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  1. Illustration 4 from a handmade portfolio of illustrations by Herbert Heyne and Erich Kästner

    Book of illustrations sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst. The book was a gift from Heyne to Furst and was written with Erich Kästner in 1945. It features color illustrations by Heyne and offers a comical and critical depiction of National Socialism and Nazi militarism.

  2. Wehrmacht Siege Game box, board, instructions, dice, and 29 tokens

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50725
    • English
    • 1941
    • a: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 6.750 inches (17.145 cm) b: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) c: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) d: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) e: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) f: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) g-k: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) l-q: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) r-t: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) u-v: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) w-x: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) y: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) z-ai: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm)

    Belagerungs-Spiel (Siege game) Sturmangriff (Assault) board game with original box, instructions, 2 dice, and 29 playing pieces produced in Nazi Germany in 1941. This version features different divisions of the Wehrmacht, the unified Armed Forces of Nazi Germany. The colorful game board has images of Army Panzers, Luftwaffe airplanes, including a Stuka dive bomber and a blimp, and paratroopers attacking and occupying a green, fertile landscape with rivers and plowed fields, with the game diagram of red and black connecting lines and intersecting dots. The siege or fortress game, a popular w...

  3. Family at their home in Belgium during World War II

    In COLOR, various scenes of the de Brouwers at St. Denis-Westrem. CUs of Denise in a fur coat relaxing in the family garden; Carl poses near the apiary; Denise gathers flowers and smokes at a table decorated with flowers and tea; Madeleine, the cook's daughter, and Colette watch the Jersey cows; CUs of a local worker; CUs of Carl and Denise playing with Jean-Marie. 00:19:34 Jacques and Birgitte recite a poem.

  4. Sally and Erna Isenberg tour Geneva and vicinity

    [VQ begins poor] Erna in bed. EXT of Geneva with apartments and river. Another view of Erna reading or writing in bed followed by city views. 01:00:34 An outdoor entertaining space on street level. Street scenes and lake-views. People with umbrellas on a platform. CUs of Erna eating. Cat jumps off ledge. Erna Isenberg walks by a train. Erna types on a typewriter. Scenic views of landscape. INT, pan of dining room with tables and waiters in tuxedos. Views of a boat on a lake from hotel window. City street scenes, bicycles, traffic. 01:04:05 Entrance to Hotel Beau Rivage in Geneva, Switzerlan...

  5. Gerhard (Gershon) Hoffman correspondence

    Two (2) letters written by Gerhard [Gershon] Hoffman (donor's father) from Hamburg, Germany in 1945. The first letter, originally written and sent to Herbert Mosheim in the United Kingdom in 1945, describes in great detail Gerhard's experiences during the war, beginning with the round-up of Jews in Hamburg in November 1941, and being sent with his family to the Minsk Ghetto, where he was a forced laborer from 1941 to 1943, and the mass liquidations and murders that took place. He also describes his transport to a succession of concentration camps beginning in September 1943, in Lublin, and ...

  6. German gramophone with a red painted bell and carved oak base

    Gramophone of the type used in German homes during the Nazi era, 1933-1945. Propaganda was an essential tool of the Nazi government. They understood the power of emerging technologies, such as phonographs, radio, and television, to disseminate their message into homes and workplaces. Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda encouraged the production of home listening devices at affordable prices.

  7. Dedication of land for Jewish refugees in the Philippines, 1940

    Dedication of Mariquina Hall in Manila on April 23, 1940. President Manuel Quezon offered this private land (called Mariquina Hall) to the Jewish Rescue Committee in order to provide housing for Jewish refugees. Guests gather outdoors. 01:02:51 Alex Frieder speaks to the audience, while President Quezon sits at the table to the side. 01:03:05 President Quezon addresses the crowd, Herbert Frieder in back. Quezon shakes hands with some men on the stage. Alex Frieder and President Quezon walk together through the crowd to survey the land. CUs, side views of President Quezon speaking. The camer...

  8. Hanna Keselman collection

    Consists of two Catholic prayer cards given to Hanna Rawicz (now Hanna Keselman) in the French convent of Viale Regina Margerita in Rome, Italy, in June 1944. The prayer cards, both of which seem to depict the Virgin Mary, have handwritten messages written by Catholic sisters noting on the verso that these cards are for Hanna's protection.

  9. Association of Former Residents of Glębokie photograph collection

    Collection of photographs depicting relatives and organizations in Glębokie, Poland (today: Glubokoe, Belarus) before the war and after the war when the survivors returned to memorialize their families murdered by the local residents and by the Germans. Collection of newspapers published in Glębokie in 1936-1938 (transferred to USHMM Library). Albums documenting Jewish life in Glębokie after the war and in Israel; manuscripts; correspondence and documentation of the activities of the Association of Former Residents of Glębokie.

  10. Moses and Esther Goldberg photographs

    Consists of three original post-war photographs and two copyprints of Moses and Esther Glodowska Goldberg, both of whom were originally from Poland. Includes small portraits of both Moses and Esther, a portrait of Esther taken in the Pocking displaced persons camp, and two copyprints of Moses working as a baker. The copyprints show that Moses had been given a tattoo on his right forearm.

  11. "Zug Bist Ahtzen"

    Consists of one typed memoir entitled "Zug Bist Ahtzen" ["Say You're Eighteen"] as told by Auschwitz survivor Gary S. Rubinstein to his grandson, Benyamin Moalem. In the memoir, Mr. Rubinstein describes the German invasion of his hometown of Wołomin, Poland. He describes being placed in a ghetto and his attempted escape to Łomża, Poland, in the fall of 1942. Almost immediately upon his arrival, the Jews of Lomza were marched to Zambrów , and, six weeks later, deported to Auschwitz. He was assigned to Kanada, where he sorted prisoner belongings and describes both the Nazi officers smugglin...

  12. Alex Frieder and family visit tobacco plantations and workers in the provinces

    A Filipino man riding a water buffalo takes Alex Frieder for a ride in a cart pulled by the buffalo. Tobacco field, possibly in the Cagayan Valley and other provinces in the Philippines. Native Filipino men stand before bamboo hut. Alex inspects tobacco leaves for purchase. Alex talks with villagers. Locals show him how to row a bangka (an outrigger canoe) across a stream. 01:02:22 Village women squat and sort tobacco leaves. Wider view of the hut with a thatched roof. 01:03:04 Frieder gets a tour. INTs, women pound grain and tobacco leaves. 01:03:29 A woman (with a cigar) and her young chi...

  13. Sgt. Edward Tinter collection

    Correspondence includes letters written by Sgt. Edward Tinter (donors' father) to his wife Clara Tinter, during his service in the 9th Armored Division of the US Army during WWII; dated 1944-1945, collection of "Stars and Stripes", dated 1944-1945, and photographs depicting Sgt. Edward Tinter during his military service.

  14. Carol Scott photographs

    Consists of an oversized photograph taken in 1936 of Adolf Hitler acknowledging a crowd in Austria during a parade. Also includes a copy of a photograph from the 1920s of a Ku Klux Klan parade in Virginia.

  16. China Clipper airplane lands in Manila

    Interisland boat departs from pier (destined for Mindinao?), people wave ribbons. Aerial views of the first China Clipper plane flying low and landing in shallow water near the busy Pier 7 in Manila on November 29, 1935. 01:22:32 CUs, Frieder family and friends smile for the camera aboard a ship meeting the clipper.

  17. Поименни декларации на лица от еврейски произход, съгласно чл. 26 от Закона за защита на нациата Bulgarian People's Bank, Sofia (Fond 285K, Opis 7). Personal declarations of financial accests and property submitted by Bulgarian Jews.

    Personal declarations of financial assets and property submitted by the Bulgarian Jews in accordance with the Law for the Defense of Nation. Each file consists of detailed questionnaire providing information about person's financial assets, property etc. declared in accordance with the Law for the Defense of Nation effective from 23 January 1941 to 27 November 1944.

  18. Frank A. Tuman papers

    Collection of papers relating to Corp. Frank A. Tuman during his service with Company L, 304th Infantry Regiment, 76th Infantry Division of the US Army during WWII. The collection includes a certificate of Merit issued to Tuman for Conspicuously meritorious and outstanding performance of military duty against an armed enemy and a Commendation issued to Tuman from Maj. Gen. Wm. R. Schmidt and Col. Wallace A. Choquette regarding the work Corp. Tuman and Pfc. Harold Levine performed in Mumsdorf, Germany regarding the reburial of victims of Nazi atrocities and the forced confrontation by the lo...

  19. Bund Deutscher Maedel in Ostmark

    Bund Deutscher Maedel (BdM) girls in uniform bike along country road. Girls on boat, singing with Hitler Youth (HJ) boys. Stone gate in Hainburg an der Donau adorned with swastika and eagle. BdM girls line the road, local Austrians in front of shops in BG. BDM girls come through on bicycles and shake hands. Girls march through town streets, banner (illegible) hangs above the street in the BG. They continue along country roads and wave to farmers. Pan down of white building in another village, most probably located in Burgenland. Girls wash and drink from a well and continue biking. Austrian...

  20. Testimonies collected by the Association of the Polish Victims of III Reich Relacje zebrane przez Stowarzyszenia Polaków Poszkodowanych przez III Rzeszę

    Contains testimonies of Polish victims of II Reich. These accounts constitute mostly the answers to a questionnaire sent by the Association of Polish Victims of the Third Reich (SPP) and edited by the Foundation of Polish-German Reconciliation (FPNP) in 1989. Many of accounts contain photographs, poems and personal documents. The contest declared by SPP was entitled: “We commemorate the evidence of the suffering of the Polish people-slaves of the 20th century” („Utrwalamy świadectwa cierpień Polaków-niewolników XX wieku”). 195 accounts were sent, unfortunately not all of them survived.