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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 186 Collections and/or Records:

"Elias und die Raben" or Elias and the Ravens, 1946

 Item
Identifier: B333.08.0008.00002
Scope and Contents

Printed copy of an ink wash painting titled "Elias und die Raben" by the artist; "Elias und die Raben" is "Elias and the Ravens" in German. The painting is of an old man on his knees with the mountains in the background and six birds flying overhead.

Dates: 1946

"Elias und die Raben" or Elias and the Ravens, 1946

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Identifier: B333.08.0008.00003
Scope and Contents

Ink wash painting titled "Elias und die Raben" by the artist; "Elias und die Raben" is "Elias and the Ravens" in German. The painting is of an old man on his knees with the mountains in the background and six birds flying overhead.

Dates: 1946

"Encounter" Poem, June 1942

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Identifier: B333.02.0001.0002.00017
Abstract An poem by Thekla Stoll circulated among the Jews in Berlin, Germany. The poem speaks of the despair of the Jews' condition and the hope the author sees in the spirit of the Jews. Translation from Henry Lowenstein: "Today I saw 1,000 disturbed people, Today I saw 1,000 Jews, wandering into oblivion, Into the gray of the cold morning drew the condemned Leaving behind what once was their life. They stepped through the gates, glancing back, As they left everything outside, their homeland,...
Dates: June 1942

Envelope Addressed from Ernest Loeb to Emil Loeb, 9 October 1945

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Identifier: B407.01.0001.0011.00009
Abstract

Envelope is brown and damaged. No corresponding letter was found with the envelope. There is a stamp in the upper left corner that reads "Air Mail 6 Cents United States of America" and has a picture of an airplane on it. The letter has been stamped in ink with "U.S. Army Postal Service 757 9 OCT 1945". The addresses are both typed on, not printed, and the word "airmail" is also typed on. This was sent from Ernest's U.S. mailbox in Germany, APO 757, while he was stationed in Germany.

Dates: 9 October 1945

Envelope Contained Łódź Ghetto Letter, 1942 June 11

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Identifier: B333.03.0001.0003.00002
Abstract

Envelope with a window front and stamped. Circle with "Berlin N 4, 11.6.42," "2834, J. K. V., N4, Oranienburger Strasse 29," and a square with the Nazi eagle, "003, Deutsche [illegible]." According to the family the envelope contained the letter from Georg and Alice Loewenstein in the Łódź Ghetto.

Dates: 1942 June 11

Erna Eylenburg, between 1937-1939

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Identifier: B333.01.0001.0001.00003
Abstract Studio portrait of Erna Eylenburg, daughter of Loewenstein family friends Drs. Ernst and Elisabeth Eylenburg. Erna, at fifteen years old, and her younger brother Walter, age nine, escaped to the Netherlands on March 30, 1939. Eylenburg was on one of the first transports from the Netherlands to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and was murdered there in 1942. The rest of the Eylenburg family, Drs. Ernst and Elisabeth, and Walter, were interned in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp before...
Dates: between 1937-1939

Erna Witsches Schmidmayer: A Holocaust Story from Kindertransport to Pioneer in Israel, 2016-09-16

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Identifier: B452.01.0001.0003
Abstract

Oral history interview with Erna Witsches Schmidmayer.

Erna, born in Odessa, Ukraine, discusses her childhood in Danzig, Germany (now Gdansk, Poland); escaping Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport to London, England in 1939; and her immigration to Palestine in 1946.

Dates: 2016-09-16

Ernest Loeb Alternate Birth Certificate, 17 January, 1939

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Identifier: B407.01.0001.0010.00008
Abstract Document is an alternate birth certificate issued by the Darmstadt government. The document is titled "Geburtsurfunde", meaning birth certificate, although it was issued 15 years after he was born. The document lists Ernest Loeb's full name, birthday, father's name, mother's name, and the date (17 January 1939). It has a paper stamp that says "Stadt Darmstadt" (meaning "Darmstadt city"), "Gebuehr" (meaning "fee"), and a value of 0.60 Reichmarks. This physical stamp is stamped over in ink...
Dates: 17 January, 1939

Escape to the Tatras, 2022

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Identifier: B292.01.0001.00001
Abstract

Memoir "Escape to the Tatras: A Boy, a War, and a Life Interrupted" by Oscar Sladek with Corinne Joy Brown. The memoir is through the eyes of a nine year boy, who was separated from his parents and began a journey to find safety from the Holocaust.

Dates: 2022

Family Trees and Biographical Information, 1933-1994

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Identifier: B444.01.0001.0001
Abstract

Contains family trees, correspondence, and biographical information.

Dates: 1933-1994