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  1. Jewish Brigade patch

    Jewish Brigade patch: square with blue and white striped background and yellow Star of David in center

  2. Jewish Brigade patch

    Jewish Brigade cloth patch: rectangle with Hebrew letters at top and "Jewish Brigade Group" embroidered in white.

  3. 1939 medal, "Why we fight".

    Medal: one side depicts caricature of Jewish man with Star of David on his collar, behind bag of money and caption "Wofur Kampfen Unsere Feinde"; other side depicts German soldier, people working, and Nazi eagle symbol with caption "Grossdeutschland kampft fur den frieden gegen den schandvertrag von Versailles"

  4. Anti-Semitic poster, "Nathan Kohn, der Wundersohn"

    1930s German poster depicting 10 antisemetic scenes of "Nathan Kohn, der Wundersohn", with individual captions. The heading on the poster reads "Kikeriki-Bilder-Bogen."

  5. "Jodenkliek" anti-Semitic propaganda leaflet

    "Jodenkliek" anti-Semitic propaganda leaflet; "Yankee - Engelsman - Blosjewwiek / Dansen naar de pijpen / van de / Jodenkliek" [The Yankee, the Englishman & the Bloschevist - all dance according the flute of teh Jewish Clique] intended to be thrown from airplanes.

  6. Flora Mendelowicz Singer papers

    Documents and photographs illustrating the experiences of Flora Mendelowicz (donor) and her family during the time period surrounding the Holocaust in Belgium; included in the collection are a post-war identification document issued by the Romanian government for "Feige, Flora, Charlotte, and Betty Mendelovitz" as well as pre-war photographs of the Mendelowicz family in Romania on a family holiday and the Mendelowicz girls while in hiding at the Our Lady of Sorrows convent in Ruiselede, Belgium.

  7. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  8. Reichssportfeld exhibition; Water tank; Cement factory in 1937

    Professors give tours of facilities in Austra in November 1937 - "A School Chronicle" filmed by Walter Nitsche. Title card: “100 Meter Schulchronik | Ein Filmchen von Walter Nitsche" "Besichtigung der Reichssportfeld-Ausstellung 1937 in der Wiener Sezession Führung: Prof. Prantl Pro. Strache.” The Secession Building in Vienna, draped with an enormous Nazi flag. CU on the swastika. A group of men exit the building down the front steps. Title card: “Besichtigung des Wasserbehälters im Lainzer Tiergarten Nov. 1937 Führung: Prof. Hubel.” Wooden building. A group of men in suits. Pan of a work y...

  9. Portfolio

    Print from a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.

  10. Ration Coupon

  11. Krystyna Siwek-Wilczynska collection

    Four (4) photographs illustrating the experiences of the Diament family before the war and the donor in hiding during the Holocaust in France.

  12. March of Time -- outtakes -- French Forces of the Interrior (FFI) delegates in New York

    Women come and go through an office door marked "Delegation de la France Libre aux Etats Unis." A Cross of Lorraine (two-barred cross, symbol of the French resistance) is painted on the door. Interior shots of drawings hanging on the wall, also marked with two-barred crosses. Two men sit at a desk: the man behind the desk is Jacques de Sieyes, formerly Charles de Gaulle's representative in the United States and now "appointed to Syria" (according to the March of Time dope sheet). His companion is Mr. de Manziarly. The next scene shows the delegate R. de Roussy de Sales as he dictates to his...

  13. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Hungarian Jewish prisoner

    Concentration camp uniform pants issued to Max Rottenberg while imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1944 and 1945. Max, his parents, Albert and Anna, and sisters, Illus, Elisabet, Erna, Erzsebet, and Bozsi, lived in Dés, in the Transylvania region of Austria-Hungary (now Dej, Romania). Between February 1938 and August 1941, Max and his sisters, Elisabet and Ilus, relocated to Spišská Stará Ves, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). In the spring of 1942, the Slovakian authorities deported Elisabet to Auschwitz concentration camp German-occupied Poland, and Max began living un...

  14. Smietanowski family papers

    Contains fifteen photographs, identification documents, and one postcard, documenting the experiences of Jozef and Irena Smietanowski, of Warsaw. Includes German-issued identification card for Irena Smietanowska (1942), two identification cards issued to Jozef in 1939, and one issued to the couple in 1938. Also, one postcard sent to Irena Smietanowska from friends in Rovno, 1940.

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- Invasion of Poland

    Footage of Hitler, Jodl, Keitel, in train car looking at a map; invasion of Poland including captured Polish troops marching through a city, Germans on horseback, shot of motorized vehicles passing sign, ethnic Germans greeting soldiers; removing border barriers; tearing down sign of Poland. Good images of destruction and Polish POWs.

  16. Rohony family papers

    The Rohony family papers are comprised of postcards and photographs documenting the Rohony family’s circumstances during World War II, primarily between 1943 and 1944. Comprised of János, his wife Anna, and their daughter, Zsusana (later Susan), the Rohony family was living in Budapest, Hungary until 1943 when János was forced into the Hungarian labor battalions and Anna was arrested by the Gestapo. János perished in Ohrdruf in 1944. Anna and Zsusana survived the war. The vast majority of this collection consists of extensive correspondence in the form of postcards and letters between János...

  17. Leon Denski photograph

    Contains a photographic print, black and white, showing two American soldiers standing next to large pile of bodies to buried; taken in an unidentified concentration camp after liberation; dated April-May 1945. This photo was brought home from WWII by Leon A. Denski (donor's father) whose job after liberation was to bury the bodies that were found in the camps into mass graves.

  18. Julius Blum collection

    Collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Julius Blum (donor's husband) and his family during the Holocaust. Julius Blum was from Munkacs, Czechoslovakia and survived multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz and Mauthausen, where he was liberated.

  19. Leser family papers

    Correspondence, diaries, photographs, identification documents, postcards, and books, belonging to the family of Helen Leser (also known as Helene Leser, Chana Leser), originally of Rozwadów, Poland. Documents include identification documents for family members during the German occupation of Poland; materials from the Soviet Union during the time of her family's exile there, including postcards received and a children's book; diaries written by Leser while in France after the war; notebooks containing written poetry in Russian and Yiddish; correspondence received by family members and frie...

  20. Portfolio

    Folio cover for an introductory insert and a set of 24 published rotogravures of drawings by Jerzy Zielezinski depicting scenes he witnessed from 1943-1945 while a political prisoner in Auschwitz and Flossenbürg concentration camps.