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  1. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, 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. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 50 kronen, 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.

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, 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.

  4. Oral history interview with Irma Illes

  5. US carriers fight off enemy suicide attempts

    Issue 166, Part 5: Japanese kamikaze planes strike the battleship Nevada and the carrier Ticonderoga.

  6. Merrill B. Remick photograph collection

    Contains eight photographs taken at the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp on April 13, 1945, after its liberation by American forces. Each photograph is inscribed with a description on verso, in ink. Photographs are attached to cardboard with adhesive. Photographs taken by Merrill B. Remick, a member of the 261st Infantry Regiment, 65th Infantry Division.

  7. Small poster made to discourage US troops from socializing with Germans received by a soldier

    Handbill received by Sergeant Donald Schaufelberger while serving in the US Army in Germany in May 1945. Issued by the US Army, the handbill uses an image of piled rows of concentration camp corpses discovered at Mauthausen concentration camp to remind soldiers not to fraternize with German civilians.

  8. Truman speaks

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 431. Release date, 09/06/1945. According to UN advance information, "The President Speaks." In Washington, Pres. Truman offers thanks for the Allied victory, and summons American to work as diligently in the postwar period as she did in the prosecution of the war.

  9. Records of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (R 8150)

    Records include the office files of the various departments (finance, sport, education, culture, liaison office with government agencies, director's office, liaison office with foreign Jewish agencies, etc.) of the last national-level Jewish organization in Germany during the Third Reich.

  10. John Dennis scrapbook

    Scrapbook containing 56 photographs mounted on green cardboard: 30 images by 166th Signal Photo Co., 2 copyprints of hanged partisans, and 24 original snapshots of Jews, World War II scenes, and atrocity victims. Compiled by John Dennis, a medic in the 1263d Engineer Combat Battalion, following his return to the United States after the war.

  11. 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.

  12. Antisemitic Nazi propaganda leaflet mimicking a US silver certificate

    Anti-Jewish and anti-Allied forces Nazi propaganda leaflet like those dropped from planes over Paris in late 1943, as part of a German propaganda campaign to raise suspicions against the United States and its part in the worldwide Jewish conspiracy which threatened the safety of France and all of Europe. The streets would appear to be littered with real dollar bills. Then, after picking one up, a person would discover that it was fake and see the information detailing how Jews have manipulated the US and controlled its currency to support the Jewish threat and wage the Jewish war.

  13. "Marianna Tkaczyk" identification card

    The "Kennkarte" was issued to "Marianna Tkaczyk" in Warsaw, Poland, by "Der Stadthauptmann Polizei Direktor" in the Generalgouvernement on May 8, 1943. Anna Danzinger, alias "Marianna Tkaczyk," purchased the birth certificates of two Gentile sisters which enabled her and her sister to obtain identification cards ("Kennkarten"). The sisters survived by living and working as Gentiles in Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust.

  14. Records of German Police Agencies in the Occupied Territories Deutsche Polizeieinrichtungen in den okkupierten Gebieten (Fond 1323)

    Diverse records of the police offices in Germany and includes plans, minutes, interrogations, bulletins, correspondence, personnel files, lists of police offices, reports and directives from the Reichsführer SS Himmler to intermediate levels and to SS Polizeiführer on lower levels. Consists of information about the organization of the Order Police (Orpo) units, Gendarmerie, indigenous formations ("Schutzmannschaften"), and Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) in the Occupied Eastern Territories; the regional reports and action plans for numerous localities; information about the activi...

  15. Photograph

    Photograph of seven men, dressed in Allied uniforms, standing on a Bimah, backed by an American flag, a flag which bears the Star of David, candles, and bushes. Created by an unknown photographer, September 1945, at the Stadt Theater, Kaufbeuren, Germany.

  16. Pair of espadrilles used as part of a disguise by anti-fascist refugees fleeing France

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7154
    • English
    • a: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) b: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm)

    Espadrilles used as part of a disguise by anti-fascist refugees fleeing France. The town of Banyuls, France, was the beginning of an escape route for refugees fleeing France. The refugees fled on foot over the Pyrenees dressed in the costumes of the local peasants who wore such espadrilles.

  17. Pedestrians in Warsaw, 1938

    Pedestrians on city street in Warsaw, looking into shop windows.

  18. Summations of prosecutors at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 323) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. HS Defendants in dock. HMS, Goering, von Ribbentrop, Doenitz in dock. Pan, von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg; pan back to Goering. Pan, from prisoners' dock to Shawcross speaking. Note: Voice of Sir Hartley Shawcross is heard throughout reel summing up. HMS, Shawcross, Rudenko, and unidentified woman conversing at the end of the trial. Chief US prosecutor Jackson insists that although some of the defendants are more guilty than others, the magnitude of the crime committed is such that any differentiation between them is not ...

  19. Internment Camps in France

    General views of men working in unidentified internment camp, tracking shot of men hoeing. Wounded men pose. Infirmary with wounded men (matches photo from Récébédou). Women moving into barracks (probably Rivesaltes). Women sewing and washing. CUs of faces. Mail distribution. Children peeling potatoes. Elderly men at camp, CUs. Elderly couples walking (maybe Rivesaltes). Eating in large dining room. Arriving in buses (matches photo from Rivesaltes).

  20. Boots

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7286
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.880 inches (30.175 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) b: Height: 11.880 inches (30.175 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)

    Boots given to Jack Polak by the Red Cross, June-July 1945, Eindhoven, Holland, The Netherlands.