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  1. Oral history interview with Henry Laskau

  2. Righteous Among the Nations medal awarded to a Hungarian rescuer

    Righteous Among the Nations medal and presentation box awarded to a non-Jewish woman by Yad Vashem in recognition of her saving a Jewish mother and son in Hungary during the Holocaust.

  3. Jewish refugees arrive from Shanghai

    Jewish refugees from Shanghai arrive by ship in San Francisco, CA. CUs smiling passengers (women, men, children, well-dressed), babies, waving groups. Lots of joy. 01:02:41:17 Four adults from left, Paul Gordin, his mother Raisa (Sachin) Schwartzberg, an unknown woman, and William Schwartzberg (Raisa's husband). Speech to group from balcony (by Macky Gaberman?, escort leader of refugees).

  4. Selected records from the Polish State Archives Tarnów Branch

    This collection contains investigative and court cases in Tarnów relating to the following two categories of offenses: 1) Against public order and instigation to disturbances of public peace (mainly anti-Jewish propaganda and actions); and 2) Cases involving Jewish plaintiffs, often having to do with complaints against members of the Jewish community organization, the Kahal in Tarnów.

  5. "Sieben Johre"

    Contains a book of nine drawings, entitled "Sieben Johre." The cover is thick paper with fabric spine; metal rivet at top and bottom. The right side is torn and missing.

  6. Marcel Rowen collection

    Contains memoir, copyrighted 1990, entitled "The Gates of Heaven," detailing the experiences of Marcel Rowen (formerly named Marzel Rauchwerk) in prewar Leipzig (Germany); after his expulsion, along with his father and grandfather, to Poland in October 1938 because they held Polish passports; in Tarnów (Poland) before the German occupation and later in the Tarnów ghetto; in Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps; in Landsberg Displaced Persons Camp after liberation by the Americans; and after his emigration to the United States; and a cassette recording of a 12-minute pre...

  7. Jonathan Borofsky lithograph

    Lithograph of a work by Jonathan Borofsky produced in 1986.

  8. Japanese & German troops advance; African campaign; Stalin's fight against Germany; factories on home front

    Records world-wide war activities. Reel 2: (1942) Japanese and German troops continue to advance on all fronts. US and Japanese fleets are attacked by carrier planes off Midway. The British stop German armor at El Alamein, Egypt. Shows street fighting in Stalingrad. Shows British and Russian factories. Personages: Admiral Nimitz, Joseph Stalin.

  9. Mezuzah pendant kept during his imprisonment by a concentration camp inmate

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8744
    • English
    • overall: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 0.980 inches (2.489 cm)

  10. Oral history interview with Siegfried Halbreich

  11. Torah scroll fragment used as a mailing envelope

    Torah scroll fragment desecrated and used as an envelope.

  12. Shoe worn by female prisoner in a concentration camp

    Shoe was worn by Lenke Keszler who was interned in a sub-camp of Riga. While Lenke was in Latvia, her foot became sore. She wrapped a blanket around her foot instead of wearing the shoe. Lenke was pulled away and killed in Latvia. Her daughter Clari saved the shoe and kept it while she was in hiding.

  13. Interview by Michael Krasny

    Radio interview with Soli Similani (sp?), representative of the African National Congress to the United Nations. Host: Michael Krasny. KGO (ABC news)

  14. Oral history interview with Bronislau Goldstein

  15. "The Melon Rind"

    Contains information about the childhood experiences of Dragoslav Jurisich in Yugoslavia and his observations of Serbs subject to persecution in Croatia in 1941.

  16. William G. Frank papers

    Contains information about prewar discrimination of German Jewish physicians; anti-Jewish laws; deportations of German Jews to Theresienstadt; the fate of relatives of William G. Frank; and acknowledgement given to Jews for their help during a fire.

  17. Die Juden in Glogau 1914-1945 ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der Stadt Glogau in Schlesien

    Contains information about the history of Glogau, Germany, (Głogów, Poland) and its Jewish community from before World War I to 1945; the Glogau ghetto; and the deportation of Glogau's Jewish population. Included with the typescript is a photograph of the Glogau synagogue before its destruction in 1938.

  18. Rudolf Heilborn postcards from Buchenwald

    Contains two postcards written by Rudolf Heilborn from Buchenwald to Ruth Heilborn in Gleiwitz, Germany, in November and December of 1938. Rudolf Heilborn was among the Jews of Gleiwitz who were arrested by the Gestapo during Kristallnacht then deported to Buchenwald.

  19. The unshed tears

    Although written as fiction, many of the details in "The unshed tears" are based on the experiences of Edith Hofman Birkin and her family during the Holocaust. It describes how the main character, Judith Baron, was deported from Prague to the Łódź ghetto and later to Monowitz; forced to work in Kristianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen; and later participated in a death march. The manuscript also details her liberation and her attempts to return to a normal life. "The unshed tears" was written in 1950, soon after Edith Birkin arrived in England.

  20. Before the Holocaust three Jewish lives, 1870-1939

    The memoirs describe the experiences and lives of three German Jews, Käte Frankenthal, Max Moses Polke, and Joseph Benjamin Levy, before and during the Nazi era. Frankenthal's essay describes the hardship of being a Jewish socialist. Polke's memoir describes his life before the Nazis came to power and contrasts it with the effect of the Nuremberg Laws on him. His memoir also describes the conditions in the concentration camp of Buchenwald. Levy's memoir describes such historic events as the Nazi book burning, the Jewish boycott, and Kristallnacht.