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  1. Operation Annie - December 18, 1944

    1. Operation Annie broadcasts

    1:28: Front News: German units are infiltrating the American front line through gaps, the Reich is investing its last resources in these counterattacks, overrunning American footholds. Tank divisions have been trained and mobilized from other areas of the Reich. The first convoy is being led by the SS tank divisions, leibstandarte Adolf Hitler and Hitlerjugend. The second convoy is being led by the 2nd and 116th tank divisions. New methods and strategies are being used: many members of the tank divisions are now wearing American uniforms, their tanks and trucks depict a white star. These Sp...

  2. Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle in Litzmannstadt. Aussendienststelle in Schieratz Tajna Policja Państwowa w Łodzi. Ekspozytura w Sieradzu (Sygn. 202)

    Contains records of Gestapo in Sieradz, an agency of Gestapo in Łódź Records relate to investigations of Polish resistance movement, actions against anti-German steps, participation in displacements and expropriation, interventions in the prohibited contacts between the German and Polish people (so-called "blood relations" between Germans and Poles), interference in the German national list. The Geheime Staatspolizei performed these tasks in the co-operation with the Kriminalpolizei (Kripo) and Schutzpolizei (Schupo) as well as security services.

  3. Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle in Litzmannstadt Tajna Policja Państwowa w Łodzi. Oddział w Łodzi (Sygn. 201)

    Contains mainly Gestapo investigations relating to violation of discipline of labor and prohibited blood relations between Polish and German people, as well as statistical reports of Gestapo office, a list of the staff, information about the political status and attitude of Polish population during 1942-1944, investigations concerning the illegal trespassing of the ghetto Litzmannstadt (Łódź), information about deportations of Poles to concentration camps and the labor camp at Sikawa, as well as official journals of Kripo in Łódź.

  4. Fritz Weinschenk papers

    1. Fritz Weinschenk collection

    The Fritz Weinschenk papers primarily consist of case files documenting his assistance obtaining witness testimony related to war crimes proceedings in Germany. The papers also include Weinschenk’s writing files related to articles he wrote about the war crimes trials, and Gestapo Bremen and Abwehr files, which contain guidelines and regulations related to the Gestapo and government security. The war crimes case files document Weinschenk’s work with the West German government and West German courts and prosecutors in the prosecution of war criminals from the 1960s to the 1990s. German judic...

  5. Clothes Jew Dress Costumes in Copenhagen Color print of a Jewish clothes peddler in Copenhagen

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Copper engraving depicting a clothes peddler with several colorful garments draped over his arm. Johannes Senn likely drew the original image as part of a series called, “Dress Costumes in Copenhagen,” published by GL Lahde in Copenhagen, Denmark, during the early 18th century. The man in the image has a large nose, fleshy lips, and a beard; stereotypical physical features commonly attributed to Jewish men. Peddlers were itinerant vendors who sold goods to the public. Clothes peddlers dealt in old garments they bought, cleaned and repaired, and then sold for profit. Peddling was a common oc...

  6. Crematorium tag, number 5893, acquired at Dachau postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused clay crematorium disc with the number 5893 acquired by 22 year old Lt. Charles Rudulph, United States Army, during a July 10, 1945, tour of the crematorium at Dachau concentration camp near Munich, Germany. This type of disc was placed with a body to identify the ashes after cremation. The numbers do not correspond to prisoner numbers. Rudulph found it in what he called the murder house, with the cremation urns in a cellar between the room where bodies were stored and the ovens. Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the SS in March 1933, originally for political pris...

  7. Crematorium tag, number 5896, acquired at Dachau postwar by a US soldier

    1. Charles Rudulph collection

    Unused clay crematorium disc with the number 5896 acquired by 22 year old Lt. Charles Rudulph, United States Army, during a July 10, 1945, tour of the crematorium of Dachau concentration camp near Munich in Germany. This type of disc was placed with a body to identify the ashes after cremation. The numbers do not correspond to prisoner numbers. Rudulph found it in what he called the murder house, with the cremation urns in a cellar between the room where bodies were stored and the ovens. Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the SS in March 1933, originally for political pr...

  8. Over a distant, quiet jiord Nad dalekim, cichym fiordem [Book]

    1. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky collection

    The book was given to the donor by her school friend, Basia Knap, in Busko-Zdrój, Poland; signed, "Zofia Tymejko" and dated Jan. 28, 1948.

  9. Identification card

    This "National Registration Identity Card" for children under the age of 16 was issued to Zofia Tymejko [donor] after she emigrated to London, England.

  10. Slap in the Face Drawing created by Karl Schwesig postwar depicting a beating he witnessed in a concentration camp

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Ink wash drawing created by Karl Schwesig in 1948 in Dusseldorf. The drawing depicts two guards beating a nude inmate in Noe internment camp in France, where Schwesig was held from February to March 1941. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, Schwesig, a Communist, was arrested and imprisoned for 16 months. After his release in 1935, he lived in Antwerp, Belgium. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. Schwesig was arrested and sent to Vichy France, where he was held in St. Cyprien, Gurs, Noe, and Nexon internment camps. In 1943, he was sent to Ulmer Hoeh prison in Dusseldorf, where...

  11. Drawing by Karl Schwesig satirizing the embrace of Fascism in France

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Drawing created by Karl Schwesig that was part of a series of 9 drawings entitled "Rosenmontag" representing early anti-Nazi satiric material. The image shows a Nazi military officer with arms outstretched standing on a platform (float?) with wheels beckoning to another man in formal attire and saying, "Komm in meine Liebeslauber." A cave labeled "I Solierzelle" and surrounded by tanks, guns, and soldiers is in the background. A sign to the left of the float says, "Heil Csar! Nieder Mit Uns Franzos."

  12. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Nazi followers as robots

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical ink drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, depicting a woman standing next to a robot and cannon. It is part of a series of eight satirical drawings published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was printed in Cologne and distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hitler came to power in January 1933, ...

  13. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting the subjugation of Yugoslavia to Nazi Germany

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical ink drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, depicting a man and three scantily clad women protesting the Slavs. It is part of a series of eight satirical drawings published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was printed in Cologne and distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hitler came to power in J...

  14. Axis-Ionary Karl Schwesig political cartoon mocking a Nazi parade

    1. Karl Schwesig collection

    Satirical drawing created by Karl Schwesig in February 1938 in Antwerp, with caricatures of soldiers, a Nazi officer, and Nazi eagles on a parade float. It is part of a series of eight political cartoons published in an illegal newspaper, the Kolner Rosenmontags-Zeitung (Cologne Rose Monday Newspaper). The newspaper was distributed at the Cologne Carnival on Rose Monday before Lent in early 1938. The printer in Cologne was unable to smuggle the dangerous drawings out of Germany, so he kept them in his shop, where they were damaged by a fire during the war. After Hitler came to power in Janu...

  15. Schwarzer Peter playing card deck with German social roles

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Deck of playing cards with a card featuring a dirty and unpleasant looking Jewish peddler labeled Jude. This deck of playing cards is one of the more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic artifacts and visual materials.

  16. German Gesteckpfeife style tobacco pipe and porcelain bowl with an antisemitic image

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn537368
    • English
    • 1850-1940
    • a: Height: 4.875 inches (12.383 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm)

    German Gesteckpfeife (arranged pipe) style tobacco pipe with its accompanying bowl. This style of pipe is also known as a Jaeger Pipe, German hunter pipe, German Porcelain pipe, Tyrolean pipe, and Wine Pipe. The tobacco was packed in the porcelain bowl which was then placed in the reservoir (or abguss) of the pipe. The reservoir acted as a retainer for the juices and tar, and sometimes wine was placed in the reservoir to flavor the smoke. This style of pipe was popular in Central Europe from the 18th to the early 20th centuries and was most commonly associated with Germanic culture. The bow...

  17. Watercolor of a Jewish money clipper with scales

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Small, watercolor painting of a Jewish coin clipper at work, likely created in 18th century Europe. He is depicted with a beard and sidelocks, which are traditionally worn by Jewish men. Coin clipping was the illegal practice of removing small pieces of metal from coins. Until modern times, coinage was hammered from precious (and soft) metals such as silver or gold, resulting in coins that were not perfectly round. Furthermore, normal wear from use would exacerbate their irregular shapes. Unscrupulous individuals would take advantage of these irregularities and remove slivers off the edges ...

  18. Political Cartoon of Andrew Jackson and the French King dancing before a crowd of international leaders

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    This lithograph was created in 1836 as a satirical commentary on United States President Andrew Jackson's conflict with French King Louis Philippe over the Treaty of 1831, and the French reparations due to the US. Edward Clay and Henry Robinson, both of whom were prominent political cartoonists and regular critics of Jackson, produced the piece. In this cartoon, the French King has fallen at Jackson’s feet, while trying to keep pace as the President dances to the Cabinet’s music. Jackson celebrates receiving long-sought reparations from a reluctant France by holding aloft a moneybag so that...

  19. Print from a German periodical depicting two Jewish theatergoers conversing

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Full-page print from German humor magazine, Düsseldorfer Monathefte, with a satirical illustration and commentary on Jewish theatergoers complaining about prices being too high. Both men are depicted in evening attire and have prominent, stereotypical Jewish features: bushy eyebrows, hooded eyes, and hooked noses. This illustration is from 1854, printed in Volume 7, Issue 2 of the magazine, which was produced for 14 years in Düsseldorf, Germany. Satirical humor magazines that commented on social, economic, and political situations emerged in Europe during the mid-19th century and grew in ci...

  20. Walter Fried papers

    1. Walter Fried collection

    Consists of 13 photographs of the burial ceremony of camp victims near Regensburg, Germany, several documents relating to labor and food conditions at Regensburg, Germany, during World War II, and a report of the atrocities at the Buchenwald camp.