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Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Selected general correspondence of the British Consulate in Panama (FO 288)

    Contains general correspondence from the British Consulate in Panama relating to illegal immigration into Palestine.

  2. Hitler Youth sports festival 1944 (color)

    Large, green banner with a black bird holding a sword and a hammer in its claws; there is a white swastika on its belly; in red lettering: “N.S.D.A.P. Hitler-Jugend Gebiet Oberdonau. Gebiets Sportsfest 1944.” Rows of girls in dirndls march past the sign. Swastika flags hang from a clock tower. A boy with an armband rides on a horse in a circle. Girls in short white dresses throw medicine balls and hoops as well as bowling pins. Several boys ride horses in a field. Girls try high jumping while a crowd watches. Boys and girls try to long jump. Boys try shotput. Some of them wear white tank to...

  3. Invasion of Poland; Germans & Russians meet; occupation

    Summary: The German viewpoint of events prior to and during the Polish campaign. Reel 7: shows masses of abandoned equipment and Polish POWs. German and Russian units meet. Hitler poses in front of besieged Warsaw. German armor and infantry enter the city after its capitulation.

  4. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  5. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  6. War Crimes Trials: Pohl Case

    (Munich 648) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 4 (Pohl Case), Verdict and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany, November 5, 1947. MSs, CUs, various defendants enter court to hear sentencing by the Tribunal. Included are: Oswald Pohl, August Frank, George Loerner, Erwin Tschentscher, Max Kiefer, Franz Eirenschmalz, Karl Sommer, and Hans Hohberg. Judges file into courtroom; spectators and defendants conversing during recess.

  7. Calisthenics; German refugees; Hitler walking his dog; German troops advance; wounded

    Reel 1, Part 1 shows tuna fishing off the Spanish coast. Part 2, youths dig irrigation channels in Serbia. Part 3, athletes participate in mass calisthenics and sports events in Breslau. Part 4, wrecked U.S. bombers. Part 5, German refugees eat at a field kitchen, are given clothing, are evacuated by boat and train, and are cared for at a hospital. Part 6, Hitler walks his dog and stops to talk with Himmler and Mannstein. Shows Hitler, Jodl, Goring, and Keitel in conference. Part 7, German troops move up on the Russian front. A Russian attack is repulsed with artillery, rocket launchers, an...

  8. Collection of underground prints and anti-Hitler flyers Zbiór podziemnych druków i antyhitlerowskich ulotek (Sygn. 128)

    Collection of various German prints (27) and Polish anti-Hitler flyers (84) published and distributed during the war.

  9. County Command of the State Police in Opatów Komenda Powiatowa Policji Państwowej w Opatowie (Sygn. 1186)

    Reports and information from police informers relating to political, social and labor organizations, correspondence and various records related to Communist activities among Jews in Opatów.

  10. "War Crimes Trials Nurnberg Germany Nov. 20, 1945-"

    Program: "War-Crime / Trials / Nurnberg / Germany / Nov. 20, 1945-"; 7 loose pages; program contains biographies of the defendants and a floor plan of the courtroom; dated November 1945; in English; brought home from the war by Maj. Fred Brown (donor's father) who attended the trials.

  11. DPs assemble at train station; supplies/ration; staging area; paratroopers in US

    DP Stateside Bound, Butzbach, Bremen staging area, Germany, October 12, 1948. Several families are oriented by a female official. The Blumenbach, Rogouste, and Homik families stand at windows of train which will take them to Bremen. MS, Army capt, J L Streicher, and IRO movement officer Abolins, speaking at railroad platform. People assembled at railroad station to see relatives and friends off. Bread is unloaded from boxes at the railroad platform. CU, UNRRA written on wooden box. CU, railroad tickets used for bread ration. DPs are issued bread rations. Man taking bread away in box; man pl...

  12. British Pathé Gazette -- Lord Runciman arrives in Prague to help settle differences

    Various shots show British politician Lord Walter Runciman arriving in Prague by train, accompanied by Lady Runciman and his staff. A large crowd waits at the railway station to welcome him. Commentator explains Lord Runciman is here to try to solve the differences between the Czechs and the Sudetan Germans. Lord and Lady Runciman are seen getting into their car, followed by numerous photographers, and arriving at their hotel or residence.

  13. Lichta family papers

    The collection documents the postwar experiences of Holocaust survivors Itzhak and Judith LIchta in several displaced persons camps. Included are photographs and an album from Föhrenwald, Reichenhall, Bergen Belsen, and likely Milbersthofen-Am-Hart displaced persons camps; pre-war photographs of Itzhak’s family in Falenica, Poland and Judith’s family in Oszmiana, Poland (present day Ashmyany, Belarus); pre-war membership cards for a sports club Itzhak belonged to; and a Zionist Organization of London Shekel receipt.

  14. Municipal National Committee of Velké Meziříčí Městský národní výbor Velké Meziříčí

    Records pertaining to the post-war restitution of Jewish property.

  15. Sentencing Frank, Frick, Streicher, Funk, Schacht, Doenitz at Nuremberg Trial

    Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MLS, and MS, prisoners as verdict against Hans Frank is read. Frank is guilty under counts three and four [screen goes black for a few seconds]. There is a dispute with Himmler mentioned about the type of legal system in Germany. Shots of defendants as French Justice speaks about Wilhelm Frick (in French). Frick is guilty under counts two, three, and four, providing the political history, then saying that he knew about the systematic murder of old, weak, sick people, but did not take action to stop it. Justice Geoffr...

  16. Three clips from the propaganda film about the 1934 Reich Party Day

    01:05:50 to 01:06:04 Huge crowd of Hitler Youth at the Nuremberg stadium. They salute Hitler, who stands with Hess, Goebbels, and others, including Viktor Lutze, head of the SA. 01:06:07 to 01:06:20 Tracking shot of Hitler Youth boys as they stand at attention and listen to Hitler speak. 01:06:23 to 01:06:38 Extreme CUs of the faces of Hitler Youth boys as Hitler speaks.

  17. Commissioner of Police : Search Service (Group No. 1353)

    Lists of missing Jews, concentration camp prisoners, and various materials concerning concentration camps.

  18. Ben Shahn poster with an image of a hooded man protesting the Nazi destruction of Lidice

    Poster created by Ben Shahn for the US Office of War Information as a response to the Nazi-led annihilation and destruction of communities throughout the Czech Republic, including Lidice. It also protests the retaliatory measures taken for the attempted assassination by Czech resistance members of Reinhard Heydrich, director of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, under the Nazi occupation.

  19. Jacques Schweitzer collection

    Photographs, documents, class notebook related to Jacques Schweitzer (originally Jacques Swiczarczyk). Also includes his beret and pants from his service in the Forces Navates Francaises Libres and wartime French currency.

  20. German naval officer testifies about Doenitz's orders at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 505) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 14, 1946. MSs, the witness, former German naval officer Karl Heinz Moehle, relates the orders of Doenitz, that, in particular, U-boat commanders should not save survivors of vessels that sunk and that U-boats should not sink ships too close to the shore as that would enable many crew members and passengers to be saved. LSs, rear views, Doenitz's attorney Otto Kranzbuehler questions witness and makes a statement to the Tribunal.