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  1. P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author

    P.25- Archive of Erich Kulka, Historian of Czech Jewry and Author Erich Schon, who was born in the village of Vsetin, Moravia (today in the Czech Republic), 18 February 1911, and died in Jerusalem, 12 July 1995, was the son of Malvina and Siegbert Schon. After World War II Schon changed his last name to Kulka, the last name of his first wife, Elly Kulka, who did not survive the Holocaust. The history of the arrests of Erich Kulka began in July 1939, first with arrest by the Gestapo in Brno and afterwards with imprisonment in the Dachau, Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme camps until November 1942...

  2. Roth family papers

    Consists of photographs and documents related to the Roth family, originally of Kraków, Poland. Includes photographs depicting life in the Liebenau and Vittel internment camps (including of poet Yitzhak Katzenelson in Vittel) and biographical materials. The bulk of the collection documents the family's immigration to the United States in 1944, attempts to prove that Chaskiel Roth was born in the United States, repayment for their voyage, and the threat of deportation after the war.

  3. Esther Vardi papers

    1. Esther Vardi collection

    The collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of Esther Vardi and her family in Tacovo (Tiachiv, Ukraine) and a postcard written by Esther to her sister Zippora in Rehovot. Esther participated in underground activities in Budapest during the war. She was caught and deported to Auschwitz.

  4. Alfred Fabian papers

    1. Alfred Fabian collection

    The Alfred Fabian papers consist of identification papers and photographs documenting Holocaust survivor Alfred Fabian, the Buchenwald camp, family members who perished in the Holocaust, and Fabian’s immigration to the United States. Identification papers include Fabian’s provisional identification card for civilian internees of Buchenwald and his Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society identification certificate. Photographs depict a pile of corpses at Buchenwald, Weimar citizens on a forced visit to the liberated camp, flags in front of a sign expressing the gratitude of liberated Czechoslovakian Bu...

  5. Prisoner ID badge number 95769 worn by a German Jewish man

    1. Alfred Fabian collection

    Prisoner identification patch worn by Alfred Fabian in Niederorschel and Buchenwald concentration camps from November 19, 1944, to April 11, 1945, printed with his prisoner number, 95769. On May 17, 1943, Alfred, wife Ruth, 5 year old daughter Ingrid, and Alfred’s mother Erna were deported to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia. On October 12, 1944, the family was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center, where Ruth, Ingrid, and Erna were gassed on arrival. On November 19, 1944, Alfred was sent to Niederorschel slave labor camp, a Buchenwald subcamp in Germany. Niederorschel...

  6. Sewing, laundry, dentist, carpentry, trains at Camp Westerbork

    CU, wooden table covered with buttons. CU of man's and woman's hands covering buttons in leather, putting it through a press. 02:04:05 Pan of a large working hall with people sewing. Laundry room: MS of women in white overcoats putting white sheets through a press and folding sheets. Men pulling out clean laundry from large washing machines and separating them into tall wooden crates. Row of women behind table ironing. 02:06:38 MS, chemical lab. Men and women in white coats mixing chemicals. Shelves with bottles filled with chemicals. CU of man looking through microscope. 02:07:40 MS, sign ...

  7. Dr. Salomea Kape papers

    1. Salomea Herszenberg Kape family collection

    The papers consist of documents, photographs, and identification cards relating to the experiences of the Herschenberg family [donor's family] in Łódź, Poland, during the Holocaust. Also includes identification papers, photographs, and documents pertaining to Anna Toronczyk [donor's maternal aunt] and her work as a midwife in displaced persons camps after World War II, and the Herschenberg family's experiences in the Łódź ghetto and their immigration to the United States.

  8. Jews hiding in a nightclub in Amsterdam

    Film without text. An older couple stands and converses. An adolescent boy comforts a young woman [this scene is clearly acted out with the characters wearing stage makeup]. An older man then opens the door, enters the room, and converses with a girl. Several people arrive and are greeted warmly. They all wear yellow stars. INTs of the apartment. The table is set. A girl knits. People lounge about; others arrive. The boy and young woman look out the window onto the street below. Women carry food trays. Women in the kitchen, clipping rations, and washing dishes. One dish falls and breaks. 01...

  9. Leaflets of the White Rose Facsimile of the second White Rose leaflet

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn14333
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) b: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Facsimile of the second White Rose leaflet, distributed by members of the White Rose, a German anti-Nazi group formed in Munich in 1942. Hans Scholl and Alexander Schmorell wrote the first four leaflets, possibly with contributions by Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst. The second leaflet calls Nazism a cancer on German society, states that the murder of Polish Jews by the Germans is a crime against humanity, and urges the citizens of Germany to resist the Nazi rule. The group was founded by students from the University of Munich in the late spring of 1942, and members consisted of Hans, Al...

  10. Small suitcase carried by a Jewish boy from Berlin to England on a Kindertransport

    Small suitcase carried by thirteen year old Max Dobriner (later Geoffrey Dickson) in July 1939 when he was sent by his parents Julius and Hertha from Germany to Great Britain on a Kindertransport.

  11. Joseph Wulf phonograph records

    Two original record discs (LPs) of recordings by Holocaust survivor and historian Joseph Wulf (b. Chemnitz, 1912 - 1974, Berlin). Includes songs composed by Joseph Wulf, accompanied on piano by Friedrich Scholz.

  12. Majdanek liberated

    Opening titles and credits (see transcription below). Pan of prisoners behind barbed wire. CUs prisoners, their tatooed numbers, of the electrically charged barbed wire, ruins, various signs, guard towers, aerial views, etc. The Russian officers examine officials of camp. Men dig up graves for evidence. CU, women weeping as bodies are uncovered. CUs, decomposed bodies and pile of skulls. Gas chambers. CU can of chemicals used for gas. INTs, camp, etc. Officials of the camp are examined and, with the help of female Russian interpreter, various prisoners tell their stories. Rolling credits at...

  13. Eichmann Trial -- Session 102 -- Cross-examination of the Accused: corrections to the Sassen document

    Session 102. Attorney General Hausner asks Eichmann to read the corrections he made to the Sassen memoirs. Questions concerning the German Minister of the Interior and his connection to Eichmann are addressed. He then decries the entire document, saying that it is completely muddled, and that he cannot answer any further questions on it. The President of Court says that he will answer questions until he is relieved; Eichmann cooperates, but says that he feels he is being "roasted" until they get the answer they want from him. 00:10:48 Following Eichmann's comments about feeling "roasted", t...

  14. Irena Cymerman Wojcik collection

    The collection includes photographs relating to Irena Wojcik (born Irka Cymerman) and her relatives during the Holocaust and in hiding in Sadoleś, Poland; her rescuer and future husband Władysław Wojcik; life before the war at a public school in Węgrów and during the war in Poland; and their daughter visiting the site of the former death camp of Treblinka circa 1960. Additional individuals depicted in the photographs include Irena’s brother-in-laws Mietek Rubinsztajn and Franciszek Wojcik, her sister Henia, and her friend Jadwiga Worowicz. The collection also includes an affidavit issued by...

  15. Stefan Czyzewski photographs

    1. Stefan Czyzewski collection

    The collection consists of a photograph of Stefan Czyzewski, a Polish partisan, in 1946 and a photographic postcard of a lodge used as a state hospital after liberation where Stefan Czyzewski was a patient from 1945 to 1946.

  16. Stefan Czyzewski identification card

    1. Stefan Czyzewski collection

    The identification card ("Auxiliary D.P. Employee's Certificate") was issued to Stefan Czyzewski, a Polish victim of the Holocaust, as an employed meesenger of DP Camp 256. The card was issued in January 1947 in Aschattenburg, Germany.

  17. Private papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (A440)

    Personal papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (1904-1992). The collection consists of articles, notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscript and narrations of Eva Michaelis-Stern concerning her work for the Youth Aliyah in Germany and England; correspondence between Eva Michaelis-Stern and various people, mainly private; agreement between Michaelis-Stern and war veterans organization; newspaper articles, pictures and letters, notes, various booklets, guides and printed material from the Keren Hayesod, the Central Zionist Archives and the Council for Social Services and Voluntarism, inclu...

  18. Jews hiding in a nightclub in Amsterdam (with text)

    Film with text. The film (as seen in Story 1315) repeats with added intertitles in Dutch (see linked document). Image rolls at 01:16:19 with an older couple stands and converses. An adolescent boy comforts a young woman [this scene is clearly acted out with the characters wearing stage makeup]. An older man then opens the door, enters the room, and converses with a girl. Several people arrive and are greeted warmly. They all wear yellow stars. INTs of the apartment. The table is set. A girl sits and knits. People lounge about; others arrive. The boy and young woman look out the window onto ...

  19. Koerner and Kesselring testify at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 40) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. LSs, MSs, prisoners' dock. Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson cross examines Paul Koerner, Deputy of the Board of the Four-Year Plan, Staatssekretar in the Prussian Ministry, Chairman of the SS Obergruppenfuehrer, and Hermann Goering's personal Adjutant in the Prussian State Ministry. Koerner is questioned about November 9th, Reichskristallnacht, Goering's role, the fining of Jews after the damage, etc. He points out and verifies that riots against the Jews were incited by members of the government and that Goering was in...

  20. Selected records of the Auxiliary Police. Battalion No 202 Kraków Schutzmannschaft Bataillon 202 Kraków (Sygn.GK 658)

    This collection contains personnel files of Polish police officers assigned to the Auxiliary Police Battalion No 202 P in Kraków and serving in the practice camp in Kochanówka near Debica.