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  1. Small suitcase used by a Hungarian Jewish family while living in hiding

    1. George Pick family collection

    Small brown suitcase used by ten year old Gyorgy Pick and his parents Margit and Istvan to carry family photos and food while they were living in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944 - January 1945. Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany and adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 because he was Jewish. He was conscripted into Hungarian labor battalions in 1940, 1943, and 1944. After German setbacks in the war against the Soviet Union in early 1943, Hungary sought a separate peace. In March 1944, Germany invaded Hungary. The next ...

  2. Small tap bolt placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place

    1. Stefan Petri collection

    Small bolt 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...

  3. Small white tinted all bisque doll brought by a German Jewish girl to Theresienstadt

    1. Janet Beasley collection

    Porcelain kewpie style doll brought by 8 year old Jutta Grybski to Theresienstadt ghetto labor-camp, where she was held from October 1944 to May 1945. The doll belonged to Jutta’s mother when she was a girl. Jutta had a Jewish mother, Kaethe, and a Catholic father, Hans, who divorced in late 1938 in Berlin, Germany. Hans enlisted in the German Army. His Aryan status and military service would protect Jutta and Kaethe from deportation, although their lives were restricted by anti-Jewish legislation. Jutta could not attend school or use public parks. Kaethe was forced to work in a commercial ...

  4. Small wooden barrel with a door from the home where a Jewish child lived in hiding

    1. Alfred Munzer collection

    Small wooden barrel given to Alfred Munzer by the Madna family who gave him a safe hiding place in The Hague, Netherlands, from September 1942 - May 1945. The barrel was used as a liquor cabinet by Tole Madna, Alfred’s foster father. The Netherlands was occupied by Nazi Germany in May 1940. Alfred's father Simcha was ordered to report for labor service in May 1942. He managed to get himself committed to a psychiatric hospital to avoid deportation. His wife, Gisele, placed their two daughters, Eva, 6, and Liane, 3, in hiding with a Catholic family, the Jansens. In September 1942, nine month ...

  5. Small yellow suitcase used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Small yellow suitcase used by 6 year old Franziska (Ruth) Danzig when her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parent found a Jewish foster family, the Paste...

  6. Small, hand drawn wooden wagon used by a Sinti family

    1. Gabriel Reinhardt and Theresia Winterstein families collection

    Small wagon used by Rita Prigmore when she was a child in Wurzburg, Germany, and after World War II, to cart bricks from the rubble of bombed buildings to help build a new home for the family. The Winterstein family were Sinti. They had traveled widely in Western and Central Europe until the Nazi regime restricted Sinti migrations in the 1930s. Rita's parents, Theresia Winterstein and Gabriel Reinhardt, met in 1941 when they both worked at the Stadttheater in Wurzburg. Persecution of the Sinti was escalating. They were no longer allowed to work at the theater. Several members of Theresia's ...

  7. Smolen, Kasimierz

    1. Zeugenschrifttum
    2. S

    Zwei Eidesstattliche Erklärungen 15./ 16. Dezember 1947, betr. Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, russische Kriegsgefangene 1941, Unterbringung in gesonderten Blöcken, Registrierung und Klassifizierung, Sonderkommission unter Mildner, Kennzeichnung bestimmter (russ.) Häftlinge, Tötungen, Prüfung 'Lager Auschwitz Totenbuch Krankenbau'.

  8. Soap bar acquired postwar by an Austrian Jewish refugee working for the WJC

    1. Ella Hochstadt Gruber Maier and Erich Maier family collection

    Bar of soap likely acquired by Dr. Erich Maier in 1945 in Germany where he worked for the US War Department and the World Jewish Congress. He was told that it had been made from murdered Jews, although this is not true. After Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in March 1938, Dr. Maier and his family decided to leave due to the anti-Jewish laws and persecution by the German authorities. In November 1938, Erich, his wife Ella, and his stepdaughters, Amelia, 9, and Gerda, 7, left for the US. He and Ella submitted several affidavits of support to help family members escape Europe, but Erich lo...

  9. Soap from Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

    Bar of soap issued to 15-year-old Erwin Dankner in June 1944 in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. The soap was never used. Erwin, his parents, Henry and Catherina, and his brother, Anthony, arrived in Bergen-Belsen by train from Budapest, Hungary, as part of a rescue effort organized by Rezso Kasztner. Later in 1944, the family was transferred to safety in Switzerland.

  10. Solomon Bogard collection

    1. Solomon Bogard collection

    Consists of post-war photographs (including a photograph taken by Lee Miller) of the prison used by the Gestapo in Cologne, Germany. Also includes photographs of American and British officials touring the Buchenwald concentration camp, including one of Claire Booth Luce speaking with survivors. Also includes a photograph of a Nazi campaign poster, as well as post-liberation photographs of the Nordhausen and Landsberg concentration camps. Includes photographs of liberated prisoners at Buchenwald, German civilians touring the camp, and the arrest of Ilse Koch. Please also see 2006.171 and 200...

  11. Song of Solomon. Chazzanut (especially after the traditional ways) for the whole liturgical year. Jewish religious song book returned to a family after being confiscated during the war

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn548014
    • English
    • 1901
    • a: Height: 13.125 inches (33.338 cm) | Width: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) b: Height: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) | Width: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm)

    The Song of Solomon, Chasonus, and sheet music are among five books from the personal collection of Sebald Müller that were confiscated by the Nazi regime and added to Julius Streicher's Library of Judaica in the 1930s. After the war, the books were placed in the collection of the Stadt-Bibliothek Nuremberg [Nuremberg City Library], which returned them to Sebald’s son, Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller) in 2011. The book is inscribed Müller and Jacob Heinfeldt. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Sebald shared with his wife, Laura, their chi...

  12. Songs from the Depths of Hell

    1. Music study collection

    Remember: Songs of the Holocaust. Performed by Sidor Belarsky. Tracklist: A1 Josef Rosensaft; A2 Moyshelech Shloimelech; A3 Es Brent; A4 Erev Yom Kippur; A5 Brig. Gen. Glyn Hughes; A6 Zog Nit Keinmol B1 Dr. Nahum Goldmann; B2 Shtiler, Shtiler; B3 Dos Yiddish Kind; B4 Dr. Gideon Hausner; B5 Nizkor Conductor – Vladimir Heifetz; Narrator – Brigadier-General H. L. Glyn Hughes, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Dr. Gideon Hausner*, Josef Rosensaft

  13. Sonia R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Sonia R., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1929 of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father. She describes her father's anti-Nazi activities; Gestapo harassment; emigration to Italy, then France, in January 1933 because of her father's politics; her mother's art work; expulsion from France nine months later; her father's return to Germany and her mother's refusal, leading to their divorce; moving with her mother to San Remo; her third sibling's birth; receiving government orders in October 1939 to leave because they were foreigners; a German consular official helpin...

  14. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky papers

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    The papers consist of 47 photographs of Selma Schwarzwald (now Sophie Turner-Zaretsky, donor) and her family before and during the Holocaust, a group of school notebooks and books used by the donor in hiding, certificates issued to the donor's mother in her false name, correspondence written by the donor's mother and the donor between 1935 and 1950, correspondence written by the donor's maternal uncle who died in Palestine, an autograph album, and various other documents.

  15. Soup drudgery Print 8 from a set of reproduced sketches by a French artist and concentration camp prisoner

    Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting desperate prisoners struggling to scoop and eat soup that has been spilled on the ground at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: both members of the French resistance and prisoners in Natzweiler. Both men were marked “Nacht and Nebel”, individuals presenting a threat to German security that had been abducted in the middle of the night and were meant to be...

  16. sous-dossier n°1 copie conforme de divers documents saisis dans les bagages du maréchal Pétain et du général Debeney lors de leur arrivée au fort de Montrouge. Ces documents précisent l'activité de M. de Brinon à Sigmaringen et la nature de ses rapports avec le maréchal Pétain de septembre 1944 à avril 1945 Scellé 5 Pétain : 1 manque 2 discours de M. de Brinon à la cérémonie des couleurs le 1° octobre 1944 3 note verbale remise par le Maréchal à M. Von Renthe-Fink le 2 octobre 1944 (protestation contre la cérémonie du 1° octobre) 4 lettre de F. de Brinon au Maréchal

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 3 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 3 : 3w/106-3w/141
    2. Fernand de BRINON délégué général du Gouvernement français dans les territoires occupés 18 décembre 1940 - 20 août 1944
    3. Fernand de Brinon. Dossier VII

    sous-dossier n°1 copie conforme de divers documents saisis dans les bagages du maréchal Pétain et du général Debeney lors de leur arrivée au fort de Montrouge. Ces documents précisent l'activité de M. de Brinon à Sigmaringen et la nature de ses rapports avec le maréchal Pétain de septembre 1944 à avril 1945 Scellé 5 Pétain : 1 manque 2 discours de M. de Brinon à la cérémonie des couleurs le 1° octobre 1944 3 note verbale remise par le Maréchal à M. Von Renthe-Fink le 2 octobre 1944 (protestation contre la cérémonie du 1° octobre) 4 lettre de F. de Brinon au Maréchal, 2 octobre 1944 5 extrai...

  17. Soviet Lviv, Ukraine

    Narration identifies Lvov (Lwow, Poland, Lviv, Ukraine). City views. There are shots of extravagant mansions juxtaposed with shots of run-down shacks, as well as small houses of higher quality. Workers move into new apartments; one pastes a poster of Stalin to his wall. Trams, many driven, as noted by the narrator, by women. One passes a monument to Adam Mickiewicz, the great Polish poet. Candy factory. Moving (panning and tracking) shots through market streets, high angles, extensive coverage. Shots of monuments, church and monks (appears to be a monastery), police officers. 00:45:01 Woman...

  18. Soviet parade; beach; Kharkov Trial verdict; US soldiers in Paris

    Title: UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL. SOVIET PARADES ITS ARMED MIGHT IN RECORD REVIEW. MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. Infantry units march in formation in Moscow’s Red Square. Soviet officers salute from platforms above. Narrator describes this as the “greatest display of might and power ever staged by Soviet Russia.” Artillery, motorcycles and tanks speed by, all meant to show the success of Russia’s mass production. Josef Stalin speaks and looks at the planes of the Russian Air Force flying in formation above. The narrator declares the parade “an assurance to communists and a warning to Russia’s enemies.” Men and...

  19. Sozialistischer Widerstand, II

    1. Nachlässe
    2. Hammer, Walter (Hösterey, Walter)
    3. Widerstand

    Dokumente der Gestapo: Bericht Gestapa Karlsruhe über illegale Fortführung und Bekämpfung der verbotenen und aufgelösten KPD und SPD in Baden vom 30. Mai und 30. Juni 1936; Anordnung (gezeichnet Müller) und Zusammenstellungen Gestapa Berlin II vom 06.-10. Januar 1939: Verfolgte Straftatbestände durch Gestapo Abt.II, Maßnahmen gegen kommunistische Organisationen seit 1935 und Zusammenfassung der "hoch- und landesverräterischen Ziele" der KPD; BSW (Bruderschaft der Kriegsgefangenen), Unvollständige Namensliste der an der BSW-Aktion Beteiligten; Auszug aus "Nowy Mir" Nr. 8 vom August 1957, Org...

  20. Speculum owned by a German emigre and US Army medic

    Speculum used by Dr. Bruno Lambert, who immigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1938, and served in the United States Army Medical Corps during the war. Bruno attended medical school in Germany from 1932-1937, but was not allowed to receive a diploma as a Jew under the Nazi regime. He transferred to a university in Switzerland, and earned a Doctorate of Medicine in July 1938. With the help of Margaret Bergmann, Bruno immigrated to the US in August. Margaret was a Jewish athlete who was banned from competing in the Olympics by the Nazi authorities, and subsequently immigrated to...