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  1. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  2. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  3. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  4. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  5. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  6. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  7. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  8. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  9. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  10. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  11. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  12. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  13. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  14. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  15. Unused Waffen SS sleeve chevron acquired postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused Waffen SS single stripe chevron sleeve patch 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 badge would have been worn on the left, upper sleeve below the Reichsadler national emblem on the tunic of an SS-Sturmmann [Lance-Corporal. 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 li...

  16. The Murdered is Guilty Satirical etching by Karl Schwesig showing men in academic robes saluting a corpse

    1. Karl Schwesig collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn513907
    • English
    • 1949
    • overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 18.625 inches (47.308 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.125 inches (20.638 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm)

    Etching created by Karl Schwesig in 1949 in Dusseldorf, depicting six men and a military officer saluting over a corpse. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, Schwesig, a Communist, was arrested and imprisoned for 16 months. After his release in 1935, he lived in Antwerp, Belgium. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. Schwesig was arrested and sent to Vichy France, where he was held in St. Cyprien, Gurs, Noe, and Nexon internment camps. In 1943, he was sent to Ulmer Hoeh prison in Dusseldorf, where he was liberated by American forces in April 1945.

  17. Maya and Giora Amir collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Wachs and Liebesmann families. Salomea Lusia Liebesmann Wachs, donor’s mother, b. 1909 had three brothers: Benjamin and Mendel, engineers who survived in France and Abraham, physician, who was saved by a German officer and his wife in Stanislawow.; Lusia Wachs and her husband Artur Wachs, b. 1901, an engineer, lived in Stryj and worked for Polish Railways; Giora Jerzyk was born on July 10, 1937. Dr. Włodzimierz Łużecki, Artur’s boss arranged for him baptismal certificate for the name: Hieronim Kozdrowicz. False ID’s were iss...

  18. Handmade floral whitework matzoh cover recovered by a Polish Jewish survivor

    1. Ajzyk and Chaja Kawalek Celnik family collection

    Doily style whitework matzoh cover made for Passover seder, the only item recovered by Ajzyk Celnik upon his return to his hometown, Kalisz, Poland, after the war. It has the words "Seder shel Pesach" in eyelet embroidery. The cover was saved and returned by the superintendent of the building where Ajzyk lived. Poland was occupied by Nazi Germany in September 1939. Ajzyk, a kosher butcher, his wife Hanka and their sons Samuel and Jakub left Kalisz, and, by 1940, were living in Krakow. The family was sent to Warsaw where Hanka and the boys perished. Ajzik was transported to Jaworzno labor ca...

  19. Driving tour of Berlin, Frankfurt, and Wiesbaden in ruins

    Road framed by trees. Berlin in ruins. The damaged Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church with a large empty circle that was once the rose window. Buildings to the left and right of the church have also been badly damaged in the air raids. Side of a building: “Burgfeller.” Only the exterior walls of these buildings remain. People walk along the sidewalk. Repeat shots of the church and the surrounding buildings. 01:04:29 Two women and a man by a statue in a garden. The blonde woman and man in front of a large estate, calm lake. They look at a statue and climb to the palace entrance. Shot of trees fr...

  20. Oval locket with 2 photos of a young woman owned by emigres in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    Silver locket with photos that belonged to Fritz Kauffmann or his wife Adelaide. Fritz was a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. Adelaide was a non-Jewish British citizen and active partner in his business. Adelaide and Fritz were married on January 23, 1941, in Shanghai. Fritz was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 f...