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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. 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. 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…
4. 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…
5. Knud Dyby papers
1989.297.341 Box 2 Folder 31 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1989.297.341
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1992
… antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Photocopied records documenting the German occupation of Denmark include correspondence, warnings, and regulations from the…
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 … Archives, Washington, DC Acquisition information: Knud Dyby donated the Knud Dyby papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 and 1992…
6. Metz and Oberlaender families papers
2014.478.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 46
Document | Accession Number: 2014.478.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2015
bulk: 1915-1950
… documents related to Gabrielle Metz Oberlaender include her emigration and naturalization documents and menus from the SS Veendam, August 27, 1939-September 4…
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 … to Gabrielle Metz Oberlaender include her emigration and naturalization documents and menus from the SS Veendam, August 27, 1939-September 4, 1939…
7. Joseph W. Eaton papers
2009.401.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2009.401.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-2011
1932-2011
… perished in the Holocaust. They divorced after their children left and fled separately to Amsterdam, Netherlands. Flora was a health aide for elderly people…
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 … the Museum. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum also holds an oral history interview with Joseph W. Eaton conducted by Judith Cohen and…
8. 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…
9. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.1
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
… Jewish community, and spoke publicly about her experiences during the Holocaust throughout her life at schools, colleges, churches, prisons, and clubs…
10. Bar of soap from Stutthof labor-concentration camp given to a Polish Holocaust survivor
1997.30.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.30.2
Date:
issue: 1939 November 09-1945 March 28
received: 1995 June-1995 September
… Jewish community, and spoke publicly about her experiences during the Holocaust throughout her life at schools, colleges, churches, prisons, and clubs…
11. Schächter family papers
2000.407.2 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.407.2
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1998
bulk: 1938-1947
…The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Filip and Janina (née Hirsch) Schächter (later Philip and Jean Schechter) living in Poland and…
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 … Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Filip and…
12. Erwin Tepper papers
2015.590.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.590.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2015
undated: 
… applied and Erwin was accepted as one of this group. In the spring, Juda left for Great Britain. Erwin left from Germany in May 1939 aboard the S.S…
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 … States, Juda and Schifra applied to have their son Erwin accepted as one of this group, and he was. Erwin left Germany in May 1939, on the S.S. President…
13. Autobiographical watercolor of Aryeh and other Jews in hiding
2006.125.89 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.89
Date:
creation: approximately 1985-2000
Series Title:
In Memorium: Glembokie and Vilna
Artwork Title:
Aryeh and other in hiding while the SS patrols
…Aryeh and other in hiding while the SS patrols…
14. Rabbi Samuel and Ella Freilich papers
2013.184.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.184.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2001
… physical and mental pain that Rabbi Freilich experienced during the Holocaust. Also included are memoirs, papers, and letters written in English and Yiddish…
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 … SS. Again the fear where are we going and what more do they want? We thought it would be better is they shot us right away rather than take us…
15. Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family papers
2012.351.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2012.351.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-2003
… wife and three children were murdered during the Holocaust. They stayed in Kołomyja until December 1944, when the Soviet authorities allowed them to…
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 … immigration to the United States, and their Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family members who perished during the Holocaust. Languages: English, Polish, German…
16. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… families to live in a single room; food quickly became scarce. When German SS and police began mass killings of the Jews in Dokszyce in 1942, Rachel and…
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 … Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection to the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000, 2010, 2015, and 2022. These donations were assigned the…
17. Rabbi Judah Nadich papers
1994.A.0250. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0250.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1997
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Rabbi Judah Nadich and the Estates of Judah Nadich and Martha Hadassah Nadich donated the Rabbi Judah Nadich papers to the United States Holocaust…
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 … Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC 2 Acquisition information: Rabbi Judah Nadich and the Estates of Judah Nadich and Martha Hadassah Nadich…
18. Levinson and Stern family papers
2015.606.1 Box 2 Folder 39 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.606.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1995
bulk: 1875-1958
… photograph album, 1932-1940 contains photographs from the Levinsons’ trip to the United States aboard the SS Bremen in 1935 and their life in New York. The…
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 … Levinson donated the Levinson and Stern family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2015. Related archival materials: The Fred…
19. 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…
20. Cohn and Siebenberg families papers
2016.254.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2016.254.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2001
… 1938 and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. He was released in January 1939 and emigrated from Germany on the S.S. Orduna in May 1939 to Cuba. He…
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 … collection documents the experiences of the Cohn family from Leipzig, Germany and the Siebenberg family of Offenbach am Main, Germany during the Holocaust. The…