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  1. Portrait photograph by Judy Glickman of a Danish man who organized rescue efforts

    1. Judith Ellis Glickman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41822
    • English
    • 1993
    • overall: Height: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm) | Width: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.380 inches (33.985 cm) | Width: 9.120 inches (23.165 cm)

    Black and white photographic print taken by Judy Glickman in 1993 of Dr. Ole Secher, a Danish rescuer. As a medical student, Ole organized rescue efforts for Jews hiding at Bispebjerg hospital. Germany occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, but allowed the Danish government to retain control of domestic affairs. Jews were not molested and the German presence was limited. After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and began to face military setbacks, a Danish resistance movement developed. On August 29, 1943, the Germans declared martial law and began to address the Jewish problem. A mas...

  2. Portrait photograph by Judy Glickman of Danish fisherman who ferried Jews to safety

    1. Judith Ellis Glickman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41824
    • English
    • 1992
    • overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)

    Black and white photographic print taken by Judy Glickman in Gilleje, Denmark, in 1992 of Frede Svendsen, a Danish fisherman and rescuer. Frede used his boat to ferry Jews to Sweden. A rumor that a boat was leaving at 10pm resulted in hundreds trying to gain passage. There was a false alarm that the Gestapo was coming and as his boat left the dock, a man came running and at the last minute was pulled aboard. After the war, he returned to thank his rescuers. Germany occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, but allowed the Danish government to retain control of domestic affairs. Jews were not moles...

  3. Portrait photograph by Judy Glickman of Danish resistance leader and intelligence officer

    1. Judith Ellis Glickman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41817
    • English
    • 1992
    • overall: Height: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm) | Width: 18.120 inches (46.025 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.380 inches (33.985 cm) | Width: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm)

    Black and white photographic print taken by Judy Glickman in 1992 of Otto Blixenkrone-Moller, a leader in the Danish resistance and a member of the Danish Military Intelligence Service. Otto reported to the Allies and the Special Operations Executive and sustained a leg and hip wound in an attempted arrest by the Gestapo in 1945. Germany occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, but allowed the Danish government to retain control of domestic affairs. Jews were not molested and the German presence was limited. After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and began to face military setbacks, a...

  4. The Position of the Jews in Germany (January)

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report of January 1937 about the position of Jews in Germany. The report has appeared in English, German and French and was published by the Jewish Central information Office, which published every month a new report always regarding the situation of Jews in Germany or other European countries. In 1928 Alfred Wiener was instrumental in creating the Büro Wilhelmstrasse of the CV, which documented Nazi activities and issued anti-Nazi materials until 1933 when Hitler came to power. Wiener and his family fled to Amsterdam where he, together with Dr. David Cohen of Amsterdam ...

  5. The Position of the Jews in Germany (June)

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a report of 1936 about the position of the Jews in Germany written in English and German. The Jewish Central information Office published every month a new report, regarding the situation of Jews in Germany. In 1928 Alfred Wiener was instrumental in creating the Büro Wilhelmstrasse of the CV, which documented Nazi activities and issued anti-Nazi materials until 1933 when Hitler came to power. Wiener and his family fled to Amsterdam where he, together with Dr. David Cohen of Amsterdam University, founded the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO). This report is divided i...

  6. Postage stamp

    1. David Pearlman collection

  7. Poster

  8. Poster with a barbed wire Star of David for the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors received by an attendee

    1. Herbert and Ursula Cohn Lichtenstein family collection

    Poster for the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors acquired by Herbert Lichtenstein at the first meeting, held in Jerusalem in June 1981. In January 1939, 22 year old Herbert was arrested in Oberwesel, Germany, and sent to a forced labor camp. In August 1941, he was transferred to Bielefeld forced labor camp. In January 1943, he was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and marked with prisoner number 105483. In January 1945, as the Soviet Army approached, Herbert was transported to Buchenwald and given prisoner number 117482. In April 1945, he was transferred to Theresienstadt whi...

  9. Poster with a barbed wire Star of David for the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors received by an attendee

    1. Herbert and Ursula Cohn Lichtenstein family collection

    Poster for the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors acquired by Herbert Lichtenstein at the first meeting, held in Jerusalem in June 1981. In January 1939, 22 year old Herbert was arrested in Oberwesel, Germany, and sent to a forced labor camp. In August 1941, he was transferred to Bielefeld forced labor camp. In January 1943, he was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and marked with prisoner number 105483. In January 1945, as the Soviet Army approached, Herbert was transported to Buchenwald and given prisoner number 117482. In April 1945, he was transferred to Theresienstadt whi...

  10. Poster with a barbed wire Star of David for the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors received by an attendee

    1. Herbert and Ursula Cohn Lichtenstein family collection

    Poster for the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors acquired by Herbert Lichtenstein at the first meeting held in Jerusalem in June 1981. In January 1939, 22 year old Herbert was arrested in Oberwesel, Germany, and sent to a forced labor camp. In August 1941, he was transferred to Bielefeld forced labor camp. In January 1943, he was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and marked with prisoner number 105483. In January 1945, as the Soviet Army approached, Herbert was transported to Buchenwald and given prisoner number 117482. In April 1945, he was transferred to Theresienstadt whic...

  11. Poster with a barbed wire Star of David for the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors received by an attendee

    1. Herbert and Ursula Cohn Lichtenstein family collection

    Poster for the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors acquired by Herbert Lichtenstein at the first meeting held in Jerusalem in June 1981. In January 1939, 22 year old Herbert was arrested in Oberwesel, Germany, and sent to a forced labor camp. In August 1941, he was transferred to Bielefeld forced labor camp. In January 1943, he was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and marked with prisoner number 105483. In January 1945, as the Soviet Army approached, Herbert was transported to Buchenwald and given prisoner number 117482. In April 1945, he was transferred to Theresienstadt whic...

  12. Posterunek Powiatowy Żandarmerii w Wolsztynie [Gendarmerie Kreisposten Wollstein]

    • akta administracyjne (doniesienia, korespondencja, protokoły przesłuchań osób podejrzanych o popełnienie wykroczeń gospodarczych; korespondencja dot. wypadków drogowych i pożarów; listy osób poszukiwanych przez Gestapo, Policję Kryminalną i Policję Bezpieczeństwa z Poznania; listy specjalne komendanta Policji Porządkowej w Poznaniu nakazujące wszczę cie poszukiwań za zbiegłymi jeńcami wojennymi, dezerterami z Wehrmachtu i in.)

  13. Posterunek Żandarmerii w Radomsku

    • Gendarmerie Zug Radomsko

    Rozkazy i instrukcje dowódcy żandarmerii w Radomiu, meldunki dzienne i raporty sytuacyjne poszczególnych posterunków żandarmerii (Stützpunkte).

  14. Prayer book

    Prayer book given to David Bajer, 25, on a 1947 trip to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He went inside a synagogue and the rabbi gave him a set of tefillin to use and to keep and David picked up this prayer book as well. David was the only survivor from a very devout family from Kozienice, Poland. Although he lost faith in Judaism during the Holocaust, he kept this siddur with him as a talisman for seventy years. He decided to donate the book to the Museum, but brought the book to the Museum for three weeks in a row before he finally had the courage to donate it on May 31, 2017. Kozienice was occup...

  15. Prayer book

    Prayer book belonging to David Halberstam in which he inscribed dates and information about his and his first family's capture and experiences. David was originally from Gorlice, Poland, and survived multiple concentration camps. His wife and his father were deported and killed at Belzec killing center. After the war, he emigrated to North America.

  16. Prayer book

    1. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection

    Tikkun prayer book brought with Ruth Liebermensch, who, with her sister Hanna, fled Mannheim, Germany, for Great Britain on a Kindertransport in summer 1939, and then went to New York in May 1940. Ruth and Hanna’s father Samuel was killed in Auschwitz in September 1942. A Tikkun is a copy of the Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses, used to practice Torah readings. This book includes the readings from the Prophets for the entire year plus the five Scrolls.

  17. Prayer book

    1. Stephan H. Lewy collection

    Prayer book given to Heinz Stephan Lewy for his 14th birthday by his friend Gerhard Rosenzweig (later Gerry Gerhard) when both youths were living in Quincy, France. They had arrived there on July 4, 1939, Kindertransport from Berlin, Germany, organized to save Jewish children from persecution by the Nazi dictatorship. They had previously lived in the Auerbach orphanage in Berlin. After Germany invaded France in May 1940, the boys and the other refugees fled south, but returned to Quincy after encountering German soldiers. In fall 1940, Quaker aid workers took them to Chateau de Chabannes in...

  18. Prayer book

    1. George Pick family collection

    Imakonyv, a prayer book for women, with a clasp and a slipcase, used by Gyorgy Pick's maternal great aunt, Gizella, during the war when she lived in a Swedish protected house in Budapest, Hungary. Ten year old Gyorgy and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany and adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 because he was Jewish. He was conscripted into Hungarian labor battalions in 1940, 1943, and 1944. After German setbacks in the war against the Soviet Union in ...

  19. Prayer book

    1. Frank Meissner family collection

    Prayer book carried and used by Franz Meissner with an inscription dated 1912 inside the front cover. Franz, age 16, left Czechoslovakia in October 1939 because of the increasing persecution of Jews as Czechoslovakia was dismembered by Nazi Germany and its allies. With the encouragement of his family, he left for Denmark with Youth Aliyah, an organization that helped people to emigrate to Palestine. In 1943, the Germans began to deport all Jews from Denmark. Frank was warned that the Gestapo was looking for him and he was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden. He had been receiving weekly le...

  20. Prayer book

    1. George Pick family collection

    Prayer book, Mirjam, written for Jewish women by the Chief Rabbi of Budapest, used by Gizella Augenfeld Pick in the Budapest ghetto during the war. It was preserved by her grandson Gyorgy Pick and his parents Istvan and Margit during the war in Budapest, Hungary. Ten year old Gyorgy and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany and adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 because he was Jewish. He was conscripted into Hungarian labor battalions in 1940, 1943, and ...