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  1. Sosua collection

    Collection of research materials concerning the refugee settlement of Sosua in the Dominican Republic. Includes several copies of "La Voz" [Our Voice] or Sosua, a weekly newsletter published by the Jewish community living there; also included are copies of "Sosua Berlin" and "El Boletin" a Jewish monthly newsletter.

  2. UNRRA donations; World Security Conference; American 1st Army advances into Germany

    Title: 75,000 Tons of Clothing for Liberated Peoples. Clothing donations shipped to Europe under the auspices of UNRRA (? UNRRA label on a bundle of clothing). Warehouse full of donated clothing. Shot of Henry Kaiser, director of the program. Title: San Francisco Plans for United Nations Parley. Shots of the War Memorial buildings, where the World Security Conference will take place. American delegates to the conference hold a meeting in Washington. The delegates are shown at the White House with Roosevelt. CU of Secretary of State Stettinius explains the purpose of the conference: to consi...

  3. Hanauer family history

    Consists of one family history narrative by Ralph Uri Hanauer's daughter, Terri Brahm. Includes biographical and genealogical information about relatives, life in Germany and the family's Holocaust experiences, as well as copies of family photographs.

  4. Huisman family collection

    Contains an illustrated photo album created by seventeen-year-old Max Appelbaum. The album uses a grouping of donated family photographs from the Marie Louise Refugee Center in St. Simon, near Toulouse, France to show their appreciation to camp director Jacob Huisman and his wife Judith who lived in the camp with children Michele and Annie (donor's uncle and mother). The photo album is dated 1942 and was presented to the family before they immigrated to Toronto, Canada. Includes a group of loose photographs showing pre-war families' experiences. The Marie Louise Refugee Center, a Belgium an...

  5. Samuel and Franka Baral papers

    The Samuel and Franka Baral papers consist of biographical information, correspondence, immigration documents, and testimony relating to Samuel Baral and Franka Baral’s experiences fleeing Kraków, internment in a ghetto, going into hiding, and immigrating to Palestine and Australia. The collection includes a certificate of naturalization and a certificate of registration for Australia issued to Franka and travel documents for Samuel to return home as well as a letter from Samuel’s mother, Juda, to the German Compensation Collection Agency and a copy of Jakob Baral’s birth certificate. The c...

  6. Pair of silver candlesticks with floral engraving recovered in postwar Germany

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn36115
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Depth: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) b: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Depth: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm)

    Candlesticks given to 25 year old Lotte Cohen in Germany after she relocated there following her liberation in January 1945 from Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. The candlesticks were given to her by a shopkeeper who told her that they were taken from the home of a Jewish family after they were deported. Lotte never spoke of her own experiences during the Holocaust. But she used these candlesticks for every holiday and always told her family the story of their recovery. Lotte, her parents, and her 7 siblings were deported from the Netherlands to Auschwitz. Lotte, one brother, and her...

  7. Olympics -- Berlin 1936

    Further scenes of the 1936 Olympics. The action moves to the harbor in Kiel for a sailing race. Panning shots of the boats and flags of several nations. Intertitles introduce the German sailors as they arrive on the dock. German sailors win the gold and the bronze medals. Next are men's and women's swimming and diving events. Goering and Hess are present in the stands. Next events: water polo, field hockey, soccer, gymnastics (synchronized exercises of large numbers of athletes, first men, then women), pommel horse, vault, high bar, horseback riding events. Closing ceremonies, performed in ...

  8. Paula Abelow collection

    The Paula Abelow collection consists primarily of photographs and correspondence with her family. Contained within the collection are correspondence from parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and family friends to Paula, her sister Alice and her brother Walter while they were living in Switzerland in 1938-1939. Also included are 4 family photo albums, as well as some loose photographs depicting the family on vacations and their travels to the United States and Mexico. Additional documents include a work permit, and photocopies of her aunt’s birth and death certificate. The Paula Abelow cont...

  9. Olympics -- Berlin 1936

    Part Two. The Olympic flame arrives at the regatta course at Gruenau. The first event is the 10,000 meter kayak race followed by rowing (in the rain - shots of crowd with umbrellas). Hitler greets the head of the international rowing organization and watches the race. Hitler and Goering cheer from the stands as Germany wins. Shot of the German victors sitting in their boat and giving a Hitler salute. Start of another rowing race, close-ups of Nazi dignitaries in the stands.

  10. Sarah Zyberstajn Zepkovicz collection

    Collection of prewar tax certificates paid by Sarah Zepkovicz to the Jewish Community as a member of the Zionist organization Poale Zion. Includes an membership card for "Poalai Zion" (Poale Zion) for Sarah Zepkovicz, and several promissory notes and other related documents from Yehuda Arye Zilberstajn to Mr. Zybershatz in Palestine stating that upon his arrival to Palestine he would work for him for one year. Mr. Ziblerstajn never made it to Palestine and perished in the Holocaust. Statement in Yiddish by Sarah Zyberstajn Zepkovicz "What it meant to be a Halutz (Pioneer)."

  11. "My Life in Germany, before and after January 30th, 1933"

    Consists of one typed memoir, 75 pages, entitled "My Life in Germany, before and after January 30th, 1933", by Erna Prehn Albersheim, who was born in the United States and lived in Frankfurt, Germany until January 27, 1939. The memoir, which is dated March 13, 1940, describes life in Germany during and after World War I, post-war inflation, Hitler's rise to power, the April 1933 boycott, the rise of antisemitism and anti-Jewish legislation and how these affected her life and late husband's business. She and her daughter managed to immigrate to the United States in early 1939.

  12. Benjamin Vogel collection

    Contains two photographs; the first is a portrait taken November 27, 1945, of Benjamin Fogel, born on May 9, 1945 in Belyye Vody, Kazakhstan; the second is a group photograph of workers in a sewing shop in Belyye Vody, dated circa July 1945. In the group photo, Rywka Regina Fogel holds up her newborn son Benjamin, while her husband Jakub is seated behind them. Jakuband Regina Vogel fled Poland in 1939 and were deported to a labor camp and later to Kazakhstan, where Jakub worked in a tailoring cooperative.

  13. Carmela Hevion collection

    Collection of photographs of the Wolgroch and Abramowicz families from Warsaw, Poland. The donor's parents immigrated to Palestine: Mordechai Wolgroch 1919, and Miriam Abramowicz in 1924. Miriam's brothers and their families perished in the Holocaust and five of Mordechai's siblings and their families perished as well.

  14. Oral history interview with Robert O. Cleary

  15. 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.

  16. 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...

  17. World War I warfare

    World War I warfare - soldiers, tanks, trenches.

  18. 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.

  19. "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...

  20. 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.