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241. Embroidered blue tefillin bag carried by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.1
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
…. Nachman once tried to smuggle in sacks of potatoes, but was caught and arrested by the police. They decided to execute him but an SS officer, for whom…
242. Tefillin worn by a Lithuanian Jewish man in hiding
1990.251.1.3 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 1990.251.1.3
Date:
use: approximately 1900-1967
…. Nachman once tried to smuggle in sacks of potatoes, but was caught and arrested by the police. They decided to execute him but an SS officer, for whom…
243. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… told him nail guns were used in executions to save ammunition. One morning, the work leader asked who spoke German. Henryk raised his hand and was chosen…
244. One family's story
Document | Accession Number: 1990.321 | RG Number: RG-19.008.01
Date:
creation: 1989
bulk: 1938-1941
Subtitle:
the correspondence of Paul, Balbina, and Richard Schifter
…Executive departments…
245. Drimmer and Gruber families papers
2011.143.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2011.143.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1960
… essential worker. Recently, the Germans had taken the protected families and executed them in the Bronica forest. Bumek had planned to give himself up in the…
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 … Germans had taken the protected families and executed them in the Bronica forest. Bumek had planned to give himself up in the next Aktion. But he met a 4…
246. Warsaw Ghetto photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.221.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
… neutral zone of vacated apartments, Jan and a group of approximately fifty Jewish boys were arrested during a raid. The Jews were executed, but Jan was…
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 … arrested during a raid. The Jews were executed, but Jan was released after his mother paid a substantial bribe to a Polish policeman. She claimed that her…
247. Konkowski and Blinbaum families papers
2012.473.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1960
… the war’s end, the Moliere Group had been reduced to 130 members through deportation and execution by the Germans. Menachem’s sister Sonja Linderman and…
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 … 130 members through deportation and execution by the Germans. Menachem’s sister Sonja Linderman and her husband were killed in Auschwitz. During the war…
248. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… efforts in Europe. Some of this information was also transmitted to the British secret wartime organization, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She…
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 … transmitted to the British secret wartime organization, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She married Otto Pfister following his immigration to the United…
249. Radzinowicz family papers
2014.213.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.213.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1984
… retreat. Anatol, knowing that such prisoners would likely be executed when their work was finished, managed to narrowly escape from the prison—shot by the…
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 … Germans to hide the evidence of these atrocities before their retreat. Anatol, knowing that such prisoners would likely be executed when their work was…
250. Americans visit Europe in 1938
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Film | RG Number: RG-60.7189 | Film ID: 4504
Film Title:
Europe 1938 -- Ralph Voigt -- amateur
Date:
Event: 1938
Duration:
00:29:01
…, immigrated from Germany to Milwaukee WI. Elmer was an executive of Western Publishing Company and was an avid movie maker.…