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  1. Facsimile of a 70th anniversary Stolperstein for a Jewish Italian teenager

    Facsimile of a plaque created in 2012 to honor the memory of Amelia Levi, age 17, who was deported from Saluzzo, Italy, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German occupied Poland and murdered. The plaque was created by students of the Art Institute G.Solei-Bertoni, in Saluzzo, as a Stolperstein [stumbling block] for possible placement at the site of the home where Amelia had lived. Stolpersteine were originated by Gunter Demnig as an ongoing art project to memorialize victims of National Socialism in front of their last place of residence. On January 26, 1944, Amelia was arrested by...

  2. Jerzy Głowacki and Ludwika Lacheta papers

    The collection includes documents relating to the official name change of Lota Lam, Marzena Rola’s grandmother, to Ludwika Lacheta; a letter from the Swiss Bank Association to Jerzy Głowacki, Marzena Rola’s father, in which the Association agreed to search for the Swiss bank deposit by Simon Hubner on the condition that the petitioner will provide a death certificate and other documents; and a photograph depicting Jerzy Głowacki with a group of other liberated prisoners.

  3. Propaganda posters and flyers produced by the German authorities on the occupied territory of the former USSR

    Contains various German propaganda posters and flyers created and produced by the German authorities during the occupation of Ukraine and other territories of the former USSR.

  4. Memoirs. Forced Labor in III Reich Pamiętniki. Przymusowa praca na terenie III Rzeszy

    Collection of testimonies submitted for a contest "Przymusowa Praca na Terenie III Rzeszy" (Forced labor in the Third Reich). The contest was organized in Poland in 1965 by the weekly "Zielony Sztandar", the publishing house Ludowa Spółdzielnia Wydawnicza , and the Główna Komisja do Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce (Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes). 334 testimonies were accepted for the contest but only 125 were preserved (winning testimonies are missing, except a testimony of Jan Uskwarek).

  5. Aenni and Eric Kaufman papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war lawsuits brought forth by Aenni and Eric Kaufman, originally of Berlin, Germany, to recover ownership of shares of I.G. Chemie (later known as Interhandel and Societe Internationale) owned by Aenni’s mother Paula Ehrlich who was killed at Auschwitz in 1942. Included are legal documents and correspondence covering several lawsuits from as early as 1943, through 1966. There are also legal documents regarding a lawsuit filed by Eric against his lawyers from the firm of Graubard and Moskovitz filed around 1966. Also included are immigration papers...

  6. Eva Friedman collection

    Consists of letters, dated between August 21, 1939 and March 14, 1940, from family members Paul, Herman, and Clara, to Martha, who had escaped from Czechoslovakia to Palestine with her family. In the letters, the family (likely siblings) inform Martha of their imprisonment, fears, and the increasing German persecution, as well as their inability to escape. Clara, who was Martha's sister, sent her letters from St. Nazaire, France, and while Herman and Paul's letters do not include a location, Herman was likely writing from Prague, while Paul was imprisoned in an unnamed camp. Also includes o...

  7. Print

    Large envelope for a folio of a set of reproductions of eight lithographed drawings by Gheorghe Ceglokoff depicting scenes he witnessed in 1941 while a political prisoner in the Romanian concentration camp Târgu Jiu in Transnistria.

  8. Elizabeth Rosenbaum Pilossoph photographs

    Consists of 14 photographs and photographic postcards depicting life in prewar Kolno, Poland, as well as pre-war photographs of members of the extended family of Betzalel (Charles) and Tzipporah (Faye) Olek Rosenbaum of Kolno.

  9. Artie Kaufman photograph collection

    Contains three photographic prints depicting the Dachau death train soon after liberation; captioned on verso in English.

  10. Robert Lee McLaughlin photograph collection

    Contains 21 photographs taken around the Dachau concentration camp shortly after liberation. The photographs were taken by U.S. Army soldier T. Chappell, and entrusted to Lee McLaughlin, another solder in Chappell's unit.

  11. "My Experiences as a Prisoner of War, December 1944 to June 1945"

    Consists of one copy of a typed manuscript, 33 pages, entitled "My Experiences as a Prisoner of War December 1944 to June 1945" by C. Robert Hartt, written in 1945. In the memoir, Mr. Hartt describes being wounded and captured at the Battle of the Bulge and being sent on a long march, arriving at Stalag IV-B on January 7, 1945. He describes life in the camp, being taken on a work detail in Zittau, and the importance of Red Cross packages. In May 1945, the soldiers were sent on a march to American lines, but were fired upon and separated; Hartt found a Czech town where he was cared for and w...

  12. Lola and Boruch Nortman papers

    Contains vaccination certificates, immigration documents, baggage tags, a telegram, and a mimeographed letter, relating mostly to the immigration of Lola and Boruch Nortman from a displaced persons camp in Germany to the United States, 1949.

  13. Fake diamond ring bartered to save the life of a Jewish family

    Finger ring made by Abraham (Bumek) Gruber in 1942 using crystal and nickel to simulate a diamond ring. In 1943, Bumek was working as a butcher at the oil refinery camp Galizien in German occupied Poland with his wife Blimka and daughter Liba. That summer, the Germans took Blimka and Liba, and other Jewish families, and executed them in the Bronica forest. Bumek planned to give himself up in the next Aktion, but he met Tusia and her 4 year old daughter Fela and formed a bond that changed his mind. He decided to go into hiding with them in Mlynki Szkolnikowe, where his family had once lived....

  14. Ungar family photographs

    Consists of copyprints of the family of Alfred and Stefa Ungar, who lived in Krakow, Poland, with their children Adam and Kuka (now Helen). Includes pre-war copyprints of the family, copyprints of the family at the labor camp of Krakow-Prokocim, and copyprints of Alfred Ungar in his concentration camp uniform, alone and with other prisoners, after their liberation from Buchenwald. Also includes a copyprint and published article about the memory of Adam Ungar, who was remembered at the bar mitzvah of Daniel Pyser.

  15. Hand carved wooden clogs found in Dachau concentration camp by an American soldier

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn78330
    • English
    • a: Height: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)

    Handmade wooden clogs found by 22 year old Aubrey G. Kincheloe, an American soldier, in Dachau concentration camp after liberation between May 3-8, 1945. Aubrey was a private first class in the 45th Infantry Division, 179th Infantry Regiment, Company C. He entered combat in January 1944, in Italy, and fought in southern France and, in 1945, advanced into Germany. On April 29, the 45th Division liberated Dachau concentration camp, while Aubrey and the 179th Infantry Regiment were attacking Munich. On May 3, Aubrey and his regiment were sent to Dachau to guard and administer the camp. Aubrey ...

  16. Stanislaw Aronson papers

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to the Aronson and Kaffeman family in Warsaw and Łódź before the war.

  17. Joseph Lieberman ration card

    Consists of one War Ration Book No. 3 issued circa August 1943 by the United States Office of Price Administration to Joseph Lieberman, aged 19 months.

  18. L.P. Klink postcard

    Postcard sent to Anna Schlamm (donor's paternal grandmother) in Brooklyn, New York, from her nephew L.P. Klink in Riga, Latvia, 1946. In the postcard, he informs her that ."..all of our relatives have been cruelly murdered..."; dated February 1945, but postmarked February 1946.

  19. Kahn and Oppenheimer families papers

    Documents related to the extended family of Julius Kahn, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Includes an employee identification book ("Arbeitsbuch") used by an employee of his book manufacturing company, and receipts for taxes paid by member of the Oppenheimer family (donor's maternal grandmother's family) in Frankfurt, 1938-1939.

  20. Alex Frieder tours factories and sights in Manila and the Far East in 1948

    Alex Frieder boards a Philippine Airlines airplane and poses with a flight attendant. He shakes hands with the pilot and others. Scenes of logging and manufacturing, presumably in Manila. Several men wave and pose for the camera by the factory and automobiles. 01:04:10 LS, a Filipino man climbs a tall palm tree. Boats on the water. 01:04:46 Alex and others stand inside a factory beside an enormous tree that has been felled. CUs, mechanics and machines at work. Alex shakes hands with locals. Scenes of the shoreline and people on boats, beautiful shots. Hotels on the harbor. "Bowline Knot / M...