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  1. Padlock placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Large padlock placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had esc...

  2. Peter Hartman collection

    The contents of this archive document 3 narratives all of which relate to the same extended family. The first deals with Peter Hartman the main protagonist who came to England shortly before the invasion of his homeland, Czechoslovakia, by the Nazis in March 1938. There is general correspondence documenting his life and activities (1951/2) and family correspondence mainly between him and his parents during the early part of the war, prior to the latter's deportation and murder by the Nazis (1951/1). In addition there are scanned photographs of family members (1951/7) and official documentat...

  3. Sali Berl Bogatyrow papers

    1. Sali Berl Bogatyrow collection

    Consists of telegrams, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, testimony, birth certificate and restitution paperwork related to the Holocaust experiences of Sali Berl Bogatyrow, originally of Brno. Includes correspondence related to finding family, immigration, and obtaining restitution compensation.

  4. Tefillin bag

    1. Annemarie Warschauer family collection

    Beaded tefillin bag saved by Annemarie Warschauer that was used by a family member. Annemarie and her family lived on an estate near Berlin, Germany. The Nazi regime took power in 1933 and anti-Jewish policies to persecute Jews became law. In 1936, Nazi thugs took her father from their home and killed him. In 1938, Annemarie married Egon Israelski. A few weeks later Egon was assigned to a forced labor camp and Annemarie volunteered to go with him. When Egon was injured, she had to work in a factory. After they promised to leave Germany, they were released from labor service. In 1940, with A...

  5. Electrical part placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Electrical part placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had es...

  6. Single head tefillin

    1. Annemarie Warschauer family collection

    Head tefillin saved by Annemarie Warschauer that was used by a family member. Annemarie and her family lived on an estate near Berlin, Germany. The Nazi regime took power in 1933 and anti-Jewish policies to persecute Jews became law. In 1936, Nazi thugs took her father from their home and killed him. In 1938, Annemarie married Egon Israelski. A few weeks later Egon was assigned to a forced labor camp and Annemarie volunteered to go with him. When Egon was injured, she had to work in a factory. After they promised to leave Germany, they were released from labor service. In 1940, with Annemar...

  7. Fan flywheel placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Fan flywheel placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had esca...

  8. US Army Military Intelligence ID badge in case used by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Martin Dannenberg collection

    US Army CIC identification shield used by Martin Dannenberg Jr., a Jewish American soldier awarded a Bronze Star for his wartime service. Martin was a Master Sergeant and Special Agent in Charge, 203rd Counter Intelligence Corps, attached to the III Corps, Third Army. By February 1945, he was in Germany with his unit. One of Martin's duties was to discover evidence for the planned war crimes trials. On April 27, 1945, an informant took Martin and his two man team to a bank vault in Eichstatt, where they discovered an original copy of the Nuremberg Race Laws, signed by Adolf Hitler. This dec...

  9. Kaul, Friedrich Karl

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners geb. 21. Febr. 1906 in Posen, gest. 16. Apr. 1981 in Berlin, Rechtsanwalt und Schriftsteller 1925-1929 Studium der Rechtswissenschaft in Berlin und Heidelberg, 1931 Promotion, 1932 KPD, 1933 Entlassung aus dem Justizdienst aus "rassischen Gründen", danach Versicherungsvertreter und Rechtskonsulent, 1935 Haft in den Konzentrationslagern Lichtenburg und Dachau, Juli 1937 Emigration nach Kolumbien, später Panama, Honduras und Nicaragua, Büroangestellter und Bauarbeiter, 1939 Aberkennung der deutschen Staatsbürgerschaft, 1941/42 in Nicaragua interniert, Ausliefer...

  10. Small cap placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Metal cap placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had escaped...

  11. Annemarie Warschauer papers

    The Annemarie Warschauer papers document the pre-war lives of the Israelski, Munter, and Warschauer families in Berlin, Germany and as refugees in Shanghai, China during the Holocaust. The collection includes biographical material, immigration papers, a small amount of correspondence, restitution papers, and photographs. Materials include passports, birth and marriage certificates, Yahrzeit memorial books, forced labor documents, restitution paperwork, dental profession papers, immigration and naturalization papers, and family photographs. The biographical material includes passports, drive...

  12. Case files of the Geheime Staatspolizei, Polizeistelle in Zichenau (Ciechanów) (Sygn. 148)

    Contains dossiers of cases of Poles, Jews, Germans, Volksdeutsche (ethnic Germans), and other nationals who were either arrested or under surveillance for 1) membership in resistance movements (Organization of Armed Struggle, Home Army, Polish Fighting Resistance, Secret Insurgents' Army, The Peoples' Army and Guard, Polish Workers' Party, Peasants' Battalions, National Military Organization, National Military Forces, and others); 2) for escape from forced labor; 3) unlawful crossing of General Gouvernement or German borders; 4) illegal animal slaughter; and 5) failure to deliver food consi...

  13. Jacob and Bela Gutman photographs

    1. Jacob Gutman collection

    The collection consists of five photographs relating to the experiences of Jacob and Bela b. Milstein Gutman in 1941 in the ghetto in Radom, Poland; two photographs of the Gutmans' wedding on January 29,1946, at the DP camp in Mittenwald, Germany; and a portrait of Bela smuggled by her from Blizyn concentration camp to Jacob who was working at the KZ "Truppen Wirschafts Lager der Waffen SS" in Wałowa, Poland The portrait of Bela was smuggled to Jacob behind a small, round mirror contained in a plastic case, the method that they used to send letters to each other. Jacob sewed the photo into ...

  14. Rosary received by a Jewish child who was converted to Catholicism while in hiding

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    Child's rosary given to 7 year old Selma Scwarzwald in January 1945 in celebration of her communion. She was living in hiding with her mother as a Polish Catholic under the name Zofia Tymejko and completely adopted this identity. She attended church and, after liberation by Soviet troops, celebrated her First Communion. Selma and her mother, Laura, escaped from the ghetto in German occupied Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) after her father was shot by the Gestapo in 1942. They adopted false identities as Catholics and lived briefly in Krakow, then moved to Busko Zdroj. They emigrated to England...

  15. MA 708 / 3

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

    I. Massenexekutionen und Massengräber von Juden und Polen, 1939-1945 im Generalgouvernement: Fragebogen örtlicher Kommissionen zur Erforschung deutscher Verbrechen, 1945-1946, 1-80, unter anderem: 1) "Fragebogen über Massenexekutionen und Massengräber " (polnisch), Oktober-Dezember 1945: Erschießung von Polen, Juden und Sowjetbürgern durch Gestapo und SS im Kreise Cholm, Distrikt Lublin, 1942-1945, 1-13; 2) dasselbe, Oktober 1945: Erschießung von Juden durch Gestapo und Gendarmerie im Kreise Hrubieszow, Distrikt Lublin, 1939-1943, 14-19; 3) dasselbe, November 1945: Erschießung von Juden, Po...

  16. Shellac disc placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Black shellac disc placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had...

  17. Thus It Will Be 1 War Threatens Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of lifeless figures spread over the earth

    1. Lea Grundig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521156
    • English
    • 1936
    • pictorial area: Height: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Width: 13.125 inches (33.338 cm) overall: Height: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm) | Width: 21.125 inches (53.658 cm)

    Intaglio print, So wird es sein I, created by Lea Grundig in 1936 in Nazi Germany. It is number 11 from the series, Krieg Droht. It depicts an apocalyptic landscape scattered with dead and dying human figures. 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 resistance art in 1936, but released. She continued working as an artist and was arrested in 1938 for high treason and sentenced to two ye...

  18. Flight Begins Under the Swastika Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of people trapped and running in circles

    1. Lea Grundig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521159
    • English
    • 1934
    • pictorial area: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) overall: Height: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) | Width: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm)

    Intaglio print, Die flucht Beginnt, created by Lea Grundig in 1934 in Nazi Germany. It is from the series, Unterm Hakenkreuz. It depicts a huge crowd of figures running in panicked, chaotic circles. 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 resistance art in 1936, but released. She continued working as an artist and was arrested in 1938 for high treason and sentenced to two years in the ...

  19. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    1. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    Correspondence between Manfred and Anita Gans.

  20. Brass Hanukiah carried by a German Jewish family who immigrated to Ecuador

    1. Hess, Spier and Steinberg family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn555474
    • English
    • 1937
    • a: Height: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Height: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)

    Hanukiah that belonged to Ruth Spier’s husband Alfred and was carried by his family when they emigrated from Germany in March 1939, to escape persecution. The Hanukiah is lit during the festival of Hanukkah. It has eight candles in line with each other with a ninth candle at a different height that is lit first and then used to light the others. Ruth and her husband Alfred lived in Hannover, Germany, where he taught at a Jewish school. Alfred unexpectedly died of a fever in 1937, leaving behind two young daughters, Elizabeth and Hannah, and Ruth a widow. As part of Kristallnacht, on Novembe...