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  1. 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)

  2. Oral history interview with Siegfried Halbreich

  3. Torah scroll fragment used as a mailing envelope

    Torah scroll fragment desecrated and used as an envelope.

  4. 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.

  5. 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)

  6. Oral history interview with Bronislau Goldstein

  7. "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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. Heinz Bauer memoir

    Contains information about the experiences of Heinz Bauer and his family as they emigrated to Kenya via Paris and London following the Anschluss. The memoir describes the years 1938-1940.

  14. Bea Browdy letter

    The Bea Browdy letter consists of a copy of a letter written by Army nurse Bea Browdy and addressed to her friend Mildred Herman, dated May 11, 1945. The letter describes the wartime experiences of the American army nurse and includes descriptions of Dachau concentration camp and the conditions there shortly after liberation. Both women served as nurses in the United States Army.

  15. Moses Berkowitz manuscript relating to the Jewish community of Woronowa

    Contains information about the Jewish community in Voronovo (Woronowa), Belarus, before and during the German occupation of World War II. Also contains information about the fate of Jews in nearby Lithuania.

  16. "Viata Evreilor din Bucuresti," by Eliza Campus

    Consists of an article entitled “The Life of the Jews in Bucharest, 1940–1944,” which contains information about Jewish schools, Jewish emigration, antisemitism, and Zionist activities undertaken by the Jews of Bucharest. Included is an excerpt of this history that was printed in Revista Istorica, nr. 3–4, 1992.

  17. Leopoldine Staud Muliar divorce documents

    Consists of extracts of minutes taken by a clerk for the Justice of the Peace in Paris, France's Ninth Arrondissement and a divorce decree issued by a court in Vienna, relating to the divorce of Leopoldine Staud Muliar and Mosche Muliar. The extract of minutes, taken in October 1938, was used by Moische Leib Muliar to immigrate to the United States, and it describes the place and date of his birth. The divorce decree dates from March 9, 1940, and it describes how the Nuremberg Laws and Moische's immigration to the United States had influenced Leopoldine Muliar to seek a divorce from Moische...

  18. Karl Rosenthal family papers

    Contains information about the life and experiences of the Karl Rosenthal family in Berlin, Germany; the fate of family members during the Holocaust; and Karl Rosenthal's work as an educator in Germany and Rabbi of the Temple of Israel congregation in Wilmington, North Carolina. Also includes a collection of poetry written by Karl Rosenthal.

  19. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  20. Fred Ederer account of Kristallnacht in Vienna

    The memoir describes Fred Ederer's memories of Kristallnacht in Vienna and his family's encounters with Nazis who confiscated their property and threatened to deport his father.