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  1. Leo Haas watercolor of blind Jewish inmates walking outdoors

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Watercolor by Leo Haas of a group of blind inmates with Judenstern walking outdoors. It is based on scenes he witnessed in 1942 while an inmate of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. 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 being a Communist. 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 camp, where he became part of a tight knit group of arti...

  2. Leo Haas sketch of SS labor camp guard Schrader

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Ink sketch of SS officer Schrader drawn by Leo Haas, while a prisoner in Nisko forced labor camp. Leo Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a professional artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a Communist Party member. He was deported to Nisko in Poland, then shipped back to Ostrava to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he became part of a tight knit group of artists determined to secretly document the wretched conditions of daily life in the camp. In summer of 1944, they were accused by the Gestapo of...

  3. Leo Haas sketch of SS labor camp guard Wolters

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Ink sketch of SS officer Wolters drawn by Leo Haas, while a prisoner in Nisko forced labor camp. Leo Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a professional artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a Communist Party member. He was deported to Nisko in Poland, then shipped back to Ostrava to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he became part of a tight knit group of artists determined to secretly document the wretched conditions of daily life in the camp. In summer of 1944, they were accused by the Gestapo of ...

  4. Leo Haas sketch of SS labor camp guard Siemen

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Ink sketch of SS officer Siemen drawn by Leo Haas, while a prisoner in Nisko forced labor camp. Leo Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a professional artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a member of the Communist Party. He was deported to Nisko in Poland, then shipped back to Ostrava to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he became part of a tight knit group of artists determined to secretly document the wretched conditions of daily life in the camp. In summer of 1944, they were accused by the Gesta...

  5. Leo Haas drawing of a blind witness identifying the guilty party at a trial

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Satiric drawing created by Leo Haas in 1978 with an image of an elderly blind man pointing out the guilty at a hearing. On the table near the judge is a paper marked HIAG, an aid association for former Waffen SS members, which promoted a sympathetic, revisionist history of their Nazi past. Leo Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a professional artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a Communist Party member. 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...

  6. Very gutsy, dear Friend Leo Haas postwar cartoon of a wealthy man redirecting a man drawing Nazi graffitti

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Postwar illustration created by Leo Haas of a businessman talking to a man drawing a swastika on a building in Berlin. It was captioned: "Very gutsy, dear friend, I agree with you completely--but why don't you paint on the building of our competitor." The 1978 drawing was published in Eulenspeigel, a satirical magazine in Berlin, East Germany, where Haas was the cartoon editor. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a professional artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a Communist. He was deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, then shipped back to Ostrava to...

  7. Leo Haas cartoon of a skeletal Nazi setting the word Lidice on fire

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Illustration protesting the German destruction of Lidice created by Leo Haas. It depicts a skeletal Hitler in an SS uniform setting fire to the word Lidice on a map of Czechoslovakia. It may have been done after the war for Eulenspeigel, a satirical magazine in Berlin, East Germany, where Haas was the cartoon editor. In June 1942, in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, acting Protector of German annexed Czech territory, Nazi Germany shot the male residents of the town of Lidice, sent the women and children to concentration camps, and burned the village to the ground. Leo...

  8. Leo Haas drawing of concentration camp inmates lined up for roll call

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Ink drawing created by Leo Haas depicting prisoner roll call at Mauthausen concentration camp where he was an inmate in spring 1945. For another version of this drawing see 2003.202.16. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a professional artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a Communist Party member. 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 camp, where he became part of a tight knit group of artists determined to secretly document the condit...

  9. Portrait of a fellow concentration camp inmate by Leo Haas

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Portrait of Norbert Leonard drawn by Leo Haas. Both men were inmates of Mauthausen concentration camp and members of the currency counterfeiting commando run by the SS. Leo Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a professional artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a Communist Party member. 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 camp, where he became part of a tight knit group of artists determined to secretly document the conditions of daily...

  10. Leo Haas drawing of Jewish forced laborers carrying lumber

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Portrait of four adult male forced laborers by Leo Haas, based upon scenes he witnessed as a German prisoner in several camps. This is likely a scene from Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp and each man is portrayed as a recognizable individual. Leo Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a professional artist, was arrested in 1939 in Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia for being a Communist Party member. 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 camp, where he became part of a tight kn...

  11. Navy openwork jacket with belt made by a German Jewish woman

    1. Dorit Isaacsohn family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn520967
    • English
    • 1936-1937
    • a: Height: 22.750 inches (57.785 cm) | Width: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm) b: Height: 39.875 inches (101.283 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)

    Handmade jacket 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, workin...

  12. 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...

  13. Book

    1. Martin Niemoeller collection

    Book, The Casuarina Tree, read by Pastor Martin Niemoeller, and signed by him, while he was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp from 1941-1945. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, Niemoeller was a Lutheran pastor in Berlin-Dahlem. In September 1933, Niemoeller helped found the Pastor's Emergency League to protest Nazi interference in church affairs and attacks on Christians of Jewish origin. In May 1934, he helped found a new protestant church in Germany, the Bekennende Kirche (the Confessing Church) and was barred from preaching by the government. Recognizing that the new govern...

  14. All Our Yesterdays [Book]

    1. Martin Niemoeller collection

    Book, All Our Yesterdays, read by Pastor Martin Niemoeller, and signed by him, while he was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp from 1941-1945. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, Niemoeller was a Lutheran pastor in Berlin-Dahlem. In September 1933, Niemoeller helped found the Pastor's Emergency League to protest Nazi interference in church affairs and attacks on Christians of Jewish origin. In May 1934, he helped found a new protestant church in Germany, the Bekennende Kirche (the Confessing Church) and was barred from preaching by the government. Recognizing that the new govern...

  15. Book

    1. Martin Niemoeller collection

    Book, Lover's Leap, read by Pastor Martin Niemoeller, and signed by him, while he was imprisoned in Dachau concentration camp from 1941-1945. When the Nazi Party came to power in 1933, Niemoeller was a Lutheran pastor in Berlin-Dahlem. In September 1933, Niemoeller helped found the Pastor's Emergency League to protest Nazi interference in church affairs and attacks on Christians of Jewish origin. In May 1934, he helped found a new protestant church in Germany, the Bekennende Kirche (the Confessing Church) and was barred from preaching by the government. Recognizing that the new government w...

  16. Korelle 3x4 camera and a brown leather pouch used by a member of the Czech resistance

    1. Venant Hanzelka collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn47638
    • English
    • 1942-1945
    • a: Height: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 5.625 inches (14.288 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm)

    Korelle 3X4 camera with a pouch for a case used by Venant Hanzelka while he, his wife Stepanka, and four year old daughter Hana lived in hiding from the Gestapo in German occupied Czechoslovakia from 1942-1945. Venant, Stepanka, and his brother, Alfons, joined an underground Czech resistance group after Germany forcibly annexed the Bohemia and Moravia provinces, which included Brno, where they lived, in March 1939. Alfons was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp and killed in 1942. Stepanka and Hana went into hiding in an old mill in the forest near the town of S...

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

    O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period The collection is primarily comprised of original documents: typewritten documents, manuscripts, surveys and duplicated reports entrusted to the Yad Vashem Archives over the years, mostly by private bodies. The internal division of the Record group was changed a few years ago, and the original division has been entered in the "Previous File" field. The diverse material contains official documents, personal documentation, statistical material, reports and surveys, articles and journalistic pieces from Jewi...

  18. Nazis enter Czechoslovakia

    Brief: animap of Hungary-Czechoslovakia region. VAR standard shots of the German military entering Czechoslovakia: soldiers ride bicycles, tanks, and motorcycles on the snowy roads. Military enters the cities of Jihlava and Německý Brod. and completely fill the squares with military vehicles. Soldiers and police (in long coats) stand around, eating, conversing. "PRAHA" sign. Swarms of people wave as vehicles drive down wet streets and then enter gated square. Snow falling and blowing. Crowds swarm to see Hitler, who is driven into the square. Wearing a long coat, he walks in the square amid...

  19. Wacław Głouszek papers

    1. Wacław Głouszek collection

    The Wacław Głouszek papers consist of sheet music from Dora-Mittelbau, lyrics to patriotic and religious Polish songs, two diaries describing Głouszek’s camp, transport, and liberation experiences and including partial lists of fellow prisoners, a 1968 letter describing Głouszek’s efforts to save weak and emaciated Jewish prisoners from selection for the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Głouszek’s identification photograph from Auschwitz, four copy prints of Bergen-Belsen after liberation, and one copy print of General Eisenhower visiting Ohrdruf after liberation.

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 6, 7 and 8 -- Hausner's opening statement

    Sessions 6, 7 and 8. Attorney General Gideon Hausner discusses Adolf Hitler and his use of the Jews as scapegoats: "The Jew was the eternal scapegoat." Hausner notes the anti-Nazi movements in Germany, and German assistance to the Jews: "But after all is said and done, these were a small minority." The Prosecution describes Nazi tactics for the promotion of anti-Semitism such as economic boycotts, the Nuremberg Laws, and the yellow arm badges. Hausner starts Section 2 of his opening speech: "II - The SS, the SD and the Gestapo," which addresses the different groups of the Reich. Upon the co...