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  1. Bronislaw Zbigniew Bulkowski collection

    Collection and memoirs illustrating the experiences of Bronislaw Bulkowski, born Roman Catholic on July 11, 1920 in Ostrowiec, Poland, surrounding the Holocaust. Bronislaw was a forced laborer for the Nazi occupying authorities and was conscripted to the German Rail Authorities in Altena, Germany. Between 1942 and 1945, he slave labored alongside other forced laborers. Included is a diary ("Wartime Log") he kept in which he references other slave laborers as well as abuse they, endured, the group digging a tunnel, working all night, lack of food, overpriced bread and accidents that hurt and...

  2. Bronka Harz Kurz memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 3 pages, in English, by Bronka Harz Kurz, originally of Nadvirna, Poland. The family moved to Kolomyja, Poland, before the war and after the German occupation in 1941, were forced to wear a Star of David and move into the ghetto. Bronka and her mother tried to escape the ghetto multiple times, but were caught and sent back. In one instance, upon their return they learned that Bronka's father and other relatives had been deported and killed in Belzec. Bronka and her mother finally escaped to Lwow, where, until their liberation by the Russians in 1944, they lived in co...

  3. Bronka Hercberg Zybert papers

    The papers consist of documents, photographs, letters, and identification cards relating to the experiences of Bronka Hercberg Zybert and her family in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, during World War II.

  4. Bronka Krygier papers

    Contains photographs, documents, and postcards pertaining to Bronka Kyrgier's Holocaust experiences as she pretended to be a gentile in order to survive in Poland.

  5. Bronka Rezak papers

    The papers consist of two manuscripts written by Bronka Grynglas Rezak [donor] for her grandsons, Avi and Ronnen Gruber, and a newspaper article. In the manuscript, titled "The History of our family," she describes the history of her family in Poland before World War II, their experiences in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and various concentration camps during World War II, and their immigration to Australia after World War II. In the manuscript, titled "My experiences during the War, 1939-1945," she describes her experiences in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp, a factory in F...

  6. Bronner and Kirshenbaum families collection

    Collection of photographs of the Kirshenbaum and Bronner families from Bedzin, Poland, in the Bayreuth DP camp in Germany; photos show their friends and family. Includes a marriage certificate for Sala and Moniek Bronner, a notarized statement of Sala Kirschenbaum, and birth certificates of Sala and Moniek Bronner

  7. Brönner-Hoepfner, Elisabeth

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • N 1026
    • German
    • 1919-1934
    • Nachlässe 41 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 1,1 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Lebensdaten 19. Febr. 1880 geboren in Schupinnen, Krs. Ragnit, Ostpreußen e.V. bis 1893 Volksschule in Schmalleningken 1893 - 1896 Höhere Mädchenschule 1896 - 1899 Lehrer-Seminar Tilsit Universität Berlin Lehrerin in Wilhelmshaven, Provinz Posen und Groß-Berlin 1904 verheiratet mit Hauptmann a.D. Schriftleiter Dr. Brönner 1905 - 1907 Schriftleiterin der Berliner Hausfrauenzeitung 1916 - 1919 Schriftleiterin der Königsberger Hartungschen Zeitung Geschäfts- und Schriftführerin des Goethebundes in Königsberg 1919 Mitglied der Nationalversammlung nach 1919 Mitgrü...

  8. Bronsart von Schellendorff, Friedrich (Generalleutnant)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Geboren 16. Juni 1864 in Berlin; gestorben 23. Januar 1950 in Kühlungsborn. Sohn des preußischen Generals und späteren Kriegsministers Paul Bronsart von Schellendorf. 1887 Heirat mit Veronika Bronsart von Schellendorf (1867-1968). 1913 als Oberst Angehöriger der Deutschen Militärmission im Osmanischen Reich; 1914-1917 Chef des Generalstabs des Osmanischen Feldheeres. 1918 Divisionskommandeur an der Westfront. 1919 Abschied aus dem Militärdienst im Range eines Generalleutnants. 1926 Vorsitzender des Tannenbergbundes. Bestand besteht aus neun Akten, welche sich...

  9. Bronsart von Schellendorff, Walter (General der Infanterie, Kriegsminister)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Generaladjutant von Kaiser Wilhelm II., königl.-preußischer Staats- und Kriegsminister Zitierweise BArch N 903/...

  10. Bronze abstract sculpture with a marble base depicting a group of men, women, and children crowded into a boat, Exodus

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516364
    • English
    • 1948
    • a: Height: 26.500 inches (67.31 cm) | Width: 31.500 inches (80.01 cm) | Depth: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) b: Height: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm) | Width: 29.750 inches (75.565 cm) | Depth: 12.875 inches (32.703 cm)

    Sculpture created by Nathan Rapoport representing the voyage of the Exodus 1947. The sculpture depicts several figures gathered around a central bearded male figure positioned on a small sailing vessel. It is thought that Rapoport began drafting designs for this sculpture soon after the event and around the same time that he was creating his best-known work, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Memorial. However, the exact date and place of creation are unknown. The Exodus was a cargo ship that left France in 1947 intending to illegally transport 4500 Jewish Holocaust survivors to British ruled Pales...

  11. Bronze bust of Etty Hillesum, a Dutch Jewish woman who perished in Auschwitz

    Bronze bust of Etty Hillesum who was deported from Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands to Auschwitz where she perished, age 29, on November 30, 1943. The sculpture was created by Pieter Starreveld, circa 1986-1988.

  12. Bronze Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, 3rd Class Order

    Cross of Honor of the German Mother (Ehrenkreuz der Deutschen Mutter), 3rd class order, Bronze medal issued by the Nazi Party between May 1939, and the end of World War II in May 1945. More commonly known as the Mother’s Cross (Mutterkreuz), the medal served as a propaganda measure to promote National Socialist population policy of glorifying family life and increasing population levels. It was a civilian award instituted following a December 16, 1938, decree by Adolf Hitler to encourage German woman to bear more children. Recipients were nominated by the Nazi Party or government officials,...

  13. Bronze sculpture memorializing the Holocaust

    Large, bronze sculpture created by William Tarr in 1989 as the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum was preparing to open.

  14. Bronze sculpture of a briefcase with initials R.W. made to honor the memory of Raoul Wallenberg

  15. Bronze sculpture of a woman resting in the shelter of a cupped hand

    Bronze sculpture created by Theo Balden in 1988.

  16. Brown leather and cork men’s dress shoes crafted in Sedan Kaserne Ulm DP camp by a Jewish Polish soldier

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn47425
    • English
    • a: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) b: Height: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)

    Brown leather dress shoes crafted by Noel Galicki in Sedan Kaserne displaced persons camp in Ulm, Germany, between 1946 and 1949. Noel was taught and certified as a shoemaker in the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) vocational training program at the camp. Noel, 27, was a soldier in the Polish Army during the German invasion on September 1, 1939. Seventeen days later, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland and Noel was captured. On June 29, 1940, the Soviets deported Noel and his wife Henja to Komi ASSR. Henja died during childbirth on March 30, 1941, and their daughte...

  17. Brown leather trifold wallet used by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps

    Leather trifold wallet with three pockets used by Dr. Edmund Lusthaus to store documents and photographs while serving as a medical officer in the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Lusthaus was drafted into the Polish Army. Seventeen days later, the Soviet army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the Soviet government released Polish POWs to join the fighting. Lusthaus joined the volun...

  18. Brown tablecloth with a floral design saved during a pogrom in Ukraine and recovered after the war

    Brown floral tablecloth, the only family item recovered by Zeev Raveh Werba in Maniewicze, Poland (Prilesnoye, Ukraine), after the war. It was taken when their home was looted during a pogrom by the local Ukrainian population after the June 1941 invasion by Germany. It was found and saved by a neighbor, who returned it to Zeev. He kept the tablecloth with him during the remainder of his military service. When Zeev left for a displaced persons camp in Italy, he used the tablecloth while conducting interviews for a writer researching stories of Holocaust survivors. In September 1939, Zeev's v...

  19. Bruce Neuburger oral history collection

    Oral histories from the Bruce Neuburger collection

  20. Bruce Neuburger papers

    Contains a bound, self-published book containing biographies of various members of Neuburger family, and photocopies of documents used in trial of Benno Neuberger in Berlin in 1948.