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  1. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  2. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  3. Black and white patterned case for medals awarded postwar to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Fitted case for a set of 6 medals issued to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  4. Medal honoring soldiers killed during the invasion issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Medal honoring soldiers who died in the May 1940 invasion, with shield and broken sword, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. The six medals in the series honor the following: 1. For the soldiers who fell in the May 1940 invasion [this medal, 1990.23.240.3]; 2. For those who endured the bombardments and attacks (1990.23.240.3; 3. For victims of torture and betrayal (1990.23.240.3]; 4. For those who suffered in the concentration camps (1990.23.240.3; 5. For those who w...

  5. Award certificate issued postwar with 6 medals to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Certificate for a set of 6 medals issued to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  6. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  7. Commemorative medal issued to a Dutch resistance leader

    1. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection

    Commemorative medal, one of six, awarded to Piet Brandsen by Stichting 1940-1945 for his bravery and resistance activities during the German occupation of the Netherlands from May 1940-May 1945. Stichting 1940-1945 was a foundation created during the war to provide aid to resistance members and their families. After Netherlands was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Piet and his wife Dina, devout Christians, joined the resistance. Piet helped many Jewish people go into hiding, in his own home and with other resistance members. He also provided false identities and food coupons. He was arrested...

  8. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Regina and Halina Goldwag collection

    Rentenbank note, valued at 1 Rentenmark, acquired by Regina Zak Goldwag or her daughter Halina while in Germany during or after World War II. The money was distributed for use in Germany from January 1937 to 1948. Regina and her two children, Halina and Ludwik, were living in Warsaw when the German army invaded Poland, on September 1, 1939. Ludwik soon left to join the Polish army, but after Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland, he got stuck behind the Soviet border. In October 1940, Regina and Halina were forced to relocate to Warsaw’s newly established Jewish ghetto. In the sum...

  9. Forced laborer identification badge worn by a Polish Jewish woman using a false identity

    1. Regina and Halina Goldwag collection

    Identification badge worn by Regina Zak Goldwag, or her daughter Halina, while working as forced laborers at the Dr. Gaspary & Co. factory in Markranstädt, Germany, at the end of World War II. Regina and her two children, Halina and Ludwik, were living in Warsaw when the German army invaded Poland, on September 1, 1939. Ludwik soon left to join the Polish army, but after Germany and the Soviet Union partitioned Poland, he got stuck behind the Soviet border. In October 1940, Regina and Halina were forced to relocate to Warsaw’s newly established Jewish ghetto. In the summer of 1942, they...

  10. Pendant design drawn by a young man who did not survive the Holocaust

    1. Magda Lapedus collection

    Design drawing, perhaps for a brooch, made by Janos Mezei, 17, a student in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939. Hungary adopted anti-Jewish laws similar to those of their close ally, Nazi Germany. By 1940, all able bodied Jewish males were required to perform forced labor. Janos was sent to Kaschau labor camp in Hungarian occupied Slovakia in 1943. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Janos was forced marched to Gunskirchen concentration camp, a Mauthausen subcamp in Austria. He was liberated by US troops on May 5, 1945. He was hospitalized, but passed away on September 2, 1945. The drawin...

  11. Intricate design drawing by a young man who did not survive the Holocaust

    1. Magda Lapedus collection

    Design drawing, perhaps for a brooch, made by Janos Mezei, 17, a student in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939. Hungary adopted anti-Jewish laws similar to those of their close ally, Nazi Germany. By 1940, all able bodied Jewish males were required to perform forced labor. Janos was sent to Kaschau labor camp in Hungarian occupied Slovakia in 1943. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Janos was forced marched to Gunskirchen concentration camp, a Mauthausen subcamp in Austria. He was liberated by US troops on May 5, 1945. He was hospitalized, but passed away on September 2, 1945. The drawin...

  12. Design drawing by a young man who did not survive the Holocaust

    1. Magda Lapedus collection

    Design drawing, perhaps for a brooch, made by Janos Mezei, 17, a student in Budapest, Hungary, in 1939. Hungary adopted anti-Jewish laws similar to those of their close ally, Nazi Germany. By 1940, all able bodied Jewish males were required to perform forced labor. Janos was sent to Kaschau labor camp in Hungarian occupied Slovakia in 1943. After Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, Janos was forced marched to Gunskirchen concentration camp, a Mauthausen subcamp in Austria. He was liberated by US troops on May 5, 1945. He was hospitalized, but passed away on September 2, 1945. The drawin...

  13. Navy blue pinstriped jacket and pants worn by the groom at his wedding to another survivor in a DP camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516093
    • English
    • a: Height: 33.000 inches (83.82 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) b: Height: 40.250 inches (102.235 cm) | Width: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm)

    Blue pin-striped suit worn by Welek (William) Luksenburg, 24, for his wedding to Hinde (Helen) Chilewicz, 21, on March 2, 1947, in the displaced persons camp in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany. The couple met in 1944 as prisoners in Gleiwitz concentration camp. In 1941, Welek, his parents, and brother Szlomo were in the Jewish ghetto in Dabrow Gornicza in German occupied Poland. In 1942, his parents Rozalia and Simcha were deported and killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Welek got Szlomo released from a labor camp hospital and escaped a prison camp to care for him. When Welek was arrested, Szlom...

  14. Christopher R. Browning papers

    The Christopher R. Browning papers consist of Browning’s expert reports, correspondence, court records, photocopies of historical evidentiary materials, indexes, preparatory and background materials for trial, printed materials, and witness testimony gathered or created during preparations for court proceedings against alleged war criminals Radislav Grujicic and Serge Kisluk in Canada, Andre Sawoniuk and Semion Serafinowicz in England, and Heinrich Wagner in Australia. All five cases relied on evidence from eyewitness accounts. Browning’s role in the proceedings was not to provide evidence ...

  15. LE SERVICE DES RAPATRIEMENTS

    1. État français, délégation générale du gouvernement français dans les territoires occupés. DGTO, Interventions et recours. Relevé nominatif détaillé des dossiers d’interventions

    I. - L'article 19 de la Convention d'armistice et les questions soulevées par son application. L'article 19 de la Convention franco-allemande d'armistice du 22 juin 1940 prévoyait non seulement la remise immédiate aux troupes allemandes des prisonniers de guerre faits par les troupes françaises, mais aussi celle des "prisonniers civils allemands y compris les prévenus et condamnés ... pour actes commis en faveur du Reich Allemand" Plus encore, le gouvernement français était également tenu de livrer, sur leur demande, aux autorités du Reich "tous les ressortissants Allemands désignés nominat...

  16. Annexe B - rapport déposé par M. Caujolle

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 7 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 7 : 3w/217-3w/250
    2. François Lehideux Secrétaire d'Etat à l'Equipement national, 23 février - 18 juillet 1941 Secrétaire d'Etat à la Production industrielle, 18 juillet 1941-18 avril 1942.
    3. François Lehideux

    Annexe B - rapport déposé par M. Caujolle, expert-comptable, commis dans la procédure suivie contre les dirigeants du "Comité d'Organisation de l'Automobile", 27 février 1945, 363 p. (2 ex.) - rapport complémentaire de l'expert-comptable, 29 septembre 1945, 105 p. 1 politique sociale, Charte du Travail, comités d'organisation. 1 décrets du 30 septembre 1940 portant constitution d'un comité d'organisation de l'industrie et du commerce de l'automobile et du cycle et nomination de membres dudit comité 2 loi du 11 octobre 1940 relative au placement des travailleurs et à l'aide aux travailleurs ...

  17. n° 1 minutes de lettres adressées par le Maréchal Pétain à diverses personnalités (classement alphabétique) lettre A 1. Otto Abetz

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 9 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 7 : 3w/217-3w/250
    2. d_8
    3. Scellés ouverts constitués par les membres de la Commission d'Instruction

    n° 1 minutes de lettres adressées par le Maréchal Pétain à diverses personnalités (classement alphabétique) lettre A 1. Otto Abetz, 24 novembre 1942 (affaire Reynaud-Mandel ) 2. amiral Abrial, 28 novembre 1942 (proclamation aux officiers, sous-officiers, soldats et marins 3. le bey de Tunis, 21 février 1942 4-6. à l'archevêque d'Aix, aux évêques de Nice, Fréjus, Monaco, aux abbés de Lérins et de Frigolet, 26 septembre 1942 et coupures de presse 7. délégué régional de la Jeunesse pour l'Algérie, 20 juin 1942 8. R.Alibert, conseiller d'Etat 9. président du Groupement d'Entr'aide des Réfugiés ...

  18. Alphabetical Files, A-Z

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Alphabetical Files

    Box H1. Folder 1. Aden, 1947-1948 Box H1. Folder 2. Aden, 1958-1968 Box H1. Folder 3. Aden, Aden Chronicle, Messa, Bentob, 1960-1967 Box H1. Folder 4. Aden, disturbances, 1947-1948 Box H1. Folder 5. Aden, Jewish Emergency Committee, 1947-1949 Box H1. Folder 6. Aden, Kubowitzki, Aryeh L., mission, 1949 Box H1. Folder 7. Aden, Messa, Bentob, 1965, 1967 Box H1. Folder 8. Aden, Organization Department, 1947-1950 Box H1. Folder 9. Aden, Organization Department, 1951-1952 Box H1. Folder 10. Aden, Organization Department, 1953-1959 Box H1. Folder 11. Aden, Political Department, 1956, 1958-1962 Box...

  19. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 1

    3 W. HAUTE COUR DE JUSTICE Table-index Cette table-index a été élaborée pour l'essentiel à partir du fonds 3 W, du édité à Paris, rue Soufflot, de 1942 à 1944 par les Éditions "Droit social", et du et . Le , publié sous la direction de Philippe Masson en 1979-1980, et 1992, par la Librairie Larousse, a été précieux, ainsi que les sept volumes de l'ouvrage de l'Académie des sciences d'outre-mer , Paris, 1975-1986, sans oublier le , Paris, Éditions Jacques Lafitte, 1 édition, 2001. Par ailleurs, les références au fonds BB apparaissant ici pour certains personnages, renvoie à la sur leur procè...

  20. État français, délégation générale du gouvernement français dans les territoires occupés. DGTO, Interventions et recours. Relevé nominatif détaillé des dossiers d’interventions

    La création du poste de Délégué Général du gouvernement français dans les territoires occupés fut demandée par les autorités allemandes. Dès le 6 juillet 1940, en effet, le président de la C.A.A. écrivait au président de la Délégation française : "... nous suggérons de placer sous une direction unique les personnalités déléguées auprès du Chef de l'administration militaire en France pour les territoires occupés. En conséquence, la délégation française est priée de demander au Gouvernement français la nomination et l'envoi à Paris d'un délégué général auprès du chef de l'administration milit...