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  1. Mauser P38 pistol found buried in the Kampinos Forest near Warsaw

    1. Muzeum Wojska Polskiego collection

    Metal remains of a German Mauser P38 pistol found buried in the Kampinos Forest near Warsaw, Poland. The P38 was originally developed by Carl Walther in 1938, and in 1942 production was contracted out to two additional firms, Mauser and Spreewerk. Before shipment to the German army, firearms had to be inspected and stamped with a code (called a Waffenamt) unique to the inspector. The original stamp for P38 pistols produced by Mauser depicted an eagle over the numbers 135. The stamp was changed at the end of 1943 to include letters. Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939 and entered the...

  2. Posters; Nazi officials visit Tatra mountain region

    Perutz logo. 01:15:20 In color, CUs of an poster "Kampf den Wanzen!" (Fight against bedbugs!) and poster for 1939 UFA comedy film "Ich bin gleich weider da" starring Paul Klinger and Mady Rahl. A soldier adjusts a camera tripod. 01:15:45 Scenes of the Polish countryside and Tatra mountains from a slow-moving funicular. 01:16:06 Hans Frank (in the middle with a cane) and other Nazi officials walk outdoors in the snow by a gate that reads "Berghaus Krakau," a mountain hotel on Kalatówki in the Tatra Alp region which served as a guest house for high-ranking German officers during the Nazi occu...

  3. US war production poster depicting a female factory worker working on an aircraft flare

    1. World War II American poster collection

    American war production poster featuring a black and white photographic image of a female factory employee, printed in 1942. The image was meant to promote female participation in the workforce, particularly in manufacturing and blue-collar trades. Before World War II, women’s work was restricted to traditionally “feminine” professions such as typing or sewing, and they were expected to leave the workforce once they married or became pregnant. From 1940 to 1945, over sixteen million men joined the military, and the War Manpower Commission (WMC) was formed in 1942 to stabilize the American w...

  4. Wlodzimierz Klamra photograph collection

    1. Wlodzimierz Klamra collection

    Consists of eight black and white photographs depicting donor's family before the war in Plock, Poland and immediately after the war in Walbrzych, Poland.

  5. Wlodzimierz Klamra photographs

    1. Wlodzimierz Klamra collection

    Consists of six photographs depicting Genia Litewska's friends and family who perished in the Holocaust.

  6. Munich: Nazi memorials

    Cars and pedestrians pass the Feldherrnhalle memorial to the Nazis killed in the 1923 Munich putsch. Two armed men stand guard in front of two huge wreaths. There is a changing of the guard ceremony and shots of bicyclists riding by. Both the pedestrians and those on bicycles salute as they walk by. Another changing of the guard ceremony, this time at the honor temple where the dead putschists were buried. The Baker family traveled through Munich on the way to Vienna in October 1937. Helen Baker writes of the visit in a letter dated October 31, 1937: "We started out on an inspection tour, r...

  7. Lindemann family at home in Mascherode in 1942

    In Mascherode, Oda rides a bike, passes her baby sister Karin. Lindemann family walks down an avenue (repeat from earlier). Children on a residential street. Ethel walks with the two children. Sleds on the snowy street. Houses. Man on bicycle. The family in a different part of town. Large hall, Field. More rows of homes, mostly identical. “ENDE”

  8. U.S. Pressbook for the film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin" (1939)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Pressbook for the American feature film “Hitler, Beast of Berlin” released by Producers Pictures Corporation in October 1939, and re-released in 1942. 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-resistance movement. He is arrested and ends up in a camp as a political prisoner. Hans and the other prisoners are interrogated, beaten, and forced into slave labor at t...

  9. Article about the films “Hitler’s Children” (1943) and “Education for Death” (1943) from Life Magazine

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Article from the February 1, 1943 issue of “Life” Magazine, featuring photos and text relating to the films, “Hitler’s Children” and “Education for Death.” Both films were adapted from Gregor Ziemer’s novel, “Education For Death,” which was based on the author’s experiences and observations as the former headmaster of Berlin’s American Colony School. “Hitler’s Children” focused on a young American woman in Germany, who denounced Nazi ideology and the state-sanctioned treatment of women as vessels for procreation, was forced into a labor camp, subjected to public flogging, and eventually exe...

  10. Scene still for the film “Food Will Win the War” (1942)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    Scene still from the animated short film, “Food Will Win the War,” released by RKO Radio Pictures in July 1942. Scene stills are photographs relating to the film and used as marketing and advertising tools. Created by Walt Disney Productions, the film was commissioned by the United States Department of Agriculture shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. It boasts about the extensive agricultural output of the United States, and the role it could play in defeating the Axis powers. By personifying the Axis powers and their weapons as the villains threatening beloved charac...

  11. Coat worn by a female German Jewish member of the Red Orchestra resistance group

    1. David and Lisa Eizenberg collection

    Coat worn by Lisa Gervai-Egler, probably postwar when she returned to Berlin after being liberated from a concentration camp. During the war, while Lisa was a student at the Berlin Museum School of Fine Arts, she joined an anti-Nazi resistance movement known as the Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra). This group smuggled coded messages on troop movements and other strategic information to the Russian Front. Lisa was captured while on a mission in Poland and imprisoned by the Germans. Toward the end of the war, she met an American soldier, David Eizenberg, who was serving as a Russian translator. D...

  12. Vest worn by a female German Jewish member of the Red Orchestra resistance group

    1. David and Lisa Eizenberg collection

    Vest worn by Lisa Gervai-Egler, probably postwar, when she returned to Berlin after being liberated from a concentration camp. During the war, while Lisa was a student at the Berlin Museum School of Fine Arts, she joined an anti-Nazi resistance movement known as the Rote Kapelle (Red Orchestra). This group smuggled coded messages on troop movements and other strategic information to the Russian Front. Lisa was captured while on a mission in Poland and imprisoned by the Germans. Toward the end of the war, she met an American soldier, David Eizenberg, who was serving as a Russian translator. ...

  13. Chaim Weizmann

    Documentary on the life of Chaim Weizmann. (1874-1952) Weizmann was a scientist, president of the World Zionist Organization during the Nazi era and the first president of Israel. He met with world leaders to protest the racial persecution of the Jews in Germany and elsewhere. His efforts to organize rescue plans and to influence the British to relax immigration restrictions were rejected by the British. The Jewish Agency's Department for the Settlement of German Refugees. In August 1933, the Zionist Congress nominated Weizmann, to head the Jewish Agency's Department for the settlement of G...

  14. Kadlec liquid filled AK39 German wrist compass found by a US soldier

    1. David F. Busch collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn157317
    • English
    • 1939
    • overall: Height: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Width: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Diameter: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm)

    Large, liquid filled, model AK 39 German wrist compass found by David F. Busch, a US soldier fighting in Germany during World War II. It was manufactured by Kadlec and designed to be worn on Luftwaffe pilot or crewman’s right wrist. An additional strap allows the compass to be secured over the sleeve of a flight suit or on to a rescue vest. In June 1943, David was drafted into the US Army and assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division. In October 1943, he was deployed and fought in Central Europe and Germany. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered.

  15. Jenny L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jenny L., who was born in Aleksinac, Yugoslavia in 1927, the younger of two children. She recounts a kind kindergarten teacher; moving to Belgrade; her father's military conscription in spring 1941; German invasion; anti-Jewish restrictions; a public execution; her brother's escape to Italian-occupied Croatia; reporting to a German round-up; escaping when she saw her friend killed, leaving her mother and grandmother; traveling to an aunt's home in Niš (she worked for the underground); obtaining false papers; living with her former kindergarten teacher; hiding partisa...

  16. Henri G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Henri G., who was born in Poland in 1925, one of four children. He recalls moving with his family to Danzig when he was about five, then to Paris in 1932 due to an antisemitic attack on his father; forming lifelong friendships in his Jewish neighborhood; attending public school; learning Yiddish and German songs from his father; evacuation when war began in 1939, then returning home; evacuation with his family to Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne after German invasion in 1940; returning to Paris in early 1941; his father's arrest in May; visiting him once in Pithiviers; his older...

  17. Mark G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Mark G., who was born in Krako?w, Poland in 1930, the youngest of three children. He recounts his family moving to Rabka in 1933; German invasion; military draft of his father and brother; witnessing the execution of a classmate; his sister's privileged position as a maid for a brutal German officer; the officer's wife warning her to flee; escaping with his mother, sister, and a friend to the forest; a Polish woman helping them; smuggling themselves into the Krako?w ghetto; leaving to join an uncle in S?omniki; returning to the Krako?w ghetto with his sister and a you...

  18. Ada V. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Ada V., who was born in 1929 in Warsaw, Poland, the only child in an affluent home. She recounts attending a Jewish school; frequent, pleasant visits to her mother's family in Paris; German invasion; Germans beating her father; his escape to Czyżew in the Soviet zone; being smuggled with her mother to join him; attending a Soviet school; participating in Komsomol; her father enlisting in the Soviet military (they never saw him again); German invasion; ghettoization; her mother paying smugglers to bring them to the Warsaw ghetto; she, her mother, and grandmother obtai...

  19. Jenia G. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jenia G., who was born in Švenčionys, Poland (presently Lithuania) in 1927, one of four children. She recounts her large, extended family; attending a Tarbut school; her father visiting a sister in Palestine in 1939; his inability to return due to the war; Soviet occupation; joining Komsomol; German invasion; her mother hiding her during round-ups; refusing to hide with a non-Jewish farmer; transfer with her family to former military barracks in Švenčionėliai, then to the Polygon; her mother arranging her return to Švenčionys with her younger brother four days ...

  20. Jules T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jules T., a non-Jew, who was born in Bois d'Haine, Belgium in 1916. He recounts his father's work as a miner and his union activities; apprenticing as a printer in 1930; his own union activities; military draft; visits from his father in Diepenbeek; capture in Rumbeke on May 28, 1940; escaping on May 30; returning home; working as a printer; union and Resistance activities; organizing a strike in September 1942; imprisonment in Mons for ten days; sabotaging trains; arrest in December; being brought to Gestapo headquarters in La Louvie?re; transfer to Charleroi, then B...