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  1. Single tefillin with covers and pouch owned by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn555437
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) c: Height: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)

    Single tefillin with covers and a navy blue velvet storage pouch owned by Norbert Müller (later Norman Miller) a 15 year old German Jewish refugee who came to London, England in September 1939. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norber...

  2. Book Hazkára |Gyaszimak es elmelkedesek halottemlekezteto unnepekre, evfordulora es sirlatogatasok alkalmara

    1. George Pick family collection

    Memorial book, Emlékezések könyve, with an inscription of future Yahrzeit or anniversary dates from 1935 through 1982 for Samu Kornhauser, the maternal grandfather of Gyorgy Pick. The book was used by Malvina Kornhauser to press flowers (1999.282.3.1) from the July 1935 funeral of her husband Samu. She pressed the blossoms between pages 35 and 35. The book was preserved during the war by Malvina, her daughter Margit Pick, Margit's husband Istvan and son Gyorgy. Malvina, ten year old Gyorgy, and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary was...

  3. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Audycje Polskiego Radia [APR]

    1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

    18 sound reels including Polish radio broadcasts of Kulisiewicz and his performances. Reel 1 - APR 1 Polish radio broadcast, "Choral ze piekla dna" [Songs from the depths of hell]. Side A includes various camp songs and fragments of camp songs sung by Aleksander Kulisiewicz (A.K.) such as "Elzunia," "Agonia Staszka," "Kostus moja," "Kolysanka dla synka." An a cappella choir sings "Marsz Pasiakow'' and "List." A.K. and Burski recount experiences surrounding musical activity at the camps. Side B includes a recording of a concert at Auschwitz from 1967. A.K. sings "Birkenau," with accordian ac...

  4. Vegyes iratok (Miscellaneous documents)

    1. XX. Holokauszttal kapcsolatos iratgyűjtemény
    2. Magyar Zsidók Központi Tanácsának iratai
    3. Core documents

    This sub-series contains miscellaneous administrative and financial documents of the Jewish Council. These include documents of the Council’s relations with the Hungarian and German authorities: records of the financial and material demands of the Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann as well as its Hungarian counterparts, the State Security Surveillance; petitions of the Jewish Council to the Hungarian government; and correspondence with various Hungarian military authorities regarding labor service. The group of documents also contains records pertaining to the Council’s information regarding th...

  5. Monogrammed napkin owned by Otto and Edith Frank

    1. Ryan M. Cooper collection

    Cotton napkin, embroidered with the initials of Otto and Edith Frank, gifted to them for their wedding on May 8, 1925. Otto and Edith had two daughters, Margot and Anne, and lived in Frankfurt, Germany. After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January 1933, authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews, and boycotting their businesses. Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, and under occupation, the Netherlands became subject to the Nuremburg laws. As restrictions continued to tighten, and antisemitism grew, Otto set up a hiding pl...

  6. Monogrammed tablecloth owned by Otto and Edith Frank

    1. Ryan M. Cooper collection

    Cotton tablecloth, embroidered with the initials of Otto and Edith Frank, gifted to them for their wedding on May 8, 1925. Otto and Edith had two daughters, Margot and Anne, and lived in Frankfurt, Germany. After Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany in January 1933, authorities quickly began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews, and boycotting their businesses. Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, and under occupation, the Netherlands became subject to the Nuremburg laws. As restrictions continued to tighten, and antisemitism grew, Otto set up a hidin...

  7. Pery Broad

    Pery Broad spent two years as a guard in Auschwitz Birkenau. Broad voluntarily wrote a report of his activities whilst working for the British as a translator in a POW camp after the war. The Broad Report corroborates extermination installations and the burning of corpses. This interview was filmed in 1979 with a hidden camera, known as a Paluche, which caught fire. FILM ID 3438 -- Camera Rolls 1A -- 02:00:18 to 02:12:29 Lanzmann and Broad begin the interview by discussing the recently presented television miniseries, Holocaust. Broad states that he can face the past, but cannot dominate it...

  8. Coin purse owned by Otto Frank

    1. Ryan M. Cooper collection

    Change purse owned by Otto Frank. Otto was a German Jewish businessman who immigrated to Amsterdam, Netherlands, with his wife, Edith, and daughters, Margot and Anne. Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940. Under German occupation, antisemitic restrictions were enforced, and Otto set up a hiding place in the attic of his business. The family moved into their hidden rooms on July 6, 1942, and were later joined by four others. Otto’s most trusted employees, including Miep and Jan Gies, immediately agreed to help them, at great risk to their own safety. Otto’s most trusted employees, ...

  9. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees

    1. Regina and Samuel Spiegel collection

    Silver aluminum suitcase used by Regina and Shmuel Spiegel when they emigrated in October 1947 from Germany to the United States. In April 1941, Regina Gutman, 15, escaped the Radom ghetto in German occupied Poland to join her sister Rozia in Pionki. She worked in a munitions factory, where she met Shmuel, 20. He had left Kozienice ghetto in September 1942 to work in Pionki labor camp. In fall 1944, the inmates were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. They promised to meet in Kozienice if they survived the war. Men and women were separated upon arrival. Regina was transfer...

  10. 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...

  11. Paula Biren

    Paula Biren was a young Jewish woman living in Łódź, Poland when the Germans invaded in 1939. She survived the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz. In her interview with Claude Lanzmann, Biren describes the occupation of Łódź, ghettoization, the children's Aktion of September 1942, and her deportation to Auschwitz. FILM ID 3105 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 03:00:09 to (03:00:09) Biren and Lanzmann are seated outdoors. Lanzmann begins the interview by asking her to start at the beginning, the moment the Germans entered Łódź, what her feelings were, and if she knew at that time what would be at stake. She s...

  12. Lola and Walter Kaufman papers

    1. Lola and Walter Kaufman collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Lola Kaufman (born Loncia Rein), originally of Czortkow, Poland (Chortkiv, Ukraine) and her husband Walter Kaufman, originally of Połaniec, Poland. The bulk of the collection consists of pre-war and post-war family photographs, including depictions taken in the Eschwege displaced persons camp. Also included is a pre-war autograph book and several post-war songbooks used while Lola was in Eschwege.

  13. Operation Annie - December 15, 1944

    1. Operation Annie broadcasts

    TRACK 1 1:47: 1212 broadcasting, daily from 2 to 6 every full hour. This is 1212 with news for the Rhineland. News from Front and Homeland for the citizens of the Rhineland and Saar-Pfalz. We will bring you the names of the villages that have been occupied by the enemy in the past 24 hours. Front News: NOTE: this part of the sequence is the same sequence as 165-48.mp3 7:20: music and multiple cuts in audio 8:03: 1212 intro music 9:48: 1212 broadcasting, 1212 broadcasting, daily from 2 to 6 every full hour. This is 1212 with news for the Rhineland. News from Front and Homeland for the ci...

  14. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate

    1. Emma Jonas family collection

    Scrip receipt for 100 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 Kindertran...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, issued to German Jewish inmate

    1. Emma Jonas family collection

    Scrip receipt for 2 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. Set of tefillin buried for safekeeping and recovered postwar

    1. Gisela E. Zamora collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515327
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)

    Pair of tefillin buried for safekeeping by Marcus and Josef Zamojre while living in hiding in Taglio-di-Po, Italy. The tefillin, which had belonged to Marcus, were recovered by Josef after the war. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. In December 1940, Josef and Marcus fled from Frankfurt in Nazi Germany, to Graz on the Austrian-Yugoslav border. After several failed attempts to cross the border, they reached Zagreb in March 1941. In April, Germany invaded Yugoslavia and, in July, Josef and Marcus escaped to Italian occupied Ljublj...