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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Polish

  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, 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.

  2. Andrássy family collection

    Consists of correspondence, agreements, meeting minutes, and notes related to the ownership and management of the Friss Ujság newspaper in Budapest between 1940-1944, and the purchase of the Kincses Ujság newspaper in Budapest between 1941-1944. Many of the documents relate to the sale of the Friss Ujság from the Zolnay family (who were Jewish) to Count Imre Andrássy, and Andrássy's payments to Lászlo Zolnay. Also includes documents, 1943-1944, related to the newspaper's purchase of extensive amounts of wine to serve as a future distraction to Russian troops; family history about Count and ...

  3. German soldiers return from WWI

    German soldiers return to Berlin from World War I. Different views of the soldiers marching in the streets. CU, soldier kisses a little girl. HAS, marching, a vendor hands something to the soldiers.

  4. O.7.cz- Documentation regarding the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechia), mainly during the Holocaust

    O.7.cz- Documentation regarding the Jews of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechia), mainly during the Holocaust In the Sub-Record Group there is documentation regarding Jewish youth movements and sports associations that were active before World War II, documentation concerning anti-Jewish legislation from 1939-1944; official documentation about the work of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration and pertaining to the employment of Jews; newspaper clippings on the subject of Jews in the Economy, 1938-1943, documentation regarding Jewish communities, documentation concerning the function of the Jewi...

  5. US troops in Occupied Italy

    Shots in harbor, uniformed men. On small boat, rowing boats around. In cave (Blue Grotto, Capri?). On boat, American flag. Shots of land. Sailing boat. 01:03:06 underexposed shots. Garden, flowers, sailors. 01:04:06 Destroyed buildings, military vehicles. Children and military. Beach. 01:05:24 Military playing baseball. "2nd Depot Headquarters" title. Red cross van, military barracks/tents. 01:06:57 Filming in vehicle. Pans of railway, buildings, landscape, river. 01:07:53 On ship, can see land, soldiers. 01:10:05 On shore with soldiers. 01:10:17 (black and white) Ruins, land strip. In plan...

  6. Wehrmacht troops; military demonstration

    Includes handwritten slates in German. Uniformed German soldiers with helmets lined up for review. An officer inspects a rifle. Another view of the troops in the street. Small groups of Wachkommandos march ahead in a courtyard. Another group marches away, relieved from their duties of watching the barracks, with civilians in the streets behind. CU of a sign, "8. (M.G.) Komp. Inf. Regt. Goettingen" affixed to Barracks 3 with two soldiers at the entrance. Soldiers at target practice (mixed dress from WWI and new Wehrmacht outfits). The first man introduced as Sergeant Schmitz, followed by Pri...

  7. William Sharp collection

    The collection consists of drawings created by William Sharp. Associated with PM (New York, N.Y.) newspaper, printed between 1940 and 1948.

  8. Liberation special exhibition "Testimony" monitor

    "Testimony" monitor with interviews exhibited as part of "Liberation 1945" at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from May 9, 1995 to May 8, 1996.

  9. The New York Times (New York, New York) [Newspaper]

  10. Poster collection

    The collection consists of two posters: one is a French propaganda poster and the other is an anti-Nazi poster created by Ben Shahn protesting the decimation of Lidice, Czechoslovakia.

  11. Marilyn and Sefton Tallman collection

    The collection consists of four medals.

  12. Carl and Flora Wertheim collection

    The collection consists of 2 suitcases used by Carl and Flora Wertheim when they emmigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938.

  13. Kevin Williams collection

    The collection consists of Nazi party pins, a Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, and a leaflet.

  14. Egon J. Salmon collection

    The collection consists of a wardrobe trunk with three hangers relating to the experiences of Egon J. Salmon and his family before and during the Holocaust, when they were passengers on the ill fated voyage of the MS St. Louis, and later left Belgium for the United States in 1940.

  15. Edith Bredhoft collection

    The collection consists of 3 charcoal drawings.

  16. Ernst and Hildegard Israel collection

    The collection consists of a passport, and identification card, a photograph, an invoice, buttons, and a marriage certificate from Shanghai, China.

  17. Prayer book

    Jewish prayer book carried by Goddle Chudi while umprisoned in several camps before entrusting it to Isaac Neuman in 1945 in Ebensee. It was given to Goddle by his father before the war. It was probably charred during the Nazi book burning party in Ebensee. A Tikkun is "an unpointed copy of the printed Pentateuch used for practice in reading the Scroll of the Law," in other words a printed copy of the Five Books of Moses (the Torah) used to practice Torah readings.

  18. Max Haber collection

    The collection consists of 2 tallitot.

  19. Malcolm Vendig collection

    The collection consists of 2 badges found by Malcolm Vendig at Dachau concentration camp post-war.

  20. Muzeum Okregowego W Koninie collection

    The collection consists of two paintings from the Kolo synagogue and six tombstone fragments from the Turek Jewish cemetary.