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  1. Alicia Wassertheil collection

    Identity card of Alicia Wassertheil's grandmother; collection of photographs pertaining to Ms. Wassertheil [donor] and her family in Krakow (prewar and post-war), period newspaper.

  2. Silver miniature tea set with 5 pieces owned by hidden child

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn36236
    • English
    • 1941
    • a: Height: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) c: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) d: Height: 0.630 inches (1.6 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) e: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)

    Miniature teapot, sugar bowl, pitcher, teacup, and tray given to Elzbieta Lusthaus by her maternal grandmother, Sophie Lieberman Schiff, when they were living in Tarnow, Poland, which was occupied by Germany in September 1939. On June 11, 1942, the Germans came to the house searching for Jews to deport to the concentration camps. Four year old Elzbieta hid, but her grandmother was taken by the Germans and shipped to Belzec extermination camp, where she was killed. Elzbieta and her mother, Helena Lusthaus, fled Tarnow and survived the war under false identities as Polish Catholics, sheltered...

  3. World War I warfare

    World War I warfare - soldiers, tanks, trenches.

  4. Howard A. Donald papers

    Contains two typescript first-hand accounts written by US Captain Jacob A. Goodheart, stationed aboard the USA Hospital Ship Algonquin, which was under the command of Major Howard A. Donald, MC. The accounts describe two separate events aboard the ship: January 16, 1945's arrival at Marseilles for the purpose of exchanging German prisoners of war with Allied prisoners of war, and beginning February 1, 1945, the ship's acceptance of displaced victims of Nazi persecution, virtually all concentration camp survivors, in need of medical assistance.

  5. "I was in Oswiecim"

    Consists of a photocopy of one typed memoir, 13 pages, entitled "I was in Oświęcim," by Erna Low. In the memoir, written as she was traveling to the United States after the war, Mrs. Low describes her arrest and deportation in 1944, first to Drancy and then to Auschwitz with her husband and daughter. All three survived the initial selection. Mrs. Low describes living and working conditions, her memory of music in the camp, and her memories of the hanging of Roza Robota and the other women who smuggled powder for the attempted Sonderkommando uprising. She describes the death march to Raven...

  6. Judith Munk collection

    Contains five photograph prints of Judith Munk [donor] and her family before and after the war, and of her father in forced labor in Hungary, dated c. 1940-1944.

  7. Hirschhorn family collection

    Collection of letters written by members of the Hirschhorn family during the war. Included are letters written by Kurt Siegfried Hirschhorn (donor's brother) to Hermann and Hedwig Hirschhorn (donor's parents), letters from the parents to both sons, a letter from Kurt to Richard, and a letter from Richard to his parents. Hermann, Hedwig, and Kurt Hirschhorn did not survive the war.

  8. David Gur collection

    Collection of copy prints of Hashomer Hazair, Dror, Bnai Akiva and other youth movements who participated in underground Zionist activities during WWII in Hungary. Includes one vintage photographic print; image of Miriam Renyi, David Grosz [donor], and Ezra Reichman; dated March 1944.

  9. Erika Samel Neumann collection

    Contains a "Fremdenpass" issued to Erika Samel (donor), with large red ink "J" stamped on inside front cover; photograph of child (bearer) attached on page 3; nationality listed as "stateless." Erika was born on October 22, 1932 in Vienna; in 1939, Erika left Vienna for Havana, Cuba, where she lived until 1941.

  10. Roger S. Heidenheim collection

    Consists of an anonymous account, dated 18 April 1945, Weimar, Germany offering first hand observations of atrocities at Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Also includes 30 edited negatives and 30 prints of the 166th Signal Corps unit and their documentation for disbursement of German concentration camps directly after liberation. The photos document the conditions of survivors, mass graves, and corpses of victims persecuted by the Nazis in German concentration camps; dated April 1945.

  11. Rabbi Armin Frieder papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Rabbi Armin Frieder and his family in Nové Mesto, Czechoslovakia (now Nové Mesto, Slovakia). Included are biographical materials of Armin including his passport and death certificate, his son Gideon’s report cards, and his sister Gittel’s school exercise book. The bulk of the collection consists of Armin’s writings and sermons, many of which were written during the Holocaust. The photographs include pre-war and wartime depictions of the Frieder family. There also some photographs related to Gideon’s wife Dalia’s family, the Boglers, ...

  12. "Thoughts prior to revisiting Frankfurt"

    Consists of one essay, 4 pages, entitled "Thoughts prior to revisiting Frankfurt" written by Marianne Horkheimer Lewis in July 1993. In the essay, Ms. Lewis talks about her feelings prior to, during, and after a trip to Frankfurt, where she had spent her childhood. Ms. Lewis left Frankfurt on a Kindertransport in 1939 and lost her father in the Holocaust (her mother had passed away in 1937).

  13. Training of female police in Berlin; ceremonies for the victims of fascism; athletic event at the Olympic stadium in Berlin

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 69 Training of female police in Berlin. Female recruits in physical training, watched by a laughing group of male policemen. After being issued uniforms, the women perform traffic control duties such as admonishing a young boy for riding his bike in the street and helping a group of children cross the street. 02:13:06 Title: Britische Zone: Gedenkwoche fuer die Opfer des Faschismus [British Zone: Memorial Week for the Victims of Fascism]. Commemoration activities for the victims of fascism (the narrator provides the statistics of 11 million people who died in almost ...

  14. East Prussia; Tannenberg Memorial; summer resort in Koenigsberg

    "Kurhaus Nikolaiken" sign along the water in East Prussia. Film is heavily scratched. Traveling in a boat, woman standing on bridge. 01:10:06 The Tannenberg Memorial in Hohenstein where Hindenburg was buried in 1934. Various shots of the complex with two large statues of soldiers, wreaths. Tourists wander around. Brief shot of HJ boys exiting doorway of memorial. 01:11:21 Painted German eagle on EXT of restaurant, civilians (tourists?) gathered around. Cemetery with gravesites, crosses. 01:12:12 Beach resort in Cranz (modern Zelenogradsk) near Königsberg. Crowds sunbathe, walk along the boa...

  15. Rudolf and Helga Hauptmann Bettsack collection

    Consists of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of Rudolf and Helga Hauptmann Bettsack (later changed to Bessac). Includes the Bettsack family Stammbuch, paperwork identifying them as stateless displaced persons, documents (with photos) in lieu of passports, and travel information for their immigration from Shanghai to the United States in 1947. Also includes paperwork for restitution claims and receipts for restitution claims for Helga Bessac.

  16. Gilda Moss Haber photographs

    Consists of five photographs taken at the White House youth hostel in Great Chesterford, England. Most of the children living at the youth hostel came to England on Kindertransports.

  17. Zygielbaum family collection

    Contains a certificate issued to Ruven Zygielbaum allowing him to immigrate to Palestine, issued in Italy on October 31, 1945; a photograph portrait of Rivka Zygielbaum, daughter of Szmul Artur Zygielbaum, who was murdered in the Warsaw ghetto; a photograph of an unidentified boy; correspondence relating to naming a street in Petach-Tikva, Israel and a park in Cote St. Luc, Canada in memory of Arthur Zygielbaum; and a photograph depicting Holocaust Memorial Day in Johannesburg, South Africa, where Ruven Zygielbaum was the Yiddish speaker during the ceremony, dated c. 1970.

  18. Sources of the Rhein river

    Line drawn map showing the course of the Rhein and the major cities along its route. The first title says that the Rhein originates in the Swiss Alps. Shots of clouds and snow-covered mountains. The next title says that the snowmelt from glaciers is the source of the river. Shots of rushing water flowing down from the glaciers. Title: The water streams from all slopes (?)." More shots of rushing water and valleys. Title: "Chalets are the indication of the settlements of the anterior Rhine." Small dwellings or farm buildings, cows grazing on a hillside, long shot of a small group of dwelling...

  19. Embroidered cloth with metallic trim made by a Greek rescuer

    Tapestry created by Erini Kypreou after the war, similar to those she gave to Jewish families she helped rescue in Greece during World War II. She gave them to the families to sell or exchange in time of need or to remember her. Greece fell under German occupation in 1940. Jews became targets of German persecution and subject to deportation to concentration camps. Erini hid a Jewish family in her home, Rebecca and Simos Kamhi and thier two sons. She helped arrange their escape to Egypt and, eventually, Palestine. She also rescued several members of their extended family. Erini was arrested ...

  20. Buchenwald and Gardelegen photographs

    Consists of one leather photograph album containing photographs taken in May 1945 of the Buchenwald concentration camp, as well as signs for the Gardelegen cemetery for victims of the Gardelegen massacre. Captions are written under each photograph.