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  1. Friedberg family papers

    The Friedberg family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Friedberg family from Jarosław, Poland; the Jam family and their lumberyard in Rzeszów, Poland, before the war; their survival during the Holocaust; and their move to Paris and immigration to the United States after the war.

  2. Pair of khaki ski mittens used by a German Jewish emigre in the US

    1. Carl Weiler and Mina Kaufmann Weiler families collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515665
    • English
    • a: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 6.625 inches (16.827 cm) b: Height: 13.125 inches (33.338 cm) | Width: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm)

    Ski mittens used by Mina Weiler in the United States. Mina Kaufmann emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938 and married Carl Weiler.

  3. Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families, originally of Beverungen and Gelsenkirchen, Germany. The collection primarily documents the emigration of Lilly Goldschmidt (née Mannsbach), her husband Bernhard Goldschmidt, and their son Fred to the United States in 1938, the emigration of her brothers Heinz, Otto, and Richard to South America, and her parents Karl and Luise Mannsbach, who remained in Leipzig, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of official documents, including birth, marriage, and death certificates; pre-war, wartim...

  4. Alexander Schenker papers

    1. Alexander Schenker collection

    The collection primarily documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Alexander Schenker’s father, Oskar Schenker, as a Polish Jewish refugee who fled Europe to Japan in 1940 with the help of a transit visa stamped by the Japanese consul in Kaunas, Chiune Sugihara, and later immigrated to the United States. Included is Oskar’s Polish citizenship certificate with the Sugihara transit visa stamp, U.S.S.R. State Travel Company Intourist tickets from Kaunas to Vladivostok, Trans-Siberian Express suitcase label, and Argentinian tourist visa issued to Oskar; M.S. Tatua Maru ship ephemera including ...

  5. Operation Annie - December 5, 1944

    1. Operation Annie broadcasts

    TRACK 1 0:01: News for the population of Rhineland: Max Weber was sentenced by the local court to 7 moths in jail because he first refused to take in women and children who had been fleeing from the Rhineland into his spacious stables. 0:25: Eisenhower requests foreign workers in the Third Reich to leave their work to hide somewhere and try to take part in the resistance against the German government. The ministry of Propaganda doesn’t take Eisenhower’s decree seriously, because exceedingly few foreign workers are able to leave their work and take part. 0:46: The court in Hamburg has senten...

  6. Simon Zilberberg collection

    Consists of photographs of Simon Zilberberg and his family before and after World War II and of the Simon's father, Henry, in Pithiviers camp, France; one document relating to Pithiviers; two passports belonging to the Simon's parents; and one New Year's card from 1941, with a painting of Pithiviers by Henry.

  7. David Siegel papers

    The David Siegel papers document Siegel’s time working for the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC), serving as a liaison to the Canadian immigration department, assisting with Jewish displaced persons from 1948-1949. Included in the records are documents from Siegel’s time with the CJC, such as his diary, address book, and travel documents. In addition, a photograph album documents Siegel’s travels across Europe. The biography series contains Siegel’s reflections on his time with the CJC, both in written responses to questions via mail, and an historical narrative that Siegel gave that broke dow...

  8. Roza Schevchenko photograph collection

    The collection consists of three portraits of Roza Schevchenko and her family taken in Mogilev Podolski (Mohyliv-Podilʹsʹkyĭ), Ukraine, before the Holocaust and following her mother's death and her father's arrest and exile and in Czernowitz (Chernivt︠s︡i), Ukraine, after liberation.

  9. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting a German prison

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Pencil drawing of a jug created by Karl Schwesig in 1933 while he was a prisoner in Ulmer Hoeh prison in Dusseldorf. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, Schwesig, a Communist, was arrested and imprisoned for 16 months. After his release in 1935, he lived in Antwerp, Belgium. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. Schwesig was arrested and sent to Vichy France, where he was held in St. Cyprien, Gurs, Noe, and Nexon internment camps. In 1943, he was sent to Ulmer Hoeh prison in Dusseldorf, where he was liberated by American forces in April 1945.

  10. Bronze figurine of a Jewish schnorrer in his traditional long coat

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Bronze figurine of a Jewish schnorrer, made in Austria during the 19th century. The figurine was possibly made in the style of Vienna Bronze, a handcraft tradition of bronze sculptures incorporating artistic finishes that began in Vienna, Austria around 1850. Schnorrer is a Judeo-German term for a Jewish beggar. During the Chmielnicki pogroms in Poland (1648-57), hundreds of Jewish communities were destroyed and thousands of Jews fled west after the destruction of their homes and way of life. Afterward, the influx of destitute Jewish refugees in central Europe helped create the archetype of...

  11. Izac Holcman papers

    The Izac Holcman papers document Izac Holcman’s military career and biographical background. Documents pertaining to his military career include his Armed Forces passport and a translation of the contents within. These materials described Izac’s various assignments, posts, and ranks within the military. Also included are two testimonies, one in lieu of oath because he could not obtain a birth certificate from Warsaw and the other a statement regarding the disappearance of his wife and son. Also included is Izac’s declaration of the intent to obtain American citizenship and a handwritten tim...

  12. Schischa family papers

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection

    The papers contain correspondence between Johanna and Wilhelm Schischa in the ghetto in Opole, Poland, and their daughter, Lilly, in England; photographs of the Schischas and the Opole ghetto; documents concerning Lilly's emigration to London, England, from Vienna, Austria, on the Kindertransport in 1939; and correspondence between Lilly and her elder brother, Edi, who immigrated to Palestine in the early 1930s.

  13. Hélène Cantkier Goldflus collection

    Photographs, ration card, tickets, ship’s passenger list and menus, school composition notebooks, related to the experience of the Cantkier family, of Paris, France, from the years following the immigration of the Cantkier’s from Poland to France in 1930, until their postwar immigration to Canada. The photographs include images of Natan and Taube (Therese) Cantkier from their wedding, a copy print image of Taube’s parents (original photo was from 1899), photographs of Natan and Taube’s children in France, and pictures of Helene with family and friends in postwar France. Documents include va...

  14. Sandomirski family papers

    The papers consist of correspondence, a passport, and photographs relating to the Sandomirski family in Vienna, Austria, and their experiences during the time period of the Holocaust. Most of the collection is correspondence, 1939-1941, from Aron and Feige Sandomirski in Vienna to their son, David, who was able to immigrate to Washington, DC, in 1939. Aron and Feige were deported to Riga in 1942, where they perished.

  15. Mina Perlberger papers

    1. Mina Perlberger collection

    Includes a typescript of "Buried Alive: A Diary" written by Mina Glücksman Perlberger in 1984. "Buried Alive" describes Perlberger's experiences as a young Polish Jew in hiding during the Holocaust. Also includes a compilation of eight poems by Perlberger relating to her Holocaust experiences and a list of family members deported and/or murdered during the Holocaust.

  16. Rachel Szpigelman Rappaport collection

    The Rachel Szpigelman Rappaport photograph collection consists of photographs depicting the Rachel Szpigelman Rappaport, her sisters, and mother during and after the war; and one vintage portrait photocopy print of four of the Rachel's sisters, who perished in Auschwitz, and of her father, who died six weeks before the liberation. The photographs were taken in Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland.

  17. Klaus Frank papers

    The Klaus Frank papers consists of a passport belonging to Klaus Frank for his immigration to Israel; a death certificate for Nanette August, the maternal grandmother of Klaus Frank; a banknote from Theresienstadt; a German banknote; a photograph of Klaus Frank after his release from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp; a photograph of Klaus Frank with his cousin, Larry; a sketchbook of Klaus Frank’s drawings of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and Copenhagen, Denmark; and seventy-three original cartoons created by Klaus Frank while he served as a staff artist at the newspaper, La Naci...

  18. Ilie Wacs family papers

    The Ilie Wacs family papers consist of biographical materials and correspondence documenting members of Ilie Wacs’ family in Vienna and their emigration to Shanghai, photographs documenting the Wacs family and their friends, and printed materials documenting Jewish refugee life and Ilie Wacs’ participation in Jewish cultural youth organizations in Shanghai. Deborah Wacs materials include identification papers. Henia Wacs materials include identification papers, registration records, and tax documents. Ilie Wacs materials include identification, membership, and travel papers; student records...

  19. Running jersey worn by a German Jewish runner in pre-Olympic training

    1. Dr. Gerhard Neubeck collection

    Athletic jersey worn by Gerhard Neubeck, 17, a German-Jewish runner, who, in 1935, participated in the Jews-only Olympic training camp in Germany. The Nazi regime established the camp as a public relations ploy to present the country as tolerant and open minded. No Jewish athletes were selected for the 1936 Olympics n Berlin. During the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, Gerhard and his father were severely beaten by Nazi thugs and the family's home was destroyed. Along with his mother Emmy, they soon fled to the Netherlands. On January 21, 1940, they sailed for New York aboard the SS West...

  20. Running shoes worn by a German Jewish runner in pre-Olympic training

    1. Dr. Gerhard Neubeck collection

    Running shoes worn by Gerhard Neubeck, 17, a German-Jewish runner, who, in 1935, participated in the Jews-only Olympic training camp in Germany. The Nazi regime established the camp as a public relations ploy to present the country as tolerant and open minded. No Jewish athletes were selected for the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. During the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, Gerhard and his father were severely beaten by Nazi thugs and the family's home was destroyed. Along with his mother Emmy, they soon fled to the Netherlands. On January 21, 1940, they sailed for New York aboard the SS Weste...