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  1. Theresienstadt armband with prisoner number worn by a liberated German Jewish prisoner

    1. Hans Benjamin Marx collection

    Theresienstadt armband worn by Hans Benjamin Marx after liberation in Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp and on his journey home between May 8 and June 14, 1945. The Soviet commander in charge of the liberated camp prohibited Judenstern, and instead authorized the released prisoners to wear an armband with their transport number on it. Hans spent most of the war in Frankfurt with his older sister, Claire, and their mother, Elise. Elise was a Protestant, but converted to Judaism before getting married to Hans’s father, Ernest. In November 1938, following the Kristallnacht pogrom, Ernest was ar...

  2. Granite stone from a concentration camp owned by a former Polish Catholic inmate

    1. Julian Noga collection

    Granite stone from Flossenbürg concentration camp owned by Julian Noga, a Polish Catholic camp inmate from August 1942 to April 1945. The stone was meaningful to him because he learned his trade as a stone carver while a camp prisoner. Julian, a Polish Catholic from Skrzynka, found a Polish Army rifle two months after Germany occupied Poland in September 1939. It was illegal to keep weapons, and Julian was reported. In December, he was sent to Austria as a forced laborer for the Greinegger farm near Michaelnbach. Julian, 18, and the farmer’s daughter, Frieda, 17, fell in love. Under German ...

  3. Building stone from a concentration camp owned by a former Polish Catholic inmate

    1. Julian Noga collection

    Gray building stone from Mauthausen concentration camp owned by Julian Noga, a Polish Catholic who was a forced laborer in Wels, a town near the camp, from October 1941-spring 1942. The stone was meaningful to him because he learned his trade as a stone carver while a camp prisoner. Julian, a Polish Catholic from Skrzynka, found a Polish Army rifle two months after Germany occupied Poland in September 1939. It was illegal to keep weapons, and Julian was reported. In December, he was sent to Austria as a forced laborer for the Greinegger farm near Michaelnbach. Julian, 18, and the farmer’s d...

  4. RSHA

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Polizei und SS
    4. Reichssicherheitshauptamt

    I. Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA)/ IV E 6: Sammlung von Rundschreiben, Befehlen und Erlassen Reichsführer-SS (RFSS), RSHA, CdS, 1934-1943, (EAP 173-b-16-12/92a, 93b, 94a, 95c, 102, 109-112, 125), 6923-8231: 1) Rundschreiben RSHA (Streckenbach) vom 24. Juli 1940: Nachweispflicht über Deutschblütigkeit der Ehefrau bei Heirat von Beamten (Hinweis auf Erlass vom 24. Juni 1938), 6925; 2) Rundschreiben RSHA vom 26. Februar 1942: Änderung im Aufbau des Amtes VI, Aufteilung der einzelnen Länder auf die verschiedenen Referate, 6928; 3) Rundschreiben RSHA vom 25. Januar 1943: Umorganisation zum Zwe...

  5. Julian and Frieda Noga photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Frieda Noga (née Greinegger), originally from Michaelnbach, Austria, with her family; holding a bouquet of flowers; and with her husband Julian Noga, originally from Skrzynka, Poland, as a young couple.

  6. Robinsohn, Hans

    1. Nachlässe

    In diesem einem Band Aufzeichnungen liegen programmatische und analytische Schriften Hans Robinsohns zur bürgerlich-liberalen Opposition gegen den Nationalsozialismus vor.

  7. Verschiedene Lager

    Die Sammlung enthält u.a.: Unterlagen zu verschiedenen nationalsozialistischen Lagern, Zeugenaussagen über das Lager Plaszow, Verschiedene Unterlagen betr. Arbeitslager Treblinka, Anklageschrift und Urteil des Volksgerichtes Sachsen betr. Arbeitserziehungslager Radeberg, Allgemeine Korrespondenz, Rot-Kreuz-Korrespondenz, Nachkriegskorrespondenz, Häftlingspost, Zeitungsmeldungen betr. Schutzhaft, Verordnungen, Erlasse früher Konzentrationslager; Stand aller KL und Arbeitslager, 31.3.1944, Standesamtliche beurkundete Todesfälle, Häftlingslisten, Transportlisten, Totenlisten, Friedhoflisten, „...

  8. Prozesse gegen Deutsche im europäischen Ausland: Handakten von Rechtsanwälten

    • Bundesarchiv, Koblenz
    • ALLPROZ 21
    • German
    • Sammlung 394 Aufbewahrungseinheiten 7,0 laufende Meter

    Bestandsbeschreibung Unmittelbar nach Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs ermittelten alliierte Gerichte gegen die Verantwortlichen für Verbrechen gegen den Frieden, wegen Kriegsverbrechen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit. Neben den Verfahren vor dem Internationalen Militärtribunal (IMT) in Nürnberg gegen die Hauptkriegsverbrecher und gegen die NS-Eliten insbesondere aus den Reihen der Justiz, Industrie, Ärzteschaft, Wehrmacht, Diplomatie und Beamtenschaft (Nürnberger Nachfolgeprozesse) fanden weitere Prozesse vor Militärgerichten in den vier Besatzungszonen Deutschlands statt. Zu vergleichb...

  9. Magnus and van Oosten families papers

    The Magnus and van Oosten family papers consist of correspondence, certificates, printed material, and photographs, related to the experiences of the extended family of Sary Melles (née Magnus) during the German occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. The collection includes correspondence from her brother, Ibertus Magnus, written shortly before and during his imprisonment by the Germans, first in Assen, the Netherlands, and then at Buchenwald, as well as a notification of his death and a death certificate. Also included is a brochure that documents the jazz band that he performe...

  10. Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin brought with a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Dorit Isaacsohn family collection

    German 10 pfennig coin brought with 16 year old Dorit Isaacsohn and her mother Gertrud during their November 1949 emigration from Berlin, Germany, to the United States. By the late 1930’s, Dorit’s parents had lost their livelihood because of the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi regime. Dorit, age 6, was sent to Brussels on a Kindertransport in 1939. Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940 and Dorit was returned to her parents in Berlin in 1941. On February 27, 1943, Dorit and her family had to separate to go into hiding. Dorit stayed with a family friend, a cousin, and her father Julius in Ber...

  11. Otto Pankok woodcut of a Sinti man in a hat

    1. Otto Pankok collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8526
    • English
    • 1948
    • overall: Height: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) | Width: 25.125 inches (63.818 cm) pictorial area: Height: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) | Width: 12.125 inches (30.798 cm)

    Woodcut portrait of a Sinti man, Papelon, created by Otto Pankok, a German artist persecuted by the Nazi regime. In the 1920s, he was part of the avant garde Junge Rheinland group with Otto Dix, Gert Wollheim, Karl Schwesig, and Adolf Uzarski. Around 1930, Pankok became fascinated by the itinerant life led by Roma and Sinti, and exhibited his first series of portraits in 1932 at the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle. Under the Nazi regime which came to power in 1933, art and culture had to serve to promote national socialist ideology. Modern art was denounced as a tool of the international Jewish consp...

  12. Otto Pankok woodcut of a Sinti woman

    1. Otto Pankok collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8530
    • English
    • 1960
    • overall: Height: 38.000 inches (96.52 cm) | Width: 25.125 inches (63.818 cm) pictorial area: Height: 26.000 inches (66.04 cm) | Width: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm)

    Woodcut portrait of a Sinti woman created by Otto Pankok, a German artist persecuted by the Nazi regime. In the 1920s, he was part of the avant garde Junge Rheinland group with Otto Dix, Gert Wollheim, Karl Schwesig, and Adolf Uzarski. Around 1930, Pankok became fascinated by the itinerant life led by Roma and Sinti, and exhibited his first series of portraits in 1932 at the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle. Under the Nazi regime which came to power in 1933, art and culture had to serve to promote national socialist ideology. Modern art was denounced as a tool of the international Jewish conspiracy. I...

  13. Otto Pankok woodcut of a Sinti man

    1. Otto Pankok collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8529
    • English
    • 1960
    • overall: Height: 38.250 inches (97.155 cm) | Width: 25.250 inches (64.135 cm) pictorial area: Height: 21.625 inches (54.928 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm)

    Woodcut portrait of a Sinti man created by Otto Pankok, a German artist persecuted by the Nazi regime. In the 1920s, he was part of the avant garde Junge Rheinland group with Otto Dix, Gert Wollheim, Karl Schwesig, and Adolf Uzarski. Around 1930, Pankok became fascinated by the itinerant life led by Roma and Sinti, and exhibited his first series of portraits in 1932 at the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle. Under the Nazi regime which came to power in 1933, art and culture had to serve to promote national socialist ideology. Modern art was denounced as a tool of the international Jewish conspiracy. In ...

  14. Otto Pankok woodcut of a Sinti woman in a striped dress

    1. Otto Pankok collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8527
    • English
    • 1960
    • overall: Height: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) | Width: 25.125 inches (63.818 cm) pictorial area: Height: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm)

    Woodcut portrait of a Sinti woman in a striped dress, Kitzla, created by Otto Pankok, a German artist persecuted by the Nazi regime. In the 1920s, he was part of the avant garde Junge Rheinland group with Otto Dix, Gert Wollheim, Karl Schwesig, and Adolf Uzarski. Around 1930, Pankok became fascinated by the itinerant life led by Roma and Sinti, and exhibited his first series of portraits in 1932 at the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle. Under the Nazi regime which came to power in 1933, art and culture had to serve to promote national socialist ideology. Modern art was denounced as a tool of the intern...

  15. Otto Pankok woodcut of a Sinti woman with freckles

    1. Otto Pankok collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8528
    • English
    • 1960
    • overall: Height: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) | Width: 25.250 inches (64.135 cm) pictorial area: Height: 11.125 inches (28.258 cm) | Width: 16.625 inches (42.228 cm)

    Woodcut portrait of a freckled Sinti woman, Raklo, created by Otto Pankok, a German artist persecuted by the Nazi regime. In the 1920s, he was part of the avant garde Junge Rheinland group with Otto Dix, Gert Wollheim, Karl Schwesig, and Adolf Uzarski. Around 1930, Pankok became fascinated by the itinerant life led by Roma and Sinti, and exhibited his first series of portraits in 1932 at the Dusseldorf Kunsthalle. Under the Nazi regime which came to power in 1933, art and culture had to serve to promote national socialist ideology. Modern art was denounced as a tool of the international Jew...

  16. Dorothy Isaacsohn papers

    The Dorothy Isaacsohn papers consist of photographs of Dorothy Isaacsohn while she was living as a displaced person in Germany and of her parents and their Isaacsohn and Koh relatives before and during the war as well as six pre-printed blank dress forms. One photograph depicts Dorit Isaacsohn four days before her immigration to the United Sates wearing the white blouse her mother handmade for her. Two others show Isaacsohn with a group of men and women outside a castle in the Berlin suburbs. The dress form depicts a drawn image of a woman facing forwards and backwards wearing a long dress ...

  17. Evy Woods papers

    1. Evelyn Goldstein Woods family collection

    Contains original photographs of Ruth Loschinski Thal, a nurse who was in Terezin, Auschwitz and later died in Bergen Belsen; one photo depicts Ruth in the Jewish Hospital in Berlin, July 1942. Also includes a postcard sent from Ruth in Terezin to her family's German neighbors in Berlin dated July 10, 1944; these neighbors sent food packages to Ruth.

  18. Nazi feature film on espionage, British agents, German rearmament

    Plot Summary: In this feature film set in 1936, Mr. Morris operates a British espionage ring based in Berlin that is eager to receive information about secret German rearmament plans. He is successful when he bribes a broke engineer involved in the construction of a new artillery cannon and places an agent in a military airport testing a new type of bomber. However, when Morris deliberately makes the acquaintance with the girlfriend of Hans Klemm, a soldier running in new tanks, he encounters trouble. He initially makes some progress by utilizing the soldier's friendliness and naiveté, but ...

  19. Hoess and others arriving in Warsaw for trial; snapshots from Germany

    Welt im Film. Issue no. 60 Title: Vor dem Warschauer Prozess: Ankunft der Hauptangeklagten [Before the Warsaw trial: arrival of the main defendants]. Nazi defendants disembark from a plane under guard by Polish soldiers. The narrator says that they are guilty of countless crimes against justice and humanity. Some of the men are made to stand posed for the camera as they are identified: Josef Buehler, Hans Frank's deputy in Poland; Ludwig Leist, mayor of Warsaw; Jaeger, the police president of Posen, Beckmann, former head of the Krakow Gestapo; Polnikow, head of the Posen Gestapo, Daume, rep...

  20. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- A victim testifies

    15:47 Mrs. Ennat Vitte, a civil party, continues to testify regarding her experience in Ravensbrück 15:48 President Cerdini asks the witness to describe the circumstances under which she lost her eyesight in Ravensbrück, and whether her inability to walk is a consequence of her time there; the witness has difficulty answering the questions posed 15:52 Prosecutor Vuillard asks the witness to confirm a particular threat leveled at her by Barbie 15:54 President Cerdini calls forward the next witness, Mrs. Simone Lagrange née Kadosche, a civil party in the suit against Barbie 15:55 Mrs. Langran...