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1. Watercolor of Auschwitz painted by a Polish Jewish artist after the Holocaust
2018.377.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.377.1
Date:
creation: 1955-1980
… Holocaust. Fred remained in the Tatra Mountains until Poland was liberated in 1945. After the war he suffered from kidney, bladder, and gall bladder stones…
2. Pin commemorating a Hungarian Jewish Holocaust survivor’s receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor
2018.327.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.327.2
Date:
commemoration: 2005 September 23
… survived the Holocaust in hiding in the Netherlands. The couple had two children, and Tibor became a partner in Emery’s liquor store. In 2005, after more…
3. Leather belt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp and worn by a Hungarian Jewish inmate after liberation
2002.175.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.175.2
Date:
use: 1945 May 05-1945 May 07
… 1945. Steven Vogel took the shirt and belt from an SS storeroom housing clothing and supplies at the camp. Letter: handwritten by Tomi Baratod [sic] in…
4. Shirt taken from an SS storeroom at a concentration camp by a Hungarian Jewish inmate and worn after liberation
2002.175.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.175.1
Date:
use: 1945 May 05-1945 May 07
… 1945. Steven Vogel took the shirt and belt from an SS storeroom housing clothing and supplies at the camp. Letter: handwritten by Tomi Baratod [sic] in…
5. Black and white linocut print of the Compiègne internment camp created by Jacques Gotko
2018.337.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.337.2
Date:
creation: 1942 January-1942 September
Title:
Stalag 122 Compiegne
Alternate Title:
Main Camp 122 Compiegne
… SS James Price in October 1945. Upon returning home, George, Betsy, and John learned that Milton had joined the army and fought in the Pacific Theater…
6. Eugene Miller collection
1997.A.0240 Oversize Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0240
Date:
inclusive: circa 1941-approximately 1997
…; investigations into the identity and fate of Josef Mengele; Heinrich Himmler; Martin Borman; and SS personnel and organization. Most of these records are…
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 … materials. The collection also includes original photographs of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland who studied medicine and science in Germany after the…
7. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… prewar Krakow, Poland, during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Buchenwald, and Dachau concentration camps, and after the Holocaust when…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Henry Zguda papers include biographical material, correspondence, publications, subject files, and photographs relating…
8. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
… the S.S. General Blatchford, and settled in Indianapolis, Indiana.…
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 … Holocaust experiences of the Bleier family of Budapest, Hungary and the Weisz family of Baia Mare, Romania. Included are biographical papers, correspondence…
9. Egon Weiss papers
2011.128.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2011.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2009
bulk: 1920-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… British did not to allow passengers to land and instead deport them to Mauritius. Egon was then transferred onto the SS Patria for deportation. Haganna…
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 … describing his 1940 voyage on the SS Milos, the explosion of the SS Patria, his internment in the Atlit detainee camp, and the following years in Jerusalem as…
10. Monogrammed tablecloth owned by Otto and Edith Frank
2018.613.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.5
Date:
received: 1925 May 08
… Holocaust, but her husband and son had not. Otto stayed with the Gies’ until 1952, when he immigrated to Basel, Switzerland. The following year, he and Fritzi…
11. Monogrammed napkin owned by Otto and Edith Frank
2018.613.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.6
Date:
received: 1925 May 08
… Holocaust, but her husband and son had not. Otto stayed with the Gies’ until 1952, when he immigrated to Basel, Switzerland. The following year, he and Fritzi…
12. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
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 … Holocaust Survivors, the United Jewish Appeal, and the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Languages: German, English, Yiddish, Hebrew, French…
13. Medal presented to former inmates of the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the 50th anniversary of its opening
2018.228.2 a-b 3/4 view open
Object | Accession Number: 2018.228.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1941
received: 1991
… the trip, and the prisoners were forced to march instead. There were not enough SS men to guard the whole group, so the first night of the march, Frank…
14. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
…The Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail primarily consists of envelopes, letters, postcards, and philatelic materials Kahn collected…
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 … donated a demitasse spoon (1992.022.01) from the SS St. Louis to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992. In 2012, Hal and Robyn Klein donated a…
15. Abraham family papers
1996.126.3 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.126.3
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1960
… and parents. During the Holocaust, the Abraham family evaded capture by hiding in several non-Jewish German homes. The documents consist mainly of…
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 … siblings and parents. During the Holocaust, the Abraham family evaded capture by hiding in several non-Jewish German homes. The documents consist mainly of…
16. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
… States, arriving in San Francisco, California, on July 14, 1947, aboard the SS General W. H. Gordon. Alfred Americanized his name to Fred Loy, and settled…
17. Pair of Tefillin and pouch owned by a Romanian Jewish concentration camp survivor
2006.516.4 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.4 a-c
Date:
use: before 1944 May
recovered: 1946
… Allied forces caused the SS to evacuate the camp in September. Otto and Mihail were sent to Kochendorf, another Natzweiler subcamp in Germany. Prisoners at…
18. Pair of Tefillin and pouch owned by a Romanian Jewish concentration camp survivor
2006.516.5 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.5 a-c
Date:
use: before 1944 May
recovered: 1946
… Allied forces caused the SS to evacuate the camp in September. Otto and Mihail were sent to Kochendorf, another Natzweiler subcamp in Germany. Prisoners at…
19. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.2
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… twins, Luba and Buza. Following a period of increasing violence and the outbreak an Austrian civil war in 1934, the family immigrated again to British…
20. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child
2008.319.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.319.1
Date:
manufacture: 1944
use: 1944-before 1947 December
… and Buza. Following a period of increasing violence and the outbreak an Austrian civil war in 1934, the family immigrated again to British-controlled…