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  1. Portfolio of 30 antisemitic caricatures about the Dreyfus Affair

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Portfolio of 30 caricatures by Alpha on the Dreyfus Affair, a political scandal revolving around antisemitism that inflamed France in the late 19th century. Alfred Dreyfus was an army captain found guilty of treason in 1894 for selling French military secrets. Antisemitic publications used Dreyfus as a symbol of the disloyalty of all French Jews. In 1896, another man was tried and acquitted of the same crime. Emile Zola wrote a letter to protest the verdict, titled "J'Accuse," in which he accused the French Army of covering up its unjust conviction of Dreyfus. Zola was charged with libel an...

  2. Roza and Rafal Lekach photograph collection

    The collections consists of 13 photographs depicting members of the Lekach and Itman families, Rafal Lekach and other soldiers of the First Division of the Polish Army, Roza Lekach with the Belorussian partisan group of Denisow, and a visit to a monument memorializing the 3,200 Jews who perished in the ghetto in Dzisna, Belarus.

  3. The Poison Mushroom Book

    1. 230th Field Artillery collection

    Antisemitic children's book, Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom), popular in Nazi Germany. It was published by Der Stuermer Verlag, a division of the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stuermer, published by Julius Streicher from 1923-1945. The illustrations are by Fips (Phillip Rupprecht), the paper's well known antisemitic cartoonist. Both men were arrested by the US Army in May 1945. Rupprecht was tried by a German denazification court and sentenced to six years hard labor. Streicher was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the ruling...

  4. Walter Reed photograph collection

    The collection consists of 160 photographs and copyprints depicting children and workers doing chores and playing at a children's home in Belgium and children's homes in Seyre, France, and at Chateau de La Hille during the Holocaust.

  5. Confidence... Anti-British propaganda poster showing Churchill’s tentacles cut out of Africa and the Middle East

    1. French political poster collection

    Propaganda poster in French showing German global victories against the British Empire. The poster depicts Winston Churchill’s caricatured, disembodied head with 12 tentacles, several bloody and truncated, reaching out over Africa and the Middle East, and extending past the border toward America and Asia. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In response, Britain and France declared war on Germany two days later. On June 22, 1940, France signed an armistice agreement by which the Germans would occupy the northern half of France. After the armistice and occupation, German authorities...

  6. Illustrierter Beobachter (Munich, Germany) [Newspaper]

    Insert to special edition of Illustrierter Beobachter, spring 1940 with maps of Europe and the Middle East. Political cartoon on cover shows African soldier with a flag "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" attached to his rifle and a French military leader and a man with Jewish-type caricature in the background with the caption "Frankreichs Schuld."

  7. Photograph of Gruber family

    The photograph depicts the Gruber family before Samuel Gruber joined the army in May 1939 in Podhajce, Poland (now Pidhaitsi, Ukraine). Pictured are Eva Gruber [donor's sister], Regina Horowitz [donor's cousin], Mina Gruber [donor's sister], and Samuel Gruber.

  8. Ludwig Wertheim papers

    1. Ludwig Wertheim collection

    The papers consist of documents, photographs, family books, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Ludwig Wertheim and his family in Würzburg, Germany, and France during the Holocaust. Also included in the collection are documents relating to Ruth Chotzen and her work with the Jewish Agency for Palestine organizing illegal immigration of refugees to Palestine.

  9. Jack and Beatrice Glotzer papers

    The Jack and Beatrice Glotzer papers consist of biographical materials, a memoir, photographs, and a postcard documenting Jack Glotzer’s family in pre‐war and wartime Rohatyn and Jack and Beatrice Glotzer’s immigration to the United States in 1949. Biographical materials include the meal card Beatrice Glotzer used during her passage to the United States, an International Refugee Organization medical tag issued to her when the ship reached Boston Harbor, and two report cards issued to Edmund Glotzer in 1938 and 1939. Jack Glotzer’s memoir, I Survived the German Holocaust Against All Odds: A ...

  10. Selected records from collections of the Mureş branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Includes records concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. Contains orders to arrest war criminals, investigations into alleged war criminals, surveillance of nomadic Romanies, reports on deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, military taxes owed by Jews, surveillance of the Iron Guards, confiscation of Jewish property, treatment of arrested British and American POWs, and correspondence concerning the "Jewish problem." The collection contains selected records from the Legion of Gendarmes of Mures̜, the Mayoralty of Tirgu-Mures̜, the Prefecture of Mures di...

  11. World War II Victory Medal, ribbon and presentation box owned by a US soldier

    1. Irving H. Rosenberg collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn517577
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • a: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Diameter: 1.380 inches (3.505 cm) b: Height: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)

    World War II Victory Medal that belonged to Irving H. Rosenberg, who served in the United States Army in Europe during World War II. The campaign medal was issued to members of the Armed Forces who served at least one day of honorable, active service between December 7, 1941 and December 31, 1946. Rosenberg was a medic with the 46th Armored Medical Battalion, attached to the 4th Armored Division, which, in 1945, liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany.

  12. Olive drab dress uniform jacket in the style worn by a US Army officer

    1. Irving H. Rosenberg collection

    Military style dress jacket made by a tailor in Indianapolis. It it unlikely that the jacket was ever worn by a soldier with the current arrangement of insignia. The issue and original source of the insignia, which includes US Air Force as well as Army items, is unclear. The jacket and some insignia may originally have belonged to Irving H. Rosenberg, who served in the United States Army during World War II. Rosenberg was a medic with the 46th Armored Medical Battalion, attached to the 4th Armored Division. In April 1945, this division liberated Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald concentratio...

  13. Rebuilding Warsaw, probably in 1947

    Reel 3A Animated map. Goats grazing in brick ruins. Man approaches a gravesite with flowers. LS, overview of massive destruction in the city of Warsaw - bombed buildings. MS, then CUs of the monument in the former Warsaw ghetto to Jews who died in the 1943 uprising. HAS, construction site, rebuilding Poland, river in BG, crane. VAR views of schoolchildren walking along the sidewalk and playing at school. HAS, policeman directing traffic (pedestrians, automobiles, trams, horse/buggy) with Warsaw in the distance. School. Shop amidst ruins (pile of bricks). CU, shop sign (bookstore). Large bui...

  14. Prewar Austria: vacation and leisure time

    “Bilder vom staatlichen Skikurs Radstadt Weihnachten 1933” Horse pulls a sled. People walk and ski in the snow. They point and wave at the camera. Others trek up a hill on skis and ski down. Tree with icicles. A person falls. “Allerlei Allotria” The boys do acrobatics. They ski down another hill. Someone waves. More acrobatics. People on a balcony. 01:03:45 Parade of uniformed military men in the snow. “Hotel Pesl Lisl Jasny” CUs of different people, some dark, some smiling for the camera, at the train station. Train departs, kids wave. (01:05:46) Mixed shots of skiing, and a group of peopl...

  15. Selected records from collections of the Bacău branch of the Romanian National Archives

    Contains selected records, concerning Jewish matters and the policy of local offices toward Jewish questions. Includes records from the Jewish communities of the following localities: Bacău (from 1935 to 1950), and Moineşti, and Tg. Ocna (from prewar to 1945). Records include memos, inventories of assets, budgets, donations, local Jewish newspapers, publications, school correspondence, a census of Jewish children, health correspondence, the Jewish theater, aid to the poor, aid to the sick, aid to students, aid for pesach, a history of the Jewish community written in 1942, the situation of...

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 83 -- The Defense submits documents re: Croatia and Greece

    Session 83. Dr. Servatius reads a statement by Rademacher saying that the Jews are not expected to resist after a number of hostages are shot. "In my view, with the necessary firmness and decisiveness, it ought to be possible to keep the Jews in camps also in Serbia. If the Jews there continue to stir up unrest, more stringent martial law must be imposed on them. I cannot imagine that the Jews will continue to conspire, once a considerable number of hostages have been shot." He reads about transferring the Serbian Jews to concentration camps. He then reads a memorandum for a meeting with th...

  17. Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz papers

    The Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz papers consist of records documenting the lives, medical careers, relatives, and persecution of Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz in Oradea as well as wartime and postwar Hungarian printed materials. Andor Gergely and Lajos Kenéz records include biographical materials, student records, correspondence, and legal records documenting Gergely’s and Kenéz’s relatives, educations, medical careers, involvement and prominence in the Jewish community of Oradea, persecution as Jewish doctors under the Hungarian occupation, defense by colleagues who provided testimonials ...

  18. Herbert Gutmann papers

    The Herbert Gutmann papers contain primarily correspondence relating to Herbert Gutmann, a former Jewish-German banker who immigrated to the United States in 1938. The correspondence is mainly between Herbert and his mother’s cousin Edgar Stein, who wrote the affidavit of support for Herbert’s immigration. The other group of correspondence concerns Herbert’s lawsuit against the state of Bavaria for damages caused to his father’s cattle business as a result of anti-Jewish measures promulgated in Germany during the 1930s. Other documents include identification and immigration papers, such as ...

  19. Lithograph of Arthur Szyk's portrait of the Polish general Sikorski in uniform

    1. Arthur Szyk collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn520125
    • English
    • 1946
    • overall: Height: 15.000 inches (38.1 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) pictorial area: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)

    Lithograph of a portrait of General Wladyslaw Sikorski painted by Arthur Szyk in 1946. It portrays the General in uniform, standing in front of a Polish crest with a scene of military action, an excerpt of the Polish National Anthem, Mazurek Dabrowskiego [Dabrowski's Mazurka] and the quote: We will fight (with swords) for all, that our enemies had taken from us.

  20. Heimer family papers

    The Heimer family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Heimer family from Vienna, Henry and Ralph Heimer’s immigration to the United States in 1938, their parents’ relocation to Brno and efforts to emigrate, and return trips to Austria and Czechoslovakia by one of the brothers in the late 1960s. Biographical materials include Henry Heimer’s bicycle touring club membership card, Austrian passport, calling cards, university student identification card and registration booklet, tax clearance certificate, and immigrant identification card (ph...