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  1. Set of tefillin buried for safekeeping while the owner lived in hiding

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35052
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm)

    Tefillin pair buried for safekeeping by Johanna Baruch Boas while she lived in hiding in Brussels, Belgium, from 1942-1944. They were used by her husband Bernhard who died in Berlin, Germany, in 1932. Tefillin are small boxes that contain prayers that are attached to leather straps and worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Johanna brought the tefillin with her when she fled Nazi Germany for Brussels in March 1939 with her daughter’s family. Germany occupied Belgium in May 1940 and by 1942 there were frequent deportations of Jews to concentration camps. Johanna had a non-Jewi...

  2. Farm and villagers in the Banat region

    Color. Scenes showing life on a farm in the Banat region. On the farm lives Paula (first shown in a pink dress) and her family. Paula seems to have been Kessel's girlfriend (?). Paula smiles at the camera and plays with her young brother. Shot of Paula's mother reading a Nazi newspaper called Volksruf. Paula and members of her family clown for the camera. 01:20:53 Kessel plays with Paula's younger brother. Shots of other villagers.

  3. Yakov and Tosia Klinger collection

    Collection consists of a letter from Yakov and Tosia Klinger in the Warsaw ghetto to Yakov's sister, Rozia Piotrkowski; the letter was written shortly before the Klingers and their young son, Sunio, were deported to Treblinka in 1942, where they were murdered. Also includes an original photographic print of Yakov and original modern writings by Michael Koenig, the nephew (by marriage) of Yakov Klinger.

  4. Itta Keller Ben-Haiem collection

    Collection consists of 46 photographs of Itta Keller and her family in Stary Sambor, Poland (now Staryĭ Sambir, Ukraine) before the war, in Lvov, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) during the war while in hiding, and after the war. Testimony of Tadeusz Kobylko, a Polish man, who hid Itta and her maternal aunt during the Holocaust. Letters and documents illustrating donor's family's experiences during the war in Poland.

  5. Moshe and Chaya Nordheim collection

    The collection consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs documenting the history of the Nordheim family of Amsterdam, Netherlands including the family's deportation and internment in Westorbork, life in hiding, internment in Bergen-Belsen, and immigration to Israel.

  6. Selected records related to the history of Jews and Jewish communities from the State Archives of Kyiv region of Ukraine

    The collection contains records of the Jewish organizations and Government and Communist Party organizations pertaining to the history of Jews and Jewish communities in the Kyiv region before and immediately after WWII, i.e, during Soviet power.

  7. Selected records related to the Holocaust and Nazi occupation of the Kiev region during WWII from the State Archives of Kiev Region

    This collection includes records of the following organizations and institutions active in the Kyiv region during the Nazi occupation: Offices of the Ukrainian auxiliary police in Makarov, Novy Mir, Uman, Dymer, Uzin, Tarashcha, , Fastov Vychsheduby, Baryshev, Korsun, Smilyany, Yaroslav etc., districts of the city of Kiev and Kyiv region; Office of the Burgomeister and Gebitskomissariat of Belaya Tserkov, (2 collections); Gebitskomissariat of Vasilkov, Stadtkommendatur, Stadtkomissariat, and General Komissar Kiev ( 3 collections); Ukrainian Administration of the Podol District of city of Ki...

  8. Prison in Radom Gefängnis in Radom Wiezienie w Radomiu (Sygn. 417)

    Contains 14,147 personal files of prisoners in the Radom prison imprisoned during 1939-1944. Files contain the following information: the prisioner's name, and the father name, the mother maiden name, the date and place of birth, the last domicile, the date and reason of imprisonment, prisoner’s fate. Some files include annexes in a form of reports, correspondence, court's sentences and prisoner's smuggled correspondence. Majority of prisoners were Poles (80%), others were Jews (15%), German, Roma, Russians and some others (5%).

  9. Selected records of the Prefecture of Police of the Capital (Bucharest) ( Fond 1695)

    Includes records related to the surveillance of Jews, Jewish organizations, and Jewish movements; temples and synagogues in Bucharest; Sephardic Jews; emigration of Jewish children to Palestine; anti-Jewish laws and their application; the forced labor of Jews in Bucharest and elsewhere; the confiscation of Jewish property including radios; the surveillance of Freemasons; the Iron Guard rebellion; Jews deported to Transnistria; internees from Targu Jiu, a camp for both Jewish and non-Jewish political prisoners in Romania proper; liberation from the camps; and other matters.

  10. Kreishauptman Radom-Land Starosta Powiatowy w Radomiu (Sygn. 208)

    Contains selected records of the German office, Kreishauptmann Radom-Land (Chief of the Radom District), which existed in the years 1939-1945. Almost all files in this collection were organized together from fragments and documents are not complete. Records concern extermination activities, germanization of names of Polish streets and offices, confiscation of Polish books from schools, forced labor, deportations to Germany, and underground resistant activities.

  11. Criminal prison Warszawa-Mokotów District Wiezienie Karne Warszawa Mokotów (Sygn. 657/III)

    Contains administrative and prisoners' personnel files. The prisoners' files relate to such crimes as: espionage, possession of weapons, contraband, theft, forgery, robberies, rapes, illegal trade, lack of subordination to the authorities, arson, and murders. Particular files contain documents with significant details concerning a reason of for imprisonment, copies of the accusation indictment and verdict, a prisoner's health, certificates of death, correspondence, and the like. Only the Jewish prisoners' files have been microfilmed (1939-1942).

  12. Der Ober-Aeltestenrat der Judischen Bevölkerung des Districts Radom in Radom = The Judenrat for Radom district Naczelna Rada Starszych Ludności Żydowskiej Dystryktu Radomskiego-Dział Dowodów Osobistych (Sygn.387)

    This collection contains thousands of applications filled out by Jews applying for identity cards in Radom District in 1941 and 1942. The applications include name, date of birth, family status, and address, and other personal data; most bear photographs. The application process was administered by the Jewish Councils in Radom (Judenrat).

  13. T990, Mauthausen Death Books (RG 238)

    Contains publication of the Mauthausen Death Books, T990. This is a chronological listing of deaths at the Mauthausen concentration camp indicating each person's number, full name, date and place of birth, occupation, cause of death, day and time of death and comments. There are approximately 7,000 names on each roll.

  14. Selected records from the Bundesarchiv Berlin (NS Splitter)

    This collection contains miscellaneous documents of various provenances. It includes propaganda guidelines, bulletins, circular letters, correspondence, essays by Reich Minister Goebbels in Das Reich, several announcements and letters by propaganda officials in Bayreuth, and a list of the members of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Rassenhygiene (German Society for Racial Hygiene).

  15. Regional departments of the NSDAP in occupied territories Selected records of the Regionale Dienststellen der NSDAP in besetzten Gebieten (NS 45)

    This collection contains antisemitic propaganda for the Hitler Youth; instructions and guidelines for the SA; an antisemitic text written by SA head Viktor Lutze; denunciations; information on the search for the persons who assassinated Heydrich; materials concerning Alsace including Aryanization, the number of “evacuated Jews,” and antisemitic agitation; documents on discrimination against Mischlinge (mixed-race individuals) on the grounds of “race defilement”; statistical data on the district of Salzburg; registration of Jews in the Sudeten land; and antisemitic literature from Austria, L...

  16. Military Historical collections Militaergeschichtliche Sammlungen

    Contains mainly personal papers, correspondence, diaries, and similar materials written by German officers and soldiers during World War II.

  17. Memoirs Wspomnienia

    The collection contains several hundred of memoirs, testimonies and diaries of former prisoners of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau, collected over several decades after World War II. This collection provides personal insights into the experiences of prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The collection is open, memoirs and testimonies are still being collected.

  18. Provincial Committee of Jews for Lower Silesia Wojewódzki Komitet Ź̇ydów na Dolny Śląsk (Sygn. 415)

    The collection contains records related to the Jewish settlement in Lower Silesia after 1945. Consists of the surviving office files of the Provincial Committee, which was established in June 1945 and liquidated in 1949. Includes protocols, reports (description and statistics) of the Provincial Committee, as well as of the municipal and county committees, numerous name indexes from the Department of Evidencing and Statistics and the lists of the Department of Child Care. Unfortunately, the documents of the Departments of Youth, Culture and Propaganda and Emigration were scrapped almost in t...

  19. Beaded bib necklace made by a young Polish Jewish refugee in Russia

    Colored glass bead bib necklace designed and made by 14 year old Nechama Ejnes from beads she bought at the bazaar while living in Kostroma in the Soviet Union. She also made a matching belt which did not withstand the hardships of life as a refugee. She fled Poland with her family, parents Moishe and Chana, and three younger siblings, Miriam, Shraga, and Zvi in September 1939 following the German invasion. They wandered from town to town until settling in Kostroma. They were assigned a single room with a communal kitchen that they shared with several other families for nearly seven years u...

  20. The Attorney General against Malkiel Gruenwald (RG 30) The Kasztner Trial

    Contains records from the libel trial against Malkiel Gruenwald who had accused Dr. Rudolph (Rezsö) Kasztner, a well-known official in the Israeli government, of being a traitor, charging that Kasztner, as the former head of the Jewish Rescue Committee in Budapest, had made a traitorous bargain with the Nazis and had allowed half a million Jews to die unwarned so that he might escape with 600 (including 19 of his own family, and 300 from his home town of Cluj).