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  1. Jacoby family papers

    Contains correspondence from Else and Hermann Jacoby in Küstrin and Berlin in Germany to their only son, Heinz (later Yakov) Jacoby in Palestine. Also includes family photographs and documents related to Yakov's experiences before and during World War II. In 1939 Hermann Jacoby (b. February 26, 1855) was transferred to Berlin and placed in the Old Age Home at Grosse Hamburgerstrasse 26. He was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in early February 1943, where he died on February 17, 1943. Else Jacoby (b. February 12, 1881) lived in Berlin since 1939 at 16 Duisburger St. She was...

  2. Isenberg family at home in Vaduz; men dancing; swimming

    Boys swim in a pool at the family home in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. Modern-looking houses with mountains in BG. More diving and swimming. 01:39:40 Car and Norbert on bicycle pass a large house. Norbert and an unknown man walk towards camera on street, one with a cigar in his mouth, car in BG. Sally and Erna tussle in bed. Sally walks past window. 01:41:01 [VQ shifts to poor] Men in national costume dance and play in a street under "Hotel Greif" awning (hotel in Wels, Austria). People watch from the sidewalk. Older man lies in a chair by a window with Norbert. The elders Nathan Stahl and Julie I...

  3. Berliner and Jacobs families collection

    Collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of the Berliner and Jacobs families during the Holocaust. Contains photographs (136), with some pre-war, but majority dating from 1945-1947 and showing Holocaust survivors living in or near displaced persons camps in Germany and Austria (Bergen Belsen, Mittenwald, Berchtesgaden, and Salzburg). Also contains a displaced persons identification card and certificate issued to Aranka Berliner, with the latter showing that she worked as a liaison officer with the Allied authorities at the Belsen camp, post-liberation, 1945; a Rom...

  4. Leopold Sobel papers

    Correspondence includes postcards and letters sent by Regina Sobol in Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR to her husband Maksim Leopoldovitch Sobel (donor’s parents) in the Red Army in 1942; postcards and letters written by Maria Laks in Dniepropetrovsk to her brother-in-law, Maksim Sobel in Sumy, Ukraine, USSR; Certificates testifying that Maksimilian Sobel was awarded medals for fighting in WWII and for liberating Warsaw by the Red Army and by the Polish Army; in Russian and Polish; dated 1945; Sport Driving License issued to Major Maksimilian Sobel in Warsaw on June 15, 1948; Memoir written by Maksim...

  5. 60th anniversary medallion, liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora issued to US soldier / liberator

    Commemorative medallion received by Forrest J. Robinson, Sr., an American soldier who participated in the liberation of Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp on April 12, 1945. He received the medallion at the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora concentration camps in 2005. Corporal Robinson, Military Police Platoon, 104th Infantry Division deployed to France in July 1944. On April 12, 1945, Forrest entered Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp near Nordhausen, Germany, the day after infantry troops from his division liberated the camp. His platoon followed the infan...

  6. Rubenstein Family Papers

    Contains correspondence sent to Estera Binstock Rubenstein (donors' mother) in the United States from her immediate family in Wachok, Poland between 1939 and 1942. Also included are newspapers, in Yiddish, dated 1946 and 1949.

  7. "The Last Train to Auschwitz"

    Consists of one memoir, 334 pages, entitled "The Last Train to Auschwitz," by Gary Younger, regarding the Holocaust experiences of his father, Benzion Junger (now Ben Younger) originally of Sapinka in Transylvania (which later became Hungarian). He describes pre-war antisemitism, deportation to the Sapinka ghetto in the spring of 1944, and life in the ghetto. They were deported to Auschwitz in May 1944, where Benzion was separated from his parents and younger sister Reizl, who perished. He saw his sister, Perl, in Auschwitz, but she did not survive the war. He and his uncle, David, were sen...

  8. Map

    Foldout map of Berlin acquired by Max Kolpas, a soldier in the 298th Combat Engineers, United States Army. The map also shows the surrounding areas and identifies important Nazi buildings and other locations. It is missing adjoining sheets. The map was created by the Geographic Section, General Staff, British War Office. Kolpas landed at Omaha Beach during D-Day, June 6, 1944, and was a member of one of the first units to enter Berlin in July 1945.

  9. "The Three Lives of the Polish War Hero; Emile H. Szlechter"

    Consists of one article entitled "The Three Lives of the Polish War Hero; Emile H. Szlechter," written by his stepson, Reinhold Beuer-Tajovsky. The article describes Szlechter's life as a lawyer in Lwów, fighting in the Polish Army immediately after the German invasion in 1939, and having to flee to Romania, leaving his wife and daughters, to avoid capture. From Romania, he made his way to France and joined the Free Polish Army, spending the war as a member of the French resistance group in the Toulouse-Haute Garonne region. After the war, he discovered his family had perished and married H...

  10. Panorama from the moving boardwalk at the Paris Exposition

    The Paris Exposition in July 1900 taken from the moving platform that was put on the boardwalk for the Exposition. People run on the moving boardwalk. Street vendors. National pavilions for the Paris Exposition are in the BG. Sign: "Champ de Mars Porte Rapp." Children fight in the corner. Pan taken from a bridge of a large building, trees. People walking.

  11. Belgian couples tour Germany; "Jews not wanted here" sign

    The de Brouwers and their neighbors Joseph and Yvonne de Hemptinne, continue on a self-guided tour through Germany in July 1936. Map of Germany and a sketch of the Neiderwald statue in Rudesheim with the title "Visite a le Germania." Landscape and towns by the banks of the Rhine taken from a boat. 00:14:39 Yvonne, Denise, and Joseph pose and walk towards the camera. 00:14:50 CUs of the Neiderwald monument. Tourists at the monument overlooking the Rhine. 00:15:01 Sketch of two beer steins and the title "Ein Zweite Prosit." Joseph and Carl drink in a restaurant. Men play a guitar and an accor...

  12. Josef Bosak photograph

    Photograph of former staff of the Zacharia Bosak metal wholesale shop, located at 6 Kupa Street in Krakow, Poland. The shop was overtaken and run by Germans.

  13. Prayer book

    Prayer book belonging to David Halberstam in which he inscribed dates and information about his and his first family's capture and experiences. David was originally from Gorlice, Poland, and survived multiple concentration camps. His wife and his father were deported and killed at Belzec killing center. After the war, he emigrated to North America.

  14. Regina Holczer collection

    Consists of one handwritten poem, in Polish, which was presented in Zbąszyń, Poland to Regina Holzer for her birthday on January 22, 1939. The poem was written and presented by German Jews who were ethnically Polish and were expelled to Zbąszyń, Poland, in 1938, and the text celebrates Holzer's assistance with cooking and food, noting that next year they will be in the United States. Also includes a copy print depicting a group of Jews sent to Zbąszyń, including Regina, taken in 1938. Includes an English language translation of the poem.

  15. Epstein family collection

    The Epstein family collection, circa 1920-1979, includes official documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the family’s experiences during World War II. The majority of the collection relates to Julian Epstein (1889-1943), a Jewish opera singer and jeweler, who was imprisoned in a series of French internment camps and died at the Lublin-Majdanek concentration camp in Poland. The collection includes a series of letters between Julian and his wife Margarete (1898-1988) written between 1938 and 1943. The collection also contains photographs of the Epstein family before and after ...

  16. Illustration 4 from a handmade portfolio of illustrations by Herbert Heyne and Erich Kästner

    Book of illustrations sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst. The book was a gift from Heyne to Furst and was written with Erich Kästner in 1945. It features color illustrations by Heyne and offers a comical and critical depiction of National Socialism and Nazi militarism.

  17. Wehrmacht Siege Game box, board, instructions, dice, and 29 tokens

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50725
    • English
    • 1941
    • a: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) b: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) c: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) d: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) e: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) f: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) g-k: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) l-q: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) r-t: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) u-v: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) w-x: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) y: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) z-ai: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)

    Belagerungs-Spiel (Siege game) Sturmangriff (Assault) board game with original box, instructions, 2 dice, and 29 playing pieces produced in Nazi Germany in 1941. This version features different divisions of the Wehrmacht, the unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany. The colorful game board has images of Army Panzers, Luftwaffe airplanes, including a Stuka dive bomber and a blimp, and paratroopers attacking and occupying a green, fertile landscape with rivers and plowed fields, with the game diagram of red and black connecting lines and intersecting dots. The siege or fortress game, a popular w...

  18. Family at their home in Belgium during World War II

    In COLOR, various scenes of the de Brouwers at St. Denis-Westrem. CUs of Denise in a fur coat relaxing in the family garden; Carl poses near the apiary; Denise gathers flowers and smokes at a table decorated with flowers and tea; Madeleine, the cook's daughter, and Colette watch the Jersey cows; CUs of a local worker; CUs of Carl and Denise playing with Jean-Marie. 00:19:34 Jacques and Birgitte recite a poem.

  19. Sally and Erna Isenberg tour Geneva and vicinity

    [VQ begins poor] Erna in bed. EXT of Geneva with apartments and river. Another view of Erna reading or writing in bed followed by city views. 01:00:34 An outdoor entertaining space on street level. Street scenes and lake-views. People with umbrellas on a platform. CUs of Erna eating. Cat jumps off ledge. Erna Isenberg walks by a train. Erna types on a typewriter. Scenic views of landscape. INT, pan of dining room with tables and waiters in tuxedos. Views of a boat on a lake from hotel window. City street scenes, bicycles, traffic. 01:04:05 Entrance to Hotel Beau Rivage in Geneva, Switzerlan...

  20. Gerhard (Gershon) Hoffman correspondence

    Two (2) letters written by Gerhard [Gershon] Hoffman (donor's father) from Hamburg, Germany in 1945. The first letter, originally written and sent to Herbert Mosheim in the United Kingdom in 1945, describes in great detail Gerhard's experiences during the war, beginning with the round-up of Jews in Hamburg in November 1941, and being sent with his family to the Minsk Ghetto, where he was a forced laborer from 1941 to 1943, and the mass liquidations and murders that took place. He also describes his transport to a succession of concentration camps beginning in September 1943, in Lublin, and ...