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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Phyllis Shaw collection

    Collection of photographs taken in a sanatorium in Sweden, depicting liberated Jewish women originally from Rumania and Hungary. Among them is Regina Pollak (donor's mother) born on August 10, 1925. The women were liberated from Bergen-Belsen and gave each other photographs as mementos. Includes two photographs of "Ester" with her family taken in Rumania before the mass deportations, dated February 15, 1944. Other photographs show Josef Ganz (donor's father), born February 21, 1919, who survived Mauthausen and Dachau concentration camps. Regina survived Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen c...

  2. Bramson family photographs

    Consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Bramson family, originally of Ostrov, Russia, taken between 1923-1956. The bulk of the photographs are portraits of the Bramson family, taken in Berlin, Germany; Leningrad, Russia (now St. Petersburg); and Ostrov, Russia. One photograph depicts Alexander Bramson who was a part of the French resistance during the World War II. He is standing in the center between Isaac Bramson and Eujenk Yofe Bramson. Also includes photographs of Dr. Leon Bramson, who founded the World ORT Union in 1921.

  3. War Office: Directorate of Military Operations and Intelligence, and Directorate of Military Intelligence; Ministry of Defense

    The collection consists of military intelligence documents from the War Office related to the final days and death of Adolf Hitler, together with documents related to allegations that Hitler was still alive. Also contains documents from the War Office related to war crimes committed by German officers.

  4. Ilse Lichtenstein Meyer collection

    Consists of correspondence, official documents, and photographs relating to the Holocaust experiences of Ilse Lichtenstein Meyer, originally of Volkmarsen, Germany. Includes correspondence written while Ilse was in the Netherlands, as well as photographs of the various children's homes in which she lived. Also includes a notebook in which Ilse wrote recipes for a class on housework at a children's home in Utrecht and a handkerchief which was given to her as a Hannukah present while she was in Rotterdam Kloster.

  5. Martin Weinberg collection

    Collection includes immigration documents, identification cards, German passports issued in 1937 and 1938 (Deutsches Reich Reisepass), American naturalization certifications, school and bank notices, official and private correspondence, clippings, handwritten notebook and photographs relating to the Weinberg family. Papers illustrate the Jewish family life before World War II in Germany and in the United States after the immigration, between 1938 to 1991. Mina and Rayner Goldfish sponsored the Weinberg family immigration process.

  6. Newsreel showing League of Nations, Japanese troops, Anschluss

    Reel 2 shows a League of Nations meeting and, later, Japan's delegates leaving after resigning. Japanese troops enter Shanghai. Shows fighting in China and Japanese air raid. Shows peaceful Japanese scenes and ceremonies at a baseball game. Hirohito reviews troops. Mussolini addresses a throng; Italy invades Ethiopia; Haile Selassi rallies his people. An Italian representative speaks in Japan. Germany marches into Austria (March 1938).

  7. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: comedians

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Map; comedians (Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich).

  8. John E. Hart letters

    The John E. Hart letters consists of four multi-page letters written by John E. Hart, a member of the 121st Infantry division, United States Army, between April 8 and June 2, 1945. The letters, which are each written over multiple dates, describe capturing German towns and guarding captured enemy soldiers. The letter dated May 6th describes what he witnessed at the liberation of an unknown concentration camp.

  9. Hermann Katz papers

    Contains various documents relating to Hermann Katz during the Holocaust. Among the topics covered in the documents are Katz's emigration attempts prior to the Holocaust, his imprisonment at Westerbork concentration camp, and his liberation from Westerbork.

  10. Documents from the Zentrale Staatsarchiv Potsdam

    Consists of selected documents from the Zentrale Staatsarchiv in Potsdam concerning various Holocaust subjects. Among the topics mentioned are antisemitism, Jewish refugees from Germany, laws for identification of Jews, and transport lists for Terezin and Auschwitz.

  11. Germans building the WWII defensive line; Hitler tours the Siegfried Line

    Reel 2, German laborers working on the Siegfried Line stop for lunch. Concrete ""dragon's teeth"" antitank obstacles, barbed wire entanglements and blockhouses along the Rhine River, an observation tower, and farmers working in a field nearby. A diagram shows the interlocking field of fire from points of the Siegfried Line. German troops march and enter a tunnel into fortifications. Hitler tours the area.

  12. Watercolor portrait of a man created in Theresienstadt

    Watercolor portrait created by Julie Wolfthorn in Theresienstadt in 1943.

  13. Panzer Division in city square and setting up field tents

    Reel 1: 00:00:01 German Panzers (Panzerkampfwagen IV) in a city plaza. Civilians in the street. Destroyed buildings. Tanks traveling through the Russian countryside. Burned out truck/tank. Soldiers waiting in a forest. Russian civilians traveling by horse and wagon, including CU. Team of horses pulling a Howitzer out of a river. Russian POWs running with German guards on horseback. Camouflaged tank and Howitzer. Reel 2: 00:04:32 Soldiers of the 3rd Panzer Division setting up camp. Camouflaging vehicles, setting up tents. Checkpoint sign. Soldiers walking around, typing, playing with dog, re...

  14. Photograph of refugees in Sweden, ca. 1945

    The photograph depicts Ilse Schindler (wearing a checkered kerchief) and others anxiously awaiting their first meal minutes after their arrival in Malmö, Sweden, where they were brought after liberation on May 2, 1945, from Flensburg, Germany, (Flensborg, Denmark), as part of the Count Folke Bernadotte action.

  15. German officer & von Manstein questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    01:14:31 (Munich 339) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 10, 1946. Unidentified German officer is interrogated by Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence (latter is not seen). 01:16:13 (Munich 343) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, no date. Former Field Marshal von Manstein is cross-examined by US prosecutor Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor. Von Manstein is specifically questioned about the Einsatzgruppen in his area of operation, he testifies that he was not directly concerned with them and did not know what they were doing.

  16. Czarny family papers

    Travel documents, photographs (71), and correspondence relating to the Czarny (also spelled Charney or Chorney) family in Baranowicze, Poland (present day Baranovichy, Belarus). Includes pre-war photographs, corresopndence between Mojzesz Czarny and his family in Poland, including following his immigration to the United States, as well as correspondence sent from his family after the Soviet occupation of eastern Poland, and travel documents related to his immigration. Mojzesz Czarny immigrated from Poland to the US in 1938 leaving behind his parents Leib and Henia, and his two sisters Rywa ...

  17. Paul Hirschfeld collection

    Collection of eight photographic postcards documenting the reburial of Holocaust victims and forced confrontation by local residents; inscribed "Naila, Nov. 1945" in black ink on verso; some also stamped as enlargements by photographer. The postcards were brought back to the United States after the war by Paul Hirschfeld (donor's father), who had fled Vienna in June 1938 and returned to Europe as a member of the US Army and OSS investigator.

  18. Prosecution at Nuremberg Trial; courtroom

    (Munich 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 30, 1946. Thomas Dodd and Brig Gen Telford Taylor of the American prosecution seated in the courtroom. Taylor speaking to the court. Dodd seated at prosecution table. Pan to Russian prosecution table showing General Rudenko. Taylor speaks of the ruthlessness of the German army, saying "this was not soldiery, this was savagery." MS, French prosecutor AC de Ribes summing up. MS, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko summing up. HAS, lawyers, prosecutors, and others filing out of the courtroom after session.

  19. Main technology office, NS Reich administration of the association of German technology Selected records of the Hauptamt für Technik, Reichswaltung des Nationalsozialistischen Bundes Deutscher Technik (NSBDT) (NS 14)

    The records contain correspondence with different offices of the Reichswaltung des Nationalsozialistischen Bundes Deutscher Technik (NSBDT) and documents about the education/propaganda-work. The collection also contains records related to prohibition of Jews in the BDT; list of Jewish engineers; technical publications by Jewish publishers; and some files mention Jewish participation in various fields on engineering or science.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Ship en route to South America

    SS Brazil (tendered by the US Maritime Commission to North and South American diplomats, bankers, and businessmen to initiate the "Good Will Service" to South America). On deck playing, in swimming pool, sunbathing. 01:23:16 People sit around table with sailor. 01:23:59 Games. 01:25:24 Standing around pool, diving. 01:26:40 Breckinridge Long, George Messersmith, and other diplomats relaxing on deck, talking. 01:28:35 Practicing a play on Neptune deck. 01:30:39 Fooling around. 01:31:18 Eating, buffet.