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  1. Jack O. Horton letter describing liberation of slave laborers near Barth, Germany

    The letter was written by Jack O. Horton in 1990 and contains his recollections about the liberation of Jewish slave laborers at a German airport near Barth, Germany.

  2. Trunk sent to an Austrian Jewish youth after he fled

    Trunk sent to Rudolf Lappe, 19, who fled Chemnitz, Germany, for Great Britain not long after Hitler was appointed Chancellor in January 1933. Rudolf left without any prior preparation in order to get out before the borders were closed in April 1933. Later that year his father sent him this trunk with clothing in it. His father was imprisoned on racial grounds. He was released after several weeks, but was not allowed to practice his profession of law. He emigrated to England in May 1939. Rudolf returned in 1948 to the Soviet occupied zone.

  3. Book

    Book by Hermann Kesten, a German author whose writings were banned during the Third Reich, 1933-1945. On May 10, 1933 thousands of books, such as this one, were burned by Nazi students and their professors throughout Germany. The books, ransacked from libraries, bookstores and universities, were the product of authors who had been blacklisted as "un-German."

  4. "Das Krematorium in Dachau"

    Consists of a copy of "Das Krematorium in Dachau," a four-page eyewitness report given by Willy Furlan-Horst shortly after the liberation of Dachau. The report describes the interior of the crematoria, the gas chambers, the procedures for torture and execution of prisoners, the duties of the Kommandos, and the facilities for housing the SS attack dogs.

  5. Photographs of concentration camp victim burials at Ludwigslust, Germany

    The collection consists of six photographs depicting the burial of the victims of the Wöbbelin subcamp of Neuengamme concentration camp by German civilians in nearby Ludwigslust, Germany. The photographs were taken by William Crawley in May 1945 after liberation and annotated on the verso.

  6. Emil Neu postcards from Gurs concentration camp

    Two postcards addressed to E. Neu from Emil Neu in Gurs concentration camp. The postcards discuss receiving packages, needing to settle rent, and physical examinations.

  7. Hannes family letters and postcards

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Hannes family, originally of Hamburg, Germany. Included are five German Red Cross letters, dated from March 1943 to October 1944 from Luise Eugenie Hannes to her daughters Ruth (later Ruth Hannes Doswald) and Lieselotte (later Lieselotte E. Rosenmeyer), both of whom fled Hamburg to England. Her daughters’ responses are on the reverse of each letter. Also included are seven postcards addressed to Luise’s husband Dr. Berthold Hannes from former patients imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp. The postcards date from De...

  8. Pruzinier family photographs

    Contains three photographs of Vladimir Solomonovich Pruzinier, Tamara Solomonovna Pruzinier, and Elizabet Grigorevna Kalina Pruzinier. All three died in Kharkiv, Ukraine, in October 1941. Also in the photograph with Tamara S. Pruzinier is her friend, Ala Joffe Marandich.

  9. Mordka Knopf photograph collection

    Contains seven photographs of Knopf family members dating from 1931 to 1973. Included in the collection are images of Brana Rachel Knopf, Cypora Jedwab, Mendel Nachum Knopf, Abraham Knopf, Dorka Knopf, and Simon Knopf. Also contains a photograph of a Torah scroll on exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York, N.Y. The photograph is dated 1978.

  10. Toby Stern papers

    The Toby Stern papers consists of a letter from E. Klein written on behalf of Toby (Tobi) Stern, July 4, 1945; a document from the Bayerisches Landesamt für Wiedergutmachung, dated February 23,1950 at Nuremberg, Germany, stating that Tobi Stern applied for reparations from the German government; and a letter in Yiddish written by Toby Stern's niece and postmarked October 31, 1955. In the letter, the niece recalls that Stern has a beautiful singing voice and that she used to sing during her time in Auschwitz concentration camp.

  11. Johanna Zwang Neumann letter

    The Johanna Zwang Neumann letter was written by Johanna Zwang Neumann to her husband and daughters describing life in the Gurs concentration camp, delivering news about family members, and discussing her desires to flee Europe.

  12. Military scenes at Iserlohn, Germany

    Contains five black and white copy prints of photographs taken in 1945 at Iserlohn, Germany. One of the photographs depicts German prisoners of war and concentration camp guards captured by American troops.

  13. Dachau concentration camp crematoria photographs and negatives

    The collection consists of six black and white photographs of scenes of the crematoria at Dachau concentration camp shortly after liberation in 1945. According to the donor, the photoprints were taken from a captured German officer after liberation. Each photoprint has a matching photonegative. There is caption information on reverse of each photoprint provided by the donor, Rob Hendrickson.

  14. Photographs of Roman Catholic clergy, Adolf Hitler, and other Nazi officials

    The collection consists of black and white photographs of Roman Catholic bishops and clergy (including the Sigismund Waitz Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria and Wilhelm Frick) with Adolf Hitler and other Nazi officials. The photographs also show Nazi officials and clergy giving the Nazi salute and Nazi flags are seen in several backgrounds.

  15. Margit (Gita) Hammerschlag and Arthur I. Kessler papers

    The Margit (Gita) Hammerschlag and Arthur I. Kessler papers consists of photographs, correspondence, naturalization documents, and International Red Cross documents relating to the experiences of Margit (Gita) Hammerschlag (b. July 27, 1935, Prague, Czechoslovakia), Arthur I. Kessler (b. December 12, 1900, Szczakowa, Poland), and other Kessler family members during the Holocaust.

  16. von Halle family papers

    The von Halle family papers consists of correspondence, certificates, identification cards, and various other documents relating to the Holocaust experiences of the von Halle family in the Netherlands, including Gerd Siegmund von Halle (later Gerald von Halle), Oscar Louis von Halle, Henriette von Halle (née Cohn/Cohen), and Hans Jürgen von Halle. The papers include correspondence written by von Halle family members from the Schoorl concentration camp, Mauthausen concentration camp, and Herzogenbosch concentration camp. A manuscript entitled "Loss, Perseverance, and Triumph: The Story of Ge...

  17. Entrance doors from Hospital No. 1 in the Łódź ghetto

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn1228
    • English
    • a: Height: 128.000 inches (325.12 cm) | Width: 84.750 inches (215.265 cm) b: Height: 29.250 inches (74.295 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) c: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) d: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) e: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)

    Wooden doors of the Łódź ghetto Hospital No.1 (later the Helena Wolf Hospital), removed in 1989, prior to the building’s renovation. On September 1, 1939, German troops invaded Poland, and occupied Łódź the following week, renaming it Litzmannstadt. In February 1940, the German authorities established the Łódź ghetto in the existing slum of Baluty, and forced 160,000 Jews to relocate into one and a half square miles of space. The ghetto was surrounded by barbed wire fencing, and sealed on April 30. The authorities forced the Jewish residents to labor in textile factories, and the police exh...

  18. Abraham Lewent papers

    The Abraham Lewent papers include biographical materials, correspondence, immigration materials, poems, and personal narratives documenting Abraham Lewent, the concentration camps he survived during the Holocaust, his refugee and displaced person status and job training after liberation, and his immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include a list of the places Lewent was incarcerated, a certificate documenting his detention in Dachau, an identification card from the Feldafing displaced persons camp, a membership card for the Council of Warsaw Jews in the American Zone of...

  19. Green metal Werk Kratzau labor camp badge worn by an inmate

    Green painted identification pin impressed Werk Kratzau issued to Helen Waterford at Kratzau-Chrastava labor camp, a satellite camp of Gross Rosen concentration camp, where she was interned from October 1944 until May 1945.