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  1. Sketchbook with paintings and sketches

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn592728
    • English
    • a: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) c: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) d: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) e: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) f: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) g: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) h: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm)

    Sketchbook belonging to Dora Ajlkichen (1926-1942) who was deported from Brussels on 15 August 1942 and was murdered at Auschwitz.

  2. Selected records from the District Office of Liquidation in Kielce Okręgowy Urząd Likwidacyjny w Kielcach (Sygn. 336)

    Correspondence and reports of the District Office of Liquidation in Kielce. Included are records of abandoned property that belonged to Jews before World War II, and German deserted property.

  3. Sudetenland tour

    Private films. Teelnitz at the foot of the Ore Mountains, Karl-Weis-Warte on the Nollendorfer Pass, SA sports festival, train ride via Mariaschein pilgrimage site to Teplitz-Schönau, steamboat ride on the Elbe, 1941: flood in Aussig. From Wannow to the Schreckenstein thermal baths, Erzgebirge ridge, Ebersdorf, ski jump in front of Adolfsgrün, Trip through the protectorate, trip to Prague, Wenceslas Square, Hradschin, Charles Bridge, HJ collecting, Zwickau in Bohemia, winter in the Ore Mountains.

  4. Rabinowitz family photographs

    Collection of photographs related to the experiences of the Rabinowicz family from Gorlice, Poland, who fled to Lwów before being deported to a labor camp near Novosibirsk. After their release in 1942 they moved to Kuybyshev, then to Jambul (today Taraz) in Kazakhstan. After the war the family returned to Poland before moving to the Heidenheim displaced persons camp; eventually they immigrated to Israel in July 1949.

  5. The Blue Card, Inc. Records

    The collection contains correspondence, minutes of meetings, brochures, news clippings, and printed material, documenting the history of The Blue Card, Inc., in particular its role as a New York-based charity that aided Jewish-German emigres who had fled Europe during the Holocaust. The collection includes minutes, by-laws and articles of incorporation from its inaugural meeting in September 1943; minutes of membership, board of directors, and executive committee meetings; newspaper and magazine clippings about the organization; correspondence, chiefly related to donations to the organizati...

  6. United Credit Society of Merchants and Reality Proprietors, Ltd. in Kielce Zjednoczone Towarzystwo Kredytowe Kupców i Właścicieli Nieruchomości w Kielcach (Sygn. 1392)

    The financial book of one of the Jewish banks in Kielce. Each page of the book contains a description of financial transactions (shares, dividends etc.), of the shareholder and the date of its adoption. In total, the bank had 182 shareholders.

  7. County Command of the State Police in Kielce Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Kielcach (Sygn.112)

    Police orders, circulars, various reports and investigative protocols, registers of the political organizations, social and sporting events. Included are records related to Jewish organizations, Jewish trade unions, and situation of the political and criminal prisoners.

  8. Records of Rawa Mazowiecka Akta miasta Rawy Mazowieckiej (Sygn.1022)

    Various records related to the town of Rawa Mazowiecka, Poland, mostly from the period prior to World War II, including minutes of the sessions of the Municipal Council of 1926-1939, examination of estates, lists of men who were recruited into the army, certification of craftsmen, and lists of businesses and their owners of 1941-1945.

  9. The Court of Appeal in Warsaw Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie (Sygn. 1602)

    Collection consists of records of criminal cases related to collaboration with the German authorities and the police, which were tried in post-war Poland. Cases relate to criminal activities against Jews and Poles such as participation in the roundups, pacifications, deportations and executions, denunciations of Jews, collaboration with the Gestapo, blackmailing Jews, requisitioning of property, surveillance and other crimes.

  10. Artillery practice; aircraft demonstration

    “Zingst - Luftübungen 1938.” Bombing exercises in Zingst. Soldiers practice with artillery in a field. They fire and reload an 88mm anti-aircraft gun. Clouds appear in the sky as the shells explode. Materials cascade from the sky. Plumes of smoke rise off the field in the horizon. Planes fly overhead, a demonstration. Large clouds of smoke rising from the earth from bombs dropped by the planes above. Soldiers stand to the side and watch. A house goes up in flames, black smoke rising off of it. 10:06:03 Hitler descends a staircase, followed by Göring and Erich Raeder and more Nazi officials....

  12. Igo Krischer papers

    The collection contains correspondence, certificates, booklets, flyers, and photographs, related to the musical career of Igo Krischer (1906-1993), a Polish jazz drummer, singer, and composer, and to his activities during World War II, which he spent in exile in Iran and Palestine. Included is correspondence from his family who remained in occupied Poland; photographs of family, friends, and bandmates, from approximately the 1930s and 1940s, as well as later images of Krischer; identification documents used by Krischer, ranging from his birth certificate to his union membership card; and pr...

  13. Woman's story of the German occupation

    A Boehner Film. German culture, woman driving a car, hilly landscape, three girls, historic buildings, street scenes, children playing, German Occupation, School of the SS, cyclists

  14. Selected records of the town Chęciny Akta miasta Chęciny (Sygn. 121)

    Books of the traffic control of population, regulations, orders, budget, and statements of accounts of the Chęciny City Council related to expansion and revitalization of the city, construction industry, education, commerce and trade, and health (no years 1936-1939). In the interwar period the city Chęciny had more than 5,000 residents, including 56% of Jews. Jewish councils were very active in the City Council administration and influential on all city decisions.

  15. Joseph Lowenstein collection

    Contians correspondence from Joseph Lowenstein of Stelle, Germany, dated 1940-1941, to his child Max and grandchildren Rolfe and Kurt in the United States. Letters in German and one in English. Joseph was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in Czechoslovakia and from there, purportedly to Auschwitz.

  16. Magda Adler autograph book

    Contains an autograph album which originally belonged to Magda Adler.

  17. Ernst Schlochauer papers

    Certificates, correspondence, memoir, typescript texts, clippings, and ephemera, primarily related to the educational career of German emigre Ernst Schlochauer, after his immigration to the United States in 1941. Includes notes, syllabi, clippings, programs, and correspondence from his years a student at Queens College and Princeton University, and later material from when Schlochauer was a faculty members at Queens College. Extracurricular activities are documented in materials related to Jewish organizations he participated in during his student days, and programs and notes from plays he ...

  18. Sardine address label

    Label with pre-printed destination address of Austauschlager Bergen-Belsen. One of a set of four Lisbon pre-printed sardine address labels from Gremio dos Exportadores de Conservas de Peixe for registered shipping to different concentration camps including Bergen-Belsen, Lager Barneveld, and Birkenau bei Neubrunn.

  19. Mayor-Commissioner of Warsaw Komisaryczny burmistrz miasta Warszawy (Sygn. 2011)

    Circulars published by the Mayor of Warsaw, along with lists and indexes of documents, the official correspondence, letters and documents relating to migration of Warsaw inhabitants, 1941-1942, and regulations in the Warsaw Ghetto.

  20. Anschluss in Vienna and Scharding, Austria

    Military parade for the Nazi annexation of Austria in March 1938. Cars drive through, people line the streets on either side. Large crowds stand outside the Austrian Parliament Building in Vienna. A Nazi flag hangs behind the crowd. A man holds a sign that reads “Mot. Truppen: 16 km.” German half-track cars drive through the street, towing artillery parts at the back. More crowd shots and cars driving through, each packed with soldiers. People sit on top of buildings and stand in trees to get a better view. The infantry marches in formation. Some ride through on horseback and others ride in...