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  1. Sara and Jochanan Ben-Dor collection

    Photographic prints and documents documenting the experiences of Sara (Gyorgi) Heisz Ben-Dor and Jochanan (Tibor Blau) Ben-Dor in Hungary before and during the Holocaust and also liberation and afterwards; dated 1930's and 1940's.

  2. Cossack volunteers

    LS of Cossack volunteers on horseback. They dismount and shoot at targets with cartoon drawings of Russian officers on them. Shot of Germans officers standing with men in Cossack dress. Cossacks gallop across a field with swords drawn. They use the swords to cut off the heads of mannequins in the shape of a Jew (wearing a Star of David on his chest) and Josef Stalin. CU of Stalin's head on the ground.

  3. Wehrmacht soldiers are welcomed in Yugoslavia

    Wehrmacht soldiers preparing to invade Yugoslavia from Hungary on the morning of April 10, 1941. Smiling soldiers marching, tanks rolling down a road. Kessel says that the soldiers called the battalion commander "Ohm Krueger." Quick shot of Serbian civilians wearing home-made swastika armbands. Kessel notes that the German soldiers viewed these men, who had shortly before been enemies of the Germans, with "mixed feelings." Men identified by Kessel as Croatian farmers wearing Serbian uniforms give themselves up to the Germans. A Serbian officer gives a Hitler salute. Romanian soldiers search...

  4. Zalcberg family collection

    Consists of documents and photographs relating to the post-war experiences of Morris, Regina, and Chana Zalcberg. This includes emigration documentation from the Feldafing Displaced Persons camp, a photograph of the family, and six audiotapes of the oral testimony of Morris Zalcberg, recorded in 1981, who was in the Polish army before the war.

  5. Kurt and Helen Rosendahl collection

    Collection consists of four photographs, one 2 RM note from the Buchenwald SS commisary, three documents declaring K. Rosendahl a former political prisoner (from the Amicale of Buchenwald, the National Federation of World War II political prisoners, and from the Brussels Minister of the Reconstruction), two photocopies of identifying documentation, one article by Kurt Rosendahl entitled "Buchenwald Revisited (2 pages), and one exhibition brochure for "The Overlooked Holocaust: The Devastation of the Sephardic Communities," which ran from 11/16/92-6/24/93 at the Holocaust Resource Center and...

  6. Malwina "Inka" Gerson Allen papers

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518794
    • English
    • box oversize folders 1 3 32 photographs, 11 ration cards, 1 booklet, 55 documents, 65 notices, 1 identification card, 19 newspapers, 1 newspaper clipping, 5 postcards,

    Collection consists of documents and photographs from the Łódź ghetto; collection of ghetto newspapers and collection of ghetto announcements. All the items were collected and recovered from the ghetto by the donor, Malwina Gerson Allen, and her parents, Dora and Gustav Gerson.

  7. Carl Gärtig collection

    The Carl Gärtig papers consists of color photocopies of photographs, letters, and documents relating Carl Gärtig and his family while he was imprisoned in Kassel, Germany and Buchenwald concentration camp; post-war letters written to Gärtig from fellow survivors; pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs; a brief biography of Carl Gärtig; and Carl Gärtig's memories of the death of Reverend Paul Schneider (1897-1939) in Buchenwald concentration camp.

  8. Markevitch family photographs

    Consists of 31 photographs of the Markevitch family of Bialystok, Poland. With the exception of the donor's mother, Rose Markevitch Hatkin, who had emigrated to the United States in 1919, and one uncle, Mr. Kochakovich (who emigrated to Uruguay in the 1930s), the entire family perished in the Holocaust.

  9. Regina Kozuch Dafner photographs

    Consists of six photographs from the collection of Regina Kozuch Dafner; includes a photograph of young adults belonging to the Kadima Hapoel Zionist youth group, as well as photographs described as "Regina Kozuch" and as "Frau Lene."

  10. Jacob Igra photographs

    Consists of 22 photographs seemingly taken by a SD-SIPO (Sicherheitspolizei) German soldier in Sosnowiec, Poland. The photographs show German soldiers interrogating and arresting Polish citizens, and possibly include photographs of the "Wehrfaehige," people who were capable of carrying arms who were interned during and after the Polish campaign as a security measure. The photographs were found after the war by Jacob Igra in an apartment in Sosnowiec.

  11. Ellen Echeverria photograph collection

    Consists of photographs of Elke Plech (Elke Bozena, now Ellen Echeverria), a hidden child, with Janina Wysocka, the Polish woman who hid her during the Holocaust.

  12. Laurie Bernstein photographs

    Consists of a photograph of two children, Genia and Akiva Bernstein, siblings of the donor's father, who later perished during the Holocaust, and one photograph of a train depot. The photographs were taken in Skalat, Ukraine.

  13. Edith Leuchter collection

    Consists of photograph of a group of Girl Guides in Moissac, France, in 1945. Pictured on the far right is Edith Leuchter, a Jewish girl in hiding. Also includes a newspaper clipping from the "La Vie a Marseilles" reporting on the emigration of child survivors to the United States in 1946.

  14. Lissek family photographs

    Consists of three post-war photographs of Channa Lissek and her sons Leon, Marcel, and Jacques. The boys spent the war in hiding with the help of the OSE. The boys' father, Sam Lissek, perished in Auschwitz; one of the photographs, taken in 1950, shows Channa's second husband.

  15. Szlezyngier-Wiernik family photographs

    Consists of 13 pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Szlezyngier family of Wojkowice, Poland, and the Wiernik family of Sosnowiec, Poland. Benjamin Szlezyngier and Chana (Hanka) Wiernik both spent the war in various labor camps and survived death marches. They married in Cyprus and emigrated to Palestine in 1946.

  16. Aszkenazy and Rosenberg family photographs

    Consists of two photographs of the Aszkenazy family in Warsaw, Poland, one taken in 1939 and one taken in 1946. Also includes one photograph of the Rosenberg family in Zakopane, Poland, in 1927.

  17. Helene Bloch collection

    Consists of eight photographs documenting the donor's family in Villefranche, France, during the Holocaust and immediately after liberation.

  18. Yeheskel Fleisher collection

    Consists of a pre-war photograph of the Fleisher family, originally of Shavly, Lithuania; two photographs of Yeheskel Fleisher in Shavly, 1941, wearing a Star of David after being released from a temporary stay in a Nazi prison; and two photographs of Mr. Fleisher's sister, Batia Michaele Gutstein being taken off the ship "The Exodus" on a stretcher and with her husband Michael Gutstein. Also includes one biography of Mr. Fleisher written by his granddaughter.

  19. Berkowitz family photographs

    Consists of photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of the Berkowitz family, originally of Riga, Latvia. Includes photographs taken in pre-war Latvia, as well as photographs of family members in Shanghai and in Kobe in the 1930s.

  20. Stephen Olesnevich papers

    Collection of more than 280 photographs taken by Stephen Olesnevich in Warsaw and other cities in 1945-1946. Documents include his passport and his nomination to serve as Vice Consul of the Unted States in Poland.