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  1. [Deportations from Przemysl]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Note of the chief of staff of the SS and Police leader in Cracow from 27.7.42 about a meeting dealing with the deportation of Jews from Przemysl. The note states which Jews remain as forced laborers. The note reveals an incident that "endangered" the deportations. Military commander Liedke closed a bridge by deploying Wehrmacht troops to stop police from crossing. Fellenz went to Przemysl to understand and solve the problem. The meeting revealed a conflict between Wehrmacht and SS about the deportations as the Wehrmacht feared to loose to much forced laborers. On July 26, 1942, Battel, in c...

  2. Seyss-Inquart Arthur

    • Seyss-Inquart, Arthur
    • Seyß-Inquart, Arthur, 1892-1946
    • Zajtich, Arthur, 1892-1946
    • Seyss-Inquart, Arthur, 1892-1946
    • Seyss-Inquart, A. (Arthur), 1892-1946
    • ...

    22/07/1892

    16/10/1946

    Reich governor of Austria. Reich Commissioner of German-occupied Netherlands. Responsible for rounding-up of Dutch Jews.

  4. Courtroom portraits of Rudolph Hess and Wilhelm Keitel created during the Trial of German Major War Criminals at Nuremberg

    1. Edward Vebell collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521704
    • English
    • overall: Height: 18.000 inches (45.72 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) pictorial area: Height: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Portrait studies of Rudolph Hess and Wilhelm Keitel, German defendants, created by 24 year-old Edward Vebell, illustrator and US soldier, from the press gallery during the first months of the 1945 Trial of German Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Ed sat in the gallery for three days and used field glasses to capture the details of the defendant's faces. He had no water, so he had to use spit to create the halftones that add detail and nuance. Ed did 90% of his drawing in the courtroom, seeking to bring intimacy to the historical proceeding...

  5. Book

    1. Franz Wohlfahrt family collection

    Old and New Testament Bible found by liberating troops at Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1945. They discovered it on the body of a prisoner, Johann Stossier, a Jehovah's Witness, who died in Sachsenhausen shortly before the camp was liberated. The troops returned the Bible to his family. It is inscribed by his sister and her husband, who survived the war. After the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938, Jehovah's Witness literature was forbidden. The Watchtower Society, the administrative arm for the Jehovah Witnesses, had been banned in Germany since 1935. The religion was not...

  6. Salomon Slowes papers

    1. Salomon Slowes collection

    The Salomon Slowes papers include biographical materials, correspondence, hand-drawn maps, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting Salomon Slowes, his family, his experiences in the Polish military, Soviet POW camps, and the Anders Army, and his interest in the Katyn massacre. The papers also include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and writings documenting his wife, Mira Slowes, her family, and her survival under a false identity. Biographical materials include student and military records and prescription forms documenting Salomons Slowes’ education an...

  7. Gamzon Robert

    • Gamzon, Robert
    • Castor

    1905

    1961

    Founder of the Jewish scout movement in France and partisan commander, joined the executive board of UGIF in January 1942.

  8. Kyiv (Kiev) does not surrender

    Women with shovels, working, men erecting barricades and makeshift fortifications. VS of soldiers working. A newspaper headline reads: "The Fascists shall not be allowed to take the capital of Soviet Ukraine. Everything for the defense of our home, of all we love!" A sign (possibly at a movie theater) reads "Showing: Reports from the Front of the Patriotic War". People stand in street, looking at the sky. German planes. Soviet guns aimed at the sky. Another intertitle reads "Helios Pavlovich Mykhailyuk: a participant in the defense of Kiev". Street life. It would seem that this footage was ...

  9. Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross] flag with a black eagle with a swastika and a red cross on a white field

    Very large Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [DRK; German Red Cross] flag with a Reichsadler, a black Imperial eagle, with a white Swastika on its chest and a red cross in its talons, displayed upon a white field. After Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in January 1933, the Nazi Party began to reshape the private charity sector. By July 1933, the DRK was one of only four non-state aid organizations left in Germany. Its new president was a Nazi Party official, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In December 1937, the DRK became a unit of the Nazi Party and, the next year, it became a Social ...

  10. Destroyed town in Belgium

    Jeep driving through muddy street of severely bombed out town. Civilian digging through rubble with crowbar. Women in winter coats in FG walking down street. Signs reads: "Bastgone." GIs give gift to little girl. Stevens in front of jeep Toluca gives present to little girl (There is a reference that Stevens made in a letter home about giving a Christmas present to a Belgian girl in March, long after Christmas had passed.) Truck pulls into muddy road, in a town that has been devastated by bombs. No buildings are left standing. Sign reads: "keep rollin' Malmady N23, Vielsalm." Pan of flattene...

  11. Torah scroll with cover and box

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn562912
    • English
    • a: Height: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) b: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 7.130 inches (18.11 cm) c: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 18.310 inches (46.507 cm)

    The scroll was used by Rabbi Ralph M. Weisberger during his military service in the Persian Gulf, circa 1944.

  12. Jacob Mincer papers

    The Jacob Mincer papers consist of correspondence and identification papers documenting Mincer’s efforts to emigrate from Europe before and after the Holocaust and the efforts of his uncle, Issy Mincer, to help him from South Africa. Correspondence primarily includes letters Jacob wrote to Issy from Brno before the war and from Munich and the United States after the war as well as pre-war letters documenting Issy Mincer’s efforts to provide Jacob financial assistance through the Anglo-Palestine bank. Identification papers include Jacob’s pre-war student identification card from Brno and his...

  13. US Army 2nd Cavalry Regiment Toujours Pret pin worn by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Henry Morgenthau family collection

    Clutchback pin with the motto Toujours Pret (Always Ready) worn by Henry Morgenthau III, an officer in the United States Army, Second Cavalry, ca. 1941-1945. He served in combat in the European theater and was awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious service.

  14. US Army 2nd Cavalry regimental pin worn by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Henry Morgenthau family collection

    Second Cavalry regimental crossed sabers pin worn by Henry Morgenthau III, who was an officer in the United States Army, Second Cavalry, ca. 1941-1945. He served in combat in the European theater and was awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious service.

  15. US Army 2nd Cavalry captain's insignia worn by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Henry Morgenthau family collection

    US Army captain's insignia pin worn by Henry Morgenthau III, who was an officer in the United States Army, Second Cavalry, ca. 1941-1945. He served in combat in the European theater and was awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious service.

  16. Arnold Joseph collection

    The Arnold Joseph collection consists of correspondence to and from defendants at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, which Joseph acquired during his military service as a censor. Incoming correspondence from the general public comes from the so‐called “201 file” of letters not to be delivered to the defendants so as not to upset them. It includes a mixture of praise and good wishes for the defendants as well as insults and invectives, and some correspondence includes prayers, poems, and songs. At least one letter is from a former German soldier, another is from a former political prisoner,...

  17. Quisling sentenced to death

    World in Film. Issue no. 20 (1940-1949) 03:39:08 "Last Fight Pictures from the Pacific." British Naval and air units at sea. HS, US convoy under way. Admiral Rawlings, British officer being transported from his ship at sea via breech buoy to an American ship alongside. GSAP pictures of Japanese land installation being strafed. MS, Admiral William F Halsey aboard ship speaking to group of men in fire control room. LSs, American battleship's guns firing at shore in the battle of the Honshu Sea. Scenes aboard US battleship of ammunition being sent to upper deck. 03:42:40 "Soldiers become Farm ...

  18. Caucasus Front

    Animated map of the Caucasus region. The campaign in the Caucasus began in the summer of 1942, preceding Stalingrad. An airfield with a plane. Three men in flight suits study a map; one of them holds a dog. According to the narrator, they are preparing to fly a reconnaissance mission around the Terek river, looking for artillery emplacements. View of a plane from the ground, then the interior, with two men in the cockpit. Aerial view of the Terek river and surrounding area. The copilot studies the ground through binoculars. The scene switches to German soldiers on the ground, listening to r...

  19. Amateur footage filmed on the Eastern front by a German soldier

    Date: Fall/winter 1941 - 1942. Panning shots of a Russian village, with thatched-roof peasant huts and a tall white Russian orthodox church. 00:06:25 A Wehrmacht officer stands beside a road sign that indicates the village is near Roslavl, in the Smolensk Oblast', a province in the Ukraine along the border between Poland and the USSR. Cut to a once-grand, stone, Neoclassical building (church, theater, administrative building?) now in disrepair, with many German soldiers walking about. German soldiers with horse-drawn wagons march down a road through a destroyed section of city or town, poss...

  20. Speeches at the 1933 harvest festival in Bueckeberg (Part 2)

    Title: "Deutscher Erntedanktag 1933 auf dem Bückeberg bei Hameln” “II. Teil.” Nazi flags, officers. “Auf dem Bückeberg.” An enormous crowd gathered on the hill to observe parade of military. Nazi flags on tall poles. Band waiting to march. Soldiers lounge in the grass. Cavalrymen approach their horses. 01:02:32 Intertitle: “Ankunft der Diplomaten.” Train carrying German diplomats. The side of the train reads, “MITROPA.” The diplomats, dressed in fine clothing, walk away from the train. 01:03:53 Intertitle: “Die Ehrengäste und Ab-ordnungen der Bauern-schaft begeben sich zur Festtribüne.” Gue...