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  1. Embroidered blouse worn by a concentration camp inmate after liberation

    Embroidered blouse selected and worn by Ruth Gold immediately after her liberation from Malchow concentration camp by the Soviet Army in 1945.

  2. 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 ...

  3. Embroidered floral blouse made prewar by a Polish Jewish woman for her sister

    Halutzka or peasant blouse with embroidered flowers made by Shoshana Galicki Feizensztajn, about 16 years old, as a parting gift for her sister Chava when she left their hometown of Siedlce, Poland, for Palestine in 1933. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939. Siedlce was in Soviet controlled territory. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. German forces occupied Siedlce, and set up a Jewish ghetto. In August, Shoshana, her husband Shalom, and their infant daughter were confined to the sealed ghetto. At some point, Shoshana was shot and killed by the G...

  4. Embroidered floral silk handkerchief case given to one inmate by another inmate in Liebenau

    Embroidered floral silk handkerchief case given to 15 year old Eva Lasch by Evelyn Anderson when both women were imprisoned in Liebenau internment camp in Nazi Germany circa 1943-1944. Liebenau chiefly held noncombatant civilian and diplomatic enemy nationals, chiefly female and from the United States and Great Britain, classified as prisoners of war. Eva was originally from Prague, Czechoslovakia, which was occupied by Germany in March 1939. In February 1945, she arrived in the US on the Gripsholm with her mother Anna. Her father, who was Jewish, had escaped there earlier. Evelyn, who was ...

  5. Embroidered white pillowcase used in hiding in Poland

    Pillowcase that belonged to Helena Amkraut Lusthaus, embroidered with the initial's of her maiden name. She used the pillowcase while she and her daughter, Elzbieta, lived in hiding under assumed identities as Catholics in Milanowek in German occupied Poland. When the war began in 1939, Helena and Elzbieta were living in Tarnow in German-occupied Poland with Helena's mother, Sophie Lieberman Schiff. On June 11, 1942, the Germans came to the house searching for Jews to deport to the concentration camps. Four year old Elizabeth hid, but her grandmother was taken by the Germans and shipped to ...

  6. Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial in Richmond, Virginia

    Contains photocopies of documents relating to the history of the Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial in Richmond, Virginia, correspondence, speeches, clippings, invitations, program brochures and booklets containing the names of Holocaust victims, and a video recording of the November 7,1999 Kristallnacht Memorial Service at the Emek Sholom Holocaust Memorial.

  7. Emergence of East & West Germany after WWII

    OMGUS censorship slates state that the film has been approved for public screening in the American zone of Germany. Words superimposed across an aerial view of Berlin state that this film is dedicated to the men women and children of Berlin, without whose loyalty it would not be possible to relate the following. Over scenes of the destruction of Berlin and people working among the rubble the narrator says that without an architect, without a plan somehow something new and strong emerged from the ruins in the summer of 1945. Crowds of West Berliners and a shot of SPD representative Franz Neu...

  8. Emergency Deutsche Marken overprinted with NSDAP anti-Semitic election slogans. Collection

    This collection consists of 15 emergency Deutsche Marken banknotes overprinted with NSDAP anti-Semitic propaganda slogans. These banknotes were originally issued in 1922 during the hyperinflation crisis of post-World War I Germany. Overprinted with election slogans in the early 1930’s accusing Jews of financial misconduct and advocating for their removal from positions of power, these banknotes serve as artifacts of Nazi propaganda tactics during their rise to power.

  9. Emergency Rescue Committee collection

    The Emergency Rescue Committee collection documents the efforts of Varian Fry in assisting three of the more than 1,500 refugees he helped escape while living in France from 1940-1941. As a member of the Emergency Rescue Committee, Fry was sent to Marseille, France, to assist in the escape of prominent intellectuals and artists who were living in recently German-occupied France. The correspondence and cables concern Max Ernst, Elena Frank, and Wilhelm Herzog, in addition to a list of clients for the Emergency Rescue Committee that were living in various countries in 1943. The Emergency Resc...

  10. Emeric Lazar collection

    The collection consists of drawings and documents related to the experiences of Emeric Lazar in prewar Budapest, Hungary, and before, during, and after the Holocaust in Paris, France, during which he was imprisoned in Drancy internment camp.

  11. 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."

  12. Emerson B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emerson B., who served with the United States Army 411th Infantry Regiment, then the 3rd Infantry Division in World War II. He recounts landing in North Africa; being wounded in Italy; hospitalization; going through France to Germany; visiting Dachau for about four hours the day after its liberation; and observing from a distance a train filled with emaciated corpses and prisoners.

  13. Emery G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Emery G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1933. Mr. G., whose parents divorced when he was four, recalls life in wartime Budapest; imposition of anti-Semitic restrictions; moving with his mother to several different apartments in the city; German occupation in 1944; going into hiding; discussions among those in hiding of deportations and concentration camps; and executions of Jews. He tells of Hungary's capitulation in October 1944; working as an underground courier for Raoul Wallenberg; being hidden with his mother in the home of her Christian employer; a narro...

  14. Emigração de judeus de diversas nacionalidades em Portugal e Colónias Portuguesas

    Circulares, instruções e comunicações referentes à atribuição de vistos em passaportes pelos Consulados portugueses. Contém: Consulta do Consulado de Portugal em Viena, datado de 22 de junho de 1938, sobre pedidos de vistos por parte de judeus polacos com destino a Portugal para posterior embarque para países no continente americano. Inclui também menção a pedido de carta emitida pelo Consulado da Polónia em Viena como condição para a concessão do visto. Consulta do Consulado de Portugal em Marselha, datado de 25 de junho de 1938, sobre pedidos de vistos de cidadãos gregos de ascendência ju...

  15. Emigration

    Contains photocopies of documents form Archives du Comite International de la Croix-Rouge record group G47.

  16. Emigration Fund for Bohemia and Moravia, Office in Brno Auswanderungfonds für Böhmen und Mähren (B 392)

    Consists of records pertaining to expropriated and liquidated Jewish businesses and real estate, includes individual cases, 1939-1942. The collection also features documentation about the deportation and transports to concentration camps of Czech Jews.

  17. Emigration in Frankreich vor dem Zweiten Weltkrieg

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  18. Emigration in Frankreich während des Zweiten Weltkrieges

    Bestandsbeschreibung Die Sammlung enthält Berichte und Materialien zur Tätigkeit der KPD in Frankreich und zur Zusammenarbeit zwischen KPD und KPF; Unterlagen von der und über die "Bewegung 'Freies Deutschland' für den Westen"; Dokumente der "Freien Deutschen Jugend", der "Union der deutschen Emigranten - Anti-Nazi", der "Travail Allemand - T.A." und der Deutschen Sprachgruppe in der C.G.T.; Aufstellungen, Berichte und persönliche Dokumente von Angehörigen der Maquis und Materialien, darunter persönliche Dokumente und Berichte Betroffener, zu den Internierungslagern in Frankreich und Nordaf...

  19. Emigration in Großbritannien

  20. Emigration in verschiedenen Ländern