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  1. Rampart "Szaniec"

    Szaniec (Rampart) was a weekly newsletter devoted to Poles in captivity. This collection contains articles about forced labor, the massacre of Polish intellectuals, resettlement, news from the front, and the German occupation of other countries.

  2. "Outpost" "Placówka"

    Contains copies of Placówka, a weekly newspaper for “the Polish village” published clandestinely in Warsaw in 1940. Topics include discussions of the war in general including war news in other theaters and U.S. efforts to build a war machine larger than Germany’s; the need for Polish farmers to retain their land at all costs; the efforts of the occupiers to substitute German and Soviet culture for Polish culture; Soviet deportations of Poles; a speech by the Pope; and plans for the postwar period (assuming the defeat of Germany), specifically that Poland should use German lands to solve agr...

  3. Harriet Postman correspondence

    The Harriet Postman correspondence documents Postman's unsuccessful efforts to assist Flora Hochsinger's immigration to the United States from Vienna. Letters include correspondence between Flora Hochsinger and Harriet Postman as well as between Postman and relatives, friends, and aid agencies Postman contacted for help, such as the Boston Committee for Refugees, B'nai Brith, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

  4. Photographic print of a grandfather and granddaughter

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613481
    • English
    • overall: Height: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) | Width: 10.940 inches (27.788 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.940 inches (25.248 cm) | Width: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a grandfather and granddaughter, Warsaw, ca. 1935-38.

  5. Samson family collection

    The Samson family collection contains correspondence between Esther Fluck, in Cheltenham, England, and her mother and sister, Amelia Samson and Marie Samson-Blik, while the latter were living in the Netherlands during the German occupation. The correspondence is mainly in the form of letters sent via the Red Cross, and cover the period between 1940 and 1944. Other correspondence includes letters from the British Foreign Office to Esther, dating from 1964-1966, and giving her instructions on how to collect reparations for the death of her mother at Bergen Belsen. The Samson family collection...

  6. Erna and Otto Stein family collection

    The Otto and Erna Stein family collection includes a German Cross of Honor for World War I Combatants, biographical materials and correspondence documenting the Stein family, their immigration to the United States in 1938, and their relatives’ experiences under Nazi rule in Neustadt an der Haardt, Nieder-Olm, Wiesbaden, and Mannheim.

  7. Vera Nussenbaum papers

    The Vera Nussenbaum papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting Vera Nussenbaum’s travel to England on a Kindertransport, her family’s efforts to emigrate, her uncle’s death in Sachsenhausen, and her mother, aunt, and grandmother’s deportation to Riga. The materials in this collection refer to Vera Lichawski, using the last name of Nusenbaum’s mother’s second husband. Biographical materials include a vaccination certificate, birth certificate, and questionnaire for the accommodation of foreign children for Vera Lichawski. The letters dating from 1938‐1940 are from V...

  8. Crematorium tag found by a US soldier in Dachau concentration camp after liberation

    Crematorium tag from Dachau concentration camp in Germany. The tag was picked up by an American soldier on a tour of the camp in the spring of 1945, after the camp’s liberation. A numbered tag was placed with each corpse to be able to identify the ashes after cremation. The numbers on the tags did not correspond to prisoner numbers. Produced in large quantities, not all the tags were used. Dachau was the first concentration camp established by the Nazi government in 1933, originally for political prisoners. Over time, other groups were interned at Dachau, such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Roma, ...

  9. Skiiers; US army maneuvers; West Point

    Skiers on a slalom course, a crowd is watching. This is a race, or competition of some sort as all the skiers are wearing large race numbers on their vests. VS, skiers taking the chair lift up to the top of the slopes. 01:02:04 Oceanside, there is a small wooden dock that juts out from the beach into the water's edge, waves, crashing against the dock, VS waves hitting the shore. MCU flagpole in the sand, camera pans up to show American flag. Large wood frame house on beach front, camera pans house and surrounding beachfront property, including CUs of flowers in bloom. 01:04:13 "Mechanized C...

  10. Eric Goldstaub scrapbook

    Contains information documenting the Jewish Community in Shanghai, 1940-1948 through newspaper clippings. Newspapers include the North China Daily News and the China Press (each article is dated and cited).

  11. Selected records from the Czech State Archives

    This collection contains a wide variety of documents relating to the fate of Jews, communists, and other anti-fascist groups in the Czech lands (e.g., underground armed resistance, church groups, etc.). Also included is documentation on pro-Nazi activities by Sudeten Germans prior to the German occupation of Czech lands; implementation of the Munich agreement; preparations for the military occupation of Bohemia and Moravia; internment in Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp; the destruction of synagogues; increasing restrictions on Jews in business and public life; the arrest of Roma...

  12. Der Befehlshaber der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes in Frankreich records (Sygn. 350)

    Contains records from the commander-in-chief of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD in France. Included are organization and personal files on Frenchmen and Germans; financial and economic records on matters such as salaries, taxes, and pay lists; files on the Catholic church; material about youth organizations; orders and correspondence of the SD; and documents regarding the resistance.

  13. Von Ribbentrop interrogated at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 79) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 2, 1946. LSs, Dr. Alfred Seidl, Hess's lawyer, questions Joachim von Ribbentrop on details of the Russian-German treaty. CUs, von Ribbentrop responds. MSs, Justices Lawrence, Birkett, and Biddle. MSs, Chief Justice Lawrence questions von Ribbentrop. LSs, MSs, CUs, Chief British Prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questions von Ribbentrop about Hitler's policy toward the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia and about a meeting he attended that described Hitler's desire to wipe Czechoslovakia from the map of the world. CUs, von Ribbentrop. LSs,...

  14. Eichmann Trial -- Session 111 -- Hausner's closing statement for the Prosecution; Eichmann's involvement in the decision to use gas

    Session 111. Hausner sums up his case (short overlap from Tape 2218). The deportations from Vienna as described by witnesses Kratky and Wisliceny are discussed, as well as the false hope held by Jews told they were only being resettled. 00:05:48 Hausner suggests that the shooting deaths of so many Jews was said by Eichmann to not be elegant enough, and Eichmann was the one who wanted the use of gas. He planned and worked out the entire method of extermination. The details of the selection of gas, the use of gas, the acquisition of gas, and Eichmann's role in all of these are presented. The ...

  15. Rosenbaum family papers

    The Rosenbaum family papers consist of correspondence and documents related to the attempts of Ernst Rosenbaum, who immigrated to England in 1936, to bring his family, one by one, from Germany in 1938-1939. Includes correspondence with family members and immigration officials, testimony regarding Kristallnacht, and a preprinted postcard sent from Theresienstadt (Terezin) in 1944 sent to one of the Rosenbaum's cousins. Also includes an autograph album with entries mainly dating 1906-1908 but also an entry written by Eva Rosenbaum prior to joining her father in England. Includes information r...

  16. "Multiply by Six Million - Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors"

    Multiply by Six Million - Portraits and Stories of Holocaust Survivors, formerly entitled "Legacy: Portraits of Holocaust Survivors" was a project began by Evvy Eisen in 1992, which sought to photograph Holocaust survivors and accompany their portraits with a biography of their life during the Holocaust. The portraits are taken in black and white silver gelatin prints. While most of the portraits are 11"x14", some of the later portraits are 8"x11." The biographies are generally several pages long, and tell the stories of each individual’s story through the Holocaust. The United States Holoc...

  17. Margaret Marketa Novak-Dattels papers

    Contains photocopies of articles by or about Margaret Marketa Novak-Dattels, a photocopy of her sister Sari's report card, a memoir entitled, "This is a True Story," correspondence, poetry, genealogical information, and nine black and white photographs of Margaret Marketa Novak-Dattels family.

  18. Natan Pompis papers

    Contains 109 letters, 1 notarized affidavit, 3 black and white photo prints, cleared checks and money orders, C.A.R.E. food package receipts, and registered mail receipts. American citizen and California resident Kalmen Klein and his wife, Lillian helped their relative, Bergen-Belsen survivor Natan Pompis and his family to leave Europe, travel to Bolivia, and in 1953 to immigrate the United States. The letters sent by Natan Pompis, and the financial support provided by the Kleins document the story of Natan Pompis's 8-year quest to come to the United States.

  19. Saul Sorrin papers

    The Saul Sorrin papers measure 0.5 linear foot and date from approximately 1945‐1950. The collection contains correspondence and photographs documenting Sorrin’s work as United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) director and field supervisor of displaced persons camps in the American occupied zone of Germany from 1945 to 1950. Camps covered in the collection include Neu Freimann, Föhrenwald, and Geretsried. Sorrin's work involved traveling among the camps to discuss with UNRRA staff and camp administrators problems related to food, housing, education, health, and immig...

  20. Nazi invasion of Denmark

    Factory. Soldiers on bicycles. Nazi flag on boat mast, view of airplane flying overhead. Soldiers on boat, smiling and smoking. Boat moving on water, plane soaring above. Snow-capped mountains in BG. Plane landing in the water. More shots of soldiers. Tanks loaded onto a ship as horses are unloaded. More soldiers. HASs soldiers marching and singing, playing drums. Civilians watch, some interact with soldiers. More views from different angles of the soldiers marching and band performing. Tram, pedestrians. Soldiers socializing with women.