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  1. Mica flakes cut by a German Jewish female slave laborer

    1. Emma Jonas family collection

    Mica flakes from the glimmer [mica] factory near Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp where Emma Jonas was a slave laborer. The work of splitting the mineral mica into flakes was hazardous and created a dust that caused lung diseases among the workers. 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 Kindertransport to England on Ma...

  2. Walter and Gretel Kleeblatt collection

    1. Walter and Gretel Kleeblatt collection

    Consists of documents, photographs, and photograph albums owned by Walter and Gretel Kleeblatt (née David), originally of Germany. Includes information related to their schooling, 1932 wedding, photograph albums (1924-1934, 1934-1945), enlarged family portraits, a memoir, and family tree information for the Kleeblatt and David families.

  3. 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...

  4. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 1 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. It depicts corpselike concentration camp inmates gathered for appell [roll call]: ."..long rows of white skulls, glowing as a mass seemingly less alive than cold light...." The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for six years, from 1939-1945. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, a...

  5. Silver plated ashtray with an engraving of Skansen Kronan acquired by a former concentration camp inmate

    1. Sali Berl Bogatyrow collection

    Ashtray acquired by 21 year old Sali Berl circa 1946 in Goteborg, Sweden, while she was recovering from severe malnutrition and typhus resulting from over 3 years as a concentration camp prisoner. When Sali was liberated from Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, she weighed 54 pounds. The Red Cross hospitalized her and then sent her to Sweden to recuperate. On March 15, 1939, Sali’s hometown, Brno, was annexed by Nazi Germany. In September 1941, Sali’s father Herman, a leader in the community, was executed by the Gestapo. In December, Sali’s older brother Leon was deported to Auschwitz, where h...

  6. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 10 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fel...

  7. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 11 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fel...

  8. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 12 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fel...

  9. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Descriptive booklet for a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a ...

  10. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 2 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. It depicts corpselike concentration camp inmates gathered for appell [roll call]: ."..long rows of white skulls, glowing as a mass seemingly less alive than cold light...." The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then s...

  11. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 3 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...

  12. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 4 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...

  13. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 5 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...

  14. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 6 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...

  15. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 6 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...

  16. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 8 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...

  17. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 9 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fell...

  18. Motorboat used to take Jewish people in Denmark to safety in Sweden

    Motorboat named Lurifax (later Filuren and Solskin), used by members of the Helsingør Syklub (Elsinore Sewing Club), a Danish resistance group, to transport Danish Jews from German-occupied Denmark to neutral Sweden across the Øresund Strait in October 1943. The boat was one of several the group used to rescue the Jewish refugees and their non-Jewish relatives facing deportation to concentration camps. Later, it ferried weapons and supplies, as well as resistance members, back and forth to Sweden. Between October 1943 and May 1944, the Club transported approximately 1,400 people across the ...

  19. Concentration camp uniform coat worn by an Austrian Catholic inmate

    Concentration camp uniform knee length coat worn by Karl Unterthiner, an Austrian Catholic political prisoner in Dachau concentration camp from March 25, 1944, to April 29, 1945. Karl lived in Sterzing, (Vitipeno) Italy, an alpine village, which was part of Austria until World War I. In June 1939, Germany and Italy agreed this area would be Italianized. Residents who wished to retain their German culture and language were given the option to go to Germany or Austria which was part of the German Reich. Karl was Austrian, and he refused to leave his home and spoke out against Fascism and Nazi...

  20. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    1. Matthaeus Pibal collection

    Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by Matthaeus Pibal, a Jehovah’s Witness who was imprisoned in Dachau and Sudelfeld SS Berghaus concentration camps from 1940 to 1945. The purple inverted triangle badge identified him as a Jehovah’s Witness; the white patch above it has his prisoner number 14307. The Nazi regime actively persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their beliefs did not permit them to put any authority, such as the state, before God, or serve in the military, and the Nazis saw this as subversive. Matthaeus lived in Austria which was annexed by Nazi Germany in...