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21851. Plastic identification badge holder used by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
The collection consists of artifacts, audio recordings, documents, film, and photographs relating ... to the experiences of the Deutsch, Krausz, and Veres families in Budapest, Hungary, prior to and ... during the Holocaust, when some family members were deported to camps or lived in hiding, and after their ... was part of an Orthodox Jewish family from Budapest. He traveled to the United State in 1939, and
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21852. Fellner family papers
After the Nazi annexation of Austria and increased persecution of the Jews there, Rudolf began to search ... booked passage on the SS Conte di Savoia, and arrived in New York on September 23, 1939. He settled in ... as an interrogator and went overseas in 1944 to Cardiff, Wales where he would soon be assigned to the ... October 9, the ship's boiler exploded, and the ship broke in two off of a deserted island under Italian
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21853. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee
The collection consists of four pillowcases and a suitcase relating to the experiences of Bertl ... Rosenfeld during and after the Holocaust when she and her three sisters were sent on a Kindertransport from ... Germany to Great Britain in 1939, and later emigrated to the United States. ... and Ruth were sent to Aachen to live with Friederika in 1937 to attend the Jewish school. During the
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21854. Margit Meissner papers
from the American rescuer Varian Fry. They eventually obtained transit visas to Spain and Portugal and ... The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of ... Margit Meissner when she worked for the US Office of War Information and the US Army of occupation to ... to 5 years older than Margit. The family was wealthy and assimilated. Margit's father came from an
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21855. Child's beige summer suit worn by Joseph Oppenheimer
active members of the local Jewish community. Josef and Mary Americanized the spelling of their names to ... Ludwig and Maria, immigrated to the United States in summer 1935. When Adolf Hitler was appointed ... authorities began suppressing the rights and personal freedoms of Jews. Under the new laws, Ludwig, a merchant ... boarded the S.S. Majestic in Cherbourg, France, and sailed to the US. They settled in St. Louis, Missouri
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21856. Leo Haas sketch of SS labor camp guard Schrader
The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family ... when he was imprisoned in several concentration camps, and some after the war when he was a satirical ... smuggling their 'gruesome' work out of the camp. Haas was arrested and tortured. In October, he was deported ... 1922, he moved to Berlin where he studied with Emil Orlik and Wilhelm Jäckel. He absorbed the bold
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21857. Watercolor of a POW camp owned by German Jewish US soldier
spaced guard towers. In the foreground, there are 9 buildings outside the fence and the American flag is ... The collection consists of over eighty artifacts, including cameras and accessories, military ... clothing and insignia, correspondence, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences ... England because of anti-Jewish regulations, Sichel went to the US. His parents Ernst and Frieda joined him
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21858. Portrait of a fellow concentration camp inmate by Leo Haas
The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family ... when he was imprisoned in several concentration camps, and some after the war when he was a satirical ... camp and members of the currency counterfeiting commando run by the SS. Leo Haas, 38, a Czech Jew and a ... 1922, he moved to Berlin where he studied with Emil Orlik and Wilhelm Jäckel. He absorbed the bold
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21859. Freud family papers
Martin Freud (1889-1967) was born in Vienna, Austria to Dr. Sigmund Freud, the psychiatrist, and ... sportsman and, being politically engaged, joined a Zionist movement, "The Kadimah" (Forward). In 1910 he ... joined the Imperial horse artillery, and when World War I broke out, he volunteered for military service ... 1919. Martin met Ernestine “Esti” Drucker (1896-1980) at a party during the war and they corresponded
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21860. Portfolio
ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fellow artists determined to secretly document the terrible ... conditions of daily life in the camp. In summer 1944, Haas, Bedrich Fritta, Otto Ungar, and Ferdinand Bloch ... 1922, he moved to Berlin where he studied with Emil Orlik and Wilhelm Jäckel. He absorbed the bold ... dramatic styles of the Expressionist and Modernist movements flourishing in the city. He closely studied
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21861. Luba Tryszynska-Frederick papers
Photographs, documents, books, and audio visual materials related to the Holocaust experiences of ... family was deported to the Pruzhany Ghetto. In January 1943, Luba, Hershel, and Isaac were deported to ... the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. Her son and husband were killed upon arrival. She was ... investigated and found 54 children outside abandoned to perish in the cold by the Nazis. The children
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21862. Yehuda Bauer
tried to influence the British and American governments to negotiate with the Nazis to save the Jews of ... and scholars for the nine-and-a-half-hour film SHOAH released in 1985. The United States Holocaust ... Memorial Museum purchased the archive of SHOAH outtakes from Mr. Lanzmann on October 11, 1996, and have ... since been carrying out the painstaking work necessary to reconstruct and preserve the films, which
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21863. Floral print skirt worn by a Polish Jewish girl living with an assumed identity
and joined Dror, a Zionist youth group. In June, Bricha transported them to the American Zone and a ... The collection consists of two blouses, a skirt, and a comb relating to the experiences of Renia ... Sperber in Malnow, Poland, and as a forced laborer in the Lampertsmuhle textile factory near ... Kaiserslautern, Germany, during the Holocaust and in displaced persons camps in Dunsen and Backnang, Germany
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21864. Leo Haas sketch of SS labor camp guard Wolters
The acquisition of this collection was made possible by The Abraham and Ruth Goldfarb Family ... when he was imprisoned in several concentration camps, and some after the war when he was a satirical ... smuggling their 'gruesome' work out of the camp. Haas was arrested and tortured. In October, he was deported ... 1922, he moved to Berlin where he studied with Emil Orlik and Wilhelm Jäckel. He absorbed the bold
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21865. An eleven-year-old Jewish girl lies in bed after her liberation in Bergen-Belsen.
interned abroad. Conditions in the camp were good by concentration camp standards, and most prisoners were ... Army retreated in the face of the advancing Allies, the concentration camps were evacuated and their ... thousands of prisoners and all basic services -- food, water and sanitation -- collapsed, leading to the ... military hospital and barracks. Members of the British Royal Artillery 63rd Anti-Tank Regiment liberated
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21866. Wooden toy bus owned by a Czechoslovakian Jewish girl
The Pollatscheks changed their last name to Polt, and took on Americanized first names. Friedrich ... The collection consists of a toy bus and correspondence relating to the Pollatschek family in ... Czechoslovakia before the Holocaust, and in Czechoslovakia, Cuba, and the United States during and after the ... foreign words like “Autobus” in the German language. Renate lived with her parents, Friedrich and
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21867. Portfolio
Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, where he and a group of fellow artists determined to secretly document the ... terrible conditions of daily life in the camp. In summer 1944, Haas, Bedrich Fritta, Otto Ungar, and ... the camp. Haas was arrested and tortured. In October, he was deported to Auschwitz, and a month later ... 1922, he moved to Berlin where he studied with Emil Orlik and Wilhelm Jäckel. He absorbed the bold
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21868. Portfolio
1922, he moved to Berlin where he studied with Emil Orlik and Wilhelm Jäckel. He absorbed the bold ... dramatic styles of the Expressionist and Modernist movements flourishing in the city. He closely studied ... the work of graphic artists such as Goya and Toulouse-Lautrec in his 1923 travels in France. In 1925 ... was active in the Communist Party and several artist’s cooperatives. In the fall of 1938, Nazi Germany
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21869. Portfolio
1922, he moved to Berlin where he studied with Emil Orlik and Wilhelm Jäckel. He absorbed the bold ... dramatic styles of the Expressionist and Modernist movements flourishing in the city. He closely studied ... the work of graphic artists such as Goya and Toulouse-Lautrec in his 1923 travels in France. In 1925 ... was active in the Communist Party and several artist’s cooperatives. In the fall of 1938, Nazi Germany
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21870. Ben Shahn poster with an image of men with their arms raised in surrender
The collection consists of artifacts: a badge, cigarette cards, leaflets, posters, and scrip and ... correspondence, documents, sheet music, and publications relating to the history of the Holocaust in Europe ... at NYU and the National Academy of Design in New York City. He was associated with the Social Realist ... The United States Office of War Information (OWI) was created on June 13, 1942, to centralize and
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21871. Large black plastic comb used by a Polish Jewish girl living with an assumed identity
and joined Dror, a Zionist youth group. In June, Bricha transported them to the American Zone and a ... The collection consists of two blouses, a skirt, and a comb relating to the experiences of Renia ... Sperber in Malnow, Poland, and as a forced laborer in the Lampertsmuhle textile factory near ... Kaiserslautern, Germany, during the Holocaust and in displaced persons camps in Dunsen and Backnang, Germany
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21872. Portfolio
1922, he moved to Berlin where he studied with Emil Orlik and Wilhelm Jäckel. He absorbed the bold ... dramatic styles of the Expressionist and Modernist movements flourishing in the city. He closely studied ... the work of graphic artists such as Goya and Toulouse-Lautrec in his 1923 travels in France. In 1925 ... was active in the Communist Party and several artist’s cooperatives. In the fall of 1938, Nazi Germany
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21873. Portfolio
1922, he moved to Berlin where he studied with Emil Orlik and Wilhelm Jäckel. He absorbed the bold ... dramatic styles of the Expressionist and Modernist movements flourishing in the city. He closely studied ... the work of graphic artists such as Goya and Toulouse-Lautrec in his 1923 travels in France. In 1925 ... was active in the Communist Party and several artist’s cooperatives. In the fall of 1938, Nazi Germany
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21874. Portfolio
1922, he moved to Berlin where he studied with Emil Orlik and Wilhelm Jäckel. He absorbed the bold ... dramatic styles of the Expressionist and Modernist movements flourishing in the city. He closely studied ... the work of graphic artists such as Goya and Toulouse-Lautrec in his 1923 travels in France. In 1925 ... was active in the Communist Party and several artist’s cooperatives. In the fall of 1938, Nazi Germany
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21875. Portfolio
1922, he moved to Berlin where he studied with Emil Orlik and Wilhelm Jäckel. He absorbed the bold ... dramatic styles of the Expressionist and Modernist movements flourishing in the city. He closely studied ... the work of graphic artists such as Goya and Toulouse-Lautrec in his 1923 travels in France. In 1925 ... was active in the Communist Party and several artist’s cooperatives. In the fall of 1938, Nazi Germany