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  1. Records relating to the participation of Ignaz Riess in the case of Rudolf Bennewitz and Josef Schwammberger

    1. Ignac Reiss collection

    Contains information about testimony provided to West German authorities by Ignaz (or Ignatz) Riess concerning life in the Przemysl ghetto and alleged crimes committed there by Josef Schwammberger and Rudulf Bennewitz. (See NOTES field below for comments on questions concerning the correct spelling of Reiss's given name.).

  2. Tefillin pair and embroidered pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee

    1. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn2965
    • English
    • a: Height: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) b: Height: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) c: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)

    Set of tefillin and embroided storage pouch brought with Richard Pfifferling when he left Dresden, Germany, for New York in September 1939. Richard received the tefillin, pouch, and other religious items as a gift for his bar mitzvah circa 1927. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power and enacted laws that persecuted Jews. Richard and his brothers, Otto and Ernst, fled Germany but their parents, Alexander and Auguste, were unable to leave. Richard later served in the US Army during the war. Richard’s parents were deported to Riga, Latvia, in December 1941, and killed in Auschwitz in August 1...

  3. White wool tallit with black stripes brought with a German Jewish refugee

    1. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection

    White wool tallit with black stripes brought with Richard Pfifferling when he left from Dresden, Germany, for New York in September 1939. Richard received the tallit, or prayer shawl, and other religious items as a gift for his bar mitzvah circa 1927. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power and enacted laws that persecuted Jews. Richard and his brothers, Otto and Ernst, fled Germany but their parents, Alexander and Auguste, were unable to leave. Richard later served in the US Army during the war. Richard’s parents were deported to Riga, Latvia, in December 1941, and killed in Auschwitz in Au...

  4. White silk tallit with black stripes brought with a German Jewish refugee

    1. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection

    White silk tallit with black stripes brought with Richard Pfifferling when he left Dresden, Germany, for New York in September 1939. Richard received the tallit, or prayer shawl, and other religious items as a gift for his bar mitzvah circa 1927. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power and enacted laws that persecuted Jews. Richard and his brothers, Otto and Ernst, fled Germany but their parents, Alexander and Auguste, were unable to leave. Richard later served in the US Army during the war. Richard’s parents were deported to Riga, Latvia, in December 1941, and killed in Auschwitz in August ...

  5. Embroidered priest's stole owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection

    Catholic priest's vestment with French style spade ends owned by Richard Pfifferling. Richard was Jewish and how and when he acquired the stole is not known. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power and enacted laws that persecuted Jews. Richard and his brothers, Otto and Ernst, fled Dresden, Germany; his brothers to England and Argentina and Richard, in September 1939, to the United States. Their parents, Alexander and Auguste, were unable to leave. Richard later served in the US Army during the war. Richard’s parents were deported to Riga, Latvia, in December 1941, and killed in Auschwitz i...

  6. Monogrammed tallit pouch brought with a German Jewish refugee

    1. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection

    Monogrammed tallit pouch brought with Richard Pfifferling when he left Dresden, Germany, for New York in September 1939. Richard received the pouch and other religious items as a gift for his bar mitzvah circa 1927. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power and enacted laws that persecuted Jews. Richard and his brothers, Otto and Ernst, fled Germany but their parents, Alexander and Auguste, were unable to leave. Richard later served in the US Army during the war. Richard’s parents were deported to Riga, Latvia, in December 1941, and killed in Auschwitz in August 1942. In 1944, he married Ruth ...

  7. Prayer book

    1. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection

    Tikkun prayer book brought with Ruth Liebermensch, who, with her sister Hanna, fled Mannheim, Germany, for Great Britain on a Kindertransport in summer 1939, and then went to New York in May 1940. Ruth and Hanna’s father Samuel was killed in Auschwitz in September 1942. A Tikkun is a copy of the Pentateuch, the Five Books of Moses, used to practice Torah readings. This book includes the readings from the Prophets for the entire year plus the five Scrolls.

  8. Bible

    1. Richard Pfifferling and Ruth Pfifferling Knox family collection

    Torah brought with Ruth Liebermensch, who, with her sister Hanna, fled Mannheim, Germany, for Great Britain on a Kindertransport in summer 1939, and then went to New York in May 1940. The book is stamped Israelitische Gemeinde Mannheim [Jewish Community Mannheim.] Ruth and Hanna’s father Samuel was killed in Auschwitz in September 1942.

  9. Karl Theumann photographs

    1. David Theuman collection

    Contains two photograps depicting Karl Theumann: a passport photo bearing a stamp from the Munich office of the Gestapo on the verso, with birthdate of Paul Theumann (6 July 1904); and an image of Theumann seated with a woman outside of a building.

  10. Kazimierz Smoleń letters

    1. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum collection

    Consists of censored letters written by Kazimierz Smoleń to his mother, Helene Smolen, from the Auschwitz concentration camp. Smoleń was one of the earliest Polish political prisoners to arrive at Auschwitz, where he was given prisoner number 1327; he was later a co-founder and director of the Auschwitz State Museum.

  11. Sali Berl Bogatyrow papers

    1. Sali Berl Bogatyrow collection

    Consists of telegrams, correspondence, notebooks, photographs, testimony, birth certificate and restitution paperwork related to the Holocaust experiences of Sali Berl Bogatyrow, originally of Brno. Includes correspondence related to finding family, immigration, and obtaining restitution compensation.

  12. Silver plated ashtray with an engraving of Skansen Kronan acquired by a former concentration camp inmate

    1. Sali Berl Bogatyrow collection

    Ashtray acquired by 21 year old Sali Berl circa 1946 in Goteborg, Sweden, while she was recovering from severe malnutrition and typhus resulting from over 3 years as a concentration camp prisoner. When Sali was liberated from Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, she weighed 54 pounds. The Red Cross hospitalized her and then sent her to Sweden to recuperate. On March 15, 1939, Sali’s hometown, Brno, was annexed by Nazi Germany. In September 1941, Sali’s father Herman, a leader in the community, was executed by the Gestapo. In December, Sali’s older brother Leon was deported to Auschwitz, where h...

  13. Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    1. Matthaeus Pibal collection

    Concentration camp uniform jacket with a purple triangle worn by Matthaeus Pibal, a Jehovah’s Witness who was imprisoned in Dachau and Sudelfeld SS Berghaus concentration camps from 1940 to 1945. The purple inverted triangle badge identified him as a Jehovah’s Witness; the white patch above it has his prisoner number 14307. The Nazi regime actively persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses. Their beliefs did not permit them to put any authority, such as the state, before God, or serve in the military, and the Nazis saw this as subversive. Matthaeus lived in Austria which was annexed by Nazi Germany in...

  14. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate

    1. Matthaeus Pibal collection

    Concentration camp uniform pants worn by Matthaeus Pibal, a Jehovah’s Witness who was imprisoned in Dachau and Sudelfeld SS-Berghaus concentration camps from 1940 to 1945. Their beliefs did not permit them to put any authority, such as the state, before God, or serve in the military, and the Nazis saw this as subversive. Matthaeus lived in Austria which was annexed by Nazi Germany in March 1938. On April 8, 1940, Matthaeus was arrested by the Gestapo for speaking in public about the Bible. On August 10, he was sent to Dachau concentration camp in Germany and assigned prisoner number 14307. ...

  15. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor

    1. Foterek Sperling collection

    Bar of soap issued to Czeslaw Foterek while imprisoned in Stutthof labor-concentration camp, later given to Helen Sperling (Hinda Kacenelenbogen) by a friend. The soap was used in the concentration camp and the inmates believed that it was made from human fat, although this was not true. Czeslaw Foterek was a Roman Catholic living in Gdynia, Poland. After the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, he was arrested by the Gestapo on September 19, and taken to Stutthof on November 9. There he worked as a slave laborer for the German Equipment Works until his release on March 28, 1945. Hi...

  16. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor

    1. Foterek Sperling collection

    Bar of soap issued to Czeslaw Foterek while imprisoned in Stutthof labor-concentration camp, later given to Helen Sperling (Hinda Kacenelenbogen) by a friend. The soap was used in the concentration camp and the inmates believed that it was made from human fat, although this was not true. Czeslaw Foterek was a Roman Catholic living in Gdynia, Poland. After the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, he was arrested by the Gestapo on September 19, and taken to Stutthof on November 9. There he worked as a slave laborer for the German Equipment Works until his release on March 28, 1945. Hi...

  17. Schläfrig family papers

    1. Schläfrig family collection

    The Schläfrig family papers chiefly contain identification papers, correspondence, and photographs of Friedrich and Fanny Schläfrig of Vienna, Austria, who were at Theresienstadt from 1942-1945, and their daughter Marie Schläfrig who immigrated to England in 1938. The collection includes identification papers of Marie; a letter to Marie from David Broder following an interview he conducted with Friedrich in 1946; and photographs of Friedrich and his wife Fanny, Marie, and her brother Wilhelm. Letter from David Boder at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago to Mary Frotten in Winds...

  18. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note, acquired by Czech refugee

    1. Raul Hilberg collection

    50 (funfzig) mark Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp note given to Raul Hilberg by Frank Petschek, who, with his wife, as well as the extended Petschek family, had to flee Czechoslovakia after its annexation by Nazi Germany in fall 1938. After the war, the confiscation of the Petschek family's vast business and land holdings by the Nazi regime were used for a major case in the War Criminals trials at Nuremberg. Hilberg and his parents fled Vienna, Austria, after its annexation by Germany in March 1938. It was Petschek's generosity that made possible the publication of Hilberg's landmark work,...

  19. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection

    1. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection and Edwin Geist collection

    The collection consists of immigration and personal identification documents, photographs, writings, correspondence and related materials that document the experiences of Paul and Gerta (nee Chason) Bagriansky, their daughter, Rosian Bagriansky Zerner, and their extended family. Included is information about their pre-war life in Lithuania, their life under Soviet and German occupation, including internment in the Kaunas ghetto and their escape from it, the hiding of Rosian with various Lithuanian acquaintances for the duration of the war, Paul Bagriansky’s experiences as a partisan during ...

  20. Silver plaque with an engraved inscription presented to a Jewish woman for charitable work

    1. Bagriansky-Zerner family collection and Edwin Geist collection

    Silver wall plate preserved by Rosian Zerner. It is inscribed to her maternal grandmother Anna Blumenthal Chason by the Ostjudischen Vereins [Eastern Jewish Association] of Free State Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in January 1930. Anna, her husband Julius, and three of their four children immigrated to Palestine on October 24, 1935. This was the day after the birth of Anna's first granddaughter Rosian, to her daughter Gerta Bagriansky in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. After Germany's defeat in World War I (1914-1918), Danzig, previously part of West Prussia, was designated a Free City. It was the...