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  1. Oral history interview with Pesach Rosen

  2. UNRRA delivers food and clothes to needy

    Issue 194, Part 6: Displaced persons are greeted on their return to Czechoslovakia. The Army transports and distributes UNRRA supplies.

  3. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 478) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MS, HS, MCU Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor addressing courtroom. Taylor discusses the different departments of the Wehrmacht and then reviews the careers of defendants Handloser and Oskar Schroeder. In reading the indictment, Taylor speaks of the so-called "anthropological experiments." HS of the Tribunal: Judges Sebring, Beals, Crawford, and Swearingen. General Taylor talks of the "high and low pressure" experiments conducted at Dachau.

  4. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 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.

  5. Oral history interview with Agnes Hertzer

  6. Tag der Nationalen Solidaritaet: Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes

    Logbook of corporate donations to to the Nazi party, Germany, dated 1936-1938.

  7. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 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.

  8. Newspapers

    MCU scattered pile of various language newspapers.

  9. Bitter War on West Front (Malmedy)

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 371.

  10. Liberation in Prague

    Issue 163, Part 1: Prague liberated, street signs ripped down. Street fighting between civilians and SS units. Good shots of street battles. Czechs use rifles, grenades. Dead in street. Germans shell city, burning buildings. Trucks of Russian army enter city, units of first Czechoslovak army, tanks. Pres. Edvard Benes dismounts from train. Shot of him at balcony.

  11. Black leather belt with Nazi eagle insignia

  12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 5 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.

  13. Album

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7157
    • English
    • 1936
    • a: Height: 12.380 inches (31.445 cm) | Width: 9.880 inches (25.095 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 26.750 inches (67.945 cm) | Width: 12.750 inches (32.385 cm)

    Nazi propaganda cigarette coupon album.

  14. 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.

  15. Oral history interview with Gerd Hahn

  16. Simon Krakinovsky scrapbook

    Contains a bound scrapbook, compiled by Simon Krakinovsky, a former inmate of the Dachau concentration camp. Includes photographs of the camp with captions, newspaper articles, and a prisoner badge.

  17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 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.

  18. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark coin

    20 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 killi...

  19. Simcha Dimant papers

    The Simcha Dimant papers relate to the Holocaust and immediate post-war experiences of Simcha Dimant, a Polish Jew. The papers contain identification documents including a provisional identification card issued by the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Buchenwald concentration camp, April 1945; a Haftlings-Personal-Karte (Prisoners-Personal-Card); a Mandat-Karte (Mandate Card), July 1945; and a fragment of a Military Government Temporary Registration form. The papers also include travel documents relating to Dimant’s work for the Allied Expeditionary Forces. These documents include a D.P. Index...

  20. Europe's stranded millions begin emigration

    Issue 166, Part 4: Refugees in Allied displaced persons camps, including Leipzig and Shanouw, are routed homeward.