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  1. Tall white wooden wardrobe used at Dzierzazna concentration camp for children

    White upright storage cabinet used to store goods at Dzierzazna prison camp for Polish children in a district of Łódź, (Litzmannstadt), Poland, circa March 1943 - July 1944. The prefabricated wardrobe was manufactured in Germany and put together using assembly instructions. Dzierzazna opened on January 12, 1943, as a subcamp of the Polish Juveniles Camp of the Security Police. The SS had a Lebensborn (Fountain of Life) program that urged SS and Wehrmacht soldiers to have at least four children, in or out of wedlock, to grow an elite Nazi Aryan population. By 1939, non-Aryan mothers were acc...

  2. Der Sohn : ein Drama in füng Akten [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  3. Book

    Insert in book concerning the study of eugenics.

  4. Adelaide Davidovitch passport

    The passport was issued to Adelaide Davidovitch by the French Consulate in Prague, Czechoslovakia, giving her permission to enter Mexico, leaving from France.

  5. Book

    Book concerning the study of eugenics.

  6. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Close up view of a pile of corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  7. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  8. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  9. Inert Zyklon B, spent Gypsum pellets, from Majdanek concentration camp

    Inert, Gypsum-based, spent Zyklon-B pellets, recovered outside a crematorium at Majdanek killing center in Poland, following the liberation of the camp by the Soviet army in July 1944. Developed and patented in 1924 by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Schädlingsbekämpfung mbH (German Corporation for Pest Control, a subsidiary of Degussa), Zyklon-B was originally produced as a pesticide and rodenticide. It was created by infusing liquid hydrogen cyanide (also known as prussic acid) into one of three carriers: wood fiber disks, diatomaceous earth (trade name: Diagriess), or gypsum (calcium sulfate, ...

  10. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of corpse lying next to a rail track; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  11. SA.: Mann in Front (Munich, Germany) [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  12. The Woman, After Whom One Longed For Die Frau, Nach Der Man Sich Sehnt [Book]

    Book banned in the Third Reich.

  13. Jewish Religious Service

    MS, religious service in a synagogue. Rabbi and cantor singing, praying with open prayerbooks. CU, Rabbi (back of his head) with ark open before him. Camera pans the congregation, singing. MCU, cantor standing before large, arched windows, glare of light through window. Cantor seen mainly in profile, while singing turns occassionally toward and away from the camera.

  14. The Striker, Number 34, August 1936, 14th year 1936 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    [Edited by Julius Streicher. The cover story concerns the proceedings against Philipp Schmulewitz of Magdeburg on conspiracy charges.]

  15. SA.: Mann in Front (Munich, Germany) [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  16. Book

    Medical book

  17. Brick rubble recovered from the Warsaw Ghetto

    Brick rubble from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. The rubble was excavated from the site of what is now the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, located among the ruins of the former Crown Artillery Barracks. The Barracks housed the ghetto post office, and at one point was the seat of the Judenrat. The monument was commemorated on April 19, 1948, and was the second monument, following a modest memorial unveiled in April 1946. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3-square-mile Jewish ghetto and forced over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to...

  18. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of three men standing in front of an oven door with a corpse on a stretcher; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  19. Gute kameraden [Book]

    Children's school book

  20. Book

    Book banned in the Third Reich.