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  1. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Plate 12 in a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fel...

  2. Portfolio

    1. Leo Haas collection

    Descriptive booklet for a folio of 12 prints by Leo Haas published in Prague in 1947. The works are based on scenes experienced or witnessed by Haas, a labor and concentration camp prisoner for nearly six years. Each print has an introductory paragraph by Milos Vacik, a poet jailed for anti-Nazi resistance activity. Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and professional artist, was arrested in 1939, deported to Nisko labor camp in Poland, and then shipped back to Ostrava in German occupied Czechoslovakia to do forced labor. In September 1942, he was sent to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a ...

  4. Liebermensch family papers

    1. Liebermensch family collection

    Contains photographs, documents, and letters regarding the family of Samuel and Gisela (Schiff) Liebermensch of Mannheim, Germany. Includes photographs of a synagogue in Mannheim before and after Kristallnacht; a photograph of Samuel Liebermensch in the Gurs concentration camp in France; an address book given to Gisela Liebermensch containing messages from people who sought help in the U.S. for their emigration; and other documents related to immigration efforts.

  5. Liebermensch family papers

    1. Liebermensch family collection

    The papers relate to the emigration attempts of the Liebermensch family of Mannheim, Germany. The majority of the letters are those exchanged between Gisela Liebermensch and her daughters, Ruth and Hannah, who emigrated to England shortly after Kristallnacht. A small portion of the collection consists of undated letters and letter fragments concerning similar subjects.

  6. Holocaust survivor A mother writes to her children

    1. Rose De Liema collection

    Contains information about the peaceful life of Rose De Liema in the Netherlands before the Holocaust, the German invasion of the Netherlands, the deaths of most of her family members, her life in hiding, and her eventual capture and deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Also included is information about De Liema's friendship with members of the Anne Frank family in Auschwitz.

  7. Ernest Kaufman papers

    1. Ernest Kaufman collection

    Photostats of "Kennkarte" for Ernst Kaufmann, and photocopy of his certificate of release from Gestapo prison in Aachen, November 1938. Also, photocopy of typescript translation of an article by Nobel laureate Heinrich Boell, titled "The Jews of Drove."

  8. The destruction of the Salonica Jewry A personal view

    1. Rosa M. Miller collection

    Contains information about the German occupation of Salonica (Thessalonikē), Greece; the establishment of a Jewish quarter in Salonica; and the deportation of nearly 70,000 Greek Jews from Salonica.

  9. Maud Dahme letter

    1. Maud Dahme collection

    The collection consists of a letter written by "Margje and Rika Spronk," the false identities of Maud Dahme (née Peper) and her sister Rita Peper used while in hiding in the Netherlands, to their parents who were also in hiding in a different unknown location. Maud Dahme was able to dictate the letter to someone and then traced over it in pen. She wrote about her wishes to be free and mentioned her reading lessons with her Jewish kindergarten teacher, also in hiding.

  10. Maud Dahme photograph

    1. Maud Dahme collection

    The Maud Dahme collection consists of a photograph of Maud Pepe and her sister, Rita Peper, standing together holding hands. The photograph was taken while the girls were in hiding in the Netherlands.

  11. Photographic postcard

    1. Maud Dahme collection

    Photograph printed on postcard stock; rectangular form; black-and-white image of school room with boys, girls and teachers; inscription on back in graphite that reads "Spring 1942- Jewish Kindergarten created after we were banned from Public School;" stamp from photographer, "Foto 'Weers,' L. Bergstr. 15, Amersfoort." Photographic image is of a Jewish kindergarten created in Amersfoort, Netherlands, after the German occupation government banned Jewish children from public school. Of the children and teachers depicted in the photograph, only Maud Dahme, her sister, Rita Peper, her mother, Li...

  12. Beyersdorf family papers

    1. Joel Beer collection

    The papers consist of two identification cards issued to Ruth Beyersdorf; a membership card issued to Joe Beyersdorf [donor]; an identification card, four certificates, and a document relating to the vaccinations of Joe and Daniel Beyersdorf [donor's brother]; four documents relating to "College Moderne de Garcons;" 11 documents relating to Joe and Daniel Beyersdorf and their father; four documents relating to medical visits after World War II; two photographs and a photocopy of a document for Edgar Beyersdorf [donor's father]; two documents on letterhead; two documents and a photocopy rela...

  13. Joel Beer photograph collection

    1. Joel Beer collection

    The collection consists of 32 photographs relating to Joe Beyersdorf (Joel Beer) and his experiences in hiding with his brother, Daniel, his parents, and his grandmother in France during World War II, including his activities with a Yeshurun youth group in Lyon, France.

  14. Jacob and Bela Gutman photographs

    1. Jacob Gutman collection

    The collection consists of five photographs relating to the experiences of Jacob and Bela b. Milstein Gutman in 1941 in the ghetto in Radom, Poland; two photographs of the Gutmans' wedding on January 29,1946, at the DP camp in Mittenwald, Germany; and a portrait of Bela smuggled by her from Blizyn concentration camp to Jacob who was working at the KZ "Truppen Wirschafts Lager der Waffen SS" in Wałowa, Poland The portrait of Bela was smuggled to Jacob behind a small, round mirror contained in a plastic case, the method that they used to send letters to each other. Jacob sewed the photo into ...

  15. Jacob Gutman photographs

    1. Jacob Gutman collection

    The collection consists of five photographs of images of Dachau concentration camp following liberation in May 1945 and three photographs of a memorial at Mittenwald DP camp in Germany in 1947.

  16. Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl papers

    1. Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl collection

    Contains correspondence, camp vouchers, identification cards, certificates, court documents, and diary fragments relating to the imprisonment of Josef Kohout at Flossenbürg concentration camp (persecuted as a homosexual); attempts by his parents, Josef and Amilia Kohout, to visit him in the camp; his participation in a death march and liberation by American troops; and the reversal of criminal charges against him after World War II.

  17. White badge with an inverted red triangle and number 1896 worn by a gay concentration camp inmate

    1. Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl collection

    White patch with an inverted red triangle and black inked prisoner number 1896 worn by Josef Kohout while incarcerated from May 1940-April 1945 in Flossenbürg concentration camp for violating statute 175, which punished indecent acts between men. After being liberated during a death march, Josef replaced his filthy, tattered uniform with civilian clothing. Before destroying the uniform, he removed this badge to keep as a memento of his ordeal. Josef was from Vienna, Austria. After it was annexed by Germany in March 1938, German laws were aggressively enforced. The Nazi regime viewed homosex...

  18. "A Hungarian Jew Looks Back: A Personal Account of the Pre-World War II Times and the War Years"

    1. Robert Winkler collection

    Contains a memoir written circa 1992, with information about Robert Winkler's childhood; family experiences and national events in Hungary during the war years; the German occupation of 1944; Winkler's forced labor in Hungary; escape and capture; forced service with a Gestapo unit; re-escape and "passing" with false identification as a Hungarian gentile; service as a "gentile" in the Hungarian army; liberation by the Red Army. Also included is a postscript with information about the subsequent fate of some of the people mentioned in the memoir.

  19. Henny Bernstein Brener papers

    1. Henny Brener collection

    Contains documents related to William Bernstein [donor's father], who was arrested and interned in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp after Kristallnacht, and released with help from a family friend. The collection includes a letter from a Mr. Moser to the Gestapo asking for Mr. Bernstein's release; letters to and from family members in America and Europe and with organizations such as the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) regarding immigration efforts of family members including Moritz and Laura Stemmer and Bernhard Henisch; documents relating to aid for displaced person...

  20. Marga Lakritz photographs

    1. Marga Lakritz collection

    Contains two photographs. One from pre-1933 Berlin, Germany, showing an outdoor scene with six adults and one infant, seated on blankets, in grassy, wooded area having a picnic; written on the verso: "Grunewald/picknic [sic]/Berlin/Germany/shortly/before Holocaust/to the right/my mother,/sister myself/(dark hair)." The second image taken 1945-1946, La Bourboule displaced persons camp, in France, image showing two women, dresssed in winter coats, walking toward camera, buildings visible in background; written on verso: "After liberation [underlined]/D.P. Camp 'La Bourboule'/France/My sister/...