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  1. Hitler's Hatchet Man!

    Contains a leaflet entitled "Hitler's Hatchet Man!" presenting the text of a speech delivered to Dormont Rotary Club, Pittsburgh, July 1939, by James R. Cox.

  2. German children in Wiesbaden; Duchess of Luxembourg; displaced persons

    (4/16/1945 slate) In Wiesbaden, German civilian boys digging in dirt pile. German boys playing/rafting in wading pool. CUs, German boys. (4/13/1945 slate) Airplane lands. MS, two GIs arrest two suspected Nazis. Extensive bomb damage. German woman takes firewood out of bomb damage. (2/24/1945 slate) Strafing trains. German prisoners are brought across pontoon bridge on Rhine River. CU, German children in Wiesbaden, on roadside. (4/14/1945 slate) Pan from statue to civilians in Luxembourg waiting for returning liberated prisoners. Crowds as they wave flags for the Duchess in city of Luxembour...

  3. Dachau camp administration buildings and SS guards at roll call

    Color and black and white footage shot by a baker who supplied bread to the Dachau concentration camp and was also a member of the town of Dachau's amateur film club. See Stories 1283, 1284, and 1285 for related footage. Poor quality color footage showing the interior of the Dachau administration department. A man stacks and counts paper money at a desk. He gives a Hitler salute to someone off camera. 00:18:32 Quality improves. SS men stand outside camp buildings. There is snow on the ground and icicles hang from the gutters. 00:18:56 Film switches to black and white. A car pulls up to a ga...

  4. Silberman family collection

    The Silbermann family papers comprise correspondence and photographs documenting Curt and Else Silbermann and their families from Würzburg, Germany, before, during, and after the Holocaust. Extensive family correspondence to Curt and Else Silbermann, who had immigrated to the United States, relates news about life in Nazi and postwar Germany. Six photograph albums document Else Kleeman Silbermann and her family in prewar Germany. Correspondence primarily consists of letters to Curt and Else Silberman in the United States from his parents, Adolf and Ida Silbermann, and her mother, Therese Kl...

  5. Painting of a man in a fez done on pillowcase by Dutch Jew in hiding

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn39869
    • English
    • 1944
    • overall: Height: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Depth: 1.880 inches (4.775 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm)

    Painting and frame created by Dr. Samuel Vreedenburg in 1944 while he was living in hiding in the home of his former assistant and her husband, Janny and Willem Blom, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It is a copy of Van Gogh’s The Zouave and was painted on a pillowcase with a frame made from crib slats. Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940 and, in 1942, Samuel and his wife Marianne sent their 9 year old son Max to live with their Christian housekeeper. That summer, the Germans began deporting Jews to concentration camps. In July, Janny and Willem visited the Vreedenburgs to encourage them...

  6. Holzmann family papers

    Consists of photographs and documents related to Martha Holzmann Braun, originally of Vienna, Austria. Includes pre-war family photographs; birth, marriage and divorce certificates; post-war naturalization and identity documents; a Reisepass for Martha's sister, Erna Holzmann Steckerl; and photographs of Erna with her husband, Alex. Also includes a prayer book presented to Erna Holzmann in 1921.

  7. Bernard Block photograph collection

    The Bernard Block photograph collection documents the Buchenwald and Ohrdruf concentration camps immediately following liberation. Images depict burial of victims, mass graves, and general scenes of the camps. The collection contains twenty photographs mounted with tape onto loose photo album pages, some with captions handwritten across the top in blue ink. The collection also includes an image of Major Bernard Block, DDS in his military uniform.

  9. Yank, the Army Weekly (New York, New York) [Magazine]

    Issue of Yank: The Army Weekly, with a cover featuring four portraits of American soldiers with the caption: "American soldiers who were prisoners of the Germans."

  10. Wehrmacht helmet acquired by a US soldier

    German Wehrmacht helmet acquired by Don Stanton, a soldier in the United States Army.

  11. Winter 1941/Spring 1942 on the Eastern Front

    November - December 1941 Poor quality shots at first. It is now winter; snow lies on the ground. Wreckage of cars and corpses. A cow wanders past. 01:38:52 A group of Russian partisans has been hung and left on display with a sign that reads (partly illegible) "On the night of November 24th, 1941 these beasts of the Russian regiment 239 813 a. 817 mutilated and murdered German wounded." Good CUs of the dead men. Horses drag wounded soldiers on sleds through a small village. The wind whips snow all around and it looks bitterly cold. Three men walk away from the camera through deep, heavy sno...

  12. Bomb damage in Germany; water lines; USO show at Nuremberg stadium

    (AT THE FRONT slate). Tanks and men around airfield. Military looking out of hatches of tank. Men stand around fire warming themselves. Coffee pot on fire. Armed half-track in FG as they guard airport. Men in half-track, two gunners and a wireless operator. Wireless operator types message, uses decoder. Half-track and trailer move away from camera on edge of airstrip. Panning past furrows on airstrip. This plowing was done by the Germans to make the airfields unusable for the American forces. Tanks move along wooded road past camera. GI vehicles advance through (under) wrecked railroad subw...

  14. 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...

  15. Stadelheim death certificates

    The Stadelheim death certificates consists of certificates documenting the deaths of prisoners at the Stadelheim prison in Munich, Germany, between 1942-1944. The certificates indicate that the vast majority of the prisoners were executed by beheading in groups and their bodies transferred to the Anatomical Institute in Munich. Includes some bureaucratic correspondence and transport bills for taking the bodies to the Institute. Also includes the original binder which housed the documents, on which "Leichen" [Corpses] is written, and on the inside of the binder, the chemicals used to create ...

  16. Herbert Huberty collection

    Contains photographic prints, black and white images documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation; images include survivors, victims, the memorial erected at the camp, and gallows; some include handwritten inscriptions in pencil on verso; dated April 1945. The photographs were brought home from the war and some taken by Herbert Huberty (donor's grandfather) who served with the US Army during WWII. Also includes additional photographs from Herbert Huberty's wartime experiences, including two photo booklets, lists of members of the platoons in the 976th Engineer Maintenance ...

  17. "A Hidden Child's Story"

    Consists of one article, entitled "A Hidden Child's Story" by Sam Lauber, which originally appeared in the Dayton (OH) Jewish Observer in May 2005. In the article, which includes copies of photographs, Mr. Lauber describes the Nazi occupation of Antwerp, where he was born in 1942. Mr. Lauber's parents arranged for him to go into hiding with the Detry family in La Louviere, Belgium, where he remained for a year before reuniting with his family. In 1948, the family immigrated to the United States. Mr. Lauber describes his post-war life and decision in 1986 to travel to La Louviere to find the...

  18. Willy van Gurp testimony

    Consist of one testimony, five pages, presumably written in 1945, by Willy van Gurp, a female member of the Dutch Underground. Ms. van Gurp was arrested in June 1944 due to her involvement in the Underground. After questioning, she was imprisoned, first in the Vught concentration camp, and at the evacuation of the camp, she was sent to Ravensbrück. She describes conditions in Ravensbrück in the fall of 1944 and her deportation to Munich, where she worked in a munitions factory connected to Dachau. As the Americans approached, she was sent on a death march toward a camp near Innsbruck and wa...

  20. Martin Weiss papers

    The Martin Weiss papers consists of identification documents collected by Martin Weiss in post-war Czechoslovakia. The documents were collected by Weiss after his release from the Gunskirchen concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen concentration camp, and were intended to be used for Weiss’ immigration to the United States.