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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. Public transport pass and identification tag issued to a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.450.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.2
Date:
issue: 1944 July
… Wojciech Hermanowksi and his family in Poland, Germany, and Sweden during and after the Holocaust.…
4. Robert and Louise Brunner papers
2002.152 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.152
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1956
… (Louise’s brother) regarding life in Vienna and increasing concerns over the war. Included is a postcard from Agathe stating that the SS is down the street…
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 …) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Robert and Louise Brunner…
5. Isidor Gross papers
2012.433.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.433.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1997
bulk: 1936-1945
… Norway where, on December 14, he left Oslo on the SS Bergensfjord and arrived in New York on December 23. He and Markus moved in with Markus’s brother…
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 …, Markus and Isidor fled Germany in 1939. Isidor arrived to the United States aboard the SS Bergenfjord in December 1939. His father had arrived two months…
6. 1918 bank note brought to the United States by a Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany
2014.468.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.468.2
Date:
issue: 1918 September 04-1920 January
… Army. Benjamin sailed alone from Hamburg aboard the SS Hansa, arriving in New York City on June 9, 1939. Helene and Natalie followed that winter aboard…
7. Betty Sklow papers
1999.A.0269 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0269
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1949
bulk: 1939-1940
… of her son-in-law, and his family. On April 26, 1940, Betty departed Antwerp, Belgium on the SS Pennland and arrived in New York on May 16, 1940. The…
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 … disembarkation in the Netherlands, her experiences negotiating travel to the United States, and her journey to the United States aboard the SS Pennland in 1940…
8. Gertrude and William Nagel papers
2017.527.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.527.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-circa 2000
bulk: 1938-1946
… for Italy. In March 1940 William left Italy for the United States sailing about the SS Vulcania. His parents, Fritz and Helene, remained in Europe…
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 … Evil: A Photo- Record of Axis Crime, 1945, which was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library and cataloged under call number D…
9. Ruth Loewenstein papers
2017.613.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.613.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1963
… aboard the SS Cameronia, and arrived in America on September 10. Their sponsors were cousins Bertha and Milton Oettinger. The Loewensteins lived in New…
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 … immigration visas on July 24, 1940, sailed from Glasgow to New York at the end of August aboard the SS Cameronia, and arrived in America on September 10. Their…
10. The Mayos visit relatives in Belgrade, travel on the SS Normandie, and celebrate at home in NY
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Film | Accession Number: 2017.300 | RG Number: RG-60.0149 | Film ID: 4269
Date:
Event: April 14 to July 29, 1937
Duration:
00:11:20
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…The Mayos visit relatives in Belgrade, travel on the SS Normandie, and celebrate at home in NY…
11. March of Time -- outtakes -- passengers from the SS Gripsholm
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Film | Accession Number: 2005.515.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4449 | Film ID: 2807
Date:
Event: 1944 March 14
Duration:
00:08:49
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in November 2005.…
12. Freud family papers
2010.401.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.401.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2004
bulk: 1919-1954
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… the Jewish community. In September 1942, Sophie and Esti left Casablanca for Lisbon, Portugal, and on October 23, 1942, they boarded the SS Carvalho…
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 … Esti left Casablanca for Lisbon, Portugal, and on October 23, 1942, they boarded the SS Carvalho Arjuo for the United States. The ship docked in…
13. Levy family on SS France - departure and arrival in France
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Film | RG Number: RG-60.1469 | Film ID: 2987
Film Title:
1927 Trip to Alsace -- Carl Henry Levy -- home movies
Date:
Event: May 21-28, 1927
Duration:
00:04:05
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Levy family on SS France - departure and arrival in France…
14. Lore Oppenheimer and Hermann Ziering - Society of the Survivors of the Riga Ghetto (New York)
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Film | Accession Number: 1996.166 | RG Number: RG-60.5051 | Film ID: 3804, 3805, 3806, 3807, 3808
Film Title:
Claude Lanzmann Shoah Collection, Interview with Oppenheimer and Ziering
Date:
Event: November 1978
Production: 1985
Duration:
01:44:00
… in 1950, and Félix Lanzmann (1993-2017). Lanzmann's most renowned work, Shoah, is widely regarded as the seminal film on the subject of the Holocaust…
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 … sergeant who harassed me with “You Jewish pig”. Q: You Jewish pig? A: Yes. So I went to the head officer and told him what I heard… what I had been called…
15. Levy family aboard SS France en route to Europe
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Film | RG Number: RG-60.1467 | Film ID: 2987
Film Title:
1927 Trip to Alsace -- Carl Henry Levy -- home movies
Date:
Event: May 21-28, 1927
Duration:
00:02:24
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… against the rise of fascism and the arrival of German ships to the United States. He also led the North American Committee in Cincinnati to Aid Spanish…
16. Le Havre harbor and on board Normandie ship to the U.S.
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Film | Accession Number: 2006.454.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4569 | Film ID: 2832
Film Title:
Poland-Paris -- Benjamin Gasul -- amateur
Date:
Event: June? 1939
Duration:
00:01:49
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, the SS Normandie was considered the largest and fastest ship in the world when launched. The Normandie's record-breaking maiden Atlantic crossing in May…
17. Newlyweds visit Venice, Bitola, and London
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Film | Accession Number: 2019.152 | RG Number: RG-60.0191 | Film ID: 4352
Film Title:
Julian and Esther Aresty -- home movies
Date:
Event: approximately 1936
Duration:
00:10:08
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, Stella Nahmias, and her children) again pose for the camera; the children fuss (Rachel Nahmias survived the Holocaust in hiding).HAS, cityscape. Family…
18. Oral history interview with William Zeck and Belle Mayer Zeck
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0381 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0382
Date:
interview: 1996 September 12
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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 …. These workers were very, very badly treated and the plant was run with the help of the SS. In other words, there were SS guards in every part of the…
19. Oral history interviews with Esther Moses and Herbert Moses
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.206.1 | RG Number: RG-50.701.0001
Date:
interview: 1997
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Molly Wisman donated the oral history interviews with her mother Esther Moses and father Herbert Moses to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
20. Oral history interview with Bert Fleming and Irene Fleming
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0160 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0430
Date:
interview: 1996 May 17
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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 … deported to Poland? A: We were arrested. Q: They went from house to house and checked the citizenship? A: Absolutely. The SS men who arrested me with two…