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  1. Village festival; Communists; UNRRA; La Guardia in Czechoslovakia

    EXT, green, hilly countryside. CUs and LSs of people attending a fair or festival. Countryside as seen from car, snow-capped mountains. Graffiti mocking Hitler, includes caricature of Hitler with large puffy cheeks. Women washing rugs at a river. Train moving along tracks through town as people pass by. People going to a house of worship (not certain whether a church or a synagogue). People in horse drawn wagon. LS, house of worship. Woman and girl laying flowers at memorial with American flag (several takes). LS, field. Building "OBCHODNI DUM". Children in red shirts, some of the boys are ...

  2. Brodie pattern MK II green steel helmet worn by a Belgian officer

    British issued Brodie pattern MK II green steel helmet worn by Marcel Frank when he was a Belgian liaison officer with the British Army during the liberation of Bergen Belsen concentration camp in late April 1945. Marcel was stationed at Lueneberg, on the outskirts of Bergen Belsen, and assisted with the repatriation of Belgian survivors in the displaced persons camp. He was present when the British uncovered a mass grave containing the remains of forced laborers in the nearby forest. Local former Nazi officials were forced by the Army to exhume, make coffins, and properly rebury the 243 bo...

  3. Striped concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Simcha Dimant collection

    Concentration camp summer weight uniform jacket worn by 31 year old Symcho (later Simcha) Dymant from December 24, 1944, to April 11, 1945, in Buchenwald concentration camp. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Symcho was living in Czestochowa with his wife Tonia and 3 year old son Aaron. The family was forced into the ghetto after it was established in April 1941. Symcho escaped and, because he spoke German, was able to get a civilian job in a German military installation by assuming the identity of a non-Jewish Polish person. In September 1942, Tonia, Aaron, and the rest of S...

  4. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, issued to a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Simcha Dimant collection

    Buchenwald Kantine scrip received by 31 year old Symcho Dymant while he was an inmate in Buchenwald concentration camp from December 24, 1944, to April 11, 1945. Scrip was issued in the camp as a means of improving worker productivity. This scrip and his jacket in this collection were the only objects he kept with him after the war. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Symcho was living in Czestochowa with his wife Tonia and 3 year old son Aaron. The family was forced to move into the ghetto after it was established in April 1941. Symcho escaped and, because he spoke German, wa...

  5. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, issued to a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Simcha Dimant collection

    Buchenwald Kantine scrip received by 31 year old Symcho Dymant while he was an inmate in Buchenwald concentration camp from December 24, 1944, to April 11, 1945. Scrip was issued as a means of improving worker productivity. This scrip and his jacket in this collection were the only objects he kept with him after the war. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Symcho was living in Czestochowa with his wife Tonia and 3 year old son Aaron. The family was forced to move into the ghetto after it was established in April 1941. Symcho escaped and, because he spoke German, was able to ge...

  6. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, issued to a Polish Jewish inmate

    1. Simcha Dimant collection

    Buchenwald Kantine scrip received by 31 year old Symcho Dymant while an inmate in Buchenwald concentration camp from December 24, 1944, to April 11, 1945. Scrip was issued in the camp as a means of improving worker productivity. This scrip and his jacket in this collection were the only objects he kept with him after the war. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Symcho was living in Czestochowa with his wife Tonia and 3 year old son Aaron. The family was forced into the Jewish ghetto in April 1941. Symcho escaped and, because he spoke German, was able to get a civilian job in a...

  7. Antisemitic Campaign opens: Boycott, Bookburning

    "Part 2: Acquiring Totalitarian Control of Germany, 1933-1935." Title: "Opening of the Official Anti-Semitic Campaign 1 April 1933" Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, launches antisemitic campaign in Berlin Lustgarten. Original sound, Goering addresses a cheering crowd. Boycott of Jewish shops, Berlin. Crowds. SA men chant slogans from truck in the streets: "Germans, protect yourselves. Don't buy from the Jews." On doorway the sign with skull: "Achtung Juden". On closed stores the sign "Jude" painted on window. Party members put up signs, hold back crowds, ...

  8. Uprising in Prague; Looted art discovered; Children in Holland

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 7 (part) Title: Aufstand in Prag [Uprising in Prague] The citizens of Prague rise up against the German occupiers. People tear down a German-language street sign, throw leaflets from windows, and burn a German flag. They raise British, American, and Soviet flags. Shots of captured German POWs. Czechs retake the radio station and citizens build barricades and hand out weapons. Fighting in the streets. The narrator says that while the free world celebrated the capitulation of Germany, Prague still lay in darkness. More fighting, German POWs taken prisoner. Male and fem...

  9. Simcha Dimant papers

    The Simcha Dimant papers relate to the Holocaust and immediate post-war experiences of Simcha Dimant, a Polish Jew. The papers contain identification documents including a provisional identification card issued by the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Buchenwald concentration camp, April 1945; a Haftlings-Personal-Karte (Prisoners-Personal-Card); a Mandat-Karte (Mandate Card), July 1945; and a fragment of a Military Government Temporary Registration form. The papers also include travel documents relating to Dimant’s work for the Allied Expeditionary Forces. These documents include a D.P. Index...

  10. Refugees; captured Germans; bombed towns; GIs; marching into Paris

    Civilians with rucksacks walking down street with belongings. Some wheeling bicycles. Refugees. These are twilight shots, autumn leaves in the pictures. Red Cross truck followed by jeep coming down street. More shots of refugees. Some of the men are dressed in suits and ties, roads are wet and muddy. Woman wheeling a pushcart with belongings. Two people embrace. Stevens walks toward camera. Empty wet street. Tank coming through town past Hotel Caspiel Hindenburg. Men running, including cameraman, some men firing mortars, others small light weapons. Members of camera crew visible in frame. P...

  11. Belsen concentration camp; displaced persons

    Scenes of the Belsen Concentration Camp, and the Belsen Displaced Persons Camp. LS, barracks at far side of road, woods in BG. Displaced persons are fed and treated. MSs, dining hall, with tablecloths, survivors eating soup. INT, hospital barracks, beds filled, woman in lower bunk receiving medical care. German POWs remove dead DPs. Soldiers carrying corpses wrapped in blanket to truck. MLS, truck bed. Another body is carried through doorway. Distributing identity cards to DPs, women clustered around tables outside, writing. CU, "Allied Expeditionary Force / DP index card." MLS, men, women,...

  12. Joseph and Josie Peretz papers

    The Joseph and Josie Peretz papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Joseph and Josie Peretz, a Jewish couple living in Antwerp, Belgian who survived the Holocaust. Joseph, after being released as a prisoner of war with the Belgian army was deported to a labor camp in northern France and escaped after procuring false French papers, while Josie, a Polish-born Jew, lived with a couple in Tourcoing, France under a false identity. Included in the collection are documents pertaining to Joseph’s service in the Belgian military, ration coupons from the labor camp, and poems he wrote wh...

  13. UNRRA selected records AG-018-018 : Dodecanese Islands Mission

    Consists of the UNRRA Central Registry Files and Subject Files relating to relief and rehabilitation, welfare inquires, and displaced persons and refugees on the Dodecanese and Rhodes area.

  14. Death of Fritz Todt

    List of "Kriegsberichter": Dr. Aletan, Blenck, Buhlmann, Dressler, Elton, Ertl, Frentz, Frickhoeffer, Garms, Gessl, Grund, Hapke, Hardacker, Hornschu, Jacobi, Koenig, Komor, Lehmann, Mahla, Olesko, Onasch, v. Reibnitz, Sakeus, Schmidmeier, Alfred Scholz, Hans Scholz, Schwennicke, Thoemmes, Wenig. Tribute to Dr. Fritz Todt and the works of the Organisation Todt, including construction of the Autobahn and the Westwall. Todt walks with other officials. He hands out shovels to workers, who march with the shovels over their shoulders. The narrator states that construction of the Autobahn began i...

  15. Bricha: Jewish refugees leave Europe for Palestine; Ebensee camp at liberation; Belsen DP camp

    11:00:12 Refugees getting on board buses and trains, UNRRA officials help. Refugees waiting at the border at Nachod, a village on the Czech/Polish border. Reception center at Bratislava. 11:07:25 Jewish refugees leaving Europe for Palestine. Groups of DPs (Bricha Underground) crossing the Alps from Gnadenwald, Austria to Italy in February 1948. Many shots of walking up paths, climbing slopes, jumping over streams, sheltering under a bridge. Arriving at foot of mountain, getting instructions. 11:18:27 (color) Traun Lake and castle in the town of Ebensee. Local Austrians. Roadside statue of J...

  16. Touring Berlin, postwar

    Five men in uniform, including Stevens entering large German building with columns, this is apparently postwar as they are not in combat uniform. One-legged civilian on cane walking down street, pan across devastated part of Berlin. Shot of famous columned gate: the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, sign reads: "British Sector", civilians and others are walking about. (Berlin was divided into Soviet, American, British and French sectors. The Brandenburg Gate was the demarcation line between the Soviet and British sectors of the city. In the BG there are the remains of the Unter den Linden, one of...

  17. Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter papers

    The collection contains German military documents relating to the military careers of non-Jewish Germans Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter. Also included are financial documents relating to the forced sale of Jewish assets in Frankfurt, Germany, postcards, as well as photographs of Wilhelm Stahl and family, Walter Lewalter, and Warsaw, Poland. The biographical materials in this collection are organized into two subseries of materials relating to Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter. Materials relating to Wilhelm Stahl include a military identification booklet, 1910-1919; a passport “Wehrpaß,” ...

  18. Getuigen Verhalen, Oorlogsliefdekind, soldatenvaders, interview 09

    1. World War II
    2. Getuigen Verhalen

    Projectbeschrijving Tijdens de dekolonisatie-oorlog met Indonesië onderhielden Nederlandse militairen contacten met de lokale bevolking, en dus ook met Indonesische meisjes. Regelmatig werden, vaak onbedoeld, uit deze verhoudingen kinderen geboren. Na de onafhankelijkheidsoverdracht in 1949 keerden de troepen terug naar huis. Een onbekend aantal Nederlands-Indonesische kinderen bleef achter bij hun moeder in het nieuwe Indonesië. Voor het project Oorlogsliefdekind zijn 18 Oral History interviews met vaders, moeders en de betreffende kinderen gedeponeerd bij DANS. De datasets van deze geïnte...

  19. Black long sleeved robe with a braided cord worn by a US judge at the Nuremberg trials

    1. Daniel T. O'Connell collection

    Black long sleeved judicial gown worn by Justice Daniel T. O’Connell, an American judge who sat on Military Tribunal I during the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials in Germany from October 20, 1947, to February 17, 1948. Justice O’Connell was a superior court judge from Massachusetts and tried Case #8, the RuSHA case. On trial were the leading officials of Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt [Race and Resettlement Main Office] or RuSHA, an organization that oversaw the racial purity and cleansing policies and programs of the Nazi government. Fourteen defendants were tried; 13 were found guilty.

  20. Set of US Army issue dog tags worn by a soldier in the 102nd Infantry Division

    1. David C. Porter collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43417
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) b: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Pair of US Army issue dog tags worn by 19 year old David C. Porter during his service as a soldier in the US Army in Germany from February 1945 to July 1946. David was deployed in February 1945 to join troops of the 102nd Infantry Division in combat in Germany. By the end of the war in May, David was a mortar crew chief for Company A, 26th Infantry Regiment. David and other members of the 102nd were selected to serve as guards for the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Its purpose was to seek justice for crimes against humanity, evidenced by the Holocaust, perpetrated by Nazi Ger...