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  1. Helen Winninger Livnat collection

    Collection of photographs and documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the Winninger family. Contains an identity card from the Shargorod ghetto, issued to Fabus Winninger, 39 years old, his wife Beatrice and his daughter Helen, from Gura Humorului; dated March 26, 1943 and signed by the head of the Jewish council, Dr. Meir Teich. Also includes an immigration permit issued to Helen Wininger allowing her to remain in Palestine, dated March 5, 1948; nine photographs of Helen with her parents in the Atlith detention camp, dated October-November 1947; one photograph of a group of child...

  2. District Commission in Lublin to Investigate the Nazi Crimes Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Lublinie

    Contains records of the District Commission in Lublin to Investigate the Nazi Crimes of the Lublin province. Records are very diverse and include files of investigation of German crimes; administrative files, including lists of the members of the Commission; reports and correspondence of the Commission; log books of correspondence, questionnaires with information about places and facts of German crimes; name lists of the deported, arrested and murdered people during the WWII; witnesses’ testimonies; registration cards of the wanted war criminals; name lists of the German officers of the Lub...

  3. "An Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times"

    Consists of a CD containing a memoir entitled "An Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times" by Michael Cann, written in Amherst, MA in 2006, as well as a paper copy of the memoir. Mr. Cann describes his family's history in Berlin, his memory of National Socialism in his school, and his family's immigration to the Netherlands in 1937, and his immigration to the United States in March 1939. He also includes information about life in wartime New York and New Jersey and his family's attempts to rescue additional family members from Europe. After the war, Mr. Cann joined the military and participate...

  4. Nelson Akagi collection

    Consists of photocopies of an album compiled by Nelson Akagi, a Japanese-American member of the 442nd combat regiment of the 552nd Field Artillery, who participated in the liberation of the survivors of a death march near the Dachau concentration camp. The album includes Dr. Akagi's handwritten memories and information regarding Larry Lubetzky, a Lithuanian Jew who was liberated and then employed by the regiment as a translator. In 1994, Dr. Akagi reunited with Mr. Lubetzky, and the folder includes Mr. Lubetzky's memories of his experiences and documentation regarding their 1990s reunion.

  5. "A Man is Stronger Than Iron" "My Years Under the Nazis in Ukraine"

    Consists of one memoir, 150 pages, entitled "A Man is Stronger than Iron: My Years Under the Nazis in Ukraine," 150 pages, by Moishe (Michael) Woszczyna, originally of Stepan, Poland. In his memoir, Mr. Woszczyna describes the German invasion of his town in 1941, anti-Jewish measures imposed by the Germans and Ukrainians, parachutists dropping on his town, the arrival of partisans, and life in the Stepan ghetto. He also describes witnessing the massacre in the ghetto, which he survived by hiding under an oven, and after it was over, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans in the Kore...

  6. "Story of a Jew who Fled Treblinka in August 1943"

    Consists of one typed document, 6 pages, in Hebrew, regarding the escape of a man named "D.M." who escaped Treblinka on August 30, 1943. The document describes D.M.'s experiences hiding under a pile of garments and then fleeing the camp with two other boys, as well as his description of life in the extermination camp. The document was published by the secretariat of the Kibbutz Meuchad "Ha-Chalutz" committee and is dated October 4, 1943.

  7. German family photograph

    Consists of one pre-war photograph of the German (now Germain) family, originally of Ukmerge, Lithuania. The photograph depicts Lezar, Judith, Pesa, Chaim, Riva, and Benjamin German in 1928.

  8. SS training at shooting range at Hebertshausen, near Dachau

    Onscreen title reads: "Das Kleinkaliberschiessen" [small caliber shooting]. Several SS men train at a shooting range, built specially for the SS in 1937, at Hebertshausen, near Dachau. The men confer, shoot at targets, and inspect their weapons. Approximately four thousand Soviet prisoners of war were shot at this location between 1941 and the end of the war.

  9. Joseph interpreting the Pharoh's Dreams Lovis Corinth etching of a man in a loincloth and shackles addressing the Pharaoh and his consort

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41816
    • English
    • 1894
    • overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 23.375 inches (59.373 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)

    Drypoint etching created by Lovis Corinth in 1894 depicting Joseph as shackled slave in a loin cloth, standing before Pharaoh. He is gesturing as he explains: The dream of Pharaoh is one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. Genesis 41: 25-33. Corinth created the print for his first graphic series, Tragicomedies, plate five of nine etchings, one of only 20 that he printed. The series theme involved the use of unusual details to add a farcical element to great events, such as the almost caricatured figure of Joseph, usually depicted as handsome. Corinth was studying anatomy at...

  10. District Court in Warsaw Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie (Sygn. SOW)

    Contains selected files of criminal trials conducted at the District Court in Warsaw during the years 1945-1969. These trials pertain to crimes committed against Jews and Poles during the German occupation. Trials were based on the Decree of August 31, 1944 (“Sierpniówka”), issued by the Polski Komitet Wyzwolenia Narodowego (PKWN), concerning the punishment of war criminals guilty of murders and persecution of civilians and prisoners of war, and the punishment of traitors to the Polish Nation. "Sierpniówka" was one of the world's first legislation on liability for war crimes committed durin...

  11. Gina Rappaport memoir

    Consists of a copy of a memoir, 4 pages, written by Gina Rappaport of Kraków, Poland, immediately after her liberation in April 1945. In the memoir, Gina describes her memories of the German occupation of Kraków, her family's decision to flee to Tarnów, Poland, the actions of the summer of 1941, the family's deportation to Bergen-Belsen, and their liberation in April 1945.

  12. Dachau liberation photographs

    Consists of two photographs taken after the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp. Includes one photograph of a room filled with corpses, and one photograph of two American soldiers looking at corpses in an open railcar.

  13. General Brochwicz-Lewiński Antoni collection Generał Brochwicz-Lewiński Antoni (Kol. 330)

    Contains selected records relating to Jewish matters, cases of desertion of Jews from the Polish Army in Palestine, on the Middle East, the Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army in USSR, statistics, political background of the desertion phenomenon, its technical organization, protocols of investigation of deserters, the study in English relating to the atmosphere in the Polish Army in the UK towards Jews and the orthodox soldiers.

  14. Ministry of Internal Affairs Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrzych (A. 9)

    Consists of selected records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Polish government-in-exile. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Polish government-in-exile between 1940-1949 was overseen by four ministers: Stanisław Kot (1940-1941), Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1941-1943), Władysław Banaczyk (1943-1944), Zygmunt Berezowski (1944-1949). These documents relate to the re-creation and reorganization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in France: correspondence, dispatches, notes and information received from diplomatic posts, emissaries and posts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, corres...

  15. Selected documents from the Departmental Archives of the Indre

    Contains records from local offices including the Prefect’s office and the Police Department dealing with foreigners, the “Jewish question”, the demarcation line between the occupied and unoccupied zones, and refugees, including those from Alsace-Lorraine. Documents from the sub-prefecture of La Châtre (3 Z) are also included, as well as the “Internernent Administratif” section dealing with the camps of Pellevoisin and Douadic. Also contains information on an OSE-created clandestine center to place Jewish children in non-Jewish families in the “chef-lieu, Châteauroux,” lists of arrests and ...

  16. Koch family papers

    Consists of personal letters; Swiss protective passes (Schutzpasses); a report to the police about crimes committed by the Arrow Cross in Budapest; and other documents related to the Koch family.

  17. Jewish Council in Pińsk Rada Żydowska w Pińsku (Sygn.224/1)

    Contains records of the Jewish council in Pińsk. Includes a payroll for the Jewish council workers in Pińsk.

  18. Selected records from the Estonian State Archive

    Contains selected records of Baltöl, the German petroleum company in Estonia; arrest and interrogation records of Jews (R-64); and other miscellaneous records concerning the Holocaust in Estonia.

  19. Bergen-Belsen machzor

    Consists of a machzor (Rosh Hashanah prayer book), which was discovered by Sergeant John Waholek outside the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after the camp was liberated in April 1945. The machzor was published in Warsaw, Poland, in 1940. Sergeant Waholek, a member of the American Army, was sent to Bergen-Belsen to deliver supplies to the British forces that liberated the camp.

  20. Gestapo Headquarter Vienna : Daily Reports Gestapo Leitstelle Wien : Tagesrapporte

    Contains the daily arrest reports of the Gestapo Vienna, the originals of which are held by the Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) and the Bundesarchiv Berlin.