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  1. Broadside

    Broadside: "Kol Kore - Ichud Seidei HaRabanim VehaAdmori’m BePolin" Plea issued by the Organization of Surviving Rabbis and Chasidic Rebbes of Poland seeking help to emigrate to Eretz Israel.

  2. Prayer book

    Prayer book given to David Bajer, 25, on a 1947 trip to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He went inside a synagogue and the rabbi gave him a set of tefillin to use and to keep and David picked up this prayer book as well. David was the only survivor from a very devout family from Kozienice, Poland. Although he lost faith in Judaism during the Holocaust, he kept this siddur with him as a talisman for seventy years. He decided to donate the book to the Museum, but brought the book to the Museum for three weeks in a row before he finally had the courage to donate it on May 31, 2017. Kozienice was occup...

  3. Selected records of the State Archive in Prešov, branch Humenné

    Selected records pertaining to anti-Jewish regulations and decrees, the persecution of Jews, and the Aryanization of Jewish property and businesses in the towns of Humenné and Medzilaborce in Slovakia. Also includes a proposal from 1929 for the appointment of members of an election commission, among them several Jews, and records pertaining to detention camp for prisoners of war (Serbs and French) in Humenné.

  4. Albert Einstein letter

    Letter hand-written in German by Albert Einstein datelined Princeton, October 10, 1938, addressed to his friend Dr. Michele Besso in Berne, Switzerland. In the letter, Einstein describes his attempts to help European Jews by issuing affidavits, his frustration over the fact that he can no longer issue affidavits for fear of endangering ones still pending, and his helplessness to further assist the Jews. He also discusses Hitler’s political and military actions taking place in Europe.

  5. Schoenfeld and Mandelbrot families collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, photographs, papers, negatives, newspapers and clippings, and other assorted materials which primarily document the experiences of Siegfried, Elsa (nee Schonfeld) and Liselotte Mandelbrot of Stuttgart and their friends and family, and the Mandelbrot's attempts to flee Nazi Germany. The family had visas for the United States, but the papers expired before they could get out. They were deported to Theresienstadt on August 22, 1942, and from there to Auschwitz on October 12, 1944 where they were killed. Elsa Mandelbrot is the donor's father's half siste...

  6. Selected records related to the history of the Jewish communities of the Odessa region before and after WWII

    Selected records of several regional branches of the Jewish organizations, Odesa Jewish Communist Party (Poalei-Zion), Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, training schools, regional Soviet authorities and trade-union organizations in Odesa region. Including are records related to technical education, implementation of the Soviet national policy toward Jewish population and other ethnic minorities residing in the Odesa region, resettlement, creation of the Jewish agricultural collective farms, statistics, minutes of the meetings of the regional bureau of ethnic minorities, various repor...

  8. Bert Yost letter

    The Bert Yost letter was sent by Bert Yost, an American soldier, to Lt. Dorothy Mosely, a nurse serving in United States military hospitals in Britain and France during World War II. The letter , dated May 10, 1945, describes the military hospital where Yost was stationed in occupied Germany. He also described the former prisoners-of-war and concentration camp inmates who had been admitted as patients to his hospital, the refugees he had seen in the area, and stories he had heard about atrocities committed in the concentration camps include a probably reference to Ilse Koch.

  9. Zilbert Family Collection

    Contains documents related to the donor's father's immigration from Poland, and subsequent correspondence from his family still in Białystok, Poland.

  10. Archive of the Jewish Community Kreuzlingen Jüdische Gemeinde Kreuzlingen Archiv (1921-2009)

    Records of the Jüdische Gemeinde Kreuzlingen (Jewish Community Kreuzlingen). The collection consists of reports, statutes, circulars, payment receipts, accounting records, various administrative correspondence, and executive correspondence with political authorities, Jewish associations, and Zionist associations; correspondence and other documents on refugee aid, Zionist efforts, welfare commission, Christian-Jewish associations, Jewish cemetery Kreuzlingen-Bernrain, School and Youth Commission, Jewish Women's Association of Kreuzlingen, Jewish communities in Basel, Bern, Genf, Luzern, St, ...

  11. Shoag family papers

    Correspondence and documents pertaining to the extended Shoag family of Wilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Traby, Poland (Traby, Belarus), and Jeannette, PA, between the years 1929 and 1940.

  12. Budget for Bonds/Save Systematically to Win the War WWII Public Utilities Commission broadside

    Broadside, "Sacrifice & Save/Destroy Dictators by Buying Bonds" on one side; "Budget for Bonds/Save Systematically to Win the War" on other side.

  13. Photographic print of a boy with a toothache

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613474
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Width: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a boy suffering from a toothache clutching a tattered school notebook, Slonim, ca. 1935-38.

  14. Erna Low memoirs

    Contains two memoirs by Erna Low titled "I was in Oświęcim" and "Visit from Addis Ababa." The first memoir includes a postscript by her son-in-law Alfred Wolkenberg dated November 1983.

  15. Detroit Polish-American Union Committee to Fight Hitlerism Detroit Polsko-Amerykański Komitet do Walki z Hitleryzmem (Sygn. 360/7)

    A list of Polish people (including signed and handwritten entries for name, surname, address and the date of entry) issued by the Detroit Polish-American Union Committee to Fight Hitlerism, supporting the statement of the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt for assistance to states struggling with Hitler and Nazism. Entries are dated between August and September 1941 (approximately 208 pages)

  16. Carl Lutz family

    Two older women walk arm in arm through a garden (unknown location and date). They sit at a table with a younger woman. They smile at the camera. Carl Lutz laughs and smiles. The women talk. Carl poses with his arm around the eldest woman. He pats her cheek. They pose together standing up near a window. Carl and the woman, arm in arm, walk through a garden. He points out various plants. Another woman sews. Another woman joins and they smile and talk. CU of the eldest woman’s eyes and mouth. Various flowers. The eldest woman smiles at the camera.

  17. Displaced persons camp; tattoo numbers

    Young men (displaced persons) crowded on benches outdoors, pan and CUs, at unknown DP camp location. Baby in a carriage. 01:12:44 DPs display the numbers tattooed on their forearms from the Nazi concentration camps. Women sit on a bench and knit. A young man washes his feet under a faucet. Waking on a path. Large group of people stand beneath a castle. CUs, scar on the leg of a man, presumably a result of labor during the Holocaust. Palace grounds. More CUs, portraits of displaced people. A young girl holds a puppy. The group lines up in rows in the courtyard, lowering a Zionist flag.

  18. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Marseilles Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Marsylii (Sygn.464)

    Correspondence, circulars, press clippings, and publications related to the persecution of Jews in Germany, German minorities in Poland, the Polish minority in Germany, repression against Polish citizens, the census in Germany, Ukrainians in France, and guidelines on tracking the activities of organizations. Also included are the instruction of the Polish Embassy in Paris (1938), reports of consulates in Casablanca and Marseille, propaganda materials in Gdynia, Poland, legislative materials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding the Free City Gdańsk, and citizenship cases of Gdańsk ci...

  19. Street scenes in Paris during the peace conference

    In Paris, the American Express building on the corner. A man stands in front of the Conference de la Paix bus.

  20. Rose Katz collection

    Papers, documents, and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Rose Reichman Katz's (donor's mother) extended family in Raslavice, Slovakia before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes correspondence received by Rose from her family; pre-war photographic images; and receipts dating from the 1930s documenting monies sent from Rose and her husband Milton to her mother and father Hermine and Wolf Reichman and their extended family in Slovakia. Documents indicate Rose's siblings were deported in 1942 to the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland where they are presumed to have ...