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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Print

    1. Liliane Yates collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn2522
    • English
    • Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm)

    Print of a drawing originally created by Henri Gayot, a French resistance member imprisoned in Struthof concentration camp in France.

  2. Dressing and burial of corpses at Falkenau

    Card: "V-E +1, MAY 9, 1945." Card: "Produced in Falkenau Concentration Camp." Card over Nazi swastika and eagle: "in choslovaki [sic, probably meaning Czechoslovakia]" Shot of a handgun, Card: "OST Russia." Card: "Presented by 16th Infantry Regiment." Card: "1st U.S. Infantry Division." Card: "Supervised by Capt. Kimball Richmond." Card: "Photographed by Cpl. Samuel Fuller." Men carrying tools walk down a village street. Soldiers stand in front of barbed wire. Well-dressed, healthy men walk and carry shovels and pitchforks, soldiers watch from the side of the road. Two men stand behind barb...

  3. Manfred Haber family papers

    The collection consists of biographical material and correspondence documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Manfred Haber (later Fred Haber) originally of Vienna, Austria, his parents Dora and Raphael Haber, and sister Gertrude Haber. The bulk of the collection consists of letters sent to Manfred and Gertrude, who immigrated to the United States in 1939, from their parents in Vienna, Antwerp, and several concentration camps; and letters exchanged between Manfred and Gertrude while he was serving with the United States Army from 1943-1946. Biographical material includes Manfred’s birth ...

  4. A. Fokker films: von Richthofen's "Flying Circus", WWI aces

    Various locations and dates, probably N. France and Belgium, between Autumn 1916 to September 1918. Contains activities of Jagdgeschwader 1 (the Red Baron's "Flying Circus"), comprising Jagdstaffel (Jasta) 4, 6, 10, 11, which was commanded by Manfred von Richthofen (MvR) until his death April 21, 1918 in a Fokker Dr.1. Hermann Goering became CO of Jagdgeschwader Freiherr von Richthofen No.1 on July 7, 1918. Film title at head: "RICHTHOFEN FILM aufgenommen von AHG FOKKER, 2. Teil" September 1917 Pilots, observers on wooden platform with dog, looking through range finders, field glasses. Town...

  5. Celebration in Luxembourg; Nice, Monaco coastline; returning to New York

    MLS, jumpy scenes of young men running across a field, wearing red shorts and no shirts. Young women in red and blue skirts with white shirts processing around the field where the boys were running (also very jumpy). Girls hold and wave white handkerchiefs. LS, young men perform calisthenics on the field. MS, young women on the field. END VS, Col. Zabin horseback riding and jumping. VS, Col. Zabin waterskiing in Nice and Monaco. VS, high angle views of the beach and coast, people walking along a paved path by the beach. END LS, high angle, hills, coastline, and the water beyond, red-tiled r...

  6. UNRRA selected records AG-018-008 : European Regional Office (ERO). Registry Files

    Selected records of the UNRRA European Regional Office (ERO), Registry Files relating to: legal matters affecting UNRRA Missions, assistance to displaced persons and prisoners of war, relations with allied governments (Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, Middle East, Egypt, Ethiopia, Brazil, China, Iran, Austria); mission reports from particular countries, Relief Services Conferences, Londin,1946; allegations against UNRRA administration; UNRRA Program of Op...

  7. Nazi atrocities

    Orientation Film no. 19. War Department Information Film showing German concentration camps and victims of Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Belsen, Buchenwald, and other camps. Originally made with a German soundtrack for screening in occupied Germany and Austria, this film was the first documentary to show what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi camps: the survivors, the conditions, and the evidence of mass murder. The film includes accounts of the economic aspects of the camps' operation, the interrogation of captured camp personnel, and the enforced visits of the inhabitants of...

  8. War Crimes Commission: Breendonck, Hanover, Arnstadt Concentration Camps

    "Breendonck" Views of Breendonck camp in Belgium. EXTs of prison used to house Belgian patriots. Blood-stained coffins are exhibited as evidence of brutality Inmates demonstrate the methods used against the prisoners, such as beatings with barbed wire poles, chaining them into a vise, thumb screws. Victims reveal results of beatings and cigarette burns; a woman also reveals scars on her hips. "Hanover Concentration Camp" General views of the camp where only 200 remained of 10,000 Poles. INTs of the camp, few remaining inmates mill about. VS, Red Cross clubmobiles enter, issue hot soup, ciga...

  9. Metal remains of a Karabiner wz.29 bolt-action Mauser-type rifle found in ruins of Warsaw Ghetto

    1. Muzeum Wojska Polskiego collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn5887
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 31.750 inches (80.645 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm)

    Metal remains of a Karabinek wz 29 Polish bolt-action rifle, found among ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in the 1960s. Production of the wz 29 began in the early 1930s at the Polish National Arms Factory in Radom, and it was based on and nearly identical to the German Mauser 98k, the standard rifle for the German army. The wz 29 was the standard Polish infantry weapon when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. A few days later, the factory at Radom was forced to shut down when local officials ordered the employees to evacuate. Despite Polish resistance, the Germans bombarded Warsaw with a...

  10. Lobby card for the film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin" (1939)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Lobby card for the American feature film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin” released by Producers Pictures Corporation in October 1939, and re-released in 1942. Lobby cards are promotional materials placed in theater lobby windows to highlight specific movie scenes, rather than the broader themes often depicted on posters. After encountering opposition from censorship boards, the film was alternatively called “Goose Step,” the title of the adapted novel, and eventually released as “Beasts of Berlin.” In the film, Hans Memling, his wife, and his brother-in-law are members of an underground Nazi-resis...

  11. The Hyphen Social Club: Records and other papers

    The bulk of the material in this collection comprises the records of 'The Hyphen' social club (1159/1), which the depositor, Peter Johnson, was instrumental in forming and who subsequently became the chairman. Also included are papers relating to the depositor's time in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, as military interpreter for the British occupying forces in the immediate postwar years (1159/2). In addition there is a file of correspondence relating to Peter Johnson's involvement with the issue of the admission of German airmen to Great Britain for technical training and the dangers thereof (11...

  12. Portrait photograph by Judy Glickman of Danish man, courier for resistance

    1. Judith Ellis Glickman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41815
    • English
    • 1992
    • overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)

    Black and white photographic print taken by Judy Glickman in 1992 of Mogens Kofod-Hansen, a courier for Jewish rescue operations in Denmark. Mogens traveled to Sweden to deliver vital information to the British military during World War II. Germany occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, but allowed the Danish government to retain control of domestic affairs. Jews were not molested and the German presence was limited. After the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 and began to face military setbacks, a Danish resistance movement developed. On August 29, 1943, the Germans declared martial law...

  13. Walter Lubran papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Walter Lubran, originally of Sebnitz, Germany, including his immigration to the United States in 1938, his military career during World War II, and his restitution cases against the German government regarding property claims, insurance, and pensions. Included is a small amount of biographical material related to Walter and his father Benno Lubranitzki, letters from Walter to his wife Pearl while he was overseas with the Army, restitution paperwork, and a small amount of pre-war family photographs. Biographical material includes the ...

  14. Service recognition card for British commemorative medals and ribbons issued to an Austrian Jewish woman in the British Auxiliary

    1. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    Entitlement card for medals 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, her heartbreak is clear: “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.

  15. War Crimes Commission: Leipzig and Penig Concentration Camps

    Title: "Nazi Concentration Camps" Foreword: "This is an official document made by U.S. military photographers as they advanced into Germany," etc. Two exhibited affidavits attesting to the authenticity of scenes in the film are shown, one signed by Lt Col George E. Stevens and the other by Capt John Ford. A map shows the location of concentration camps in Germany and Europe. "Leipzig Concentration Camp" MLS, empty field, barbed wire, remaining foundation of burnt out building. Three men stand near bloody and burnt corpse. CUs, piles of burnt bodies by barbed wire. At the Leipzig camp more t...

  16. Ministry of Internal Affairs Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrzych (A. 9)

    Consists of selected records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Polish government-in-exile. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Polish government-in-exile between 1940-1949 was overseen by four ministers: Stanisław Kot (1940-1941), Stanisław Mikołajczyk (1941-1943), Władysław Banaczyk (1943-1944), Zygmunt Berezowski (1944-1949). These documents relate to the re-creation and reorganization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in France: correspondence, dispatches, notes and information received from diplomatic posts, emissaries and posts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, corres...

  17. US Third Army report poster for May 1945 received by a unit soldier

    1. James A. Romberger collection

    Third Army Final Report poster received by 23 year old James Romberger, an American soldier, illustrating the combat location of the Corps and Divisions of the US Third Army in Germany in May 1945. 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 the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945.

  18. Deutsche Arbeitsfront fringed sash with swastika and cog wheel acquired by a US soldier

    1. James A. Romberger collection

    Die Deutsche Arbeitsfront [German Labor Front] red fringed sash acquired by 23 year old James Romberger, an American soldier, in Germany in spring 1945. The sash would be displayed hanging vertically over a pole so that both topside ends were visible. After the government abolished trade unions in 1933, the DAF was the only trade union allowed in Nazi Germany. 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 the liberation of Buchenwald concent...

  19. Brown leather burse and sheet of prayers used by US Army chaplain

    1. Edward Henry collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43120
    • English
    • 1964
    • a: Height: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) | Width: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm)

    Satin lined leather burse, or case, used to carry ceremonial items used for Mass by Father Edward Henry, a chaplain in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. A sheet with prayers and the Rite of Eucharistic Devotion from 1964 was later stored in the burse. As a Catholic priest, Father Henry carried a portable Mass kit to administer last rites, to offer communion, and to perform mass for the troops. His unit took part in the liberation of Paris on August 25, 1944. He was one of the first American priests to hold mass in the Cathedral Notre Dame de Paris after liberation.

  20. Brown leather laced burse with embroidered satin pockets, a purificator, and a small cloth used by a US Army chaplain

    1. Edward Henry collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43121
    • English
    • 1944-1945
    • a: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) b: Height: 16.375 inches (41.593 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm) c: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)

    Leather burse, or case, with laced side flaps and two pockets, used to carry ceremonial items used for Mass by Father Edward Henry, a chaplain in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. As a Catholic priest, Father Henry carried a portable Mass kit to administer last rites, to offer communion, and to perform mass for the troops. He also carried a purificator, used to wipe the chalice after each use during communion, and the small cloth, which may have been used as a finger towel. A chaplain's Mass kit may include many other items, but it is adapted depending on where it may be...