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  1. Selected files from the collection: "Preussische Bau- und Finanzdirection" (A Pr. Br. Rep. 042)

    Records include the following topics: communist sub organizations; status and retirement of Jewish civil servants; taxes for Jewish properties and other Jewish property matters; inquiries concerning Jewish companies; employment of war prisoners; antisemitic books; mail service for the Gestapo and the “Ostgebiete” (Eastern regions); requirements for Jewish students in foreign countries; and proof of Aryan origin.

  2. "My Memoir, 1914-2004"

    Consists of one memoir entitled "My Memoir, 1914-2004," 75 pages, by Maurice Eis, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Maurice describes his memories of childhood in Frankfurt, his arrest on Kristallnacht and brief imprisonment in Dachau, and his immigration, first to Shanghai and then on to the United States. In the United States, Maurice was drafted into the American Army and participated in the D-Day invasion of Europe and the Battle of the Bulge. The memoir includes copies of photographs and documents related to his life.

  3. Kurt I. Lewin Israeli War of Independence collection

    Consists of documents related to the post-war life of Kurt I. Lewin, originally of Lwow, Poland, in Israel after World War II. Mr. Lewin became a member of the Haganah, and a Major in the Israeli Defense Forces during the War of Independence. Includes recommendations, identification papers, commissioning documents, and veteran commemoration materials.

  4. "Surviving the Death March" memoir

    Consists of a memoir, 15 pages, relating Sam Silberberg's memories of a death march, between the Blechhammer concentration camp and the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, that took place in late January 1945. Mr. Silberberg managed to escape the death march after one week and reunited with his mother, who was hiding in Neisse, Germany (Nysa, Poland), as an Aryan. His father, who was also on the march from Blechhammer, perished before reaching Gross-Rosen.

  5. "The Upside of Memory"

    Consists of two copies of a DVD-ROM entitled "The Upside of Memory," by Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, which follows her parents, Chris and Miles Lerman (a founder and Chairman Emeritus of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Council) on a trip to Poland in 2004, to dedicate the new Belzec Memorial and for Miles to receive the Polish Commander's Cross medal from President Aleksander Kwaś́niewski. The Lerman family also visits Tomaszów-Lubelski (birthplace of Miles and his brother, Jona Lerman) and the Auschwitz concentration camp. Chris, an Auschwitz survivor, guides her grandchildren t...

  6. Robert Hopper collection

    Consists of post-war letters sent to survivor Hrissetta Badescu, restitution paperwork related to the family of Alexander Weinrich, identity cards and paperwork related to survivor Alexander Dolin, a copy of "Tale of a City" published by the Office of War Information (OWI), the May 1939 issue of "Current History" which includes a large section on refugees, and other miscellaneous documents related to American preparation and policies towards Germany. Also includes one album, containing clippings of articles regarding displaced persons camps, written by Jack Delaney, a journalist with the Jo...

  7. Giovanni Palatucci collection

    Collection consists of four vintage photographs and one document relating to Giovanni Palatucci [donor's maternal uncle].

  8. Selected records from Ministerul de Razboi, Cabinetul Ministrului

    Contains records concerning the policies of local offices on Jewish matters, including records relating to movements of the Third and Fourth Armies, antisemitism, and Jewish forced labor. Also contains list of Jews from Neant forced labor camp, and records from Vspnisska camp.

  9. "My Life-Story": Ruth Marks memoir

    Consists of memoir, 66 pages, entitled "My Life-Story," by Ruth Marks (Roma Glowinski). Originally from Kalisz, Poland, Ruth spent the war in hiding as Vislava (Viesha) Serafinska in Pruszków, Poland. Her parents and sister were deported from the Sandomierz ghetto in 1942 and perished in Belzec. Ruth Marks emigrated to Israel in 1947.

  10. Tsiyon [Zion] shaped stone Shabbat candleholder and base carved in a Cyprus detention camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518912
    • English
    • 1948
    • a: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) b: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Depth: 5.380 inches (13.665 cm)

    Shabbat candleholder crafted by Maurice Grauer while at a British detention camp in Cyprus from 1947 to 1948. It was carved from a floor tile using a sardine can as a carving tool. Grauer and his wife, Natalia, were on the ship, Ben Hecht, en route to Palestine when it was stopped by the British authorities. All the passengers, many of them, like the Grauers, Holocaust survivors, were detained in Cyprus. Palestine was under British control and the immigration policy was very restrictive. The Grauer's first child, Sophie, was born in the camp in 1948. Early that year, the British began to wi...

  11. Motek Weglinski papers

    Documents issued to Motek Weglinski (Murray Weglinski) who, after his liberation from numerous concentration and slave labor camps, lived and worked in the displaced persons' camp Eschwege in Germany. The documents include an identification card issued to Motek Weglinski by the "Office aiding all..religious persecuted..", statement that he was liberated in concentration camp Bergen-Belsen in Germany.

  12. Nowy Dwór photograph

    Consists of a photograph of a fifth anniversary commemoration of the destruction of the Jewish community in Nowy Dwór, Poland. The photograph depicts a large group of people holding a banner and was taken in the Pocking, Germany, displaced persons camp.

  13. Taubenblat family letters

    Consists of a collection of letters written between 1937 - 1941, by the family of Meyer and Bajla Taubenblat of Staszów, Poland, to family in the United States. In the letters, they describe their lives and fears in pre-war and wartime Poland. The authors of the letters (with the exception of Meyer, who passed away in 1938) perished in the Holocaust. Selig Taubenblatt provides translations of the letters and family history information in his book, "To Remember: Letters from Staszów, Poland, 1937-1941." Includes CD-ROMs containing scanned images of the letters.

  14. Anka Warszawska photographs

    Collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs taken in Kazimierz, Kokandre, Druskianiki, and Warsaw, Poland.

  15. Natalie Gonenn photographs

    Consists of pre-war photographs of the childhood and extended family of Nechama Rendler, originally of Chełm, Poland; also includes post-war photographs taken at the Templehof displaced persons camp. Nechama and her family spent the war in Siberia.

  16. Henia Lewin photographs

    Contains eight pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs depicting Henia Wisgardisky and her family of Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania.

  17. Neubiberg Air Force Base

    Neubiberg Air Force Base (9 km south of Munich). Pan (L to R) of truck trailer with "Camel Caravan to Berlin" painted on side, Fire Department, airport tower, sign "Field Elevation - 1800 ft", hangar. Small airplanes line grassy field. Airplane moves along runway, seen from inside plane with controls, view through windshield. Aerial views of war-damaged Germany. Return to AFB, planes on airfield.

  18. Raffaelle Salom identification card

    Raffaelle Salom's identification card was issued to him by the Italian Fascists' Registro di Popolazione (Population Registry) office in Split, Croatia, on August 22, 1943. The card is stamped "ebreo," the Italian word for Jew. Raffaelle Salom was a Bosnian Jew from Sarajevo who escaped deportation by the Croatian Ustaše by relocating to a region of Croatia under the Italian occupation.

  19. "L'extermination des juifs en Pologne"

    Consists of one CD-ROM containing a scanned copy of the book, "L'extermination des juifs en Pologne," originally published in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1944. Contains a forward by Dr. A. Silberschein and detailed information regarding the camps of Belzec, Tremblinki (Treblinka), Lublin, Majdanek, and Auschwitz-Birkenau.

  20. Bernard and Faigla Fischel Moncznik photographs

    Consists of family photographs from the collection of Bernard (Berl) Moncznik, originally of Niwka, Poland, and of Faigla (Fajgl or Fela) Fischel (Fiszel) Moncznik, originally of Be̜drin, Poland. Includes pre-war photographs of Bernard and Feigla with their respective families, some of whom perished in the Holocaust. Also includes post-war photographs of Bernard and Faigla, who met at the Weiden displaced persons camp, as well as an invitation to their May 27, 1948 wedding.