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  1. Faux alligator suitcase issued to inmates released in Bergen-Belsen prisoner exchange

    Suitcase given to 20-year-old Toni Klar and her parents for their departure from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp to Palestine in July 1944 as part of an exchange of camp inmates for German prisoners-of-war in British custody. The suitcase was originally owned by Pauline Eisenhardt, who had perished in Theresienstadt. Toni and her parents were refugees from Germany who were deported from Amsterdam to Bergen-Belsen in January 1944. While in Amsterdam, they had obtained certificates for Palestine and received a Putkammer letter ensuring their safety. The inmates selected for the prisoner exch...

  2. Barbie Trial -- Day 11 -- Victims testify

    Louis Simonet speaks about his arrest, interrogation, transfer to Montluc prison, and Neuengamme. 17:27:00 Regine Skorka, speaks about her arrest as a member of the Resistance and subsequent torture at Montluc, transport to Drancy, and life in Auschwitz. At 17:45, she addresses the sub-camp for Roma in her testimony. 17:54:30 Jerome Scorin (brother of R. Skorka) testifies.

  3. Dachau?; military vehicles; tent camp

    EXT, panning shot, LS barracks and barbed wire at Dachau?, red and white flag hanging from barracks. Traveling shots from moving vehicle of countryside, snow-capped mountains, locals look at passing vehicle, churches, steeples, etc. MLS, GIs camped in clearing, military vehicles, supply trucks, etc. CUs, GIs approach camera. VS, locals, farm, cows, women, children caring for farm animals, clearing fields, etc. VS, soldiers taking still photos, posing, hamming for camera. US army camp, army tents, local boys in Lederhosen walking around in US army camp.

  4. Pencil portrait of a concentration camp inmate drawn by a fellow inmate

    Drawing of Stanley Cioth done when he was a concentration camp prisoner in July 1941, presumably by another inmate. Stanley was a Catholic Pole arrested in Krakow, Poland, in 1941 and sent to prison. He was given prisoner number 129993 and transferred to several concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Gros Rosen, and Mauthausen, where he worked as a civil engineering technician. He was liberated in Ostrach-Hohens on April 22, 1945.

  5. Willy and Catherine Fogel papers

    The papers consist of a Jewish New Year's card sent to Catherine Fogel by her brother, Aba Sztern, a prisoner in the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp. In the card he writes that he hopes the family will be together before too long. Also included is a photograph of Jewish prisoners posing on a wooden bunk inside a barrack in the Beaune-la-Rolande internment camp.

  6. Newspaper clipping

    The clipping is from the "Evening Sentinel," dated Tuesday, August 1, 1939, Stoke-on-Trent, England, and shows two photographs of Czech refugee children from Teplice, Czechoslovakia, living at the Children's Homes in Penkhull, England, which were founded by Hanna Strasser donor's aunt. The children were the guests of the Czech Children's Refugee Committee. Pictured are: Hanna Strasser, Raja Strauss, Lisa Dasch, Hanna Frankel, Asaf Auerbach, Reuben Auerbach, Ralph Strauss, and Peter Feldstein.

  7. Emeric Schwartz photograph collection

    The collection consists of six photographs taken after the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945. There are typed text captions on the back of the photographs which are stamped, "Red Cross & St. John Copyright."

  8. Barbie Trial -- Day 4 -- Dabringhaus testifies; Barbie and the Counter Intelligence Corps

    18:13 Lawyer Nordmann and witness Ehrard Dabringhaus discuss the supposed infiltration of U.S. Secret Service by former SS. 18:19 Dabringhaus's opinion to "the use of assassins." 18:21 Prosecuter and Dabringhaus. The mode of payment the U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) used when they employed Barbie. 18:25 The abundance of reports from Barbie in the CIC and the objectives the CIC had for pursuing them. 18:28 Barbie's working methods in the CIC.

  11. Dunson family in Ft. Sumter and at Christian mission

    VS, family footage, shot stateside, the first scenes are at Fort Sumter and Fort Sumter State Park, Fort Sumter, NJ, USA. Young blonde girl (the donor, Joy Marshall) in front of cannon, climbing atop a stack of cannon balls, with mother, on boardwalk, overlooking ocean. CU, monument at Fort Sumter, NJ. 01:00:37 Possibly at the Christian Mission in Oklahoma, VS, woman picking up milk bottles from front porch, children in tow. Large group of children exiting church or school house, lining up and saluting camera. Playing on playground. VS, EXT, hillside, river visible below, trees, etc. New ho...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- passengers from the SS Gripsholm

    Shots of passengers from the SS Gripsholm, which arrived in Jersey City, New Jersey on March 14 or 15, 1944. The Swedish ship carried American nationals from German internment camps. Individuals are interviewed by reporters in front of a microphone.The interviewees identified in the March of Time subject card are: Marie Tomczak of Pittsburgh, Taylor Henry (an AP correspondent), and Boris Voukovitch of New York City (it is not clear whether all of these people appear in the footage). Interior scenes of Red Cross workers and passengers (identified as Jozeta and Kazimiera Nowicka as they leave...

  16. Wallach family papers

    Contains photographs, documents, and photocopies related to the Holocaust experiences of the Wallach family, originally of Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Centering on Zwi Hermann Wallach, the collection includes family photographs, post-liberation photographs, and documents and photographs regarding the building of a Holocaust remembrance monument in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

  17. Newman family photographs

    Contains five post-war photographs from the collection of Edie Newman. Included are photographs of Mrs. Newman with friends at the Pocking displaced persons camp, a photograph of Irwin Newman, and a photograph of Mrs. Newman on the General Eltinge ship on the way to the United States in 1949.

  19. Emma Thalmann identification card

    Contains a French identification card for Emma Thalmann (née Heilbronn).

  20. Abstract oil painting of figures imprisoned behind a barred opening on a snow covered hill by Jerzy Bitter

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523437
    • English
    • 1988
    • overall: Height: 53.625 inches (136.208 cm) | Width: 63.500 inches (161.29 cm) pictorial area: Height: 49.500 inches (125.73 cm) | Width: 59.750 inches (151.765 cm)

    Artwork created by Jerzy Bitter in Israel in 1988, representing the plight of Jewish peasants trying to escape persecution during the Holocaust. The oil depicts tortured abstract figures imprisoned in a stark, dreamlike landscape. In 1941, when he was 6 months old, Jerzy and his parents left their hometown of Lvov for the Warsaw ghetto. They lived in the ghetto until the summer of 1942 when Jerzy and his mother escaped during a mass deportation. They lived in hiding and escaped Warsaw during a forced evacuation by the Germans in September 1944. They settled in Wieliczka, Poland. His father ...