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  1. Simone LePort testimony

    Contains a typewritten oral history of Madame Simone LePort concerning her experiences in the French resistance during World War II.

  2. Henri Wermus memoir

    Contains a memoir about Henri Wermus's childhood in Poland, his experiences with antisemitism in the Polish army, and the fate of Henri Wermus's family at the hands of the Nazis.

  4. Coby and Hans Siegenthaler memoirs

    Contains two memoirs about Coby and Hans Siegenthaler, who were members of Dutch families who hid Jews during the Holocaust.

  5. Max Pyster collection

    Consists of 3 negative envelopes with "Agfa-Kleinbildtasche" printed on outside; the envelopes contain one of the following: 5 1/2 strips of 35mm negatives; 6 strips of 35mm negatives; 4 1/3 strips of 35mm negatives and 5 cut 2/1/4" square negatives The images are of views of the countryside and of Nazi soldiers and rallies.

  6. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note

    1 (eine) mark receipt issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in May 1940. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1939; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip was designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or kill...

  7. Goldberg family papers

    Contains five legal documents and twenty-one photographs pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of the Goldberg family.

  8. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  9. Pair of tefillin taken from a concentration camp by an inmate at liberation

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn514930
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)

    Set of tefillin rescued by Yaakov Apelovitch, a 15 year old Jewish inmate in Auschwitz concentration camp, after the Soviet Army liberated the camp in January 1945. 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. Yaakov took the pair from the Canada warehouse where confiscated belongings were stored. The inmates called it Canada because they imagined that country as a place of great riches. He gave the tefillin to Rachel Kutner in 1945, who later gave them to Morris Rosen. Morris was int...

  10. VE Day, Germany

    VE Day in Heidelberg, Germany. 6th Army Group and 1st Tactical Air Force at mass on VE Day. INT, cathedral, priest making the sign of the cross, celebrating mass. Germans gathered outside of cathedral watching soldiers and officers leaving service. Gen. Robert Morris Webster and Gen. Ned Sohramm leaving cathedral, walking to their cars. Webster and Sohramm entering cathedral, followed by officers and enlisted men of the 6th Army Group and 1st Tactical Air Force. Servicemen presenting arms, marching, and parade rest. Germans watching parade. INT of cathedral with group standing as prayer is ...

  11. Liberation (England); troops; VE Day

    GSAP strafing buildng, train and marshalling yard. Ground crewmen. Two enlisted men reading newspaper in front of 308th Bomb Group store; headlines of newspaper: GERMANY QUITS. Street scenes in London [01:34:11-01:35:33 in slow motion]. More GSAP strafing vehicles on road, trains, buildings.

  12. 2 Pfennig coin

    Coin: 2 Pfennig, recto, "Reichspfennig" around top edge with large "2" in center; verso, Nazi eagle with swastika below, "Deutsches Reich 1938" around bottom edge; in German

  13. U.S. liberators

    Group of U.S. liberators in front of building, posing for camera, some hanging from windows on second floor, civilians pass in FG. MCUs as some liberators are interviewed.

  14. Bianca Baar collection

    The Bianca Baar collection consists of fourteen black & white photographs of the Hartman family, mainly pre-war; two postcards sent to and from Klara Herz, a distant cousin of the donor, in Birkenau; and a prayerbook that survived in hiding with Yehudit (Gelb) Preisz, aunt of the donor.

  15. Central Jewish Committee in Poland, Department of Education Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Oświaty (Sygn. 303/IX/649)

    Sygnatura 101/IX, File 649 consists of 7619 index cards of the Jewish children registered by the Centralny Komitet Żydów w Polsce (CKŻP), Wydział Oświaty (Central Committee of Jews in Poland. Department of Education) after World War II.

  16. From old world to new : omi's stories an oral history of Regina Lederer

    Contains the written transcript, 38 pages, of a privately completed oral history interview with Regina Lederer who describes antisemitic actions being taken against Austrian Jews prior to her emigration to the United States in 1939.

  17. Abrasza Feldman collection

    The collection related to the life of Abrasza Feldman during the time of the Holocaust and includes certificates, letters, photographs, and medical reports.

  18. Chaim Weizmann

    Documentary on the life of Chaim Weizmann. (1874-1952) Weizmann was a scientist, president of the World Zionist Organization during the Nazi era and the first president of Israel. He met with world leaders to protest the racial persecution of the Jews in Germany and elsewhere. His efforts to organize rescue plans and to influence the British to relax immigration restrictions were rejected by the British. The Jewish Agency's Department for the Settlement of German Refugees. In August 1933, the Zionist Congress nominated Weizmann, to head the Jewish Agency's Department for the settlement of G...

  19. Dr. Aharon Pick diary

    Dr. Aharon Pick (also spelled Pik or Pieck) created his diary in the Šiauliai ghetto between 1941 and 1944. In it, he remembers life in Lithuania before the Soviet take over in June 1940, life under the Soviet regime, his efforts to have his son be accepted at Vilna University, and the situation in Lithuania and in Šiauliai, particularly on the eve of the German invasion in June 1941. He then describes Šiauliai ghetto, educational and cultural activities in the ghetto, unsanitary conditions and public health in the ghetto, and Judenrat activities in the ghetto. David Pick buried the diary a...

  20. Isaiah Trunk papers

    Contains photocopies of materials written by or about Isaiah Trunk.