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  1. Autobiographical ink wash drawing by a Polish refugee of 2 men reviewing a military uniform

    1. Peretz Chorshati collection

    Pen and wash drawing from a series of 19 captioned, narrative drawings created by Peretz Chorshati (born Pavel Szenwald) between 1994 and 1997 about his wartime experiences. It depicts Pavel and a Beitar member looking at a military uniform in October 1945 when Pavel deserted the Soviet Army and exchanged his uniform for a civilian identity. Pavel was an 18 year old student in Warsaw when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He was imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto until his father got him forged papers and he escaped. He posed as a German national, and joined the German army. In ...

  2. Antisemitic propaganda handbill warning Americans that Jews are against serving in the military

    Handbill, printed in New York City, with fraudulent quotes on the front and an antisemitic cartoon on the back. The cartoon shows two men with stereotypical Jewish features outfitting a Christian American man for combat, while the radio broadcasts Jewish pro-war messages. The Talmud quote is ripped from its original context and used to legitimize the antisemitic canard that Jews sought exemption from military service, while simultaneously advocating American intervention in World War II. The handbill’s purpose was to provoke anti-Jewish sentiment in the United States by perpetuating the myt...

  3. "Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials"

    Consists of a bound copy of the "Report of Robert H. Jackson, United States Representative to the International Conference on Military Trials", published in London in 1945. The book has a handwritten inscription from Justice Jackson to Sidney S. Alderman, who served as a prosecutor at Nuremberg. The book includes some of Alderman's handwritten notes, annotations, and underlining in the text.

  4. Military medallion, box and paper awarded to a Macedonian Jewish partisan woman

    1. Jamila Kolonomos collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43767
    • English
    • 1948-1978
    • a: Height: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) c: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)

    Award received by Jamila (Zamila) Kolonomos in recognition of her service as a partisan during the Axis occupation of Yugoslavia from 1941-1945. On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, invaded and partitioned Yugoslavia. The Macedonian region, including Bitola where Jamila and her family lived, was occupied by Bulgaria. Jamila worked with resistance groups to fight the occupation and was forced to hide at night for her safety. On March 9, 1943, from her hiding place, Jamila witnessed the roundup and deportation of the Jewish community of Bitola. After a mon...

  5. US Army Military Intelligence ID badge in case used by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Martin Dannenberg collection

    US Army CIC identification shield used by Martin Dannenberg Jr., a Jewish American soldier awarded a Bronze Star for his wartime service. Martin was a Master Sergeant and Special Agent in Charge, 203rd Counter Intelligence Corps, attached to the III Corps, Third Army. By February 1945, he was in Germany with his unit. One of Martin's duties was to discover evidence for the planned war crimes trials. On April 27, 1945, an informant took Martin and his two man team to a bank vault in Eichstatt, where they discovered an original copy of the Nuremberg Race Laws, signed by Adolf Hitler. This dec...

  6. Personal documents: Military service booklet of Red Army officer Izrail Segal, prepared, 1955

    1. O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period

    Personal documents: Military service booklet of Red Army officer Izrail Segal, prepared, 1955 Military service booklet of Izrail Segal, born in Minsk, Belorussia, 1924, a Red Army officer, with notation regarding his activities against the Germans in the Ostrowiec area.

  7. Documentation regarding Riko Richard Jary, active in the Ukrainska Vyskova Orhanizatsiya (UVO-Ukrainian Military Organization), 1934

    1. O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period

    Documentation regarding Riko Richard Jary, active in the Ukrainska Vyskova Orhanizatsiya (UVO-Ukrainian Military Organization), 1934 Survey report from Koenigsberg regarding the activities of Riko Richard Jary, deputy of Konovalets, head of the Orhanizatsiya Ukrainskyh Natsionalistiv (OUN-Ukrainian Nationalists Association) in Berlin.

  8. Documentation regarding Riko Jary, active in the Ukrainska Vyskova Orhanizatsiya (UVO-Ukrainian Military Organization), 1933

    1. O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period

    Documentation regarding Riko Jary, active in the Ukrainska Vyskova Orhanizatsiya (UVO-Ukrainian Military Organization), 1933 Report regarding the investigation of the activities of Riko Jary, deputy of Konovalets, head of the Orhanizatsiya Ukrainskyh Natsionalistiv (OUN-Ukrainian Nationalists Organization), by the German Intelligence Service, Berlin.

  9. Documentation regarding Riko Jary, active in the Ukrainska Vyskova Orhanizatsiya (UVO-Ukrainian Military Organization), 1934

    1. O.32 - Documentation regarding the Jews of the Soviet Union from the Holocaust period

    Documentation regarding Riko Jary, active in the Ukrainska Vyskova Orhanizatsiya (UVO-Ukrainian Military Organization), 1934 Opinion regarding the activities of Riko Jary, deputy of Konovalets, leader of the Orhanizatsiya Ukrainskyh Natsionalistiv (OUN-Ukrainian Nationalists Organization) in Berlin.

  10. Indictment of the Paris military court against Otto Friedrich Abetz, the German ambassador to Paris

    1. P.7- Archive of Marc Jarblum, Zionist Leader and one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in France, 1941-1967

    Indictment of the Paris military court against Otto Friedrich Abetz, the German ambassador to Paris Acte D'Accusation dans L'Affaire Abetz Otto Friedrich

  11. Notes made by Rudolf Hess for a declaration before the International Military Tribunal

    1. O.23 - Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials
    • Hess: Trial Notes

    Notes made by Rudolf Hess for a declaration before the International Military Tribunal Notes made by Rudolf Hess for a declaration before the International Military Tribunal, including a repetition of the allegations he made in his diary that the Tribunal is under the influence of a vast international Jewish-Bolshevist conspiracy against him and against Germany.

  12. International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg indictment against the major war criminals

    1. O.23 - Gilbert Collection: Documentation written by senior Nazi war criminals in detention during the Nuremberg Trials

    International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg indictment against the major war criminals Charges cited in the indictments: - Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of a crime against peace; - Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace; - War crimes; - Crimes against humanity. The 24 defendants: Martin Bormann; Karl Doenitz; Hans Frank; Wilhelm Frick; Hans Fritzsche; Walther Funk; Hermann Goering; Rudolf Hess; Alfred Jodl; Ernst Kaltenbrunner; Wilhelm Keitel; Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach; Robert Ley; Konstantin von Neu...

  13. Women's Military Service (WSK). District of Lublin Wojskowa Służba Kobiet (WSK). Lublin Dystrykt (Sygn. XIII)

    Contains orders, ordinances, instructions and reports of the Wojskowa Służba Kobiet (WSK) (Women's Army Service) of the Lublin District. Includes also a diary of Warsaw Uprising and documents of Władysław Oleszkiewicz.

  14. Military ID tag issued to identify a Jewish volunteer in the British Army

    1. Eva Biro Slott family collection

    Metal tag identifying him as a Jew issued to Arie Kadar, when he volunteered for a Palestinian Jewish unit affiliated with the British Army in 1939. Arie had emigrated from Mindszent, Hungary, to Palestine, before 1939. He joined the PNR, a Palestinian Jewish battalion affiliated with the British Army, and was captured by the Germans in 1939 in North Africa. He was held as a prisoner-of-war from 1939-1945, from 1941 in Stalag XVIII in Austria. Nearly his entire family in Hungary was murdered during the Holocaust. His young cousin, Eva Biro, survived in hiding in Budapest. After the war ende...

  15. Drawing of a defendant by an interpreter during the International Military Tribunal

    1. Stefan Horn collection

    Pencil portrait of Hans Fritzsche by Stefan Horn, an interpreter during the Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals by the International Military Tribunal.

  16. Brytyjski Sąd Wojskowy. Proces załogi obozu koncentracyjnego w Ravensbrück [British Military Court - Case Ravensbrück]

    • akta sądowe dot. zbrodni niemieckich (stenogramy z procesu zawierające akt oskarżenia, zeznania świadków i oskarżonych oraz wyrok, raport o KL Ravensbrück) - akta administracyjne (sprawozdanie polskiego przedstawiciela z przebiegu rozprawy, korespondencja, wycinki prasowe) - materiały inne (wycinki prasowe)
  17. Amerykańskie Trybunały Wojskowe nr I-VI w Norymberdze [Military Tribunals USA nr I-VI in Nuremberg]

    • akta sądowe dot. zbrodni niemieckich (materiały z procesów osób oskarżonych przed Międzynarodowym Trybunałem Wojskowym o zbrodnie wojenne, przeciwko ludzkości i pokojowi, m.in. prowadzenie wojny agresywnej, masowe mordy, egzekucje, germanizację i deportacje ludności cywilnej, osadzanie w obozach koncentracyjnych, wykorzystywanie jeńców wojennych do pracy przymusowej, przeprowadzanie eksperymentów pseudomedycznych na więźniach, rabunek mienia narodowego oraz prywatnego, eksploatację gospodarczą krajów okupowanych). Powyższe materiały zawierają akt oskarżenia, zeznania świadków i oskarżonyc...