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  1. John Dennis scrapbook

    Scrapbook containing 56 photographs mounted on green cardboard: 30 images by 166th Signal Photo Co., 2 copyprints of hanged partisans, and 24 original snapshots of Jews, World War II scenes, and atrocity victims. Compiled by John Dennis, a medic in the 1263d Engineer Combat Battalion, following his return to the United States after the war.

  2. 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.

  3. Antisemitic Nazi propaganda leaflet mimicking a US silver certificate

    Anti-Jewish and anti-Allied forces Nazi propaganda leaflet like those dropped from planes over Paris in late 1943, as part of a German propaganda campaign to raise suspicions against the United States and its part in the worldwide Jewish conspiracy which threatened the safety of France and all of Europe. The streets would appear to be littered with real dollar bills. Then, after picking one up, a person would discover that it was fake and see the information detailing how Jews have manipulated the US and controlled its currency to support the Jewish threat and wage the Jewish war.

  4. "Marianna Tkaczyk" identification card

    The "Kennkarte" was issued to "Marianna Tkaczyk" in Warsaw, Poland, by "Der Stadthauptmann Polizei Direktor" in the Generalgouvernement on May 8, 1943. Anna Danzinger, alias "Marianna Tkaczyk," purchased the birth certificates of two Gentile sisters which enabled her and her sister to obtain identification cards ("Kennkarten"). The sisters survived by living and working as Gentiles in Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust.

  5. Records of German Police Agencies in the Occupied Territories Deutsche Polizeieinrichtungen in den okkupierten Gebieten (Fond 1323)

    Diverse records of the police offices in Germany and includes plans, minutes, interrogations, bulletins, correspondence, personnel files, lists of police offices, reports and directives from the Reichsführer SS Himmler to intermediate levels and to SS Polizeiführer on lower levels. Consists of information about the organization of the Order Police (Orpo) units, Gendarmerie, indigenous formations ("Schutzmannschaften"), and Geheime Feldpolizei (Secret Field Police) in the Occupied Eastern Territories; the regional reports and action plans for numerous localities; information about the activi...

  6. Photograph

    Photograph of seven men, dressed in Allied uniforms, standing on a Bimah, backed by an American flag, a flag which bears the Star of David, candles, and bushes. Created by an unknown photographer, September 1945, at the Stadt Theater, Kaufbeuren, Germany.

  7. Pair of espadrilles used as part of a disguise by anti-fascist refugees fleeing France

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7154
    • English
    • a: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) b: Height: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm)

    Espadrilles used as part of a disguise by anti-fascist refugees fleeing France. The town of Banyuls, France, was the beginning of an escape route for refugees fleeing France. The refugees fled on foot over the Pyrenees dressed in the costumes of the local peasants who wore such espadrilles.

  8. Pedestrians in Warsaw, 1938

    Pedestrians on city street in Warsaw, looking into shop windows.

  9. Summations of prosecutors at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 323) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. HS Defendants in dock. HMS, Goering, von Ribbentrop, Doenitz in dock. Pan, von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg; pan back to Goering. Pan, from prisoners' dock to Shawcross speaking. Note: Voice of Sir Hartley Shawcross is heard throughout reel summing up. HMS, Shawcross, Rudenko, and unidentified woman conversing at the end of the trial. Chief US prosecutor Jackson insists that although some of the defendants are more guilty than others, the magnitude of the crime committed is such that any differentiation between them is not ...

  10. Internment Camps in France

    General views of men working in unidentified internment camp, tracking shot of men hoeing. Wounded men pose. Infirmary with wounded men (matches photo from Récébédou). Women moving into barracks (probably Rivesaltes). Women sewing and washing. CUs of faces. Mail distribution. Children peeling potatoes. Elderly men at camp, CUs. Elderly couples walking (maybe Rivesaltes). Eating in large dining room. Arriving in buses (matches photo from Rivesaltes).

  11. Boots

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7286
    • English
    • a: Height: 11.880 inches (30.175 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) b: Height: 11.880 inches (30.175 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm)

    Boots given to Jack Polak by the Red Cross, June-July 1945, Eindhoven, Holland, The Netherlands.

  12. Oral history interview with Magda Blau

  13. 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.

  14. Ernest Weiss family papers

    Contains documents and a photograph related to Ida Weiss, including a document issued to her in May 1949 in Vienna, Austria, stating that she had been born 11 August 1879, was deported to Minsk on 25 June 1942, and her card never appeared in the Vienna Jewish Organization return card files; and a letter written by Ida to her daughter Lilly, June 1942, Vienna, Austria, on the day before Ida was deported. The text of the letter reads: "My dearest Lilly! Pay balance of gas and electric bill, whatever they amount to. I gave uncle Max 20 marks - he should refund it to you. Small comforter - plea...

  15. SD-Section Szczecin SD-Abschnitt Stettin (Fond 1240)

    Correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the Seventh-Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses, the confiscation of their printed materials, and one item about Jewish influence on churches. Note: USHMM Archives holds only selected records.

  16. Rotenberg and Weiss families photograph collection

    The Rotenberg and Weiss families photograph collection consists of photographs of the Rotenberg (later Roth) and Weiss families before and during World War II. The photographs includes images of Jack Roth in his Polish Army uniform before the war, including one of a group photograph of soldiers seated at a table set for a Passover Seder. A studio portrait of the Weiss family in Plonsk, Poland, undated, including Samuel Weiss and Rachel Weiss, and their five children: Sarah Weiss, Regina Weiss, Max Weiss, David Weiss, and Adolph Weiss.

  17. Studienbuch (student book)

    Consists of a "Studienbuch" (studies book) issued to Dagobert de Levie by the vice-chancellor of the University of Köln in Germany. Contains courses studied, grades, and signatures of professors. Photograph of student attached to inside front cover. According to the donor, he was, later in life, the University's only American lifetime "Ehrensenator" (honor senator).

  18. Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 53) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. LS Hermann Goering under questioning by Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. Jackson is annoyed that Goering does not answer questions and delays the trial. Jackson speaks of Goering's involvement in concentration camps and describes the ways and means of arresting people. Goering responds in German. Jackson speaks about Nazi organizations responsible for propaganda and carrying out orders. Goering testifies that the SS and SA never received any orders to kill. At least "not in his time," he had no influence on the SS. LS, courtroom rises fo...

  19. Postwar destruction; liberation of Dachau; DPs going home

    8mm color and b/w motion pictures taken by Dr. Myron E. Greene (a dentist) during his five years in the Army. His unit took over Dachau from the 45th Div. at noon on April 29, 1945. Scenes showing destruction in Germany. Camera moving quickly. Clouds of smoke, flames, airplane in sky (dark). American GIs smoking, looking at sky. 06:03:15 (black and white) At military camp, jeeps, soldiers dressing. Destruction, ruins, rubble. Ambulance with Red Cross and military trucks moving in town; in same scene, people walking through the streets in the opposite direction, some have belongings. Scenes ...

  20. People in Berestowitz, Poland

    Pan, village. White house. Group of men and children at storefront/building.