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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  5. Stephan H. Lewy papers

    1. Stephan H. Lewy collection

    Consists of two pieces of written testimony entitled, "The year 1938....A year in my life I would like to forget," and "Return to Berlin, Germany After 58 Years," both written by Stephan Lewy. "The Year 1938" includes information about acquiring a prayer book and camera, along with images of each item (also part of the donation). Also includes a photograph of boys living in the Auerbach orphanage in Berlin, circa 1905; the train tickets and insurance his father and stepmother purchased to escape from Germany to France in 1939; a 1942 ORT certificate for training undertaken by Stephan in the...

  6. Steven Vogel papers

    1. Steven Vogel collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Steven Vogel of Budapest, Hungary including his deportations to the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Mauthausen concentration camps and his immigration to the United States in 1945. Included are pre-war identification documents of Steven, his parents Ödön and Vilma (née Deutsch) Vogel, and other relatives in the Vogel and Deutsch families; birth certificates; report cards; immigration paperwork; tax and selective service forms; family history; an oral history interview transcript; restitution claims; and correspondence. Included with the correspon...

  7. Stock, Adolf

    1. Zeugenschrifttum
    2. St

    Vernehmung Stock durch Wartenberg, 15. September 1947 betreffend Lebenslauf, Tätigkeit bei Einsatzgruppe B.

  8. Straf- und Einlieferungsanzeigen der Gestapo Frankfurt/M.,

    1. Gefängnisse
    2. Listenmaterial Gruppe P.P.

    Straf- und Einlieferungsanzeigen der Gestapo Frankfurt/M., Außendienststelle Wetzlar, betreffend ausländische Zivilarbeiter Dezember 1944 - Februar 1945

  9. Striped black coatdress with belt made by a German Jewish woman

    1. Dorit Isaacsohn family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn520969
    • English
    • a: Height: 41.000 inches (104.14 cm) | Width: 13.250 inches (33.655 cm) b: Height: 38.000 inches (96.52 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Handmade coatdress and belt designed and created by Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn, a Jewish dressmaker in prewar Berlin, Germany. In 1938, Gertrud and her husband Julius, a coat and suit designer with his own garment making business, had lost their livelihood because of the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi regime. They sent their daughter Dorit, age 6, to Brussels, Belgium, in early 1939, to stay with Gertrud’s sister Anna Kaufman. Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940, and Gertrud and Julius had Dorit returned to them in 1941. Gertrud and Julius became forced laborers for the German government, wor...

  10. Striped silk tallit, green velvet bag and white liner used by a Czech Jewish refugee

    1. Frank Meissner family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn37625
    • English
    • a: Height: 33.000 inches (83.82 cm) | Width: 75.750 inches (192.405 cm) b: Height: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Width: 13.250 inches (33.655 cm) c: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm)

    Black striped silk tallit gadol, a prayer shawl worn by Jewish males during morning services, and two storage pouches used by Franz Meissner. Frank, age 16, left Czechoslovakia in October 1939 because of the increasing Nazi persecution of Jews as Czechoslovakia was dismembered by Nazi Germany and its allies. With the encouragement of his family, he left for Denmark with members of Youth Aliyah, a 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 ...

  11. Striped tallit and red velvet pouch used by a prewar German Jewish emigre

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn73190
    • English
    • a: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 66.875 inches (169.863 cm) b: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm)

    Blue striped tallit with a maroon velvet storage bag used by Dr. Leo Nast, a chemical engineer who left Hamburg, Germany, for the United States in July 1934. A tallit is a prayer shawl worn by observant Jewish men during morning services. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Leo had long opposed the politics of Hitler and the Nazi Party and Leo and his wife Bertha decided to leave Germany. Their immigration was sponsored by the Catalin Corporation, a plastics company that employed Leo after his arrival in the US. The Nazi dictatorship enacted anti-Jewish laws and the persecut...

  12. Striped tallit katan worn by a prewar German Jewish emigre to the US

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Striped tallit katan used by Dr. Leo Nast, a chemical engineer who left Hamburg, Germany, for the United States in July 1934. A tallit katan is a religious garment worn by Jewish men with their daily dress. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Leo had long opposed the politics of Hitler and the Nazi Party and Leo and his wife Bertha decided to leave Germany. Their immigration was sponsored by the Catalin Corporation, a plastics company that employed Leo after his arrival in the US. The Nazi dictatorship enacted anti-Jewish laws and the persecution of Jews grew increasingly ha...

  13. Stuermer masks Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of a group of people hiding their faces

    1. Lea Grundig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521161
    • English
    • 1972
    • pictorial area: Height: 9.625 inches (24.448 cm) | Width: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) overall: Height: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) | Width: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm)

    Intaglio print, Stürmermaske, created by Lea Grundig in 1936 in Nazi Germany. It is number 4 from the series, Der Jüde ist schüld. The title refers to Der Stürmer, a pro--Nazi, virulently antisemitic newspaper published by Nazi Party member, Julius Streicher. Its slogan was "Die Juden sind unser unglucic" (The Jews are our misfortune). Lea Grundig and her husband, Hans, were dedicated Communists who created anti-Fascist works documenting and protesting conditions under Nazi rule in Dresden. Such works were prohibited under Hitler and the Nazi regime. Lea, 30, was arrested for her resistanc...

  17. Sugar and coffee ration card stub issued to a Jewish Czech woman

    1. Elizabeth Trausel family collection

    Ration card stub for nutrient and sugar, valid from September 18 – October 15, 1944, issued to Elisabeth (Liese) Trausel by the Ministry of Land and Forestry of Bohemia and Moravia. During the war food was strictly rationed in German controlled regions and Jews were allowed much smaller portions than the general public. To identify the owners as Jewish, the cards were first stamped with a large J and later the entire card was covered with inscriptions of “Jude’. Liese was from Prague, which was invaded in March 1939, by Germany and made part of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The a...

  18. Sugar and coffee substitute ration card stub issued to a Jewish Czech woman.

    1. Elizabeth Trausel family collection

    Ration card stub for coffee substitute valid from February 8 – March 71943, issued to Elisabeth (Liese) Trausel by the Ministry of Land and Forestry. During the war food was strictly rationed in German controlled regions and Jews were allowed much smaller portions than the general public. To identify the owners as Jewish the cards were first stamped with a large J and later the entire card was covered with inscriptions of “Jude’. Liese was from Prague, which was invaded in March 1939, by Germany and made part of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The authorities passed new anti-Jewish...

  19. Summary of Himmler at Nuremberg Trial (SOUND ONLY)

    SOUND ONLY. Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Decisions reached on how the charges will be grouped. Description of Heinrich Himmler and the operations of the Gestapo.

  20. Suomen Punaisen Ristin Sotavankitoimiston arkisto

    • Archive of the Finnish Red Cross POW Office

    The archive contains records from the years 1939-1948. It includes journals, correspondence, death certificates, as well as card indexes and lists of POWs, which are the archive’s main material.