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  1. 75 mm artillery shell found in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto

    1. Muzeum Wojska Polskiego collection

    Remains of a 75 mm artillery shell, found among ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in the 1960s. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Warsaw on September 29, after subjecting the city to heavy artillery bombardment. Warsaw had the largest Jewish population in Europe before the war. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3 square mile Jewish ghetto and required over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to relocate there. Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, approximately 265,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka killing cent...

  2. 75 mm artillery shell found in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto

    1. Muzeum Wojska Polskiego collection

    Remains of a 75 mm artillery shell, found among ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in the 1960s. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and Warsaw on September 29, after subjecting the city to heavy artillery bombardment. Warsaw had the largest Jewish population in Europe before the war. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3 square mile Jewish ghetto and required over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to relocate there. Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, approximately 265,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka killing cent...

  3. 75th anniversary pin for the Fire Department of Ladenburg acquired by a US soldier

    1. Harold B. Goldberg collection

    Tinnie commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Fire Department of Ladenburg in Bavaria, Germany, brought back from the war by Harold Goldberg, an American soldier who served in Europe, circa 1945-1946, during and after World War II. It displays the department's medieval helmet and ax emblem joined with a swastika.

  4. 8 porcelain bowls and 3 matching plates received as wedding gifts and recovered postwar by a Czech Jewish woman

    1. Käthe Steiner Stecklmacher collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn77840
    • English
    • a: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) c: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) d: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) e: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) f: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) g: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) h: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) i: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) j: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) k: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)

    Eight porcelain dinner bowls and 3 porcelain dinner plates with a black floral pattern received by Käthe Steiner upon her marriage to Fritz Stecklmacher on March 25, 1928, in Prostejov, Czechoslovakia. Käthe gave the tableware to non-Jewish neighbors for safekeeping before her July 1942 deportation to Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp. She recovered it when she returned to Prostejov in May 1945. Käthe, Fritz, their two daughters, Maud, age 13, and Karmela, age 8, and her parents Max and Steffi Steiner, were sent to Theresienstadt on July 2, 1942. Max died on September 17. Fritz committed sui...

  5. 814-oji karo lauko komendantūra

    • Feldkommandantur 814
    • Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius

    Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius was established in July 1941 and existed untill July 1944. The institution was under the authority of Der Kommandant in Litauen des Wehrmachtsbefehlshabers Ostland. The Commandant handled almost all military and civilian affairs, except for the political. Also supervised activities of the committee of the citizens' of the Vilnius city and the area and activities of the Lithuanian auxiliary police.

  6. 814-oji karo lauko komendantūra

    • Feldkommandantur 814
    • Military Field Commander Number 814 in Vilnius

    This collection contains "the 4 July 1941 announcement by S. Žakevičius, chairperson of the Lithuanian citizens' committee of the city of Vilnius and regions concerning the obligation to wear special badges, the introduction of a ban for Jews to leave home after a definite hour and other documents restricting Jews' civil rights" (Galina Žirikova, Lietuvos centrinio valstybės archyvo fondai: holokausto Lietuvoje tyrimo šaltinis (The Collections of the State Archive of Lithuania: a Source of Research on the Holocaust in Lithuania), Vilnius: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydų Muziejus, 2011,...

  7. 84 discharged bullets and 1 casing found at a mass execution site

    1. The Yahad-In Unum Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    84 discharged bullets and one casing, with the contemporary archeological bag used for transport, recovered in 2005 by Yahad-In Unum at a mass execution site in Khvativ, a small village in the Lvivska province of Ukraine. A casing contains propellant and primer, and holds the bullet in place. Several of the casings have a headstamp marking the German manufacturer, location, year, batch, and material. In September 1939, following Germany's invasion of Poland, the Lvivska province was occupied by the Soviet Union pursuant to the terms of the German-Soviet Pact. In late June 1941, Germany laun...

  8. 89th Infantry Division badge

    1. David Frohman collection

    Badge belonging to David S. Frohman, a member of the 89th Infantry Division.

  9. 9 discharged bullets and 12 discharged bullet casings recovered postwar at a mass execution site

    1. The Yahad-In Unum Collection at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

    9 discharged bullets and 12 discharged bullet casings recovered by Yahad-In Unum in 2005-2006 while excavating mass execution and grave sites in Ukraine uncovered by their research into the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany against the Jewish population. A casing contains propellant and primer, and holds the bullet in place. One casing has a headstamp marking a Czechoslovakian manufacturer, location, and date. In September 1939, following Germany's invasion of Poland, areas of eastern Poland, now in Ukraine, were occupied by the Soviet Union pursuant to the terms of the German-Soviet Pac...

  10. [<> Vichy-government]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains a programme of a lecture hold on thursday, May 29th, 1941. The speakers where Mr. Hedges and Mr. Anderson. Mr. Hedges was speaking about the Vichy-government and Mr. Anderson about the economic imperalism, in reference to the German economic expansion. The Vichy regime (French Régime de Vichy) refers to the government of the État français ("French state") after the military defeat against the German Reich recognized by the ceasefire on 22 June 1940. With the constitutional law of 10 July 1940, the Vichy regime replaced the Third French Republic. It existed until 1944 and w...

  11. [Anti-Nazi Publications II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains three documents published by Anti-Nazi networks between 1934 and 1945. The first document is one issue of the journal “Defensa-Revista de Cultura militar” published in Mexico in 1943. It contains articles on questions of military history and strategy, among them one article by Karl Doberer, a German writer who opposed the Nazi Regime and went to exile in Great-Britain. The second document is a typewritten newsletter published by the German Anti-Nazi Delegation to the World Youth Council (“Deutsche Anti-Nazi Delegation zum Weltjugendrat”) in London in September 1945. The ne...

  12. [Anti-Nazi Publications V]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The assortment of files contains newsletters, newspapers, and leaflets published by various Anti-Nazi networks and political groups in Germany and Europe between 1933 and 1945, as well as two postwar publications. Four issues of the “IVKO-Nachrichten”, the newspaper of the “Internationale Vereinigung der Kommunistischen Opposition (IVKO)”, were published in 1934 and 1935 deal with the frictions among the international Communist groups and their effort to form a strong Anti-Nazi opposition. The 1937 edition of the newspaper “Die Schiffahrt” was published by the „Organ des Gesamtverbandes der...

  13. [Basic Information regarding the Analysis of Germany]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains assessments and basic, statistical as well as geographical, political, economic and anthopologial data regarding Germany and its analysis. The file contains deliberations of Wilfrid Israel regarding the political system and also thoughts on post war reconstruction and restructuring of government offices as well as their respective responsibilities.

  14. [Communist Pamphlets, Germany] 1920-1932

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains nine leaflets published in Hamburg/Germany between 1920 and 1932 by various Communist groups and parties. The four leaflets published by the “Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union/Freie Arbeiter-Union between 1920 and 1930 in Hamburg are mostly on the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, SPD) and its support of the German military campaign in the First World War, on the traditional trade unions’ strike policy, on the impossibility to join other groups of the far Left and the economic crisis of 1920. The four leaflets of the Communist Party of Ge...

  15. [Conduct of Wehrmacht Officer Robert Koch, Commander of the city of Meaux, France during the WWII German Occupation]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains letters, testimony and personal correspondence of former Wehrmacht commander of the French city of Meaux, near Paris, Robert Koch, allegedly clearing Koch from any wrong doing during the time of the German occupation of France from 1940-1945. The file also contains examples and statements made by other Germans, referred to as "Persilscheine", "washing" former Nazi perpetrators clean of any crimes or wrong doing.

  16. [Confiscation of Jewish belongings]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains several documents dealing with regulations and procedures against Jews by the Nazi military commanders in France. Information and telegrams about confiscations of Jewish property and aryanizations are given. For example the confiscation of a Renault van that was previously owned by the Weil-Klinsburg company. Also the assets of Mr. Weinberg were confiscated. The goods, however, were released again after the confiscation in order to ensure the supply of the civilian population. Furthermore a correspondence concerning the Laissez-Passer (a diplomatic travel document) of Edua...

  17. [Court and denaturalization preceedings regarding Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

  18. [Court and denaturalization preceedings regarding Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

  19. [Court and denaturalization preceedings regarding Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...

  20. [Court and denaturalization preceedings regarding Feodor Fedorenko, Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains extensive material in the form of court proceedings regarding the war criminal trials and subsequent denaturalization and deportation of Feodor Fedorenko, a former Ukrainian SS guard at Treblinka extermination facility in occupied Poland. Fedorenko is accused of having actively participated in the massmurder conducted in Treblinka and testimony alleges his presence and participation in shootings of numerous victims. The Fedorenko trial was the 1st trial that sought to deal with US citizens who participated actively in the Holocaust and later came to the United States under...