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  1. Sali Berl Bogatyrow papers

    1. Sali Berl Bogatyrow collection

    Consists of telegrams, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, testimony, birth certificate and restitution paperwork related to the Holocaust experiences of Sali Berl Bogatyrow, originally of Brno. Includes correspondence related to finding family, immigration, and obtaining restitution compensation.

  2. Doily with embroidered yellow, red, and pink flowers recovered postwar by a Polish Jewish girl

    Doily with embroidered flowers recovered by 17 year old Masza Senderowksi after the war from the house of a non-Jewish neighbor who had looted the Senderowski home. It was likely embroidered by one of her older sisters, Frieda or Lea, who were presumed killed during the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Zdzieciol, Poland (Dziatlava, Belarus.) Masza, her parents, and three sisters lived in Zdzieciol, which was occupied by German troops in June 1941. In August 1942, as the Germans prepared to liquidate the ghetto, the residents were ordered to the village center. Masza, then 14, and her two...

  3. Margret Hantman papers

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    The Margret Hantman papers include biographical material, Margret’s ten page memoir describing her Holocaust-era experiences in Germany and concentration camps, photographs of theatrical performances at the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, a Theresienstadt reunion program, and picture postcards of Theresienstadt. Biographical material includes Margret’s Czechoslovak Repatriation Office registration, instructions for sending mail to Deggendorf residents, and Margret’s passenger ticket for the Marine Perch. Margret’s ten page memoir describes her experiences growing up in Bernau and Berlin,...

  4. Commemorative concentration camp pendant owned by a German Jewish woman

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Small silver and enamel commemorative concentration camp pendant worn postwar by Margret Simon Hantman. The pendant has an inverted red triangle on a blue and gray striped field representing concentration camp uniforms. It is likely that Margret obtained this while at Deggendorf displaced persons (DP) camp. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forced to work as a laborer on the outskirts of the city. In October 1942, her sister...

  5. Star of David patch printed with Jude worn by a German Jewish woman

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Badge received by Margret Simon Hantman in 1941, after German authorities required all Jews to identify themselves by wearing the Star of David. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forced to work as a laborer on the outskirts of the city. In October 1942, her sister Eva was sent on a transport to Rīga, Latvia, where she was murdered. In December, Margret and her parents were sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechos...

  6. Star of David pendant and chain worn by a German Jewish woman

    1. Margret Hantman collection

    Small Star of David pendant on a silver chain belonging to Margret Simon Hantman. There are small pieces of thread holding the links together where Margret repaired the broken chain. Prior to the war, Margret and her family lived in Berlin, Germany, where her father owned a grocery store. In 1935, his store was taken by the authorities after the Nuremberg Laws were passed and he was forced to work as a laborer on the outskirts of the city. In October 1942, her sister Eva was sent on a transport to Rīga, Latvia, where she was murdered. In December, Margret and her parents were sent to There...

  7. Great Rebirth of Germany Book with stereoscopic glasses and photos celebrating the Anschluss

    1. Abraham Saifer collection

    Propaganda book containing stereo-optic glasses and 120 double imaged photographs to be viewed with the glasses. The book and photographs deal with Hitler's conquest of Austria; text written by Karl Bartz, forward by Hermann Goerring and photographs taken by Heinrich Hoffman; published by the NSDAP.

  8. Max and Dorothy Folk papers

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Max and Dorothy Folk, both of whom survived the Holocaust and married in Landsberg am Lech, Germany after the war. The collection primarily consists of biographical and identification papers from Landsberg, documents regarding their respective Holocaust experiences, papers related to their immigration to the United States in 1950, and restitution paperwork. Biographical material primarily documents the Max and Dorothy’s post-war lives as refugees in the Landsberg am Lech DP camp area. Papers of Max include identification cards; documents ...

  9. Announcement suspending postal service in the Łódź ghetto

    1. Shlomo Flam collection

    Notification of a postal ban issued in the Łódź ghetto in German occupied Poland by Mordecai Rumkowski, head of the Jewish Council that administered the Ghetto for the Germans. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and occupied Łódź one week later. Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and, by February 1940, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population of 160,000 into a small, sealed ghetto. All residents had to work and many were forced laborers in ghetto factories. Residents. Living conditions were horrendous; the overcrowding and lack of food caused widespread disease ...

  10. Monogrammed silver napkin rings owned by a German Rabbi

    1. Rabbi Georg and Martha Wilde collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn619190
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Diameter: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) b: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Diameter: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)

    Pair of silver napkin rings, engraved with the initials of Martha and her husband Rabbi George Wilde, who fled Germany in 1939. Rabbi Dr. Georg Wilde attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), and received a doctorate in 1901. He married Breslau-born Martha Spitz, and the couple moved to Magdeburg. In 1906, Georg began serving as rabbi for the largest of Magdeburg’s three congregations, the Synagogen-Gemeinde zu Magdeburg. During World War I, Georg served as a field rabbi and presided over both Jewish and interfaith burials. While in Magdeburg, Georg...

  11. White, monogrammed tablecloth belonging to the family of a German Rabbi

    1. Rabbi Georg and Martha Wilde collection

    Finely woven, linen tablecloth, embroidered with the initials of Martha Wilde, wife of Rabbi Georg Wilde, who fled Germany in 1939. Rabbi Dr. Georg Wilde attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), and received a doctorate in 1901. He married Breslau-born Martha Spitz, and the couple moved to Magdeburg. In 1906, Georg began serving as rabbi for the largest of Magdeburg’s three congregations, the Synagogen-Gemeinde zu Magdeburg. During World War I, Georg served as a field rabbi and presided over both Jewish and interfaith burials. While in Magdeburg, G...

  12. Tombstone fragment recovered from a destroyed Jewish cemetery by a Holocaust survivor

    Tombstone fragment with engraved Hebrew text recovered long after the war by William (formerly Wolf) Ungar from the Jewish cemetery in Rimaliv, Tarnopol District, Ukraine, formerly eastern Poland. Wolf was mobilized into the Polish Army when Germany invaded in September 1939. He was wounded, captured, released, and then returned to Lwow (Lviv, Ukraine), now under Soviet control. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and occupied Lwow. Wolf was made to continue teaching at the technical school because the Germans needed Aryan youth trained to work in defense plants. In 1942, the Ger...

  13. Elen Chajet Murad papers

    1. Elen Chajet Murad collection

    Photographic copies and vintage image document the family's lives surrounding the Holocaust in Lithuania, Poland, and France.

  14. Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland: Records

    This finding aid is the result of a stage-by-stage series of arranging and indexing processes which could only be completed as recently as 1989.The collection “Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland” is a fragmentary sub-collection (18 shelf meters) covering the years 1939 - 1945. Some of the files date back to the early thirties: the so-called “Vorakten” (background files) by attorneys and by the Gesellschaft zur Förderung wirtschaftlicher Interessen von in Deutschland wohnhaften oder wohnhaft gewesenen Juden GmbH“/FWI (Association for assistance in financial matters of Jews residing i...

  15. Kuttner, Godlewsky, Speyer and Marx family histories

    This collection consists of the biographical accounts of three German Jewish families, compiled by Richard Lesser as part of a German initiative to record the fate of Jewish families who perished during the Holocaust.The papers concern the Kuttner family, Siegfried and Fanny Speyer, and Arthur and Elsa Godlewsky.Also contains the personal papers of Dr Ludwig Marx (the donor's father) including his passport (1704/3), a postcard from Dachau concentration camp sent to his wife Regina Marx ((1704/1) and his admission pass to Dachau (1704/2).

  16. Jewish Brigade Group uniform patch with 1 red stripe worn by a Brigade soldier

    1. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    Uniform patch worn by Leo Englard when he served as a soldier in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II. The British Army established the group in September 1944. It included more than 5,000 Jewish volunteers living in Palestine and was the only independent, national Jewish unit to serve in WWII. The unit erved in combat during the final battles for the liberation of Italy. The British dissolved the Brigade in the summer of 1946. Leo remained in Palestine and married Fanny Dominitz, a German Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Palestine in 1947. The couple had known each other ...

  17. Jewish Brigade Group arm patch with 4 red chevrons worn by a soldier in the Brigade

    1. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    Chevron patch worn by Leo Englard when he served as a soldier in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II. The British Army established the group in September 1944. It included more than 5,000 Jewish volunteers living in Palestine and was the only independent, national Jewish unit to serve in WWII. The unit served in combat during the final battles for the liberation of Italy. The British dissolved the Brigade in the summer of 1946. Leo remained in Palestine and married Fanny Dominitz, a German Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Palestine in 1947. The couple had known each other...

  18. Jewish Brigade Group arm patch with blue and white stripes and a Star of David worn by a Brigade soldier

    1. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    Military arm patch worn by Leo Englard when he served as a soldier in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II. This patch is modeled on the emblem previously adopted by the Jewish Agency during the British Mandate in Palestine that became the national emblem following the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. The British Army established the Jewish Brigade Group in September 1944. It included more than 5,000 Jewish volunteers living in Palestine and was the only independent, national Jewish unit to serve in WWII. The unit served in combat during the final battles for the liberation ...

  19. Jewish Brigade Group embroidered shoulder title patch worn by a Brigade soldier

    1. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    Shoulder title patch worn by Leo Englard when he served as a soldier in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II. The British Army established the group in September 1944. It included more than 5000 Jewish volunteers living in Palestine and was the only independent, national Jewish unit to serve in WWII. The unit served in combat during the final battles for the liberation of Italy. The British dissolved the Brigade in the summer of 1946. Leo remained in Palestine and married Fanny Dominitz, a German Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Palestine in 1947. The couple had known each...

  20. Bent metal shard saved by a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army

    1. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    Metal piece that belonged to Leo Englard, who served as a soldier in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II. The British Army established the group in September 1944. It included more than 5000 Jewish volunteers living in Palestine and was the only independent, national Jewish unit to serve in WWII. The unit served in combat during the final battles for the liberation of Italy. The British dissolved the Brigade in the summer of 1946. Leo remained in Palestine and married Fanny Dominitz, a German Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Palestine in 1947. The couple had known each ot...