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1. Nazi propaganda poster
1995.96.47 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.96.47
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 March 18
Series Title:
issue 12
Artwork Title:
Gut festnageln!!
…Munich (Germany)…
2. 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…
3. Robert H. Harlan diary
2000.190 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.190
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
bulk: 1938-1939
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…-Universitat in Marburg, Germany. Following Kristallnacht, Robert helped his friend Bruno Stern (1880-1957) and his family escape to the United States. Robert…
4. Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.4
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: after 1900-1945
…Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
5. Gabryela Bromberg collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.201.1
Date:
creation: 1880-1968
…The Gabryela Bromberg collection consists of seven pre-war family photographs of the Bromberg family in Lublin, Poland and Berlin, Germany, and the…
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 … Krępiec, villa “Regina” dated 1927; Krępiec, near Lublin, Poland; in Polish. 2. Photograph of Gitla Gustawa Bromberg, Berlin, Germany, circa 1880. Printed…
6. Nazi propaganda poster
1995.96.35 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.96.35
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 March 15
Series Title:
issue 16
Artwork Title:
March 9, 1940 [speech]
…Munich (Germany)…
7. Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
…Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
8. Political cartoon depicting Joseph Goebbels created by an American journalist
2018.298.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.5
Date:
creation: 1936-1943
Artwork Title:
Paul Joseph Goebbels
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
9. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
10. Salpeter family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.322.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1983
… Issler, b. 1891) was born on April 28, 1891 in Radomyśl. Oskar and Brunhilde Salpeter married in Dortmund, Germany on August 26, 1919. They moved to…
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 … number: 2015.322.1 Creator: Salpeter family (Düsseldorf, Germany) Extent: 1 box Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
11. Coat design, Ulla, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.10
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Ulla
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
12. Pinchas Shaar photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2005.456.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1975
… Szwarc (nee Zychlinska, 1892‐?). He had two brothers, Josef and Lajb, and a sister, Ester Ita. When Germany invaded Poland, Pinchas escaped with his…
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 … photographs of Pinchas Shaar and his family in the Łódź ghetto and after the war in Germany, France, and Israel; photographs of life in the Łódź ghetto by…
13. German Rentenbank, 2 Rentenmark note
2003.413.97 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.97
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
14. Coat design, Turin, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.6
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Turin
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
15. Lola Byron collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.464.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1963
… Bensheim DP camp in Germany, but soon traveled to Paris to be reunited with Jakob’s two sisters: Zosia and Franka. Jakob worked there as a weaver. In 1949…
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 … and completed her schoolwork, Munich, Germany, February 1, 1951; in German. 7. Personnel File stating that Jakob Papierbuch is employed by International…
16. Nazi propaganda poster
1995.96.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.96.23
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 July 22
Series Title:
issue 30
Artwork Title:
Das britische Rezept: ....und nun?
…Munich (Germany)…
17. German propaganda poster mocking British defeats and criticizing politician Duff Cooper
1990.333.51 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.51
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 July 16-1940 July 22
Title:
Das werden wir uns merken!!
Series Title:
Parole der Woche
Alternate Title:
We will remember that!!
Word of the Week
…Munich (Germany)…
18. Humboldt University Archives records
Document | Accession Number: 2001.166 | RG Number: RG-68.009M
Date:
1918-1946
…Racism--Germany--History--20th century.…
19. Selected Records Relating to the German Africa Show (Deutsche Afrika-Schau)
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0350
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1941
…Photocopies of records related to the German Africa Show (Deutsche Afrika-Schau), a tour in Germany organized by the NSDAP to promote German racist…
20. Lilienthal and Fraenkel families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.170.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
…Dr. Eugen Lilienthal (1876-1947?) was born in Cologne, Germany on 24 July 1876. After obtaining his medical degree from the University of Freiburg…
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 … husband, Max, when they left Germany in 1939 and immigrated to the United States, including German passports, affidavits from sponsors in the United…
21. Coat design, Iris, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.4
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Iris
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
22. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
…Germany.…
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 … (organizer of the anti-fascist platform in West Germany) -- Monachium [Munich?] 1966; a telegram "Komma-Klub" from Munich[?] 1965; a money transfer for Radio…
23. Canadian newspaper advertisement for the film “The Man I Married" (1940)
2018.590.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.25
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1940 August 02
… their child back to his home country in 1938. Once in Germany, the husband gets increasingly involved in the Nazi party. “The Man I Married” included a…
24. Nazi propaganda poster
1995.96.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.96.8
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 November 04
Series Title:
issue 45
Artwork Title:
Das konnte ihnen so passen!
…Munich (Germany)…
25. Nazi propaganda poster
1995.96.46 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.96.46
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 March 11
Series Title:
issue 11
Artwork Title:
Dafur kampfen wir fur das Brot unserer Kinder!!
…Munich (Germany)…
26. Hedwig Goldmann papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.403.1
Date:
creation: 1939-1946
… Deggendorf.Germany, displaced persons camp; a certificate of labor performed in the Theresienstadt ghetto, issued in July 1945 to Hedwig Goldmann; a letter…
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 …, thanking her for her usefulness and wishes her a successful future. 2. Identification card issued to Hedwig Goldmann; No. G08285467, Deggendorf, Germany…
27. Joyce Hay collection
2019.346.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2019.346.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940 June 19-1940 July 19
… Archbishop of Freiburg and the Vicar of Rottenburg, Germany stating they have been informed that “mentally ill” are being euthanized and they request that this…
28. Rothstern family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.186.3
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1960
… employees. In February 1939, Irma left Germany via the Brenner Pass into Italy, from which she travelled to China, arriving in Shanghai in March of that…
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 … cards, letters of reference, photographs, and other items, that primarily document the lives of Irma Rothstern and her son Heinz, of Hamburg, Germany…
29. Benno Rothenberg family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.12
Date:
creation: 1938-1941
…Benno Rothenberg was born on September 10, 1904 in Munich, Germany to Isidor Nathan Rothenberg and Franziska Rothenberg (née Feniger-Lindenbaum, b…
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 …, and Marion Rothenberg in Munich, Germany, September 1938. The passport contains various visas for Germany, Holland France, Belgium, Switzerland, and the…
30. Political cartoon depicting Benito Mussolini created by an American journalist
2018.298.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.7
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
31. Report of Fritz Linnenbuerger
2018.579.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.579.1
Date:
creation: circa 1939-1940
…Dr. Fritz Linnenbuerger (1873-1967) was born on April 20, 1873 in Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany to Hanna Friedrike Fohrmann (1876-1936…
32. Anthropometer used to measure length of body parts in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.255.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: approximately 1920-1945
…Anthropometer used to measure length of body parts in Nazi Germany…
33. Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 a
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Tool used to classify hair color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
34. Nazi propaganda poster
1995.96.36 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.96.36
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 January 01
Series Title:
issue 1
Artwork Title:
W.C. - Strark erschuettert!!
…Munich (Germany)…
35. 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…
36. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
37. Set of four lobby cards for the film “The Man I Married" (1940)
2018.590.24.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.24
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1940 August 02
… husband and their child back to his home country in 1938. Once in Germany, the husband gets increasingly involved in the Nazi party. “The Man I Married…
38. Jablow family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.442.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1975
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
39. 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…
40. False tooth with a cavity for a poison capsule
Object | Accession Number: 2016.561.1
Date:
acquired: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
… to forced labor in Germany along with other Polish men and women. On July 20, 1943 Ita was sent to Göttingen, Germany, and from there to a small farm…
41. Nazi propaganda poster
1995.96.45 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.96.45
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 March 04
Series Title:
issue 10
Artwork Title:
Einer muss gehen!!! - - fragt sich nur: Wer??
…Munich (Germany)…
42. Nazi propaganda poster
Object | Accession Number: 1995.96.27
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 June 17
Series Title:
issue 25
Artwork Title:
Dein Kamerad, Dein Mann.....
…Munich (Germany)…
43. Selected records from the collection Ministry of the Interior (Miscellaneous)
Document | Accession Number: 2005.227 | RG Number: RG-25.023M
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1957
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
44. Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung collection
2017.451.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 80
Document | Accession Number: 2017.451.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940-1941
…Five issues of the Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, a weekly illustrated magazine that was published in Berlin, Germany from 1892 to 1945; issues in…
45. Ruth Wertheim papers
2004.676.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2004.676.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1946
bulk: 1945-1946
…Ruth Wertheim (later Bacow, 1927-1994) was born in Giesen, Germany on March 28, 1927 to Leopold (1891-1944) and Emma Wertheim (1896-1944). Before the…
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 … gewiss.” Since he was handicapped our chances of getting out of Germany were nil when anti semitism reared it’s ugly head. In 1933 I started my first…
46. Unser Kind
Document | Accession Number: 2010.200.3
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1946
…Klaus Werner Max Zwilsky (1932- ) was born in Berlin, Germany on August 16, 1932. He is the only son of Ruth Herzberg Zwilsky and Ehrich Erich…
47. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
48. Jacket design, Gussi, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.14
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Gussi
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
49. 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
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
50. Maria Ryder papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.228
Date:
creation: 1939-1944
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…