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  1. SD-Section Szczecin SD-Abschnitt Stettin (Fond 1240)

    Correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, the confiscation of their printed materials, and one item about Jewish influence on churches. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  2. SD-Guide Sections Weimar und Erfurt SD-Leitabschnitte Weimar und Erfurt (Fond 1241)

    Consists of the 1939 reports of the SD sector in Eisenach; printed materials on the activities of the Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben ("Institute for the Investigation and Removal of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life"); a 1942 Himmler directive and other reports and regulations on strengthening SS and police combat forces in occupied Poland and the Eastern Territories, including the recruitment of Ukrainians, Balts, and White Ruthenians under the coordination of SS Brigade Leader Odilo Globočnik. Also included is a ...

  3. Records of German Police Agencies in the Occupied Territories Deutsche Polizeieinrichtungen in den okkupierten Gebieten (Fond 1323)

    Diverse records of the police offices in Germany and includes plans, minutes, interrogations, bulletins, correspondence, personnel files, lists of police offices, reports and directives from the Reichsführer SS Himmler to intermediate levels and to SS Polizeiführer on lower levels. Consists of information about the organization of the Order Police (Orpo) units, Gendarmerie, indigenous formations ("Schutzmannschaften"), and Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) in the Occupied Eastern Territories; the regional reports and action plans for numerous localities; information about the activi...

  4. Miscellaneous records. Materials in special custody Materialien in Spezialverwahrung (Fond 1525)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Diverse records including the archive of the former SS officer Prützmann; records about an SS doctor's work on forced sterilization; name lists of foreign nationals, annotated by the Hungarian police; details about atrocities at KL Sachsenhausen; records about Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, a commander of SS anti-partisan units, including his military tribunal hearing; Gestapo information about the "Mopper" underground organization in Hessen-Frankfurt in 1936; lists of Gestapo documents found in the building of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt in Berlin; materials on German crimes in Belorussia...

  5. Deportation of Dresden Jews to Hellerberg

    Text: "Zusammenlegung der letzten Juden in Dresden in das Lager am Hellerberg am 23./24. November 1942.""[Last Jews in Dresden into the camp at Hellerberg on 23/24 November 1942] Text: "Abholen des Gepäcks” [Pick up the luggage]. Street sign "Sporer-Gasse". House number 2, full garbage cans, windows with curtains 10:00:48 Entrance to the house, men in civilian clothes, Gestapo, furnishings are being loaded onto a truck, Jews with star of David carry the tables, chairs, bookshelves, sewing machines (a woman with an umbrella walks through the picture). 10:01:41 Suitcases with inscriptions loa...

  6. Zipper Conducts Dachau-Lied

    1. Music study collection

    Dr. Zipper conducts the Dachau Song with words by Jura Soyfer at the September 1988 Styrian Autumn Festival in Graz. Playwright Jura Soyfer and composer Herbert Zipper, active in Viennese antifascist cabaret, were arrested by the Gestapo after the German-Austrian Anschluss of 1938. They met again at Dachau, where both toiled as “horses,” hauling cartloads of heavy stone throughout the camp. Soyfer and Zipper wrote Dachau Song [Dachau-Lied] in September 1938 as an ironic response to the motto “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes Freedom) inscribed on the gate at the entrance to the camp. Initiall...

  7. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers

    1. Wachs family collection

    The Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers consist of correspondence, documents, and photographs related to his family’s life in Prussia and Germany (Berlin) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his education and training as a typesetter and graphic designer during the 1930s, his immigration to the United States as a response to Nazi persecution in 1938, and his subsequent efforts to help his brother, parents, and other relatives emigrate. Also documented are the experiences of his brother, Alfred, in emigration and as a detainee in internment camps in England and Australia, 1940-1942; as ...

  8. Roth family papers

    Consists of photographs and documents related to the Roth family, originally of Kraków, Poland. Includes photographs depicting life in the Liebenau and Vittel internment camps (including of poet Yitzhak Katzenelson in Vittel) and biographical materials. The bulk of the collection documents the family's immigration to the United States in 1944, attempts to prove that Chaskiel Roth was born in the United States, repayment for their voyage, and the threat of deportation after the war.

  9. Hand knitted floral wall hanging made prewar by a Dutch Jewish woman

    1. Louis de Groot family collection

    Floral patterned, fringed wall hanging created by Sophia Swaab de Groot in 1938 or 1939 in Arnhem, Netherlands, and recovered by her son Louis after the war. Sophia made the wall hanging to protect the wall behind the living room couch. She worked on it for hours over several nights and used a paper pattern to create it. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940 and implemented anti-Jewish restrictions. In July 1942, the Germans began mass deportations. On November 16, 1942, Chelly, 15, Louis, 13, and their parents Meijer and Sophia left Arnhem and went into hiding. Meijer and Sophia hid...

  10. de Boton family papers

    1. de Boton family collection

    The de Boton family papers document the Holocaust experiences of French Resistance activist Yves de Boton, his daughter Aline, his sister Alice and her husband Jean Robert Bernard (later Robert Bernard de Boton). The collection includes materials related to Yves involvement with several resistance groups, including Les Mouvements Unis de la Résistance (MUR); his arrest and murder by the Gestapo in 1944; his medical career and his military service. Other material includes family photographs, correspondence, passports and other identification papers, and school notebooks and adoption papers o...

  11. Margot Schlesinger papers

    The collection includes documents, correspondence, and photographs related to Margot and Chaskiel Schlesinger, who were married in the Tarnow ghetto and survived together on Schindler's list. Includes correspondence between Margot and various members of her family, 1939-1946; a letter from the State Department sent to Edward Wind, of Chicago, dated 1940, regarding his efforts to assist with immigration of relatives from Europe; and photographs of the family in Europe and arriving in Chicago.

  12. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Red windowpane checked dish towel monogrammed ES received as a wedding gift by Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt in 1933. It was one of a pair, and they received a matching black set as well. These towels were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled Cologne in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were det...

  13. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Red windowpane checked dish towel monogrammed ES received as a wedding gift by Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt in 1933. It was one of a pair, and they received a matching black set as well. These towels were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled Cologne in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were det...

  14. Isidor Gross papers

    1. Edward Isidor Gross collection

    The Isidor Gross papers consist of documents and photographs that concern the family, immigration, and United States Army service of German born Jewish man, Isidor Gross. After being arrested by the Gestapo in 1938, Isidor and his father Markus fled Aachen, Germany for the United States and successfully rescued his mother and two younger siblings from a holding camp. Included in this collection are several documents from Isidor’s childhood in Germany, among them, his birth certificate, school report card, and employment workbook. Also included are papers documenting Isidor’s naturalization ...

  15. Maccabi sports club patch with a blue Star of David and Aachen worn by a Jewish youth

    1. Edward Isidor Gross collection

    White sleeve badge worn by Isidore (later Edward) Gross as a teenager when he played soccer with the Maccabi Sports Club in Aachen, Germany. He lived with his parents, Markus and Ida, and two younger siblings in Aachen, Germany. His parents had been born in Poland, but had lived in Aachen since 1920. Since the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in1933, Jew were increasingly persecuted in Germany. In fall 1938, Markus was deported back to Poland by the German authorities. Following Kristallnacht on November 9-10. Isidore, age 17, and his maternal uncle Jacob were arrested. Isidore was re...

  16. Netherlands, 1 gulden silver voucher, kept by a Dutch Jewish woman in hiding

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Dutch 1 (een) gulden silver voucher kept by Flory Cohen Levi in her pouch, see 1990.23.191, 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...

  18. Selected records of the city Żyrardów Akta miasta Żyrardowa (Sygn. 2)

    This collection contains selected records of the city Żyrardów in Poland, e.g. registers of permanent inhabitants and houses, birth certificates, circular letters and other documents issued by the German authorities (1940-1943); witness testimonies relating to the crimes committed by the Gestapo and gendarmerie; documents relating to the changing of surnames, social welfare in the wartime including a list of victims, and documents of the WWII Committee of the Exhumation of those Murdered by the Nazis.

  19. Fritz Gluckstein papers

    1. Fritz P. Gluckstein collection

    The Fritz Gluckstein papers include identification papers, permits, and immigration papers for Fritz Gluckstein, a certificate documenting his father’s receipt of a World War I veteran’s medal, two photographs of Fritz Gluckstein and his family, and an announcement for the first Passover seder held in Berlin since 1932. Fritz Gluckstein materials include a 1942 report card; 1942‐1944 permits and notices documenting Gluckstein’s employment, release from the Rosenstrasse holding camp, use of the S‐Bahn, and exclusion from military service; and authorization, identification, and travel papers ...

  20. Leather tallit pouch made by an inmate in a Dutch detention center

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Leather tallit bag made by Fritz Silberschmidt in Zeeburgerdijk quarantine center in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in fall 1939. Fritz looked after an elderly orthodox rabbi who was ill and dying. The rabbi entrusted Fritz with his tallit, the prayer shawl that was his only possession and had been in his family for generations. Fritz saved and used the tallit for High Holidays for the rest of his life, and was buried in it upon his death in 1991. Fritz made shoes in the camp and secretly sewed this pouch from leather scraps he saved from work. It was pig leather, but Fritz felt since it was the o...