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1. 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…
2. Buchenwald Aussenkommando scrip for SS Ko. Rottleberode, -.50 Reichsmark
1992.226.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.226.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1942
… and the denomination -.50 is in the lower right. An SS camp name is stamped in purple ink diagonally right of center. The reverse is blank.…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Poster for the 10th Anniversary of the Liberation of Buchenwald
1990.305.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.305.1
Date:
commemoration: 1945 April 11
publication/distribution: approximately 1954 April 11
Artwork Title:
10. Jahrestag der Befreiung der Konzentrationslager Buchenwald
Alternate Title:
10th Anniversary of the Liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp
… 1954 with black text on white ground. Shows devastating photographic images of the camp and text describing these Nazi horrors. Printed and distributed…
6. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
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 … 2004 by Sichel’s children, Dr. Howard Sichel and Linda Sichel Strohmenger. Related archival materials: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum also…
7. Beruh family correspondence
2011.137.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.137.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
… illegally and was deported to Mauritius. She was deported on the SS Patria, which was bombed in the Haifa Bay, killing over two hundred Jewish refugees…
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 … were rescued from the Holocaust by Kindertransport in 1939. The collection comprises letters written between the girls and their parents between 1939…
8. 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…
9. Drawing of an inmate repairing a shirt by Nikolaj Pirnat and acquired by John Bolé
2011.174.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.6
Date:
creation: 1942
… a radio transmitter across the border and was arrested by the German SS security force in Trieste. John was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp…
10. Aluminum ring with a letter and prisoner number owned by John Bolé
2011.174.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.4
Date:
use: approximately 1945 April
… a radio transmitter across the border and was arrested by the German SS security force in Trieste. John was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp…
11. 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…
12. Brown hat with a triangular patch bearing a J and initials worn by John Bolé
2011.174.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 November-1945 April
… a radio transmitter across the border and was arrested by the German SS security force in Trieste. John was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp…
13. Handmade American flag created by former concentration camp inmates and given to a U.S. liberator
2015.450.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.450.1
Date:
received: 1945 April 11
… died of pneumonia shortly before his first birthday. Clara and James divorced the following year, and she moved with Donald into her mother’s home. As a…
14. Drawing of a prisoner using a latrine by Nikolaj Pirnat and acquired by John Bolé
2011.174.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.8
Date:
creation: 1942
… a radio transmitter across the border and was arrested by the German SS security force in Trieste. John was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp…
15. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… Sterns learned that almost all their European relatives had been killed during the Holocaust, including Hugo’s sisters, Erna and Frieda, and Käthe’s sister…
16. White, monogrammed tablecloth belonging to the family of a German Rabbi
2018.290.1 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.290.1
Date:
use: before 1959
…, one of which made it back to her. Upon arriving at the camp, the train passengers were forced to run into the main square and were beaten by SS guards…
17. Drawing of two skeletal doctors with an imprisoned patient by Nikolaj Pirnat and acquired by John Bolé
2011.174.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.7
Date:
creation: 1942
… a radio transmitter across the border and was arrested by the German SS security force in Trieste. John was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp…
18. Clinton Gardner papers
1994.25.3 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.25.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945
… correspondence was written by Clinton Gardner to his parents, and describe his responsibilities and the conditions of the camp. The SS soldier identity card…
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 … describe his responsibilities and the conditions of the camp. The SS soldier identity card belongs to Adam Theis, who was killed by prisoners after the…
19. Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers
2000.16 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.16
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1982
…, Nathan Blau (Balog), from 1873, and the embarkation card for Piroska Berki on her voyage to the United States via the S.S. Marine Marlin.…
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 … Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers…
20. Edmund F. Franz papers
2000.6.1 Box 1 Folder 52 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2000.6.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
…Sally Sockel and Susan Nickens donated the Edmund F. Franz papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.…
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 ….ushmm.org Acquisition information: Sally Sockel and Susan Nickens donated the Edmund F. Franz papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000…