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  1. Broadside proclamation from General Eisenhower

  2. Simcha Munzer collection

    The collection consists of a typewriter used by Simcha Munzer (donor's father) before and during the war, and then afterwards by Gisele and Alfred Munzer (donor's mother and donor). 2 photographs of Eva and Lianne Munzer (donor's sisters) which were likely entrusted with neighbors. Napkin ring given to Alfred Munzer on the occasion of Sinterklaas Day from his paternal uncle Emil (?)

  3. Frederick R. Wohl collection

    Contains materials related to the Holocaust experiences of Frederick R. Wohl and his family. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  5. Peter Vanlaw collection

    Photographs, a diary, correspondence, artwork, documentary film, and oral testimony depicting the lives of the Vanlaw (Weinlaub) and Natzler families in prewar Germany.

  6. Forrest James Robinson, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of a poster stamp and photographic print of an Associated Press photo.

  7. Arthur and Meta Grunebaum Schmitt collection

    The collection consists of military artifacts and documents, photographs, correspondence, documents, and a dictionary relating to the experiences of Arthur (Abraham) Schmitt and Meta (Miriam) Grunebaum Schmitt and their families in Germany and the United States before, during, and after World War II.

  8. Jim Robinson collection

    The collection consists of pin-back buttons, pamphlets, advertisements, handbills, and similar materials relating to American interest groups, organizations, and institutions expressing support or opposition to American involvement in World War II and a range of associated political and social groups.

  9. Oberlender family collection

    The collection consists of documents and DP era scrip pertaining to the experiences of Martin and Betty Oberlender, both Survivors of the Holocaust.

  10. David and Lisa Eizenberg collection

    The collection consists of a coat, vest, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of David and Lisa Eizenberg before and after the war in Germany when David worked with the Joint Distribution Committee and HIAS assisting displaced persons in Germany and Palestine.

  11. Excerpts of Auschwitz liberation film

    Excerpts of "Oswiecem" film showing Auschwitz after liberation filmed by the Soviet military. Film clips including: Men and women behind barbed wire, winter, snow, view from the air of concentration camp barracks, electrified fence, interior of the women's area, corpses in front of buildings with a woman and child walking near them, children's concentration camp, children behind barbed wires showing the numbers [tattooed] on their arms, emaciated corpses, crematoria where they were burned, canisters of poison gas, Soviet soldiers in front of open mass graves, piles of cut hair, dentures, go...

  12. Archives of the Jewish Community Thessaloniki (RI-33)

    Records of the Jewish community in Thessaloniki (Salonika), Greece, 1882 to 1941. The collection consists of minutes, legal ordinances, correspondence, books of debtors, ledgers of accounts, various bank documents, statistics, census, and private papers relating to Jewish community meetings, cooperation with other Jewish communities in Greece and abroad, financial operations, real estate and construction, religious affairs, family status (birth, marriage and death records, genealogy, etc. 1882-1940), education and culture, welfare and health, Jewish organizations and Zionist movement, famil...

  13. Concentration camp striped uniform jacket and pants worn by Romanian Jewish female inmate

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43161
    • English
    • a: Height: 26.500 inches (67.31 cm) | Width: 41.000 inches (104.14 cm) b: Height: 38.000 inches (96.52 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm)

    Concentration camp uniform jacket and trousers worn by 31 year old Malka Polak-Adler from summer 1944-April 1945. She received the uniform in 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland from a friend and fellow inmate to whom it had been issued. Malka wore the uniform when she was transferred in August 1944 to Bergen-Belsen in Germany. In May 1944, six weeks after Germany occupied Hungary, Malka and her parents, Leib and Gitza, were deported from the Viseu de Sus ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her parents were killed, presumably upon arrival. Malka was transferred in August to Be...

  14. Hausspiegel family collection

    Contains postcards that Wolf Hausspiegel received from relatives in the Łódź ghetto; Bertha (Priwin) Hausspiegel's passport; and a Polish/Hebrew document regarding the family.

  15. Oral history interview with Sarah Lichtman

  16. Idealized picture of Prussia to garner German support for total war

    Reel 3 opens to find Mayor Nettelbeck sitting at a large table with his advisers. He reads an ultimatum he has received from the French. While some of the councillors recommend capitulation, Nettelbeck again argues that they must stand and fight, and he delivers a patriotic refusal to surrender to the French envoy. Napoleon is furious when he hears of the tiny city's insolence and promises that Kolberg will be taken without pity for its inhabitants. Back in Kolberg, the members of the Werner family celebrate a somber New Year's Eve with Nettelbeck and Schill. Nettelbeck laments the fact tha...

  17. Pola Spitzer collection

    Consists of copyprints of photographs, copies of postwar and wartime correspondence, original and copies of wartime personal documents, and typed family histories, related to the Holocaust experiences of Pessa Fogelman (Pessia Fogielman, Pessy Fogielman, now Pola Spitzer). In 1943, Pola was secretly taken by Natalia Pisula, a Polish Catholic woman, from the ghetto in Radomsko. Pola later received false papers under the name "Pelagia Pisula" and was sent to Germany as a forced laborer at a munitions factory in Güstrow. Includes her false papers, essays written about Pola Spitzer's experience...

  18. Collection of documents from Freemason's Lodges in Dresden, Hannover, and Altenburg Zbiór dokumentów lóż masońskich m. in. w Dreźnie, Hanowerze, Altenburgu (Sygn. 118)

    Correspondence related to various Masonic lodges on German and Dutch territories, visitors’ books, name lists of members of lodges, diplomas of members of the Lodge from German territory between 1780-1921, books of freemasons’ and religious songs, as well as selected works of renowned composers (Mozart, Chopin and Schumann), and studies related to freemasons.

  19. Liberation of Czechoslovakia; refugees

    Red Cross workers on roadside with civilians. Shot of city from high angle. Sign, in English and Russian reads: "Welcome the American Heroic Army." Another part of the sign reads: "Welcome the Soviet Army." Pan to jeep Toluca. Sign in Czech reads: "Vplzni...Skodovy Zavody." LS from balcony to train station. Sign reads: "You are entering Pilsen by courtesy of CCB 16th Armd. Div." Another sign reads: "What you see on the street don't blame on the pigeons." VS of truckload of women and children holding red flags with hammer and sickle on them. They drive off and what appears to be a Russian of...

  20. Home movies of Fuchs family at the beach and in Czech village

    Family in garden, men playing cards (game called Marias). 01:00:41 Friends of Hana's parents -- Oskar Fuchs and Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs -- (one identified as Dr. Spousta) walking down street, car in BG. 01:01:59 Children, playing at beach, father. 01:02:39 Children walking to beach. 01:03:00 Father with girl, playing in sand. 01:03:59 (brief) Fuchs family at restaurant. 01:04:04 CU, blond girl. Hana and tennis racket. 01:05:04 Hana and friends walking down street, Hana in pants, kicking ball. 01:06:05 Long jump, rings. 01:06:47 Hana's mother (Rosa (Krasa) Fuchs), her friend Mrs. Prochazka, and H...