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  1. Werner Isenberg papers

    The Werner Isenberg papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting Werner Isenberg’s family from Dortmund, their emigration from Nazi Germany to South Africa and the United States, and relatives murdered in the Holocaust. Biographical materials include passports for Lina and Simon Isenberg as well as certificates required for emigration. This series also includes a list of relatives of Werner and Therese Isenberg from the Isenberg, Kleeblatt, Freund, Bendorf, Hainebach, Stahl, Kahn, and Levy families who were murdered during the Holocaust. The correspondence series pri...

  2. Muzeum Slovenskeho Narodneho Povstania records relating to Jews in Slovakia

    Relates to anti-Jewish policies in Slovakia, the Hlinka Guard, and other Holocaust-related topics.

  3. Leather ID bracelet with a copper tag with a prisoner number worn by a concentration camp inmate

  4. Oral history interview with Magda Blau

  5. Oral history interview with Mendel Nudel

  6. War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case), Nuremberg, Germany, October 15, 1947. Ohlendorf testifying about the number of persons his Einsatzgruppe D killed. Cross examined by US prosecutor James Heath. Musmanno rules that Ohlendorf's testimony from the International Military Tribunal regarding the number 90,000 victims stands.

  7. Gold colored patch with 2 triangles with a Reichsadler and the letters G L

  8. Ehren-Chronik photograph

    Ehren-Chronik (or "honor chronicle"). Printed text with reproduction half-tone prints and photograph album with copy prints adhered to pages accompanied by handwritten captions, material pertains to Nazi Party, volume bound with red cord; published by Friedrich Eber.

  9. National Socialist German Workers Party pin worn by a Party member

    National-Sozialisteische-Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("N.S.D.A.P.") National Socialist German Workers Party membership pin worn by SA Man.

  10. 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.

  11. Buchenwald canteen coupon given to a concentration camp inmate

  12. Valeriu and Eva Gerson Marcu identity card

    Certificate of Identity for Traveller (Certificat d'Identit et de voyage), issued to Valeriu and Eva Gerson Marcu, September 30, 1940. Booklet format: typewritten form with handwritten entries, photographs of bearers, contains entry, exit and transit visas; issued by Rumanian consulate at Bziers, France; illegible signature; valid through September 30, 1941. In French, Rumanian, Spanish, Portuguese and English. The Marcu family were refugees in France and prominent anti-fascists; they were aided in their escape by the Centre Americain de Secours.

  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. US Army in Japan

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 431. Release date, 09/06/1945. According to UN advance information, "Tokio [sic], The Desolate City." As Yanks occupy the Japanese capital they see that Tokio is a ruined city. The antiquated Jap fire-fighting equipment was unable to save immense areas which were burned out by fire bomb raids. Yet, most of the buildings in the Mikado's compound are untouched.

  15. Osobyi Archive records relating to Romania

    Contains records relating to the activities of the Council of Ministers; the military and economic effects of the General Staff of the Army’s 1940 evacuation of Bessarabia; and the General Staff’s response to an order from Ion Antonescu dated December 4, 1943. Also included are reports by the Military Cabinet on partisan activities, the treatment of Jews, anti-Soviet propaganda, the disposition of Romanian property in Bessarabia and North Bukovina in 1940, Romanian prisoners of war in the USSR, and SSI correspondence with military organs relating to conditions in Transnistria, Bessarabia, B...

  16. Oral history interview with Olga Kuludjian and Karnig Kuludjian

  17. Gateway to Victory: Rome taken

    US troops enter Rome under the supervision of Gen. Clark. A mob attacks collaborationists. Pope Pius XII addresses the populace.

  18. Jehovah's Witnesses

    A documentary about the fate of the Kusserow family in Germany during WWII. They are Jehovah's Witnesses.

  19. Book

    Family tree of aryan descent (ahnenpass) issued by the Nazi Party.

  20. Selected records from the State Museum of Majdanek

    Contains information about the Majdanek killing center near Lublin, Poland; included are a transport list of Polish Jews who arrived in May 1942 and fragments of lists of Jews of various nationalities who died at the camp during May to September 1942.