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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. Kaufering IV liberation photographs

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

  8. 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.

  9. “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...

  10. 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.

  11. Jewish News: the JUNA archive and documentation belonging to the press office of the Alliance of Swiss Jewish Communities Jüdische Nachrichten: JUNA Geschäftsarchiv und Dokumentation der Pressestelle des SIG

    Contains JUNA records, newspaper clippings, brochures, pamphlets, original documents as correspondence, reports, court documents, etc. Includes correspondence and other documents on Benjamin Sagalowitz; and collection of documents compiled by the defense in the trial of David Frankfurter in Chur 1936; documents on the Holocaust in European countries, persecution and extermination of European Jews, eyewitness accounts on concentration and extermination camps, Jewish resistance, reactions abroad, number of victims; the book project "The Way Maidanek" by B. Sagalowitz, personal dossiers, perse...

  12. Romulus Latham photograph collection

    Collection of four photographic prints documenting victims found in the Mauthausen and Ohrdruf concentration camps immediately following liberation; dated April-May 1945. Acquired by Romulus Latham (donor's father) while serving in the U.S. Army with Patton's Third Army during WWII.

  13. Djordje (Djura) Rajs papers

    The Djordje (Djura) Rajs papers include a diary written by Djordje (Djura) Rajs in a former military barracks in Petrovgrad, Yugoslavia (currently Zrenjanin, Serbia). In the diary, Djura details the Nazi occupation of Petrovgrad and forced conscription of Jewish men as well as being forced to move to a dilapidated former Army barracks in May 1941. He further describes that he writes "not something imaginary but rather a complete truth which I lived through..."

  14. Leon and Sally Korn photograph collection

    The collection includes photographs primarily depicting life among displaced persons at Föhrenwald displaced persons camp, 1946-1949, including Leon and Sally Korn at their wedding and with their young daughter. Also included are images of a Jewish soccer club, Makabi Ferenwald, including a team portrait, as well as a portrait of a team from the Landsberg displaced persons camp.

  15. Postcard of painting, The Ignominy of the XXth Century

    Blank postcard: color image of painting by artist Michael Califano titled "The Ignominy of the XXth Century"; Recto: image of Albert Einstein facing Adolf Hitler and a Nazi soldier, a hand holding a bloody sword to their right; Verso: printed quote "Neither hatred nor persecution can stay the progress of science and civilization."

  16. Eliezer Yerushalmi papers

    Collection consists of several manuscript and typescript drafts of writings by Yerushalmi describing events in the Šiauliai (Shavli) ghetto during the German occupation as well as other topics. Includes a manuscript text in a notebook, titled "Di geshikte fun Shavler geto un fun zefon Lita bekitzur;" manuscript drafts of several plays, including "Profesor Shuster;" and a draft of a novel, "Man iz im mekane di dira, a novele fun plitim in Italye," which is based on the lives of Jewish refugees in post-war Italy.

  17. Leo and Ida Schoenhorn correspondence

    Contains letters sent from Leo (Leib) and Ida Schoenhorn, of Berlin, to their son, Sigi, and other family members in the United States, dated 1941-1942. Includes several letters addressed to Sigi from June to November 1941, and one Red Cross letter, sent to brother-in-law Max Zukerman of Bridgeport, Connecticut, December 1942.

  18. Sloan family papers

    Temporary Registration card issued by the Military Government of Germany on September 21, 1946 to Chana Slodownik.

  19. Eva Rosemarie Feigl collection

    Consists of documents, eight pre-war family photographs, and two books written in German and Hebrew entitled, "Gebetbuch and Stunden der Andacht" from the estate of Ms. Eva Rosemarie Feigl. The documents included in the collection are: Eva Feigl’s naturalization certificate, Alien Registration card, high school diploma, birth certificate, and a photocopy of an affidavit in lieu of a passport, issued by the U.S. consulate in Marseille, 1940. Also included are handwritten genealogical charts by Feigl, a handwritten copy of a text related to Feigl's departure from Europe in 1940, and a printed...

  20. The stake Print 10 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 a guard watching six individual prisoners being punished by standing outside in the snow and cold until they collapse 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 N...