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  1. Postcard, "Mander s'ischt Zeit!"

    Postcard: Recto: color image of three men, one of whom is a caricature of a Jew, a woman and a child running from Nazi flags with caption "Mander s' ischt Zeit!" printed across bottom; Verso: postcard addressed to Franz Eglauer in Linz from "Karl" and signed "Heil Hitler!" postmark dated September 21, 1938 and advertises the "Der Ewige Jude" exhibition in Vienna; in German

  2. Jacqueline Levy-Geneste collection

    Consists of photographs and a photograph album from the collection of Jacqueline Levy-Geneste, a German-Jewish woman who worked as a kindergarten teacher in various French internment camps, including Limoges, Rivesaltes, and Gurs. Includes photographs of life in the internment camps and the children with whom she worked, many of whom were Spanish Republicans. Also includes a small photograph album entitled "Le Petit Monde" depicting life in the Petit Monde OSE children's home in post-war France, of which Jacqueline Levy-Geneste was the director.

  3. Family visits blossoming tulips

    People visit sprawling tulip fields, probably near Lisse, Netherlands, Dutch flags affixed to a sign in the field. Ellis and her friend Hetty Winkel with an automobile behind them. 01:11:43 Brief view of toddler Hester (Hesje) Jas in a backyard garden, followed by more shots and closeups of the beautiful and colorful flowers (city in background). 01:12:15 Elisabeth Jas pushes a baby Hesje in a stroller. 01:12:24 Ellis, in the red dress as pictured earlier in Story RG-60.1373, near a flowering tree. Hester (b. February 15, 1938) was later killed at Sobibor with her mother Elisabeth Querido J...

  4. "Survivor"

    Consists of one testimony, two pages, in English, written by Brian Greenberg regarding his father, Samuel Greenberg, orginally of Schumsck, Poland. In spring of 1942, Samuel escaped the mass shootings of Jews of his town while he was gathering food. He was in various hiding situations, including hiding in hay stacks, before joining the Russian army in 1944 as a mine sweeper. In1945, he marched from Warsaw to Berlin with the Red Army and was wounded in battle. He survived the war and immigrated to the U.S. and married Brian's mother, Ethel, in 1950.

  5. Invitation to memorial ceremony at Tomb of Rachel, Passover 1946

    One printed invitation letter, announcing a memorial ceremony for victims of the Holocaust, to be held at the Tomb of Rachel, Bethlehem, Passover 1946.

  6. The Task of the Woman of To-Day

    Pamphlet: 'The Task of the Woman of To-Day' published in Berlin, Germany in 1936 on the occasion of the Conference of Women at the Reich Party Rally of Honor; In English

  7. Szereschewski family papers

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Szereschewski family in Danzig before the war; Charlotte Szereschewski's experiences in England after arriving there on the Kindertransport; and her parents, brother, and other immediate family members' experiences in Mauritius and Egypt after their attempted illegal immigration to Palestine and prior to their immigration to the United States.

  8. Wooden comb and handmade paper case given to a prisoner by a friend in Kaiserwald concentration camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn47061
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)

    Wooden comb and paper case given to 21 year old Esther Dykman by a friend on December 27, 1944, when they were slave laborers in an AEG Factory in Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga, Latvia. The friend found the comb on the side of the road and made the holder from materials taken from the factory where she and Esther worked. Germany invaded Soviet controlled Poland in June 21,1941, and three days later occupied Vilna (Vilnius, Lithuania) where Esther lived with her parents and 8 year old sister Cyla. By July, they enacted policies to persecute the Jews. German mobile killing units, aide...

  9. Wolf and Hirschen families collection

    Contains a letter and photographs illustrating the Wolf and Hirschen families in Germany. The letter was written between June 5 and September 4, 1942 by Emma Wolf in Offenbach, Germany to her children, Lisl, Gretl and Richard, who had immigrated to the United States. Photographs primarily illustrate the extended family's pre-war life in Germany.

  10. Stephen Alexander collection

    Contains a Swiss protective passport issued to Bela Alexander, and a document from the Hungarian Jewish Committee stipulating that Istvan Alexander [donor] has the right to be outside past curfew in the Budapest ghetto.

  11. Schwarz-Krakowiak family papers

    Collection consists of 79 postcards sent to Hildegard Krakowiak (later Schwarz), of Shanghai, by her mother, Frieda Krakowiak, of Berlin, 1939-1941; as well as autograph album of Hildegard Krakowiak, 1919-1928.

  12. Annemarie Warschauer papers

    The Annemarie Warschauer papers document the pre-war lives of the Israelski, Munter, and Warschauer families in Berlin, Germany and as refugees in Shanghai, China during the Holocaust. The collection includes biographical material, immigration papers, a small amount of correspondence, restitution papers, and photographs. Materials include passports, birth and marriage certificates, Yahrzeit memorial books, forced labor documents, restitution paperwork, dental profession papers, immigration and naturalization papers, and family photographs. The biographical material includes passports, drive...

  13. Torah fragment from the Pforzheim synagogue

    Fragment of a desecrated torah scroll discovered by Max Hausspiegel (later Houss) in the rubble of the Pforzheim synagogue in the days following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. He took the torah fragment with him when his family emigrated to the United States in the spring of 1939.

  14. Margarete Borchardt Rund memoir

    Consists of one memoir, with copies in the original German and in English translation, written in 1973 by Margarete Borchardt Rund, originally of Berlin, Germany. In the memoir, Mrs. Rund, who was born in 1885, describes her unhappy childhood and difficult marriage to Sigismund Rund, who was the Consul General to Panama and Estonia in the Weimar Republic. During their marriage both her husband (and later she) were unfaithful. She describes the changing life in Berlin after 1933 and her husband's immigration to Switzerland in 1934. She documents the Nazi confiscation of money and her efforts...

  17. Dr. Alain Goldschläger collection

    Consists of three photograph albums and a memoir collected by Dr. Alain Goldschlager. Includes a photograph album of copyprints of liberation photographs, including those from the Strasbourg University Anatomical Institute, and a photograph album of images of commemorative structures at the location of the former Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Also includes a photograph album containing photographs and captions of a female youth Reichsarbeitdienst camp in Bernstein am Wald, Germany, between 1938-1939, as well as a memoir written from 1958-1981 in German shorthand by Ludwig Link, who spen...

  18. Bulgarian labor camp photographs

    Consists of six photographs taken in Bulgarian labor camps of groups of workers. Isaac Varsano is one of the workers depicted in the photographs.

  19. Photograph of crematorium at Dachau

    Consists of one photograph depicting American soldiers standing outside the crematorium in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. The soldiers are examining a pile of corpses.