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  4. German Marksmanship aiguillette

    1. Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum collection

    Silver colored German marksmanship aiguillette acquired by Lt. Edward Tenenbaum during the war. Edward, a 1st Lieutenant in the OSS and the US Army during the Second World War (1939-1945), was the first American officer to enter Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation, a participant in the liberation of Ohrdruf, and author of the Buchenwald Report.

  5. Karl Bodenschatz testifies at Nuremberg Trial for Goering's defense

    (Munich 35) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 8, 1946. LSs, MLSs, Karl Bodenschatz, former member of the Reich Air Ministry in 1935, is cross-examined by US Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. The witness speaks of two elderly Jews who had helped Goering when he was wounded in the 1923 putsch attempt in Munich. Jackson in subsequent testimony traps him into admitting that they were arrested simply because they were Jews (20:33-20:34). LSs, prisoners' dock and attorneys seated in front of dock. Pan from dock to Bodenschatz testifying.

  6. Green patch with a paintbrush and palette acquired by a Jewish emigre serving in the US Army

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    Badge with a painter's palette and brush owned 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.

  7. Green patch with a red tent acquired by a Jewish emigre in US Army

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    Badge with an embroidered red tent 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.

  8. Buchenwald; effigy of Hitler; Nazi training camp

    Buchenwald concentration camp. Piles of corpses, gallows, a hanging effigy of Hitler. A obelisk inscribed “H.L.B.” Rows of barracks. Barbed wire fences. An aerial view of Bayreuth Nazi training camp.

  9. Building the WWII defensive line; German aircraft

    Reel 1, Siegfried Line elevators, rooms, tunnels, showers, toilets, telephone switchboards, electric power generators, antitank guns in its arsenals, munitions dumps, artillery. antiaircraft guns, and searchlights. Troops with listening devices. Messerschmidt planes take off from an airfield.

  10. Copies of selected records relating to the Holocaust

    Contains copies of selected records relating to the Holocaust, from the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

  11. A memoir relating to experiences in Łódź, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Neustadt

    Consists of a typed copy of one memoir, in English, written by Flora Herzberger in Rodewisch, Germany, in June 1945. In the memoir, Mrs. Herzberger describes the family's deportation from Germany into Poland to the Łódź ghetto in 1941, her husband's death in the ghetto, the deportation of the children of Łódź, and her deportation to Auschwitz with her son and daughter. She describes life in Auschwitz and being sent, with her daughter, to forced laber at the Sackisch subcamp of Gross-Rosen in an airplane factory. She thanks the American military and all who have been so kind to her after...

  12. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service medal

    1. Meier Harth collection

    Medal received by German veteran of First World War; Received by Meier Harth, who served in the German Army the First World War and was honored with this medal in Geissen, Germany, in March 1935.

  13. Lili Abraham collection

    Consists of one letter written by Lili Kovacs Abraham to the Claims Conference in February 1993. In the letter, Mrs. Abraham describes the invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia and her deportation from Remetske Hamre, Czechoslovakia, to the Uzhorod ghetto in 1944. She was deported to Auschwitz in the spring of 1944 and describes life in the camp until she was sent for forced labor in Altenburg, Germany. She was liberated by the American military while on a death march near Waltenburg, Germany, in April 1945.

  14. Selected records from the State Archives of L’viv Oblast

    Contains files relating to the activities of the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle in Galicia; the Ukrainian police in L’viv city and region; the Kreishauptmann Lemberg-Land; Feldgendarmarie in Rawa Ruska; Feldkommandantur 603 Lemberg; Gouverneur Distrikt Galizien; Polizeidirektion Lemberg; Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD Lemberg; SS- und Polizeiführer Lemberg; Kreishauptmann Stryj; Stadtverwaltung und Krieshauptmann Drohobycz; and other police, judicial, and administrative units of the occupying forces and their local collaborators.

  15. Henry Bauer memoir

    Consists of an essay written by Henry Bauer, who was born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1917. Mr. Bauer emigrated to the United States in February 1940, joined the American military and was sent to North Africa and assigned to administer Allied internment camps for German and Italian prisoners of war. He was transferred to Italy and then participated in the invasion of southern France. After the end of the war, he found out that his parents, who were not able to emigrate prior to the war, were deported and killed in Auschwitz. This essay, 2 pages, was excerpted from an article published in the D...

  16. Walter Furman papers

    The Walter Furman papers comprised documents and photographs collected by Walter while serving overseas with the United States armed forces. Included in the collection is a five-page mimeograph copy of a report prepared by for Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) by the United States Group Control Council dated 16 April 1945 summarizing the conditions at Buchenwald, and two black-and-white photographs of atrocities at Dachau.

  17. "19 Wasted Months: diary and notes of my internment"

    Contains a copy of a booklet entitled "19 Wasted Months: diary and notes of my internment" by Kurt Lewinski. The booklet, which is a typed English translation of the original German, describes Lewinski's experiences in an internment camp for enemy aliens in England; life on the HMT Dunera ship, which transported him to Australia in 1940; and life in the Hay, New South Wales and in the Tatura internment camps. The text is written in the form of daily diary entries, and includes two epilogues written in 1942 and 1945 which reveal that Mr. Lewinski joined the Australian military.

  18. Anneliese C. Marx papers

    1. Anneliese Centawer Marx family collection

    Two (2) composition books used by Anneliese (nee Centawer) Marx in 1937 in pre-war Nazi occupied Germany; documents and photographs surrounding the Centawer family. Includes business contracts from the Centawer family in Nuremberg, early 1900s, documents and photographs related to the military service of James Centawer during World War I, a German passport for Recha Centawer and her daughter, Anneliese, from 1938; a genealogy of the Hutzler family, undated; a letter from an American soldier named Leroy Hutzler, seeking after the well-being of the Hutzler family in Germany, 1919; and a copy ...

  19. Jodl interrogated at Nuremberg Trial

    05:17:48 (Munich 216) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 7, 1946. British prosecutor G B Roberts interrogates Alfred Jodl. His answers are translated and heard in English. MS, Jodl on stand, as Roberts reads an article on Norway from document book 7. Jodl speaks about the invasion of Norway. LS, prisoners' dock showing MPs in BG and FG. 05:23:18 (Munich 221) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 10, 1946. Dr. Gustav Steinbauer, Seyss-Inquart's attorney, speaking (translated into English). MCU, Seyss-Inquart being sworn in. MS, Seyss-Inquart is questioned by Dr. Steinbauer. MS...