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

  1. "The Life of Alexander Perlberger before, during, and after the Second World War"

    1. Mina Perlberger collection

    Consists of the typescript memoir entitled "The Life of Alexander Perlberger, Shortly Before and Shortly After the Second World War" written by his widow, Mina Perlberger. The memoir describes the life of Mr. Perlberger from adolescence until his death. She includes information about Perlberger's imprisonment in concentration camps in Poland, his experiences during Kristallnacht, his enlistment in the Red Army, and his emigration to the United States.

  2. "The story of Dr. Josef Jaksy"

    Includes of "The story of Dr. Josef Jaksy" by Amira Trattner. The speech includes testimony by several of Jaksy's acquaintances including Mario Cuomo, Governor of New York. The testimonies describe Jaksy's activities as a Righteous Gentile in Czechoslovakia where he was responsible for the rescue and successful escape of many Jews and political deviants. Also included is an invitation to a reception given in Jaksy's honor at the Consulate General of Israel in NewYork.

  3. (Typhus) SS Transport, Theresienstadt 1942 Dem Zyklus Terezin (Transportmittel SS) The Terezin Cycle (SS Transport) Leo Haas aquatint of a truck overloaded with the sick, dying, and dead

    1. Leo Haas collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn513924
    • English
    • 1942
    • overall: Height: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Width: 19.625 inches (49.848 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm) | Width: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm)

    Aquatint created by Leo Haas in 1966 based upon sketches made in 1942 of scenes he witnessed while an inmate of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. It depicts the large bed of a truck overloaded with dead, dying, and ill inmates. Haas was an inmate of Terezin from September 1942-October 1944. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a professional artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a Communist. He was deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, then shipped back to Ostrava to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, whe...

  4. 11 millimeter pipe cutter placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    11 mm pipe cutter placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had...

  5. 13.5 millimeter pipe cutter placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    13.5 mm pipe cutter placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek h...

  6. 1934 Reichsparteitag, Nuremberg

    Reel 9: VS, Hitler, Himmler and Lutze walk down long aisle between columns of troops gathered in Nuremberg stadium. Ceremonies at Nuremberg showing Hitler and thousands of soldiers; a great number of flags are carried and flown. SS troops goose-stepping. CU, Himmler. CU, Victor Lutze introduces Hitler to audience at Nuremberg stadium. CU, MS, Hitler delivers forceful speech to huge crowd of stormtroopers, Gestapo and other political organization members in stadium. Flag bearers present arms. Hitler pledges each flag bearer to the Nazi flag. CU, large gun is fired in salute to ceremony. VS, ...

  7. 1942 Hungarian Jewish calendar saved by a Hungarian Jewish family

    1. George Pick family collection

    Hungarian Jewish calendar for the year 1942 preserved by Gyorgy Pick and his parents Istvan and Margit during the war in Budapest, Hungary. It is a compilation of Jewish literature and poetry, Hungarian Jewish literature and poetry, with advertisments. Ten year old Gyorgy and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany and adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 because he was Jewish. He was conscripted into Hungarian labor battalions in 1940, 1943, and 1944. After...

  8. 1st Anniversary commemorative pin for the victims of Theresienstadt acquired by a Czech Jewish survivor

    1. Frank Meissner collection

    First anniversary commemorative pin for the May 12, 1945, liberation of Theresienstadt concentration camp acquired by Frank Meissner, whose family had been imprisoned in the ghetto/labor camp in Czechoslovakia. On September 16, 1945, there was a public ceremonial burial for 601 victims exhumed from six mass grave sites uncovered at the Small Fortress. From 1940-1945, the Small Fortress served as the prison at the Terezin camp. At the age of 16, Frank left Trest, Czechoslovakia, in 1939 to avoid the increasingly harsh Nazi persecutions of Jews. He went to Denmark with Youth Aliyah to attend ...

  9. 40th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany bronze medal acquired by a Polish Jewish concentration camp survivor

    1. Herbert and Ursula Cohn Lichtenstein family collection

    40th Anniversary of the Victory over Nazi Germany bronze medal acquired by Herbert Lichtenstein. This commemorative medal was issued by the State of Israel in 1984 in a numbered edition. It features an image of the Monument to the Jewish Soldiers and Partisans who fought against Nazi Germany erected at Yad Vashem. In January 1939, 22 year old Herbert was arrested in Oberwesel, Germany, and sent to a forced labor camp. In August 1941, he was transferred to Bielefeld forced labor camp. In January 1943, he was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and marked with prisoner number 105483. In Janu...

  10. Abba Kovner - Vilna

    Abba Kovner lived in disguise in a convent at the beginning of the German occupation in 1941. He was a central figure in the Zionist youth resistance movement in Vilna. He commanded an underground partisan resistance group throughout the war. He describes the way the Germans avoided panic among the Jews. Kovner maintains a poetic approach to Lanzmann's questions throughout the interview. This interview took place over two days in Kovner's Kibbutz Eyn Ha'horesh (between Nethania and Hadera). FILM ID 3236 -- Camera Rolls #2,3 -- 01:00:12 to 01:24:55 CR 2 01:00:12 Kovner sits outside on a park...

  11. Abraham Atsmon papers

    The Abraham Atsmon papers consist of identification papers, biographies, correspondence, reports, narratives, photographs, newspapers, protocols, and minutes documenting Atsmon’s family and pre-war life in Poland, his participation in a partisan brigade in the areas of Słonim and Brest during the war, his organization and leadership of a Holocaust survivor group (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) in the American occupation zone of Germany after the war, his support for the state of Israel, his emigration to Israel in 1948, and his subsequent efforts to record the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Bi...

  12. AEG motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Electric motor placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had es...

  13. Affidavit concerning the heroism of Céline Demarez Morali

    Consists of a copy of a French affidavit describing the heroism of Céline Berte Morali, who was responsible for the rescue of several Jews by hiding them in the basement of her hardware store in Paris.

  14. Agfa Box 44 camera carried with a German Jewish boy on a Kindertransport to France

    1. Stephan H. Lewy collection

    Agfa 44 box camera, or Preisbox, given to Heinz Stephan Lewy for his bar mitzvah in March 1938 in Berlin, Germany. He took it with him in July 1939 when he left on a Kindertransport to France. When Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933, Heinz was in an orphanage in Berlin, because his father Arthur was unable to care for Heinz by himself. In late 1933, Arthur was arrested because he was a Socialist and sent to Oranienburg concentration camp. He was beaten severely and had a heart attack, but was soon released. On March 11, 1938, Heinz became a bar mitzvah. Arthur was arrested for ...

  15. Agnes Feher papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Agnes Feher, originally of Miskolc, Hungary, who survived the German occupation of Budapest under a false identity. The collection consists eight pre-war and war-time photographs taken in Miskolc and Budapest, Hungary; postwar photographs in the Pocking, Germany, displaced persons camp and in Belgium; as well as identity and travel documents relating to Agnes Feher's immigration to Israel. Also includes a certificate of her journeyman level status.

  16. Air compressor tank placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Air compressor tank placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek h...

  17. Aizik Eisen papers

    1. Julie Keefer family collection

    Documents, photographs, and a personal narrative regarding the Holocaust experiences of Aizik Eisen and his two grandaughters Julia and Tola Weinstock in Lwów, Poland [Lviv, Ukraine] and the assistance their family received from Lusia Nowicka, a non-Jewish Polish woman who hid them. Included is a post-war manuscript written by Aizik about his Holocaust experiences. The manuscript is in Yiddish, and includes an English translation. Documents include Aizik’s former concentration inmate identification card, his United States Declaration of Intention form, and naturalization certificate. Also i...

  18. AJDC bar patch worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (AJDC) badge worn by aid worker Hans Finke when he worked for the relief organization after the end of World War II. He was 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. In February 1943, Hans, 23, was a forced laborer for Siemens when he was ho...

  19. Aladár Szegedy-Maszák papers

    The collection consists of the personal papers of Aladár Szegedy-Maszák, a high ranking Hungarian diplomat and foreign ministry official during the Holocaust era. Includes correspondence and memoirs relevant to the Second World War and its immediate aftermath, with special emphasis on Hungary’s role, its efforts to leave the war and to avoid Soviet occupation. The collection also contains biographical information on Aladár, family correspondence, subject files, copies of his Voice of America commentaries, and phonographs.

  20. Albert Garih testimonies

    The Albert Garih testimonies consists of two testimonies written by Albert Garih in 2000 and updated in 2011. The first testimony describes Albert Garih’s personal experiences as a hidden child in France. The second testimony describes the experiences of Benjamin Garih, Albert’s father, who was sent to a forced labor camp on the Channel Islands.