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  1. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Leipzig Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Lipsku (Sygn.479)

    Correspondence and questionnaires relating to the issuance of passports to Polish citizens living in Germany, and a case of the expulsion of a Polish citizen, Mojzesz Wethamer, by the German authorities.

  2. Sigmund Neuberger papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Sigmund Neuberger of Hainstadt, Germany as a soldier during World War I and his immigration to the United States from Zurich in 1940. Included are identification documents, a document stating that he was neither a communist nor a fascist in Zurich, immigration papers, German Army papers from World War I, German passports, and photographs. Also included are German military documents from his brother in law, Moritz Rosenbaum, also a World War I veteran.

  3. American propaganda leaflets

    Two American propaganda leaflets in Hungarian warning Hungarian people that the perpetrators of the Holocaust will be brought to justice. The first leaflet is titled “Te Is Mosod Kezeidet?” [“Will you, too, wash your hands of this?!”] and is illustrated with a pair of hairy hands washing-up in a bowl. On the reverse is an image of blind justice and a quote from President Roosevelt. The second is illustrated with a uniformed man carrying a gun in a doorway and asks “Kellett Ez Nektek?” [“Did you Need this?”].

  4. Georges Despaux stone relief

    Stone relief of a man in profile (looking left); verso: inscribed "K.L. Buchenwald" [in Russian] "1-X-1944"; Attributed to Georges Despaux (1906-1969) an artist who was a prisoner in Buchenwald.

  5. Photographic print of Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613486
    • English
    • overall: Height: 13.940 inches (35.408 cm) | Width: 10.940 inches (27.788 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 8.940 inches (22.708 cm)

    Gelatin silver print, portrait of Chaim Simcha Mechlowitz, a farmer and tanner, Vysni Apsa, Carpathian Ruthenia, ca. 1935-38.

  6. Poster

    Mikhail Gordon (1918-2003). [We Will Destroy The Hitler State And Its Inspirers!], Iskusstvo, Leningrad.

  7. Prayer book

    Prayer book owned by Leopold (Lajos) Blum (donor's cousin). He found it at his neighbor's home after he returned to his home town of Sanicoara, Romania after liberation. When he returned, he found his business had been looted and learned that his wife and children had been murdered in Auschwitz. He found this prayer book and a few others at his neighbor's home. Decades later, when Leopold decided to emigrate to Israel, he was told that he could not take these with him, so Leopold left them with his cousin Zoltán (donor) in Gherla, Romania. Zoltán was interrned with Lajos in Mauthausen, and ...

  8. Carl and Gertrud Lutz in a garden

    Carl and his wife sit close to one another on a set of steps, holding hands and talking, in Chicago (date unknown). She kisses his cheek. He gets up to adjust the camera and rejoins her, putting his arm around her. They smile for the camera. Gertrud in a fur coat and hat. Carl sits with a group of people in rocking chairs. Carl and his wife on a pier, smiling for the camera. The two walk arm in arm on the deck of a ship, looking out over the railing, and in a garden (seen in RG-60.6976). They kiss. Gertrud wears sunglasses and sits with another man (Emil?) on a bench. Carl joins them. CUs, ...

  9. Family vacation at sea in Opatija

    Lizzy Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Osterreichs. “Ferien am Meer. Abbazia 1933”, “Ankunft in Abbazia” (00:00:36) A planes flies overhead and then lands on the water in Abbazia (Opatija, Croatia). A ship, the Lorenzo Marcello, comes in to dock. Hans [Hans Otto Kessler] watches the boat, possibly with his father Jakob. Sailors peek out of the port holes. “Blick vom Meer” Camera shows the harbor and waves crashing. “Fröhliche Tage” (00:03:33) A women, possibly Lizzy, rides a board being pulled by a boat in the water. Hans smiles while he watches Lizzy. “Springkonkurrenz”...

  10. Prayer book

    Sukkot Mahzor, published in 1878, that belonged to Martha Bermann Loeb.

  11. Anti-Semitic & Anti-Communist Poster

    Jews Hiding Under a Table; printed for the "Grand Anti-Masonic Exhibition" in Belgrade. Image of Joseph Stalin inviting Churchill and Roosevelt to sit at the table under which Jews are hiding reading a book titled "a plan to bolshevize England and America."

  12. Photographic print of Elie Wiesel, 1977

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613482
    • English
    • overall: Height: 8.810 inches (22.377 cm) | Width: 13.440 inches (34.138 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.810 inches (22.377 cm) | Width: 13.440 inches (34.138 cm)

    Gelatin silver print depicting Elie Wiesel in 1977.

  13. Vilna broadside

    Bekanntmachtung Nr. 19 des Buergermeisters der Stadt Wilna [Notice No. 19, Mayor of Vilnius]; Vilnius, Lithuania; in German, Lithuanian, and Polish; Broadside issued on August 22, 1941 three months after the German occupation of Vilnius, ordering the refugees who arrived in the town after September 1, 1939, and who did not get Lithuanian citizenship until June 1940, to register in the municipal offices. The broadside also calls all of Vilnius residents to register in the police headquarters in their neighborhood and get an identity card. At the end, the broadside states that the decree does...

  14. Two short films: Hansi eats; Hansi grows up; amateur film equipment and studio; toys

    Lizzy Film Produktion. “Bei der Sause” Two people, possibly Jakob and mother, talk while a man eats with Hansi [Hans Otto Kessler]. Lizzy? (Hansi’s mother) sits down to eat. The family drinks coffee and breaks bread. “Wenn munt’re reden sie begleiten…” Hans learns how to cut bread. “Speck und jam passen gut zum kaffee” Hans feeds the man. “Die fetten bissen verschlingt der patterbom” The man with a mustache, possibly Lizzy’s father, cuts food for Hans. “Ende” 01:03:09 Lizzy Film Produktion “Dem leben eines” “Filmstars” “1 Teil” “Hansi beschӓftigt sich” “Die morgen lekture” “Hansi ist hier 2...

  15. Prayer book

    4 volume sete of holiday mazhors: First Days of Passover, Shavuot, Sukkot, and Last Days of Passover.

  16. Photographic print of two sisters

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613480
    • English
    • overall: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) pictorial area: Height: 7.310 inches (18.567 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of two sisters in a village in Carpathian Ruthenia, ca. 1935-38.

  17. Moses and Mainzer families collection

    The collection consists of documents and correspondence, a Pentateuch, ID cards, and passports relating to the experiences of Meta Moses and Fritz Mainzer before, during, and after the Holocaust.

  18. Lubomir Skrovina correspondence

    Personal correspondence of Lubomir Skrovina (donor's father) from the period of his deployment on the Eastern Front during WWII

  19. Shpatsiren zenen mir gegangen | Tants a bisele mit mir

    Relatively rare Soviet Yiddish recordings that obliquely document anti-Jewish policies in the postwar USSR. A: Shpatsiren zenen mir gegangen; B: Tants a bisele mit mir. Folksinger Zinovy Shulman (1904-1977) was imprisoned in 1949. The song on Shulman's "B" side, here called "Tants a bisele mit mir" (Dance with me a while), was the source for the Vilna ghetto song, "Hot zikh mir di shikh tserisn" (I've torn my shoes). Phonograph record 4 (purple label): Cyrillic, 2 sides. Zinovy Shulman, voice N. G. Valter, piano (Leningrad & Moscow, 1949: Gramplasttrest 11617-11618)

  20. Songs recorded in Henonville DP camp

    Spool 06. 22 min. Psychologist David Boder recorded interviews in displaced persons camps in France, Germany, Switzerland and Italy in 1946. His wire spool recordings were deposited at the Library of Congress and later transferred to tape in 1995. USHMM located this lost recording with songs of Henonville in 2017. "Songs of Henonville" was recorded in Henonville, France on September 13, 1946. Songs include: 1. "Dos yidishe lid" (The Jewish Song) by Anshel Schorr and Sholom Secunda (USA, 1926). Performed in Yiddish as "Golus-lid" (Exile Song) by Dzhuel [Joel] Prizant. 2. "Aheym" (Homeward). ...