Resource Pack

Yom HaShoah

Various primary sources for Yom Hashoah - photos, letters, poscards.

Primary Sources

Shana Tova Card, Kibbutz Shamir, 1945

Hannah Szenes Letter to her Brother

Hitler Caricature, The Chicago Sentinel, 1934

Assassination of Reinhard Heydrich

Poster Encouraging Boycott of German Goods, 1934

Vera Tomanic’s Yellow Armband, 1941

The Traitor, Museum of Horrors, 1900

Madeleine Lévy, Dreyfus’ Granddaughter

Anti-Semitic Sign, 1935

Hani Motiljo in Traditional Costume, 1928

Postcard from Moshe Goldmann to Erna Guggenheim, 1934

Swiss Safe Conduct Document of Istvan Domonkos, 1944

House in Krasilov, Ukraine

Schutzpass of Tivadar Foldes, 1944

Round-Up of Jews in Cracow, Early 1940s

Maer Simovici’s Decoration, 1926

Memorial to the Jewish Paratroopers, HaHoma, 1945

Lisbeth Sokal’s Apron, 1938

Jakob Kraus in Front of His Barbershop, Krakow, Poland, 1936

Liquidator of Warsaw Ghetto To Be Tried in Warsaw, 1948

Jews in the Opole Ghetto, 1941

Ruth Halova, 1938 and 1990s

Hannah Szenes, “To Die”

Hannah Senesh Laid to Rest, Palestine Post, March 29, 1950

Holocaust Survivors Demonstrate Against Reparations, 1952

Reparations Agreement Between West Germany and Israel, 1952

Siddur with Nazi Seal, 1937

Adolf Eichmann, 1961

The Katowice Synagogue, Poland, 1930s

Letter, Abraham Fraenkel, 1946

We Do Not Want, 1940s

Moshe Sharett Visits the Jewish Brigade, 1945

Great Synagogue in Warsaw

Lithuanian President at Yad Vashem, 1995

The Hay Haggadah, 1941

Demjanjuk Trial, 1987

The Old Synagogue in Krakow

Liebe Kempler and Children in Front of Their Store, Berlin, 1925

Teodora Relates, Olami HaKatan, Poland, 1939

Dohany Street Synagogue, 1942

Parachutist Stamp, December 12, 1955

The Ship Theodor Herzl Before Being Sent to Cyprus, 1947

Jews Escaping from Europe, 1945

Purim Festivities Cancelled, Tel Aviv, 1943

Article, “Allied Nations’ New Year Greetings to Jewry”, The Palestine Post, September 11, 1942

Salon Rachel, Tel Aviv, 1940

My Own Story, J. Rothbaum, Avigdor High School Magazine, 1947

The Jewish Tragedy, Edith Maged, Avigdor School Magazine, 1947

The Capture of Eichmann, Davar, June 24, 1960

A Scene of Domestic Felicity, Freda Stolzberg, Avigdor High School Magazine, 1947

Ultra-Orthodox Man in Krakow, 1935

Comic Strip about the Eichmann Trial, 1963

How We Escaped from the Germans, Avigdor High School Magazine, 1947

New Synagogue, Breslau, 1872

Youth Aliyah, 1940

The Vari Family, 1950

Purim Costume, Belgrade, 1920s

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Anniversary Poster, 1948

Letter from Lucie to her husband, Alfred Dreyfus, 1895

Jews in the Forest – On the Escape Trails to the Land of Israel, 1945

Extract from Samuel Hugo Bergmann’s Diary, 1945

Herzl and El Al - Envelope and Stamps

Spiegel Wedding, 1937

Purim and Our Country’s Fight, 1942

Invitation to a Children's Chanukah Play in the Vilna Ghetto, 1942

Memorial Assembly for Martyrs, 1949

Photographs of the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial, Budapest

Out-Of-Town Cloakmakers “Adopt” 100 War Orphans, 1948

Move Yom HaShoah to Tisha B’Av, 1965

Grandma’s H’tashen, The Sentinel, 1945

Feast of Lights in Nazi Prison Camp, 1942

Protest against Yad Vashem, 2008

Portrait of Rabbi Leo Baeck

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