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  1. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  2. Jews in Warsaw, 1938

    Children and women in park. Lots of people and baby carriages.

  3. Reis family papers

    Contains a photograph portrait of large group of people, inscribed on verso in ink: "I / People from Kielce (Dad's Home City) / after war / This picture is from Kielce Poland before the pogrom, they / all were kilt (sic) in the pogrom / 1946 Kielce," created in Kielce, Poland, early 1945; and an identity card issued to Lejzor Rajz (donor's husband), August 1945, in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, confirming that he had been a prisoner in the Buchenwald and Dachau camps.

  4. Gateway to Victory: Normandy beach

    Allied convoys land on the Normandy beaches. Gens. Eisenhower and Montgomery and Adm. Sir Bertram Ramsey shown.

  5. Jews in Warsaw, 1938

    People exiting large building. Quick view, women with baby carriages on road.

  6. Gateway to Victory: D-day invasion

    Aerial and amphibious assault on the beaches of Normandy.

  7. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MS, three defendants: Genzken, Gebhart, Blome, as Gen. Telford Taylor reads the indictment of the Medical Case. HS defendants in dock. H Pan from dock to Taylor at podium. He describes experiments on Roma and a jaundice epidemic. Views of audience (out of focus). Taylor delivers from the podium about sterilization. 03:05:00 "In the sterilization experiments conducted by the defendants at Auschwitz, Ravensbrueck, and other concentration camps, the destructive nature of the Nazi medical p...

  8. Ticket used to advertise the boycott of Jewish businesses

  9. Calendar with a photo of Chaim Rumkowski printed in the Łódź ghetto

    Calendar printed by Feivish Oszerowicz in 1944 in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland. It is two-sided calendar and has a photograph of Chaim Rumkowski.

  10. Sketch of bust used to hide papers for Centre Americain de Secours

  11. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  12. Dodd presents evidence at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. HSs, MSs Thomas J. Dodd of the American prosecution, tells of the great mass of evidence presented during the trial and the criminal tendencies of the Gestapo, SA, SS. HS Col. Andrus, Provost Marshal, speaking to prisoners in dock at end of session. HS prisoners conversing after the court adjourns; Col. Andrus is standing at the left.

  13. Yellow metal badge with a brown Croatian letter Z to identify a Jew

  14. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  15. Jewish children in Warsaw, 1938

    Children in pairs walk down street. Women surround them. Boys play game in street.

  16. Tombstone fragment recovered from a destroyed Jewish cemetery by a Holocaust survivor

    Tombstone fragment with engraved Hebrew text recovered long after the war by William (formerly Wolf) Ungar from the Jewish cemetery in Rimaliv, Tarnopol District, Ukraine, formerly eastern Poland. Wolf was mobilized into the Polish Army when Germany invaded in September 1939. He was wounded, captured, released, and then returned to Lwow (Lviv, Ukraine), now under Soviet control. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union and occupied Lwow. Wolf was made to continue teaching at the technical school because the Germans needed Aryan youth trained to work in defense plants. In 1942, the Ger...

  17. Bar soap

  18. Goering interrogated at Nuremberg Trial re. Jewish Question

    (Munich 58) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 20-22, 1946. LS, prisoners in dock during questioning. Robert H. Jackson is heard interrogating Hermann Goering about which Nazis were more "radical against the Jews" than he was. Goering answers in German and indicts fellow Nazis. 01:10:08 Hess gestures with fingers and hand up towards Goering as he testifies. 01:10:52 Prosecutor asks "What about Heydrich?" Goering replies, making reference to Heydrich and Himmler. LS, courtroom with Goering in the stand guarded by 2 MPs. 01:11:33 Jackson states, "Let us go through the public acts wh...

  19. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  20. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.