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  1. Self portrait by Josef Nassy

    Self portrait by Josef Nassy. This is the only known portrait of the artist. It was made while Nassy was incarcerated in Nazi Germany. The painting was presented to Tony Clark by Mrs. Nassy in appreciation for his efforts to preserve Nassy's collection of paintings and drawings known as The Holocaust Suite.

  2. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 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.

  3. Small child dancing in ghetto

    Small child in rags dances in the street, bagel in hand, surrounded by onlookers.

  4. Book Ein Bilderbuch fuer Gross und Klein [A Picture Book for Big and Small].

    Anti-semitic propaganda book for children

  5. Photographic negative of corpses at Buchenwald

    The photographic negative depicts American soldiers looking at a mound of corpses in front of an incinerator building at Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation.

  6. Myer Glick photograph collection

    The Myer Glick photograph collection consists of photographs of Myer Glick at age eighteen shortly after he was liberated by the American Army on May 8, 1945, in Styria, Austria; and photographs of his two brothers, Chaskiel Gatek and Yankiel, in Warsaw, Poland, in 1939.

  7. Rudolf Höss statement

    The papers consist of a statement regarding the Jews killed at Auschwitz concentration camp signed by Rudolf Höss at Nuremberg, Germany, on May 15,1946.

  8. Morris Edelman photograph collection

    The collection consists of eight photographs of corpses and burial pits at Ohrdruf concentration camp at the time of liberation in 1945.

  9. Warren Brinley papers

    The papers consist of a daily report on activities in Theresienstadt ghetto on June 15, 1943 and an announcement dated June 22, 1943, concerning application information for a position in the Office of Ghetto Watch.

  10. William Pollin papers

    Two postcards sent to Cesia Greenberg in Brooklyn, NY from Regina Weinman in Warsaw, Poland, March 31, 1940, October 12, 1941. The first postcard regards obtaining an affidavit of support for Zdzislaw Weinman. The second postcard inquires about not receiving a letter from Cesia in a while, and asks after friends or family members. Both postcards are stamped with Wehrmacht censor stamps, and the postcard written in 1941 also has a Warsaw Judenrat censor stamp.

  11. Ann Hershkowitz papers

    The papers consist of an identification card issued to Hanka Schudmak (later Ann Hershkowitz) and stating that she was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen, two photographs of Hanka standing near the grave of her younger sister, Itka Schudmak, at the International Cemetery at Bergen-Belsen, and a photograph of the gravestone of Itka Schudmak. Itka Schudmak, Ann Hershkowitz's younger sister, died of typhus on May 27, 1945, after liberation at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

  12. Charles Froelicher papers

    The Charles Froelicher papers consist of photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp and children who were part of the transport Charles Froelicher accompanied from Buchenwald to Switzerland in June 1945; a document issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force Military Government authorizing him to accompany the transport; two German language clippings about the transport; and a blank questionnaire used by the Counter Intelligence Corps for interrogating arrested Nazis. The photographs were taken by Charles Froelicher or other soldiers from the U.S. 6th Armored Division.

  13. Pola Ross photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Pola Ross, her husband, and their daughter who was born in Siberia; her husband's brother Lakivif Gidel Gurman, a Holocaust survivor from Ukraine; and a photograph of a group of men and women working in a field in Siberia.

  14. Rudolf Steinbach papers

    The papers consists of a German passport (Reisepass) issued to Rudolf Steinbach in October 1937 by the police in Breslau, Germany, (now Wrocław, Poland) and a document intended to be kept inside the holder's passport stating the compulsory registration of German citizens in a foreign country.

  15. Barnett Bader photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photographs of corpses and prisoners at Mauthausen concentration camp at the time of liberation in 1945. The verso of the photographs are annotated.

  16. Julian and Frieda Noga photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Frieda Noga (née Greinegger), originally from Michaelnbach, Austria, with her family; holding a bouquet of flowers; and with her husband Julian Noga, originally from Skrzynka, Poland, as a young couple.

  17. Die oberflächengestalt mitteleuropas The overview of central Europe

    Contains a map labeled in the lower right quadrant with graphite line. Handwritten label, in graphite, lower right edge, reads: "Mit Bleistift angezeichnet 'Todesmarsch' in Oberschlesien von Blechhammer nach Jauer (Gross Rosen) 23. Jan.-10 February 1945." Drawn in pencil: "Death March" in Upper Silesia from Blechhammer sub-camp of Auschwitz concentration camp to Jauer ([sub-camp of] Gross-Rosen [concentration camp]) Jan[uary] 23-Feb[ruary] 10, 1945). Handwritten title on reverse of map: "Unterrichtsabteilung Deutschland: physikalisch." German national insignia is stamped in blue ink in uppe...

  18. Sally Suss papers

    The papers consist of five postcards written to Sara Nudelman (later Sally Suss) in Hansdorf (Ławice), Poland, from various friends and family members in Sosnowiec, Poland, and two photographs of a Jewish school class in Sosnowitz in 1939.

  19. Stamer family photograph collection

    The Stamer family photograph collection consists of one photograph, a silverprint, of Frieda Stamer and her family taken in Austria by studio photographer, Josef Kalina, circa 1900-1910. A second photograph shows the same five Stamer girls, taken in Austria, circa 1930s. The photographs were sent to Morris Stamer, Frieda Stamer’s grandson, in the United States. All people depicted in the photographs perished in the Holocaust.

  20. Estelle Bechoefer collection

    The collection consists of an album containing photographs of Nazi Party meetings and training camps which was given as a Christmas present from Heinrich Himmler to Franz Xaver Schwarz in 1935 and a newspaper article from the "Washington Evening Star" of August 30, 1945, titled "D.C. Attorney Gathers Records on Nazi Seizures from Jews." Dedication in photograph album reads: "Reichsschatzmeister, SS Obergruppenführer / Franz X. Schwarz / userem treuesten Freund / von der SS zu Weinachten 1935 / H. Himmler."