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  1. Leica IIIa camera and brown leather case owned by a German Jewish refugee to Cuba

    1. Henry and Sophie Bernhard collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn517195
    • English
    • 1935-1939
    • a: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) b: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) | Depth: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm)

    Leica IIIa camera and brown leather cased purchased by Hans Bernhard in Berlin, Germany, prior to his emigration to Havana, Cuba, in March 1939. Hans purchased the camera with the intention to sell it if he ran short of funds, as there were strict limits on the amount of money Jews could take out of Germany. In November 1938, Hans was notified by the Nazi government that he would no longer be able to operate his textile wholesale business because he was Jewish. Hans and his wife, Sophie, sailed on the MS Orinoco from Hamburg on March 28, 1939. The Orinoco was the last ship allowed to unload...

  2. Leitz glass slide projector with case, trays, and key ring used in a displaced persons camp

    1. Ephraim Robinson family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn40088
    • English
    • 1945-1948
    • a: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Depth: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) b: Height: 6.625 inches (16.827 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) c: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Depth: 6.875 inches (17.463 cm) d: Height: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) e: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Leitz projector for glass slides with case, trays, and a key ring used by Ephraim Mayer Robinson to view photographs that he took of activities in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany from 1945-1948. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Ephraim and his wife, Sarah, fled east to Soviet territory. They relocated often as the Soviet Union demanded that Jewish refugees keep moving further east. They had a daughter, Fay, in 1941, in Odessa, and Alice was born in 1944 in Romanovka, Bessarabia. When the war ended in May 1945, they returned from Uzbekistan to Bessarabia,...

  3. Leitz Stativ VI compound brass microscope, case, and accessories used by a Jewish family

    1. Gerard Fields family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn522412
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 5.625 inches (14.287 cm) b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Depth: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Diameter: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) c: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) d: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) e: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) f: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.557 cm) | Depth: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) g: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm) h: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) i: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) j: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)

    Leitz brass compound microscope, with fitted case and accessories, that belonged to Gerard Fields. It is likely that the microscope was brought to the US by his father Edgar, a chemical engineer. Edgar and his wife Anna left Germany in 1933 for France rather than live under the Nazi regime. Germany occupied France in June 1940. After Edgar was demobilized from the French Army in 1941, he arranged for the family to go to the US. In December 1941, they sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, to Havana, Cuba, where they waited to receive US visas. In spring 1942, the family left for Chicago, joining Edg...

  4. Len D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Len D., who was born in Koblenz, Germany in 1916. He describes his family's long presence in Germany; his father's kosher butcher business; cordial relations with non-Jews; apprenticeship; Hitler's rising influence; emigration of one brother to the United States; moving to Berlin in 1938; returning to Koblenz; his arrest on Kristallnacht; incarceration in the local jail, then Dachau; being beaten (he still suffers from that injury); release in February 1939; returning to Koblenz; illegally entering Holland; staying with relatives in Amsterdam; making diagrams of Dacha...

  5. Lena Fishman Fagen collection

    The Lena Fishman Fagen collection consists of original documents Fagen collected while working as a chief document screener for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war crime trials. Most of the records are original signed correspondence addressed to Alfred Rosenberg or his adjutants, Adolf von Trotha or Werner Koeppen. Correspondents include high-ranking Nazi party officials such as Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Hans Frank, and Joseph Goebbels. The collection also includes four Nuremberg trial briefs and a 1951 report on the sentences of Nuremberg-convicted war criminals.

  6. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Articles, lectures, notes, bibliography and correspondence regarding refugees, regarding the rescue of Jews in neutral countries, regarding Jewish youth movements and regarding the place of the Holocaust in history

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Articles, lectures, notes, bibliography and correspondence regarding refugees, regarding the rescue of Jews in neutral countries, regarding Jewish youth movements and regarding the place of the Holocaust in history There are four volumes in the file: Volume I Refugees and the rescue of Jews in neutral countries such as Switzerland, Sweden and Spain during the Holocaust period. Volume II Articles, index cards, lists, bibliography and correspondence regarding the Jewish youth movements and the Bund during the Holocaust period. Volume III Lectures, articles and lis...

  7. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews In the file: - Correspondence with people and institutions in the United States and Great Britain, the Red Cross and others regarding Jewish refugees and rescuing Jews.

  8. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: History of the Holocaust, Danish Jewry and the rescue of Danish Jews during the Holocaust, Scandinavian Jewry during the Holocaust and rescue of Jews during the Holocaust

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: History of the Holocaust, Danish Jewry and the rescue of Danish Jews during the Holocaust, Scandinavian Jewry during the Holocaust and rescue of Jews during the Holocaust File 1 Volume I Die Jodiske Flygtninge (the Jewish Refugees), 1933-1940; Denmark's refugee policy. Volume II Bibliographic lists and newspaper clippings. Volume III Draft of an article regarding the rescue of the Jews of Denmark, 1943; article regarding Werner Best and the "Aktion" against the Jews, by Hans Kirchhoff, printout from Yad Vashem research collection 24; article by Hans Sode-Madsen ...

  9. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings and articles regarding Jewish refugees in Sweden and Denmark, and regarding the Jews of Finland

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Notes, correspondence, newspaper clippings and articles regarding Jewish refugees in Sweden and Denmark, and regarding the Jews of Finland There are four volumes in the folder: Volume I Notes related to official correspondence from Sweden and Denmark regarding Jewish refugees. Volume II Research conducted by Malin Thor regarding the Hechalutz movement in Sweden. Volume III Research, notes and correspondence regarding the Jewish refugees in Sweden. Volume IV Correspondence, newspaper clippings, articles and notes regarding the Jews of Finland during the Holocaust...

  10. Leo Arnfeld papers

    1. Leo Arnfeld collection

    The Leo Arnfeld papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and a satirical pamphlet documenting the Arnfeld family in Warsaw, Sara and Leo Arnfeld in the Warsaw ghetto, Chaim Arnfeld in Vilnius, Kobe, and Shanghai, and Leo Arnfeld’s postwar life in Munich. The collection also includes cosmetics and pharmaceutical labels and sample from Chaim Arnfeld’s pharmacy in Warsaw. Biographical materials consist of business cards, identification papers, and a prescription documenting Chaim Arnfeld’s situation and work in Shanghai. Correspondence consists primarily of letter...

  11. Leo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo B., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1921. He recalls his father's death when he was nine; Viennese cultural life; smuggling himself to Belgium after the Anschluss at his mother's urging (due to the perception that it was more dangerous for males); attending trade school; German invasion; and deportation to southern France in an exchange for Belgians. Mr. B. relates conditions in Saint Cyprien concentration camp; a futile attempt to enter Switzerland; incarceration in Drancy; boarding a transport to Auschwitz on November 6, 1942; escape from the train while stil...

  12. Leo B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo B., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1921, the middle of three children. He recalls his family's orthodoxy; attending Jewish school; participating in Agudat, intending to emigrate to Palestine; preparing for that in Darmstadt; his brother's emigration to Palestine; burning of the synagogue on Kristallnacht; emigrating with his mother, father, and sister to Amsterdam; incarceration with his father in refugee camps; transfer by himself to Deventer, Eindhoven, then Westerbork; finding his father there; arrival of many Jews after German occupation; organi...

  13. Leo E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo E., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1912. He recalls antisemitic boycotts of his father's store; one brother's emigration to Belgium; German invasion; forced labor for a day; fleeing with his sister and brother-in-law to the Soviet border; assistance from German soldiers; traveling to Bia?ystok; living in Kovel? from December 1939 through May 1940; deportation by the Soviets to Novosibirsk; forced labor in Osinovo; his marriage in Tomsk; living with his family in Bii?sk; traveling to Stettin via Warsaw; living in Schlachtensee, then Tempelhof; his son's birth in...

  14. Leo Fettman papers

    The collection consists of 27 photographs of Leo Fettman and friends and family members in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II, including several depicting a Yiddish theater troupe in the camp, and a temporary travel document issued to Leopold Fettman in Germany with visa stamps for immigration to Canada.

  15. Leo Frobenius

    1. Biographical press cuttings collection (1945-1970s)

    "Leo Viktor Frobenius (29 June 1873 – 9 August 1938) was an ethnologist and archaeologist and a major figure in German ethnography."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016). "Carl August Hugo Froelich (5 September 1875 – 12 February 1953) was a German film pioneer and film director. He was born and died in Berlin."--wikipedia (English)(viewed 26.7.2016). "Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis....

  16. Leo G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo G., who was born in Berlin in 1921. Mr. G. details his family history and speaks of his prewar life. He describes his experiences of antisemitism during the rise of Nazism, both in school and in his neighborhood. He relates the death of his father in 1933; Kristallnacht and other anti-Jewish actions which followed; his departure from his mother and three sisters, whom he never saw again; and his emigration to the United States. He recounts his enlistment in the U.S. Army in 1942; his training as a denazification expert; and his arrival in Normandy, where he witnes...

  17. Leo G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo G., who was born in Vukovar, Yugoslavia in 1930. He documents the beliefs and activities of his father, a fifth generation cantor; his deeply religious family environment; his father's concern about the rise of Nazism; and the family's consequent relocation from Opava, Czechoslovakia to Copenhagen, Denmark in 1934. He describes the well-integrated Jewish community and the irrelevance of religious affiliation to the Danish national identity; German occupation in 1940; Danish insistence on control of domestic affairs (including the right to protect all citizens); an...

  18. Leo K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo K., who was born in Aschaffenburg, Germany in 1922, the older of two sons. He recounts his father was a cantor and synagogue teacher; moving to Nuremberg when he was three; attending Jewish schools, including high school in Fu?rth with Henry Kissinger; attending an orthodox youth group convention in Hamburg; his father obtaining a cantor's position in St. John's, Newfoundland; their emigration in March 1938 to escape Nazism; their move to the United States in March 1941; military draft in May 1943; intelligence training; participating in campaigns with the 2nd Arm...

  19. Leo M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Leo M., who was born in Grodzisk, Poland in 1911. He recounts pervasive antisemitism; apprenticing to a tailor at age thirteen; marriage in 1937; emigrating to Paris; his son's birth in 1938; volunteering for French military service in September 1939; German invasion; action at Alsace and Verdun; being wounded; hospitalization in Perpignan; returning to Paris; internment in spring 1941 as a non-citizen Jew; visits from his wife and son; release in fall 1942; hiding with his wife and son, with assistance from a French family, during the round-up in July 1942; the Frenc...

  20. Leo Melamed collection

    The Leo Melamed collection consists of immigration and identification documents issued to the Melamdowicz family (later Melamed) of Białystok, Poland. Also included are blank postcards from Japan; a notebook kept by Leo Melamed containing Lithuanian words and their Yiddish meaning; a second grade notebook, a letter signed by Tomlin Bailey, the American vice-consul regarding immigration visas, December 12, 1939; and a photograph identified as a Białystok Bund demonstration, 1934.