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  1. Model Stuka airplane made by liberated concentration camp inmate and given to US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Model German Stuka bomber presented to Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, made by a former prisoner at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. He was told that the models were made for the SS camp officers. First Lt. Shurr, Civil Affairs Unit, assisted in planning for D-Day, June 6, 1944. He landed on Omaha Beach soon after the invasion to organize supplies, then was placed with the 1st Army Displaced Persons Team. On April 11, 1945, the US Third Army liberated Buchenwald. Command of the camp was transferred to the 1st Army, which was responsible for establishing ord...

  2. Zeiss Z body binoculars found in a concentration camp by US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Zeiss, porro prism binoculars found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in April-May 1945 in Germany. First Lt. He found them in workroom where binoculars were assembled at the camp. Shurr, a member of the Civil Affairs unit, assisted in planning for D-Day, June 6, 1944. He landed on Omaha Beach soon after the invasion to organize supplies, then was placed with the 1st Army Displaced Persons Team. On April 11, 1945, the US Third Army liberated Buchenwald. Command of the camp was transferred to the 1st Army, which was respon...

  3. Watercolor of a mountain and town given to US military aid worker by liberated inmate

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521188
    • English
    • 1945
    • overall: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)

    Watercolor of a mountainside village painted by an unknown prisoner and presented to Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, as a sign of friendship and gratitude by another inmate of the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in April-May 1945. The painting was created shortly after liberation. First Lt. Shurr assisted in planning for D-Day, June 6, 1944, and joined the Civil Affairs Unit. He landed on Omaha Beach soon after the invasion to organize supplies, then was placed with the 1st Army Displaced Persons Team. On April 11, 1945, the US Third Army liberated Buchenwald. ...

  4. Records of the Former Military Archive in Potsdam Archivalien des ehemaligen Heeresarchivs (Fond 1275)

    The full collection at the source archive consists of records consolidated from various sources concerning German military forces during WWI and WWII. Includes Bormann orders, records relating to operations on Leningrad, intelligence activities, war diaries of the Strafbataillon (German Penal Battalion) (1944); German leaflets against British and French government (1939); leaflets, posters, newspapers; bulletins of anti-fascist organizations of Denmark (1943-1944); information bulletin of the International Union of Trade Unions; war diaries from occupied countries and from German-Soviet fro...

  6. Dark red leather wallet used by a Polish Army officer to hold military ID

    1. William Begell collection

    Red leather wallet used by Ferdinand Beigel, a Jewish Polish Army officer in Vilna, Poland (Vilnius, Lithuania). After Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939, Ferdinand remained in Vilna to conduct regimental business. Vilna was soon under Soviet control and the family’s possessions were confiscated. On June 22, 1941, Germany invaded Vilna and by September, Ferdinand, wife Liza, and son Wilhelm were forcibly relocated to the Jewish ghetto. Ferdinand joined the ghetto police and was in charge of the ghetto prison. On September 4, 1943, the Germans ordered the ghetto li...

  7. Allied Military, 10 mark note, with inscription by a war crimes trials court reporter

    1. Dixie Foster collection

    Allied military currency valued at 10 marks acquired by Dixie Foster when she worked as as a civilian court reporter during the US War Crimes Tribunal at the former Dachau concentration camp in Germany, also known as the Dachau war crimes trials. The trials were conducted in the American postwar occupation zone by the US Army from November 1945 to August 1948. It was inscribed on May 5, 1946, by Dixie and a US Colonel with whom she worked in Germany.

  8. United States Military payment certificate, 10 cent note, acquired by a war crimes trials court reporter

    1. Dixie Foster collection

    Military payment certificate for 10 cents acquired by Dixie Foster when she worked as a civilian court reporter during the US War Crimes Tribunal at the former Dachau concentration camp in Germany, also known as the Dachau war crimes trials. The trials were conducted in the American postwar occupation zone by the US Army from November 1945 to August 1948.

  9. Military Decoration for Loyalty medal, ribbon, and chevron awarded to a Belgian resistance fighter

    1. Roger Francois collection

    Medal with ribbon and chevron awarded to Roger Francois by the government of Belgium for his service to his country during World War II. During the German occupation of Belgium, May 1940-September 1944, the German military governed alongside the Belgian civil service. The Germans sought to deport all Jews to concentration camps; the Belgian civil service did not cooperate. By 1942, there was a significant resistance movement. Francois actively assisted Jews in avoiding these round-ups and in finding places to live in hiding. He was captured and interned at Buchenwald and Flossenbürg concent...

  11. Allied Military Authority currency, German ½ mark, acquired by a female forced laborer

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    Allied military currency, 1/2 mark, acquired by Ruth Kittel while she and her sister, Hannelore, were living with their Jewish mother, Marie (Maria), and Catholic father, Josef, in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust. Military currency or occupation money was produced for use by military personnel in occupied territories. The notes for different currencies: lire, francs, kroner, marks, schillings, and yen, had similar designs for ease of production. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth picked-up government mandated Judenstern or Star of David badges from the Office of the Jewish Organi...

  12. Allied Military Authority currency, German 1 mark, acquired by a female forced laborer

    1. Ruth Kittel Miller family collection

    Allied military currency, 1 mark, acquired by Ruth Kittel while she and her sister, Hannelore, were living with their Jewish mother, Marie (Maria), and Catholic father, Josef, in Berlin, Germany, during the Holocaust. Military currency or occupation money was produced for use by military personnel in occupied territories. The notes for different currencies: lire, francs, kroner, marks, schillings, and yen, had similar designs for ease of production. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth picked-up government mandated Judenstern or Star of David badges from the Office of the Jewish Organiza...

  13. Bullet shell picked up by American military personnel in Germany during Second World War

    1. Anthony Frank collection

  14. Bullet shell picked up by American military personnel in Germany during the Second World War

    1. Anthony Frank collection

  15. Bullet shell picked up by American military personnel in Germany during the Second World War

    1. Anthony Frank collection

  16. Bullet shell picked up by American military personnel in Germany during the Second World War

    1. Anthony Frank collection

  17. US military ID tags issued to German refugee and soldier in Counterintelligence Corps

    1. Ernest Fiedler collection

    Military dogs tags issued to Ernest Fiedler, who served in the the United States Army Counterintelligence Corps. He and his family left Nazi Germany for the US in 1938.

  18. Gen. Zorn and other German military officers in Russia; musical performance

    Reel 2: 00:00:00 Klappe 1-Lo 12: July 6, 1941: German military crossing a pontoon bridge. Shot of 8 German soldiers buried next to a blockhouse; switches to a different angle and shows soldiers walking past the graves. CUs of military vehicles moving across a pontoon bridge, with groups of soldiers relaxing on the bridge. Soldiers working on building a bridge, as a group of young boys looks on. Klappe 2-Lo 13: July 8, 1941: Captured Russian soldiers walking towards the camera. Military vehicles of the 3rd Panzer Division moving into a town, driving past the wreckage of a Russian plane. A so...

  19. Watercolor sketch of a military transport truck created by a young Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps

    1. Edward Herzbaum Hartry collection

    Watercolor of a brown British military transport on yellow sand created by Edward Herzbaum in Iraq circa 1943 where the 2nd Polish Corps was training with the British Army. Edward was a soldier in the Polish Army of the East which had marched south from the Soviet Union to join the British Army in Iraq. They journeyed to Kanaqin where the British had a large military base and field hospital. Many died there after the long, arduous march from Russia. The Corps next went to Habbiniya where from March-September 1943 they received artillery and other military training. Edward was in the 5th Kre...

  20. Poland military patch worn by a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps

    1. Edward Herzbaum Hartry collection

    Poland military uniform patch issued to Edward Herzbaum, a soldier in the Polskie Siły Zbrojne, 5 Kresowa Dywizja Piechoty [Polish Armed Forces, 5th Kresowa Infantry Division], 2nd Polish Corps, British Army, from 1942-1945. When Edward was 19, he left Łódź, Poland, shortly after Nazi Germany occupied the country in September 1939 for Soviet controlled Lvov. In June 1940, Edward was exiled to a gulag by Soviet security police. Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941. Edward was released in an amnesty of Polish prisoners. He joined the Polish Army of the East, known as Anders Army. In ...