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  1. Prayer book

    Prayer book given to David Bajer, 25, on a 1947 trip to Amsterdam, Netherlands. He went inside a synagogue and the rabbi gave him a set of tefillin to use and to keep and David picked up this prayer book as well. David was the only survivor from a very devout family from Kozienice, Poland. Although he lost faith in Judaism during the Holocaust, he kept this siddur with him as a talisman for seventy years. He decided to donate the book to the Museum, but brought the book to the Museum for three weeks in a row before he finally had the courage to donate it on May 31, 2017. Kozienice was occup...

  2. German Templers photograph collection

    Contains photographs showing German Templers in the village of Bethlehem of Galilee and the nearby village of Waldheim, dated 1936, during a gathering of “Hitlerjugend” (Hitler Youth) organization.

  3. Translation of George Byfield wartime diary and album ("Oroszfront, 1942/43")

    The collection consists of an English translation of the wartime diary and album created by György Beifeld (later George Byfield), titled “Oroszfront 1942-1943: Munkaszolgálat Oroszországban” (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2001.156). George Somorjai, the donor and translator, included his translations, annotations, and additional explanatory texts to each page of the album. Also included are essays on the historical background and context of the album, which describe, among other things, the participation of the Somorjai’s father, Dr. Lajos Somorjai, in the same labor battalion...

  4. Family vacation at sea in Opatija

    Lizzy Film Produktion. Mitglied des Klubs der Kinoamateure Osterreichs. “Ferien am Meer. Abbazia 1933”, “Ankunft in Abbazia” (00:00:36) A planes flies overhead and then lands on the water in Abbazia (Opatija, Croatia). A ship, the Lorenzo Marcello, comes in to dock. Hans [Hans Otto Kessler] watches the boat, possibly with his father Jakob. Sailors peek out of the port holes. “Blick vom Meer” Camera shows the harbor and waves crashing. “Fröhliche Tage” (00:03:33) A women, possibly Lizzy, rides a board being pulled by a boat in the water. Hans smiles while he watches Lizzy. “Springkonkurrenz”...

  5. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Honorary Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Thessalonikē Konsulat Honorowy Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Salonikach (Sygn. 467)

    Correspondence related to Jewish minorities in Greece and Poland, Zionist organizations in Thessalonikē, Palestinian matters, the situation of Jewish emigrants living in Greece, Jewish emigration, ritual slaughter, Polish Presidency of the Thessaloniki Consulate in the face of anti-Polish revolution and claims.

  6. Prayer book

    Hamash volumes belonging to Leo Loeb, with inscriptions by him as well as by his father.

  7. Rose and Max Schindler collection

    Contains documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Rose Schwartz Schindler and Max Schindler, Holocaust survivors who met and married in the United Kingdom after World War II. Max’s family was deported from Cottbus, Germany to Poland in October 1938; Max, his father Benjamin, and brother Alfred performed slave labor in numerous concentration camps including Płaszow, Litoměřice, and Theresienstadt, where Max and Alfred were liberated in 1945. Rose and her two sisters, Helen and Udka, were deported from Seredné, Czechoslovakia, to Auschwitz. They survived together and returned...

  8. Olympic fencer Helene Mayer demonstrates fencing techniques

    Title card reads: “Distributed by the University of California Extension Division Berkeley.” Techniques of Foil Fencing.” Produced and Distributed by the Extension Division of University of California.” "Prepared under the Supervision of the Physical Education Department for Women University of California Berkeley, California.” "Demonstrated by Helene Mayer U.S.A and World Champion.” "The Salute and the Bout.” Two fencers, a man on the left and Helene Mayer on the right, stand in uniform facing on another. They perform the salute with their swords. They put their helmets on. They fence. Tit...

  9. Pair of brown suede woman's shoes

    Pair of brown suede shoes with laces bought by Chana Scharf immediately after returning to Poland from Siberia.

  10. Selected records from the State Regional Archives in Montana related to the history of the Jewish community of Montana (Ferdinand) region

    Selected records from the Montana (Ferdinand) regional administration, Regional Court School Inspectorate as well as records from the City Administration of Lom, and Berkovitsa. Included are correspondence between regional administration, local Jewish communities and individual Jews pertaining to the registration of the Jewish-owned commercial companies, Jewish public organizations, elections of Jewish Community Board and Jewish school board; applications pertaining to the discriminatory Ant-Jewish legislation in accordance with the "Law for the Defense of the Nation", passport applications...

  11. Jerome Ney papers

    Correspondence, documents, telegrams, and related materials concerning the efforts of Jerome Ney, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, to help relatives emigrate from Germany between 1938 and 1941. Relatives included his second cousin, Herbert Neu, and Neu’s parents and sister, Sigmund, Carola, and Ellinor, who were able to immigrate to the United States, due to Ney’s efforts; as well as Jerome Ney’s paternal aunt, Emma David, and her four daughters, who were unable to leave Germany and perished in the Holocaust. Includes correspondence with relatives, government agencies, aid organizations, immigratio...

  12. Oral history interview with Freuda Bark

  13. Archive of the Jewish Community Kreuzlingen Jüdische Gemeinde Kreuzlingen Archiv (1921-2009)

    Records of the Jüdische Gemeinde Kreuzlingen (Jewish Community Kreuzlingen). The collection consists of reports, statutes, circulars, payment receipts, accounting records, various administrative correspondence, and executive correspondence with political authorities, Jewish associations, and Zionist associations; correspondence and other documents on refugee aid, Zionist efforts, welfare commission, Christian-Jewish associations, Jewish cemetery Kreuzlingen-Bernrain, School and Youth Commission, Jewish Women's Association of Kreuzlingen, Jewish communities in Basel, Bern, Genf, Luzern, St, ...

  14. Sheiman family photographs

    The Sheiman family photographs consist of three photographs depicting pre-war Jewish life in Radziejów, Poland. Included are a studio portrait of unidentified Sheiman relatives, and two group portraits, the first of pupils and teachers of a local cheder, and the second depicting the Jewish community of Radziejów gathered at the ground breaking of a new synagogue in 1938.

  15. Luise Wetter papers Nachlass Luise Wetter (1917-1991)

    Private papers of Luise Wetter (1917-1991), a Swiss aid worker for refugee children during and after the war, including Jewish children from Vienna in the Pestalozzi children's home (1945 to 1947). The collection consists of biographical materials of Luise Wetter, a resume, personal documents and photographs; correspondence and letters from supervised children from Vienna and Nice; letters from Ida Koplik; "thank you" letters to Martin Wetter (Luise's brother); photographs relating to aid to refugee children, their activities in the Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz (SRK) children's camps in Vien...

  16. Frances Whitney collection

    Contains a Christmas card and photograph received by Frances Seeds Whitney from Lajos Krausz, an acquaintance she met while traveling through Europe before World War II, circa 1928. The photograph is labeled on verso: "1929...on the farm." Lajos lived in Subotica, Hungary, when he sent this card and photograph; he did not survive the Holocaust.

  17. Natan Huppert postcard collection

    Three postcards, sent from family members and acquaintances living in Auschwitz (Oświęcim) Poland, to Natan Huppert, living in Lwow, Soviet-occupied Poland, and later in the Arkhangelsk region of Russia, 1940-1941. Two of the postcards, from February and March 1940, were sent to Huppert in Lwow from his father, Heinrich Huppert, the latter of whom was living in Auschwitz. The third postcard was sent from Erna Bachner, living in Auschwitz, and addressed to Huppert in Arkhangelsk, Russia, in February 1941. All three postcards also are addressed to Dora, who was presumably Huppert's wife and...

  18. Yvonne Kohen Bourla correspondence

    Contains a letter sent by Yvonne Kohen Bourla (donor’s grandmother) in Istanbul to her cousin Estherina Scaloni in Salonika, Greece, dated April 9, 1942; Estherina’s reply on verso dated June 10, 1942. The letter is written on Vatican Embassy paper, which Yvonne Bourla was able to use courtesy of Julia Foskolo, a Catholic woman who was taking care of Yvonne's daughters.

  19. Zilbert Family Collection

    Contains documents related to the donor's father's immigration from Poland, and subsequent correspondence from his family still in Białystok, Poland.

  20. Archives of the Association of Immigrants from Czechoslovakia (J125)

    Working files of the Association of Immigrants from Czechoslovakia, located in Israel.