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  1. Ceramic figurine of Adolf Hitler with pincushion

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn532855
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) c: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) d: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Ceramic figure of Adolf Hitler bending over with brown fabric pin cushion as his bottom. Includes original tag titled "Hotzi Notzi" and two pins with paper American flags; dated 1941.

  2. Prezydent Policji w Łódzi Selected records of the Police President Office in Łódź Polizeipräsident Litzmannstadt (Sygn. 891)

    The registration records of foreign nationals and personnel files of officers and other staff in the police headquarters in Łodź and a branch in Pabianice.

  3. Ceramic figurine of a skunk with Adolf Hitler's face

    Figurine of a skunk painted in black and white with the frowning face of Adolf Hitler and the words "Japan's Rising Sun" painted in gold lettering along the tail. There is also an image of a gold sun underneath the letters.

  4. Licco Haim and friends visit the beach

    AGFA 8 1940. Handwritten title "Sommer 1940 GÖSEKEN" (the Turkish name for the town of Obzor situated in southeastern Bulgaria where the Balkan mountains meet the Black Sea). A still image of the group of friends with their names: Fredy, Anny, Loli, Paula, Anny, Licco, Kete, Hans, Peter. 01:00:14 Title with 23 August 1940 date, "Waterlilies - Kamshia" (river in northeastern Bulgaria). A bearded man is filmed from inside a boat as he rows down a river. They pass other boats with friends. Lily-pads. CU, one boat filled with friends called "Bapha". CUs of friends. 01:06:49 [COLOR] Title with 2...

  5. Oral history interview with Ruth Rontal

  6. 51st Field Hospital at snowy campsite

    A snowy campsite near the mountains in winter (Belgium or Germany?). Men chop and dig at the frozen soil, while others play in the snow. Beatrice and a friend laugh.

  7. Lotte and Ellen Markiewicz correspondence

    Consists of Red Cross messages exchanged between Ellen Markiewicz, in London, and her mother, Lotte Markiewicz, in Berlin, between September 1940 and September 1941. The notes, which are necessarily brief, discuss welfare and were the only means of contact between Lotte and her daughter, who went to England as part of a Kindertransport. Lotte survived the war in hiding. Also includes a typed testimony, 1 page, in German, written by "Willi," a foreman in the factory where Lotte Markiewicz worked during the war, in 1961.

  8. Father Charles Coughlin correspondence and ephemera

    Letters and leaflets, sent by Father Charles E. Coughlin to listeners and supporters, 1931-1935. Includes four letters, either responding to listeners or form letters that were inserted with sermon texts or other items that listeners had requested from him. Also includes two membership application cards for the Radio League of the Little Flower.

  9. Galila Nagar photograph collection

    Contains two photos from the Eschwege displaced persons camp.

  10. February strike Februaristaking (Fond 254)

    This collection contains mainly reserch materials related to the Dutch February strike, 1941. Materials was collected by B. A. Sijes (Sijes) for his publication "De Februaristaking, 25-26 Februari 1941" ('s-Gravenhage 1954).

  11. Hugo Zulawski papers

    Consists of photographs, a photograph album, documents, and correspondence, owned by Hugo Zulawski, originally of Vienna, Austria. Mr. Zulawski immigrated to the United States in 1939 on a transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus (the "50 children" transport). Prewar, wartime, and postwar family photographs include those Hugo took while in the United States military (1944-1947) and images of his parents while they were at the Kitchener Camp in England. Documents include restitution paperwork for property confiscated in Poland.

  12. Selected records from the State Archive of Foligno

    Records concerning the discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Foligno.

  13. Selected records of the city of Mińsk Mazowiecki Akta miasta Mińska Mazowieckiego (Sygn.35)

    This collection contains materials related to social welfare, tributes and taxes on civilians (1940-1941), as well as information regarding sending people to forced labor in Germany, lists of real estate, workshops and manufactures belonging to Jews (from 1941), lists of Jewish inhabitants of Mińsk Mazowiecki (above the age of 14), announcements of the German authorities, documents related to the ghetto, post-war specifications on the so-called abandoned property, i.e. previously belonging to Jews. Documents from the pre-war period: indexes of the registers of inhabitants (1935-1939), the e...

  14. "As I Recall"

    Consists of one memoir, approximately 60 pages, entitled "As I Recall," written in 2009 by Albert Erlebacher, originally of Karlsruhe, Germany. In the memoir, he describes his childhood in Germany, deportation in 1940 to Gurs, transfer to Rivesaltes, and being removed from the camps by the OSE. He describes life in the Villa Mariana and Chateau de Chabannes OSE homes, crossing the Swiss border on foot, and his life in Switzerland. Also includes information on his post-war emigration to the United States and later educational, personal, and professional experiences.

  15. Dozia Altschuler Mehl photograph collection

    The Dozia Altschuler Mehl photograph collection consists of 11 photographs depicting the family of Dozia Altschuler in Ukraine, and the family of her husband Wolcio Mehl.

  16. 1949 Independence Day parade in Israel; family visit to the zoo

    Continuation of parade [in RG-60.1803 at 08:49 - probably 1949 Independence Day in Israel] with Israeli soldiers, a marching band, someone in the crowd holding an Israeli flag, airplane flyover, more defense forces. 12:19 Circular pan of harbor, clouds (Israel?). Moshe in suit steps down off of a ship. 12:50 Family members walk towards the camera, monkeys at zoo, children play on a swing. Women on patio, baby feeds a small dog and plays with children outside a home (probably in Israel).

  17. Rosanna M. Gatens photograph collection

    Collection of black and white photographs depicting victims and survivors found in the concentration camps immediately following liberation, and other scenes around the camp; includes images from Mauthausen concentration camp and it’s sub-camps; dated circa May 1945.

  18. Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR Związek Patriotów Polskich w ZSRR (Sygn.130)

    Selected records of the Union of Polish Patriots in the USSR (ZPP) and the Organizing Committee of Polish Jews in the Soviet Union Included are minutes, correspondence, personal files of organization activists and members, various name lists, newsletters related to the repatriation of the Polish population, statistical data on field work, regional and local units of the Union of Polish Patriots, memories, albums and photographs of Polish emigrants in USSR.

  19. Jewish quarter in Suwalki; Market in Filipow

    The Jewish quarter of Suwalki including Schul Gasse, the Big Synagogue of Suwalki. Market and Wesola streets with locals. The bi-weekly outdoor market in Suwalki. 00:03:02 Harold Brenner in dark jacket and hat holding birds with another young man. Pan, good CUs. 00:06:32 Herman, Lottie and Harold stand underneath the fishermen's stalls, conversing with the locals. Farmers bring in goods for the market by horse and wagon. An ice cream vendor's machine and a market stall containing horse shoes, wooden wash tubs, peat and logs for heating. 00:09:41 Livestock market scenes outside of Filipow. H...

  20. Bodies at Nordhausen

    At Nordhausen shortly after liberation in April 1945, pan across piles of dead victims, focusing on the body of a small child. Civilian men carry a body on a stretcher. Pan of destroyed buildings, as soldiers and Red Cross personnel oversee the camp. Personal effects and civilians preparing to bury bodies near the moat. Pan across bodies. Brief shot of a soldier taking a photograph with a still camera.