Sheet music for "Churbon Titanik, oder Der naser keiver" = "The Titanic's disaster," words by Solomon Small; arranged for piano by Henry A. Russotto. Published New York: Hebrew Publishing Company.
Medal commemorating the execution by hanging of financier Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in 1738. On the observe, a portrait of Oppenheimer. On the reverse, a depiction of the gallows with the words "Aus diesem Vogelhaus schaugt Sus der Schelm heraus" (From this bird cage, the rogue Süß looks out).
Photograph taken in Joe Engel's hometown May 1945, approximately one month after liberation. Joe returned there looking for survivors and found 2 of his brothers and one cousin. 1st row, left to right: Shlomo Liznewski (neighbor),unidentified neighbor (non-Jewish, Polish),Izak Engel (brother). 2nd row, left to right: 2 unidentified neighbors (non-Jewish, Polish),Joe Engel,Ben Engel (brother),Eli Engel (cousin).
Black-and-white stipple engraved portrait of naturalist and physician Marcus Elieser Bloch. From Dictionaire des sciences médicales, Volume 2, by Antoine Jacques Louis Jourdan, published Paris: C. L. F. Panckoucke.
Hand-colored lithograph depicting the arrest of financier Joseph Süß Oppenheimer. From Die Geschichte Württembergs für die Jugend bearbeitet by Karl Pfaff.
Print No. 1465 of the series Imagerie d'Épinal, printed and published by Pellerin & Cie. The print includes a depictions of a Jewish man and woman from Algeria.
This photograph in the Joe Engel collection is of unknown origin. It appears to be a snapshot of a postwar advertisement picturing a child searching for relatives. The text under the photo appears to read: "My name is Eva Marguiles (?). I was born in Lvov (Lemberg), Poland in 1941-1942. If you are a relitive [sic] of mine or (illegible) friends- please contact me...."
Engel family photograph taken in a garden in Zakroczym, Poland in 1938 shortly before his aunt and cousin, Ruth and Fay Kadish, left for the states. Of the family members shown in the photograph only Joe, Ben Engel (brother), Irene Engel (sister) and Ruth and Fay Kadish would survive the war. Photograph also appeared in a Post and Courier (Charleston, SC) article dated April 23, 1998. 1st row, left to right: Joe Engel,__Bernstein (nephew, son of Rosa Bernstein),__Bernstein (nephew, Rosa's son),Peseach Engel (brother),Fay Kadish (cousin),__Engel (nephew, son of Raffi),Esther Engel (mother, nee Zylberstin),Chava Engel (sister-in-law, wife of Raffi). 2nd row, left to right: Hinda Engel (sister),Abraham Bernstein (brother-in-law, husband of Rosa),Rosa Bernstein (sister),__Engel (nephew, baby boy of Raffi's),Moishe Engel (father),Ben Engel (brother),Ruth Kadish (aunt),Raffi Engel (brother),Irene Engel (sister).
Hand-colored lithograph depicting a Jewish man and two Jewish women from Algiers. From Voyage dans la régence d'Alger; ou, Description du pays occupé par l'armée française en Afrique by Claude Antoine Rozet, published Paris: Arthus Bertrand.
Hand-colored engraving of a Jewish woman from Algeria. Engraving by Laurent François Guerdet after C. Camino. From Musée cosmopolite, published Paris: Ancienne Mon Aubert.
Black-and-white engraving depicting Moses and the Ten Commandments. From The Holy Bible : with the commentaries of Scott and Henry; and containing also many thousand critical and explanatory notes, selected from the great standard authors of Europe and America; the commentaries condensed, and the whole edited, by John Eadie, published Manchester: F. Warren & Co.
Black-and-white engraving depicting Moses and the Ten Commandments. Engraving by Peter van Lisebetten after a painting by Valentin de Boulogne. From Davidis Teniers Antverpiensis, pictoris, et a cubiculis by David Teniers.