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Language of Description: German
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  1. Violin used by a Sinti musician

    1. Gabriel Reinhardt and Theresia Winterstein families collection

    Violin owned by Rita Prigmore and originally used by her father, Gabriel Reinhardt, who played with his four brothers in a Roma band in Germany before World War II. The Nazi regime restricted Roma migrations in the 1930s. Gabriel met Theresia Winterstein in 1941 when they both worked at the Stadttheater in Wurzburg, Germany. Persecution of the Roma was escalating and several members of both families were forced to agree to sterilization. Gabriel and Theresia decided to have a child, and when Theresia was called in for sterilization she was 3 months pregnant with twins. The Germans permitted...

  2. Schriftgutverwaltung

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Persönlicher Stab

    I. Reichsführer-SS (RFSS)/ Persönlicher Stab: Seyß-Inquart 1938-1944: Korrespondenz mit Himmler, Brandt, Berger, Kaltenbrunner, Bürckel; Persönliche Adressen Seyß-Inquart an Himmler, Reden und Lagebeurteilungen, Differenzen Seyß-Inquart und Bürckel, Ernennungen und Ordensverleihungen (EAP 161-b-12/64, Originalakte Nr. 274), 0984-1190, unter anderem: 1) Korrespondenz Seyß-Inquart, Brandt, Berger von März-April 1943: Beurteilung des Heft 2 der "Zeitgeschichte" von Meinhart Sild, 1004-1010; 2) Seyß-Inquart an RFSS, 19. Januar 1943: Gedanken über die militärische Lage; Niederwerfung Nordafrikas...

  3. Heusinger, Adolf

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners General Adolf Bruno Heinrich Ernst Heusinger Lebensdaten 04.08.1897 geboren in Holzminden (Niedersachsen) 30.11.1982 gestorben in Köln Dienststellungen 17.06.1915 Eintritt in das 1. Ersatzbataillon/7. Thüringisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 96, Gera (15. Infanteriebrigade, IV. Armee-Korps, Vierte Armee-Inspektion) 07.12.1915 Zum Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 96 ins Feld, Verwundung bei Verdun, anschließend zum Ersatzbataillon/7. Thüringisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 96, Gera 21.11.1916 Zum Regiment zurück 17.02.1917 Nachrichtenoffizier beim II. Bataillon/7. Thüringis...

  4. Golem pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp

    1. Margaret Gruenbaum family collection

    Pendant given to Margarete Grünbaum (later Margaret Gruenbaum) in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp’s Arts Department between November 1942 and May 1945. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Margarete lived in Prague with her husband, Karel, and their children, Marietta and Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arrested by the Gestapo and detained in Pankrác prison in Prague. On December 3, Karel was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he was killed on the 18th in the Small Fortress. On November 20, 1942, Margaret...

  5. Hand knitted floral wall hanging made prewar by a Dutch Jewish woman

    1. Louis de Groot family collection

    Floral patterned, fringed wall hanging created by Sophia Swaab de Groot in 1938 or 1939 in Arnhem, Netherlands, and recovered by her son Louis after the war. Sophia made the wall hanging to protect the wall behind the living room couch. She worked on it for hours over several nights and used a paper pattern to create it. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940 and implemented anti-Jewish restrictions. In July 1942, the Germans began mass deportations. On November 16, 1942, Chelly, 15, Louis, 13, and their parents Meijer and Sophia left Arnhem and went into hiding. Meijer and Sophia hid...

  6. Reference work

    Photocopy of a register of Jewish citizens located in Berlin, Germany, in 1947 that was copied by John Finke in Chicago in 2000. John (then Hans) was a concentration camp survivor who became an aid worker 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 parent...

  7. Cut-out landscape scene made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp

    1. Margaret Gruenbaum family collection

    Miniature metalwork given to Margarete Grünbaum (later Margaret Gruenbaum) in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp’s Arts Department between November 1942 and May 1945. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Margarete lived in Prague with her husband, Karel, and their children, Marietta and Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arrested by the Gestapo and detained in Pankrác prison in Prague. On December 3, Karel was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he was killed on the 18th in the Small Fortress. On November 20, 19...

  8. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, issued to German Jewish inmate

    1. Emma Jonas family collection

    Scrip receipt for 10 kronen issued to Emma Jonas when she was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp from November 1944 to May 1945. Currency was confiscated upon entry and scrip was distributed per a 5-tier rating or received for conscript labor while in camp. Emma was deported from Berlin and imprisoned in Theresienstadt in German occupied Czechoslovakia from November 1944 to May 1945. After Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, Emma, her husband Martin, and daughter Helga, 13, tried but failed to get visas for the family to leave Berlin. They then got Helga passage on a Kindertrans...

  9. Miniature picture frame pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp

    1. Margaret Gruenbaum family collection

    Pendant given to Margarete Grünbaum (later Margaret Gruenbaum) in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp’s Arts Department between November 1942 and May 1945. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Margarete lived in Prague with her husband, Karel, and their children, Marietta and Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arrested by the Gestapo and detained in Pankrác prison in Prague. On December 3, Karel was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he was killed on the 18th in the Small Fortress. On November 20, 1942, Margaret...

  10. Horse-shaped metal pin made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp

    1. Margaret Gruenbaum family collection

    Pin given to Margarete Grünbaum (later Margaret Gruenbaum) in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp’s Arts Department between November 1942 and May 1945. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Margarete lived in Prague with her husband, Karel, and their children, Marietta and Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arrested by the Gestapo and detained in Pankrác prison in Prague. On December 3, Karel was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he was killed on the 18th in the Small Fortress. On November 20, 1942, Margarete, M...

  11. RSHA

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Reichssicherheitshauptamt

    I. RSHA/ IV E 6: Sammlung von Runderlassen der CdS, RSHA/ IV u.a. 1935-1943, (EAP 173-b-16-12/125), 8232-8814: 1) Rundschreiben Reichs- und Preußischer Minister des Innern an Oberste Reichsbehörden und Preußischen Ministerpräsidenten vom 08. April 1939: Geltung deutschen Rechts in Österreich, 8246-8450; 2) Runderlass RFSS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei/ SI A1 (Streckenbach) vom 05. Juli 1941: Forderung nach vorbildlichem Privatleben der Beamten, 8271; 3) Runderlass RSHA/ IV (Müller) vom 18. Mai 1943: Unterbindung jeder Korrespondenz zwischen deutscher Kriegsgefangener in der UdSSR und ihren...

  12. Polizeipräsidium Berlin, RSHA, Gestapo

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Gestapa/Gestapo

    I. Bericht Polizeipräsidium Berlin an Reichsministerium des Innern: Kommunistischer Jugendverband Deutschlands, 1930-1931 (Organisation, Mitgliederzahl und Aufgaben der KJVD; Verfahren wegen Vorbereitung zum Hochverrat möglich), (EAP 173-b-16-05/166), 0700-0750; II. Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)/ IV: Wirkung des deutsch-sowjetischen Nichtangriffspakts auf die Politik der UdSSR, der KPD und sozialistischen Gruppen, 1939-1941; Berichte von V-Männern, Zeitungsausschnitte und kommunistische Schriften, (EAP 173-b-16-05/185), 0751-1018: 1) Bericht Deutsche Botschaft in Moskau vom 06. September...

  13. Metal flower pin made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp

    1. Margaret Gruenbaum family collection

    Pin given to Margarete Grünbaum (later Margaret Gruenbaum) in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp’s Arts Department between November 1942 and May 1945. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Margarete lived in Prague with her husband, Karel, and their children, Marietta and Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arrested by the Gestapo and detained in Pankrác prison in Prague. On December 3, Karel was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he was killed on the 18th in the Small Fortress. On November 20, 1942, Margarete, M...

  14. Round Star of David pendant made by a Jewish prisoner in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp

    1. Margaret Gruenbaum family collection

    Pendant given to Margarete Grünbaum (later Margaret Gruenbaum) in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp by a fellow inmate who worked with her in the camp’s Arts Department between November 1942 and May 1945. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Margarete lived in Prague with her husband, Karel, and their children, Marietta and Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arrested by the Gestapo and detained in Pankrác prison in Prague. On December 3, Karel was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he was killed on the 18th in the Small Fortress. On November 20, 1942, Margaret...

  15. Generalstaatsanwaltschaft bei dem Kammergericht - Arbeitsgruppe RSHA

    1. Bestände (West-) Berliner Behörden bis 1990
    2. Justizbehörden
    3. Gerichte und Staatsanwaltschaften

    Vorwort B Rep. 057-01 Generalstaatsanwaltschaft beim Landgericht Berlin - RSHA-Verfahren A. Behördengeschichte 1. Das Reichssicherheitshauptamt Das Reichssicherheitshauptamt, im folgenden RSHA genannt, wurde am 27. September 1939 durch Erlass des Reichsführers SS und Chefs der Deutschen Polizei, Heinrich Himmler, gebildet. In dieser zentralen Behörde wurden bisher voneinander unabhängige staatliche Polizeidienststellen und SS-Ämter zusammengelegt: Geheimes Staatspolizeiamt, Reichskriminalpolizeiamt, Hauptamt Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst-Hauptamt. Ziel war die Übertragung h...

  16. Gold painted metal box with heart and initials made by a Jewish Polish slave labor camp inmate

    1. Regina and Samuel Spiegel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn11859
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)

    Small gold painted metal box made by 22 year old Shmuel Spiegel to carry soap when he was a prisoner at Gleiwitz I slave labor camp from September1944 - January 1945. He engraved it with RG and SS, for Regina Gutman and Shmuel Spiegel, with a heart pierced by an arrow. Shmuel and Regina met in Pionki labor camp circa 1942. They were separated when the inmates were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau in fall 1944 and had promised to meet after the war. In April 1941, Regina, 15, escaped the Radom ghetto in German occupied Poland for Pionki. She worked in a munitions factory, where she met Shmu...

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, issued to German Jewish inmate

    1. Emma Jonas family collection

    Scrip receipt for 20 kronen issued to Emma Jonas when she was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp from November 1944 to May 1945. Currency was confiscated upon entry and scrip was distributed per a 5-tier rating or received for conscript labor while in camp. Emma was deported from Berlin and imprisoned in Theresienstadt in German occupied Czechoslovakia from November 1944 to May 1945. After Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, Emma, her husband Martin, and daughter Helga, 13, tried but failed to get visas for the family to leave Berlin. They then got Helga passage on a Kindertrans...

  18. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, issued to German Jewish inmate

    1. Emma Jonas family collection

    Scrip receipt for 5 kronen issued to Emma Jonas when she was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp from November 1944 to May 1945. Currency was confiscated upon entry and scrip was distributed per a 5-tier rating or received for conscript labor while in camp. Emma was deported from Berlin and imprisoned in Theresienstadt in German occupied Czechoslovakia from November 1944 to May 1945. After Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, Emma, her husband Martin, and daughter Helga, 13, tried but failed to get visas for the family to leave Berlin. They then got Helga passage on a Kindertransp...

  19. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note issued to German Jewish inmate

    1. Emma Jonas family collection

    Scrip receipt for 1 krone issued to Emma Jonas when she was imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp from November 1944 to May 1945. Currency was confiscated upon entry and scrip was distributed per a 5-tier rating or received for conscript labor while in camp. Emma was deported from Berlin and imprisoned in Theresienstadt in German occupied Czechoslovakia from November 1944 to May 1945. After Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, Emma, her husband Martin, and daughter Helga, 13, tried but failed to get visas for the family to leave Berlin. They then got Helga passage on a Kindertranspo...

  20. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician

    1. Gabriel Reinhardt and Theresia Winterstein families collection

    Violin bow owned by Rita Prigmore and originally used by her father, Gabriel Reinhardt, who played with his four brothers in a Sinti band in Germany before World War II. The Nazi regime restricted Sinti migrations in the 1930s. Gabriel met Theresia Winterstein in 1941 when they both worked at the Stadttheater in Wurzburg, Germany. Persecution of the Sinti was escalating. They were no longer allowed to work at the theater. Several members of both families were forced to agree to sterilization. Gabriel and Theresia decided to have a child, and when Theresia was called in for sterilization she...