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  1. Drawing of woman scrubbing floor given to German Jewish inmate

    1. Hildegard and Moritz Henschel collection

    Color drawing of a woman washing the floor given to Hildegard Henschel while she and her husband Moritz were imprisoned in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp from June 1943-May 1945. Moritz was an influential lawyer in Berlin when Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933. As government 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, created by the Nazi government in February 1939 to organize Jewish affairs. The Association was eve...

  2. Drawn threadwork pillowcase with the embroidered initials KR used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee

    1. Bertl Rosenfeld Esenstad collection

    Whitework pillowcase used by 14 year old Bertl Rosenfelt when she and two younger sisters, Edith, 13, and Ruth, 9, left Nazi Germany in March 1939 on a Kindertransport to Great Britain. It was made by her maternal aunt Friederika Lemberger and embroidered with Bertl's mother's initials, KR, Katherine Rosenfelt. After Hitler assumed power in Germany in 1933, Jews were subjected to increasingly punitive restrictions. Bertl's extended family tried to get visas for the US, but were unsuccessful because of the strict US quotas. Bertl, Edith, and Ruth were sent to Aachen to live with Friederika i...

  3. Dresner family collection

  4. Dried flowers kept within a memorial book saved by a Hungarian Jewish family while in hiding

    1. George Pick family collection

    Dried flowers preserved from the July 1935 funeral of Samu Kornhauser by his widow Malvina. She pressed the flowers in the memorial book, Kegyelet, the widow's prayer book, between pages 10 and 11. The book is record 1999.282.3. The book was preserved during World War II by Malvina, her daughter Margit Pick, her husband Istvan and son Gyorgy. Malvina, ten year old Gyorgy, and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary, an ally of Nazi Germany, had adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s.Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 becau...

  5. Dried flowers kept within a memorial book saved by a Hungarian Jewish family while in hiding

    Dried flowers preserved from the funeral for Samu Kornhauser by his widow Malvina. She pressed the flowers in the memorial book, Emlekezesek Konyvet, [Book of Remembrance] between pages 34 and 35. The book is record 1999.282.4. The book was preserved during World War II by Malvina, her daughter Margit Pick, her husband Istvan and son Gyorgy. Malvina, ten year old Gyorgy, and his parents lived in hiding in Budapest, Hungary, from November 1944-January 1945. Hungary, an ally of Nazi Germany, had adopted similar anti-Jewish laws in the 1930s. Istvan, an engineer, lost his job in May 1939 becau...

  6. Drudgery Print 4 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 a line of prisoners pushing full wheelbarrows uphill while guards and dogs attach them at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. 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...

  7. Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of a Jewish family under attack

    1. Lea Grundig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521150
    • English
    • 1935
    • pictorial area: Height: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) overall: Height: 19.750 inches (50.165 cm) | Width: 25.625 inches (65.088 cm)

    Intaglio print, Pogrom, created in by Lea Grundig in 1935 in Nazi Germany. It is number 5 of 75, in the series Der Jüde ist schüld. It depicts a young boy, standing terrified and protective, in front of a huddled family group. 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 se...

  8. Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of an isolated figure staring at a building

    1. Lea Grundig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521165
    • English
    • 1973
    • pictorial area: Height: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) overall: Height: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm) | Width: 21.125 inches (53.658 cm)

    Intaglio print, Illegal, created by Lea Grundig in 1936 in Nazi Germany. This is from the series, Unterm Hakenkreuz. It depicts a forelorn figure in a barren cityscape. 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 Dresden Gestapo prison. In Dec...

  9. Duquesne spy case; enemy agents in the US; Private Snafu cartoon

    Title on screen: Duquesne Case: Secret. The word "Secret" has been crossed out. Grainy footage, shot clandestinely, shows a New York City street and the interior of an office. Hoover's narration tells of Harry Sawyer [pseudonym for William Sebold], a naturalized German citizen who became a double-agent after he was approached by the Gestapo (in reality the Abwehr) in 1939. The footage shows Duquesne entering Sawyer's office. Spies talk with Sawyer and give him money and the blueprints to the ship SS America. Duquesne, "the most cautious of them all," looks around the room before removing di...

  10. Earthworks Print 5 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 a guard preparing to drop a large rock on a prisoner that has collapsed out of a line of prisoners carrying rocks at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. A few of the prisoners are identified with NN (Nacht und Nebel [night and fog]) on their uniforms. 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...

  11. Eberhard, Fritz u. Elisabeth

    1. Nachlässe

    Durch Vermittlung von Werner Röder übergab Eberhard 1972 seine Papiere aus den Jahren 1924 bis 1945 sowie Unterlagen zur Tätigkeit bei Radio Stuttgart bzw. beim Süddeutschen Rundfunk, im Deutschen Büro für Friedensfragen, im Parlamentarischen Rat und für SPD und Gewerkschaften von 1945 bis 1958 zusammen mit einer umfangreichen Presse- und Druckschriften-Sammlung dem Archiv des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte. Dieser Bestand ist im Institut in 89 Bänden geordnet und in einem Repertorium verzeichnet worden (siehe Band 159).Nach dem Tod Elisabeth Eberhards wurden ein zweiter Nachlassteil und die ...

  14. Eclaireurs Israélites de France badge with Judean lions and tablets

    1. Alain Morley collection

    Bronze insignia badge of the Eclaireurs Israélites de France, the Jewish division of the Boy Scouts in France. Founded in 1923 to attract boys to Judaism, by the 1930s, EIF was very involved with Zionism. After France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, EIF could operate openly only in unoccupied southern France. EIF ran children's homes which were soon crowded by the children of Jews held in internment camps. In March 1942, when the Germans began large scale deportations of Jews, EIF formed a resistance unit, La Sixieme. They developed a rescue network for Jewish children, placing them i...

  15. Eclaireurs Israélites de France shirt and kerchief worn by former hidden Jewish boy

    1. Steven W. Simon collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35933
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 25.380 inches (64.465 cm) | Width: 23.000 inches (58.42 cm) b: Height: 28.000 inches (71.12 cm) | Width: 26.880 inches (68.275 cm) c: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)

    Eclaireurs Israélites de France (Jewish Scouts of France) shirt, neckerchief, and slide fastener worn by Steven Simon when he was a scout in 1945-46. His scoutmaster Simon Barenbaum gave Steven his own neckerchief when Steven needed to recite his scouting pledge of allegiance. Steven and his parents, Arthur and Irma Simon, were Jewish German immigrants living in Paris, France, when it was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940. They fled to the unoccupied southern region where they survived the war by adopting false identities. Scouting was very important for Steven as it eased his reintegration...

  16. The economic campaign of annihilation against German Jewry

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several reports regarding the economic campaign of annihilation against German Jewry published by the Jewish Central Information Office. In 1928 Alfred Wiener was instrumental in creating the Büro Wilhelmstrasse of the CV, which documented Nazi activities and issued anti-Nazi materials until 1933 when Hitler came to power. Wiener and his family fled to Amsterdam where he, together with Dr. David Cohen of Amsterdam University, founded the Jewish Central Information Office (JCIO). After a period of a certain outward relaxation brought by the need for Olimpic quite in summer ...

  17. ED 642 / 1

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Polizeipräsidien, Polizeidirektionen, weitere Polizeibehörden

    Verfahrensakten zu verurteilten Polen Nowiecki, Glegocinski, Niemier der Geheimen Staatspolizei, 1939-1940, darin: Personalbogen, polizeiinterne Korrespondenz, Vernehmungsprotokolle, Eingaben Dritter, Urteile d. Standgerichte, Vermerke [Kopien 1969-1970]. Masch. Auszüge aus der Vernehmung Erhard Wetzel [im Eichmann-Prozess], 1961, betr. Referat für Judenfragen, Ostland, insbesondere zum "Gaskammerbrief" v. 25. Oktober 1941 [Kopien, o.A.], 14 S.

  18. Edgar Dreyfus: Family papers

    The papers in this collection document in part the lives of a French Jewish family and their experiences during the German occupation.

  19. Edith Brandon papers

    The Edith Brandon papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a testimonial narrative documenting Edith Brandon’s deportation to Riga with her mother, Meta Blau; the lives of her boyfriend, Lutek Orenbach, in the Tomaszów-Mazowiecki ghetto and her friend, Ruth Goldbarth, in the Warsaw ghetto; and Edith’s Christian uncle, Hermann Bradtmüller, in Minden and the assistance he provided during the Nazi period. Biographical materials include emigration, deportation, and identification records documenting Edith and her mother’s failed attempt to ...

  20. Edith Cord collection

    Contains material documenting the experiences of the Mayer family while in French concentration camps and in hiding under false names. Contains a letter from the Rivesaltes concentration camp from father to wife and children (8/25/42) just prior to deportation; the last postcard from a father sent prior to deportation to Germany (9/3/42); the last postcard sent from donor's brother Kurt to mother and Edith (8/23/42), Bram, France; two envelopes, one from donor's father sent from Camp de Rivesaltes, and second addressed to donor from Red Cross postmarked January 19, 1945; French residence pe...