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  1. War Medal 1939-1945 and ribbon awarded to an Austrian Jewish woman, British Auxiliary Territorial Division

    1. Dorit B. Whiteman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41452
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    War Medal 1939-1945 awarded to Lilly Feldmann by the British government for her military service during World War II in Africa and Palestine. In late 1938, 18 year-old Lilly felt forced to leave Vienna, Austria, because of anti-semitism and Nazi fervor. In her diary, she wrote: “It is a curse that I shall miss this home in spite of the fact that it hates and rejects me…I shall cry for you, you stupid, pitiful country.” She escaped to England where she joined the British Army and served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service Division.

  2. Africa Star Medal and ribbon awarded to an Austrian Jewish woman for service in the British Auxiliary Territorial Division

    1. Dorit B. Whiteman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41454
    • English
    • 1940-1943
    • a: Height: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b: Height: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm)

    Africa Star Medal and ribbon awarded to Lilly Feldmann by the British government for military service in North Africa, Abyssinia, Somaliland, Eritrea, Sudan, and Malta between June 10, 1940 and May 12, 1943. In late 1938, 18 year-old Lilly felt forced to leave Vienna, Austria, because of anti-semitism and Nazi fervor. In her diary, she wrote: “It is a curse that I shall miss this home in spite of the fact that it hates and rejects me…I shall cry for you, you stupid, pitiful country.” She escaped to England where she joined the British Army and served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service Div...

  3. Plastic plaque memorializing Romanian Jews killed in the Holocaust

    1. Jewish Community in Iasi collection

    Engraved plaque dedicated to the memory of Natan Mayer, who was killed during the June 29, 1941, pogrom in Iași, Romania, and his wife Malvina, a Holocaust survivor. It was created following Malvina’s death in 1984, and donated by their child to a synagogue in Iași. In September 1940, Romania fell under the rule of a radical military coalition led by General Antonescu and the Iron Guard, a fascist, anti-Semitic military group that collaborated with the Nazis. In November, Romania joined the Axis Alliance and began passing many anti-Semitic laws similar to Germany’s Nuremberg Laws. Romania...

  4. Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht armband with an Imperial eagle taken by a US soldier

    1. James A. Romberger collection

    Deutscher Volkssturm Wehrmacht [German People’s Militia] brassard taken by 23 year old James Romberger, an American soldier, from a German officer in 1945. This militia was not part of the army, but was organized late in the war by the Nazi Party per Hitler's orders of September 25, 1944. It was composed of males who had been exempted from home guard and military service because of age or health. Romberger was a military policeman with the Third Army under General George S. Patton. He was deployed in Europe by July 1944 and fought with his unit through France and Germany. He participated in...

  5. Documentation pertaining to Iosif Chelebi Levi from Burgas and members of his family, 1923-1945, including documents from the war period attesting to his having been in a labor battalion, until April 1943

    1. O.13 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Bulgaria, mainly from the Holocaust period

    Documentation pertaining to Iosif Chelebi Levi from Burgas and members of his family, 1923-1945, including documents from the war period attesting to his having been in a labor battalion, until April 1943 Included in the documentation: - Completion certificate for a program in the Business School in Plovdiv, 12/07/1923, awarded Iosif Chelebiev (date of birth, according to the document: 02/09/1902); - Permit from the municipal administration in Burgas, in order to issue a Character Reference certificate, 27/12/1937, provided Iosif Chelebi Levi, son of Yakov Chelebi Levi and Vida Bension Konf...

  6. Large Nazi National War Flag acquired by a US Army concentration camp liberator

    1. Dr. Carl W. Bordas Collection

    Nazi War banner flown at Ebensee concentration camp in Austria and acquired by Dr. Carl Bordas while he was stationed there from May 9 through July 1945. In July 1944, Carl was drafted into the U.S. military as a private, receiving serial number 33768784. On March 23, 1945 Carl was sent to Europe, where he served as a surgical technician with the 139th Evacuation Hospital in the United States Army Medical Corps. On May 6, the Ebensee concentration camp was liberated by the 80th Infantry Division and the 139th Medical Corps were sent to administer care to the prisoners. Carl arrived at the c...

  7. Tolkowsky family. Collection

    This collection consists of 13 files : KD_00045_0001: Miscellaneous photographs of the Tolkowsky family from Antwerp, including Charles Tolkowsky as an officer in the Belgian Army during the First World War, André Tolkowsky, son of Charles Tolkowsky, member of the Belgian resistance during the Second World War, Alexander de Vries and his wife Denise Tolkowsky, photos of vacation colony villa Altol, pictures taken during holidays at the Belgian coast and at the Francorchamps race track. KD_00045_0002: Documents concerning Denise Tolkowsky and Alexander de Vries, including poems, drawings, sc...

  8. Leonard Lauder collection

    The Leonard Lauder collection consists of materials documenting anti‐Semitism in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, particularly during the Nazi era, that Lauder acquired from private vendors. The collection includes the Georg Hirschberg papers, Helmrich Heilmann correspondence, Hugo Simon correspondence, Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara materials, printed materials, photographic materials, banknotes, a proof of Aryan descent document, and commemorative stamps. The Georg Hirschberg papers contain professional credentials, military papers, correspondence, announcements, and notices doc...

  9. Unused Waffen-SS collar tab acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS collar tab with lightning bolt insignia acquired by 22 year old Lt. Charles Rudulph, United States Army, during a July 10, 1945, visit to the former Dachau concentration camp near Munich in Germany. The tab would have been worn in a pair on the collar points of a uniform shirt or jacket. The SS (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) established Dachau, the first concentration camp in Nazi Germany, in March 1933. The SS commanded, administered, and guarded all concentration camps, and were known for their cruelty. Dachau was liberated by American forces on April 29, 1945. Rud...

  10. Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 5: 20th July bomb plot; Hitler's 55th birthday

    Reel 5 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. (The order of this reel is slightly different that the version shown in the Nuremberg courtroom - see RG-60.2465). Title: "1944" "Conference after Hitler's escape from the bombing plot 20 July 1944." Hitler with Mussolini and others at the Fuehrerhauptquartier (FHQ). Mussolini leans out of a train window and speaks to Hitler. Goering, Funk, Sauckel, Speer, Dr. Sauer, Lammers, Himmler, Goebbels, Guderian, Fegelein, Bormann, Jodl are all present. The narrator notes that Goebbels was ...

  11. Artwork by Alexander Bogen

    1. Alexander Bogen collection

    Artwork created by Alexander Bogen. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania and neighboring countries. In the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews interned there by the Germans. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia, who carried out sabotage and other actions against the occupying German military. He helped lead the all-Jewish Nekama (Revenge) partisan brigade, a...

  12. Portrait of a partisan, drawn by Alexander Bogen

    1. Alexander Bogen collection

    Sketch created by Alexander Bogen while he was a partisan fighter in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia during World War II. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania and neighboring countries. In the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews interned there by the Germans. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans, who carried out sabotage and other actions against the occupying German military. He helped lead ...

  13. Lithograph by Alexander Bogen of a partisan

    1. Alexander Bogen collection

    Lithograph created by Alexander Bogen while he was a partisan fighter in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia during World War II. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania and neighboring countries. In the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews interned there by the Germans. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans, who carried out sabotage and other actions against the occupying German military. He helped l...

  14. Drawing by Alexander Bogen of nine partisans in a group

    1. Alexander Bogen collection

    Sketch created by Alexander Bogen while he was a partisan fighter in the Naroch Forest in Belarussia during World War II. Bogen was an art student in Vilna in 1941 when Germany invaded and occupied Lithuania and neighboring countries. In the Vilna ghetto, he sketched scenes of the life of his fellow Jews interned there by the Germans. “An artist doomed to death,” he said in later years, “recording and so preserving those doomed to death.” In 1943, he escaped the ghetto and joined the partisans, who carried out sabotage and other actions against the occupying German military. He helped lead ...

  15. Nuremberg: War Crimes Trials - Soviet compilation

    Russian film produced by the Central Studio of Documentary Films in Moscow about the War Crimes Trial (IMT) in Nuremberg, 1945-46. War footage: Warsaw destroyed, Operation Barbarossa, transports. Courtroom scenes: prosecutors and defendants enter, seated. Courtroom. Gen. Rudenko, Soviet prosecutor. Reel 1 begins with shots of defeated Berlin, Allied troops marching, hoisting flags and piloting tanks. MS of Nazi officers surrendering. Tracking and still MSs of Goering, Keitel, Doenitz, Goebbels' corpse, Jodl, Ribbentrop. Tracking shot of empty bombarded Nuremberg juxtaposed with archive foot...

  16. Nazi justice and Allied justice contrasted

    Film Report compares Nazi sense of justice, as exemplified by aggressive war and atrocities, with that of the war crimes tribunals at Nuremberg. Thomas Jefferson quoted over close views of statue of Jefferson at the Jefferson Memorial in DC. VCU, Hitler at Nuremberg - excerpt from a speech in which he proclaims his right to rid the world of inferior races. LS, crowds, hall, saluting. CU German atrocity victims dead, faces badly battered, corpses. German women crying, after forced confrontation. Elderly civilians viewing room of bodies at liberated camp. MS, naked corpses, coffin, decaying h...

  17. Pair of US Army 70th Infantry shoulder sleeve patches with a white axe head worn by a soldier

    1. Harold Alden Hornbeck collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50595
    • English
    • 1943-1945
    • a: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm)

    Shoulder sleeve insignia of the 70th Infantry Division, known as the Trailblazers, worn by Master Sergeant Harold Alden Hornbeck during his service in the United States Army in the European Theater of Operations during World War II. On March 5, 1941, Harold enlisted in the Army and was assigned to the 883rd Field Artillery Battalion, 70th Infantry Division. In December 1941, the United States entered World War II. In January 1945, Harold’s Division was deployed to France as part of the Seventh Army. The 70th advanced through France and on March 20, took Saarbrucken, Germany. In April, the D...

  18. Dorota Grinberg papers

    The papers consist of pre-war and post-war photographs of Marek Nunberg and his family in Poland as well as documents relating to Marek Nunberg's service in the Polish Army during the war.

  19. Propaganda film about Jewish emigres in the British army

    Title on screen: "Into Battle No. 1: Lift Your Head Comrade" British propaganda film. British soldiers march up to a building and are called to attention. Their sergeant attempts to call the roll but stumbles over the foreign names and orders one of the soldiers to do it for him. As the soldier reads the foreign names, the camera pans over to the commanding officer, who explains that this company is almost entirely composed of anti-fascists from Austria and Germany. The officer says that for these men the war started in 1933 when Hitler came to power. Interior of an office. The CO pulls an ...

  20. WW I Baden Cross for Volunteer War Aid awarded to a German Jewish veteran

    1. Mayer, Bierig, and Ehrmann families collection

    Kreuz für freiwillige Kriegshilfe [Volunteer War Aid Cross] 1914-1916, belonging to Oskar Ehrmann. The Cross was awarded to men and women who provided outstanding service in caring for the sick and wounded, outside the war zone, or for other voluntary service in support of the war. Ehrmann was awarded a Cross of Honor for service on the front line during the First World War (1914-1918), issued in 1934. Oskar's two brothers were also German Army officers in WWI. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power in Germany and enacted policies to persecute the Jewish population. Oskar decided to leave G...