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Language of Description: English
Holding Institution: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  1. Charles Martin Roman papers

    The Charles Martin Roman collection consists of photographs, documents, and identity paperwork related to the Holocaust experiences of Carl (Carlo) Roman, now Charles Roman. The photographs depict his pre-war life in Vienna, images of Carl and his mother with a group of Jews on an escape over the Alps to Italy from the Italian-occupied zone of France in September 1943, family photographs, and photographs of the OSE-run Font-Romeu camp and Montintin children's home. Includes Carl's identity paperwork, a falsified document stating that Marianne Roman authorized Carl to leave the OSE children'...

  2. Family films, 1938

  3. Hitler Marches into Purkersdorf; Field Exercises; Fundraising Campaign

    NSKK, part I. Caravan arrives in Purkersdorf, Austria. Driving through main street, passing retail shops and government. Well-dressed female onlookers and local men in uniforms. Official Nazi motorcade through streets: cars, trucks, tanks. Streets lined with people. Handmade “Adolf Hitler Platz“ sign. Rally in city center. NSKK, part II. Rural landscape, sheep grazing in field in Austria. Nazis in uniform. A group studies paperwork in field. Nazis in camoflauge train civilians how to load and shoot guns, march, crawl through grassy fields, hide in ditches, survey, study maps, etc. Airplanes...

  4. Nazi Rallies in Vienna

    The streets are packed with marchers and spectators. Nazi rally with horns, statue. A large group of women in white uniforms marches down the street. Signs: “Sudentenland” Speech. Nazi flags flying. “Deutschland” sign. Crowd raises arms in “Heil Hitler” stance following speaker. Traffic jam, honking horns. Crowd gathers, smiling, singing, saluting Hitler. A man is visibly shoved by German for not raising his arm to salute Hitler. Germans march in the street, smiling, rowdy crowd. Nazi rally in stadium with flag ceremony, marching band, speech in German, huge crowd. Streets filled with Nazi ...

  6. Wehrmacht in Russia

    Everyday Wehrmacht life in (most likely) the DULAG 372 camp near Pskov (Pleskau), Russia, in the winter of 1941/42. Includes graphic depiction of mass graves, and the beating of Soviet POWs, as well as the hanging of a Soviet civilian by a Wehrmacht squad.

  8. Vienna 1938

  9. G. Michael Eisenstadt family papers

    The G. Michael Eisenstadt family papers consist of certificates, a ship ticket, and correspondence from Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and the Warsaw ghetto documenting Isidor Eisenstadt's training as a master tailor from 1901-1921, the immigration of his wife and sons to the United States in 1939, conditions in the Warsaw ghetto, and his efforts to immigrate.

  10. The Flack family in Vienna before the Holocaust

    Includes: Erika Flack, Gertrude Flack, Peter Flack, Susanne Flack, Alexander Flack, Erna Flack, Hans Flack, Emil Flack, Alfred Flack, Mathide Flack, Annie Flack, and Johann Flack.

  11. Bulgarian forced labor camp photographs

    Photographs of Jews in a Forced Labor Camp in Bulgaria, 1943

  12. Mandel family papers

    The Mandel family papers include biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family’s experiences pre-war in Latvia and Hungary, their flight from Budapest, immigration to the United States, and their post-war life in America. A large portion of the collection includes materials relating to Yehuda’s Cantorial career including music, education records, programs, newspaper clippings, awards, speeches, and documents relating to various conventions and organizations.

  13. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers

    The collection primarily documents the post-war experiences of Josef and Ruth Rosenberg, both of whom were from Poland, interned in the Łódź ghetto, and liberated from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where they met and later married. The collection includes identification papers, immigration documents, restitution claims paperwork, and photographs taken at Bergen-Belsen from 1945-1947 along with some pre-war family photographs. The biographical materials include identification papers and immigration documents that both reflect their status as stateless refugees. The restitution claims ...

  14. Textile with embroidered names

    Burlap patch embroidered with a series of names and the dates 1940-1946.

  15. Third Term - Third Reich campaign button

  16. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  17. Anti-Roosevelt, pro-Willkie 1940 presidential campaign button

    Anti-Roosevelt, pro-Willkie campaign button for the 1940 Presidential Election. Several variations of this button were manufactured at a rapid pace. Some had different background colors, while others had different text size and font styles. The campaign button was used to build awareness, and encourage positive word of mouth for the Republican challenger, Wendell Willkie, while simultaneously discouraging support for the Democratic incumbent, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR). FDR was running for an unprecedented third term, which was a major factor the Republicans pressed during the campaign...

  18. Dictators don't debate campaign button

  19. No Third term campaign button with Uncle Sam

  20. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Japanese pin-back button, "Jap Hunting License" with outline of map of United States, a "Keep Out" sign and a likeness of Uncle Sam, holding a rifle.