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  1. Selected records from the Departmental Archives of Martinique

    Contains selected records related to Foreign Immigration, and the records from the High Commissioner’s office related to declarations by government employees about whether they were Jewish or members of a freemason lodge. Also contains material concerning business transactions by Jews.

  2. Surveillance of Zionists in Romania

    Contains records relating to the surveillance of Zionists in Romania.

  3. Chaim Wajner collection

    The Chaim Wajner collection consists of handwritten sheet music, printed programs, handwritten and printed lyrics, documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings regarding Chaim Wajner (later Chaim Weiner) and his role as the choir director of the Landsberg Hazomir choir at the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Includes programs for Hazomir performances and sheet music for the songs they performed.

  4. Rhoda Levine collection

    Consists of production material, newspaper clippings, and programs related to the original production of "Der Kaiser von Atlantis" which was composed by Victor Ullmann while imprisoned in Theresienstadt (Terezin). Includes an audiocassette of the first performance of the opera, performed in Amsterdam in 1975, copies of the musical score, and photographic prints of the first production. Also includes newspaper clippings and programs regarding subsequent venues where the original production was performed. Ullmann was murdered in Auschwitz in October 1944.

  5. Siegfried Abraham collection

    Consists of one CD containing scanned images of documents related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Siegfried Abraham, originally of Hamburg, Germany. The family, who were living in Amsterdam, were deported to Bergen-Belsen in 1944, but were part of a prisoner exchange in January 1945 in which they were taken first to Switzerland, and then to Algeria. Includes copies of travel documents, family photographs, identity documentation as residents of the UNRRA camp at Jeanne d'Arc at Philippeville, the family's Haitian passports, which they were able to obtain from family friends to ...

  6. "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...

  7. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection

    Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. Materials also document Martha Sharp’s postwar campaign for Congress, activities in Israel, continuing work for the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, family and personal life, and work with the Cogan Foundation and other charitable agencies. The collection includes Martha’s unpubli...

  8. Marti Korach Weiss collection

    The collection includes a diary written by Ilona Braunstein Korach in 1945, documenting her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland and Buchenwald concentration camp sub-camps Gelsenkirchen and Sömmerda. The diary was created by Livia Klein with whom Ilona and her daughter Martha were in camp with. The front cover of the diary states "Ilu [Ilona] Béla [Ilona’s husband who perished] and Marti” and the back states “minden elmulik egyszer” ("this too shall pass").

  9. Harvey Buchsbaum collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the grandparents of Harvey Buchsbaum in Germany, who were killed in the Holocaust.

  10. Amateur film club visits Dachau, 1942

    Title onscreen indicates that the footage shows an outing of the Munich amateur film club to Dachau, 1942. See Stories 1282, 1284, and 1285 for related footage. Very bluish color. A slate reads: "Special train (Sonderzug) for the amateur film club leaves at 7:45 am for Dachau." Members of the film club ride the train to Dachau. A clock indicates that they are arriving at Dachau train station at 8:19. They arrive at the station and begin filming in the residential/commercial areas of the town (NOT the camp). It appears to be summertime, based on their clothing. Club members film using a trip...

  11. Tola Ratz collection

    Contains letters written by Dr. Ignacy Izak Trocki (donor’s paternal uncle) in France to his cousin Renee Leszczynska in New York, dated May 1939-June 1941. Also includes photographs of the Trocki family in Zgierz, Poland and Benjamin Trocki with his cousin Renia in Nice in 1948. Dr. Trocki was born in Zgierz, Poland. He joined the Republican forces in Spain during the Civil War and in 1939 was imprisoned in Gurs internment camp. His wife Stefa and daughter Carmen lived in Paris and later the family lived in Narbonne. Dr. Trocki tried to leave France, without success. His brother Benjamin T...

  12. Jews in Poland; unearthing the Ringelblum Archives

    Immediate postwar documentary about the Jews in Poland during World War II. In Yiddish with English subtitles. Also called "We the Survivors". 06:12:59 to 06:13:58 Footage of the first unearthing of the Ringelblum Archives on September 19, 1946 in the ruins of the Warsaw ghetto. During the war, Emanuel Ringelblum and a team of historians within the Warsaw Ghetto assembled an astonishing set of testimonies, documents, and photographs, which they preserved in buried milk cans to be unearthed after the war. Man arrives on a motorcycle at a large pile of rubble. Group of men stand at the entran...

  13. Martha H. Patterson photograph album

    The Martha H. Patterson photograph album consists of a photograph album of the 1936 Summer Olympic games in Berlin, Germany. The album includes pictures taken by a spectator who attended the games and later immigrated to the United States. Images include the opening ceremonies, with spectators giving the Nazi salute to the Olympic flame; African-American athlete Jesse Owens; Glen Morris; general track and field events; a swimming pool; and the entrance to the stadium marked with the Nazi swastika.

  14. George Lowy collection

    Contains correspondence from Camilla Arm (donor's maternal grandmother) in Czechoslovakia to her daughter Franciska and son-in-law Fritz [Bedrich] Loewy (donor's parents) in Palestine through Romania; Fritz, Franciska, and George Loewy immigrated to Palestine in 1938. Collection also includes correspondence from Ernst Arm (Franciska's older brother); dated 1939-1941; Camilla passed away in January 1941 in Czechoslovakia and Ernst fled to Sweden where he remained through the second World War.

  15. U.S. soldiers at Berchtesgaden; marching in Munich; boarding trains with locals to go home

    Driving in the countryside around Munich (1945), now in the area around Berchtesgaden. Beautiful shot of the Alps mountains while driving over a river. Soldiers stop alongside the road and enjoy a moment in the sun. A convoy pulls up to the wreckage of Hitler's headquarters at Berchtesgaden. The camera looks down from the mountainside onto a large group of military vehicles gathered in the valley below. Mountain scenes taken from the Eagle's nest. 01:31:03 Soldiers hike in the mountains, then have a picnic on the hood of a jeep (1945). Views of the Isaar River in Munich. CU, archway with in...

  16. Sketchbook of drawings created postwar by a former Polish soldier, POW, and refugee

    Notebook of color sketches created by Benedykt Filipiak postwar about his experiences in Poland and Germany during the war and in Germany and the United States after the war. Benedykt, 15, was a Polish Catholic youth attending the Polish Officer Cadet College when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He went into active service, was captured, and sent to Stalag XIB. He escaped and joined the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa.) as a resistance fighter. From August-October 1944, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising and was captured by the Germans during the failed battle to liberate Warsaw....

  17. Esther Kliger-Shlamovitch photograph collection

    Collection consisting of 19 photographs; one photograph is adhered to scrapbook page and three photographs are adhered to scrapbook page by tape

  18. Kaethe Wells collection

    Consists of material related to the Schohl family, including correspondence and documents illustrating Max Schohl's efforts to secure affidavits for his family's emigration from Germany to the United States and the efforts of his cousin, Julius Hess. Included in the collection are correspondence between Max and Julius, documents and identification papers for members of the Schohl family and photographic prints.

  19. Olav Brunvand collection

    Contains a note written clandestinely on on scraps of paper by Olav Brunvand (donor's uncle), a Norwegian journalist arrested and imprisoned in the Rendsburg prison in Germany. The note was written using materials snuck in by Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, who visited over a dozen prisons regularly in her capacity of censor. Zassenhaus agreed to sneak written pages out of the prison for Brunvand and buried them in her garden, retrieving them after the War in 1945 and returned them to Brunvand. Olav was liberated in 1945 in Denmark.

  20. 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...