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  1. Abinew Dubensky Collection

    Material pertaining to the service of the donor's father, Lt. Abinew Dubensky, in the 80th Infantry Division. Includes photographs of concentration camps taken by Lt. Dubensky, as well as photographs acquired from German soldiers showing public humiliation of rabbis by German soldiers in Poland. Documents include a pamphlet entitled, "Pocket Guide to Germany," and a flyer entitled "Retreat on All Fronts." Small leather cases with photos of a dog and a young woman. Postage stamps with Hitler's image.

  2. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Consulate in Nice Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Nicei (Sygn. 508)

    Diplomatic correspondence and the invitations of the Société Israélite to the Polish Council in Nicei to honor work of Jewish poet and novelist, Sholem Asch. In 1932 he was awarded by the Polish Republic's Polonia Restituta decoration.

  3. Stephen J. Schweitzer diary

    The Stephen J. Schweitzer diary is a small pocket diary Schweitzer maintained secretly and hid in his socks while he was a POW in Stalag IXB and as a forced laborer in the Berga forced labor camp. The diary contains brief entries describing events and conditions in the camps, the moods of his fellow prisoners, and his thoughts of his family.

  4. Aid of Poles for the Jewish people during the Nazi occupation. Collection of files Pomoc Polaków dla ludności żydowskiej w okresie okupacji hitlerowskiej-zbiór akt (Sygn. 1521)

    Questionnaires related to aid of Poles for the Jewish people during the Nazi occupation. Questionnaires were prepared and collected by Związek Bojowników o Wolność i Demokrację (ZBoWiD) throughout Poland during the late 1960s.

  5. Torah ark curtain

    Ritual tablecloth /veil for the Torah box from the Gherla synagogue. The Gherla synagogue was used in 1944 as a short-term detention place for Jews before they were interned in the Gherla brick factory which was used as a ghetto. At this point, the Gherla Jewish community is made up of one person, eighty-year-old survivor Zoltan Blun.

  6. Dress worn by a child while in hiding

  7. Oral history interview with Arthur Danziger

  8. Kirstein family photographs

    The Kirstein family photographs contains two photographs of a Zionist rally at an unidentified displaced persons camp, likely in Germany. The photographs show Jewish children sitting in front of banners and posters with Hebrew slogans and images of Zionist leaders. Sara Kirstein, later Sara Scolnick, and her parents Abraham and Manya Kirstein are likely pictured in the photographs, circa 1947-1949.

  9. Provincial Land Office in Kielce Wojewódzki Urząd Ziemski w Kielcach (Sygn. 188)

    Information on agricultural land and its owners, including Jews.

  10. Servator family correspondence

    Primarily consists of envelopes and letters written between members of the Servator family in 1945. Includes correspondence between Morris and Helen Servator and Cpl. Emanuel Sevator regarding their cousin Ida Szymkowicz, her husband Joseph, and their son Maurice, in addition to a note and photo of Ida and Maurice. Also includes a letter from Ida Szymkowicz to David Servator regarding Emanuel's visit.

  11. Israel's independence war, produced by the United Palestine Appeal

    Shots of Jerusalem as the narrator says that despite the U.N. truce, Glubb Pasha (John Bagot Glubb) continues to arm the Transjordan Arab Legion. Looters in Jerusalem. King Abdullah of Transjordan pays a visit to the Dome of the Rock (Mosque of Omar). 01:01:07 Count Folke Bernadotte in Lake Success, New York, to report to the U.N. on the truce. Interior shots of delegates meeting to discuss the Arab Legion's defiance of the truce, June 11th, 1948. Shots of urban warfare after the May 15, 1948 declaration of the state of Israel. Women carry a wounded man on a stretcher; women and men prepare...

  12. Armband with a royal coat of arms worn by Danish resistance fighter

    Blue, red, and white armband with a medallion worn by Mogens Høirup, a Danish resistance fighter, after the war. This style of armband was issued by the Danish Freedom Council on May 4 and 5, 1945. The armbands, which appeared abruptly throughout Denmark, were issued by the Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile in England from July 1944 to May 1945. The armbands were meant to identify resistance members as legitimate combatants, rather than guerilla forces, to ensure they were protected under Geneva Convention rules defining combatants and how they should be treat...

  13. Oral history interview with Chaim Herzog

  14. Fred Davidowitz papers

    The papers consist of 14 photographs depicting Fred Davidowitz as a baby, his parents, and other refugees in the displaced persons camp in Bamberg, Germany, after the World War II as well as documents relating to the birth of Feri Davidowitsch (later Fred Davidowitz).

  15. Steen Metz photograph collection

    Contains seven photographs of Axel and Magna Metz and their son Steen in Denmark during the World War II in Denmark. Includes pre-war images of Steen, his parents, and paternal grandmother Betty. All were deported to Theresienstadt where Axel died in March 1944. The remaining family members were liberated in May 1945.

  16. Ruins in Munich

    Views of Munich, probably postwar [film stock dates to 1943]. Street scenes show destroyed buildings and piles of rubble. Short clip of the Bürgerbräukeller, the site of the Beer Hall Putsch where Adolf Hitler and the Kampfbund attempted a coup d'état in 1923. 01:01:02 John Bechtler gets into an army truck (labeled 206008425.) A brief clip of a black dog in the grass. Views of a lake and the surrounding landscape. 01:01:49 (John?) exits a CIC building. The CIC, or Counter Intelligence Corps, was used after the war to locate former members of the Nazi regime and combat various forms of illeg...

  17. Illustration 6 from a handmade portfolio of illustrations by Herbert Heyne and Erich Kästner

    Book of illustrations sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst. The book was a gift from Heyne to Furst and was written with Erich Kästner in 1945. It features color illustrations by Heyne and offers a comical and critical depiction of National Socialism and Nazi militarism.

  18. Self portrait by George Byfield given to an Australian solicitor

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn600868
    • English
    • a: Height: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) b: Height: 15.625 inches (39.688 cm) | Width: 15.625 inches (39.688 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)

    Self portrait by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield) given as a gift to H.W. (Peter) Tebbutt, an Australian solicitor. Beifeld was deported from Budapest, Hungary, in March 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp. He was later transferred to Dachau where he was liberated by American troops of the 7th Army on April 19, 1945.

  19. Cloyd Lewis Hershberger photograph collection

    Consists of photographs taken or given to Cloyd Lewis Hershberger, a member of the 45th Tank Battalion of the 13th Armored Division of the Third Army. The images depict the liberation of Buchenwald, the aftermath of summary justice, the destruction of various buildings and the buildings at Berchtesgaden.

  20. Documentation of the operational committee in the Rovno region, 1939 and 1944-1945

    Documentation of the operational committee in the Rovno region, 1939 and 1944-1945 Included in the collection: - Reports from meetings of the operational committees of the Kostopol and Lyudvipol districts, 1939; - Appeals sent to the authorities by evacuated Jews requesting to return to the Rovno region; - Correspondence with the People's Commissioners Committee of Ukraine, regarding the return of Soviet Union citizens to their homeland.