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  1. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin family papers

    1. Esther Rosenfeld Starobin family collection

    Consists of family photographs of Rosenfeld family members and correspondence such as postcards, post-war photos of an exhibition relating to the Rosenfeld family in Adelsheim, Germany, and restitution-related paperwork and correspondence written by Edith Kaye, the donor's older sister, regarding their father Adolf Rosenfeld, as well as photocopies of files attesting to a court case brought against him.

  2. Rossmann, Erich

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1011
    • German
    • 1936-1953
    • Nachlässe 57 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,5 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners 1920 Direktor des Hauptversorgungsamtes Stuttgart, Abgeordneter, seit 1924 Mitglied des Württembergischen Landtages und des Reichstages (SPD), 1945-1948 Generalsekretär des Länderrates der amerikanischen Zone, 1948/49 Intendant von Radio Stuttgart/Süddeutscher Rundfunk, 1948 Generalsekretär der Europa-Union Erich Rossmann: Ein Leben für Sozialismus und Demokratie, Stuttgart/ Tübingen 1947 Lebensdaten 12.1.1884 geboren in Pößneck/Thüringen 1905 Politischer Redakteur der „Schwäbischen Tagwacht" 1911 Leitender Redakteur der „Donauwacht", Ulm 1914-1918 Kriegsdien...

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum

    1. Marietta Gruenbaum collection

    Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum, a Jewish-Czechoslovakian girl who was held in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Marietta lived in Prague with her parents, Karel and Margarete, and her brother, Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arrest...

  4. Trunk used by a former German Jewish concentration camp inmate and aid worker

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    Wooden trunk used by John and Alice Redlich Fink for travel to the US. Alice was a nurse at the displaced persons camp established in the former Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany after the war. Alice left Nazi Germany in 1938 for England to continue her nurse's training. She volunteered with the Jewish Committee for Relief Abroad and, in September 1946, left for the Bergen-Belsen dp camp to care for children and young women. Her mother, father, brother, and grandmother were all murdered in Auschwitz. She met and married Hans Finke, a fellow German Jewish relief worker, at the camp...

  5. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum

    1. Marietta Gruenbaum collection

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum, a Jewish-Czechoslovakian girl who was held in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Marietta lived in Prague with her parents, Karel and Margarete, and her brother, Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arreste...

  6. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum

    1. Marietta Gruenbaum collection

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum, a Jewish-Czechoslovakian girl who was held in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Marietta lived in Prague with her parents, Karel and Margarete, and her brother, Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arreste...

  7. Belt for a kittel [ceremonial robe] saved by a Czech Jewish refugee

    1. Frank Meissner family collection

    Long, narrow belt for a kittel, a ceremonial robe worn by a Jewish male, used by Norbert Meissner, who was president of the synagogue in Trest, Czechoslovakia, before and during the Holocaust. He and his wife, Lotte, and son, Leo, were deported to Theresienstadt in 1943. A year later, they were sent to Auschwitz death camp where they perished. The belt was preserved by his son, Frank. 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 ...

  8. Signed print of rabbi saved by German Jewish camp inmate

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523073
    • English
    • overall: Height: 21.625 inches (54.928 cm) | Width: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) pictorial area: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)

    Portrait print of Rabbi Guttmann saved by Moritz and Hildegard Henschel from their imprisonment in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp between June 1943 and May 1945. The Rabbi and the artist were prominent citizens of Breslau, which was Moritz's home town. Moritz was an influential lawyer in Berlin when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As government persecution of Jews intensified, Moritz and Hildegard sent their daughters Marianne, 15, to Palestine and Lilly, 13, to England in 1939. Moritz was on the board of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, created by the Nazi gover...

  9. Sammlung Berlin Document Center (BDC): Personenbezogene Unterlagen der Reichskulturkammer (RKK)

    Bestandsbeschreibung personebezogene Unterlagen der Reichskulturkammer Zitierweise BArch R 9361-V/...

  10. Star of David badge printed Jude worn by a German Jewish woman

    1. Emma Jonas family collection

    Star of David badge worn by Emma Jonas, circa 1942, in Berlin, Germany, to identify her as a Jew. The Star was carefully cut out and handstitched so the outline shows on the front as required. The Nazi regime decreed on September 1941 that Jews must wear Judenstern at all times to humiliate them and mark them as outcasts from German society. After Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, Emma, her husband Martin, and daughter Helga, 13, tried but failed to get visas for the family to leave Berlin. They then got Helga passage on a Kindertransport to England on March 2, 1939. Emma and Martin were ...

  11. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Marek Watnicki collection

    Striped concentration uniform cap worn by Mieczyslaw Watnicki in Auschwitz concentration camp from late 1940 until his liberation in Germany in May 1945. The pants have a red badge with the letter P, indicating that Mieczyslaw was a Polish political prisoner. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Mieczyslaw lived in Warsaw under a false identity as a non-Jew. He was arrested in late 1940 for falsifying identity papers, but the Gestapo did not discover that he was Jewish. He was sent to Auschwitz as a Polish political prisoner and assigned prisoner number 137605. In late 1944 or ea...

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum

    1. Marietta Gruenbaum collection

    Scrip, valued at 10 kronen, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum, a Jewish-Czechoslovakian girl who was held in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Marietta lived in Prague with her parents, Karel and Margarete, and her brother, Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arreste...

  13. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum

    1. Marietta Gruenbaum collection

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum, a Jewish-Czechoslovakian girl who was held in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Marietta lived in Prague with her parents, Karel and Margarete, and her brother, Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arrested...

  14. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum

    1. Marietta Gruenbaum collection

    Scrip, valued at 5 kronen, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum, a Jewish-Czechoslovakian girl who was held in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Marietta lived in Prague with her parents, Karel and Margarete, and her brother, Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arrested...

  15. Moonrise in an oasis Watercolor of an oasis with animals made for a German Jewish camp inmate

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn517369
    • English
    • overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm)

    Humorous drawing of animals in an oasis inscribed to Hildegard Henschel and given to her husband Moritz in April 1944, when they were prisoners in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. Moritz was an influential lawyer in Berlin when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As government persecution of Jews intensified, Moritz and Hildegard sent their daughters Marianne, 15, to Palestine and Lilly, 13, to England in 1939. Moritz was on the board of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany, created by the Nazi government in February 1939 to organize Jewish affairs. The Association was eve...

  16. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin

    1. Marek Watnicki collection

    10 mark Litzmannstadt coin owned by Mieczyslaw Watnicki, although when or how he acquired it is unknown. This type of coin was issued in Łódź Ghetto in German occupied Poland in 1943. Currency was not allowed in the ghetto, and scrip was issued for use only there. After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Mieczyslaw lived in Warsaw under a false identity as a non-Jew. He was arrested in late 1940 for falsifying identity papers, but the Gestapo did not discover that he was Jewish. He was sent to Auschwitz as a Polish political prisoner and assigned prisoner number 137605. In late 1944 ...

  17. Evening of Dance Text only red poster for a dance and concert performance by members of the St. Ottilien displaced persons orchestra

    1. Sonia Beker collection

    Broadside preserved by Fania Durmashkin announcing a dance and concert performance featuring Wenery (Venus) Henny Durmashkin and members of the St. Ottilien ex-concentration camp orchestra in the American occupation zone in Germany. It is to take place at the City Theatre on Sunday, November 16, 1947, at 7:00. The St. Ottilien displaced persons orchestra, also known as the orchestra of survivors, formed at the DP camp in 1945, and performed Yiddish and Hebrew music and classical works in wartorn cities in the US and British occupied zones throguh 1948/9. Fania, a pianist, and her sister Hen...

  18. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee in the British army

    1. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, distributed in Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp, acquired by Manfred Gans, a German Jewish refugee who served as a Marine Commando for the British Army from May 1944 to May 1945. The scrip was issued in the camp his parents had been deported to in 1943 and he placed this note into his Soldier’s Book. In 1938, to escape Nazi-controlled Germany, Manfred immigrated to England. After Great Britain declared war against Germany on September 3, 1939, he was classified as an enemy alien, arrested, and sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man. Manfred later...

  19. Text only poster for a performance by St. Ottilien DP orchestra

    1. Sonia Beker collection

    Broadside preserved by Fania Durmashkin advertising a performance by the Venus (Wenery) Durmaszkin (Henny) and a student ballet and folk dance ensemble in the American zone of occupation in postwar Germany. It was to be held on June 16, 1949, at 7:30 pm in the Mining House. Members of the St. Ottilien displaced persons orchestra, also known as the ex-concentration camp orchestra, or orchestra of survivors, were also on the program. From 1945-1948, this group performed Yiddish and Hebrew music and classical works in wartorn cities in the US and British zones. Henia, a folk and opera singer, ...

  20. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum

    1. Marietta Gruenbaum collection

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, acquired by Marietta Gruenbaum, a Jewish-Czechoslovakian girl who was held in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp. Currency was confiscated from inmates and replaced with scrip, which could only be used in the camp. The scrip was part of an elaborate illusion to make the camp seem normal and appear as though workers were being paid for their labor, but the money had no real monetary value. Before Czechoslovakia was occupied by Germany in 1939, Marietta lived in Prague with her parents, Karel and Margarete, and her brother, Michael. In October 1941, Karel was arrested ...