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1. SS Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor
1992.206.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.206.1
Date:
issue: 1939 June 21
found: approximately 1945 April
received: 1992 October 24
…SS Totenkopf (Death’s head) ring taken from an SS officer by a liberator and later given to a Holocaust survivor…
2. Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society passenger cards of the MS St. Louis
1989.115 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 794
Document | Accession Number: 1989.115
Date:
inclusive: 1939
… Eastern Europe and Russia who were being persecuted and murdered in pogroms. They provided the recent refugees with meals and shelter, and helped them find…
3. Ribbon for the SS-Hauptreitschule (SS Riding School) in Munich
1995.142.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.142.19
Date:
issue: after 1937 July-before 1945
…Black cloth strip with silver stitched borders and the words "SS-H.pt.-Reitfchule München" stitched in silver…
4. SS Bergensfjord sailor's ribbon
2002.173.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.173.3
Date:
approximately 1939
…Consists of documents, photographs, a book, and a ribbon relating to the life of the Goldschmidt family before the Holocaust, their escape from…
5. Continental typewriter with a swastika and SS emblem key and a removable lid
2000.281.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.281.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Continental typewriter with a swastika and SS emblem key and a removable lid…
6. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… Rezso Kasztner to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Bela and his family reported to assembly camp in…
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 … Chase, Maryland, between 1989 and 1995 on topics including the Holocaust and Jewish communities in Hungary, the Kasztner train, and Jewish passivity…
7. Nazi Germany, 5 mark note from the album of a Waffen-SS officer acquired by an American soldier
2013.455.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.455.3
Date:
issue: after 1939 June 15-before 1941 November
… dentist. He volunteered for the SS in April 1936 and was accepted into the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler, 1st SS Company. This unit was Hitler's personal…
8. Maerker and Behr families papers
2017.404.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2017.404.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1873-1983
…, the family sailed out of Hamburg on the SS President Roosevelt to the United States. They settled in Philadelphia, PA. Gerhard was drafted in 1943 and…
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 … Germany. Scope and content of collection The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Willy and Else (née Behr) Maerker, originally of Bernburg…
9. Stormtrooper badge worn by a high-ranking German SS Official
1995.32.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.32.2
Date:
use: 1930-1939
…Stormtrooper badge obtained by Frank Morris in Nazi-occupied Europe during his servicein the US military and brought to the USA.…
10. Leo Haas sketch of SS labor camp guard Siemen
2002.490.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.490.4
Date:
creation: 1939 November 11
Artwork Title:
Siemen, Nisko, September 17, 1939
…, charts, and other materials for the German SS camp administrators. Their work included architectural drawings which allowed them to move around the camp…
11. Leo Haas sketch of SS labor camp guard Schrader
2002.490.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.490.2
Date:
creation: 1939 November 17
Artwork Title:
Schrader, Nisko, September 17, 1939
…, charts, and other materials for the German SS camp administrators. Their work included architectural drawings which allowed them to move around the camp…
12. Leo Haas sketch of SS labor camp guard Wolters
2002.490.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.490.3
Date:
creation: 1939 November 11
Artwork Title:
Wolters, Nisko, September 17, 1939
…, charts, and other materials for the German SS camp administrators. Their work included architectural drawings which allowed them to move around the camp…
13. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
…, they sailed on the SS Exeter on February 21, 1941. The Shadur family settled near Michel’s sister Gitta near St. Paul, MN, and Michel changed his name…
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 … the SS Exeter on February 21, 1941. The Shadur family settled near Michel’s sister Gitta near St. Paul, MN, and Michel changed his name to Michael…
14. Childsize violin and case of a young Jewish Lithuanian boy killed in the Ponary massacre
2006.88.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.88.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1936-1943
use: before 1943 September
… made to stand at attention in the yard for hours; if you moved, you might be shot. Every Sunday, the SS guards would come by and make them walk naked…
15. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
16. Hand tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.3
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
…, Benjamin and Feigele boarded the SS Marine Perch in Bremerhaven, arriving in New York on May 23. They settled in New York. Israel, Rivka, and Genia emigrated…
17. Head tefillin worn by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.2
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
…, Benjamin and Feigele boarded the SS Marine Perch in Bremerhaven, arriving in New York on May 23. They settled in New York. Israel, Rivka, and Genia emigrated…
18. Brown tefillin pouch used by a Polish Jewish man in the Warsaw ghetto and in hiding
1995.60.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.60.1
Date:
use: before 1939-1980
…, Benjamin and Feigele boarded the SS Marine Perch in Bremerhaven, arriving in New York on May 23. They settled in New York. Israel, Rivka, and Genia emigrated…
19. Eugen and Helene Cohn papers
1998.A.0040.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0040.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1971
… there via Portugal aboard the SS Nyassa in early 1942. Gunter's future sister-in-law, Ruth Froehlich Guttmann, and her husband Salus were also aboard the…
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 … Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Eugen and Helene Cohn papers include correspondence…
20. Hilde and Ruth Simon papers
1998.57 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1998.57
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1943
… extermination camp and murdered. Hilde and Ruth immigrated to the United States in December 1944 aboard the SS Bayano, first arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia…