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  1. 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 ...

  2. 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 ...

  3. Kingdom of Wurttemberg 12 year military service medal and ribbon acquired by a US soldier

    1. Harold B. Goldberg collection

    Kingdom of Wurttemberg 12 year military service medal with a red and blue striped ribbon brought back from the war by Harold Goldberg, an American soldier who served in Europe, circa 1945-1946. This medal dates to Imperial Germany under Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was deposed after Germany's defeat in World War I (1914-1918.)

  4. German military red painted canteen in pouch with strap acquired by US soldier

    1. Bernard B. Cohen collection

    German military field canteen, painted red, in a fitted wool pouch with a leather carrying strap brought back from the war by Bernard B. Cohen, a soldier with the United States Third Army as it fought its way across Europe during the fall of 1944 through the end of the war in May 1945.

  5. British military armband acquired by a Jewish emigre serving in the US Army

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    Military uniform armband issued by the Army Council owned by Joseph Strip (originally Striponsky) who was sent to Germany by the United States Army in 1944. Joseph and his parents Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky, and brother Astriel fled Antwerp, Belgium, in May 1940 for France. A year later, they received American visas, and traveling via Spain and Portugal, left for New York in May 1941.

  6. Selected records of the Russian State Military Archives (Former Osobyi Archives Collections) from the Yad Vashem

    Contains fragmentary excerpts from captured German documents, including directives, decrees, name lists relating to the emigration of Jews from Germany, reports, correspondence, and various other documents relating to the administration of the SD and Gestapo, Zionist organizations; RSHA and Gestapo personnel; religious conversions of Jews and Christians; the Vienna Jewish community; activities of various Jewish organizations; anti-Jewish laws; Jewish emigration; activities of the German Labor Front; activities of the Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei in Auschwitz; liquidation of J...

  7. American military at Nordhausen; Eisenhower lands in Frankfurt; soldiers on leave in England

    Reel 14: (1945) Concentration camp in Nordhausen, Germany; Ike, Frankfurt; Air trip to England; Cambridge American soldiers board military planes in a field. Sign, "Leave Flight Officers." Ansco (film) logo. At Nordhausen concentration camp, soldiers inspect rocket debris. [Fedeli reports visiting the contentration camp at 'Buchenwald' near Weimar, Germany in late April 1945.] Brief LS of camp buildings along road. Pan of liberated camp and environs from a moving vehicle. Dozens of large containers of ammunition stacked side by side in fields, behind a sign: "Tor II." Displaced families pus...

  8. Regional File of the U.S. War Department, Military Intelligence Division (MID)

    Consists of selected records from the Regional File containing a wide variety of information about conditions and events around the world with a general span of years from 1922 to 1944. Some materials are dated as early as 1918. Many records from the 1930s and 1940s include Holocaust-related topics such as concentration camps, antisemitism, deportations, racial laws, forced labor, and religious persecution.

  9. Reichsbahn officials receive military medals; German soldiers going home on leave

    Poor quality image. Scenes from a ceremony honoring officials of the Reichsbahn. The ceremony takes place in a large hall, filled with uniformed spectators. Reichsverkehrsminister (Reich Minister for Transporation) Dr. Julius Dorpmueller is present. The audience applauds as several men receive the military honor of the Ritterkreuz (Knight's Cross). The recipients named in the Bundesarchiv description are: Reichsbahn Oberinspektor Hellenthal, Direktionspraesident Grimm, Lokfuehrer Kindervater, Direktionspraesident Lammerts, Lokfuehrer Bierschenk and Direktionspraesident Dr. Godefroy. Josef G...

  10. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an L found by a US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Unused, red inverted triangle badge with the letter L found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, in April-May 1945 at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. The red cloth was to identify the inmate as a political prisoner. The letter indicated camp status or nationality. The patch would be attached on the left breast of the jacket or on the pants leg. First Lt. Shurr assisted in the planning for D-Day, June 6, 1944, and joined the Civil Affairs Unit. He landed on Omaha Beach soon after the invasion to organize medical supplies. He was placed with the 1st...

  11. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Unused, yellow triangle badge with a black letter U found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, in April-June 1945 at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. The yellow cloth would mark the inmate as Jewish. The letter indicated camp status or nationality. The letter U could be for Ungarisch (Hungarian]. Patches were usually applied with the triangle inverted, or point down. However, there were combination badges: 2 overlapped triangles, 1 upright, 1 inverted, formed a Judenstern or Star of David. Or a yellow triangle might be placed over a black triangle to identify...

  12. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Unused, yellow triangle badge with a black letter U found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, in April-June 1945 at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. The yellow cloth would mark the inmate as Jewish. The letter indicated camp status or nationality. The letter U could be for Ungarisch (Hungarian]. Patches were usually applied with the triangle inverted, or point down. However, there were combination badges: 2 overlapped triangles, 1 upright, 1 inverted, formed a Judenstern or Star of David. Or a yellow triangle might be placed over a black triangle to identify...

  13. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Unused, yellow triangle badge with a black letter U found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, in April-June 1945 at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. The yellow cloth would mark the inmate as Jewish. The letter indicated camp status or nationality. The letter U could be for Ungarisch (Hungarian]. Patches were usually applied with the triangle inverted, or point down. However, there were combination badges: 2 overlapped triangles, 1 upright, 1 inverted, formed a Judenstern or Star of David. Or a yellow triangle might be placed over a black triangle to identify...

  14. Unused black triangle concentration camp patch found by a US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Unused, blank black triangle patch found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, in April-May 1945 at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. The black cloth signified that the inmate was classed as asocial, a term used for those considered too deviant, lazy, or selfish to contribute to society. This flexible category could include addicts and alcoholics, the disabled, homeless, homosexuals, pacifists, or Roma. The patch would be attached on the left breast of the jacket or on the pants leg. First Lt. Shurr assisted in the planning for D-Day, June 6, 1944, a...

  15. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an E found by a US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Unused, red inverted triangle badge with the letter E found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, in April-May 1945 at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. The red cloth was to identify the inmate as a political prisoner. The letter indicated camp status or nationality. E was used for intellectuals or influential inmates sent to be reformed or re-educated. The patch would be attached on the left breast of the jacket or on the pants leg. First Lt. Shurr assisted in the planning for D-Day, June 6, 1944, and joined the Civil Affairs Unit. He landed on Omah...

  16. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an F found by a US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Unused, red inverted triangle badge with the letter F found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, in April-May 1945 at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. The red cloth was to identify the inmate as a political prisoner. The letter indicated camp status or nationality. F could be for French [Franzosischer.] The patch would be attached on the left breast of the jacket or on the pants leg. First Lt. Shurr assisted in the planning for D-Day, June 6, 1944, and joined the Civil Affairs Unit. He landed on Omaha Beach soon after the invasion to organize medic...

  17. Unused yellow triangle concentration camp patch with a U found by a US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Unused, yellow triangle badge with a black letter U found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, in April-June 1945 at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. The yellow cloth would mark the inmate as Jewish. The letter indicated camp status or nationality. The letter U could be for Ungarisch (Hungarian]. Patches were usually applied with the triangle inverted, or point down. However, there were combination badges: 2 overlapped triangles, 1 upright, 1 inverted, formed a Judenstern or Star of David. Or a yellow triangle might be placed over a black triangle to identify...

  18. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an A found by US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Unused, red inverted triangle badge with the letter A found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, in April-May 1945 at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. The red cloth was to identify the inmate as a political prisoner. The letter indicated camp status or nationality. The patch would be attached on the left breast of the jacket or on the pants leg. First Lt. Shurr assisted in the planning for D-Day, June 6, 1944, and joined the Civil Affairs Unit. He landed on Omaha Beach soon after the invasion to organize medical supplies. He was placed with the 1st...

  19. Unused green triangle concentration camp patch with an S found by a US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Green inverted triangle badge with a black letter S found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, in April-May 1945 at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. The green cloth would identify a convicted criminal. The letter would signify camp status or nationality. S is likely for Sicherungsverwahrte [Preventive Custody), a term often used by the SS to hold indefinitely a person who had completed their prison sentence, but whom the SS considered socially undesirable and not fit to be released into German society. It was often used to keep homosexuals from bei...

  20. Unused red triangle concentration camp patch with an I found by a US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection

    Unused, red inverted triangle badge with the letter I found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, in April-May 1945 at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. The red cloth was to identify the inmate as a political prisoner. The letter indicated camp status or nationality. I is likely for Italian. The patch would be attached on the left breast of the jacket or on the pants leg. First Lt. Shurr assisted in the planning for D-Day, June 6, 1944, and joined the Civil Affairs Unit. He landed on Omaha Beach soon after the invasion to organize medical supplies. H...