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  2. Dachau negatives collection

    Contains two negatives with images of concentration camps following liberation, including one taken at Dachau.

  3. Personal papers of F. Th. Dijckmeester

    The personal archive of Frans Theodoor Dijckmeester (1917-2003). The collection consists of documents concerning the "Kersten" matters: the report, correspondence and newspaper clippings about Dr. F. Kersten. It also includes a report by Kersten about his network in the occupied Netherlands, and a German translation of an article by Prof. L. de Jong about Dr. F. Kersten, and corresponding letters. Felix Kersten (1898-1960) was before and during WWII a personal physical therapist of Heinrich Himmler. Kersten used his contacts with Himmler to help people persecuted by Nazi Germany. He played ...

  4. Private papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (A440)

    Personal papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (1904-1992). The collection consists of articles, notes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, manuscript and narrations of Eva Michaelis-Stern concerning her work for the Youth Aliyah in Germany and England; correspondence between Eva Michaelis-Stern and various people, mainly private; agreement between Michaelis-Stern and war veterans organization; newspaper articles, pictures and letters, notes, various booklets, guides and printed material from the Keren Hayesod, the Central Zionist Archives and the Council for Social Services and Voluntarism, inclu...

  5. Bulgarian funeral photograph album

    Photograph album consisting of six large photographs documenting a Jewish funeral procession in Sofia, Bulgaria circa 1942. The album depicts images of two men with Star of David armbands on their coats walking along the procession, the coffin draped with cloth with Star of David, women and children carrying wreaths at the head of the procession, and Chief Rabbis of Sofia Rabbi Asher Yitzchak Chananel and Rabbi Daniel Zion.The cover has "Album hand printed across it and features a circular portrait of a man presumed to be the deceased in the upper left corner.

  6. Memorial and Nazis marching in Munich

    “NAZI MEMORIAL.” People outside Felderrnhalle, a landmark in the Odeonsplatz. Nazi soldiers stand guard in front of the Mahnmal der Bewegung monument at Felderrnhalle. Pedestrians walk by and heil. “RECENT CONVERTS.” Soldiers march in neat rows on the side of the street. “MARIENPLATZ” German civilians in the street by Old Town Hall. MS, New Town Hall in Marienplatz. “VON DER TANN STRASSE” Large banner across Von der Tann Strasse: “Unsere Ziele find Arbeit, Freiheit, Brot und ein Frieden der cher” [Our goals are work, freedom, bread and peace] Nazi flags. Men ride bicycles. A traffic officer...

  7. Elsbeth Kasses papers Nachlass Elsbeth Kasses (1910-1992)

    Private papers of Elsbeth Kasser (1910-1992), a nurse and aid worker for refugees in the internment camp of Gurs and in other places. The collection consists of: photographs; certificates; medals; and correspondence, including various documents relating to childcare in the southern France, refugee rescue, the internment camp Gurs, the medical mission to Finland, and the Swiss assistance to war victims; documentation on occupational therapy in Zurich, former internees, former employees in rescue projects in Spain and Southern France, and on rescue in Denmark, Germany and Switzerland; Also in...

  8. Simon Marcks correspondence

    Collection of correspondence written by Simon Marcks (donor's paternal grandfather) in Germany to his children (donor's parents) who were able to leave Germany in 1938 to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe); dated February 1940 - January 1942; in German. Simon Marcks was unable to leave Germany due to financial reasons. His wife Zilla (Karoline) died of natural causes, but Simon along with his three sisters, was deported from Dusseldorf to Theresienstadt on July 22, 1942. On September 21, 1942, he was deported to Treblinka and is presumed to have been killed upon arrival, as there were no surv...

  9. Minnie and William Fuchs papers

    Contains a copy of a report to be presented to the United States Congress on the investigation and conditions of concentration camps discovered in former Nazi occupied Germany as detailed by Dwight Eisenhower; dated April 20, 1945; in English.

  10. My life, as a child, during the holocaust in Romania

    Testimony: “My life, as a child, during the holocaust in Romania”; 10 pages, in English by Liviu Schapira, born 1934 in Piatra Neamtz, Romania. Schapira describes his experiences primarily between 1939-1944. He describes the rise of the Iron Guard to power, expulsion from school for being Jewish, the murder of family members and other Jews by the Iron Guard, anti-Jewish laws and restrictions, how his father’s instincts helped the family avoid deportation, liberation by the Russians, and life after liberation.

  11. Bettelheim family collection

    Contains a passport issued by the German Reich "Reisepass" to Dr. Bruno Bettelheim stamped with a red letter "J" to mark the bearer as a Jew, issued in Vienna on January 26, 1939 and stamped with the US immigration visa, dated April 18, 1939; a driver's license issued to Bruno Bettelheim in Vienna in August 1932; birth certificates of Anton Bettelheim, Bruno Bettelheim and Pauline Seidler; Heimatschein [certificate of citizenship] issued to Anton Bettleheim; University Diploma issued to Bruno Bettelheim bestowing the title of Doctor of Philosophy, in Latin, dated February 2, 1933; a US natu...

  12. Photographic print of Albert Einstein, 1941

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613744
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.880 inches (27.635 cm) | Width: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.190 inches (25.883 cm) | Width: 13.880 inches (35.255 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of Albert Einstein at Princeton, 1941.

  13. Children ski; Women repair damage in Slovakia

    Outdoors in Spišská Nová Ves. Children, including Emma and George and their friends Vitaliy and Peter, ski in the snow. 00:00:50 Women greet each other, shake hands (with Elizabeth Vasilevsky?) , and smile for the camera.One fixes her hair and looks in a handheld mirror. The two women link arms with George Vasilevsky (camera around his neck) and proceed towards the camera. CUs of the two women, snowball fight, probably at the residence of the Vasilevsky family. One writes a word in the snow with the tripod. 00:04:06 Teenage girl (Emma?) with glasses in scout uniform walks towards the camera...

  15. Photographic print of an anti-Semitic demonstration in Warsaw

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613487
    • English
    • overall: Height: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Width: 13.940 inches (35.408 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.690 inches (27.153 cm) | Width: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm)

    Gelatin silver print, anti-semitic demonstration by members of Poland's right-wing nationalist party giving the Nazi salute, Jewish district of Warsaw, ca. 1937-38.

  16. Neuman (Nenner) family collection

    Collection of documents of the Neumann (Nenner) family from their time in the Displaced Persons Camp in Lechfeld in Germany and their immigration to Palestine; dated 1940s-1950s. Includes a temporary exit pass from the artillery officers' course taking place in a military garrison, Bucharest, 1943; a civil marriage certificate, Bucharest, 1944; a recruitment certificate to "Va'ad leSherut Ha'Am" in Lechfeld Displaced Persons Camp; a birth certificate of a baby girl born in Ainring (Bavaria), 1947; an import form for merchandise imported by boat, railway, surface mail or by air for use in Is...

  17. Central Bank of China one cent scrip

  18. Rolf Henne papers Nachlass Dr. iur. Rolf Henne (1901-1966)

    Private papers of Rolf Henne (1901-1966), a Swiss attorney and politician of the National Front (NF) and pro-Nazi movements. The collection consists of his personal documents; diaries, 1914-1918, 1920-1924, and 1939-1945; photographs; press releases; documents on various organizations and on political opponents of the National Front and New Front; speeches and lectures, 1932-1939; preparatory work for a never-realized book project on the history of the Swiss Confederation; records on the 04 Jan. 1944 bombardment of Schaffhausen; Swiss demography; press and language policies; the Swiss-Germa...

  19. Brick from a Polish ghetto manufactured by the Heiss brick factory

    Brick from the Lwów ghetto in L’viv Ukraine (formerly Lvov, Poland). The brick is from the area that the Lvov Judenrat building was located and is marked with the name of the Heiss brick factory, which was owned by a Jewish family. Before World War II, the Jewish population in Lvov was 110,000. In September 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded, occupied and partitioned Poland and Lvov came under Soviet control. During this time nearly 100,000 refugees fleeing German occupied areas of Poland streamed into the city. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Lvov was oc...