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  1. Leszner family collection

    Collection of French newspaper and magazine pages saved by Julius and Margaret Leszner (donor's parents) during WWII. Some of the pages include their daughter Liliane's birth announcement, a photograph of Margaret Leszner and other refugees from Luxembourg heading to France, an announcement searching for Margaret Leszner posted by her husband, along with other pages saved by the Leszners. Julius survived in hiding, while Margaret and Liliane survived posing as Catholics.

  2. Laszlo Bohm Collection

    Photographs, marriage license, postcards, and other correspondence relating to the experiences of Laszlo Bohm in Fonyod, Hungary.

  3. Records of Ignacy Schwarzbart Akta Ignacego Szwarzbarta (Sygn. 543)

    The collection contains correspondence, notes, press clippings, articles, regulations, speeches, reports, and correspondence. Materials relate to the following subjects: Aid rendered by Schwarzbart to the Jewish emigrants and war refugees from Poland; Jewish emigration, editing of the Jewish newspaper “The Future” in France in 1940 and newspapers in other countries; and Schwartzbart’s activity in the National Council of the Republic of Poland in France during 1939-1940.

  5. Fred Strauss papers

    The Fred Strauss papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Fred Strauss’ attendance at the Israelitische Waisenanstalt school in Frankfurt, his inclusion in a Kindertransport from Frankfurt to Paris in 1939, his life as a child refugee in OSE homes in France, his immigration to the United States as part of an USCOM children’s transport from Lisbon in June 1941, his mother’s death in 1943, his move to New York, and his enlistment in the United States Army. Biographical materials include identification papers, travel papers, and m...

  6. Henny Wenkart papers

    The Henny Wenkart papers includes passports, postcards, photographs, and printed material, related to the childhood and emigration of Henny (Henriette) Wenkart from Nazi-occupied Austria as one of the "50 Children" on the transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus in June 1939. Includes childhood photographs of Wenkart and her family, German passports for Wenkart and her mother, Rose (Rachela) Wenkart, postcards sent by Wenkart's father, Hermann, including those sent to family members during World War I, and several publications containing poetry written by Wenkart reflecting on her e...

  7. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport

    Slim, rectangular leather identification card case received by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Pa...

  8. Anti-Hitler toothpick holder

  9. Haber family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Haber family of Vienna, Austria including Fritz Haber (Fred), who emigrated from Vienna, Austria with Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus, an American couple who negotiated the American immigration of fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Vienna in May, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children documenting their trip on board the SS President Harding and arrival to the United States; identification papers of Fritz’s parents Joseph and Grete Haber; education and employment papers of Joseph; documents of...

  11. Ceramic figurine of Adolf Hitler with pincushion

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn532855
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) c: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) d: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Ceramic figure of Adolf Hitler bending over with brown fabric pin cushion as his bottom. Includes original tag titled "Hotzi Notzi" and two pins with paper American flags; dated 1941.

  12. Prezydent Policji w Łódzi Selected records of the Police President Office in Łódź Polizeipräsident Litzmannstadt (Sygn. 891)

    The registration records of foreign nationals and personnel files of officers and other staff in the police headquarters in Łodź and a branch in Pabianice.

  13. Ceramic figurine of a skunk with Adolf Hitler's face

    Figurine of a skunk painted in black and white with the frowning face of Adolf Hitler and the words "Japan's Rising Sun" painted in gold lettering along the tail. There is also an image of a gold sun underneath the letters.

  14. Licco Haim and friends visit the beach

    AGFA 8 1940. Handwritten title "Sommer 1940 GÖSEKEN" (the Turkish name for the town of Obzor situated in southeastern Bulgaria where the Balkan mountains meet the Black Sea). A still image of the group of friends with their names: Fredy, Anny, Loli, Paula, Anny, Licco, Kete, Hans, Peter. 01:00:14 Title with 23 August 1940 date, "Waterlilies - Kamshia" (river in northeastern Bulgaria). A bearded man is filmed from inside a boat as he rows down a river. They pass other boats with friends. Lily-pads. CU, one boat filled with friends called "Bapha". CUs of friends. 01:06:49 [COLOR] Title with 2...

  15. Oral history interview with Ruth Rontal

  16. 51st Field Hospital at snowy campsite

    A snowy campsite near the mountains in winter (Belgium or Germany?). Men chop and dig at the frozen soil, while others play in the snow. Beatrice and a friend laugh.

  17. Lotte and Ellen Markiewicz correspondence

    Consists of Red Cross messages exchanged between Ellen Markiewicz, in London, and her mother, Lotte Markiewicz, in Berlin, between September 1940 and September 1941. The notes, which are necessarily brief, discuss welfare and were the only means of contact between Lotte and her daughter, who went to England as part of a Kindertransport. Lotte survived the war in hiding. Also includes a typed testimony, 1 page, in German, written by "Willi," a foreman in the factory where Lotte Markiewicz worked during the war, in 1961.

  18. Father Charles Coughlin correspondence and ephemera

    Letters and leaflets, sent by Father Charles E. Coughlin to listeners and supporters, 1931-1935. Includes four letters, either responding to listeners or form letters that were inserted with sermon texts or other items that listeners had requested from him. Also includes two membership application cards for the Radio League of the Little Flower.

  19. Galila Nagar photograph collection

    Contains two photos from the Eschwege displaced persons camp.

  20. February strike Februaristaking (Fond 254)

    This collection contains mainly reserch materials related to the Dutch February strike, 1941. Materials was collected by B. A. Sijes (Sijes) for his publication "De Februaristaking, 25-26 Februari 1941" ('s-Gravenhage 1954).