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  1. UNRRA selected records AG-018-040 : Office of the Historian

    Selected files of the UNRRA Office of the Historian. Consists of publications and monographs: UNRRA monthly reviews, the Facts and Figures, Operational Analysis Papers, the Director General's Report to the Central Committee-Supply Operations, Documents of the Central Committee of the Council, Indexes to the Council Documents, United Nations Committee on UNRRA, the President Roosevelt's message to the First Council, reports to the Allied Governments, various agreements; Subject files: agreements, Richard Brown's diary of trip with congressmen, reports, correspondence, displaced persons files...

  2. Allied Military currency for France, 100 franc bank note owned by a Hungarian Jewish concentration camp inmate

    1. Larry Gladstone family collection

    Allied Military currency, 100 franc note, that belonged to Ladislav Glattstein. The currency was issued jointly by the US and Great Britain prior to the invasion of France in June 1944. Ladislav, 18, and his family lived in Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (Mukacheve, Ukraine), when it was annexed by Hungary in fall 1938. In 1942, Ladislav was conscripted into a Hungarian forced labor battalion. He was sent to Nagybana labor camp, and, in 1944, to the Ukraine and Balf labor camp. In January 1945, Ladislav was transported to Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, and in March, via death march to G...

  3. Political cartoon depicting terrorism in Europe created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn617438
    • English
    • 1930-1943
    • overall: Height: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm) | Width: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)

    Political cartoon depicting European terrorism as a giant, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while writing for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1930-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919). These policy changes pr...

  4. Gold bracelet made from melted-down coins owned by an Austrian Lutheran émigré

    Gold bracelet designed by Elizabeth Deutschhausen and commissioned by her parents before she fled Vienna, Austria in 1939. The bracelet was made using 98.6-percent gold from Austrian ducats (coins), which were melted-down and repurposed into panels depicting different Alpine flowers. Elizabeth and her husband, Lutheran Pastor Wilhelm Deutschhausen, were living in Vienna when Germany annexed Austria during the March 1938 “Anschluss.” Many in the Austrian Protestant Church, which included Lutheranism, supported the creation of the “Reich Church” in Germany and a “nazified” version of Christia...

  5. Political cartoon depicting world peace perched on a swastika created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn619027
    • English
    • 1930-1943
    • overall: Height: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm) | Width: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) pictorial area: Height: 14.125 inches (35.878 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm)

    Political cartoon depicting world peace as a dove perched on a swastika, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while writing for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1930-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919). These pol...

  6. White, monogrammed tablecloth belonging to the family of a German Rabbi

    1. Rabbi Georg and Martha Wilde collection

    Finely woven, linen tablecloth, embroidered with the initials of Martha Wilde, wife of Rabbi Georg Wilde, who fled Germany in 1939. Rabbi Dr. Georg Wilde attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), and received a doctorate in 1901. He married Breslau-born Martha Spitz, and the couple moved to Magdeburg. In 1906, Georg began serving as rabbi for the largest of Magdeburg’s three congregations, the Synagogen-Gemeinde zu Magdeburg. During World War I, Georg served as a field rabbi and presided over both Jewish and interfaith burials. While in Magdeburg, G...

  7. Monogrammed silver napkin rings owned by a German Rabbi

    1. Rabbi Georg and Martha Wilde collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn619190
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Diameter: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) b: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Diameter: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)

    Pair of silver napkin rings, engraved with the initials of Martha and her husband Rabbi George Wilde, who fled Germany in 1939. Rabbi Dr. Georg Wilde attended the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), and received a doctorate in 1901. He married Breslau-born Martha Spitz, and the couple moved to Magdeburg. In 1906, Georg began serving as rabbi for the largest of Magdeburg’s three congregations, the Synagogen-Gemeinde zu Magdeburg. During World War I, Georg served as a field rabbi and presided over both Jewish and interfaith burials. While in Magdeburg, Georg...

  8. Large doll with long blond hair given to a former hidden child by her father when reunited postwar

    1. Elizabeth Lusthaus Strassburger collection

    Large doll with a gingham dress, acquired later, given to 7 year old Elzbieta Lusthaus as a gift from her father Edmund when they were reunited after four years apart in September 1945 in Ancona, Italy. It was the first doll Elzbieta ever owned. The family was separated when the war began in September 1939 with the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany. Dr. Lusthaus had enlisted in the Polish Army and was with his parents in Stryj when he was captured by the Soviets and sent to a prisoner of war labor camp in Siberia. Elzbieta, her mother, and her maternal grandmother Sophie Schiff were confin...

  9. Political cartoon depicting King Christian X of Denmark created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection

    Political cartoon depicting King Christian X of Denmark, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while he was the Sunday editor and foreign affairs columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1936-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming the restrictions imposed by the Treaty ...

  10. Political cartoon depicting Joseph Goebbels created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection

    Political cartoon depicting German Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda Joseph Goebbels, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while he was the Sunday editor and foreign affairs columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1936-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcom...

  11. Political cartoon depicting Joseph Stalin created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection

    Political cartoon depicting Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while writing for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1930–1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919). These policy c...

  12. Political cartoon depicting Benito Mussolini created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection

    Political cartoon depicting Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while writing for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1930-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919). These policy ...

  13. Political cartoon depicting Éamon de Valera holding the Éire Constitution created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection

    Political cartoon depicting Prime Minister of Ireland Éamon de Valera, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while he was the Sunday editor and foreign affairs columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1936-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming the restrictions imposed...

  14. Political cartoon depicting Jawaharlal Nehru created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection

    Political cartoon depicting Indian politician and supporter of independence Jawaharlal Nehru, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while he was the Sunday editor and foreign affairs columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1936-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming th...

  15. Political cartoon depicting Chiang Kai-shek created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection

    Political cartoon depicting Chinese Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission Chiang Kai-shek, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while he was the Sunday editor and foreign affairs columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1936-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming...

  16. Political cartoon depicting Agustín Justo created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection

    Political cartoon depicting Argentinian President Agustín Justo (1932-1938), created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while he was the Sunday editor and foreign affairs columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1936-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming the restrictions im...

  17. Political cartoon depicting Prince Saionji Kinmochi created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection

    Political cartoon depicting former Japanese Prime Minister and the nation’s last elder statesman, Prince Saionji Kinmochi, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while he was the Sunday editor and foreign affairs columnist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1936-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist ...

  18. Political cartoon depicting Lázaro Cárdenas created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection

    Political cartoon depicting Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while writing for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1930-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919). These policy change...

  19. Political cartoon depicting Maksim Litvinov created by an American journalist

    1. Albert E. Carter collection

    Political cartoon depicting Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maksim Litvinov, created by American journalist Albert E. Carter while writing for the Chattanooga Times Free Press in Tennessee, from 1930-1943. He often punctuated his articles with cartoons depicting global news and international leaders. Albert, a college senior, was working as a reporter for the Chattanooga Times when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in January 1933. During the mid-1930s, Germany followed a revisionist policy aimed at overcoming the restrictions imposed by the Treaty of Versailles (1919). ...

  20. Marcus family papers

    1. Harry and Luba Marcus family collection

    The Marcus family papers include correspondence, a family tree, and photographs relating to Erich and Thea Marcus and their children, Harry and Lilo, originally from Prenzlau, Germany. The family fled to Cuba before immigrating to the United States circa 1941. Correspondence largely includes personal correspondence to Erich from friends and family, including Susie and Lotte, as well as letters from organizations including the Congress Refugee House and New York Associate for Jewish Children. Also included is a family tree and photographs of Erich, Thea, and their family.