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  1. Gordon Witte photograph collection

    Consists of an original silver "Kodak" film canister containing a wound strip of photographic negatives depicting a large Nazi rally at which Hitler was in attendance. The negatives were found by PFC Gordon E. Witte, a member of the Company D of the 335th Infantry of the United States Army while he was in Pevestorf, Germany, at the end of the war.

  2. Bergen Belsen reunion photograph

    Black and white image of large banquet dinner; banner reading “[Bergen-Belsen; in Hebrew characters] / 1945-1961 / Bergen-Belsen reunion” hanging behind dais; captioned in lower right corner “Bergen-Belsen / reunion / Hotel Delmonico May 7, 1961.”

  3. Robert E. Magnusson collection

    Program guide: “International Military Tribunal / Nurnberg Germany / 1945-1946”; inscribed by Lt. R.E. Magnusson inside front cover; Floor plan of the International Military Tribunal; Two (2) passes to the Visitors’ Gallery at the International Military Tribunal; for sessions 341 and 342; pass for 341 signed on verso by Robert E. Magnusson. Materials acquired by 2nd Lt Robert Eugene Magnusson (donor’s father), who served as a member of the OSS in Europe during WWII. He attended the IMT in Nuremberg on July 19, 1946.

  4. Nazi Party Labor Day pin given to a US soldier by Hermann Göring

    Nazi Party Labor Day 1934 pin, likely given to Lieutenant Jack Wheelis by Herman Göring during his imprisonment at Nuremberg from 1945-1946. Labor Day (also known as May Day) takes place on May 1 to celebrate laborers and the working classes. In April 1933, after the Nazi party took control of the German government, May 1 was appropriated as the “Day of National Work,” with all celebrations organized by the government. On May 2, the Nazi party banned all independent trade-unions, bringing them under state control of the German Labor Front. Soon after the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945,...

  5. Clarence M. Sullivan, Jr. collection

    Collection of 12 photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation. Images include photos of the Dachau death train and other scenes found in the camp; dated April-May 1945. Collection also contains one newspaper clipping from "The Field Dispatch" published for the 20th Armored Division, dated 29 May 1945, and containing an article lauding the 27th Tank Battalion for their recent performance; and a roster of the 27th Tank Battalion of the 20th Armored Division. Materials were brought home from the war by Clarence M. Sullivan, Jr., of Milwaukee, W...

  6. William L. Ward, Jr. photograph collection

    Collection of 23 photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation. Images include photos of the Dachau death train and prisoner clothing; dated April-May 1945.

  7. Arnold Mechur papers

    Consists of documents and a photograph related to Arnold Mechur's pre-war schooling and training as a tailor in Berlin, Germany. Also includes a 1937 photograph of three boys, Mechur's immigration documents for his 1940 emigration from Europe to Cuba, his naturalization papers for the United States, and a program noting his participation in a 1974 art show in southern Florida.

  8. Bar of soap preserved by Czech Jewish concentration camp survivors

    Bar of soap brought home by returning concentration camp survivors to the temple in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, for proper burial. The soap was used in the concentration camp and the inmates believed that it was made from human fat, although this was not true. The soap was preserved by Ivan Kalina's father, a leading members of the Kosice congregation, who took it home for safeguarding and as a memory of the Holocaust. Ivan, 13 at the war's end, and his family had fled from Kosice to Hungary, after the 1938-39 collapse of Czechoslovakia. The family survived in hiding in Budapest using falsified...

  9. Protective pass issued by Royal Swedish Legation, Budapest, 26 August 1944

    One protective pass ("Schutz-Pass") issued by the Royal Swedish Legation in Budapest, for Cecilie Radó, on 26 August 1944. The pass asserts that the above-named person is protected by the Royal Swedish Legation, and has the right to travel to Sweden under the terms of repatriation authorized by the Swedish Foreign Ministry. The pass contains stamps and a signature from the staff of the legation, but is missing the photograph of Radó.

  10. Solomon Zynstein papers

    Consists of photographs, scrapbook pages, loose documents, and newspaper clippings mainly related to Solomon Zynstein's life and work in the Bamberg displaced persons camp, particularly his work directing Yiddish Theater in Bamberg. Includes photographs, programs, and newsclippings about performances, as well as documents related to Zynstein's work as a journalist, including brief notes on the International Military Tribunal (the Nuremberg trials).

  11. Charles Deibel collection

    This collection relates to an attorney with the United States military who served as a defense attorney at the Dachau War Crimes trials, which were run by the Judge Advocate General’s Department of the United States Third Army. Charles B. Deibel, Jr. served in this role between 1945-1946, spanning the trials of personnel from the Dachau, Mauthausen, and Flossenbürg concentration camps. The collection includes original photographs and photographic negatives of images taken during the trials and candid photographs of Deibel and the rest of the defense team. The collection also includes intere...

  12. Kurt Kastan correspondence

    Letters written on concentration camp form stationary from Kurt Kastan to his wife Rosa (Rosel) and their daughters in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland). The letters are primarily written from the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps, between February 1941 and February 1942.

  13. Florence Hodel papers

    The Florence Hodel papers consists of photographic portraits, printed reports, correspondence, and clippings related to Hodel’s work as a member of the staff of the War Refugee Board and her post-war work on the International Monetary Fund. The portraits include graduation portraits of Hodel, portraits of Hodel and her sisters ca. wartime, portraits of Hodel taken in 1945, and portraits, ca. 1960, of Hodel in her office at the International Monetary Fund. The War Refugee Board materials include a transcript of a meeting between Moses Leavitt of the Joint (JDC) and John Pehle, Florence Hodel...

  14. Donald Douglas papers

    Consists of research material, commemorative material, oral history interviews, and audiocassettes produced and collected by Dr. Donald Douglas, a professor at Wichita State University, who organized Holocaust remembrance events in the Midwest beginning in the 1970s. The collection includes material related to Yom Hashoah events from 1979-2000; research materials related to the World War II letters of Harold Porter, a member of the US Army; and transcripts of oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors who settled in Kansas, which formed the basis of Douglas's manuscript, "Survivors in...

  15. United Nations War Crimes Commission records

    This collection contains the records of the United Nations War Crimes Commission including the following: charge files consisting of formal charges submitted to the Commission, lists of war criminals, suspects, and material witnesses; summary minutes of meetings; documents, reports, and related material; correspondence; reports of national military tribunals, including US military courts; transcripts of proceedings and documents of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo trials); international prosecution section documents; as well as index cards of war criminals, 1942-1...

  16. Morris and Lala Fishman papers

    The Morris and Lala Fishman papers consist of identification papers, photographs, and printed materials documenting Lala Fishman’s displaced persons status after the Holocaust, her life in the Hasenhecke and Möncheberg displaced persons camps, Morris Fishman’s work as JDC director of the displaced persons camps in the Kassel, Passau, and Regensburg regions, and their marriage. Identification papers consist of Lala Fishman’s D.P. Identification Card, War Department dependant wife identification card, temporary travel document in lieu of passport, and Israel Bureau of Immigration card, as wel...

  17. Agudas Achim Congregation photograph collection

    Photo album: containing black and white photographs taken by the US Army Signal Corps. Contains a variety of images including but not limited to: the reburial of victims of Nazi persecution by German citizens in Nuremberg, food distribution, social and sporting events, behind the scenes at Nuremberg prison and the Palace of Justice, scenes from the Nuremberg Ordnance Depot, a soup kitchen for local children, Army MPs, Nazi war criminals, and visiting dignitaries; all image captioned on verso; dated 1945-1947; in English.

  18. Gertrud Oppenheimer collection

    Collection of documents, manuscript, photographs and prayer book relating to Leo and Gertrud Oppenheimer and their families, who were deported in October 1940 from western Germany to Camp de Gurs in southwest France in 1940. Gertrude worked there as a nurse and had access to members of her family. In May 1941 Leo Oppenheimer was transferred to Camp Les Milles, close to Marseille, Gertrude and Leo received permits to move to a transit camp in Marseille. In January 1942 Leo was transferred to a forced labor camp in Augagne, and in July he came to Marseille directly to a hospital. In August 19...

  19. Identification tag found by a US soldier near Auschwitz

    Clyde W. Dooley, a member of the U.S. occupying forces, found the tag near the Auschwitz Concentration camp.

  20. Records of the commune Boguszyce of the county Rawski Akta gminy Boguszyce powiatu Rawskiego (Sygn.1101)

    This collection contains the registration book (Tom V) of the commune Boguszyce of the county Rawa Mazowiecka. Included is registration of Jewish and Polish inhabitants from the villages: Kaliszki, Zarzecze, Łochów, Małgorzatów, and Podkonice Duże. Two Jewish families are registered in this book: Luftman's family, and Majercholc's family.