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  1. Dorothea Minskoff photographs

    Three photographic prints documenting the prosecutors and witnesses during the I.G. Farben trial in Nuremberg: 1) image of prosecution team member Dorothea Grater Minskoff standing at the podium, 2) members of the prosecution team, including Josiah E. Dubois, Jr. (Chief Prosecutor and Deputy Chief of Counsel) and Ruth Benedicta Kempner (third from the left), standing in the courtroom in front of a map of the I.G. Farben factories at Auschwitz, and 3) image of a group of British POWs who testified as witnesses for the prosecution at the trial standing in front of the same map.

  2. Research papers of Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy (1990 - 2003) Forschungsdokumentationen Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy

    Research papers of Theo Tschuy (1925-2003), a Swiss theologian. Theo Tschuy collected reserch materials realted to his book about Carl Lutz, "Carl Lutz und die Juden von Budapest." Carl Lutz (1895-1975) was the Swiss consul in Budapest during World War II, and single-handedly rescued 62,000 Jews from deportation; research materials related to an unfinished book about the children of La Hille, France; as well contains photographs, reports, and other documentation for the travelling exhibition "Visas for Life." The collection consists of three parts: 1. Konsul Carl Lutz" (1.Teil); "Die Kinder...

  3. Sara Fischer collection Colección Sara Fischer

    Contains poems, songs, photographs, questionnaires, correspondence, and papers of Sara Fisher, a writer on Jewish education and a head of the Israeli kindergarten central council.

  4. John Stix collection

    Consists of 34 photographs taken at the liberation of the Ohrdruf and Buchenwald concentration camps by John Stix, who was part of the 166th Signal Photo Corps in the United States Army. The photographs depict images of the camp grounds, of survivors, of corpses, and includes portraits of several survivors. Some of the photographs have descriptions on the verso and some are mounted on black paper.

  5. Large damaged Deutsche Arbeitsfront banner with a swastika and cog wheel

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn45086
    • English
    • a: Height: 78.000 inches (198.12 cm) | Width: 61.000 inches (154.94 cm) b: Height: 119.000 inches (302.26 cm) | Width: 74.000 inches (187.96 cm)

    Very large Musterbetriebsfahne [Model factory banner], torn into two panels, of the type awarded by the National Socialist German Labor Front [DAF / Deutsche Arbeitsfront] as of 1941. Known as the Golden Banner, it has a black swastika inside a 14 pronged gold cogwheel on a red field, the symbol of the DAF. The Nazi regime abolished all trade unions in 1933 except the DAF, to ensure political control over industry. On August 29, 1936, the Performance Contest of German Businesses was established to reward the factory with the highest increases in production. A banner was awarded yearly on Ma...

  6. Pessia Polak collection

    Letters by Pessla Wellner (donor's grandmother) with occassional comments by other family members sent to Riwka and Jonas Markowitz (donor's parents), who had escaped from Poland to Soviet Central Asia (Bukhara) during World War II; as well as photographs from the Mariendorf (Berlin) displaced persons camp, including portraits of the donor.

  7. Comitetul Democrat Evresc. Biroul I.O.V.R Records of the Jewish Democratic Committee Office of the Association of Widows and Orphans from the Iasi branch of the Romanian National Archives

    This collection consists of 1,350 files containing questionnaires with families of Jewish victims of the Pogrom of Iaşi, death certificates, interviews with survivors, hospital release forms, Jews in forced labor in the Iasi area, birth certificates and other family records.

  8. Herbert Kammer family papers

    Correspondence, documents, and texts, related to the experiences of Herbert Kammer and his parents, Georg and Rosa Kammer, during World War II, as they fled their native Austria. Includes two letters sent by Herbert to his mother Rosa, in England, the first from the La Hille childrens home in Ariege, France, in May 1941, and a second letter following his arrival in Chicago in June 1941, as well as a third letter that Herbert had sent to his father in March 1941. Also included are documents related to the imprisonment of Georg Kammer at the Récébédou concentration camp, including a postca...

  9. Kollander family collection

    Consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the Kollander family, originally of Leipzig, Germany. The bulk of the collection is related to Max Kollander, who emigrated to the United States in 1926, including correspondence with family in Germany, affidavits to get his parents to the United States, and telegrams from 1938-1939 after the Kristallnacht arrest of Max's brother Leo. The entire family was eventually able to leave Germany and survived the war.

  10. Dan Mihailovici and Gers Meirovici collection

    Consists of a notarized document from the Library of the Academy of Romania attesting that Dan Mihailovici and Gers Meirovici were in forced labor in the village of Fierbinti when, in 1942, they were arrested for distributing Communist propaganda. They were sentenced to death and executed in March 1942. Also includes a copy of the final letter sent by Dan Michailovici to his family.

  11. 1939 medal, "Why we fight".

    Medal: one side depicts caricature of Jewish man with Star of David on his collar, behind bag of money and caption "Wofur Kampfen Unsere Feinde"; other side depicts German soldier, people working, and Nazi eagle symbol with caption "Grossdeutschland kampft fur den frieden gegen den schandvertrag von Versailles"

  12. Dave and Cathy Philips collection

    The Dave and Cathy Philips collection contains a German passport issued to David Israel Pepis which includes visas for Bolivia (1939), Paraguay (1940) and Palestine (August 27, 1945 with inscription "war refugee"); issued Vienna, Austria on December 21, 1939; in German, Spanish, and English. The collection also includes a document and photograph relating to Eric E. Hirshler which was found folded and tucked into the passport; dated circa 1950s; in English, pertaining to Hirshler's desire to work for the U.S. Department of State. Passport acquired by Harriet Jane Philips (donor's sister) who...

  13. Central Committee of the Jews in Poland (CKŻP). Personnel Department Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Personaly (Sygn. 303/III)

    This collection includes the records of the Personnel Department of the Centralny Komitet Żydὀw Polskich (CKŻP). Contains documentation relating to employees of CKŻP, e.g. job applications, questionnaires (comprising of resumes and photographs), cards of the staff, insurance papers, certificates and statements, holiday leave, roll cards, sick leave, reports concerning the current number of employees, etc.

  14. Anna Csillag Fränkel postcard collection

    Postcards (9), sent from and sent to a variety of individuals in different concentration camps, internment camps, labor camps, or ghettos. Includes postcards from Izbica, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Ilag VII internment camp in Laufen (Upper Bavaria), Ravensbrück, and the Łódź ghetto. Also includes one postcard sent to a German army officer at the front, with an ink stamp at the bottom reading "Die Juden sind unser Unglück!" and a blank postcard of the type used at Auschwitz, with a Polish postage stamp from 1970 commemorating Auschwitz and an ink stamp relating to an exhibition there in that ...

  15. Photograph of crematorium at Dachau

    Consists of one photograph depicting American soldiers standing outside the crematorium in the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp. The soldiers are examining a pile of corpses.

  16. Zionist Organizations Organizacje Syjonistyczne (Sygn. 333)

    Contains documentation of the Zionist parties and organizations that operated in Poland after the war. Includes organizational files, protocols of council meetings, correspondence, applications for emigration, personal files, materials for publication, bulletins, and files of regional branch offices of the following organizations: the Ichud, Ha-Noar Ha-Cijoni, WIZO-Women`s International Zionist Organization, Organization of General Zionists (Organization of General Zionists– Hitachdut Cijonim Klaliim) and Ha-Owed Ha-Cijoni, Jewish Zionist-Socialist Labor Party Poalej Syjon C.S. Hitachdut, G...

  17. Ilse Auerbach collection

    Contains correspondence, immigration documents, news clippings, certificates, and naturalization papers related to the life and immigration of Ilse Auerbach and her mother, Anna, originally of Berlin, to the United States in 1941. They arrived in new York on June 21, 1941, aboard the ship Villa de Madrid.

  18. Photographs from Siedlce Fotografie z Siedlec (Sygn. 266)

    Contains various photographs (the size of a passport photo) submitted with applications for identity cards to the Jewish Council in Siedlce. The applications have probably not survived. Only some of the photographs contain name on the reverse side. Identification of the individuals on the photographs is mostly impossible to determine.

  19. Helena Kaut-Howson and Mieczyslawa Wazacz collection

    Contains four photographs, one letter, and one undated testimony describing the writer's experiences during the German occupation in Poland, and the experiences of her late husband, who died in a labor camp.

  20. Advertising flier for a book about Hitler's rise to power and copies of his Decrees

    Small double sided flier advertising a book by Erich Czech-Jochberg about Adolf Hitler, Wie Adolf Hitler der Führer wurde, describing the history of the Nazi Party and how Hitler became Fuhrer. The back advertises published versions of Hitler's Decrees for the expansion of the Reich and the labor force and for the prevention of genetically diseased offpspring.