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  1. Painted plastic doll given to a young Jewish girl in hiding in France

    1. Renee Lisse Sachs family collection

    Baby doll given to Renee Lyszka, age 4, either while she was living in hiding in France in 1944, or just after the war. In May 1940, a couple months after Renee was born in Paris, Nazi Germany invaded France. The armistice signed in June placed Paris under German military administration. Anti-Jewish policies were enacted and deportations of Jews to camps in the east began by 1942. Renee and her father Abraham did not look Jewish and, with false papers as Christians, they were able to move about. Her mother Sara had to remain hidden at home. In 1944, a neighbor denounced Sara to the Gestapo ...

  2. Group portrait of Jewish youth on vacation

    1. Lucie S. Rosenberg collection

    The photograph depicts a group of Jewish youth vacationing in Novi Vinodolski, Yugoslavia, (now Croatia) during the summer of 1939. Sitting from left, in front row: Ksenja Raic, Lucie Rosenberg's mother, Fritzi Blis later Miroslava Despot, and Erna Singer Simic. Standing in the back row, from left: three sons of Erna Singer Simic and third from left is Mario Sternberg Sorel [donor's brother].

  3. Photograph of students on a graduation trip

    1. Lucie S. Rosenberg collection

    The photograph depicts two rows of students seated together in a boat on a high school graduation trip in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, (now Croatia) during the summer of 1940. Pictured from left to right in back row: unknown; Mladen Frölich killed; Mrs. Zavrtnik; her daughter, Ljubica Zavrtnik; Branka Marić; and unknown. From left to right in front row: Fedora [Feja] Frank; Renata Andres; Ivanka Roskamb; unknown; Lucie Sternberg [donor]; Mirjana Vidaković; Zora Kreutzer; and unknown man standing.

  4. Soviet film of atrocities shown at Nuremberg Trials

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    7 reels. This Soviet-made film was screened on February 19, 1946 on the 62nd day of the Nuremberg Trial and submitted as evidence relevant to the indictment for "crimes against humanity." The one-hour film with voiceover commentary shows visual evidence of the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek and appeals to spectators' emotions by emphasizing individual victims. The central argument of the film is that the Germans were the executioners of peaceful Soviet citizens. At the time, it made a very strong impression on both the accused and press. The film is a re-edited compilation of...

  5. Waffen SS Admission after age 17 Waffen SS recruitment poster featuring a soldier and a Leibstandarte (SS Adolf Hitler flag)

    1. German poster collection

    Recruitment poster for the Waffen SS featuring an image of a uniformed soldier and a Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler flag. The Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler was Hitler’s personal bodyguard regiment. The Waffen SS was the armed military division of the Schutzstaffel (SS), the Nazi paramilitary organization that was responsible for security, intelligence gathering and analysis, and enforcing Nazi racial policies. They controlled the concentration camp system and planned and coordinated the Final Solution. The SS was originally formed in 1925 to protect Hitler along with other Nazi leaders and p...

  6. Heinz and Mira Wallerstein papers

    1. Heinz and Mira Wallerstein collection

    The collection documents Heinz Wallerstein of Kassel, Germany, his wife Mira Wallerstein of Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), and their families in the time leading up to the Holocaust. Biographical materials include employment, identification, education, and military papers of Heinz from Saarbrücken, Germany; military and naturalization papers of Heinz’s brother Rolf; and Mira’s Czechoslovakian passport along with some stories written as a child. Correspondence includes a letter sent to Ida Schanzer from Mira’s step-parents Julius and Anna Taussig regarding plans to emigrate from Cz...

  7. Goering's private train (Sonderzug) and staff; Luftwaffe officers at HQ Eastern Front; Romanian air force visitors

    Events seen may be 1941 to 1943, many are 1942. Brief scene of rifle practice at shooting range in Rominten, near Goering's HQ (train) with Luftwaffe men, including Eitel Lange, Goering's still photographer (see also Film ID 2551). Goering in summer uniform under trees with Romanian air force visitors including tall dark officer, & German officers, including Adolf Galland. (May be 4 October 1941 according to Goering photo album #39 at LOC) 01:00:32 - 01:00:36 glimpse of Goering's valet, Robert Kropp, walking unobtrusively behind the group, very close to the train. Goering & others w...

  8. Drawing of a man with a Star of David badge on the back of his jacket

  9. Nazi propaganda: anti-Polish

    This feature film opens in the German village of Emilienthal in the Polish district of Luzk in March 1939 as Polish authorities close a German school to turn it into a military police post. The teacher Maria Thomas constantly complains to the Polish mayor. Other Germans are angry about higher taxes for ethnic Germans and growing expropriations of land and houses. Maria's husband refuses to sing the Polish anthem and he is beaten up by Polish thugs who are said to thrive for the 'annihilation of...German pigs'. He dies because the police and the hospitals refuse to help Germans at all. Maria...

  10. Lichtenberg and Stein families papers

    1. Kathryn Lichtenberg and Walt E. Lichtenberg collection

    The Lichtenberg and Stein families papers include biographical material, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to the Lichtenberg and Stein families pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences in Germany and the United States. Lichtenberg family papers include biographical material for Hermann Lichtenberg and Alfred Lichtenberg, wartime and post-war correspondence between family members, school records for Hermann, and immigration records for Alfred, Hermann and Kathe, Hermann’s sister, as well as family photographs. Stein family papers include biographical material for Sie...

  11. Schiffer family in Budapest

    János plays with a bucket of water in yard of vacation home in Viranyos in June 1932. Dressed in a suit, Ernö kicks the ball with his boy. (01:55) Nurse-maid coaxes János to walk toward the camera. (03:00) János walks up and down steps to the door of his house in Budapest, and continues water-play. (05:15) János and cousin Anni play in a trough of water. Freshly dressed, they greet a newborn baby in carriage, providing a pacifier. (08:13) At the city park, János plays ball with a small bucket and ball. (10:27) In January 1932, people in winter clothing gather in the park with babies in stro...

  12. Funeral for Werner von Fritsch; Ciano motorcade; Hitler Youth training; Polish Jews

    "Ausklang des heldenmütigen Ringens um Polen" [Concluding the Heroic struggle for Poland] "Staatsbegräbnis für den bei Warschau gefallenen Generaloberst Freiherrn von Fritsch" State funeral for von Fritsch in Berlin, Germany on September 26, 1939. Statue, funeral procession. CU of coffin covered in flowers, Nazi banners. Procession of military officials, civilians at a public square. Large group of soldiers stand at attention, flags are lowered near the coffin. CU of Nazi official. "Zielbewusst und rasch, wie die deutsche Wehrmacht zuschlug, vollendet die deutsche Staatsführung das Werk der...

  13. Ernest Michel papers

    1. Ernest Michel collection

    Correspondence from Ernest Michel, originally of Mannheim, Germany, that he wrote as an adolescent and sent to an American pen-pal (Robert Lindsay, of Wilmington, Delaware) from 1937-1939, describing his life and conditions for Jews in Mannheim during that period. Also includes selected postwar documents, such as letters of recommendation from American military personnel; a file of documents from the International Tracing Service, regarding the wartime fates of his parents and grandmother; and a file of materials related to an Auschwitz-Buna Memorial Scholarship Dinner in New York in 1964, ...

  14. Herzog family papers

    The Herzog family papers include photographs, correspondence, and a birth certificate documenting the Herczog family from Érsekújvár (now Nové Zámky, Slovakia, formerly in Czechoslovakia and Hungary) and from Nagybörzsöny, Hungary. The collection includes correspondence and postcards written to Tibor (Avigdor) Herczog in the Hungarian forced labor camps in Köszeg and Ripinye (now Repenye, Ukraine) between October 1943 and February 1944, as well as letters from family members in Italy (Fiume and Trieste) and Palestine. The collection also includes pre-war and post-war Herczog and Bacsi famil...

  15. Ghetto inhabitants, ruins, Germans, starving children

    General shot of pedestrians; partially-destroyed buildings. Shots of individuals on the street. Fight on the street (among street vendors?). Shots of individuals on the street, including a young boy with sidelocks. Damaged buildings, German Luftwaffe officer smiles and waves at the camera. Street vendor selling stars. Close-ups of men and women. 01:02:18 Ghetto inhabitants (including children) mugging for camera, shot from a car with at least one German Luftwaffe officer. Shots of destroyed buildings. Shot of a man dressed in rags. Street vendors hold up bread and smile. VAR shots of people...

  16. NSDAP / SA and political activities

    This propaganda documentary depicts the efforts of the NSDAP and SA to organize political activities. Special occasions indicated by intertitles include Hitler giving a speech in Alzey surrounded by mothers and children, the regional SA marching in plainclothes through Frankfurt/Main, a steamer trip of the NSDAP Wiesbaden on the Rhine, arrival in Caub, and SA marching through Caub. 07:11:06 Title cards read: "Zweiter Teil," "Der Kampf um Hessen," [The Fight for Hessen] and "Der Führer in Alzey" [The Leader in Alzey]. Nazi officials walk in step with each other down a path. People are lined ...

  17. German activity at the Westwall and the French border

    Title on screen: Ozaphan 12/39 Monatschau; Die Wacht am Westwall [The watch on the West wall]. The West wall was a German defense line along the western German border. Two German soldiers sit on a hilltop overlooking a river. One looks through binoculars and points into the distance. German soldiers march down into a concrete bunker (part of the West wall) with a relief of a soldier carved around the doorway. Soldiers running around a structure that appears to be camouflaged with tree limbs. A cannon, camouflaged with tree branches, rises up out of the woods. Germans fire cannons, presumabl...

  18. German invasion and occupation of Poland; arrest of men in Bromberg (Bydgoszcz)

    Titles on screen: Ozaphan 10a/39 Monatschau [monthly show]; Krieg in Polen [War in Poland]. Scenes from the invasion of Poland, including cannons firing and German soldiers, shot from a distance, moving across a field. Title on screen: Die Fliegerbilder werden sofort Ausgewerten [the aerial photographs are immediately evaluated]. Soldiers develop and analyze aerial photos at a mobile lab in the field. Familiar (newsreel) footage of Goering and Hitler with other officers. Back in the field, shots of soldiers with bombs, German airplanes taking off, and destroyed buildings on the ground. Titl...

  19. Polish Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari Silver Cross medal and box awarded posthumously to a Polish Jewish soldier

    1. Michal Goldin collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn84515
    • English
    • a: Height: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)

    Polish Order Wojenny Virtuti Militari (War Order of Military Virtue) Silver Cross medal, 5th class, awarded posthumously to 21 year old Corporal Michal Goldin, a Polish soldier who died in combat in Normandy, France not long after D-Day in 1944. The medal was issued on December 7, 1944, by the Polish government in exile in England. Michal was a high school student in Antwerp, Belgium, when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Separated from his family in Warsaw, he went to France and enlisted in the Polish Army. France surrendered in June 1940 and Michal’s unit retreated to Switzerl...

  20. Brass Shabbat lamp and drip tray acquired by a German Jewish woman

    1. Emanuel and Louise Suessmann family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn617428
    • English
    • a: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Diameter: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) b: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Diameter: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm)

    Six pointed star shaped brass Shabbat lamp and drip tray brought to the United States, by Louise Schwarzenberger (later Suessmann) when she emigrated from Germany in 1939. Shabbat is a day reserved for rest and worship, and any form of work is prohibited. The Shabbat lamp is lit every Friday before sunset, usually by a woman in the household, and left burning until the following evening. Louise emigrated from Germany to St. Louis, Missouri, and found work as a hospital attendant. She joined her siblings, Maria, Kathe, and Kurt, as well as their families, who had immigrated in the wake of th...