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  1. Sheet of three uncut, factory-printed Star of David badges printed with a J acquired by a Belgian Catholic rescuer

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    Uncut set of factory-printed Star of David badges acquired by Jeanne Daman, following their issue by German authorities in occupied Belgium on May 27, 1942. Jeanne was a Roman Catholic kindergarten teacher living with her family in Brussels, Belgium, when Germany invaded in May 1940. Jeanne resigned from her position following the introduction of anti-Jewish curriculum. In late November 1941, authorities began banning Jewish children from classrooms, creating a need for Jewish schools. In 1942, Jeanne joined the staff of a Jewish kindergarten, Nos Petits, at Fela Perelman’s request. In summ...

  2. Sheet of three uncut, factory-printed Star of David badges printed with a J acquired by a Belgian Catholic rescuer

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    Uncut set of factory-printed Star of David badges acquired by Jeanne Daman, following their issue by German authorities in occupied Belgium on May 27, 1942. Jeanne was a Roman Catholic kindergarten teacher living with her family in Brussels, Belgium, when Germany invaded in May 1940. Jeanne resigned from her position following the introduction of anti-Jewish curriculum. In late November 1941, authorities began banning Jewish children from classrooms, creating a need for Jewish schools. In 1942, Jeanne joined the staff of a Jewish kindergarten, Nos Petits, at Fela Perelman’s request. In summ...

  3. Sheet of three uncut, factory-printed Star of David badges printed with a J acquired by a Belgian Catholic rescuer

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    Uncut set of factory-printed Star of David badges acquired by Jeanne Daman, following their issue by German authorities in occupied Belgium on May 27, 1942. Jeanne was a Roman Catholic kindergarten teacher living with her family in Brussels, Belgium, when Germany invaded in May 1940. Jeanne resigned from her position following the introduction of anti-Jewish curriculum. In late November 1941, authorities began banning Jewish children from classrooms, creating a need for Jewish schools. In 1942, Jeanne joined the staff of a Jewish kindergarten, Nos Petits, at Fela Perelman’s request. In summ...

  4. Sheet of three uncut, factory-printed Star of David badges printed with a J acquired by a Belgian Catholic rescuer

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    Uncut set of factory-printed Star of David badges acquired by Jeanne Daman, following their issue by German authorities in occupied Belgium on May 27, 1942. Jeanne was a Roman Catholic kindergarten teacher living with her family in Brussels, Belgium, when Germany invaded in May 1940. Jeanne resigned from her position following the introduction of anti-Jewish curriculum. In late November 1941, authorities began banning Jewish children from classrooms, creating a need for Jewish schools. In 1942, Jeanne joined the staff of a Jewish kindergarten, Nos Petits, at Fela Perelman’s request. In summ...

  5. Sheet of three uncut, factory-printed Star of David badges printed with a J acquired by a Belgian Catholic rescuer

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    Uncut set of factory-printed Star of David badges acquired by Jeanne Daman, following their issue by German authorities in occupied Belgium on May 27, 1942. Jeanne was a Roman Catholic kindergarten teacher living with her family in Brussels, Belgium, when Germany invaded in May 1940. Jeanne resigned from her position following the introduction of anti-Jewish curriculum. In late November 1941, authorities began banning Jewish children from classrooms, creating a need for Jewish schools. In 1942, Jeanne joined the staff of a Jewish kindergarten, Nos Petits, at Fela Perelman’s request. In summ...

  6. Sheet of three uncut, factory-printed Star of David badges printed with a J acquired by a Belgian Catholic rescuer

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    Uncut set of factory-printed Star of David badges acquired by Jeanne Daman, following their issue by German authorities in occupied Belgium on May 27, 1942. Jeanne was a Roman Catholic kindergarten teacher living with her family in Brussels, Belgium, when Germany invaded in May 1940. Jeanne resigned from her position following the introduction of anti-Jewish curriculum. In late November 1941, authorities began banning Jewish children from classrooms, creating a need for Jewish schools. In 1942, Jeanne joined the staff of a Jewish kindergarten, Nos Petits, at Fela Perelman’s request. In summ...

  7. Sheet of three uncut, factory-printed Star of David badges printed with a J acquired by a Belgian Catholic rescuer

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    Uncut set of factory-printed Star of David badges acquired by Jeanne Daman, following their issue by German authorities in occupied Belgium on May 27, 1942. Jeanne was a Roman Catholic kindergarten teacher living with her family in Brussels, Belgium, when Germany invaded in May 1940. Jeanne resigned from her position following the introduction of anti-Jewish curriculum. In late November 1941, authorities began banning Jewish children from classrooms, creating a need for Jewish schools. In 1942, Jeanne joined the staff of a Jewish kindergarten, Nos Petits, at Fela Perelman’s request. In summ...

  8. Sheet of three uncut, factory-printed Star of David badges printed with a J acquired by a Belgian Catholic rescuer

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    Uncut set of factory-printed Star of David badges acquired by Jeanne Daman, following their issue by German authorities in occupied Belgium on May 27, 1942. Jeanne was a Roman Catholic kindergarten teacher living with her family in Brussels, Belgium, when Germany invaded in May 1940. Jeanne resigned from her position following the introduction of anti-Jewish curriculum. In late November 1941, authorities began banning Jewish children from classrooms, creating a need for Jewish schools. In 1942, Jeanne joined the staff of a Jewish kindergarten, Nos Petits, at Fela Perelman’s request. In summ...

  9. Deterrence, Mauthausen, 1945 Leo Haas drawing of concentration camp inmates witnessing a hanging

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Ink and wash drawing by Leo Haas of Mauthausen concentration camp inmates being marched past a hanging. Haas, a Czech Jewish artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a Communist. He was deported to Nisko labor camp in German occupied Poland, returned in April 1940, and assigned to forced labor. In August 1942, he was arrested for smuggling and, with his family, sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. He and a few other artists secretly documented the horrendous conditions of camp life. In summer 1944, they were accused of smuggling their 'gruesom...

  10. UNRRA embroidered patch worn by a survivor and DP camp relief worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Circular, red, UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) patch worn by Hans Finke (later John Fink) when he worked for the organization as a store manager in a refugee center in Germany from 1946-47. Hans was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen when it was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945. An electrician by trade, he began working for the British and then various aid groups after it became a displaced persons camp. Hans, his parents, and his sister, Ursula, lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies....

  11. Small yellow suitcase used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Small yellow suitcase used by 6 year old Franziska (Ruth) Danzig when her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parent found a Jewish foster family, the Paste...

  12. Handmade storybook by a German Jewish girl rescued by the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Illustrated story book "The Lost Ones," made by Franziska (Ruth) Danzig who, at age 6, was sent by her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Jewish population was actively persecuted. During Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parents found a Jewish foster family, th...

  13. Girl Guide enrollment promise trefoil badge received by a young German Jewish girl rescued on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Girl Guide trefoil enrollment pin issued to Franziska (Ruth) Danzig when she was living in England as a Kindertransport refugee from June 1939-October 1944. When Ruth was 6, her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransp...

  14. Public School Athletic League Winged Victory achievement badge received by a German Jewish teenage refugee

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Girl's Branch PSAL (Public School Athletic League) medal awarded to Franziska (Ruth) Danzig for physical accomplishments when she attended school in New York in the 1940s. When Ruth was 6, her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on...

  15. Isidor Gross papers

    1. Edward Isidor Gross collection

    The Isidor Gross papers consist of documents and photographs that concern the family, immigration, and United States Army service of German born Jewish man, Isidor Gross. After being arrested by the Gestapo in 1938, Isidor and his father Markus fled Aachen, Germany for the United States and successfully rescued his mother and two younger siblings from a holding camp. Included in this collection are several documents from Isidor’s childhood in Germany, among them, his birth certificate, school report card, and employment workbook. Also included are papers documenting Isidor’s naturalization ...

  16. Commemorative plaque presented postwar to a Belgian Catholic rescuer

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    Commemorative plaque presented to Jeanne Daman Scaglione in 1963 by Temple Ner Tamid (now Beth Moshe) in honor of her efforts to rescue Jews in German-occupied Belgium, between 1942 and 1945. Jeanne was a Roman Catholic kindergarten teacher living with her family in Brussels, Belgium, when Germany invaded in May 1940. Jeanne resigned from her position following the introduction of anti-Jewish curriculum. In late November 1941, authorities began banning Jewish children from classrooms, creating a need for Jewish schools. In 1942, Jeanne joined the staff of a Jewish kindergarten, Nos Petits, ...

  17. Finanzamt Moabit-West

    1. Bestände vor 1945
    2. Preußische und Reichsbehörden mit regionaler Zuständigkeit
    3. Reichsbehörden
    4. Finanzämter

    Vorwort A Rep. 093-03 Finanzamt Moabit-West 1. Behördengeschichte Mit Erlass des Gesetzes über den "Widerruf von Einbürgerungen und die Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit" vom 14. Juli 1933 konnten Vermögen von Reichsangehörigen, die sich im Ausland aufhielten, bei der Einleitung eines Aberkennungsverfahrens beschlagnahmt und nach der Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsangehörigkeit als dem Reich verfallen erklärt werden. Vermögensbeschlagnahme und Verfallserklärung wurden im Deutschen Reichsanzeiger und Preußischen Staatsanzeiger veröffentlicht. Mit der Durchführung der Beschlag...

  18. Konzentrationslager Ravensbrück

    Die Sammlung enthält u.a.: „Richtlinien für die Lagerkommandanten“, Verwaltungsunterlagen, Nachkriegskorrespondenz, Aussagen des ehemaligen Lagerkommandanten Suhren, Lagerskizzen, Dienstvorschriften, Tagebuch des ehemaligen Lagerschreibers im KL Ravensbrück, Kommando Karlshagen (Peenemünde); Transportlisten, Veränderungsmeldungen, Gestapo-Personalakten, Gestapo-Korrespondenz, Häftlingsnamenlisten, Krematoriums- und Friedhofslisten, Totenlisten, Entlassungs- und Repatriierungslisten (Nachkriegsaufstellung), Namensliste verstorbene Häftlinge, Liste Überlebender, Liste von Häftlingen die Opfer...

  19. Sammlung NS-Archiv des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit (MfS)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Seit ca. 1953 zunächst im "Zentralarchiv" der Hauptabteilung (HA) XII, seit 1968 in der HA IX/11 des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit der DDR (MfS) gebildete und bis 1989 laufend ergänzte Sammlung; Zweck: Nutzbarmachung von Informationen aus Schriftgut - vor allem von Behörden und NSDAP-Parteidienststellen - der Zeit des Dritten Reichs für die "politisch-operativen" Aufgaben des MfS, darunter vor allem Sammlung von Informationen über NS- und Kriegsverbrecher; die Bestandsergänzung erfolgte auf mehreren Wegen: Übernahme von den sowjetischen...

  20. Tefillin pair and embroidered pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee

    1. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn2965
    • English
    • a: Height: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) b: Height: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) c: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)

    Set of tefillin and embroided storage pouch brought with Richard Pfifferling when he left Dresden, Germany, for New York in September 1939. Richard received the tefillin, pouch, and other religious items as a gift for his bar mitzvah circa 1927. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power and enacted laws that persecuted Jews. Richard and his brothers, Otto and Ernst, fled Germany but their parents, Alexander and Auguste, were unable to leave. Richard later served in the US Army during the war. Richard’s parents were deported to Riga, Latvia, in December 1941, and killed in Auschwitz in August 1...