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  1. Jewish Brigade Group embroidered shoulder title patch worn by a Brigade soldier

    1. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    Shoulder title patch worn by Leo Englard when he served as a soldier in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II. The British Army established the group in September 1944. It included more than 5000 Jewish volunteers living in Palestine and was the only independent, national Jewish unit to serve in WWII. The unit served in combat during the final battles for the liberation of Italy. The British dissolved the Brigade in the summer of 1946. Leo remained in Palestine and married Fanny Dominitz, a German Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Palestine in 1947. The couple had known each...

  2. Bent metal shard saved by a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army

    1. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    Metal piece that belonged to Leo Englard, who served as a soldier in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II. The British Army established the group in September 1944. It included more than 5000 Jewish volunteers living in Palestine and was the only independent, national Jewish unit to serve in WWII. The unit served in combat during the final battles for the liberation of Italy. The British dissolved the Brigade in the summer of 1946. Leo remained in Palestine and married Fanny Dominitz, a German Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Palestine in 1947. The couple had known each ot...

  3. Embossed brown leather bi-fold wallet used by a soldier in the Jewish Brigade, British Army

    1. Fanny and Leo Englard collection

    Wallet that belonged to Leo Englard when he served as a soldier in the Jewish Brigade Group during World War II. The British Army established the group in September 1944. It included more than 5000 Jewish volunteers living in Palestine and was the only independent, national Jewish unit to serve in WWII. The unit served in combat during the final battles for the liberation of Italy. The British dissolved the Brigade in the summer of 1946. Leo remained in Palestine and married Fanny Dominitz, a German Jewish Holocaust survivor who emigrated to Palestine in 1947. The couple had known each othe...

  4. Pope Pius XI medal, ribbon and case worn to disguise the identity of a Jewish woman in hiding

    1. Franka and Samuel Baral family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35906
    • English
    • 1943-1945
    • a: Height: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) b: Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) c: Height: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)

    Catholic medal worn by Franka Baral, age 37, to hide her Jewish identity, while living in hiding with her 3 children, Aneta, 13 yr., Martin, 11 yr., and Jim Jacob, 8 years old, from 1943-45. Franka and her family were forced into the Krakow ghetto in 1941 by the Germans, who occupied Poland in September 1939. In 1943, warned of a planned liquidation, the family escaped. The boys were sent to hide with their former housekeeper. Franka and Aneta fled to Tarnow, and Samuel, her husband, to Płaszów. Franka and Aneta rejoined the boys, but when Bochnia became a labor camp in 1943, they fled to H...

  5. Macramé bag with 2 wooden handles used by a Polish Jewish family while in hiding

    1. Franka and Samuel Baral family collection

    Macramé bag used by Franka Baral to hide money while living in hiding with her 3 children, Aneta, 13 yr., Martin, 11 yr., and Jim Jacob, 8 years old from 1943-45. It was made by her brother, Samuel Hirsh. One wooden handle was made hollow to hide valuables. They carried food in the see-through bag, so it would not attract interest. They were arrested several times, but the bag was never taken away. Franka and her family were forced into the Krakow ghetto in 1941 by the Germans, who occupied Poland in September 1939. In 1943, warned of a planned liquidation, the family escaped. The boys were...

  6. Speculum owned by a German emigre and US Army medic

    Speculum used by Dr. Bruno Lambert, who immigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1938, and served in the United States Army Medical Corps during the war. Bruno attended medical school in Germany from 1932-1937, but was not allowed to receive a diploma as a Jew under the Nazi regime. He transferred to a university in Switzerland, and earned a Doctorate of Medicine in July 1938. With the help of Margaret Bergmann, Bruno immigrated to the US in August. Margaret was a Jewish athlete who was banned from competing in the Olympics by the Nazi authorities, and subsequently immigrated to...

  7. Child's white smocked dress worn by 2 sisters while living in hiding

    1. Jacqueline Mendels Birn collection

    Dress worn by 2 sisters, Jacqueline, age 6, and Manuela, age 8, in 1941-42 when the family lived in hiding during the German occupation of France. The dress was made by their maternal grandmother, Sophie Hess, who lived in Hamburg, Germany. She committed suicide during the Holocaust, rather than undergoing forced deportation to the concentration camps.The sisters and their parents, Ellen and Frits Mendels, fled German-occupied Paris in 1942. They were French Jewish citizens who had to abandon their home and assume false identities. They found a safe place to live in hiding in the southern F...

  8. Przodownikom Pracy [Socialist Hero of Labor] lapel medal issued to a Jewish official postwar

    1. Kalman and Pauline Barakan collection

    Przodownikom Pracy [Socialist Hero of Labor] medal in the shape of a 7 point star awarded by the Polish government in the 1950s to Kalman Barakan for his exemplary work for the Polish National Enterprise for Foreign Trade in Łódź, Poland. When Germany invaded Poland in June 1941, Kalman Barakan was a 30 year old lawyer in Bialystok. His home was destroyed and he had to move into a Jewish ghetto and do rough manual labor. He escaped in 1943 and lived in hiding, constantly on the move. In August 1943, the ghetto was destroyed; Kalman’s entire family was murdered in a death camp. In July 1944,...

  9. Szyfra Majranc papers

    1. Steffa Horowitz Mairanz collection

    The Szyfra Majranc papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, diaries and other personal writings, photographs, and printed materials documenting Szyfra and Nechemia Majranc, their Horowitz and Majranc relatives, their prewar lives in Łódź and Sanok, and hiding and living under false identities in Rzeszów. Biographical materials include an invitation to Szyfra and Nechemia Majranc’s wedding annotated by Szyfra Majranc and Rabbi Tuvia Horowitz as well as certificates issues by the Polish Embassy in Rome stating that Szyfra and Nechemia Majranc’s Polish citizenship was being ve...

  10. Westerbork Deportation

    WS, train entering station. Rows of people with armbands "FK" [Fliegende Kolonne]. One of the women with the "FK" is Lenie Nijstad Cohen. Well-dressed Jews with Star of David on their coats on the platform, some getting bundles off the train. Soldiers checking documents. Guards with dogs. Another train (goods wagons) pulls into the station from which men wearing clogs get out, caps on their shaven heads. These are Jewish prisoners from Vught concentration camp being sent to Westerbork on punishment. LS, prisoners on platform. INTs, men with shaved heads (light on left), sharing bread. Men b...

  11. Yellow Star of David badge with Jude worn by a young German Jewish boy

    1. Klaus Zwilsky family collection

    Star of David badge issued to 9 year old Klaus Zwilsky in 1941 in Berlin where he lived with his parents, Erich and Ruth. In September 1941, Jews in Germany were ordered to wear a Judenstern [Jewish star] badge on their clothing at all times. In October 1943, the family was forced to live in the Jewish Hospital because Erich was the only remaining pharmacist. Ruth was a forced laborer and then worked in the hospital as a pharmacist. The hospital was liberated by the Soviet Army in April 1945. Erich was appointed Director and the family continued to live in the hospital until, at Ruth's insi...

  12. US Army Military Intelligence ID badge in case used by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Martin Dannenberg collection

    US Army CIC identification shield used by Martin Dannenberg Jr., a Jewish American soldier awarded a Bronze Star for his wartime service. Martin was a Master Sergeant and Special Agent in Charge, 203rd Counter Intelligence Corps, attached to the III Corps, Third Army. By February 1945, he was in Germany with his unit. One of Martin's duties was to discover evidence for the planned war crimes trials. On April 27, 1945, an informant took Martin and his two man team to a bank vault in Eichstatt, where they discovered an original copy of the Nuremberg Race Laws, signed by Adolf Hitler. This dec...

  13. Leather document holder with CIC credentials used by a Jewish American soldier

    1. Martin Dannenberg collection

    Leather wallet containing credentials used by Martin Dannenberg Jr., a Jewish American soldier awarded a Bronze Star for his wartime service. Martin was a Master Sergeant and Special Agent in Charge, 203rd Counter Intelligence Corps, attached to the III Corps, Third Army. By February 1945, he was in Germany with his unit. One of Martin's duties was to discover evidence for the planned war crimes trials. On April 27, 1945, an informant took Martin and his two man team to a bank vault in Eichstatt, where they discovered an original copy of the Nuremberg Race Laws, signed by Adolf Hitler. This...

  14. Reichsschrifttumskammer

    Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Bestandsgeschichte Die Aktenüberlieferung in dem alten Koblenzer Bestand R 56 V (siehe dazu im Publikationsfindbuch Nr. 31) war im Gegensatz zu den anderen Kulturkammern recht umfangreich (Archivnummern R 56 V/1-196). Diese wurden in der vorliegenden Verzeichnung mit übernommen. Die in den Sammlungen "Reichsschrifttumskammer" des ehem. Berlin Document Center vorliegenden Sachakten wurden ausgesondert, neu verzeichnet und dem Bestand zugeordnet. Inhaltlich handelt es sich im Wesentlichen um: 1.) Überprüfung und Genehmigung zur Herausgabe von Büchern, Heften un...

  15. Archief van de gemeentepolitie Groningen 1917-1995

    Na de Duitse inval werd de politie ingrijpend veranderd. Om te beginnen werd naast het Nederlandse politieapparaat een klein Duits politieapparaat ingesteld dat bestond uit de volgende onderdelen: de Ordungspolizei (Ook wel Grüne Polizei genoemd vanwege de kleur van het uniform.)-een orde politiekorps-, de Sicherheitspolizei onderverdeeld in Gestapo (politieke recherche) en de Kripo (gewone recherche). Aan de Sicherheitspolizei werd de Sicherheitsdienst nog toegevoegd, die zich met politieke recherche bezighield. Ook de Abwehr, de militaire contraspionage was op dit gebied actief.De zgn. Au...

  16. OKW

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Militär
    4. Zentrale Einrichtungen der Reichswehr und Wehrmacht
    5. Spitzenbehörden
    6. OKW/Wehrmachtsführungsstab

    A. Aktenstücke Reichswehrministerium, Wehrmachtsabteilung, 1936-1941: 1) (OKW 898) Reichswehrministerium, Wehrmachtsabteilung, Auszüge 7 S.: Generalstab, Wehrmacht, Kriegs- und andere Akademien, unter anderem: Verfügung Blombergs vom 30. Januar 1936: Politische Erziehung und Unterrichtung der Wehrmacht; 2) (OKW 935) Reichswehrministerium, Wehrmachtsabteilung, Auszüge 29 S.: Kriegsführung, Völkerrecht und Friedensangelegenheiten, unter anderem: Schreiben Chef Oberkommando der Wehrmacht vom 30. Oktober 1940 an Wehrmachtbefehlshaber Niederlande betreffend Führerauftrag an Rosenberg zur Sichers...

  17. RSHA, Kriminaltechn. Institut

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Reichssicherheitshauptamt

    I. "Kriminalpolizei-Vademecum" herausgegeben von Reichskriminalpolizeiamt Berlin, (mit einem Geleitwort von Kaltenbrunner) bearbeitet von Regierungs- und Kriminalrat Karl Zechenter; alphabetisches Sachregister, [EAP 173-b-18-12/123], 7280-7536; II. [Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)/ V/ Kriminaltechnisches Institut (KTI)]: Verwendung von Tränengas zur Bandenbekämpfung, April-September 1944; Korrespondenz Kriminaltechnisches Institut der Sicherheitspolizei (Sipo), Reichsführer-SS, Chef der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienst (SD), Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer Nord (Wilhelm Rediess) ...

  18. SSFHA

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. SS-Führungshauptamt

    I. Rasse- und Siedlungsführer Süd: SS-Angelegenheiten, Juli-Dezember 1944, Rundschreiben, Erlasse des SS-Führungshauptamt (SSFHA) und Reichsführer-SS betreffend Dienstreisen in die Slowakei, Lehrgänge, Truppenbetreuung, Ernennung Berger zum Führer des Volkssturms, [EAP 161-b-12/371], 6878-6889; II. SS-Hauptamt bzw. SSFHA/ Kommandoamt der Allgemeinen SS: Uniform, Geheimhaltung, Mai 1938-Dezember 1944, Korrespondenz, Anordnungen, Bericht, [EAP 161-b-12/371], 6890-7354, unter anderem: 1) Korrespondenz SSFHA/ Kommandoamt der Allgemeinen SS, September 1941-August 1942: Anträge, Genehmigungen und...

  19. NSDAP

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Provenienzen der Länder
    4. Bayern
    5. Varia

    I. NSDAP/ Gauleitung Baden: Weihnachtsbescherungen für Kinder Gefallener, Grundstückserwerbungen für NSDAP, SS und SA, 1942-1943, Korrespondenz Gauleitung Baden, Reichsorganisationsleitung, Reichsschatzmeister der NSDAP [EAP 251-a/24], 2 065-2 163, darin: 1) Rundschreiben Reichsministerium des Innern an alle Reichsverteidigungskommissare, 30. Januar 1943: Personalabgaben der zivilen Verwaltung an die Wehrmacht unter Berücksichtigung der kriegswichtigen Einzelaufgaben (aufgezählt) der Verwaltung, 2 128-2 134; 2) NSDAP/ Reichsschatzmeister an Gauleiter Robert Wagner, 01. Oktober 1942: Einspru...

  20. sous-dossier n°1 copie conforme de divers documents saisis dans les bagages du maréchal Pétain et du général Debeney lors de leur arrivée au fort de Montrouge. Ces documents précisent l'activité de M. de Brinon à Sigmaringen et la nature de ses rapports avec le maréchal Pétain de septembre 1944 à avril 1945 Scellé 5 Pétain : 1 manque 2 discours de M. de Brinon à la cérémonie des couleurs le 1° octobre 1944 3 note verbale remise par le Maréchal à M. Von Renthe-Fink le 2 octobre 1944 (protestation contre la cérémonie du 1° octobre) 4 lettre de F. de Brinon au Maréchal

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 3 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 3 : 3w/106-3w/141
    2. Fernand de BRINON délégué général du Gouvernement français dans les territoires occupés 18 décembre 1940 - 20 août 1944
    3. Fernand de Brinon. Dossier VII

    sous-dossier n°1 copie conforme de divers documents saisis dans les bagages du maréchal Pétain et du général Debeney lors de leur arrivée au fort de Montrouge. Ces documents précisent l'activité de M. de Brinon à Sigmaringen et la nature de ses rapports avec le maréchal Pétain de septembre 1944 à avril 1945 Scellé 5 Pétain : 1 manque 2 discours de M. de Brinon à la cérémonie des couleurs le 1° octobre 1944 3 note verbale remise par le Maréchal à M. Von Renthe-Fink le 2 octobre 1944 (protestation contre la cérémonie du 1° octobre) 4 lettre de F. de Brinon au Maréchal, 2 octobre 1944 5 extrai...