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  1. "Iasii Mei"

    One memoir, 57 pages, entitled "Iasii Mei," by Dr. Iosif Finkelstein. In the memoir, Dr. Finkelstein describes the events occuring in Iasi, Romania, in June and July 1941, including his own memories of his experiences at that time.

  2. Oral history interview with Helena Bickart Stricks

  3. Anti-Semitic election campaign poster

    Anti-Semitic election campaign poster, "Elections Legislatives du 22 Septembre 1889/ Ad. Willette/Candidat Antisemite."

  4. Plaque in memory of the victims of Kiskőrös, Hungary, 1949

    Photographic copy of a memorial plaque produced in Kiskőrös, Hungary, in 1949, commemorating and listing the residents of that town who were deported and murdered during the Holocaust. Contains an artistic depiction of the deportations of 1944. Beneath this are listed the names of the victims. On the border of the illustration is a depiction of an iron chain, the links of which contain individual illustrations drawn from Passover texts.

  5. Reuben family papers

    Contains correspondence and forms related to Mrs. E. Reubens, of Cardiff, Wales, and her efforts to assist Jewish displaced persons at the Bergen-Belsen refugee camp, 1945-1946. Includes pre-war correspondence regarding her involvement in Jewish organizations in Britain that sought to assist German-Jewish refugees, dated 1933-1938.

  6. Ben Shneiderman photographs

    Contains eight photographs depicting the Szymin and the Sznajderman families before the war in Warsaw, Otwock and Kazimierz, Poland; two photographs depicting Benjamin and Ryfka Szymin (donor's maternal grandparents) and Ryfka’s sister, Malka, in the Otwock Ghetto, dated c. 1941; one photographic postcard with an image George Kadisch showing the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto, captioned on verso: “Warsaw 1945 – Nalewki Street.”

  7. German troops return home

    Banner welcoming soldiers returning home by train reads a Hearty Welcome to you Brave Soldiers. Women, children and old men wave joyfully, and soldiers descending from railway cars hug girls, who offer flowers, to sound of song including Herrlich ist die Heimat. Tank crews lift children onto their flower-garlanded tanks to play. Cheering Germans in garrison town welcome back tank regiment as it parades by. Hitler Youth boys wave white handkerchiefs and young members of the BDM throw flowers at the tanks passing by. CUs of Germans.

  8. Levy and Kupferstajn families papers

    Collection of photographs (56) and documents illustrating the families of the Kupersztajn family from Bilgoraj and Warsaw, Poland and the Levy family from Banja Luka in Yugoslavia. Most members of the both families were murdered in Poland and Croatia. Klara Kupersztajn Dulman, later Clara Levy (donor's mother) survived German occupation, the Warsaw ghetto, and Soviet forced labor camps. David Levy (donor's father) survived German and Italian occupation, an internment camp, and later in hiding. David and Clara met in the Bagnoli DP camp in Italy and immigrated to the United States in 1950. D...

  9. Blankman family photograph collection

    The collection consists of pre-war photographs documenting the Blankman family in Dubno, Poland (Dubno, Ukraine) prior to Chaim Blankman's immigration to Palestine in 1935.

  10. Kalman Epsztein photograph

    Consists of one photograph of Kalman Epsztein (third from front) at a protest in Cremona, Italy during the war. Kalman was born in Borszczow, Poland (now Ukraine) in 1916.

  11. Transport Print 3 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting teams of prisoners hauling construction materials uphill, while guards and dogs attack them, for use at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individual...

  12. Collection of photographs from various files Fotografie z różnych dokumentów (Sygn. BN)

    Contains various photographs of the size of membership cards or passports, made in the early post-war years. They were attached to various documents (mainly from the records of the Organization for Rehabilitation and Training ( World ORT Union; ORT), the Towarzystwo Ochrony Zdrowia Ludności Żydowskiej (Society for Health-Protection of the Jewish Population in Poland; TOZ), and Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (Central Committe of the Jews in Poland; CKŻP): Department of Emigration, personal files), however, over several dozen years they were, due to unknown circumstances, separated from tho...

  13. Abram and Rywka Lasocki documents

    Contains a Polish passport issued to Abram and Rywka Lasowski in 1935, with stamps showing their immigration to Palestine via Lisbon and Greece; and a document in Hebrew and some English, issued by the Jewish Agency for Palestine office in Lisbon, 1935, for the Lasockis. Also includes seven photographs.

  14. Cohen-Paraira family at leisure

    Field with Abraham and his mother Susie Nabarro, in Dinant, Belgium. This was the last family trip before Susie died in August 1938. Horse grazing. 01:09:40 Abraham and his mother exit onto the street underneath an archway adorned with red flowers. They tour the town of Dinant, "BONDS" is written on the pink building. They explore the outside of the Gothic-style Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, rebuilt in 1227. Brief shot of Abraham and his mother sitting on a bench with some sort of fruit.

  15. Research papers of Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy (1990 - 2003) Forschungsdokumentationen Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy

    Research papers of Theo Tschuy (1925-2003), a Swiss theologian. Theo Tschuy collected reserch materials realted to his book about Carl Lutz, "Carl Lutz und die Juden von Budapest." Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss consul in Budapest during World War II, and single-handedly rescued 62,000 Jews from deportation; research materials related to an unfinished book about the children of La Hille, France; as well contains photographs, reports, and other documentation for the travelling exhibition "Visas for Life." The collection consists of three parts: 1. Konsul Carl Lutz" (1.Teil); "Die Kinder...

  16. Large damaged Deutsche Arbeitsfront banner with a swastika and cog wheel

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn45086
    • English
    • a: Height: 78.000 inches (198.12 cm) | Width: 61.000 inches (154.94 cm) b: Height: 119.000 inches (302.26 cm) | Width: 74.000 inches (187.96 cm)

    Very large Musterbetriebsfahne [Model factory banner], torn into two panels, of the type awarded by the National Socialist German Labor Front [DAF / Deutsche Arbeitsfront] as of 1941. Known as the Golden Banner, it has a black swastika inside a 14 pronged gold cogwheel on a red field, the symbol of the DAF. The Nazi regime abolished all trade unions in 1933 except the DAF, to ensure political control over industry. On August 29, 1936, the Performance Contest of German Businesses was established to reward the factory with the highest increases in production. A banner was awarded yearly on Ma...

  17. Kaufering IV liberation photographs

    Contains six photographic prints of corpses at the Kaufering concentration camp, after liberation, 1945.

  18. Selma Dreiseszun collection

    Contains photographs depicting members of the Zimnowitz, Cybulski and Abramski families in Stawiski, Poland (north of Łomża), dated 1918-1928. Photographs depict Dina Abramska and Chaim Zvi Zimnowitz, dated c. 1935-36 in Stawiski, Poland, and one photograph of Chaim Brum, son of Alter Brum and Lena (Lecha) Abramsky. Includes postcards addressed to the Fanny Walker family in Kansas City sent from Stawiski, Poland by Alter Brum and Zisl Zimnowitz, in Yiddish and English, dated March 1935 - June 1938.

  19. “Selection” Print 11 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting prisoners wrapped in blankets in a barrack being selected for an unknown labor detail by a Kapo and ghetto police officers at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle...

  20. Jakob Widawski photographs

    Two photographs: depicting Jakob Widawski (donor’s father) born on May 21, 1921 in Wieruszow, 55 miles WNW from Czestochowa, together with seven other survivors of the town in which 2,400 Jews lived before the war. Jakob Widawski survived the forced labor camp near Poznan, the Auschwitz concentration camp, where his prisoner number was 141687, and a death march to Gleiwitz, Langebilau camps from which he managed to escape.