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  1. US Army soldier's red and white striped ribbon

    1. Irving H. Rosenberg collection

    Ribbon that belonged to Irving H. Rosenberg who served in the United States Army during World War II. It is possibly from a Good Conduct medal. Rosenberg was a medic with the 46th Armored Medical Battalion, attached to the 4th Armored Division, which, in 1945, liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

  2. Records related to Maximilian Koessler

    The collection consists of originals of a 1946 letter by Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands to Maximilian Koessler, three 1947 depositions by defendant Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach prior to his trial in Nuremberg, and a 1961 essay written by Maximillian Koessler.

  4. Cyprus Detention Camps papers

    1. Cyprus detention camp collection

    The Cyprus Detention Camps collection consists of collected administrative records, immigrant papers, and printed materials documenting the British army’s administration of detention camps established in Cyprus at Kraolos and Dekalia to hold Jewish immigrants illegally trying to enter Palestine. The collection includes administrative correspondence; a program for a British military performance of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves; identification and immigration papers and luggage tags documenting a number of Romanian immigrants; and newspaper and magazine articles documenting the immigration e...

  5. Monte Cassino Commemorative Cross

    1. Marcus Rosenzweig and Claire Ringelheim families collection

    Monte Cassino Commemorative Cross [Krzyż Pamiątkowy Monte Cassino] awarded to Marcus Rosenzweig, a soldier in the 2nd Polish Corps, British Army, for participation in the Battle of Monte Cassino, as well as Piedimonte and Passo Corno in Italy. This May 1944 victory was the fourth attempt by Allied forces since January 1944 to break through German defenses blocking the advance into Italy.

  6. Defence Medal issued for service in the British Army during World War II

    1. Marcus Rosenzweig and Claire Ringelheim families collection

  7. Goering questioned by Jackson at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 53) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 18, 1946. LS, people in courtroom rise as Tribunal enters, then seat themselves and trial begins. Rear views, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson questions Hermann Goering who in part of his testimony affirms his fealty to Hitler and says that until almost the very last he thought German victory possible. Goering says that probably in the beginning none of the defendants were really against Hitler ("trying to obstruct him"), but he clarifies that one has to distinguish different time periods, they were talking about almost 25 years ...

  8. Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude

    1. Ann West collection

  9. Armband worn in Ravensbruck concentration camp

    1. Ann West collection

    The armband is made of red cloth and inscribed with the letters "L.P." (Lagerpolizei).

  10. Cloth square cut from a blue and gray striped concentration camp inmate uniform

    1. Ann West collection

    The blue and gray-striped cloth was cut from an inmate's uniform at Auschwitz concentration camp

  11. Yellow cloth Star of David badge printed with the word Jude

    1. Ann West collection

  12. US propaganda flier with a message from FDR to the people of French North Africa on the allied invasion

    1. Nazi Germany cultural and political propaganda collection

    Flier with the heading Message du President des Etats Unis [Message from the US President] issued in French on one side, Arabic on the other, under the signature of Eisenhower as Commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, November 1942. It discusses the long friendship between France and the US and explains that the Allies are invading North Africa in order to liberate the people and destroy their enemies, and will leave when that is done. It features a color image of the American flag and a black and white photograph of President Roosevelt in both sides.

  13. Kesselring & Goering testify at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. MLS defense counselors sitting at tables in front of prisoners' dock as Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson interrogates Kesselring (Jackson's back is toward the camera). When Kesselring is asked if he advocated the invasion of England, he tries not to answer directly and is rebuked for that by the judge. Meanwhile, the camera shows Goering, who nods his head energetically as if answering for the hesitating Kesselring [interesting passage]. 01:16:15 Defendants in dock. Goering testifying on how he first heard of Hitler and...

  14. Karol G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Karol G., who was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1919, the third of five children. He recounts his mother's death when he was six; living with his grandparents in Filakovo, then with an aunt in a primitive Romanian village; their impoverished life; raising their own food and trading for other needs; attending four years of school; returning to Filakovo in his early teens; working as a porter; Hungarian occupation; enlisting in the military in 1940; being transfered to a Jewish slave labor battalion; being moved to many locations; slave labor building railroads and aqued...

  15. Günther Schwarberg papers

    1. Günther Schwarberg collection

    The papers consist of 6 negative strips and copyprints from negative strips taken by Heinrich Jöst, a sergeant in the German Wehrmacht stationed near Warsaw, Poland. The collection also includes 4 copyprints of Henrich Jöst and 1 book "Gedichte von Dolly Katz-Friedler aus Łódź, Polen über die 'Holocaust' Periode."

  17. Letters and personal documents of the Jewish Soviet soldier David Khoraz from the Front

    Contains from the Solomon Golbrikh collection of the Judaica Institute in Kiev letters and personal documents of David Khoraz. During his military service, David Khoraz maintained an active correspondence with his family (parents and siblings) evacuated from Kiev to Central Asia. In his patriotic letters, David Khoraz describes his daily service and activities, including theatrical performances, lectures, news from the front line, etc.

  18. Cigarette card with image of Nazi party band in performance

    1. Herbert Kobs collection

    Cigarette card from the series, Kampf um's Dritte Reich (Struggle for the Third Reich), produced in Germany, ca.1933. The card depicts the performance of a Nazi party band.

  19. Reading of indictments at Nuremberg Trial

    Reading of indictment at Nuremberg Trial. Courtroom at rest (pre-trial). Court rises as Tribunal enters. Dock showing Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop, etc. 01:01:58 Hess stares stonily (at camera). Hess looks around room, smirks and smiles as MP picks up Hess' earphones for him to hear. MS, MLS, defendants, judges, courtroom audience listening as Justice Lawrence (voiceover) speaks about giving defendants access to documents that will be used as evidence during the trial. (poor image quality-scratches on film, underexposed footage) 01:02:39 Lawrence continues stating, "Indictment shall now be rea...