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  1. Allach gold-ringed porcelain vase with presentation box found in the Reichstag, Berlin

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn35878
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 14.620 inches (37.135 cm) | Diameter: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) b: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Depth: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm)

    Allach presentation vase, model # 500, found by Colonel Ronald M. Hubbs in an office in the Reichstag in Berlin following the capture of the city in May 1945 at the end of World War II. The Allach porcelain factory was one of the SS's (Schutzstaffel; Protection Squadrons) first industrial enterprises, under the direct control of Heinrich Himmler. The factories were sub-camps of Dachau concentration camp, with camp inmates supplying the forced labor. Although the Reichstag was not used for Parliament sessions after the infamous 1933 fire, it was used for ceremonies. Himmler was believed to h...

  2. Marx family collection

    Contains nine postcards, dated July18-23, 1942, written by Salli, Eva, Helma and Alfred Israel (donor’s paternal great uncles), to their governess Sibilla Klaus, a non-Jewish woman, during their last journey from Cologne, Germany to Minsk where they were murdered in Maly Trostinetz upon arrival. The first postcard was sent from Cologne and the rest were sent on route: Berlin, Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), Warsaw, Brest Litovsk at the Russian border, and after arriving in Minsk. Includes an envelope in which Albert Marx (donor’s father) kept these postcards, bearing an inscription: “The last regards...

  3. The Striker, Number 16, April 1938, 16th year 1938 Der Stürmer (Nuremberg, Germany) [Newspaper]

    One issue of the antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, from April 1938 with the headline: Die habsburger und die Juden.

  4. Frankfurt -- city views

    A variety of nice quality city views of Frankfurt, including houses, the Main river, a busy café, landmarks (the opera, the university) and townspeople. 03:03:56 People buy wurst and bread from vendors, followed by a scene in a beer garden. 03:06:20 Nazi flags are visible in the street, dating this film to the Nazi period (probably early on). Interior shots of the Goethe House museum. Staging of Goethe's play "Goetz" and other works outdoors in front of the City Hall. Title: "On the way from yesterday to today." Shots of streetcars. Interiors of the art museum. Title: "The face of today." H...

  5. Weiner family collection

    Contains pre-war photographic images of the Weiner family (donor's immediate family) in Veľké Ripňany, Czechoslovakia (present day Slovakia); and pre-war photographs of the Flaschner family (donor’s husband’s immediate family) in Austria. Also included are post-war photos of Isabella Wiener at the Feldafing DP camp in Germany. The pre-war Weiner family photos were entrusted to non-Jewish neighbors by Malvina Weiner (donor's mother) right before her deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942 where she perished; Isabella survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Płaszów concentration c...

  6. Obersitzker family papers

    Documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Siegfried Obersitzker (a Polish born German Jew) and his wife Charlotte Reuter Obersitzker (a German born non-Jew) who fled from Berlin with their son Horst in December 1938 to Havana, Cuba where they remained until ultimately immigrating to the United States in 1941. Included are affidavits of support for the Obersitzkers, German passports, landing permits for Havana, as well as immigration correspondence for Charlotte's mother Franziska Reuter who emigrated from Berlin to the United States in 1947.

  7. Olympics -- Berlin 1936

    Title: "The Games Begin." Scenes show various events interspersed with crowd scenes. In most cases there is a title after the event that names the winners and gives their times. The games begin with a warm up (or a first heat?) sprint, won by a man name Borchmeyer. Tilly Fleischer throws the javelin, winning the first gold medal for Germany. Hitler and Hermann Goering congratulate the athletes on the podium. 01:13:38 Jesse Owens wins the 100 m sprint in 10.3 seconds. Slow motion of the women's 100 m sprint, won by the American Stephens. The footage of the two men's and women's races is repe...

  8. Dennis Lynch collection

    Contains seven black-and-white photographs taken in a concentration camp following liberation. Some of the images are identified as being at the Ohrdruf concentration camp, and depict prisoner retaliation against their captors, as well as American soldiers viewing rows of corpses. Some of the photos have typed captions on verso.

  9. KPD demonstration

    Drummers, low-angle with flags, women marching and holding sign, "Hinweg mit der Paragraph 218." This is a KPD demonstration regarding unemployment. Striking Paragraph 218, which punished women for having abortions, was a main plank in the KPD platform. Narration: "both leftists and Nazis were victims of unemployment; KPD was subordinate to Stalin." Other signs: "...Neukoellns" ; "Ruhrgebiet." Large crowd scene. Narration: "SPD are the main enemies of the KPD."

  10. Rosa Grosz and Deszo Goldstein collection

    Contains two identification documents issued by the Allied Military Government to Rosa Grosz and Deszo Goldstein in the Landsberg am Lech Displaced Persons camp, photograph of bearers attached, states that they were liberated from the Dachau concentration camp; issued July 12, 1945. Invitation to the wedding of Rosa Grosz and Dezso Goldstein on November 24, 1945 at Landsberg am Lech; in German.

  11. United States Department of Justice, Office of Special Investigations (USDOJ-OSI), Denaturalization Cases Transcripts and Decisions

    Consists of paper copies of transcripts of more than 40 denaturalization and removal cases that OSI and/or, in some instances, other components of the Department of Justice, litigated to trial, as well as the transcripts of hearings in the two contested extradition matters in which OSI participated. These transcripts are uncorrected stenographic transcripts. The OSI decisions consist of copies of published and unpublished decisions relating to the final dispositions of OSI’s denaturalization, removal and extradition matters, as well as interim decisions and orders on a variety of important ...

  12. Dratcu (Dratwa) family collection

    Consists of the family history of the Dratcu (Dratwa) family, originally of Hotin (Chotyn), Romania, written by Dr. Luiz Dratcu in 2005. In the history, Dr. Dratcu describes his family's experiences on a forced march from Hotin into Russia and how his father, David, and uncle, Ephraim, managed to escape from the march. They were imprisoned in the Popowitz labor camp in Transnistria, but Ephraim managed to escape to Palestine. David was liberated by the Soviet Army, which he then joined for the remainder of the war. After the war, the family reunited, and by 1952, were all living in Brazil. ...

  13. Uprising in Prague; Looted art discovered; Children in Holland

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 7 (part) Title: Aufstand in Prag [Uprising in Prague] The citizens of Prague rise up against the German occupiers. People tear down a German-language street sign, throw leaflets from windows, and burn a German flag. They raise British, American, and Soviet flags. Shots of captured German POWs. Czechs retake the radio station and citizens build barricades and hand out weapons. Fighting in the streets. The narrator says that while the free world celebrated the capitulation of Germany, Prague still lay in darkness. More fighting, German POWs taken prisoner. Male and fem...

  14. Freudenthal family papers

    Collection includes writings by Rabbi Joseph Freudenthal of Worms, Germany, and documents relating to the Freudenthal family and their relatives during the Holocaust in Bergen Belsen, Theresienstadt, Izbica, and Amsterdam.

  15. Oral testimony of Henrietta Bendik

  16. Braf family papers

    Collection of pre-war and post-war photographs of Kosice and Bratislava; 2 Identity cards: “Flüchtlingausweis/Livret pour réfugiés” issued to Alexandre and Helen Braf; dated October 13, 1944; Berne, Switzerland. Itzhak Braf and his parents were on the Kasztner train from Hungary; 1 Registration card (repatriation) for Ernest Braf; dated September 5, 1945.

  17. Charles E. Pollak collection

    Contains documents relating to the Rosenberg family of Vienna, Austria. Includes a German passport stamped with the red letter "J," issued to Margarette Rosenberg in October 1938; correspondence written by Sofie and Karl Rosenberg in Vienna to their daughters Gertrude Rosenberg Pollak and Margarete Rosenberg Roberts in the United States, dated 1941; and family photographs from Vienna, dated 1920s and 1930s.

  18. Red Cross Tracing Service in action; Berlin receives aid; UN meeting in New York

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 78 Title: Suchdienst fuer Kinder und Eltern [Tracing service for children and parents]. Women in nurse uniforms and civilian clothing work in a busy office. Two nurses look through boxes of alphabetized cards. The narrator explains that the Red Cross is attempting to reunite parents and children torn apart by the war. Several people work at a large table, looking through boxes of cards. The main bureaus of the tracing service are in Munich and Hamburg. The next scenes show orphaned children living in a children's home that was formerly an SS Lebensborn center. Variou...

  19. Estate of Jack Weston Wood collection

    Contains photographic prints showing post-liberation scenes of the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, dated circa April 1945. The photographs were potentially taken by Major General Jack W. Wood of the United States Air Force, who was in command of the 20th Bomb Wing of the Eighth Air Force and later executive of the 14th Combat Bomb Wing.

  20. Petzal family collection

    Contains a Red Cross letter sent by Grete Werner in Palestine to her sister Lotti Bieber in Piaski, Poland, dated August 27, 1942, and returned with annotation: "Address moved away"; a letter written by Hilde Petzal in Piaski, probably in 1940, describing the terrible conditions the family was in after their deportation from Stettin in February 1940; letters written by the Petzal family in Piaski to their cousins in Washington, DC, dated c. 1940; letters written by Ingeborge Petzal in Germany to her brother Horst in Palestine, dated c. 1939; an identification certificate issued to Ingeborg ...