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1. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
2. Julius and Bertha Meyerowitz papers
1993.128.16 Box 1 Folder 18 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1993.128.16
Date:
inclusive: 1866-1958
… they waited for a response. When their paperwork was finally in order, the couple traveled to Portugal and Spain, before boarding the SS Marques de…
3. Elkhanan Elkes letter
Document | Accession Number: 1999.86
Date:
creation: 1943 October 18-1943 November 11
… included the Lithuanian prime minister, the German ambassador, and other members of the diplomatic community. In August 1941 the SS ordered Kovno…
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 …) October 19, 1943 My beloved son and daughter! I am writing these lines to you, my beloved children, after we have been here, in the Valley of Tears,* the…
4. Enameled porcelain vase with a floral pattern owned by Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1925-approximately 1945
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
5. Ink stamp impression of Dr. Samuel Gringauz's signature from an administrative department of the Kovno ghetto
1995.89.342 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.89.342
Date:
issue: 1941 August-1944 July
… immigrated to the United States on September 22, 1947, aboard the SS Marine Flasher. The family stayed in New York City where Sara worked as a seamstress, and…
6. Silver bowl with a dragon owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.6
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1940
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
7. Castle-shaped Havdalah spice box (besamim) owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.5
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1850-approximately 1935
emigration: 1939-1949
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
8. Illustrated postcard with finger holes owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.8
Date:
emigration: 1939-1949
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
9. Elkhanan Elkes collection
2011.419.8Box 1 Folder 7 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2011.419.8
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1954
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… included the Lithuanian prime minister, the German ambassador, and other members of the diplomatic community. In August 1941 the SS ordered Kovno…
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 … Elkes collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (1999.86) containing documents and a drawing related to Elkhannan as well as his uniform…
10. Formal, patterned kimono and shibori obi owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1941 February-1941 October
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
11. Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD in Riga (Fond 504)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.6 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.05
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Alternate Title:
Chief of the Security Police and SD in the Occupied Soviet Baltic Territories (Riga)
… officials; documents created by resistance groups and CP organs that were captured by the Wehrmacht and SS; Schutzmannschaften activities; Jewish partisan…
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 … Wehrmacht and SS; Schutzmannschaften activities; Jewish partisan activities; the slave labor of Jews, Soviet POWs, and others; the collaboration of Polish and…
12. Oral history interview with Jack Brauns and Avraham Tory
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0316
Date:
interview: 1991 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and ethnic backgrounds who were targeted by the Nazis and their collaborators or witnessed the events of the Holocaust…
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 … of command of the SS. He recognized my father and he extend the most unbelievable courtesy. In fact, he risked his life to help us. One of the things…
13. War in the East [original title Krieg im Osten]
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Film | Accession Number: 1995.147.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0892 | Film ID: 29
Film Title:
Nazi War in the East
Date:
Event: 1941-1942
Duration:
00:32:53
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… German-Finnish border & the polar circle the German army crossed in summer 1941 as they advanced toward the Soviet Union. German troops & Waffen-SS enter…
14. Sąd Apelacyjny w Warszawie (GK 227)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.48.1 | RG Number: RG-15.689
Date:
inclusive: 1947-1949
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Court of Appeals in Warsaw
… the Institute of National Remembrance must cite the Institute of National Remembrance as the owner of the original documents and include the full…
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 … członkowie dywizji SS Dierlewanger brali udział w tłumieniu Powstania Warszawskiego oraz udział w przestępczej organizacji Schutzstaffen (SS), to jest o czyny…
15. Pair of Japanese geta owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.3_a 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1941 February-1941 October
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
16. Oral history interview with Daniel Chanoch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.226 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0226
Date:
interview: 1995 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for the Study of the Holocaust, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 383 interviews in the collection date from 1991 to 2000 with two…
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 … to camp Landsberg. A German officer took him as a servant and he also worked in the SS kitchen. He had a relatively easy time. 3.59 He and other…
17. Irving Newman papers
1995.A.0753.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0753.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1949
… before and during the Holocaust when he was deported from Kaunas (Kovno), Lithuania, to Stutthof and Buchenwald concentration camps and after the war when…
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 … wife Lisa (Lea Berstein, 1910‐) and their children, Florence (Fira, 1936‐) and William (Boris, 1939‐) all survived the Holocaust. Irving survived by…
18. Oral history interview with Sol Lurie
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0039 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0031
Date:
interview: 1998 November 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, courtesy of the Jeff and Toby Herr Foundation…
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 … the Holocaust, they keep on m-men- mention the children’s name. It’s very effective. RL: That is, yeah. And also, when you walk towards the museum, you…
19. Oral history interview with Chaim Gurewitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.55 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0055
Date:
interview: 1993 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for the Study of the Holocaust, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 383 interviews in the collection date from 1991 to 2000 with two…
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 … information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word. It is not the primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or…
20. Oral history interview with Abraham Malnik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.19 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0019
Date:
interview: 1992 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History branch received the films and tapes of the interview in August 1994. The United States Holocaust Memorial…
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 … sunrise, there were the, the whole place, whole compound was surrounded by Lithuanian guards, and the German SS came out and starts, the one with the black…