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  1. U.S. soldiers at Berchtesgaden; marching in Munich; boarding trains with locals to go home

    Driving in the countryside around Munich (1945), now in the area around Berchtesgaden. Beautiful shot of the Alps mountains while driving over a river. Soldiers stop alongside the road and enjoy a moment in the sun. A convoy pulls up to the wreckage of Hitler's headquarters at Berchtesgaden. The camera looks down from the mountainside onto a large group of military vehicles gathered in the valley below. Mountain scenes taken from the Eagle's nest. 01:31:03 Soldiers hike in the mountains, then have a picnic on the hood of a jeep (1945). Views of the Isaar River in Munich. CU, archway with in...

  2. Sketchbook of drawings created postwar by a former Polish soldier, POW, and refugee

    Notebook of color sketches created by Benedykt Filipiak postwar about his experiences in Poland and Germany during the war and in Germany and the United States after the war. Benedykt, 15, was a Polish Catholic youth attending the Polish Officer Cadet College when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. He went into active service, was captured, and sent to Stalag XIB. He escaped and joined the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa.) as a resistance fighter. From August-October 1944, he fought in the Warsaw Uprising and was captured by the Germans during the failed battle to liberate Warsaw....

  3. Esther Kliger-Shlamovitch photograph collection

    Collection consisting of 19 photographs; one photograph is adhered to scrapbook page and three photographs are adhered to scrapbook page by tape

  4. Kaethe Wells collection

    Consists of material related to the Schohl family, including correspondence and documents illustrating Max Schohl's efforts to secure affidavits for his family's emigration from Germany to the United States and the efforts of his cousin, Julius Hess. Included in the collection are correspondence between Max and Julius, documents and identification papers for members of the Schohl family and photographic prints.

  5. Olav Brunvand collection

    Contains a note written clandestinely on on scraps of paper by Olav Brunvand (donor's uncle), a Norwegian journalist arrested and imprisoned in the Rendsburg prison in Germany. The note was written using materials snuck in by Hiltgunt Zassenhaus, who visited over a dozen prisons regularly in her capacity of censor. Zassenhaus agreed to sneak written pages out of the prison for Brunvand and buried them in her garden, retrieving them after the War in 1945 and returned them to Brunvand. Olav was liberated in 1945 in Denmark.

  6. Joseph interpreting the Pharoh's Dreams Lovis Corinth etching of a man in a loincloth and shackles addressing the Pharaoh and his consort

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41816
    • English
    • 1894
    • overall: Height: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) | Width: 23.375 inches (59.373 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)

    Drypoint etching created by Lovis Corinth in 1894 depicting Joseph as shackled slave in a loin cloth, standing before Pharaoh. He is gesturing as he explains: The dream of Pharaoh is one; God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do. Genesis 41: 25-33. Corinth created the print for his first graphic series, Tragicomedies, plate five of nine etchings, one of only 20 that he printed. The series theme involved the use of unusual details to add a farcical element to great events, such as the almost caricatured figure of Joseph, usually depicted as handsome. Corinth was studying anatomy at...

  7. Baran family papers

    Collection of documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of the Baran family in pre-war Vilna, Poland; Nancy, France; hiding near Vilna; and after the war in Łódź, Paris, and Israel during the years 1929-1950.

  8. Colette Flake-Bunz collection

    Consists of a photograph of Colette Flake-Bunz, originally of France, which was taken after liberation when she was 15. Also includes a wartime photograph of Marie-Therese Maunier with her daughter, Genevieve Maunier-Valentini, and a wartime copyprint of Henri and Simone Voisin with Henry's mother, Albertine Voisin. The Maunier and Voisin families hid Colette Flake-Bunz during the war, saving her life.

  9. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection

    Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps’ early social work in Meadville, PA, and their humanitarian and rescue work in World War II Prague, Czechoslovakia; Marseille and Pau, France; and Lisbon, Portugal. Materials also document Martha Sharp’s postwar campaign for Congress, activities in Israel, continuing work for the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia, family and personal life, and work with the Cogan Foundation and other charitable agencies. The collection includes Martha’s unpubli...

  10. Charles Jordan case (ÚDV-76/VvK-95). Investigation of Charles Jordan's death by the Office of the Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism (ÚDV)

    Consists of the records of the investigation of the death of Charles Jordan, the executive vice-chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, who was found drowned in Prague’s Vltava River on August 20, 1967.

  11. Irmgard Baum papers

    Consists of a transcript of an oral history of Irmgard Baum; a Jahrzeits book; a passport issued to Baum; poems; a memoir written by Baum's Uncle Ernst; and photographs of Baum's experiences before World War II

  12. Ronald Cohen collection

    Program for Die Zauberfloete [The Magic Flute] performed under the auspices of the "Reichssender Berlin" the Nazi-controlled radio. Stated at the bottom of the program is the sentence "JUDEN haben Keinen Zutritt!" [Jewish not admitted]; dated December 13, 1937; Four (4) Photographic postcards of three of the performers: Willi Domgraf Fassbaender, Erna Berger, Herbelt Alsen, and a New Years card of Tiana Lemnitz bearing her photograph.

  13. Koch family papers

    Consists of personal letters; Swiss protective passes (Schutzpasses); a report to the police about crimes committed by the Arrow Cross in Budapest; and other documents related to the Koch family.

  14. Patricia Concannon collection

    Consists of a photograph of women in the process of having their hair forcibly shaven and a photograph of the now-bald women standing and talking. The donor believes that the photographs were taken in France in 1945, and the women were likely being punished for collaboration with the Nazis.

  15. Jews hanged in town square near Minsk

    A group of Jews who have been hanged and left on display in a town square near Minsk. A sign posted on the gallows reads: (in German) "Diese Juden haben gegen die deutsche Wehrmacht gehetzt" and (in Russian) "Eti zhidy agitirovali protiv germanskogo pravitel'stva". [These Jews have agitated against the German Army!] Panning shot along the eight or so corpses, all of whom wear large Stars of David on their coats. CUs of some of the faces (slowed down and retouched?)

  16. Amos Lavyel collection

    Contains a copy of a diary kept by Dr. Amos Lavyel (Markus Leibel; donor’s late husband) from January 1, 1942 until July 18, 1943, before and during his service in the Anders Army; includes five maps. Also includes original photographs and copyprints depicting the Leibel family in Tarnów before the war; doctors and nurses in a Jewish hospital in Tarnów; a birthday party for Henryk Leibel; Jewish soldiers during WWI; an image taken during Dr. Lavyel’s studies in medical school in 1947; and poatwar images of Tarnów.

  17. Janina Zimowodski collection

    Collection of documents and photographs of the donor during World War II with her rescuers Marussia and Leokadia Navwrocka, with whom she lived. Includes photos of Janina receiving her first Communion; a baptism certificate in name of "Janina Nebel" (donor's family name); a vaccination certificate issued to "Hanie Nawraw"; a post war medical prescription; two telegrams; and two letters, one written to Marussia and Regina by the donor and the other to her sister.

  18. Kurz family collection

    The Kurz family collection consists of six photographs depicting Salomon Kurz and his children: Izak, Moshe, Helen, and Abraham, all from Kosice, Czechoslovakia. Also included are eight documents relating to Izak Kurz and his father after the war in Regensburg, Germany; Vienna, Austria; and Karlove Vary, Czechoslovakia, dated circa 1945-1951.They survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and other concentration camps.

  19. Maria Seidenberger papers

    Collection of photographs of Dachau prisoners and death marches on Münchenerstrasse in Hebertshausen, Germany; and documents concerning Maria Seidenberger's post-war history in Prague

  20. Ginny Helgeson collection

    Consists of five enlarged Signal Corps photographs taken by Claude Edward McGraw, a member of the United States Signal Corps. The photographs depict survivors demonstrating the use of the crematorium or photographers after the liberation of Dachau; Red Cross tents at Mauthausen; and prisoner portraits, including one of a Soviet prisoner with his name and prisoner number tattooed on his chest. Also includes one smaller photograph with caption describing the image of the reburial of bodies taken from a mass grave in Wetterfield, Germany.