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  1. Geometric patterned leather wallet made by a Dutch Jewish couple in hiding

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Geometric patterned brown leather wallet made by Flora and Felix Levi while they were in hiding in Amersfoort, Netherlands, from June 1942 to May 1945. Flory Cohen met Felix Levi, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, in the mid-1930s. After Germany invaded Poland, Felix convinced Flora to flee. In November 1939, they sailed for South America aboard the SS Simon Bolivar, which was sunk by German mines. They were rescued by the British military and taken to a hospital in England. After recuperating for six months, they had to leave because Felix, a German, was considered an enemy alien. In May 19...

  2. RSHA

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

    I. Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)/ IV E 5: Sammlung von dienstlichen Anordnungen und Verfügungen, 01. Februar-31. März 1940, Runderlasse und Rundschreiben RSHA/ IV, CdS u.a., (EAP 173-b-16-12/18), 3317-3609: 1) Rundschreiben RSHA/ IV vom 03. Februar 1940: Anwerbung von in Deutschland lebenden Schweizern für Spionagetätigkeit durch Schweizer Nachrichtendienst, 3327-3329; 2) Rundschreiben CdS/ S I V 1 (Dr. Best) vom 03. Februar 1940: Verlegung der Einwandererzentrale Nordost von Posen nach Lodz, 3332; 3) Rundschreiben RSHA/ I vom 05. Februar 1940: Umbenennung der Dienststelle "Kriminalpoliz...

  3. Besetzte Gebiete Ost

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. PERTINENZBESTÄNDE
    4. Besetzte Ostgebiete

    I. Reichsministerium für die besetzten Ostgebiete (RMfdbO)/II 1 c: Grenzziehungen im Gebiet des Reichskommissariat Ostland, 1942-1944, [EAP 99/41a], 1-64: 1) Korrespondenz RMfdbO, Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) von Juni - September 1942: Aufgabe des Planes einer Polizeigrenze zwischen den ehemaligen baltischen Randstaaten und Weißruthenien aus Mangel an Polizeikräften, 1-16; 2) Korrespondenz RMfdbO, Lohse, Litzmann von Februar - April 1944: Abtrennung der Kreise Walk und Werro von Dorpat und Verbindung dieser mit Petschur aus militärischen Gründen, Widerspruch Lohses, 20-64; II. Dienstste...

  4. Journalist "Vertrauliche Informationsberichte" als Bonner Korrespondent, 1949-1969. – Originale, 21 Bände.

    1. Sammlungen
    2. Strobel, Robert (Vertraul. Berichte Bundespolitik Bonn)

    Vertrauliche Informationsberichte Januar-Dezember 1957: Nr. 1, 04. Januar 1957, 3 Bl.: Das geheim gehaltene Gespräch, Die Initiative des Kanzlers in der Deutschland-Frage, Heusingers zukünftige Stellung; Nr. 2, 05. Januar 1957, 2 Bl.: Der Handel mit der Sowjetunion; Nr. 3, 08. Januar 1957, 2 Bl.: Der schlecht informierte Lemmer, Drei CDU-Abgeordnete schwer erkrankt, Eckardt revoziert; Nr. 4, 11. Januar 1957, 3 Bl.: Oeftering soll Präsident des Bundesrechnungshofes werden, Gespräch mit Seebohm, Hellwege: Keine Fusion DP-FVP, Die Versteifung der Fronten, Dresbachs jüngste Rede, Personelles; N...

  5. Needlepoint wall hanging of a biblical scene from the office of a former concentration camp inmate and postwar aid worker

    1. John Fink collection

    Multi-color needlepoint picture with cross-stitched silk details that hung on the wall of John (Hans) Finke's office in the Blankensee Children's Home at the Warburg Institute in Hamburg, Germany, where he worked for the AJDC from July 1947 - March 1949. It features two richly dressed figures styled after Rembrandt's biblical, turbanned figures discussing an appeal from a plainly dressed old man kneeling before them. Hans was a prisoner at Bergen-Belsen when it was liberated by the British Army on April 15, 1945. An electrician by trade, he began working for the British and then for various...

  6. MA 172 / 1

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. PERTINENZBESTÄNDE
    4. Judenverfolgung

    Generalia und Spezialia betreffend Judenangelegenheiten, unter anderem: 1) Anfrage und Anweisung Regierungspräsident Hildesheim vom 22. Dezember 1931 an alle Polizeibehörden und Antworten der Ortspolizeibehörde Göttingen vom 30. März 1933: Schutz der Juden, 2 Seiten; 2) Richtlinien Regierungspräsident Hildesheim vom 31. März 1933 an alle Ortspolizeibehörden: Boykottbewegung gegen ausländische Greuelpropaganda; 3) Ortspolizeibehörde Göttingen an Regierungspräsident Hildesheim vom 01. April 1933: Ermittlung in Judenverfolgungen; 4) Funkspruch Kommandeur der politischen Polizei vom 08. Septemb...

  7. Alice and John Fink papers

    1. Alice and John Fink collection

    The Alice and John Fink papers include biographical materials, photographs, printed materials, and subject files documenting Alice and John, their families in Germany, Alice’s nursing education and work in England, John’s survival in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and the couple’s work at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after the war. Biographical materials include identification, education, employment, displaced persons, and restitution papers documenting John and Alice Fink as well as their ketubah. John Fink materials include his Bar Mitzvah certificate, school report...

  8. Штаб имперского руководителя (рейхсляйтера) Розенберга для оккупированных восточных областей, г.г. Берлин — Киев

    USHMM has copied from this fonds and describes the copies as follows: Opis 1, Einsatzstab Rosenberg Folder 2: Einsatzstab Rosenberg for the occupied eastern territories. Correspondence on transport of books, article translations from the foreign press on Lenin and Stalin, a letter on reworking documents of the German playwright Hans Mühlenstein, lists of permanent employees of Einsatzstab Rosenberg, lists of POWs and interrogation results. 11 III 1942-3 IX 1944. Folder 7: Circulars and correspondence on personnel (locally recruited workers). Inquiries on goods shipped to the headquarters. F...

  9. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note owned by former inmates

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 [hundert] kronen note owned by Hildegard and Moritz Henschel who were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz and Hildegard were Berlin residents when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As 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 which was forced to assist with deportations. In 1940, Moritz became presi...

  10. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note owned by former inmates

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 [zwanzig] kronen note owned by Hildegard and Moritz Henschel who were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz and Hildegard were Berlin residents when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As 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 which was forced to assist with deportations. In 1940, Moritz became presid...

  11. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note owned by former inmates

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 [zwanzig] kronen note owned by Hildegard and Moritz Henschel who were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz and Hildegard were Berlin residents when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As 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 which was forced to assist with deportations. In 1940, Moritz became presid...

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note owned by former inmates

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 [funfzig] kronen note owned by Hildegard and Moritz Henschel who were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz and Hildegard were Berlin residents when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As 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 which was forced to assist with deportations. In 1940, Moritz became presid...

  13. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note owned by former inmates

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 [funfzig] kronen note owned by Hildegard and Moritz Henschel who were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz and Hildegard were Berlin residents when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As 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 which was forced to assist with deportations. In 1940, Moritz became presid...

  14. Brown burlap pouch used to carry money by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Small burlap pouch used by Flora Cohen to store Dutch currency while she was in hiding in Amersfoort, Netherlands, from June 1942 to May 1945. Flora intended to send it to her mother Alijda, but Flora could not find her, so she always kept the pouch with her. Flora's mother Alidja had been deported to Auschwitz in September where she was killed. Flory met Felix Levi, a refugee from Hitler's Germany, in the mid-1930s. After Germany invaded Poland, Felix convinced Flora to flee. In November 1939, they sailed for South America aboard the SS Simon Bolivar, which was sunk by German mines. They w...

  15. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note owned by former inmates

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 [hundert] kronen note owned by Hildegard and Moritz Henschel who were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz and Hildegard were Berlin residents when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As 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 which was forced to assist with deportations. In 1940, Moritz became presi...

  16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note owned by former inmates

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 [zwanzig] kronen note owned by Hildegard and Moritz Henschel who were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz and Hildegard were Berlin residents when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As 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 which was forced to assist with deportations. In 1940, Moritz became presid...

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note owned by former inmates

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 [hundert] kronen note owned by Hildegard and Moritz Henschel who were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz and Hildegard were Berlin residents when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As 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 which was forced to assist with deportations. In 1940, Moritz became presi...

  18. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note owned by former inmates

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 [zehn] kronen note owned by Hildegard and Moritz Henschel who were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz and Hildegard were Berlin residents when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As 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 which was forced to assist with deportations. In 1940, Moritz became president...

  19. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note owned by former inmates

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 [funfzig] kronen note owned by Hildegard and Moritz Henschel who were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz and Hildegard were Berlin residents when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As 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 which was forced to assist with deportations. In 1940, Moritz became presid...

  20. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note owned by former inmates

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 [zehn] kronen note owned by Hildegard and Moritz Henschel who were interned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz and Hildegard were Berlin residents when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As 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 which was forced to assist with deportations. In 1940, Moritz became president...