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  1. Krzyz Walecznych (Cross of Valor) medal and presentation box awarded to a Jewish conscript in the Soviet Army

    1. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn37886
    • English
    • 1944
    • a: Height: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) b: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)

    Krzyz Walecznych (Cross of Valor) medal with striped ribbon awarded to Kalman Barakan by Poland for his service in the Soviet Army in 1944. When Germany invaded Poland in June 1941, Kalman Barakan was a 30 year old lawyer in Bialystok. His home was destroyed and he had to move into a Jewish ghetto and do rough manual labor. He escaped in 1943 and lived in hiding, constantly on the move. In August 1943, the ghetto was destroyed; Kalman’s entire family was murdered in a death camp. In July 1944, the Soviet Army liberated the area and Kalman was forced into army service until the end of the wa...

  2. Woman's engraved gold wrist watch given to one inmate by another in Auschwitz

    1. Esther Vardi collection

    Gold and silver engraved wrist watch given to 22 year old Esther (Edit) Schaechter in Auschwitz concentration camp around January 1945. The person who gave Esther the watch told her that she knew that Esther was going to survive and she wanted it preserved. Esther kept the watch through the death march to and imprisonment in Bergen-Belsen. Esther had been arrested by the Germans with false papers in Budapest in 1944 where she was active with the Zionist youth movement resistance activities. She was sent to Auschwitz in June 1944, given the number A-10 674, and selected for work duty as a se...

  3. Shanghai Millionaire board game made by 2 German Jewish refugee children

    1. Manfred Lobel collection

    Handmade board game, Shanghai Millionaire, created by 10 year old Manfred and 14 year old Siegfried Lobel in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai in 1946. It was based on Monopoly and made from a US Army cardboard "K" rations box. The boys fled Berlin, Germany, with their parents, Gustav and Dora, in 1940, due to the persecution of Jews under the Nazi dictatorship. Since Gustav and Dora were born in Romania, exit visas for the United States did not seem to be an option because of the high quotas. In 1940, they received permits to leave Germany for Shanghai, China. American troops entered the city...

  4. Giza Wiernik papers

    Papers consist of documents, postcards, and photographs relating to the experiences of Giza Wiernik before World War II in Jamna, Poland, her experiences posing as a Ukrainian woman during the war, and her journey to Israel via displaced persons camps in Germany and onboard the Exodus 1947.

  5. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail

    1. Henry F. Kahn collection

    The Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail primarily consists of envelopes, letters, postcards, and philatelic materials Kahn collected between approximately 1945 and 1985. The materials document mail systems in and around Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps and, by extension, the survivors and victims who passed through them or perished in them. Kahn arranged the materials in three annotated scrapbooks, providing context and history for the ghettos, camps, and mail systems. Most of the materials date from the 1930s and 1940s while the reproductions and commentary date fro...

  6. Henry Kalmus papers

    The Henry Kalmus papers consist chiefly of correspondence received by Kalmus from Vilmos Forgács, and from other friends and professional colleagues that he knew from his time in Budapest, when he worked as an engineer at Orion Radio (Hungarian Tungsten Lamp Works). Most of the correspondence dates from 1938 - 1948, beginning in the year that Kalmus left Hungary to immigrate to the United States. Initial letters inquire after Kalmus’ life abroad as well as report on day to day events in Budapest. In a few letters, references are made to attempts to emigrate from Hungary, both on the efforts...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. Selected records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Poland in London. Office for War Crimes Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych Rządu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Londynie. Biuro ds. Zbrodni Wojennych (Sygn. GK 159)

    This collection contains materials related to the research and investigation of perpetrators of war crimes such as: witness testimonies after the invasion of Germany in September 1939, reports of crimes committed against Poles on Polish territory and in Germany, lists of local German officials, Gestapo chief officers, guards of concentration camps, data related to concentration camps, German police authorities, accounts of Polish refugees about the conditions of life in Poland and crimes committed against civilians by the occupation authorities and Wehrmacht in the initial period of occupat...

  10. Card indexes of Jews persecuted during World War II

    The Federation of Jewish Communities in the Czech Republic (FJC) has several card indexes at its disposal: The central card index served the occupation authorities during World War II to keep an overview of most Jewish persons from Bohemia and Moravia. Before the end of the war, the Nazis tried to destroy the majority of important documents that could, inter alia, attest to their part in the extermination of Jews. They were particularly thorough with destroying the cards of deported persons. Yet they were not successful in destroying all the evidence. Some of the cards were preserved, and m...

  11. P.55 - Personal Papers of Dr. Heinz E.Samson

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 7894262
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Balance sheet Booklet(s) Brochure Death certificate Envelope Financial accounts Genealogy Journals Legal documentation Letter List of deportees List of murdered Jews from Germany Maps Newspaper clippings Official documentation Personal documents Postcard Poster Speech

    P.55 - Personal Archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Heinz E. Samson. Description of the collection: The documentation deals with a part of the estate of the Samson family, originally from the city of Norden in Northern Germany. There is pre-war documentation on tax issues and the assets of the Samson family, pre- and postwar correspondence with German authorities, personal documents and certificates, documents on the restoration of the Norden Jewish cemetery supported by the Samson family after WW II, the dedication of a memorial ...

  12. P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976

    • ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
    • 4019707
    • English, Hebrew
    • Administrative documentation Draft Excerpt(s) Letter List of refugees Memoirs Newspaper clippings Note Passport Personal documents Poems/Songs Record of persecuted persons Reports Research article Testimony

    P.22 - The Dr. Nathan Eck Collection, holocaust researcher, 1938-1976 In the collection there are files from the private archive of Dr. Nathan Eck. Description of the collection: The documentation mainly deals with research on various aspects of the Holocaust period in Poland and France. There are research papers, testimonies, newspaper clippings, correspondence and documentation concerning the emigration of Jews to Latin American countries. About Dr. Nathan Eck: - Dr. Nathan Eck was born in Janow, Poland, 19 March 1896. He was a Gordonia youth movement activist and a Zionist activist, as w...

  13. Konzentrationslager Lichtenburg

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Im Zuge von Rückführungen deutscher Akten aus den USA, die dort nach einem dem Einheitsaktenplan (EAP) der Wehrmacht zu Grunde liegenden Schema alfa-numerisch geordnet worden waren, gelangte der Bestand im Jahre 1962 in das Bundesarchiv. Archivische Bewertung und Bearbeitung Anfang 1963 wurde zunächst ein vorläufiges Findbuch erstellt. Dieses Provisorium wird durch die nunmehr vorliegende Findmittel-Fassung ersetzt. Das Findmittel wurde den gültigen Erschließungsrichtlinien angepasst und standardisiert. Bestandsbeschreibung Der Bestand enth...

  14. Hammer, Walter (Hösterey, Walter)

    1. Nachlässe

    Durch den testamentarischen Willen Hammers wurde dem Institut für Zeitgeschichte sein gesamter wissenschaftlicher und literarischer Nachlass vermacht - zusammen mit einem ansehnlichen Geldbetrag, der nach Hammers Tod am 09.12.1966 in Hamburg die Sichtung und Ordnung seines Archivs im IfZ ermöglichte. Bei der Übernahme durch das Institut für Zeitgeschichte bestand das "Archiv Walter Hammer" sowohl aus Büchern, Broschüren und Zeitschriften, Zeitungen und Informationsdiensten, wie auch Korrespondenzen, Berichten und Manuskripten. Um die Übersichtlichkeit unserer Sammlungen in Archiv und Biblio...

  15. MilBef Generalgouvernement

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Militär
    4. Reichsheer und Heer
    5. Wehrkreiskommandos

    I. Befehlshaber im Heeresgebiet Generalgouvernement: Ausbau der A1 und A2-Stellungen, August-Dezember 1944; Ausbau- bzw. Sperrbefehle Höherer Pionierführer Generalgouvernement über Aufbau von Hindernissen, Sprengung von Brücken, Minen usw. (75026/9a), 1-331, unter anderem: 1) Bericht Höherer Pionierführer Generalgouvernement, 03. September 1944: Verteidigungsfähigkeit der A1 und A2-Stellung, 268-270; II. Wehrkreiskommando Generalgouvernement: A1 und A2-Stellung, August-Dezember 1944 (Verteidigung durch "Sicherungstruppen", Festungs-Pak-Kompanien und Artillerie-Abteilungen; Korrespondenz Bef...

  16. NSDAP-APA

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. NSDAP und angeschlossene Verbände
    4. Reichsleitung
    5. Außenpolitisches Amt

    Akten Außenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP, Abteilung Osten, 1932-1943: 1. [250-d-18-15/2], 1 S.: Schreiben Amt Osten an Stabsleiter Urban, 20. November 1939: Arbeiten über das Deutschtum in Russland; 2. [250-d-18-15/5], ca. 15 S.: betreffend Antikommunismus, a) Korrespondenz Amt Osten und verschiedene Aktenstücke betr. Antikomintern, Gesamtverband antikommunistischer Vereinigungen, Leiter Ehrt, darin Liste der Mitglieder; Besprechungen verschiedener Bücher über Kommunismus; Korrespondenz Februar 1935: Erteilung Lehrauftrag für Ehrt für Marxismus, Bolschewismus und osteuropäische Probleme; Vorsch...

  17. BdS Slowakei

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Sicherheitspolizei und SD

    I. BdS Slowakei: Reaktion der Slowakei auf innenpolitische und militärische Ereignisse, Innen- und Außenpolitik der Regierung Szalasi, September 1944-März 1945, Berichte von dem BdS unterstellten Sicherheitspolizei/ SD-Einheiten und BdS Ungarn, 6723-7359: 1) Berichte Einsatzkommando 14 an BdS Slowakei von September 1944-März 1945: Reaktion der Bevölkerung in und um Neutra auf innenpolitische und militärische Ereignisse (u.a. Evakuierung der Volksdeutschen, Aufstellung der Wlassow-Armee und Pol. der Partisanen in Befreiten Gebieten), 6724-6808;a) Einsatzkommando 14 des CdS an Einsatzgruppe H...

  18. MA 708 / 5

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. PERTINENZBESTÄNDE
    4. Dokumente aus polnischen Archiven

    I. Hauptkommission für die Erforschung deutscher Verbrechen in Polen: Personalakten von angeblich in Verbrechen verwickelten Deutschen in Polen, 1946-1948, 1-335, darin auch: 1) Rundschreiben Oberlandesgerichtspräsident Danzig, 03. September 1942: Behandlung von Rechtsstreitigkeiten zwischen Deutschen und Polen, 54-56; II. Hauptkommission für die Erforschung deutscher Verbrechen in Polen: Tätigkeit der Umwandererzentralstelle Posen, 1940, 336-420, unter anderem: 1) Liste [ohne Verfasser, ohne Datum]: [Polnisch] "Vereine, deren Mitglieder für die Abschiebung unbedingt in Frage kommen", "Vere...

  19. Bräutigam, Otto

    1. Zeugenschrifttum
    2. B
    3. Brachmann - Bruns

    Informationen aus dem Repertorium; geschriebene Quellen und stenografische Mitschriften Bräutigam: j) Ergänzungen (Sie Ostarbeiterfrage), III, 1-8; k) Ergänzungen (Ostministerium, Reichskommissare), III, 9-23; l) Fluktuieren der Ostarbeiter, III, 24; m) Nachtrag zu der Ostarbeiterfrage, erste Konferenz vom 03. Juli 1944, III, 25; n) Organisations- und Personalfragen des Ostministeriums, III, 26-42; o) Richtigstellung zu den Ausführungen des General Köstring, III, 43-49; p) Sauckel, Großaktion Ostarbeiter, III, 50-64; Erschießung von Kriegsgefangenen im Stalag; Behandlung in den Dulags; Jude...

  20. Wollweber, Ernst

    Bestandsbeschreibung Biografische Angaben Ernst Fritz, Karl Wollweber 29. Okt. 1898 in Hannoversch-Münden geboren 1913-1916 Schiffsjunge bei der Mindener und Bremer Schifffahrtsgesellschaft 1916-1918 Matrose und Soldat bei der Kaiserlichen Marine, U-Bootabteilung 1918 Teilnehmer am Matrosenaufstand in Kiel, Mitglied des Obersten Soldatenrates 1919-1923 Mitglied der KPD-Bezirksleitung Niedersachsen, Bezirkssekretär der KPD-Bezirksleitung Hessen-Waldeck 1923 Aufbau und Leitung der illegalen Militärorganisation der Partei in den Bezirken Hessen-Waldeck, Thüringen und Schlesien 1924 Verurteilun...