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  1. Safety fountain pen used by a courtroom illustrator at the Major War Crimes Trial

    Waterman-style safety fountain pen used by Edward Vebell, 24, to create courtroom sketches at the 1945 Trial of Major German War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. The sketches were published in the U.S. Army newspaper Stars and Stripes on December 9, 1945. A young commercial artist when he was drafted for the US Army, Vebell was the first staff illustrator for Stars and Stripes. His assignments included combat zones in Italy and France. For the Nuremberg trial assignment, he sat in the press gallery for 3 days and used field glasses to “bore into th...

  2. Nordhausen liberation photographs

    Consists of seven photographs taken after the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp. Includes photographs of corpses as well as survivors.

  3. "Sefer Maasim Tovim" photograph

    Consists of one photograph of two girls holding a "Sefer Maasim Tovim" in Be̜drin, Poland, in the 1930s. On the right is Ester Krel and Libele Rubinsztajn is on the left.

  4. Warsaw liquidation photographs

    Consists of nine photographs from a photograph album used as evidence in the Nuremberg war crimes trials. The photographs depict the German liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto. Also contains one large photograph of soldiers working inside a mass grave.

  5. Janet Moskowitz photographs

    Consists of six photographs from the collection of Jadzia Zuchter (now Janet Moskowitz), originally of Be̜dzin, Poland. Includes pre-war photographs of Jadzia and of family and friends, many of whom perished in the Holocaust, as well as a photograph of Jadzia and her husband, Mosze in a displaced persons camp in Germany.

  6. Metal lid from a cremation urn stamped Dachau

    Container lid with the birth, death, and cremation dates for 28 year old Anton Oleszak. The lid is believed to be from a cremation urn used to return his ashes to his family following his execution in Dachau concentration camp. Oleszak was condemned to death by hanging in Dachau on February 17, 1942. He was a Catholic from Neustadt, Poland. It was a policy of the Nazi government to return the remains of political prisoners to their families.

  7. Leslie Aigner photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographs of Leslie (Laszlo) Aigner with his immediate family in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia, in May 1944. Soon afterwards, Leslie was deported to Auschwitz where his mother and little sister, Marika, were murdered, was transferred to Landsberg-Kaufering, and was liberated from Dachau. His father and sister, Elisabet, were taken to a forced labor camp in Hungary, where they survived the war. In the photographs, Leslie is wearing the Star of David.

  8. Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note

    Scrip with a receipt value of 50 cents issued in 1940 in the Jewish ghetto in Łódź, Poland, which was renamed Litzmannstadt by the Germans following their invasion and occupation of Poland in September 1939. When the Germans transferred Jews to the ghetto, they confiscated all currency in exchange for scrip that could be spent only inside the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] of the Łódź ghetto, and includes traditional Jewish symbols.

  9. Jeffrey Cymbler photographs

    Consists of family photographs from the collection of Jeffrey Cymbler. Includes photographs of the Cymbler family in pre-war Be̜dzin, photographs of the Leizorek family, who immigrated from Be̜dzin to Buenos Aires in 1940, and photographs of war-torn Be̜dzin. Please also see 1997.A.0119 for more information on the Cymbler family.

  10. Bernard and Faigla Fischel Moncznik photographs

    Consists of family photographs from the collection of Bernard (Berl) Moncznik, originally of Niwka, Poland, and of Faigla (Fajgl or Fela) Fischel (Fiszel) Moncznik, originally of Be̜drin, Poland. Includes pre-war photographs of Bernard and Feigla with their respective families, some of whom perished in the Holocaust. Also includes post-war photographs of Bernard and Faigla, who met at the Weiden displaced persons camp, as well as an invitation to their May 27, 1948 wedding.

  11. 1948 Jewish organizations photographs

    Consists of four photographs from the World Jewish Congress meetings which took place in Montreux, Switzerland, in July 1948. Includes a photograph of the Israeli delegation, including Rabbi Joseph Gabrieli and Abba Eban, who later became the Israeli foreign minister. Rabbi Gabrieli is the father of the Shoshana Rosenberg, the donor. Also includes photographs taken at a post-war Mizrachi Zionist meeting held in August 1948 in Tel-Aviv. In 1949 Rabbi Gabrieli became the director of the Mizrachi organization.

  13. Aleksander Kulisiewicz photographs

    Consists of 13 large black and white publicity photographs of Aleksander Kulisiewicz, probably taken during the 1970s.

  14. Lev Dumer collection

    Consists of copies of articles from the American newspaper "Kcmamu," which is published in Russian, regarding the Holocaust in the Soviet Union, focusing on the Holocaust in Odessa. Also includes one videocassette, on which Mr. Lev Dumer explains the story of an "Odessan Anne Frank," a girl named Lusya Kaliska, who spent the war in hiding.

  15. Lists of prisoners in the Miranda de Ebro Camp

    The collection contains lists of prisoners in the Miranda de Ebro Camp; 1940-1947 Miranda was the central camp in Spain for foreign prisoners. This camp was used for several kinds of prisoners. The three main categories were: international brigadiers (captured during the Civil War); male prisoners who illegally crossed the border (women were not held in military camps, but provincial prisons); and German military personnel and German collaborators interned in the so-called Campo Aleman. Some of the inmates were Jews. The photocopied lists include the name plus nationality of inmates. The el...

  16. Records concerning Jewish owned real property in the Trieste region

    Consists of an inventory of Jewish-owned real estate in the Trieste and Adriatic regions. The census was taken during the war to facilitate expropriation. Also included are records about the confiscation of Jewish property in the city of Trieste and the Adriatic coastal towns of Gorizia, Fiume, and Pola.

  17. Records from the Jewish community in Iraq

    Consists of photocopies of documents from the Jewish community in Iraq, including marriage records, property records, and death records for Jews living in Iraq from 1934-2000.

  18. Kahn/Bauer family collection

    Consists of photographs and documents related to Alfred and Trude Kahn and their daughter, Annemarie, originally of Stuttgart, Germany. In the 1930s, the family fled from Germany to Holland, where they lived until their deportation to Theresienstadt on April 21,1943. The family perished in Auschwitz. The collection consists of Alfred and Trude's honeymoon album, an engraved cigarette case from the wedding, a book of Annemarie's baby photographs, and a letter sent by the Kahns the day before their deportation. Also includes a copy of "Pilgrimage to the Past" by James Bauer, a book of the Bau...

  19. "The Upside of Memory"

    Consists of two copies of a DVD-ROM entitled "The Upside of Memory," by Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, which follows her parents, Chris and Miles Lerman (a founder and Chairman Emeritus of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council) on a trip to Poland in 2004, to dedicate the new Belzec Memorial and for Miles to receive the Polish Commander's Cross medal from President Aleksander Kwaś́niewski. The Lerman family also visits Tomaszów-Lubelski (birthplace of Miles and his brother, Jona Lerman) and the Auschwitz concentration camp. Chris, an Auschwitz survivor, guides her grandchildren t...

  20. David Rosenberg papers

    Series 1-4 of the David Rosenberg papers include documents, correspondence, clippings, videotapes, and photographs related to the work of David Rosenberg and the Committee for Appropriate Acknowledgment (CAA). Dr. Rosenberg and the CAA, working within Pittsburgh, PA, sought to research and document Bayer AG's corporate culpability during the Holocaust and pushed for corporate acknowledgment and atonement. Papers include research files, correspondence, event information, information regarding the CBG (Coordination against Bayer Dangers), a German group, and newspaper clippings regarding the ...