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  1. Baer family papers

    Consists of papers related to the Holocaust experiences of the Blum family, originally of Roxheim, Germany. Ernest Blum, his wife, Rosy, and daughter Helga, immigrated first to Italy, then to Cuba, and finally arrived in the United States in 1940. The collection contains immigration documentation, Ernest and Rosy's ketubah and family photographs, reparation documents, wartime letters from Germany, and post-war letters from France.

  2. Post-war Milan photograph

    Consists of one photograph taken in the synagogue in via Unione in Milan, Italy, in 1945. At the time the photograph was taken, the building was being used to house refugees.

  3. Dr. Bronek Drozdowicz collection

    Collection consists of a manuscript handwritten in Yiddish by Chana Gorodecka [donor's maternal grandmother], describing the experiences of her family during the Holocaust; dated 1945; typed manuscript of the above; translation of the above manuscript into Portuguese; newspaper, "Yiddishe Shriftn", published in Poland in Yiddish in 1962 with a review fo the book by Chana Gorodecka and an article about clandestine medical schools in the Warsaw ghetto.

  4. Oral history interview with Margit Subak Elsohn

  5. Michael Salwen photographs

    Consists of more than 70 post-war photographs from the collection of Michael Salwen (Moniek Szmulewicz), originally of Sulejów, Poland. The photographs depict Michael and fellow survivors in Buchenwald and in a displaced persons camp in Switzerland, where he and other young survivors ("Buchenwald boys") were sent to recover after liberation. Also includes Michael's post-war identity card identifying him as a civilian internee of Buchenwald, and a newspaper article from the June 6, 1947 issue of the Göteborgs-Posten including a photograph of Michael Salwen.

  6. Sol Brivik photograph collection

    Collections consists of 16 photographs depicting members of the Brivik family from Kaunas, Lithuania; all of whom were taken from the Kovno ghetto and executed.

  7. Stamp wallet and 119 postage stamps, issued by Nazi Germany

    Set 1: 1 stamp wallet and 23 postage stamps. a. Wallet is brown cardstock. All printing is black ink, except where noted. Manufactured by: ELBE FILE & BINDER CO., Inc., of Fall River, Massachusetts. Front states: STAMP WALLET; at top, Perforation Gauge. At bottom: Property of / Al Perrin, written in script with blue pen. Back has advertisement for manufacturer. Inside is perforation gauge on left, with shallow pockets on right. Dimensions: 5.44 x 3.44 inches b. Stamps with the right side profile of Adolf Hitler’s head. Stamps are uncanceled. All stamps have: DEUTSCHES REICH printed at t...

  8. Prayer book

    Collection consists of a prayer book imprinted on front cover "vom Bethaus im IX. Bez. Wien" and "zur Erinnerung an die Confirmation" and inscribed inside "an die Confirmation der Alice Goldschmied 3 June 1900"; published 1895, Prague; in German and Hebrew. The book was found by the donor while he was working for the Viennese Jewish Community circa 1941/1942. The prayer book was found in a subterranean storage room and kept with donor through deportation to Theresienstadt concentration camp and liberation. It was found among other religious books such as a Pentateuch most likely rescued fro...

  9. William Lush collection

    Collection consists of a German passport (Reisepass) issued to Paul Steinharter on January 13, 1937 includes visas from Belgium and England and an immigration visa from the United States. The passport issued to Lea Steinharter includes visas issued for Spain and Portugal and an immigration visa from the United States. Documents inserted into her passport include a Declaration of Intention for U.S. citizenship, receipt issued on board the SS Exeter on August 13, 1941, and a note and letter to Paul from Clara Lussheimer in Chicago dated June 4, 1951; in German.

  10. Renee Fainas Wehrmann collection

    Collection consists of one Sauf Conduit pass issued for donor's grandmother Yetta Fainas in May 1943 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. Donor was living in this area with her parents and grandmother diring World War II. All members of her family survived.

  11. Catalog

    Collection consists of a booklet, Zidovi, the catalog from an antisemitic exhibition in Zagreb, Croatia. The cover has image of a man with sword and shield battling a snake. Dates for exhibit,"1.V.1942-1.VI.1942." Black and white illustrations and text.

  12. Portrait of a US soldier by George Byfield, a former camp inmate, after liberation

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518627
    • English
    • overall: Height: 22.125 inches (56.198 cm) | Width: 17.125 inches (43.498 cm) pictorial area: Height: 18.500 inches (46.99 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm)

    Framed watercolor portrait made for Captain William Adams Bridgforth, United States 7th Army, by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield), in Dachau concentration camp after liberation in exchange for a pack of cigarettes. Byfield had been an prisoner at the camp, which was liberated by the United States 7th Army on April 19, 1945. Byfield had been deported from Budapest to a concentration camp following the German occupation of Hungary in March 1944.

  13. Archiv der Israelitischen Kultusgemeinde Wien - Jerusalemer Bestand Archive of the Jewish Community Vienna-Jerusalem component collection

    Contains the Holocaust related archival records of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien (Jewish Community Vienna), including reports, letters, emigration and financial documents, deportation lists, card files, books, photographs, maps, and charts detailing the final years of the once-largest German-speaking Jewish community in Europe. The current part of the collection, microfilm reels 960-1231, contains emigration questionnaires.

  14. Youth of the Netherlands! Waffen-SS recruitment text only poster that urges Dutch youth to help the Germans fight the Russians

    Waffen-SS recruitment poster issued in August 1941 in German controlled Netherlands asking young Dutch men to join the German Army in order to defend against the Jewish Bolshevik threat. Germany launched Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, on June 22, 1941. This was their biggest military operation of the war and there was an increased need for soldiers throughout the Germany Army.

  15. "The Crossing"

    Consists of one memoir, 19 pages, entitled "The Crossing," by Ilona Ricardo Kinzer, originally of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. When the Germans invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, Ilona was staying with relatives in the coastal town of Ymuiden. After the Dutch surrender, Ilona helped her uncle and the other employees of the Blast Furnace plant blow up the complex rather than let it fall into Nazi control. She describes her spontaneous decision to escape to England with a one-legged Englishman, Mr. Judd, across the English channel in a rowboat with only a small motor, and her memories of...

  16. Klara Salamon papers

    The Klara Salamon papers comprised documents created primarily by Salamon while she was held in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from 1943-1945. These papers include a diary made of toilet paper sewn together by Salamon, as well as notes and a birthday card passed between her and a friend, Nina, while both were interned in the camp. In her diary, Klara muses, in four different languages, about her friends and a particular boy named Alek in an adjacent camp whom she was attracted to. During her internment, Klara wrote love notes to Alek, which she passed to him through a friend. Ultimate...

  17. Heinz Sprung collection

    Consists of documents related to the pre-war, wartime, and immediate post-war experiences of Heinz Adolf Sprung, originally of Leipzig, Germany. Heinz was arrested in 1939 and was sent to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Collection includes letters and postcards, on Sachsenhausen stationery, which Heinz sent to his mother and uncles from 1939-1942, as well as mail he received from them. In 1942, Heinz was sent to Auschwitz and worked in Buna until January 1945, when he was sent on a death march back to Germany, where he was liberated. After the war, Heinz wrote down his experiences in ...

  18. Illuminated manuscript presented to Adolf Hitler from Hinrich Lohse, Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein

    Consists of one illuminated, calligraphic, manuscript, bound in brown leather, presented to Adolf Hitler from Hinrich Lohse, the Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein, on January 30, 1943 in Kiel. The manuscript was presented on the occasion of the ten year anniversary of Hitler's assumption of power. The letters are penned by Professor Th. Riebicke of Kiel, and are red, yellow, and blue. The leather binding of the book has a gold eagle, and the book itself is preserved in a brown leather box.

  19. Allied bombings of Dresden collection

    Consists of six photographs of the aftermath of the Allied bombings of Dresden, Germany, in February 1945, specifically the mass burning of victims of the bombings, as well as one official Nazi report, one page, dated March 22, 1945, describing the bombings and giving the number of bombs, the number of victims, and the damage done to the city. Also includes one handwritten poem, in English. The collection presumably belonged to Robert Lunow, a native German and the bookbinder of the Folger Shakespeare Library from 1948 until his death in 1971. These items were found in the bindery in May 1972.

  20. Selected Records from Fonds Diamant (CMXXVIII-CMXLII)

    Contains documents collected and assembled by David Erlich (a.k.a. David Diamant), a French-Jewish Resistance fighter, concerning the French-Jewish Resistance.