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  1. Dr. Fred Flatau papers

    Consists of materials related to the wartime experiences of the Flatau family, who escaped from Germany to Italy in 1940 living first in the Ferramonte camp and then in Rome, Italy. In 1944, they came to the United States as part of a refugee group living at Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York. Includes a 1941 certificate of good citizenship, baptismal certificates and identity cards for Dr. Ernest Flatau and Anna Maria (Anny) Goldschmidt, a photo of Ernest and Anna with their two sons, Fred and Rolf, 13 tourist photographic postcards of the Collegio S. Leone Magno in Rome, and Alfred Flatau's...

  2. Henry Haas collection

    Consists of one blue booklet, entitled "The Haggadah of Passover for members of the Armed Forces of the United States," published by the New York National Jewish Welfare Board, 1943, and one photograph of a family being pulled in two carts, taken in Shanghai. Inscription in the booklet reads "In memory of the gathered Passover Seder on the way from Shanghai--USA on board S.S. "Marine Lynx", April 4th, 1947.

  3. Benjamin Midler memoir

    Consists of one memoir, untitled and undated, describing the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Benjamin Midler, originally of Bialystock, Poland. He describes the Russian and German occupations of Bialystock; life in the Bialystock ghetto; the August 1943 liquidation of the ghetto and Jewish resistance; life in the Majdanek, Bliszin, and Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps; and his post-war life in Poland, Israel, and the United States.

  4. Saul Bell papers

    The papers consist of correspondence written from the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, to family in the United States, draft versions of letters written by Saul Bell in N.Y. to his family in the Warsaw ghetto, and six photographs taken before World War II of family members, some of whom perished in the Holocaust. Some captions are written in Yiddish on the verso of photographs.

  5. William Cygelfarb photographs

    Contains 45 post-war photographs of William Cygelfarb and many of the children he worked with as a member of Hashomer Hatzair in Łódź, Poland. William Cygelfarb was in the Łódź and Piotrków ghettos, as well as in the Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps, and survived a death march. After the war he returned to Łódź and worked as a Hashomer Hatzair counselor for formerly hidden children. He emigrated to Canada in 1950.

  6. Ammy and Nico Herschel collection

    The Ammy and Nico Herschel collection consists of correspondence, personal papers, biographical materials, newspapers, speeches, programs, and ephemera relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Ammy Herschel (née Weyel/Weijel) and Nice Herschel of the Netherlands. The biographical materials includes the diaries of Nico Herschel written in the Netherlands from July 1, 1933 to September 7, 1942; Nico Herschel’s school diplomas and report cards, 1927-1928; 1931-1937; Nico Herschel’s ID card for hiking organization, 1935; and Ammy Weyel’s Zionist membership card, September 1940. The He...

  7. "I Remember" memoir

    Contains one memoir, 21 pages, detailing the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Helga Stein. As the only child of an Aryan father (who passed away when she was three) and a Jewish mother, she details her experiences in Berlin as a child under the Nazi regime. After her family and friends were arrested and deported, Mrs. Stein, then a young adult, hid in a bombed out apartment building in Berlin for the entirety of the war. She immigrated to the United States in 1953.

  8. Selected records of the Soviet State Extraordinary Commission to Investigate the Crimes Committed by the Nazis and their Collaborators on the territory of the Kalmyk Republic during WWII

    Contains lists of Jews and others who perished on the territory of the Kalmyk Republic during the German occupation of July - December 1942; Commission statements with detailed information about how and where the crimes were committed; and reports about the exhumation of mass graves and the investigation by forensic experts.

  9. Jubilee celebration in Bad Saarow, Germany: boat, parade, sports

    "Jubilaeums-Woche / Bad Saarow / 1931" Ascher family and friends in Bad Saarow. Boat, lake, horses, town at lakeside, spectators on bank, bridges. PAROLO motorboat with Hans Ascher at wheel speeds by (boat is labeled with the name of the pension that the Aschers visited in Bad Saarow). Diving [film is backwards]. Parade with floats, people in costume, Boy scouts marching, waving flags. Sporting events, sailors, soccer game.

  10. March of Time -- outtakes -- Allied liberation of France; Eisenhower and Bradley aboard ship

    American infantrymen in France. Soldiers sheltering in an overgrown field, then speaking to French civilians, including two children. A goup of American soldiers holding a German flag and smiling at the camera. Destroyed houses. A British warship at sea. Generals Dwight Eisenhower and Bernard Montgomery are aboard the ship. Montgomery is assisted down a ladder. Eisenhower and Bradley stand together facing the camera. This may be footage taken aboard the HMS Apollo on the way to Normandy. American soldiers question German POWs in France. Wide shot of a large group of Canadian (or British?) s...

  11. Christmas 1933 celebrated by Reich Railroad

    Title: "Ansprache des Herrn Praesidenten Dr. ing. eh. Clemens Marx." Christmas events presented by the Deutsche Reichsbahn at the Berlin Sportpalast. Scene opens on Marx at podium, out of focus. He gives Hitler salute. Camera alternates between his speech, the crowd, and the VIPs, who Marx introduces. As the VIPs are named, the camera shows each one. Title: "Stellvertretender Generaldirektor Wilhelm Kleinmann." Kleinmann, who wears a Nazi party uniform, greets the crowd and speaks of German Christmas, a pure week celebrated by young and old; rich and poor. German Christmas is celebrated in ...

  12. Kathryn Taylor papers

    The papers consist of a Deutsches Reich Reisepass stamped with a red "J" issued to Erich "Israel" Baum on December 21, 1935, in Frankfurt am Main, Germany; a Deutsches Reich Reisepass stamped with a red "J" issued to Edith "Sara" Neugarten on July 17, 1935, in Leipzig, Germany; and two memoirs, one by Erich Baum and one by Edith Neugarten Baum, detailing their experiences during the Holocaust in Germany and their immigration to the United States.

  13. Jewish refugees arriving in Sweden from Denmark

    Daily news segment showing the arrival of Jewish refugees from Denmark. Arrival and unloading of boat from Oresund into small lifeboats arriving on beach in Helsingborg. They gather in a park, where Swedish families gather around the Jews and greet them. The refugees exchange money in a bank, then get registered. Long line of refugees undergoing medical examinations in the hospital. Passport photographing. Then they are apportioned food, which they eat. Police chief Bogenholm and intendent Goete Friberg greet them as representatives of their organization. Image of port.

  14. Albert Guenther Hess collection

    Consists of documents and photocopies related to the life and experiences of Albert Guenther Hess and his family, originally of Pirna, Germany. Includes official pre-war documents, post-war articles regarding the Holocaust and Pirna, and a reel of film (ca. 1935) depicting the Hess family. The film includes German intertitles.

  15. Brad Skala photograph collection

    The collection consists of three photographic postcards depicting a death train at Dachau concentration camp. Captions in English on the verso were written by the [donor's mother].

  16. Set of tefillin acquired by a Soviet Jewish soldier

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515329
    • English
    • 1943
    • a: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm)

    Pair of tefillin purchased by Shimon Meszel, a Jewish soldier in the Soviet Army, for five rubles in Kharkov, Russia, in 1943. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Shimon eventually emigrated to Israel.

  17. Watercolor of a female corpse by an inmate given to a liberator of Bergen Belsen concentration camp

    Full-length portrait of a dead female inmate painted by 24 year old Marianne (Mausi) Grant and presented to Major Charles Philip Sharp, a liberator of Bergen Belsen concentration camp, in May 1945 as he prepared to depart. Sharp wrote about it in his diary, USHMM collection 2005.20.1: "Marianne, the little Czeck artist presented us with a picture of a body in No 1 "To the Commandant so that he will never forget Belsen" --as though I could. She used to do cartoons and gay pictures before she was taken--now see what she does. We are using her as a signwriter so she apologized that this drawin...

  18. Prison camp in Yugoslavia; Communist commemoration

    Titles in Cyrillic - Serbo-Croatian. Series of head shots, close, of corpses with names superimposed. HAS from airplane. Destruction, ruins in town. Croatian man. Homes. Group of villagers (men) marching, soldiers guarding them. Pan up, gate with "Radna Sluzba Ustaske Obrane Sabirni Logor Br. III" German sign: "Arbeitslager..." Prisoners, soldier with rifles, walking barefoot to perform labor, horse/carts, farmhouse. VAR shots, carts, construction, labor (digging, etc). Guardtower. Pushing wheelbarrow. Soldier with gun guards from tower. Lunch rations. Newspapers/headlines. Corpses. Local f...

  19. Wilhelm Schlesinger memoir

    Consists of untitled memoir, 41 pages, written by Wilhelm Schlesinger and detailing his experiences during the Holocaust. Dr. Schlesinger, a Jewish Communist from Vienna, describes his experiences in Drancy, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald, as well as his experiences in post-war Vienna. Includes English translation. Collection also includes an announcement of Dr. Schlesinger's 1949 graduation from medical school, an announcement of his death in 1992, and photographs of Dr. Schlesinger with wartime friends.

  20. Andrew Hausman collection

    Consists of post-war papers, drawings, photographs, and clippings related to the Holocaust experiences of Andrew Hausman, originally of Berehovo, Czechoslovakia, and a survivor of Auschwitz. Includes forms and medical records for Mr. Hausman's sister Rose, also a survivor, who suffered from mental health problems after liberation. Includes Mr. Hausman's tefilin.