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1. German election poster featuring a photographic portrait of Adolf Hitler
1990.333.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.33
Date:
depiction: approximately 1927-1945
Title:
ja!
Alternate Title:
yes!
…Germany…
2. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
3. Unfinished jacket design created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.15
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
4. Opera glasses and case owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.2 a-c
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
5. Coat design, Jaffa/ Ilse, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.12
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Jaffa /Ilse
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
6. Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930-1945
use: approximately 1930-1945
…Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
7. Karliner family papers
1999.3.32 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1999.3.32
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1951
…The Karliner family lived in Peiskretscham (Silesia), Germany, now Pyskowice, Poland. Joseph Karliner (Josef, 1898-1943) married Martha Weissler (d…
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 ….3.32 Creator: Karliner family (Peiskretscham, Germany) Extent: 0.2 linear foot (3 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
8. Ernst Berl papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1954
bulk: 1933-1946
…, Germany, where he remained on the faculty until 1933, when the Nazis gained power in Germany, and Jewish faculty members were forced out of their positions…
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 …, and his immigration to the United States in 1933. Included is correspondence with other émigré academics from Austria and Germany during the 1930s and…
9. Renate Fleischer Fajer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.415.1
Date:
creation: 1915-1957
… born in Posen, Germany (today: Poznan, Poland) on September 28, 1904. She was the oldest child of Else Bieber Kroner (b. October 14, 1879) and Robert…
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 … Army during World War I, 1915. 2. Photograph of Else and Robert Kroner, parents of Ilse Kroner, Breslau, Germany, circa 1935. 3. Photograph of Suzi…
10. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
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 … Afterwards, he worked cleaning soldiers’ barracks. Eventually he returned to his uncle’s house in Bayreuth, Germany where he learned of the death of his family…
11. Hitler Youth flag
Object | Accession Number: 1992.201.1
Date:
use: 1922-1945
…Germany.…
12. Baby doll owned by a Jewish Yugoslavian girl in hiding
2019.20.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.20.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1908-before 1945
… forces and was partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, with Skopje falling under Bulgarian control. Bulgarian authorities passed many…
13. Israel Elefant family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.475.1
Date:
creation: circa 1929-1946
undated: 
…-war family photographs in Łódź, Poland and post-war photographs taken in the Deggendorf DP camp, Germany.…
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 … Elefant in the Łódź ghetto. 3. Identification photograph of Israel Elefant, Deggendorf, Germany, 1946. Israel Elefant (1917-1999) was born in Ostroviec…
14. Radio battery eliminator placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.16
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1928-before 1943
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…
15. Robert S. Tullman collection
Document | Accession Number: 2007.525.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1940
…Robert S. Tullman (Tulmann) was an operatic performer in Germany but was dismissed from the opera house in Weisbaden, Germany. He sought refuge in…
16. Political cartoon depicting Joseph Stalin created by an American journalist
2018.298.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.6
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Artwork Title:
Josef (sic) Stalin
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
17. Ann Benjamin Goldberg papers
1999.34.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.34.3
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1949
…, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and Chana fled eastwards from Zetel with a group of her schoolmates. She eventually arrived in Aktyubinsk in southern…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection consists of a health card, certificate issued in Bremen, Germany, and photographs…
18. Coat design, Görlik, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.5
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Görlik
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
19. Income tax stamp, 50 million marks, issued in Weimar Germany
2006.265.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.265.19
Date:
acquired: after 1928-before 1938 August 28
issue: after 1922 July-before 1923 December 18
…Income tax stamp, 50 million marks, issued in Weimar Germany…
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20. Partial card with 16 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.7
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…