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  1. Blue striped pajama top with a Reichsadler stamp worn during hospital stays by soldiers in the German military

    1. National World War I Museum collection

    Blue striped heavy cotton pajama shirt stamped with Nazi insignia issued to soldiers serving in the German military during the Third Reich to wear in hospitals during recovery.

  2. WWI Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with Swords and fitted box awarded to a German Jewish veteran

    1. Maier Firnbacher family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43004
    • English
    • a: Height: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Depth: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) c: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)

    Military Merit Cross 3rd Class with Swords and fitted case of issue awarded to Maier Firnbacher in 1916 for bravery while serving in the German Army during World War I. Maier was a cattle trader in Straubing, Germany, when Hitler came to power in 1933. Jews were forbidden to practice certain professions and, in 1936, Maier's trading license was revoked. In 1938, he was forced to sell his farmland at a loss to a non-Jew. He got immigration visas for the United States for himself, his wife, Ida, and their 8 year old son, Manfred, then was arrested during Kristallnacht on November 10. He was r...

  3. Forged temporary exemption from military service, prepared by Comando Superiore Partigiani (CSP-Supreme partisan headquarters) activists in Rome

    1. P.30 - Personal Archive of Matilde Finzi-Bassani, Italy

    Forged temporary exemption from military service, prepared by Comando Superiore Partigiani (CSP-Supreme partisan headquarters) activists in Rome

  4. Personal documents: Military service booklet of Red Army soldier Mikhail Parnis, born in 1909; documents dated, 1941-1960

    1. O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period

    Personal documents: Military service booklet of Red Army soldier Mikhail Parnis, born in 1909; documents dated, 1941-1960

  5. Military propaganda newspapers published and intended for Red Army soldiers fighting on the Third Ukrainian front, 1943-1944

    1. O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period

    Military propaganda newspapers published and intended for Red Army soldiers fighting on the Third Ukrainian front, 1943-1944 Included in the file are: Letter of testimony by Zinaida Gurevich attesting that her father, Yevgeniy Yoil Novoselski, was a military journalist; article written by Novoselski about World War II; letter to the army from his friend, 1991, and authorization to wear his medals of honor from the war. Included in the file are the following newspapers: - "Vpered Za Rodinu" ("Forward, on behalf of our Motherland"), issue no. 116, dated 19 November 1942 until issue no. 380, d...

  6. Military service booklet of Zakhar Lopotukhin, a soldier in the Red Army who served in Belorussia, 1944

    1. O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period

    Military service booklet of Zakhar Lopotukhin, a soldier in the Red Army who served in Belorussia, 1944

  7. Semi-automatic Walther PPK pistol, holster, and magazines found at a concentration camp by US military aid worker

    1. Milton L. Shurr collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn514920
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) b: Height: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Width: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) c: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) d: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Walther 7.65 semi-automatic pistol, leather holster, and two magazines found by Lt. Milton Shurr, a Jewish American soldier, at the recently liberated Buchenwald concentration camp in April-May 1945 in Germany. This pistol was never fired, but, lighter than a Luger, it was the type used by SS guards at the camp. 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 t...

  8. WWI German military black and white striped ribbon that belonged to a Jewish veteran and concentration camp inmate

    1. Margot Hamburger family collection

    Ribbon which belonged to Salli Joseph, probably awarded for his service in the German Army during World War I, 1914-1918. Salli and his family lived in Berlin, Germany, and he began searching for ways to get his family out of the country after the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933. They tried to get visas for the United States, since his wife's sister had lived there for some time. However, Salli and his wife, Martha, were placed on the very restrictive Polish quota system by the US because they were born in West Prussia. In 1939, they sent their 19 year old son, Bernard, to En...

  9. Allied Military currency for France, 100 franc bank note owned by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp inmate

    1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    Allied Military currency, 100 franc note, that belonged to Ladislav Glattstein. The currency was issued jointly by the US and Great Britain prior to the invasion of France in June 1944. Ladislav, 18, and his family lived in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), when it was annexed by Hungary in fall 1938. In 1942, Ladislav was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion. He was sent to Nagybana labor camp, and, in 1944, to the Ukraine and Balf labor camp. In January 1945, Ladislav was transported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and in March, via death march to G...

  10. Watercolor of a large tent with a military vehicle created by a young Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps

    1. Edward Herzbaum Hartry collection

    Watercolor of a large tent and a military vehicle in the desert 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...

  12. Button from a World War I British military uniform found by a young Jewish refugee in Belgium

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    Button with the Royal Coat of Arms found by 10 year old old Joseph Schadur in the sand dunes near Oostduinkerke, Belgium, where he and his sister spent summer vacations. The button is from the uniform of a British soldier from the First World War. Joseph's father, Michel, left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it dangerous to live there. His wife, Manja, their 2 children, Joseph and his 4 year old sister, Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. After the Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940, the family was forced t...

  13. Button from a World War I British military uniform found in the sand by a young Jewish refugee in Belgium

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    Button with the Royal Coat of Arms found by 10 year old old Joseph Schadur in the sand dunes near Oostduinkerke, Belgium, where he and his sister spent summer vacations. The button is from the uniform of a British soldier from the First World War. Joseph's father, Michel, left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it dangerous to live there. His wife, Manja, their 2 children, Joseph and his 4 year old sister, Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. After the Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940, the family was forced t...

  14. M.29.FR - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Federal German Military Archives in Freiburg, 1936-1945

    M.29.FR - Documentation regarding the Holocaust from the Federal German Military Archives in Freiburg, 1936-1945 There is diverse documentation from the Wehrmacht (German Army) regarding the Jews, Jewish communities and the fate of the Jews during the Holocaust in the collection, including reports, memos, telegrams and personal documents, encompassing a wide variety of organizations and units that worked within the Wehrmacht framework. The files cover different areas of activity and organizations: partisan activity, administration of the occupied areas, activities of combat units, cooperati...

  15. M.40.MAP - The Military Archive in Podolsk - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense

    M.40.MAP - The Military Archive in Podolsk - Documentation from the Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence The collection contains documentation from TSAMO (Central Archive of the Russian Ministry of Defence ) including information regarding the murder of the Jews of Moldavia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, France, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Hungary, Belorussia, Ukraine and more. There is also information regarding the Gypsies, such as the concentration of Gypsies, their living conditions and their murder. Description of the collection: 1. Camps Concentration camps, extermin...

  16. Γερμανική Στρατιωτική Διοίκησις Κρήτης

    • German Military Administration in Crete
    • Germaniki Stratiotiki Dioikisi Kritis

  17. Международный военный трибунал для главных немецких преступников (Нюрнбергский процесс). Нюрнберг.

    • International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (The Nuremberg trials)

    Opis 1, 2916 files, 1945-1947 Agreement, rules and regulations of the tribunal, notifications, orders, reports, decoding of sound records of the open sessions, and reports from the close sessions. Letter of indictment, materials from Commonwealth counsel and counsel for the defence. Speeches of the accusers and defending counsels. statutory declaration (mascot); Affidavits of the sides. Interrogation reports of the defendance and accuisation. Sentence of the Nuremberg trial, opinions of the court members. Opis 2, 431 files, 1938-1946 The main specifics of the Opis 2 is the precise discripti...

  18. Материалы бывшего военного архива

    • Archivalien des ehemaligen Heeresarchivs
    • Records of the Former Military Archive

  19. Συλλογή Στρατόπεδο Παύλου Μελά

    • Collection Military Camp Pavlou Mela
    • Syllogi Stratopedo Pavlou Mela

    Catalogue of the executed prisoners (among them 7 were Jewish).

  20. 814-oji karo lauko komendantūra

    • Feldkommandantur 814
    • Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius

    This collection contains "the 4 July 1941 announcement by S. Žakevičius, chairperson of the Lithuanian citizens' committee of the city of Vilnius and regions concerning the obligation to wear special badges, the introduction of a ban for Jews to leave home after a definite hour and other documents restricting Jews' civil rights" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, 2011,...