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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  7. VE Day in Germany

    US Army soldiers receiving the news that the war is over (staged). Liberators listening to field radio and learning about the end of the war (staged). Men jumping for joy and drinking liquor. Men removing tarp from supply and covering cannon, writing in white chalk: "7 May 1945 So Long Berlin, Hello Tokyo." In small German town, mayor telling group of women and children that the war is over. People/child walking and bicycling. Refugees and displaced persons carrying belongings and lumber. German farmers working in field. Victory bonfire, pilot in FG drinking liquor. Pilot approaching airpla...

  8. Good-bye Mr. Ghoya pamphlet

    Consists of one pamphlet entitled "Good-bye Mr. Ghoya," published in Shanghai in September 1945. The pamphlet was a denunciation of Sgt. Kano Ghoya, the Japanese ex-vice chief of the Stateless Refugees' Affairs Bureau in Shanghai, and includes seven cartoons by Friedrich Melchior. Ghoya adminsitered the Hongkou (Hongkew) district of Shanghai. During World War II, 20,000 Jewish refugees traveled to live in the Hongkou district, which became known as the Shanghai ghetto. The pamphlet ridicules Mr. Ghoya, labeling him "The King of the Jews" and mocks his cruelty.

  9. Susan Camis papers

    The papers consist of three photographs, two letters, a telegram, and two certificates documenting the Kollmann family during the Holocaust. Includes a letter and photograph sent to Susan Camis from Anna and Ernst Kollmann, Susan Camis's great aunt and uncle, who fled to Shanghai, China, from Vienna, Austria, in 1939; a telegram from Anna and Ernst Kollmann prior to their immigration to the United States in 1949; a photograph of Herta Kollmann, Susan's great aunt, with her mother; a photograph of her with her husband, Walter, Susan's maternal grandmother's brother; a birth certificate issue...

  10. North Staffordshire Regiment cap badge

    1. Alfred and Meta Mayer Levy family collection

  11. Fiction film about a German immigrant becoming a US citizen

    16mm film "This is America" Part of a series produced by Frederic Ullman Jr. in the 1940s. This episode, "New Americans," which dates from around the late 1940s, focuses on a German immigrant (or refugee) and his quest to become a United States citizen. Depicted are his arrival in the city via Ellis Island, meetings with immigration officials, and attempts to find housing and a job. He is led to the National Refugee Service where he finds friendly assistance. He perseveres and is eventually sworn in as a United States citizen.

  12. German newsreel excerpts: Rommel's funeral; German retreat from Finland; Romanian POWs; Siegfried Line

    "OSS-316 Export" Reel 1, Part 1, German amphibious training in Northern Europe. Part 2, Gen. Rommel inspects Atlantic Wall defenses and traels in a scout car in North Africa. Tearful civilians observe Rommel's funeral cortege passing. Gen. Runstedt places Hitler's wreath on the bier. Part 3, the German retreat from Finland: refugees and military supply trains move along the Arctic Highway. Crates of civilian and miltiary equipment are piled on a railway platform and loaded into freight cars. Part 4, antitank guns are fired and German tanks advance in Romania's Grosswardein sector; Romanian ...