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1. Waffen SS recruitment poster featuring a soldier and a Leibstandarte (SS Adolf Hitler flag)
1990.333.24 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.24
Date:
publication/distribution: 1940 May
Title:
Waffen- SS Eintritt mit vollendetem 17. Lebensjahr
Alternate Title:
Waffen SS Admission after age 17
… as an honorary member of the SS and became friends with Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Later, Schweitzer…
2. Waffen SS recruitment poster with multiple blocks of small text and photographs
1990.333.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.23
Date:
publication/distribution: 1941
Title:
That’s how the Waffen SS is fighting
… in 1911, rising to the rank of sergeant during World War I. In 1923 he joined the Sturmabteilung (SA). In 1928 he joined the Schutzstaffel (SS), and…
3. Engraved wooden box presented to a Lieutenant General of the SS by his troops
2005.525.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.525.2
Date:
found: after 1945 May-1946
commemoration: 1944 August-1945 February
… was corrupt and became a self-employed businessman. During these years, he became friends with Kurt Daluege, commander of the SS (Schutzstaffel…
4. Pencil drawing depicting Holocaust victims by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.8
Date:
creation: approximately 1960-approximately 1989
Artwork Title:
L’Kadosh Hashem
Alternate Title:
To the Sanctification of the Name
Faces of the Holocaust
Many Holocaust Victims
…The drawing was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2010 by Peter Garik and Katherine Greenblatt, the stepchildren of Jacob…
5. Ink and pencil sketch
2010.502.52 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.52
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
… August 1944. The majority of Jacob’s family survived, though his Latvian relatives and his sister, Sina Ida, were murdered during the Holocaust.…
6. Pencil and ink drawing
2010.502.51 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.51
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
… August 1944. The majority of Jacob’s family survived, though his Latvian relatives and his sister, Sina Ida, were murdered during the Holocaust.…
7. 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…
8. Black and white Sturmabteilung (SA) recruitment poster with a rifle over the British coastline
1990.333.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.11
Date:
publication/distribution: 1934
Title:
An’s Gewehr! Hinein in die Wehrmannschaften der SA
Alternate Title:
To the gun! Into the military men of the SA
… 1932, and by 1933 membership was at approximately two million. On The Night of Long Knives, June 30, 1934, Hitler and the Schutzstaffel (SS) carried out…
9. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
…, and passed his journeyman’s examination. Niemann joined the Nazi Party in 1931 as member number 753,836 and the SS in 1934 as member number 270,600. He…
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 …, his family, and his SS career, culminating in his role as deputy commander of the Sobibor death camp. Niemann was killed by prisoners during the October…
10. 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…
11. Pencil drawing of a couple reading the Bible
2010.502.94 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.94
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Readnig the Bible 2
… August 1944. The majority of Jacob’s family survived, though his Latvian relatives and his sister, Sina Ida, were murdered during the Holocaust.…
12. Jacob Barosin drawing of a man hiding from the police
2010.502.72 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.72
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Curfew in Nimes
… August 1944. The majority of Jacob’s family survived, though his Latvian relatives and his sister, Sina Ida, were murdered during the Holocaust.…
13. Pistiner family papers
2016.187.1 Box 3 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2016.187.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-2000
bulk: 1908-1972
… Josef Pistiner and his family, including his parents, Aron and Taube, and brother, Max, before the Holocaust in Galicia, Bukovina, and Berlin and during…
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 … related to the history of the family of Josef Pistiner, including his parents, Aron and Taube Pistiner, and brother, Max. Materials document the histories…
14. Aenni and Eric Kaufman papers
2013.124.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2013.124.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1972
bulk: 1945-1972
…Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Ruth Bernstein, daughter of Erich and Anni Kaufman. An accretion of additional…
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 …: (Identification of item), Aenni and Eric Kaufman papers (2013.124.1), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC Acquisition information: The…
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. Pin box and 57 straight pins carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.14
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…. Germany surrendered in May 1945, ending the war in Europe. On June 8, 1946, Ina boarded the S.S. Drottningholm in Liverpool, England and sailed to the…
17. Knife taken from a German soldier and acquired by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.10
Date:
received: approximately 1944
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
18. Schatz and Bonder families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.429.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1991
bulk: 1940-1957
…. Both families survived the Holocaust in Italy and were united through the marriage of Henry Schatz and Rischa Bonder when the couple were married in the…
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 … include biographical material, immigration document, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Henry and Rischa (née…
19. Peter and Berta Victor papers
1990.114.74 Box 1 Folder 27 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1990.114.74
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1991
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Peter M. Victor and in memory of Carl and Elsa Victor and Berta Neidermann…
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 … Acquisition information: Peter Victor donated the Peter and Berta Victor papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990, 1992, 1994, and 2004…
20. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…) was born in Berlin. When Heinz was nine years old an SS officer accosted him and wrote the word “Jude” on his forehead. Afterwards, his parents sent…
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 … Henry Gallant) was born in Berlin. When Heinz was nine years old an SS officer accosted him and wrote the word “Jude” on his forehead. Afterwards, his…