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  4. Sender Wajsman papers

    Contains a copyprint of a photograph of a wedding gathering in Vilna, Lithuania, in 1936; a brief testimony by Sender Wajsman dated 1991 describing the massacre if Jews in Ponary in September 1941 at the hands of non-Jewish Lithuanians under the direction of the Gestapo; and a photocopy of a photograph depicting the memorial to the dead in Ponary.

  5. Serebrenik family papers

    The collection primarily documents the immigration of Otto and Lili Felberbaum Serebrenik, and their son Stefan, from Vienna, Austria to the United States in January 1939. Included are biographical documents such as birth and marriage certificates, and a family genealogy narrative; immigration paperwork including German passports, affidavit of support from David Felberbaum for Hermann and Marie Felberbaum, and naturalization certificates.The collection also includes wartime correspondence regarding Otto’s mother Regina Serebrenik (née Weiss), who was deported from Vienna to Riga, Latvia in ...

  6. Serge B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Serge B., who was born in France in 1921. He recalls his parents were Russian immigrants; their assimilated, secular life in Paris; not feeling Jewish until German invasion; his father's escape from the July 1942 round-up with help from a police friend; being sent with his siblings to live with their uncle in Cannes; joining the Resistance; becoming head of his group; arrest in 1943; violent interrogations; the Gestapo discovering he was Jewish; transfer to a prison in Nice, then Drancy; digging an escape tunnel with fourteen prisoners; discovery of the tunnel; confin...

  7. Serge Klarsfeld. Collection

    This collection contains: a photomontage of portraits of Jewish children deported from Belgium, used as a cover for the commemorative publication entitled "Mémorial de la déportation de Belgique de 25.124 Juifs et de 351 Tziganes" by Serge Klarsfeld an Maxime Steinberg ; the pages of addendum number 2 of the "Mémorial de la Déportation des Juifs de France" [Memorial of the Deportation of Jews from France] by Serge Klarsfeld, containing portraits of deported Jews, their names and different pieces of information (transport, biography) ; a published collection of various documents used during ...

  8. Service du travail obligatoire

    Les archives de l'administration centrale du S.T.O. reflètent les activités de cette administration, chargée principalement de la mise en œuvre des réquisitions de main d'œuvre et son orientation en rassemblant et en établissant des listes nominatives mais aussi en communiquant aux administrations déconcentrées (services départementaux et régionaux) la réglementation et les instructions nécessaires à ces réquisitions. Les transformations fréquentes de ces services ont nécessairement des répercussions dans la production administrative, et des changements réguliers de timbre. La première coll...

  9. Set of 16 scene stills for the film “Ostatni Etap” (1948)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn692975
    • English
    • .1: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .2: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .3: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .4: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) .5: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .6: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .7: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .8: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .9: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .10: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .11: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .12: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .13: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .14: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .15: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .16: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)

    Set of 16 American scene stills for the film, “Ostatni Etap,” (“The Last Stop” or “The Last Stage”) originally released in Poland in March 1948, and released in the United States in 1949. Scene stills are photographs taken on or off the set of a motion picture and used as marketing and advertising tools. The film centers on prisoners staffing the women’s camp hospital at Auschwitz and their attempted resistance activities. The film was the first theatrical Holocaust feature made in Eastern Europe following the war, and was one of the earliest epic films to center on women. It was filmed in ...

  10. Set of seal skin ski straps used by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518145
    • English
    • a: Height: 84.500 inches (214.63 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 84.500 inches (214.63 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)

    Pair of ski straps that belonged to Fritz Kauffmann, a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. He was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 for being Jewish and living abroad. However, as a longtime resident and successful businessman in Shanghai, he was able to surmount wartime difficulties and assist the more recent Jewish...

  11. Set of seal skin ski straps used by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518146
    • English
    • a: Height: 119.000 inches (302.26 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) b: Height: 119.000 inches (302.26 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm)

    Pair of ski straps that belonged to Fritz Kauffmann, a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. He was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 for being Jewish and living abroad. However, as a longtime resident and successful businessman in Shanghai, he was able to surmount wartime difficulties and assist the more recent Jewish...

  12. Set of tefillin buried for safekeeping and recovered postwar

    1. Gisela E. Zamora collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515327
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)

    Pair of tefillin buried for safekeeping by Marcus and Josef Zamojre while living in hiding in Taglio-di-Po, Italy. The tefillin, which had belonged to Marcus, were recovered by Josef after the war. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers worn by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. In December 1940, Josef and Marcus fled from Frankfurt in Nazi Germany, to Graz on the Austrian-Yugoslav border. After several failed attempts to cross the border, they reached Zagreb in March 1941. In April, Germany invaded Yugoslavia and, in July, Josef and Marcus escaped to Italian occupied Ljublj...

  13. Sewing, laundry, dentist, carpentry, trains at Camp Westerbork

    CU, wooden table covered with buttons. CU of man's and woman's hands covering buttons in leather, putting it through a press. 02:04:05 Pan of a large working hall with people sewing. Laundry room: MS of women in white overcoats putting white sheets through a press and folding sheets. Men pulling out clean laundry from large washing machines and separating them into tall wooden crates. Row of women behind table ironing. 02:06:38 MS, chemical lab. Men and women in white coats mixing chemicals. Shelves with bottles filled with chemicals. CU of man looking through microscope. 02:07:40 MS, sign ...

  14. Shanghai Millionaire board game made by 2 German Jewish refugee children

    1. Manfred Lobel collection

    Handmade board game, Shanghai Millionaire, created by 10 year old Manfred and 14 year old Siegfried Lobel in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai in 1946. It was based on Monopoly and made from a US Army cardboard "K" rations box. The boys fled Berlin, Germany, with their parents, Gustav and Dora, in 1940, due to the persecution of Jews under the Nazi dictatorship. Since Gustav and Dora were born in Romania, exit visas for the United States did not seem to be an option because of the high quotas. In 1940, they received permits to leave Germany for Shanghai, China. American troops entered the city...

  15. Shanghai Paper Hunt Club lapel button owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    Decorative pin that belonged to Fritz Kauffmann, a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. He was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 for being Jewish and living abroad. However, as a longtime resident and successful businessman in Shanghai, he was able to surmount wartime difficulties and assist the more recent Jewish ref...

  16. Shanghai Paper Hunt Club silver trophy cup awarded to a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    Trophy awarded to Fritz Kauffmann in 1939. He was a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. He was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 for being Jewish and living abroad. However, as a longtime resident and successful businessman in Shanghai, he was able to surmount wartime difficulties and assist the more recent Jewish re...

  17. Shanghai Paper Hunt Club silver trophy cup awarded to a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    Trophy awarded to Fritz Kauffmann in 1938. He was a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. He was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 for being Jewish and living abroad. However, as a longtime resident and successful businessman in Shanghai, he was able to surmount wartime difficulties and assist the more recent Jewish re...

  18. Shanghai Polo Club silver trophy cup with wooden base awarded to a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518154
    • English
    • 1941
    • a: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 2.875 inches (7.302 cm) b: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm)

    Tyro Cup awarded to Fritz Kauffmann in 1941. He was a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. He was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 for being Jewish and living abroad. However, as a longtime resident and successful businessman in Shanghai, he was able to surmount wartime difficulties and assist the more recent Jewish ...

  19. Sheet of three uncut, factory-printed Star of David badges printed with a J acquired by a Belgian Catholic rescuer

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    Uncut set of factory-printed Star of David badges acquired by Jeanne Daman, following their issue by German authorities in occupied Belgium on May 27, 1942. Jeanne was a Roman Catholic kindergarten teacher living with her family in Brussels, Belgium, when Germany invaded in May 1940. Jeanne resigned from her position following the introduction of anti-Jewish curriculum. In late November 1941, authorities began banning Jewish children from classrooms, creating a need for Jewish schools. In 1942, Jeanne joined the staff of a Jewish kindergarten, Nos Petits, at Fela Perelman’s request. In summ...

  20. Sheet of three uncut, factory-printed Star of David badges printed with a J acquired by a Belgian Catholic rescuer

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    Uncut set of factory-printed Star of David badges acquired by Jeanne Daman, following their issue by German authorities in occupied Belgium on May 27, 1942. Jeanne was a Roman Catholic kindergarten teacher living with her family in Brussels, Belgium, when Germany invaded in May 1940. Jeanne resigned from her position following the introduction of anti-Jewish curriculum. In late November 1941, authorities began banning Jewish children from classrooms, creating a need for Jewish schools. In 1942, Jeanne joined the staff of a Jewish kindergarten, Nos Petits, at Fela Perelman’s request. In summ...