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Language of Description: English

  1. An die deutschen Arbeiter und Angestellten in freien Ländern

    1. Anti-Nazi resistance and opposition

    The pamphlet issued by the Internationale Transportarbeiter Föderation (International Federation of transport workers) gives an overview of illegal union activities in Germany. New methods of work and organization had to be developed (no membership registers or contribution receipts) and the establishment of underground networks was crucial. A testimony of a train employee reports of Gestapo supervision by the “Dezernat 36”. The situation in maritime transport is described by a sailor who talks of numerous deserters to Australia and America. Almost everyone refuses to raise their hand and g...

  2. An Ordinary Weekday Leo Haas aquatint of a funeral and a crowd watching an orchestra in Theresienstadt

    1. Leo Haas collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn513918
    • English
    • 1966
    • overall: Height: 19.625 inches (49.848 cm) | Width: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm)

    Aquatint created by Leo Haas in 1966 based upon sketches made in 1942 based on scenes he witnessed while an inmate of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. It depicts a funeral in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in 1942. Haas was an inmate of Terezin from September 1942-October 1944. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a professional artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for begin a member of the Communist Party. He was deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, then shipped back to Ostrava to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor...

  3. Ann R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ann R., who was born in Brussels, Belgium in 1929. She recalls early happy memories; German bombardment; wearing the yellow star; expulsion from school; watching the Gestapo round-up her parents; and their wanton destruction, including the "evisceration" of a doll. She remembers informing the sanitarium where her brother was hospitalized that her parents had been taken away (they would not keep him anymore since there was no one to pay); giving him to a strange woman; wandering the streets with her sister; a nun offering to help them; moving many times; a visit from h...

  4. Anna G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna G., who was born in Drohobych, Ukraine (then Poland), in 1929. She speaks of her prewar life, life under Russian occupation, and her experience of the German occupation of her town. She notes the worsening conditions under German occupation, culminating in the deportations and (as they learned only later) mass murder of Jews, including Mrs. G.'s mother, sister, and young niece. She tells of living with her father and brother in Drohobych; in the Gestapo camp on Janowska Street, where she had to hide in a closet for over a year and was finally discovered by a Germ...

  5. Anna Hoffman identification card

    Contains a Belgian identity card for Anna Hoffman. Anna Hoffman was born on March 2, 1891 in Cernauti, Ukraine, and was arrested by the Gestapo in Brussels, Belgium, on March 3, 1943. She was sent to the Malines transit camp and deported by the 20th convoy to Auschwitz where she was gassed on arrival.

  6. Anna R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Anna R., a Lutheran, who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1918. She recalls her family's commitment to and activities on behalf of the Social Democrats; the rise of fascism; her arrest for anti-Nazi activities; two one-year jail terms; release; helping found a home for children of suicides; hearing the Gestapo was seeking her; hiding; illegally entering Switzerland with assistance from the Communist Party; acceptance as a political refugee; meeting her future husband, a German-Jewish refugee; receiving contraband from an unknown source; arrest; learning she was pregnant...

  7. Annemarie Warschauer papers

    The Annemarie Warschauer papers document the pre-war lives of the Israelski, Munter, and Warschauer families in Berlin, Germany and as refugees in Shanghai, China during the Holocaust. The collection includes biographical material, immigration papers, a small amount of correspondence, restitution papers, and photographs. Materials include passports, birth and marriage certificates, Yahrzeit memorial books, forced labor documents, restitution paperwork, dental profession papers, immigration and naturalization papers, and family photographs. The biographical material includes passports, drive...

  8. Announcement suspending postal service in the Łódź ghetto

    1. Shlomo Flam collection

    Notification of a postal ban issued in the Łódź ghetto in German occupied Poland by Mordecai Rumkowski, head of the Jewish Council that administered the Ghetto for the Germans. Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and occupied Łódź one week later. Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and, by February 1940, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population of 160,000 into a small, sealed ghetto. All residents had to work and many were forced laborers in ghetto factories. Residents. Living conditions were horrendous; the overcrowding and lack of food caused widespread disease ...

  9. Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement No. 133, dated 04 October 1940. By Gestapo order, curfew in the ghetto will commence at 21:00

    1. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto

    Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement No. 133, dated 04 October 1940. By Gestapo order, curfew in the ghetto will commence at 21:00

  10. Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 428 dated 02 August 1944 issued by the Gestapo regarding a reduction in the area of the ghetto

    1. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto

    Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 428 dated 02 August 1944 issued by the Gestapo regarding a reduction in the area of the ghetto Evacuation of areas of the ghetto by 24 August 1944; non-evacuation will lead to death; details of the streets to be evacuated; permission to remain in the area granted to factory workers who must complete their work.

  11. Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 429, dated 23 August 1944 issued by the Gestapo ordering the Jews to evacuate various areas of the ghetto by 25 August 1944

    1. O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto

    Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement Number 429, dated 23 August 1944 issued by the Gestapo ordering the Jews to evacuate various areas of the ghetto by 25 August 1944 Non-compliance with this order means death; details of the area still permitted to Jews.

  12. Anti-Jewish enactments in the Reichsprotektorat

    Readers need to reserve a reading room terminal to access a digital version of this archive.It also includes some material on the deportation of Jews from Vienna, Prague and Brünn. In addition there is some reference to the deportation of Gypsies from Berlin and former Czechoslovakia. The papers provide a detailed insight into the logistics of deportation including the appropriation of belongings over the years 1939-1944. Reference is made to the preparation of Theresienstadt as a camp for deported Jews.Correspondents include the Zentralstelle jüdische Auswanderung, Prague; Israelitische Ku...

  13. Anti-Jewish propaganda

    1. Serbian Government of Milan Nedic 1941-1945

    Anti-Jewish propaganda of the Milan Nedic government. Newspapers articles, posters and other materials produced under the supervision of the Gestapo in Belgrade, Summer and Autumn 1941.

  14. Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Justice

    1. William Sharp collection

    Can you imagine getting justice at the hands of these men? That one at the ledt is a member of the army. Next is the judge, then a Storm Troop officer, and of course, the one at the right is a member of the Gestapo. And they call this a People's Court! I attended many trials presided over by men with faces like this. I did not see any justice dispensed. I sketched this in Germany and finished it in the U.S.A.

  15. Anti-Nazi drawing published in the PM newspaper Totentanz

    1. William Sharp collection

    Once when Adolf Hitler was standing by the tomb of Richard Wagner, whose music he adores, he referred to himself as "the young drummer of the German people." He has been a drummer all right [sic], thumping the tom-toms of hate and "race" to a chorus of hysterical "Heils" while the German people march blindly to their destruction. This drawing I completed in Germany. Imagine what would have happened if the Gestapo had seen it.

  16. Appointments of notable people to serve as leaders of the Viennese Jewish community, 1938

    1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

    Appointments of notable people to serve as leaders of the Viennese Jewish community, 1938 - Copy of a document issued by the "Besonderes Stadtamt Wien" regarding the appointments of Dr. Josef Loewenherz as Chairman of the Viennese Jewish community and an eight member advisory committee, 28 May 1938; - Granting of exclusive authority to the Community Chairman; - The appointments, guidelines and granting of authority in accordance with the decision of the Gestapo in Vienna.

  17. Archiv města Benešov

    • Archives of the Town of Benešov / NAD 3

    The fonds contains official books, files, accounting material, and photographs. From the period up to 1850, the archives contain books of decrees including a document by which Jan of Lobkovice waives the right to provide protection to the town of Benešov and to receive inhabitants of the Jewish religion into the town, inv. no. 50 (1848). There are also the censuses of the population in individual periods, especially inv. no. 795, call no. XIX B, Census of the Jewish Population (1850). Jews are explicitly mentioned in the following documents: Church affairs - keeping Jewish registries inv.no...

  18. Archiv města Vizovice

    • Vizovice Town Archives / NAD 1154

    The fonds contains documents of the municipal self-government, deeds, official books, file material and accounting material. It contains only details about Jews: the great distillery of Zikmund Jelínek and Sons, the great distillery in Vizovice - purchase contracts, economic affairs, the inn in Zádveřice, construction plans, the appointment of a "faithful hand" during the 1888–1944 protectorate. The documents from the Holocaust period include the following: inspection and confiscation of supplies in the house of Josef Weiss, No. 417, by the Gestapo 1939; administration of Jewish property an...

  19. Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    The Erich Kulka Record Group contains: Personal and family documentation; documentation regarding the trial conducted against Sebesta, an antisemitic Czech writer who libeled Erich Kulka; the struggle to clear the names of the Sonderkommando workers as set forth in the book "People In Auschwitz" by Herman Langbein; trials against Nazi war criminals; documentation regarding Holocaust denial; escape of inmates from Auschwitz-Birkenau; research he conducted and published throughout his life, mainly regarding Jewish fighters in the Svoboda Army in the Soviet Union; Kulka's struggle against anti...

  20. Ardal brand civilian gas mask placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    C2 gas mask, the civilian version of the Polish army’s Wz. 38 mask, placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his w...