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  1. "Bible students in the Third Reich"

    S. J. Green essay discussing why and how Jehovah's Witnesses were persecuted by members of the Nazi Party; the activities and fates of other Christian sects (i.e. Roman Catholics, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists); and how individual Witnesses were able to survive. The essay also contains a summary of an interview Green had with H. Dickmann, a Witness survivor.

  2. Edith Simon Babich papers

    The collection contains photographs and copyprints of Edith Simon Babich, her parents Karl and Selma Simon, and her sister Ilse Simon aboard the MS St. Louis during its voyage to Havana, Cuba, in 1939. Some of the photographs are annotated on the verso. Also included is a personal narrative written by Edith’s husband Reuben Babich describing the Holocaust experiences of the Simon, Frank, and Lazarus families of Cloppenburg, Germany; a Red Cross letter documenting the fates Karl, Selma, and Ilse; and two prewar postcards related to the MS St. Louis.

  3. Oral history interview with Alexander Fishman

  4. Oral history interview with Bela Blau

  5. Western front

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 371. Soldiers. Civilians with luggage. Headlines, "Vive la France". Aerial views of bomb damage.

  6. Tallit bag

    Tallit bag made for Hugo Werber for his bar mitzvah, by Bertha Lieban, his aunt, who perished in Auschwitz during the Holocaust. Hugo's mother, Bertha's sister, had immigrated to the United States in the early 20th century.

  7. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case

    (Munich 624) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Curtis Grover Shake, presiding, calls upon Carl Lautenschlaeger (defendant) to plead. Judge Shake states in part that a petition put forth by the defendants for more time to prepare their answer to the indictment is denied. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor at lectern, reading the indictment says that the prisoners are accused of leading the world into the most catastrophic war known to mankind, etc. What these men did, Gen. Taylor says, was not something that was done in a rage, but ...

  8. Arpad Stern letter

    Contains a Red Cross letter written by Arpad Stern (donor's great uncle) to Salomon Stern (donor's grandfather), December 1943, Rimaszecs, Hungary. Received by Salomon Stern, July 1944, in New York. Form is printed in Hungarian, French, and German, with message written in Hungarian. Text reads: "Dear Róza and Salomon we are well but without shop and income we would like to hear good news from you please write to us Kisses Arpad and Piroska;" Salamon Stern received the telegram months after it was created. Arpad and Piroska Stern perished in the Holocaust. Their two sons fled to Palestine an...

  9. Grünberg family papers

    The Grünberg family papers relate to the wartime experiences of the Grünberg family of Vienna, Austria. The papers include the birth certificates of Siegfried Grünberg and Irma Katz; reissued copies of the marriage certificates of Siegfried and Irma Grünberg, June 5, 1932, and Juda Lieb Katz and Chaja Zilsel Margulies, February 21, 1909; a naturalization certificate for Siegfried Gruen, December 5, 1944; and a certificate for the completion of coursework in elementary education for Siegfried Grünberg, June 1940. Also included are three German passports, Deutsches Reich Reisepass, issued to ...

  10. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  11. SD-Guide Sections Weimar und Erfurt SD-Leitabschnitte Weimar und Erfurt (Fond 1241)

    Consists of the 1939 reports of the SD sector in Eisenach; printed materials on the activities of the Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben ("Institute for the Investigation and Removal of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life"); a 1942 Himmler directive and other reports and regulations on strengthening SS and police combat forces in occupied Poland and the Eastern Territories, including the recruitment of Ukrainians, Balts, and White Ruthenians under the coordination of SS Brigade Leader Odilo Globočnik. Also included is a ...

  12. Sign marking the malaria station at Dachau

  13. Inscribed marble tympanum from the former synagogue of Vrable, Slovakia

    Ornamental stone from above the entrance to the 1872 synagogue of Vrable, Slovakia, inscribed with Psalm 118, verse 19. The Jews of Vrable were deported to Auschwitz in 1944 by Hungarian forces allied with Nazi Germany. The abandoned synagogue deteriorated and was demolished in the 1970s by the communist government of Czechoslovakia.

  14. Cross of Honor of the German Mother medal, 2nd Class Order, Silver Cross

    The Mother's Cross was instituted by the Nazi Party in 1938. It was first awarded in 1939 to some 3 million mothers as a propaganda measure to promote National Socialist population policy.

  15. Bookmark

  16. Jar containing bars of soap presented to an employee at the American Victory Foundation

  17. War Crimes Trials: Pohl Case

    (Munich 531) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 4 (Pohl Case), Nuremberg, Germany, March 10-12, 1947. Unidentified defense attorney at speaker's stand. HS, Judges on bench: Robert M. Toms presiding, Fitzroi Donald Phillips, Michael A. Musmanno, and John J. Speight. LS, MCU, Prosecutor James McHaney reading the indictment. McHaney mentions names of defendants: Oswald Pohl; August Frank; Georg Loerner; Hans Loerner; Heinz Karl Panslau; Joseph Vogt; Erwin Tachentachter; Rudolf Scheide; Max Kiefen; Eirenschmalz; Karl Sommer; Herman Cook; Hans Hohberg; Leo Volk; Karl Eathey; ...

  18. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 100 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  19. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark coin

    5 mark coin issued in the Łódź ghetto in Poland in 1943. Nazi Germany occupied Poland on September 1, 1940; Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the German Reich. In February, the Germans forcibly relocated the large Jewish population into a sealed ghetto. All currency was confiscated in exchange for Quittungen [receipts] that could be exchanged only in the ghetto. The scrip and tokens were designed by the Judenrat [Jewish Council] and includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killin...

  20. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 20 kronen, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.