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  1. US Army 4th Armored Division shoulder sleeve patch worn by medic, 20th Corps

    1. John J. Truty collection

    US Army 4 Armored Division shoulder sleeve patch worn by John J. Truty, a medic and Surgical Technician in the 20th Corps (Ghost Corps), Third Army, from April 1941-September 1945. John, 24, landed in Normandy around June 24, 1944, twenty days after D-Day. He cared for troops from many divisions behind the front lines as they fought across France and into Germany, then Austria. On April 11th, 1945, units of the Third Army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. John and his captain visited the camp a few days later to witness the horrific conditions. He took photograph...

  2. US Army Technician 4th class shoulder sleeve insignia worn by medic, 20th Corps

    1. John J. Truty collection

    US Army Technician 4th class shoulder sleeve insignia worn by John J. Truty, a medic and Surgical Technician in the 20th Corps (Ghost Corps), Third Army, from April 1941-September 1945. John, 24, landed in Normandy around June 24, 1944, twenty days after D-Day. He cared for troops from many divisions behind the front lines as they fought across France and into Germany, the Austria. On April 11th, 1945, units of the Third Army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. John and his captain visited the camp a few days later to witness the horrific conditions. He took photog...

  3. US Army Technician 5th class shoulder sleeve insignia worn by medic, 20th Corps

    1. John J. Truty collection

    US Army Technician 5th class shoulder sleeve insignia worn by John J. Truty, a medic and Surgical Technician in the 20th Corps (Ghost Corps), Third Army, from April 1941-September 1945. John, 24, landed in Normandy around June 24, 1944, twenty days after D-Day. He cared for troops from many divisions behind the front lines as they fought across France and into Germany, then Austria. On April 11th, 1945, units of the Third Army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. John and his captain visited the camp a few days later to witness the horrific conditions. He took photo...

  4. US Army Armored Division shoulder sleeve patch worn by medic, 20th Corps

    1. John J. Truty collection

    US Army Armored Division shoulder sleeve patch worn by John J. Truty, a medic and Surgical Technician in the 20th Corps (Ghost Corps), Third Army, from April 1941-September 1945. John, 24, landed in Normandy around June 24, 1944, twenty days after D-Day. He cared for troops from many divisions behind the front lines as they fought across France and into Germany, then Austria. On April 11th, 1945, units of the Third Army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. John and his captain visited the camp a few days later to witness the horrific conditions. He took photographs ...

  5. US Army 20th Corps shoulder sleeve insignia worn by unit medic

    1. John J. Truty collection

    US Army 20th Corps shoulder sleeve insignia issued to John J. Truty, a medic and Surgical Technician in the 20th Corps (Ghost Corps), Third Army, from April 1941-September 1945. John, 24, landed in Normandy around June 24, 1944, twenty days after D-Day. He cared for troops from many divisions behind the front lines as they fought across France and into Germany, then Austria. On April 11th, 1945, units of the Third Army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. John and his captain visited the camp a few days later to witness the horrific conditions. He took photographs o...

  6. Berg and Hermanns families papers

    1. Berg and Hermanns families collection

    The Berg and Hermanns families papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Berg family and their escape to Kenya and the Hermanns family and Julius Hermanns’ journey aboard the MS St. Louis, return to Europe, and internment. The Berg family papers consist primarily of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Berg family from Germany and their escape to Kenya. Biographical materials include birth certificates, a military passbook, a marriage certificate, two family registers, certificates of good conduct, a letter o...

  7. Drawing by Esther Lurie of a panoramic view of daily life in the Kovno ghetto

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Ink drawing of Kovno Ghetto created by Esther Lurie in the 1960s, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts the Elders Committee meeting place and the large blocks. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine ...

  8. Esther Lurie sketch of people entering the main gate to the Kovno Ghetto

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Sketch of an entrance to the Kovno Ghetto drawn by Esther Lurie in 1957, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943, while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts the main gate to the Ghetto with the Slobodka Bridge in the distance. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, ...

  9. Ghetto panorama and two buldings drawn by Esther Lurie

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Ink drawing of Kovno Ghetto created by Esther Lurie in the 1960s, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts the Elders Committee meeting place and the large blocks. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine ...

  10. Drawing by Esther Lurie of the Yad Vashem Memorial Shrine

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Image of the Yad Vashem Memorial Shrine and surrounding hills drawn by Esther Lurie in Jerusalem in 1963. Lurie was a professional artist whose drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, and her later reconstructions, of life as a prisoner in Kovno Ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, present eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine in 1934. She was visiting her sister in Kovno in summer 1941 when it was occupied by Germany. She was confined to the ghetto and had to create por...

  11. Etching by Esther Lurie of a group lined up for expulsion to the camps

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Sketch drawn by Esther Lurie in 1957, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1942 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts a ghetto street lined with buildings near a row of trees on a hillside with a building in the distance. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, se...

  12. Drawing by Esther Lurie of the Vilijampole neighborhood in Kovno Ghetto

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Drawing of deserted streets with barracks and small buildings in the Vilijampole blocks of Kovno Ghetto drawn by Esther Lurie in 1957, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943, while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while interned in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine ...

  13. Drawing by Esther Lurie of the path behind the ghetto leading to the Ninth Fort

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Sketch of the hills behind the Kovno Ghetto leading to the Ninth Fort drawn by Esther Lurie in 1957, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943, while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. The Germans used the Ninth Fort as a prison and site for the torture and mass executions of 25,000 Jews from Kovno. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while interned in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Est...

  14. Drawing by Esther Lurie of a panoramic view of daily life in the Kovno ghetto

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Ink drawing of Kovno Ghetto created by Esther Lurie in the 1960s, reconstructing a drawing she did in 1943 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts the Elders Committee meeting place and the large blocks. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine ...

  15. Etching by Esther Lurie of a group lined up for expulsion to the camps

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Etching created in 1957 from a drawing done by Esther Lurie in 1943 while she was imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts a closely packed group of people with large sacks waiting in line. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine in 1934. She was visiting her...

  16. Etching by Esther Lurie of the expulsion to the camps from the ghetto

    1. Esther Lurie collection

    Etching of people awaiting deportation from Kovno Ghetto created in 1957 from a 1957 drawing by Esther Lurie reconstructing a work she drew in 1943 while imprisoned in the ghetto in German occupied Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania. It depicts a large crowd with Star of David badges holding suitcases and gathering in a street. Lurie's drawings and sketches, created from 1941-1944, while a prisoner in Kovno ghetto and Stutthof and Leibisch concentration camps, exhibited and published in 1945, presented eloquent visual and written testimony of daily life during the Holocaust. Esther, a professional a...

  17. Belsen liberation, atrocities

    Sequence of Bergen-Belsen at liberation from the pre-completed and pre-restored version of "German Concentration Camps Factual Survey," formerly known as “Memory of the Camps,” transmitted by WGBH/PBS FRONTLINE in May 1985 with commentary specially recorded by the actor Trevor Howard. Narrator's voice is not heard throughout. Belsen sign; child survivors behind barbed wire with Luba Tryszynska; eating; emaciated survivors. 06:28:25 Woman (Mrs. Rosalie Weisner) kneels to kiss the hand of a British soldier on the day of liberation (April 15, 1945). Corpses; burials at Belsen; British soldiers...

  18. Ruth Danzig Rauch papers

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    The Ruth Danzig Rauch papers primarily contain biographical materials, correspondence, and emigration and immigration materials related to Ruth Danzig’s escape from Munich, Germany to Great Britain on the Kindertransport in 1939, her immigration to the United States in 1944, and the Danzig and Frank family’s life in Munich from 1939-1942. The biographical materials include documents from the International Tracing Service about Emanuel and Gerda Danzig, archival research on the fates of members of the Bravmann, Winter, and Danzig families in Germany, and school records for Ruth Danzig Rauch....

  19. Red leather purse used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Red leather shoulder bag given to 6 year old Franziska (Ruth) Danzig by her mother Gerda before she was sent from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parent found a Jewish foster family, the Pastern...

  20. Brown leather luggage tag used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Leather luggage tag used by 6 year old Franziska (Ruth) Danzig when her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parent found a Jewish foster family, the Pastern...