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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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...

  5. Drafting kit with 18 drawing implements used by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Ina Felczer collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn34276
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) c: Height: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Width: 3.750 inches (9.525 cm) d: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) e: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.748 cm) f: Height: 2.877 inches (7.308 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) g: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) h: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) i: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) j: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) k: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) l: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) m: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 1.880 inches (4.775 cm) | Depth: 0.120 inches (0.305 cm) n: Height: 1.620 inches (4.115 cm) | Width: 0.380 inches (0.965 cm) o: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) p: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) q: Height: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) r: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm) s: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm)

    Drafting box and supplies carried by 10-year-old Ina Felczer on a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] to Leeds, England, in late June 1939. Before the war, Ina lived with her parents, Victor and Hannah, in Berlin, Germany. Both were Polish Jews who had lived in Berlin since the 1920s. Victor was a chemist, and Hannah co-owned a dressmaking shop. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany, and authorities throughout Germany quickly began suppressing the rights of Jews and boycotting their businesses. In the late 1930’s, Victor lost his job, and Hannah’s shop was...

  6. Red and black plastic cigarette holder used by a Czech Jewish refugee

    1. Frank Meissner family collection

    Cigarette holder used by Franz Meissner. Frank, age 16, left Czechoslovakia in October 1939 because of the increasing Nazi persecution of Jews as Czechoslovakia was dismembered by Nazi Germany and its allies. With the encouragement of his family, he left for Denmark with members of Youth Aliyah, a organization that helped people to emigrate to Palestine. In 1943, the Germans began to deport all Jews from Denmark. Frank was warned that the Gestapo was looking for him and he was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden. He had been receiving weekly letters from his family, even after their deport...

  7. Plaid handkerchief monogrammed HG given by Hermann Goering to an American guard at Nuremberg

    1. Herbert C. Durkee collection

    Handkerchief embroidered HG and given by Hermann Goering to Herbert C. Durkee, an American guard at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, between August 1945 and January 1946. Herbert guarded Goering and helped him control his drug dependency to paracodeine. Goering gave Durkee the handkerchief, one of his last personal possessions, in appreciation of Durkee’s kindness. During the war, 2nd Lt. Durkee was a platoon officer in a field artillery unit and fought in France. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. In August, 1st Lt. Durkee was transferred to se...

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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...

  10. 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...

  11. My Struggle Wedding edition of Mein Kampf with slipcase confiscated by a British soldier and German Jewish emigre

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn555443
    • English
    • 1939
    • a: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) b: Height: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) | Width: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)

    Wedding presentation edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf with slipcase acquired by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the start of World War II. Norbert was ...

  12. UNRRA selected records AG-018-026 : Poland Mission

    Consists of the Central Registry-Subject Files: correspondence and cables; reports of the office of the Chief Mission Welfare and Repatriation Division; financial documents of the Department of Finance, and reports and correspondence of the Departments of Supply. Records relate to welfare of displaced persons, child care and maternal welfare, movement of Jewish children to France and Belgium, 1944-1949; repatriation from Germany; welfare activities of the International Student Service, Save the Children Fund, Unitarian Service Committee, Quakers and other organizations.

  13. Hohner Imperial IIA accordion and case carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn521020
    • English
    • 1938-1939
    • a: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Depth: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) b: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)

    Imperial IIA small piano accordion and case belonging to Hilde Anker, 13, who took it with her on a Kindertransport from Berlin to Great Britain on June 12-14, 1939. Hilde's sisters, Eva, 17, and Dodi, 15, were also sent away by their parents, Georg and Gertrud, on the same Children's Transport. In 1933, Hitler's Nazi regime implemented policies to persecute the Jewish population. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in early November 1938, Georg decided the family must leave. The girls applied for spots on the Kindertransport and George's brother Leo in England agreed to look after them. Eva was...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. Victor Bienstock papers

    The Victor Bienstock papers document the pre-war and wartime work of journalist Victor Bienstock, as he served as an overseas correspondent for the Overseas News Agency, a subsidiary of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The collection contains materials relating to the on-the-ground coverage of wartime events from various locations (London, Cairo, Rome, and France) during World War II, with a particular focus on stories related to Palestine, refugees, and the fate of Jews in Nazi occupied lands. The Victor Bienstock papers contains travel materials; ephemera; correspondence; diaries; an unpubl...

  17. Cross of Merit medal, ribbons, and pins awarded to a Dutch Jewish soldier, Prinses Irene Brigade

    1. Jack and Hedi Justus Grootkerk family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn47134
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • a: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) b: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) c: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) d: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) e: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Depth: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm)

    Kruis van Verdienste [Cross of Merit] medal, ribbon, and presentation box, two ribbon bars, and a gold bar pin awarded to Jack Grootkerk, a Dutch Jewish soldier in the Prinses Irene Brigade, Dutch Free Forces from September 1942 to September 1945. The Brigade was formed in England in 1941 by the Dutch government in exile and Dutch Army personnel. The unit wore British battledress uniforms with Dutch insignia. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded the Netherlands. In December 1941, Jack was told to report for forced labor in Germany. He and his brother Erich fled to France and Spain, and were int...

  18. 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...

  19. 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 ...

  20. Royal Welch Fusiliers economy issue cap badge worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Royal Welch Fusiliers economy issue badge worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. As World War II progressed, a shortage of brass, considered a strategic metal, led the British army to replace traditional brass cap badges with plastic economy ones. This change resulted in the conservation of a large quantity of brass for critical wartime use, such as munitions. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger s...