The SS-appointed German manager of a textile factory, Alfred Rossner, protected and saved some Jewish workers and has been named a "Righteous Gentile" by Yad Vashem. For more information about Alfred Rossner, see the chapter in Mordechai Paldiel's book "Saving the Jews: Amazing Stories of Men and Women who Defied the 'Final Solution'" (2000).

<p>The original papers in this collection document the activities of the representative organization of the Jewish cultural community in Vienna in 1939. Also included in the deposit and now housed in the Wiener Library 'Special Collections' are an original Jewish tram pass issued to Berta Brand and 2 pieces of '<em>Jude</em>' badges.</p><p>Correspondence and papers of the head office of the Israelitische ...

Wrought iron, double gate from the Jewish cemetery in Tarnów, Poland, acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in 1991. Jewish settlement in the city and the cemetery date back to the 16th century and prior to World War II, 25,000 Jews lived in Tarnów. In September 1939, in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Germany invaded western Poland while the Soviet Union annexed ...

Documentation of the German and local authorities in the Pinsk region, 1941-1944&#x0D; &#x0D; Included in the collection, among other material:&#x0D; &#x0D; - Appeals by Jewish pupils in the schools in Pinsk to the Gebietskommissar (district commissioner) and the commander of the schools, requesting to receive work permits;&#x0D; - Orders of the Gebietskommissar, regarding the imposition of taxes on ...

The collection includes a Jewish police badge from Sosnowiec, Poland and a 100 zloty silver coin from Poland honoring Janusz Korczak.

Pedestrians walk by a store with a large "JUDE" and a Star of David painted on the window. The name on the store is Roth. Close-ups of other "JUDE" graffiti, including a marked display window of Dr. Becker´s pharmacy located on Linke Wienzeile 20 in Vienna´s 6th district (Dr. J. Becker died in May 1938 in Vienna.) One of the street signs indicates that the store is near the Naschmarkt. 01:14:16 A woman ...

Th collection consists of a bar of soap, a book, and an identification badge relating to the experiences of Adek Firestone in a Jewish refugee camp after the Holocaust.

The collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs and photo albums, log books, biographical materials, badges, and uniforms relating to Boy Scout activities of Eric Bergtraun and other Jewish refugees in Shanghai, China.

Uniform patch with a Polish eagle on a red castle issued to Dr. Edmund Lusthaus when he served in the 2nd Polish Corps from 1941-1945. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, and seventeen days later, the Soviet Army invaded from the east. Lusthaus was captured and taken to a camp for Polish prisoners of war in Novosibirsk, Siberia, where he served as a physician. When Germany invaded the Soviet ...

The collection consists of a Star of David badge, armbands, medals, a ribbon bar, cufflinks, certificates, correspondence, documents, photographs, and testimonies relating to the experiences of Menachem and Ita Blinbaum Konkowski and their families before the war in Poland, in the Jewish resistance and in hiding in Belgium during the war, and supporting the Jewish underground army in Palestine after ...

The collection consists of a badge, scrip, correspondence, documents, negatives, and photographs relating to the experiences of Emanuel Scherer as a member of the Bund in Warsaw, Poland, and of Jewish people in Germany and Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, Czechoslovakia, during the Holocaust.

Portrait sketch of Kurt Singer saved by his daughter, Margot. It was drawn by Clara Asscher-Pinkhof in 1942 in Amsterdam when he lived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Singer was a neurologist and the Director of the Berlin Opera. Soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he lost his position at the Opera due to a law that ousted Jewish civil servants from public positions. In May, he co-founded ...

Jews walking on sidewalk, nicely dressed, past storefronts, including "Schumacherei". Jewish Stars marked "Jude" worn on clothing, mostly young adults. CUs. Funny angle up, Jewish star on clothes of boy and his dad. 01:00:24 Policeman passing quickly close to camera. 01:00:30 Large group of many smiling women with Jewish stars close together, elevated camera angle. CU, pan CU to more faces. 01:00:31 ...

Documentation of the German and Ukrainian authorities in Ukraine, 1941-1942&#x0D; &#x0D; Included in the collection:&#x0D; &#x0D; - Order issued by the mayor of Odessa regarding Jewish property and Jewish owned assets;&#x0D; - Instruction of the municipality of Kamenets Podolskiy and the Feldkommandant, including a definition of who is a Jew and the imposition of the obligation to wear a yellow badge ...

The papers consist of eight photographs of Izak Lewkowicz and others (some wearing Star of David armbands or badges), two identification cards issued to Izak Lewkowicz in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and a "D.P. Index Card" issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force to Izak Lewkowicz.

Consists of materials documenting the efforts of a Hungarian farmer, Ferenc Csato, to save persecuted Jews in 1944. Includes two photographs showing Mrs. Csato and Jewish women wearing the yellow star badge; a 1948 letter testifying about Mr. Csato's 1944 activities; and an audiotaped interview conducted by Istvan Csato with his grandfather, Ferenc Csato, about the events of 1944.

Airmail envelope received by the Jaffe family in New York, relatives of Nesse Galperin Godin. It was postmarked December 1940 and sent from Warsaw in German occupied Poland to New York. In June 1941, Siauliai, Lithuania, where Nesse lived with her closeknit family, was occupied by Nazi Germany. Nesse, her parents Pinchas and Sara, and her brothers, Yechezkel and Menashe were soon forced into the ghetto. ...

Ernö Frankel was born on June 16, 1909, in Hungary. He immigrated to Paris, France, in 1931 because, as a Jew, he was unable to find a teaching job in Hungary. He left France in February 1943 to return to Budapest, Hungary, with his wife, Elisabeth, his son, George (b. August 8, 1941), and sixty other Hungarians. He served in the Hungarian Labor Battalion while he was living in Hungary. He was eventually ...

The collection consists of a Star of David badge, a teddy bear, thirty eight black and white scratchboards from the 1950s and 1980s and other artworks, documents, and photograph relating to the experiences of Jerzy Kajetanski, his wife, and his extended family, non-Jewish Polish persons, during the war when several were conscripted as laborers and sent to Germany, and after the war in Germany, Poland, ...

Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski was born on February 27, 1877, in Ilino, Russia, to Reuven Rumkowski. His brother, Josef, was born on August 8, 1884. He relocated to Łódź, Poland, in the early 1900s, and worked as a merchant and velvet manufacturer before beginning a career as an insurance salesman. In the early 1920s, with funding from the Joint Distribution Committee and other business entities, he opened ...

Copyright Holder: Yivo Institute for Jewish Research

Documentation of the Kreishauptmann (district governor) in Lemberg, 1941-1944&#x0D; &#x0D; Included in the collection:&#x0D; &#x0D; - Circular of the Generalgouvernement propaganda department in the Galicia area, regarding statistical data concerning the area's residents;&#x0D; - Correspondence of the Generalgouvernement office, regarding the Jews;&#x0D; - List of Jews from Mosciska who were transferred ...

The collection contains German military documents relating to the military careers of non-Jewish Germans Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter. Also included are financial documents relating to the forced sale of Jewish assets in Frankfurt, Germany, postcards, as well as photographs of Wilhelm Stahl and family, Walter Lewalter, and Warsaw, Poland. The biographical materials in this collection are organized ...

Hanna (Hannah) Henrietta Lenschitzki was born on November 6, 1922, in Halberstadt, Germany, to an Orthodox Jewish couple, Paul and Rosa Beermann Lenschitzki. Hannah had a brother, Manfred, who was born on September 7, 1920, in Halberstadt. Hannah’s father Paul was born in approximately 1887 in Sandersleben. His father was Isidore Lenschitzki. Hannah’s mother Rosa was born on January 22, 1891, in Sandersleben, ...