1. Mort Horvitz collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn522932
• English
• 1944
• overall: | Width: 6.180 inches (15.697 cm) | Depth: 0.200 inches (0.508 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Publication of the American Council of Warsaw Jews and American Friends of Polish Jews.

1. Stefan Petri collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6794
• English
• overall: Height: 10.875 inches (27.623 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Depth: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Engine component placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3513
• English
• overall: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 209.500 inches (532.13 cm) | Depth: 44.000 inches (111.76 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Brick rubble from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. The rubble was excavated from the site of what is now the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, located among the ruins of the former Crown Artillery Barracks. The Barracks housed the ghetto post office, and at one point was the seat of the Judenrat. The monument was commemorated on April 19, 1948, and was the second monument, following a modest memorial unveiled in April 1946. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3-square-mile Jewish ghetto and forced over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to...

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• הועד ליהודי אירופה הכבושה שעל יד הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל ביולטין, יוני 1944

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5656236
• English, Hebrew
• Original 27 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the German occupied countries of Europe, June 1944 Murder of Jews in Belzec; the number of Jews deported from Poland, 1943; information regarding the Jewish partisans in Poland; information regarding the situation of the Jews in Romania during the war; reports regarding the situation of the Jews under German occupation; testimony given by Spiegel, 20, a young man who escaped from Krakow, September 1943, regarding the "A...

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• הועד ליהודי אירופה הכבושה שעל יד הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל ביולטין, מאי 1944

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5656228
• English, Hebrew
• Original 18 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, May 1944 Information regarding the murder of the Jews of Poland from the press and from witnesses; deportation of the Jews of Slovakia; situation of the Jews in Transnistria; information regarding the situation of the Jews in Greece, the Netherlands, France and Italy; liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto; murder of the Jews in Lwow; murder of the Jews of Kuty; murder of Jews in the cities o...

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• הועד ליהודי אירופה הכבושה שעל יד הסוכנות היהודית לארץ ישראל ביולטין, נובמבר 1944

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5659335
• English, Hebrew
• Original 23 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Committee for the Jews in Occupied Europe regarding the situation of the Jews in the occupied countries of Europe, November 1944 Attitude of the Bulgarians towards the Jews; excerpt from a letter from a Jewish soldier in the Polish Army in the Netherlands regarding his meetings with Jews; testimony of a survivor regarding the murder of the Jews of Danzig; testimony regarding the murder of Jews in Lithuania; murder of the Jews of Zamosz; information regarding the Janowska camp; testimony of a survivo...

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, פברואר 1945

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5655227
• English, Hebrew
• Original 14 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee regarding the situation of the Jews who had been or were still under Nazi rule in Europe, February 1945 Excerpts from letters from survivors from Vilna, Sarny and Melnice including a description of the murder of the Jews in those places; excerpt from a letter sent by a Polish woman from Auschwitz-Birkenau regarding the murder of women and children in the camp; reports from Thessaloniki and Athens regarding the situation of the Jews from the beginning of the Nazi occupation until the...

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• ועדת - ההצלה של הסוכנות היהודית לארץ-ישראל ,ביולטין, ינואר (ב) 1945

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5654524
• English, Hebrew
• Original 40 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Bulletin: Information from various sources distributed by the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel Rescue Committee regarding the situation of the Jews who had been or were still under Nazi rule in Europe, January 1945 Information regarding the situation of the Jews in Theresienstadt, Austria, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Belgium during the war years; Romania's position regarding aliya of Jews to Eretz Israel; early Jewish self-defense in Poland; excerpt from a letter from the Warsaw Ghetto, 01 March 1944; information from a letter regarding cultural life in the ghettos of Poland; excerpt from a letter...

1. P.32 - Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5571694
• English, Hebrew
• Original 406 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Bulletins of the "Jewish Agency Relief Committee for the Jews of Occupied Europe", 1944-1946 Included in the file: - A report regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising written for representatives of the Jewish Agency for Eretz israel in Jerusalem.

1. Halina Olomucki collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1187
• English
• 1945
• overall: Height: 15.875 inches (40.323 cm) | Width: 13.625 inches (34.608 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Colored drawing of a bunk crowded with ill and despairing women created by Halina Olszewski (later Olomucki) in Warsaw in 1945, just after the war. It is based upon her experiences as an inmate of the notorious Block 10 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from July 1943 to January 1945. Nazi Germany occupied Poland in September 1939, and, in fall 1940, Halina, her mother Margarit-Hadassa, and siblings were relocated to the ghetto. Halina did forced labor, but she felt her real job was to record the misery and suffering of ghetto residents. Halina smuggled many drawings to a non-Jewish ...

1. Stefan Petri collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6824
• English
• overall: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Wooden bison toy placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had ...

1. Edward Lawrence Associates castings collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn14209
• English
• a: Height: 103.000 inches (261.62 cm) | Width: 137.000 inches (347.98 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) b: Height: 101.750 inches (258.445 cm) | Width: 184.000 inches (467.36 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) c: Height: 100.250 inches (254.635 cm) | Width: 119.000 inches (302.26 cm) | Depth: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Fiberglass casting of a segment of the brick wall surrounding the Warsaw ghetto, from the area at 51 Sienna Street, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. The casting was taken from one of three remaining sections of the ghetto wall, which the Jewish community was forced to pay for and was built in 1940, by the German firm of Schmidt & Munstermann. Prior to the war, Warsaw was a major center of Jewish life and culture, with a Jewish population over 350,000, making it the largest Jewish community in Europe. On Se...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn37911
• English
• 1935-1942
• 3 volumes,
• Updated 1 year ago

The Chaim Kaplan diary consists, in its entirety, of a diary that Kaplan maintained in Hebrew, from 1933 to 1942. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum obtained three original volumes of this diary in 2009, consisting of: Book 3, dating from April 4, 1935 to August 4, 1936 (pages 1-390); Book 7, consisting of entries from August 30, 1939 to December 23, 1939 (pages 53-280); and other fragments, dating from May 7, 1942 to July 2, 1942, paginated from 230-309. While earlier entries focus on personal matters and events, Kaplan made a conscious choice to chronicle Jewish life and external...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503309
• English
• 1940-1985
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

Includes articles, essays, and publications concerning the Piotrków Trybunalski Jewish community in Canada, the Jewish Fighting Organization, and the plight of children in the ghettos and camps. Also included is “Remnants: Memoirs of a Survivor,” a testimony of Holocaust survival by Charles Kotkowsky. The testimony describes Kotkowsky’s life in the Piotrków ghetto, his participation in an underground resistance movement, his imprisonment in two concentration camps, and his escape from a railroad transport.

1. Dr. Henry Kupfer family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn634490
• English
• 1939-1945
• overall: Height: 26.500 inches (67.31 cm) | Width: 15.500 inches (39.37 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Child's winter coat purchased by Dr. Chil Kupferblum (later Henry Kupfer), for his daughter, Tamara, while serving in the Soviet Army as a surgeon during World War II (1939-1945). In 1935, Chil received his M.D. from Karlova University in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). He married Lora Shapira, and in 1938, their daughter Tamara was born. Chil’s sister, Fela, married chemist Antek Kupferblum (later Anthony Kuper), and they later settled in Warsaw. His other sister, Gertrude, married his friend, Dr. Simon Russi, and the couple immigrated to the United States. Chil was an attendi...

1. Dr. Henry Kupfer family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn634491
• English
• 1939-1945
• overall: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Diameter: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Child's winter hat purchased by Dr. Chil Kupferblum (later Henry Kupfer), for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum, while serving in the Soviet Army as a surgeon during World War II (1939-1945). In 1935, Chil received his M.D. from Karlova University in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). He married Lora Shapira, and in 1938, their daughter Tamara was born. Chil’s sister, Fela, married chemist Antek Kupferblum (later Anthony Kuper), and they later settled in Warsaw. His other sister, Gertrude, married his friend, Dr. Simon Russi, and the couple immigrated to the United States. Chil was ...

1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5659453
• English, Hebrew
• Original 43 pages/frames
• Updated 6 years ago

Circulars issued by the Poalei Zion-Hitachdut party including surveys and testimonies regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 03 April 1944 Circular including a list of those who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 03 April 1944.

1. Stefan Petri collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6820
• English
• overall: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Depth: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Corroded metal clamp placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn3514
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

Cobblestones removed from Chłodna Street in Warsaw, Poland. The street was an important east-west thoroughfare in the city of Warsaw. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3-square-mile Jewish ghetto, and required over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to relocate inside the 10-foot-high wall that bounded it. An approximately 650-foot-long portion of Chłodna Street was contained within the ghetto until December 1941. Afterward, it became an Aryan-only street that divided the ghetto into two sections, with the relatively elite and intell...

1. Stefan Petri collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn6793
• English
• overall: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)
• Updated 1 year ago

Coiled lead wire placed on a workbench that concealed one of the hiding places Stefan Petri built in his home in Wawer, Poland. Stefan, his wife, Janina, and their son, Marian, were Polish Catholics. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and began subjugating the Polish people. Uncertain of what might occur, Stefan built a basement hiding place concealed by a cabinet. In mid-1942, the Germans deported 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka killing center. Stefan learned that his Jewish dentist and friend, Dr. Szapiro, his wife Ela, and their adult sons, Jerzy and Marek had ...