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  1. Klarsfeld Beate

    • Klarsfeld, Beate, 1939-....
    • Klarsfeld, Beate
    • קלארספלד, ביאטה, ־1939

    13/02/1939

    Journalist. Nazi hunter.

  2. Molotov Vyacheslav Mikhaylovich

    09/03/1890

    08/11/1986

    Soviet statesman and diplomat, foreign minister 1939-49 and 1953-56. Negotiated the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact 1939.

  3. Sugihara Sempo

    • 杉原, 千畝, 1900-1986
    • スギハラ, チウネ, 1900-1986
    • Sugihara, Chiune, 1900-1986
    • Sugihara, Chiune.
    • 杉原千畝, 1900-1986.
    • ...

    01/01/1900

    31/07/1986

    Consul general in Kovno, Lithuania. Assisted Jewish refugees in 1940. Righteous among the nations from 1984.

  4. Tito Josip Broz

    • Tito, Josip Broz, 1892-1980
    • Broz, Josip, 1892-1980
    • Broz-Tito, Josip, 1892-1980
    • Tito-Broz, Josip, 1892-1980
    • Broz, Josip.
    • ...

    07/05/1892

    04/05/1980

    Secretary-general of the Communist Party of Yugosloavia (1939-80). Yugoslav president (1953-80).

  5. Daladier Édouard

    • Daladier, Édouard, 1884-1970
    • Daladʹe, Ė. 1884-1970
    • Daladier, Édouard
    • Daladier, Édouard 1884-1970
    • Daladier, Edouard, 1884-

    18/06/1884

    10/10/1970

    Édouard Daladier was a French Radical politician and the Prime Minister of France at the start of the Second World War.

  6. Samuel Kramer papers

    Consists of correspondence, memoranda, notes, photographs and similar materials collected by Samuel Kramer, an attorney who was legal counsel to Agudas Chasidei Chabad in Brooklyn, NY, and who worked closely with Rabbi S. Gourary and his father-in-law, the Lubavticher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneersohn, in attempts to secure visas for several dozen rabbis and students of the Tomchei Tmimim yeshiva, first so that they could leave Lithuania for Japan, and then from Japan onward, 1940-1941. The “Correspondence” series is the largest component of the collection, and consists primarily of letters fr...

  7. Eichmann Trial -- Session 97 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The footage from 00:01:45 to 00:14:03 is duplicate footage also found on Tape 2154 (from 00:06:42 to 00:19:23). Footage begins in the middle of Session 97 with Eichmann being questioned about his consultations with Müller regarding the emigration of Jews with foreign nationality in Holland. Eichmann states that he is not sure whether Müller would have handled this matter on his own noting that he would have consulted the Chief of the Security Police an the SD, Reinhard Heydrich, because Heinrich Müller was generally hesitant to proceed without consulting a superior. Hausner yells at the acc...

  8. Underwood typewriter with Cyrillic keys used by an emigre Jewish lawyer and politician

    1. Jacob and Nehemiah Robinson collection

    Underwood cast iron typewriter Model No. 5(E) with a Cyrillic keyboard brought by Dr. Jokubas (later Jacob) Robinson when he and his family left Kaunas, Lithuania, in May 1940 for the United States. It was manufactured in the US, it had a No.46 to mark it for a foreign market. Jokubas, a lawyer and politician, was a defender of Jewish interests throughout Europe. In September 1939, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. Robinson was deeply involved in integrating the large Jewish refugee population in Lithuania. In December 1940, Jokubas, his wife Klara, daughters Athalie and Vit...

  9. Mauser HSc pistol, magazine, firing pin, and mainspring used by a Yugoslavian partisan

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn6764
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) b: Height: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) c: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) d: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)

    Mauser HSc pistol used by Leo Gerskovic while he was a member of the Yugoslav partisans during World War II. Based on the marking on the trigger guard, this pistol was a German military-issued pistol before Gerskovic acquired it. Leo Gerskovic, his wife Inge, and their child lived in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, when Germany and its allies invaded and occupied the country on April 6, 1941. Central Yugoslavia, including Zagreb, was formed into the independent state of Croatia, ruled by the Ustasa. Soon after occupation, Leo, with his wife and child fled and joined the partisans. After he joined, Leo ...

  10. Star of David badge with Jude given to German Jewish woman

    Used Star of David badge given to 18 year old Bettina Mayer in Deggendorf displaced persons camp in 1945 by another camp resident. It was worn by the unknown person in Cologne, Germany, and it was given to Bettina because she was originally from Cologne. Jews were ordered to were a Judenstern badge at all times to identify them as Jews. Bettina, her parents, Siegmund and Johannette, and her brother, Albert, were deported in 1941 from Cologne to the Riga ghetto in German occupied Latvia. In September 1943, they were deported to Kaiserwald concentration camp. Johannette died of starvation in ...

  11. Leica Standard model E camera used by US soldier and liberator

    1. Ralph M. Kopansky collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn545912
    • English
    • a: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 5.625 inches (14.287 cm) | Depth: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) b: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Diameter: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) c: Height: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm)

    Leica Standard model E camera used by Captain Ralph M. Kopansky during his service as a US soldier in Europe from 1944 – 1945. This rollfilm camera was designed as a basic, but high quality model upgrade from the earlier, very popular Leica I. On September 22, 1941, Ralph, an Army reservist, enlisted for active duty. Following Japan’s December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered World War II. In 1943, he received intelligence training and was assigned to the XIII Corps as an Assistant Intelligence Officer. In 1944, Ralph’s Corps was deployed to Europe. The Corps train...

  12. Flake of mica collected from Theresienstadt by a German Jewish factory worker

    1. Ansbacher family collection

    Thin flake of mica collected by Selma Ansbacher from the mica separation facility at Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, in German-occupied Czechoslovakia, where she was forced to work between fall 1942 and May 1945. During four 8-hour shifts, 250 women worked at a time at long tables and used specially designed flat knives to split the stone into paper-thin sheets for various industrial applications. In September 1942, Selma, her husband, Ludwig, and her daughter, Sigrid, were deported from Frankfurt, Germany to Theresienstadt. Initially, Selma worked as a group leader in the kitchen, peelin...

  13. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, belonging to a German Jewish woman

    1. Ansbacher family collection

    Yellow, factory-printed Star of David badge stitched to a backing fabric by Selma Ansbacher and worn at all times in public by a family member in Frankfurt am Main, Germany after a September 1, 1941 decree that all Jews in the Reich six years of age or older were required to wear a yellow star badge. The star was sewn onto outer clothing and contributed to the stigmatization and control of the Jewish population following Hitler’s rise to power in 1933 and the passage of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935. Before the war, Selma’s husband, Ludwig, owned a fabric store in the small town of Dinkelsbühl...

  14. Israel

    Location filming of the desert landscape, cemeteries, the city of Jerusalem, and life at the seashore in Tel Aviv, Israel for SHOAH. FILM ID 3611 -- Tel Aviv. Bor de Mer. Prieres Dizengov People milling about the seaside in Tel Aviv. Camera pans out to show more people on the beach and cars parked on the grass. Two armed soldiers walk by and smile at the camera. 01:01:38 Man holds clapper indicating camera roll 85. People fishing, children look at the camera filming them. Camera pans over beach and shore. Camera focuses in on a mother talking to her young son, then out over the sea and coas...

  15. Model crematorium II – Birkenau Sculptural model of gas chamber and crematorium #2 at Auschwitz-Birkenau

    White, plaster of Paris, 1:15 sculptural model of Crematorium II and a gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II) killing center, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and created between 1989 and 1992 by Mieczyslaw Stobierski. “Model crematorium II – Birkenau” illustrates the entire process that killed 1.1 million people at the Auschwitz camp complex. While the model is technically accurate in the architectural construction, Stobierski employed more creative interpretation with the figures. This sculpture is one of three replicas of a model he originally made i...

  16. Synagogues and Jewish businesses in Paris; summer camp for children

    The facade of a synagogue in Paris' 18th Arrondissement. Daily life in the surrounding bustling neighborhood, signs of many businesses include French and Hebrew script. Trash fills the gutters and cars and horse-drawn carts share the street. Scenes of an outdoor flea market at the nearby Porte de Clignancourt. Two uniformed soldiers march through the market. A view of the Sacre-Coeur basilica rising above the rooftops of the neighborhood. 01:02:32 Children on a beach at a summer camp on the Ile de Ré, off the coast of La Rochelle, in France. Their fists raised, interact with filmmaker Rober...

  17. Holocaust commemorative ribbon worn by a Latvian Jewish survivor

    Holocaust commemorative plastic ribbon worn by Esther Lurie issued in 1963 by the Ghetto House Fighter's Museum to be worn at Kibbutz Lohame ha-Getaot. Esther, a professionally trained artist, originally from Liepaja, Latvia, settled in Palestine in 1934. She was visiting her sister in Kovno (Kaunus), Lithuania, in summer 1941 when it was occupied by Germany. She was confined to the ghetto and had to create artwork for the Germans. She also, at the request of the Jewish Council, dedicated herself to recording the daily life of the residents. In July 1944, the ghetto was liquidated. Esther w...

  18. Protocols of the Elders of Zion: (The Story of One Forgery) Book discrediting “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” written by a Russian Jew Istoriya odnogo podloga

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Book written by Jacques Delevsky and published in Berlin, Germany, in 1923, which discredits the antisemitic publication, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. Delevsky was the pseudonym used by Yakov Lazarevich Yudelevsky, a Russian Jewish émigré to France, who wrote one of the first Russian-language books identifying the “Protocols” as a forgery. He was a writer, scholar, and socialist-revolutionary, who became a leader in his political movement after emigrating from Russia. The “Protocols”, originally written in Russian in the late 1800s, is a fabricated, antisemitic text that has been ...

  19. Jacob and Bela Gutman photographs

    1. Jacob Gutman collection

    The collection consists of five photographs relating to the experiences of Jacob and Bela b. Milstein Gutman in 1941 in the ghetto in Radom, Poland; two photographs of the Gutmans' wedding on January 29,1946, at the DP camp in Mittenwald, Germany; and a portrait of Bela smuggled by her from Blizyn concentration camp to Jacob who was working at the KZ "Truppen Wirschafts Lager der Waffen SS" in Wałowa, Poland The portrait of Bela was smuggled to Jacob behind a small, round mirror contained in a plastic case, the method that they used to send letters to each other. Jacob sewed the photo into ...

  20. Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl papers

    1. Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl collection

    Contains correspondence, camp vouchers, identification cards, certificates, court documents, and diary fragments relating to the imprisonment of Josef Kohout at Flossenbürg concentration camp (persecuted as a homosexual); attempts by his parents, Josef and Amilia Kohout, to visit him in the camp; his participation in a death march and liberation by American troops; and the reversal of criminal charges against him after World War II.