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  2. Abstract bronze statue of a concentration camp inmate made by a Czech Jewish survivor

    Small bronze statue cast from the figurine made by Vera Meisels from a bar of washing soap shortly after her liberation from Theresienstadt concentration camp in early May 1945. This figurine was cast in 2002 because the original was drying out and losing its original shape. The work is based upon Vera's memories of the concentration camp inmates called Musselmann, prisoners near death due to exhaustion, illness, starvation, or hopelessness. In August 1944, eight year old Vera, her parents, Cecilia and Zoltan, and her 12 year old sister, Aliska, fled Ruzomberok, Czechoslovakia, after the Sl...

  3. Abstract contemporary painting

  4. Abstract oil painting of figures imprisoned behind a barred opening on a snow covered hill by Jerzy Bitter

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn523437
    • English
    • 1988
    • overall: Height: 53.625 inches (136.208 cm) | Width: 63.500 inches (161.29 cm) pictorial area: Height: 49.500 inches (125.73 cm) | Width: 59.750 inches (151.765 cm)

    Artwork created by Jerzy Bitter in Israel in 1988, representing the plight of Jewish peasants trying to escape persecution during the Holocaust. The oil depicts tortured abstract figures imprisoned in a stark, dreamlike landscape. In 1941, when he was 6 months old, Jerzy and his parents left their hometown of Lvov for the Warsaw ghetto. They lived in the ghetto until the summer of 1942 when Jerzy and his mother escaped during a mass deportation. They lived in hiding and escaped Warsaw during a forced evacuation by the Germans in September 1944. They settled in Wieliczka, Poland. His father ...

  5. Abstract painting by Jimmy Ernst

    Allegorical oil painting created by Jimmy Ernst in memory of his mother, Louise, who was killed in Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during the Holocaust.

  6. Abstract painting of a prison camp with ghostlike figures and a hanging created postwar by a former inmate

    Abstract impressionistic white painting created by Motke Blum in 2004, evoking his experiences in forced labor camps in Romania during the Holocaust. His "need for constant renewal" led to minimalist work done in gradations of white. Motke was from Romania where violent persecution of Jews was common by the late 1930s. It increased when the revolutionary Fascist Iron Guard took over the country in September 1940. That year, 15 year old Motke was sent to a forced labor camp near Bucharest, then to Obor labor camp where he worked 20 hours a day, unloading trains and clearing bombed areas of r...

  7. Abt. 10 L – Landwirtschaft

    • Abteilung 10 L – Landwirtschaft / Section 10 L – Agriculture

    Der Bestand umfasst u.a. das Siedlungswesen, Akten zu Beschlagnahmungen landwirtschaftlicher Immobilien, Verzeichnisse von nichtarischen Immobilien.

  8. Abteilung Heeres-Flaktruppen im OKH (In 13)

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Die Dienststelle eines Generals und eines Inspekteurs der Heeres-Flaktruppen und einer Abteilung der Heeres Flaktruppen (In 13) wurde mit Wirkung vom 15. Januar 1944 geschaffen, wobei der "General der Heeres-Flaktruppen (Gen.H.Flak)" und der "Inspekteur der Heeres-Flaktruppen (Insp.H.Flak)" in Personalunion wahrgenommen wurden. Die Abteilung Heeres-Flaktruppen (In 13) wurde dem Chef Heeresrüstung und Befehlshaber des Ersatzheeres beim Allgemeinen Heeresamt zugeordnet. Die Aufgaben und Unterstellung der drei Dienststellen können der folgenden Dienstanweisung e...

  9. Abwehra Lublin records (Sygn.182)

    This collection contains counter-intelligence investigation protocols of arrests, agents' reports, correspondence, instructions for agents issued to units with the code names "Einheit Lichtenstein" and "Meldekopf Spesser," and agents' notes. Subjects include Polish underground movements, the attitudes of the Ukrainian population, the Red Army on the Eastern Front, arrests and investigations of members of partisan groups and parachute groups in the Lublin area, Soviet espionage in the Lublin area, and arrests and investigations of Soviet agents.

  10. Abwicklungsstellen für Reichs- und Staatsvermögen bei den Oberfinanzdirektionen

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • B 326
    • German
    • 1936-1982
    • Schriftgut 2055 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 92,6 laufende Meter

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Das Reichsvermögen wurde nach der Kapitulation in der amerikanischen, britischen und französischen Zone aufgrund des Gesetzes Nr. 52 der Militärregierungen, in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone aufgrund der Befehle Nr. 124 und 126 der SMAD beschlagnahmt. In der amerikanischen und französischen Zone wurde die Erfassung, Verwaltung und Abwicklung den Ländern (Landesämter für Vermögenskontrolle) übertragen. In den vier Berliner Sektoren waren die in den einzelnen Besatzungszonen geltenden Bestimmungen analog anzuwenden. Von den Besatzungsmächten wurden dazu Treuhä...

  11. Aca S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Aca S., who was born in Bačka Topola, Yugoslavia in 1923. He recounts his family's affluence; the Jews identifying as Hungarians; membership in Betar; Hungarian occupation in 1941; his father's immediate arrest and deportation; deportation with many Jews to Bečej; release after a few weeks; futile attempts to escape and join the partisans; German occupation in March 1944; incarceration in Bačka Topola concentration camp; his mother's arrival in April; deportation to Auschwitz in May; transfer shortly thereafter to Oberwüstegiersdorf; slave labor in a textile facto...

  12. Academics persecuted by the Nazis: Correspondence

    Correspondence regarding the fate of Jewish mathematicians and academics during the Nazi era.

  13. Académie de Paris. Archives rectorales relatives à la guerre de 1939-1945

    Les archives inventoriées par le présent instrument de recherche sous le titre "Guerre de 1939-1945" ne comprennent pas la totalité des archives rectorales produites pendant la période considérée. De manière plus restrictive, ont été rassemblés en un fonds articulé à la fois thématiquement et chronologiquement les dossiers résultant de l'exercice par les instances rectorales d'attributions particulières, à raison de la spécificité de la période. Autrement dit, on trouvera ici répertoriées les archives relatives aux faits de guerre, à l'Occupation, à la Résistance et à la Libération, mais no...

  14. Academy of German Justice Akademie für Deutsches Recht (R 61)

    Contains documents pertaining to the work of the ADR from 1933 to 1944. Includes documents regarding the organization and work of the ADR; conferences; relations with organizations in other countries; the Haus des Deutschen Rechts; speeches and papers of the organization president, Dr. Hans Frank, and other officials; personnel; budget, finances and property; publications, newspapers and libraries; committees of the ADR, including meeting protocols.

  15. According to Doyle : a cartoon history of world war II [Book] a cartoon history of world war II

  16. Account of Jewish doctors in Frankfurt am Main

    This copy account of Jewish doctors in Frankfurt am Main provides biographical details on some of the city's most prominent Jewish doctors.

  17. Account of life in a ghetto

    This typescript copy account of life in an unidentified ghetto commences with a note in English that the letter extracts were received in New York from Switzerland. It is also headed ‘strictly confidential, for your personal information only' and annotated with the date May 1942.

  18. Account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience

    Typescript, annotated, incomplete, account of Nelly Wolffheim's experience running the last remaining Jewish Kindergarten school in BerlinGerman 30 pages 

  19. Account of Paul Loebl's war-time experiences

    This report is described as a translation of a report to the Director of the VAD. The original is thought to have been in German. It is not known what the VAD is. Paul Loebl spent time in Belgium and in the concentration camps of St. Cyprien and Gurs.

  20. Account of the Kohn family's fate during the Holocaust

    This collection consists of a family history report on the fate of Thomas Brady's grandparents, Bernhard and Hedwig Kohn and their daughter Herta from Vienna who perished in the Holocaust.Account of the Kohn family's fate including illustrations of contemporary documents and details of other members of the family who were murdered.