing the arrival of Jewish refugees from Denmark. Arrival and unloading of boat from Oresund into small lifeboats arriving on beach in Helsingborg. They gather in a park, where Swedish families gather around the Jews and greet them. The refugees exchange money in a bank, then get registered. Long line of refugees undergoing medical examinations in the hospital. Passport photographing. Then they are apportioned food, which they eat. Police chief Bogenholm and intendent Goete Friberg greet them as representatives of their organization. Image of port.

  3. Hanna Yaari collection

    Collection of documents and letters between Edith and Samuel Jurovics, and their children, who were living in Berlin, Germany before the Holocaust and were then forced to disperse to England, the United States, France, Palestine and Switzerland. Samuel, who was living in New York City, passed away in 1942. Benjamin and Raphael, two of his children, immigrated to Palestine and exchanged mail between each other. Edith fled to the United Kingdom and was able to exchange correspondence. The middle child, Esra, who joined a Zionist youth organization in the Netherlands, was able to send correspo...

  4. Paulette Daser collection

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Piroska Schwartzova [donor] born in 1924 Negrovo, Czechoslovakia (present day Ukraine) and moved to Belgium in July 1938, but was unable to return to Negrovo; materials include identification cards for Piroska in Belgium and later, Southern France, where she was forced to flee in an effort to escape Nazism. Also included are postcards and letters from her parents and family who were unable to escape, and were eventually deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where they are presumed to have perished.

  5. Yosef Yeger collection

    Contains photographs, copyprints, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and two copies of a manuscript relating to the Holocaust experiences of Alexander Shoni Jeger (donor's father; b. October 30, 1930 near Bacău, Romania). In 1942, his mother, Ettel Leida (nee Katz) Jeger, took her two sons, Sandor and Marton (b. July 12, 1933) to Budapest, where she worked as a cook. In 1944 she was taken to a train station for deportation, but when she fainted she was taken to hospital. Both children were in the ghetto. Ettel and her sons survived.

  6. Records of the town of Kłobuck Akta miasta Kłobucka (Sygn.495)

    This collection contains minutes of the Municipal Council meetings of the town Kłobuck. Meetings were held during the year 1927, and years 1932-1939. Records relate to various matters of the town Kłobuck: budget, planning new construction of public objects, city taxes, and public regulations.

  7. Dachau Negatives

    Contains copy negatives of images showing the Dachau concentration camp shortly following liberation in 1945.

  8. Krystyna Siwek-Wilczynska collection

    Four (4) photographs illustrating the experiences of the Diament family before the war and the donor in hiding during the Holocaust in France.

  9. Cpl. Joseph C. Dumps photograph

    Contains a photographic print, black-and-white image of two men speaking to group of American soldiers; inscribed in verso by Cpl. Joseph C. Dumps (donor’s father) that “These men were just telling us of the large ovens in the prison camp Dachau. In these ovens over 3000 people were burned to death.” The soldiers are with the 6th Air Disarmament Group,9th Air Force; Ebermanstadt, Germany; in English; 1945; sent by Cpl Dumps to his wife living in Baltimore, Maryland.

  10. Oral history interview with Helen Mastbaum

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Session 81 -- Examination of the Accused re: Office of Reich Security, visiting a camp, Polish Jews, executions

    Session 81. Dr. Servatius talks, citing pieces from a letter and asking Eichmann if they are valid. Eichmann says that a different conception arose in the SD circa 1938 with respect to the Jewish question. Emigration was encouraged, and creating organizations in favor of that were created. Eichmann says that he had to inform those in Vienna about this new mentality. 00:14:42 Tape jumps. Dr. Servatius submits a letter from Eichmann. It concerns Dr. Loewenherz and his interventions at Eichmann's office, working for the release of arrested persons. 00:19:23 Tape jumps. The judges ask if there ...

  12. Pre-war Poland

    Wilno: pre-war views. Architectural landmarks. Narrow, curved streets. Cemetery on outskirts where Marshal Pilsudski's heart is buried. Arabian horses in Janow. Narrated by Eva Curie.

  13. Photograph of liberated concentration camp

    Image of an allied soldier standing in front of a pile of corpses in a liberated concentration camp. Caption on verso: "May 1945, somewhere in Germany."

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

    Jewish mourning book to commemorate death of a relative.

  15. Chelmno (CH)

    Interviews with local Polish people in and around Chelmno, as well as location filming. FILM ID 3767 -- White 72 CH 48-49 Lettre May. CL lit Lanzmann reads a letter from Mr. May regarding operations at Chelmno. FILM ID 4602 -- Foret Chelmno FO 1-4 Interview Uniquement Interview with two men in the forest near Chelmno. The Poles brought SS guards to the forest at night in order to exterminate Jews. Lanzmann asks the men to describe Polish women who worked for the Germans, Jewish victims' belongings, and the occasions when Goering hunted in the forest near Chelmno. FILM ID 4629 -- White 31 CH...

  16. Marx family collection

    Contains twenty postcards written by Adolf and Hilde Marx (donor's parents) and their daughter Ilse (donor's sister), addressed to Hilde's sister Emmy Quade in Cologne, dated 1941-1942; two postcards addressed to Emmy Quade from Theresienstadt, dated 1943; one postcard sent to Erich Marx in Brighton, England from his parents and sister in Germany, dated 1939; twelve photographs depicting the Marx family in Cologne, Germany, c. 1932-1941; a school certificate issued to Erich Marx on March 30, 1939 by the Yavne Jewish School and signed by he director, Klibansky, who arranged for Eric to leave...

  17. Selected records of the City of Pińczów Akta miasta Pińczowa (Sygn. 2363) : Wybrane materialy

    Selected fragments of the tax books from the inhabitants of Pińczów, 1940-1942, and records of estate taxes, 1945-1949. Only a small part of files of the town Pińczów survived. About 3,500 Jews live in Pińczów before World War II in 1939.

  18. Joel Elkes collection

    The collection consists of original and typescript copies of letters sent by Dr. Elkhanan Elkes, head of Kaunas [Kovno] ghetto, to his children in England. It also includes a drawing of Dr. Elkes on his deathbed in the Dachau concentration camp, uniform trousers worn by Dr. Elkes in Dachau, and a memorial book of the Schwabbe Gymnasium.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Tito; Yugoslavia

    LS of the village of Kumrovec with sign in FG. CU of sign. General view of the house where Marshall Tito was born (the house is open to the public); one sees the room where he came to life. MS of Tito's house entrance with visitors entering. CU of the plate reading: "To our dear chief Josip Broz Tito, Marshall of Yugoslavia, member of honor of the Motor-car club of St. Peter on the mountains." Shots of Marshall Tito at his home in Dedinje, Belgrade. Marshall in field uniform walking into his study and sitting at desk. Various shots of Marshall Tito going through his morning mail and dictati...

  20. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of U.S. soldiers looking at corpses lying on ground; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.