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  1. KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps. Pictorial report of concentration camps

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn13542
    • English
    • 1945
    • a: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)

    A copy of the “KZ: Bildbericht aus fünf Konzentrationslagern” [KZ: Pictorial report of five concentration camps] pamphlet published in Germany in 1945. It was published quickly by the American War Information Office to increase awareness of the atrocities that had occurred. It contains post-liberation photographs at Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Nordhausen, and Ohrdruf concentration camps and the site of the Gardelagen massacre.

  2. Box

  3. Ann Benjamin Goldberg papers

    The collection consists of a health card, certificate issued in Bremen, Germany, and photographs depicting Ann Benjamin Goldberg's family in Dyatlovo, Poland (Dzi︠a︡tlava, Belarus) before the Holocaust, her time as a student in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, and her stay and work as a nurse in Zeilsheim displaced persons camp in Germany after World War II. Additional photographs depict visits to the Föhrenwald and Eschwege displaced persons camps.

  4. Prayer book

    Haggadah used by the Zolno family after the war in Foehrenwald displaced persons camp.

  5. Oral history interview with Alfred Stern

  6. Esther Malin collection

    Contains four pieces of ghetto scrip, four photographs from the Łódź Ghetto, and one newspaper clipping.

  7. Pamphlet

  8. Tin pail made for one prisoner by another in Kaufering concentration camp

    Tin bucket made in Kaufering concentration camp for 14 year old Shmuel Rabinovitz by the head tinsmith. It originally had a cover, but it was lost. The large size of the pail was very helpful for Shmuel. He was often able to get a larger serving of soup and he could keep his bread portion in it as well. Shmuel carried the pail with him on the death march in April 1945 when the Germans evacuated the camp because of approaching US troops. Shmuel and his parents, Yitzchak and Shulamit, were incarcerated in the Jewish ghetto in Kovno (Kaunus], Lithuania, after the Germans occupied the city in J...

  9. Suitcase carried by a Jewish girl on a Kindertransport to the United Kingdom

  10. Concentration camp inmate jacket worn by Polish Jewish woman in Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck

    Concentration camp jacket worn by Polish Jewish woman in Auschwitz and Ravensbrueck concentration camps

  11. Women survivors; corpses; execution

    "Crime et Chatiment" [ECPA handwritten notes indicate that these are Jewish women at "Camp Transit d'Allach."] Women survivors. Young, showing numbers on arms, holding pictures of themselves before the war. Sign: "...Dachau" ; "Waffen SS" HAS, camp courtyard with survivors. "X" on back. Cages. Near gas chamber, man in striped uniform showing INT of gas chamber (dark). Pile of corpses. Carrying corpse inside shack. Pile of clothing. Bodies on wagon. American/French? soldiers escort man to his execution. Firing squad.

  12. German invasion, territorial expansion

    Reel 4: Text superimposed on screen re: Norway and Germany. "9 April 1940" Aerial shots of parachutes. Civilians watch silently as troops march by, some frightened, women running (quick), very soft, street chaos, streets in flames, crowds piling into trucks, fearful faces, some weeping. Troops. Text superimposed on screen re: invasion of Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg. 05:30:18 "10 May 1940" Troops, night shots. LS, silhouettes of buildings on fire. Text superimposed on screen re: invasion of Yugoslavia. 05:31:15 "6 April 1941" Planes dropping bombs, explosions. Soldiers running down country ...

  13. Pamphlet

  14. Belgian refugees; Air attack on Brussels; ruins

    [Colonne refugies belges / populations francaise et belge en fuite (1940)] Belgian refugees along road, very middle class. Sign: "Douanes Francaises" Fleeing, walking along country roads, with bundles. Officer checking identification papers of automobile driver. CUs, car damage. Nun providing water to refugees on truck. CU, children. Sleeping in tents. Sign: "Douane Belge - Belgisch Tol" Traveling with horse and cart, some walking along road. Loading belongings into trunk of car. Children in baby carriages. Riding bicycles. Nuns. Waiting at border with belongings. Various CUs refugees. Fire...

  15. Hitler Youth; Rearmament

    Title: "Part III Preparation for Wars of Aggression 1935-1939" Title: "1935 Von Schirach Urges Hitler Youth to Follow Principles of "Mein Kampf"" von Schirach addresses youth. Title: "Goering Announces Rearmament of Germany March 1935" Miscellaneous military scenes.

  16. Havaner lebn Vida Habanera (Havana, Cuba) [Newspaper]

    Newspaper from Cuba documenting the arrival of the MS St. Louis.

  17. Hitler speech; Krupp munitions plant; reoccupying Rhine; Ribbentrop

    Title: "1936" Title: "Reoccupation of the Rhineland, 7 March 1936." Nazis march into Dusseldorf as people cheer. Guards are posted at monuments and docks. 02:33:56 Title: "Minister von Neurath expresses confidence all Germans will vote approval of Hitler's policies, 29 March 1936." Hess, Goebbels, and others also cast votes. 02:35:14 Title: "Ribbentrop, Ambassador to Great Britain, Outlines Nazi Foreign Policy, April 1936." Seated at a desk Ribbentrop explains that the Chancellor has placed before the world his peace plan. Germany's sovereignty has been restored and Hitler will not allow it...

  18. MS St. Louis postcard

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515240
    • English
    • 1934
    • pictorial area: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) overall: Height: 8.100 inches (20.574 cm) | Width: 9.750 inches (24.765 cm)

    Framed and matted postcard with both sides visible: recto- black and white drawing of ship at sea; verso- inscription in English, dated July 1, 1934. Postcard was sent to the United States from on board the SS St. Louis

  19. Berlin AJDC Tracing Office, 1945-1947 [Book]

    An American Joint Distribution Committee Publication in memory of the Jewish Holocaust survivors of Berlin, Germany.

  20. Jewish home for the people with disabilities in the Netherlands, 1934

    Documentary on the Jewish Home for the Disabled. Titles throughout. Nurses wave. Band plays (brief w/captions). Elderly enter auditorium of home. Entertainers arrive. Orchestra plays, cut aways to audience. Lilliputners (midgets) arrive at home, performing for residents, cut aways people laughing. Louis Davids performs in auditorium. Shot of Fritz Hirsh. Opera performers from the Princess theater depart for Home via bus. Children play in auditorium. Opera company arrives. Hans Lichtenstein directs orchestra (good). Opera company performs concert version of? Sequence of elderly lady lighting...