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  1. Unused white concentration camp prisoner patch found by US forces

    1. National Archives and Records Administration collection

    Blank white cloth rectangle intended for use as a prisoner identification badge in Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany. For use, it would be marked with a prisoner number and attached to the prisoner's uniform, usually on the chest. The camp was liberated on April 11, by troops from the 399th Battalion, 8th Armored Division, and 83rd Infantry, which captured all the camp records intact. This badge was one of many found by Lt. Colonel Charles F. Ottoman, US Army, on April 22, 1945. It was used as evidence for Case No. 117 "Alleged atrocities at Zwiebe...

  2. Unused green triangle concentration camp prisoner patch with a black letter S found by US forces

    1. National Archives and Records Administration collection

    Inverted green triangle patch printed with a black S intended for use as a prisoner identification badge in Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany. The green identified an accused criminal. The letter could indicate nationality, S possibly for Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, or Spanish. In some camps, the letter could indicate status, and the S may mean Sicherungsverwahrt [Preventive detention.] The inverted triangle would have been attached on the left breast of the uniform. The camp was liberated on April 11, by troops from the 399th Battalion, 8th Arm...

  3. Unused red triangle concentration camp prisoner patch with a black letter I found by US forces

    1. National Archives and Records Administration collection

    Inverted red triangle badge printed with a black letter I intended for use as a prisoner identification badge in Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany. The red identified a political prisoner. The letter could indicate nationality; I may be for Italian. The inverted triangle would have been attached on the left breast of the uniform. The camp was liberated on April 11, by troops from the 399th Battalion, 8th Armored Division, and 83rd Infantry, which captured all the camp records intact. This badge was one of many found by Lt. Colonel Charles F. Ottoma...

  4. Unused green triangle concentration camp prisoner patch with a black letter S found by US forces

    1. National Archives and Records Administration collection

    Inverted green triangle patch printed with a black S intended for use as a prisoner identification badge in Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany. The green identified an accused criminal. The letter could indicate nationality, S possibly for Serbian, Slovakian, Slovenian, or Spanish. In some camps, the letter could indicate status, and the S may mean Sicherungsverwahrt [Preventive detention.] The inverted triangle would have been attached on the left breast of the uniform. The camp was liberated on April 11, by troops from the 399th Battalion, 8th Arm...

  5. Unused white concentration camp prisoner patch found by US forces

    1. National Archives and Records Administration collection

    Blank white cloth rectangle intended for use as a prisoner identification badge in Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany. For use, it would be marked with a prisoner number and attached to the prisoner's uniform, usually on the chest. The camp was liberated on April 11, by troops from the 399th Battalion, 8th Armored Division, and 83rd Infantry, which captured all the camp records intact. This badge was one of many found by Lt. Colonel Charles F. Ottoman, US Army, on April 22, 1945. It was used as evidence for Case No. 117 "Alleged atrocities at Zwiebe...

  6. Unused red triangle concentration camp prisoner patch with a black letter I found by US forces

    1. National Archives and Records Administration collection

    Inverted red triangle badge printed with a black letter I intended for use as a prisoner identification badge in Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany. The red identified a political prisoner. The letter could indicate nationality; I may be for Italian. The inverted triangle would have been attached on the left breast of the uniform. The camp was liberated on April 11, by troops from the 399th Battalion, 8th Armored Division, and 83rd Infantry, which captured all the camp records intact. This badge was one of many found by Lt. Colonel Charles F. Ottoma...

  7. Unused yellow stripe concentration camp prisoner patch found by US forces

    1. National Archives and Records Administration collection

    Blank yellow bar patch intended for use as an identification badge for a Jewish prisoner in Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany. This badge would be used with a separate inverted triangle patch, possibly of a different color, to indicate that the prisoner was Jewish. Both patches would be attached to a cloth strip and attached to the uniform, usually on the chest. The camp was liberated on April 11, by troops from the 399th Battalion, 8th Armored Division, and 83rd Infantry, which captured all the camp records intact. This badge was one of many found...

  8. Unused black triangle concentration camp patch with a white letter T found by US forces

    1. National Archives and Records Administration collection

    Inverted, triangular black badge with a white T intended for use as a prisoner identification badge in Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany. The black signified that the inmate was considered asocial, used to refer to those too deviant, lazy, or selfish to contribute to society. This flexible category could include addicts and alcoholics, disabled, homeless, homosexuals, pacifists, vagrants, or Roma. The letter could indicate nationality; T may be for Czechoslovakian. The inverted triangle would have been attached on the left breast of the jacket or o...

  9. Unused pink triangle concentration camp prisoner patch with a black letter B found by US forces

    1. National Archives and Records Administration collection

    Inverted deep pink triangle badge printed with a black letter B intended for use as a prisoner identification badge in Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald in Germany. The pink identified an accused homosexual. The letter could indicate nationality; B may be for Belgian. The inverted triangle would have been attached on the left breast of the uniform. The camp was liberated on April 11, by troops from the 399th Battalion, 8th Armored Division, and 83rd Infantry, which captured all the camp records intact. This badge was one of many found by Lt. Colonel Charles F...

  10. Alexander Primavesi papers

    The Alexander Primavesi papers contain German reports written by Alexander Primavesi relating to activities of the Gestapo in Dortmund, Germany between 1933 and 1945. The papers include records relating to the development of the Westphalian state police office in Dortmund, Arnsberg, forced labor, persecution of Jews, religious communities and other minorities in the district of Arnsberg. The Alexander Primavesi papers primarily contain German reports written by Alexander Primavesi concerning Gestapo activity in Dortmund Germany from 1933-1945. The contents of each report are as follows: Fol...

  11. German documents Dokumenty niemieckie (Sygn. IZ. Doc I)

    Various German documents regarding German policies in the occupied Polish territories, especially in the “Wartheland”: administration, economy, the police bodies and German settlements in the Wartheland. Records mostly relate to germanization and atrocities against Polish and Jewish population, in addition, to the activity of "Rechsuniversität Posen" created in Poznań. Included are trials against Poles who offended the so-called Volksdeutsche, directives for Germans how to behave towards Poles, a list of names that Polish parents were allowed to choose for their children [File 48], Germaniz...

  12. John and Alice Morawetz papers

    1. Alice and John Morawetz collection

    The papers consist of 58 photographs, certificates, identification cards, and correspondence concerning the experiences of Alice Tauscher and Hans Morawetz [donors] in Austria, Trinidad, and the United States from the 1920s through the 1940s.

  13. German anthropological expedition to Tibet

    "Ein Filmdokument der Schaefer-Expedition, 1938/39." Sound track added in 1942, with racial content stressed. Terrain/map. "Tibet / Indien" Dr. Karl Wienert, hand measurements. 00:04:52 to 00:05:01Measuring woman's head. Dr. Bruno Beger, "Die menschen Rasse des Forschungs..." Cameraman. Terrain, model, map, Ganges. 00:06:21 Scenes, streets, Calcutta (very good). Train to the base of the Himalayas.00:07:23 Intro the wonders and dangers of flora, fauna. Mules, men on the move. Bridge over river. Dangers of the wild river monsoons, whitewater. Mules over narrow wooden bridge across, fixing bri...

  14. UNRRA selected records AG-018-027 : Sweden Mission

    Cables, miscellaneous correspondence, statistics, lists of unaccompanied children, search requests, minutes of meetings, and status reports from the UNRRA Swedish Mission Office relating to efforts to assist the Displaced Persons camps in Sweden after the war.

  15. Reinhold and Singer families papers

    The Reinhold and Singer families papers are comprised of biographical materials, a cookbook, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials documenting Feodora Reinhold Singer’s family in Germany, her departure via Kindertransport to England, Robert Singer’s family in Austria, his stay in the Merksplas internment camp in Belgium, and their immigration to the United States. Biographical materials include World War I era military records, education and employment records, marriage certificates, passports, identification cards, naturalization papers, and Feodora Singer’s personal narrative...

  16. Postcard with ink drawing

    1. Leo Yeni collection

  17. Germans and Czechs in the Sudetenland

    Reel 3 Anna lives with her German father Mayor Jobst at a rural estate near Budweis in the Sudetenland. Her mother, of Czech origin, killed herself because of an unfulfilled desire to return to her native town of Prague. Already engaged to a young peasant from the village, Anna is attracted to the engineer Christian Leidwein from Prague and travels to the 'Golden City' to visit him. While staying with the family of her mother and working in their tobacco store, she is seduced and made-pregnant by cousin Toni Opferkuch. Her changing morals are accompanied by her changing appearance -- jewelr...

  18. Drawing of a Jewish woman created by Esther Lurie in a labor camp

    1. Esther Lurie collection

  19. Drawing of a Jewish woman created by Esther Lurie in a labor camp

    1. Esther Lurie collection

  20. Case files from the Gestapo in Zichenau, Poland (Sygn. 186)

    Case files kept on individuals by the Gestapo in Zichenau (Ciechanów), Poland. The case files contain information about individuals in the Zichenau area suspected of crimes such as acts of resistance, smuggling, and illegal border crossings. In some cases, the persons accused were sent to concentration camps. Also contains files concerning Polish priests involved in underground movements, attacks by partisan groups, and investigations of illegal border crossings.