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  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, distributed in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp and acquired post-war by Ernst (Ernest) Heppner. Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, and his half-sister, Else, who was severely handicapped from contracting polio as a young...

  2. Gisela Zamora papers

    1. Gisela E. Zamora collection

    The papers consist of a copy of a document issued to Guiseppe (Joseph) Zamoire, husband of Gisela Zamora, stating that he was a prisoner in Auschwitz and a pass issued to Gisela Eckstein [donor] when she was returning from a concentration camp giving her permission to pass through the town of Zgorzelice (Görlitz), Germany, and cross the bridge in Friedberg, Germany, along with two men.

  3. Leather coin purse with 3 pins, a Dutch coin, and a metal key carried by a young Jewish Austrian refugee to the US

    1. Doriane Kurz collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41715
    • English
    • a: Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Diameter: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Diameter: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) c: Height: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Width: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) d: Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) e: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) f: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Coin purse (a) with miniature life preserver pin (b), Sweden pin (c), Dutch coin (d), metal cameo pin (e), and metal key (f) carried by 10 year old Doriane Kurz when she emigrated from Sweden to the United States in July 1946. Doriane and her family fled Vienna, Austria, in early 1939 after the annexation with Nazi Germany the previous year. They went to the Netherlands which was occupied by Germany in May 1940. Her father, Meilach, was deported to Auschwitz death camp in August 1942. Doriane, her mother Klara, and her 7 year old brother, Alfred, were deported to Bergen Belsen concentration...

  4. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, distributed in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp and acquired post-war by Ernst (Ernest) Heppner. Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, and his half-sister, Else, who was severely handicapped from contracting polio as a young...

  5. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note, acquired by a Jewish refugee

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, distributed in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp and acquired post-war by Ernst (Ernest) Heppner. Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, and his half-sister, Else, who was severely handicapped from contracting polio as a young ...

  6. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier

    1. Kurt Schlesinger family collection

    Honor Cross, combatants medal awarded to Kurt Schlesinger for his service in the German Army during World War I (1914-1918). The Honor, or Hindenburg, Cross was established by President von Hindenburg in July 1934. It commemorated distinguished deeds in combat, and individuals had to apply to the government to receive it. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. Kurt and his second wife, Christine, were very concerned about Hitler’s policies, and immigrated to Amsterdam, Netherlands. Kurt left behind his teenage daughter, Irene, who lived in Berlin with her mothe...

  7. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier

    1. Kurt Schlesinger family collection

    Buttonhole ribbon bar for the Honor Cross, non-combatants medal awarded to Kurt Schlesinger for his service in the German Army during World War I (1914-1918). The Honor, or Hindenburg, Cross was established by President von Hindenburg in July 1934. The medal was designed by Eugene Godet, and the ribbon bears a miniature version of the full scale award. It commemorated distinguished deeds in combat, and individuals had to apply to the government to receive it. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. Kurt and his second wife, Christine, were very concerned about H...

  8. Yellow sport short listing concentration camps where the owner was imprisoned

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Yellow polo shirt that belonged to Hans Finke, a concentration camp survivor who became an aid worker after the war. The shirt was made for a survivor's reunion Hans attended after the war. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. Jews were forced out of their jobs and their businesses were confiscated. In February 1943, Hans, 23, an electrician by trade, was a forced laborer for Siemens when he was hospitalized with appendicitis. On February 29, his parents were rounded up and deported...

  9. Albert Dov Sigal multicolored lithograph of a young woman, holding an infant, with her family on a golden road, based upon his experience as a refugee

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3280
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm)

    Artist's proof print for a lithograph based on a drawing created by Albert Dov Sigal based upon the experiences of his family as newly arrived emigrants to Palestine on February 22, 1948. It depicts the artist and his family as they arrive in their new home. It is an image of a man carrying bags being followed by two woman: one holds an infant, the other carries a sack, as they walk along a seaside road with a small village in the background. See 1990.242.4 and 1992.113.14 for other versions of this scene. Palestine was ruled by the British under a United Nations mandate and the postwar imm...

  10. Varia

    1. Record Center.

    In box [Varia 1]; correspondence, leaflets, tracts, activity reports of the Fédération sioniste de Belgique (FSB) (1952-1981), correspondence of the FSB (1974-1981), advertisement and pamphlets, programs of the FSB (1964-1980), answers to the survey questions of the sociological survey of the CNHEJ and the fédération de la jeunesse juive de Belgique (FJJB), tracts from the FJJB (1974), statutes from the fondation Bischoffsheim (which has an objective of endowing young deserving Israeli girls).Box [Varia 2]: documents regarding the Forêt Roi Baudouin, correspondence (1962-1966), press clippi...

  11. Duvet cover made from a US Army parachute by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp

    1. Ephraim Robinson family collection

    Covering for a blanket made from a United States Army parachute by Ephraim and Sarah Robinson for their family in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany, where they lived from 1945-1948. Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Ephraim and Sarah fled east to Russian controlled territory. They lived in several places 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. When the war ended in May 1945, they returned from Uzbekistan to Bessarabia, where they cr...

  12. Albert Dov Sigal monochrome sepia etching of people in a detention camp tent created from a drawing done during his imprisonment

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3284
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) pictorial area: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Artist's proof of an etching based on a drawing created by Albert Dov Sigal in 1948 while he was imprisoned with his wife, Rozi, and young son, Daniel, in a British detention camp in Cyprus waiting for permission to enter Palestine. based upon the experiences of his family as newly arrived emigrants to Palestine on February 22, 1948. It depicts the artist and his family as they arrive in their new home. It is an image The print shows a group of people seated inside a tent. Palestine was ruled by the British under a United Nations mandate and the postwar immigration policy was very restricti...

  13. Albert Dov Sigal watercolor sketch of a rabbi with a bridal couple under an orange chuppah with guests holding lit candles with a rough pencil sketch on the reverse

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    Watercolor sketch created by Albert Dov Sigal from 1948-1958 when he lived in Israel. The sketch depicts a woman in a white dress and veil with a man in a top hat standing in front of a rabbi reading from a paper under an orange wedding canopy. Behind them are guests in blues and purples holding lit candles. It was created as a preparatory sketch for a later work. It is a version of the scene portrayed in 1992.113.2. There is a sketch of a woman on the back. In 1939, Sigal was arrested by the fascist, antisemitic Romanian government and assigned to a forced labor battalion that repaired and...

  14. Peter Bergson and Samuel Merlin - New York

    Peter Bergson and Samuel Merlin were activists in the United States during the war. They talk about conflicts with other Jewish groups, especially with Rabbi Stephen Wise. Bergson and his group organized the the We Will Never Die pageant and made other bold publicity moves aimed at influencing American policy in favor of helping the Jews of Europe. FILM ID 3254 -- Camera Rolls #48-50-- 01:00:18 to 01:33:18 Roll 48 01:00:18 Claude Lanzmann, Peter Bergson and Samuel Merlin sit inside a small meeting room around a table in New York City. Lanzmann, off-camera, asks the men about how the general...

  15. Tablespoon with scratched initials used by a German Jewish concentration camp inmate

    Stainless steel tablespoon with scratched initials used by Hans Finke while imprisoned in Auschwitz and several subcamps: Gleiwitz, Sachsenhausen, Flossenbürg, and Bergen Belsen. Hans carried the spoon, a crucial piece of property, in his shoe during transfers, including a death march, from March 1943 until liberation in Bergen-Belsen in April 1945. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship from 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. In February 1943, Hans, 23, an electrician, was a slave laborer for Siemens when he was hospital...

  16. Albert Dov Sigal monochrome sepia etching of a young woman, holding an infant, with her family near the seaside based upon his experience as a refugee

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn3282
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm)

    Artist's proof for an etching based on a drawing created by Albert Dov Sigal based upon the experiences of his family as newly arrived emigrants to Palestine on February 22, 1948. It depicts the artist and his family as they arrive in their new home. It is an image of a man carrying bags being followed by two woman: one holds an infant, the other carries a sack, as they walk along a seaside road with a small village in the background. See 1990.242.2 and 1992.113.14 for other versions of this scene. Palestine was ruled by the British under a United Nations mandate and the postwar immigration...

  17. Albert Dov Sigal watercolor painting of a circular brown plate with a scene of a bride and groom standing in front of a rabbi under a red fringed chuppah

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    Watercolor sketch created by Albert Dov Sigal from 1948-1958 when he lived in Israel. The work depicts a dark brown plate with a small rectangular scene of a woman in a white dress and veil with a man in a top hat beneath an red fringed wedding canopy with a Star of David on top held by 2 boys in yarmulkes; a rabbi reads from a paper while guests watch. It was created as a preparatory sketch for a woodcut that would be decorated with silver and enamel. It is a version of the scene portrayed in 1992.113.2. In 1939, Sigal was arrested by the fascist, antisemitic Romanian government and assign...

  18. Commemorative pin worn postwar by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Commemorative stickpin worn postwar by Hans Finke, a concentration camp inmate who became an aid worker after the war. It has an inverted red triangle on a blue and gray striped field representing concentration camp uniforms. Hans was at Bergen-Belsen when it was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945. An electrician by trade, he began working for the British and then various aid groups after it became a displaced persons camp. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. In Februa...

  19. Globe-shaped UNRRA pin worn by a former concentration camp inmate and refugee aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) globe shaped pin worn by aid worker Hans Finke when he worked for the United Nations as a store manager in postwar Germany. He was at Bergen-Belsen when it was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945. An electrician by trade, he began working for the British and then various aid groups after it became a displaced persons camp. Hans, his parents and his sister Ursula lived in Berlin during the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933 with its aggressive anti-Jewish policies. In February 1943, Hans, 23, was a forced laborer ...

  20. UNRRA selected records AG-018-009 : Italy Mission

    Correspondence, memos, statistics, publications, circulars, bulletins, financial documents, and reports relating to the Displaced Persons Operations, medical care, education and recreation, vocational trainings, emigration and resettlement.