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  1. Atom bomb havoc

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 432. Release date, 09/10/1945. According to UN advance information: "Hiroshima-Atomic Bomb Target No. 1" When Col. Paul Tibbetts, Jr. winged his Superfortress over Hiroshima, that metropolis became the first target city for the new destructive terror--the Atomic Bomb. This single bomb, equal to 20,000 tons of TNT in explosive power, levelled 70% of the city, killed 126,000 and left acres of empty wastelands in the heart of a once thriving city.

  2. Felice Shekar collection

    Consists of seven original photographs from the liberation of Ohrdruf. Contains images of American soldiers witnessing victims, helping survivors, and one photograph of a crematorium.

  3. Book

  4. Filthy Jew Antisemitic cartoon by Fips of a Jew selling nude women in a shop window acquired by a US soldier

    Antisemitic cartoon by Fips (Phillip Rupprecht) taken from Julius Streicher's villa, Pleikershof, in Cadolzburg, Germany, by E.H. Mayer, a US soldier, in May 1945. Fips made the drawing in 1924 for Der Stuermer, the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper published by Streicher from 1923-1945. Fips was a well known antisemitic caricaturist for Der Stuermer from 1923-1945. Rupprecht was arrested by the US Army in 1945, tried by a German denazification court, and sentenced to six years hard labor. Streicher was tried by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, convicted, and executed per the...

  5. Album

  6. Bitter War on West Front (Gen. DeGaulle)

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 371.

  7. Oral history interview with David Faber

  8. Oral history interview with Gene Klein and Jill Klein

  10. Oral history interview with Morris Lang

  11. Werner Isenberg papers

    The Werner Isenberg papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting Werner Isenberg’s family from Dortmund, their emigration from Nazi Germany to South Africa and the United States, and relatives murdered in the Holocaust. Biographical materials include passports for Lina and Simon Isenberg as well as certificates required for emigration. This series also includes a list of relatives of Werner and Therese Isenberg from the Isenberg, Kleeblatt, Freund, Bendorf, Hainebach, Stahl, Kahn, and Levy families who were murdered during the Holocaust. The correspondence series pri...

  12. Muzeum Slovenskeho Narodneho Povstania records relating to Jews in Slovakia

    Relates to anti-Jewish policies in Slovakia, the Hlinka Guard, and other Holocaust-related topics.

  13. Leather ID bracelet with a copper tag with a prisoner number worn by a concentration camp inmate

  14. Oral history interview with Magda Blau

  15. Oral history interview with Mendel Nudel

  16. War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case), Nuremberg, Germany, October 15, 1947. Ohlendorf testifying about the number of persons his Einsatzgruppe D killed. Cross examined by US prosecutor James Heath. Musmanno rules that Ohlendorf's testimony from the International Military Tribunal regarding the number 90,000 victims stands.

  17. Gold colored patch with 2 triangles with a Reichsadler and the letters G L

  18. Ehren-Chronik photograph

    Ehren-Chronik (or "honor chronicle"). Printed text with reproduction half-tone prints and photograph album with copy prints adhered to pages accompanied by handwritten captions, material pertains to Nazi Party, volume bound with red cord; published by Friedrich Eber.

  19. National Socialist German Workers Party pin worn by a Party member

    National-Sozialisteische-Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("N.S.D.A.P.") National Socialist German Workers Party membership pin worn by SA Man.

  20. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 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.