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  1. Jewish Brigade badge

    Patch from the Jewish Brigade given to Walter Reed by a member of this group after the British Army had pulled the Jewish Brigade from the front lines.

  2. Mrs. Ronald Rose collection

    Consists of ten photographs of the liberation of various camps. Contains images of female camp survivors, of female SS officers and of soldiers surveying the dead and half dead bodies of the camps.

  3. Virgil Price collection

    Consists of 24 photographs from the liberation of Dachau. Contains images of rows of mostly nude male victims, the grounds of Dachau, and male and female rescued survivors.

  4. Triumph of the Will: Hitler addresses crowds at a rally

    Excerpt from "Triumph of the Will" {No Titles} Hitler addresses a night rally and a day rally and reviews a large military parade.

  5. Ita Dimant papers

    The Ita Dimant papers include correspondence, photographs, personal documents, a diary, and memoirs relating to Ita Dimant’s experiences in hiding under false papers and in a labor camp in Germany. The collection includes false identification documents, correspondence between Ita and her family and wartime and post-war correspondence with the Brust family, who helped protect Ita. Also included are photographs of Ita’s family and her diary, in Polish, kept during her time as a forced laborer in Germany as well as English, Polish, and Hebrew editions of her memoir, based on her diary. The dia...

  6. Prayer book

    Hebrew prayerbook, daily and festivals, carried out of Krakow, Poland in November 1939 by Estelle Lipperman Montavani, nee Friedman [donor's mother], published in Przemysl, Poland in 1933.

  7. Sticker issued in the US to support relief efforts for Polish Jews

    Sticker with the caption "They Shall Not Die" with an image of a Jewish family in Poland wearing armbands issued by the American Federation for Polish Jews to raise funds and awareness of the persecution of Jews in Nazi occupied Poland.

  8. Hitler/Hindenburg poster

    Poster with drawing of Hitler shaking hands with Hidenburg with large "1" and swastika and text in black, "In grosster Not Adolf Hitler zum wahltauch wahlte Hindenburg Reichskanzler Ihr. Liste 1"

  9. Hitler with Nazi officials; Hitler's 55th birthday; Aftermath of July 20, 1944 bomb plot; People's Court & Judge Freisler

    Title: "1944" Hitler confers with leaders. 04:17:16 Title: "55th Birthday of Hitler 20 April 1944." Berlin scenes; Hitler and high Nazi officials, military officers, including Keitel, Doenitz, Zeitzler, Goering, others. 04:19:04 close view of (L to R) Himmler, Warlimont, Hitler, Fegelein. 04:19:09 Title: "Conferences after Hitler's Escape from Bombing Plot 20 July 1944." Mussolini arrives by train at FHQ, Hitler's greets him with left-handed shake, Goering present. At Hitler's HQ in the Eas, Nazi leaders greet the Fuehrer to congratulate him on surviving the attack: Ribbentrop, Bormann, Him...

  10. Speech; Anschluss; review military parade

    Title: "1938" Title: "Hitler Addresses Reichstag on Rearmament 20 February 1938" Hitler speaks at Reichstag. Title: "Anschluss March 1938" Title: "Return from Austria March 1938" Hitler reviews a military parade. Title: "Hitler Addresses Reichstag on the Anschluss 18 March 1938" Title: "Hitler's 49th Birthday 20 April 1938"

  12. Damaged planes; Norway under German attack

    Burning German plane. CU, German pilot. Captured, wounded German aviators. Damaged plane. Helping comrade with wounded leg/foot. Damaged tanks. Leaving house, boarding truck, eating. Attacking with weapons. In Norway, bombing ships, beautiful mountains in BG. Boats, city burning from air attack. Ships in water of Norwegian fjords. Looking at destruction, advance through binoculars. Soldiers returning to large ship on smaller boats. Destruction. CUs, captured Germans, some wounded, interrogation. Soldiers marching, conversing. Wounded in hospital. Fighting, weapons. Pan, beautiful landscape ...

  13. Refugees fleeing Belgium and France; destruction

    [Refugies sur le bord d'une route - Nord de la France, Mai 1940] Refugees fleeing villages between Belgium and France. Planes in air, cut in. "Evacuation" sign on bus. Children, elderly, others onto truck/bus, sleeping child in arms. Air attack. Fierce scenes just after fall, flames. Storefront, "Bazar Parisien." Big fires, houses along square, church tower, burnt and falling, broken sculpture, INT. "Femmes Medecin" ruins. "Medecin Maternite" smoldering cots. Wounded nun. Tracking shot of street, low buildings, destruction. Planes in sky. Civilians hide under brush lining road, in courtyard...

  14. Poster

  15. Nuremberg Race Laws 1935

    Title: "Seventh Party Congress 10-16 September 1935" Hitler and Goering address Seventh Party Congress (1935) in Nuremberg. Hitler moves to adopt Nuremberg laws, Goering reads laws including forbidding marriage between Jews and non Jews. Hitler addresses Hitler Jugend at Nuremberg, Hitler Youth singing. Army day-manoeuvers. Title: "Reception for Prime Minister Goemboes of Hungary 28 September 1935" Hitler reviews army, meets with Goering, speaks to Germans, greets the Hungarian prime minister. Goemboes statement in German.

  16. Oral history interview with Joseph Kolek

  17. Henryk Glucksman photograph collection

    The photographs depict the Glucksman family before and during the Holocaust in Wadowice, Poland; Jewish men in the Gogolin labor camp in Poland in 1941; and Maria Pelikant Glucksman, Henryk Glucksman’s wife, Noemi Glucksman, Henryk Glucksman’s daughter, and Kamila Rozenberg and Emma Datner, Henryk Glucksman's in-laws, in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1963. Captions on verso in Polish.lish.

  18. Gurwicz family photograph collection

    The collection of five photographs depicts the Gurwicz family in Vilnius, Lithuania, and members of Fareynik̤te paṛtizaner organizatsye (FPO), a Jewish partisan organization in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania) during World War II. Some photographs have captions in Yiddish on the verso.

  19. Richard and Ernestine Benes papers

    The Richard and Ernestine Benes papers contains a diary, biographical material, and emigration and immigration documents relating to Richard and Ernestine Benes attempts to emigrate from Austria to the United States. The diary was written by Richard from June 6 - July 4 1941. In the diary Richard writes about their emigration from Austria to Prague, Berlin, Paris, and Spain as well as their time aboard the ship and arriving in New York City. Biographical materials include birth and baptism certificates, a marriage certificate, proof of citizenship, identification cards, passports (Reisepass...

  20. Concentration camp inmate uniform jacket