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  1. Armband with a royal coat of arms worn by a Danish resistance fighter

    Blue, red, and white armband with a medallion issued to Mogens Kofod-Hansen, a Danish resistance fighter, on May 4 or 5, 1945. The armbands, which appeared abruptly throughout Denmark, were issued by the Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile in England from July 1944 to May 1945. The armbands were meant to identify resistance members as legitimate combatants, rather than guerilla forces, to ensure they were protected under Geneva Convention rules defining combatants and how they should be treated by military forces. Denmark was occupied by Germany on April 9, 1940...

  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. Sam Simon Holocaust scrapbook

    Collected materials from Sam Simon. Most files consist of photographic reproductions of assembled album pages containing postcards and photographs from various camps and ghettos. Collection also contains a few first-day covers and commemorative postage stamps from Israel, relating to events commemorating the Holocaust, circa 1970s.

  4. Violin, bow, and case used by a prisoner while interned in a camp run by Oskar Schindler

    Violin crafted in 1890 by Guadagnini, a master Italian instrument maker in Turin. Henry Rosner bought it in Vienna in 1928. It was his constant companion for 66 years, excepting a brief separation near the end of the war. Rosner played the violin professionally in well-known cafes, hotels and resorts all over Europe until Poland fell to the Nazis in 1939. Three years later, Rosner, his wife Manci -- their young son Alexander, and Rosner's two brothers, were sent to the Płaszów forced labor camp. There, Henry and his brother Poldek, an accordianist, were required to play for the camp's comma...

  5. Soviet partisans; Stalingrad advance

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel / 83-84 / Moscow / December 1942 / Directed by M. Fidelevoy"/ "Partisan-Glory" Coverage of ceremony extolling support of partisans in the war effort. 02:21:22 Title: "Defenders of the Caucuses" Gun workshop. CUs and MSs of workers putting together rifles and other guns. Tracking shot of cannon factory. Close shots of cannon maintenance. 02:23:10 Title: "Film-reporting from the Frontlines"/ "In the area of Nalchik" Pans across mountains. ELSs of soldiers hiking through. Coverage of fire fight in the mountains. CU badly wounded soldier. MS German soldier taken prisone...

  6. Records of the Military History Archives of the Military Historical Institute in Prague

    Copied documents (microfiche, photograph copy prints, photocopies) of plans for design and building of a prisoner-of-war camp at Auschwitz, October 1942, from the Zentralbauleitung der Waffen SS, Auschwitz. Copied from Military Historical Institute Archive, Prague.

  7. Louis Satvsky collection

    Louis Satvsky collection consists of photographs and documents relating to the efforts of Otto and Gitla Waga to immigrate to the United States from Vienna, Austria with the assistance of their cousins, the Stravsky family. The documents include letters written to the Stravsky family in the United States requesting assistance in securing an affidavit of support, copies of correspondence with the American consulate in Vienna, copies of documents compiled in support of immigration, and a photograph of Gitla Waga. Also included is a photograph of a young boy, likely Meiloch Waga, who escaped t...

  8. Oral history interview with Morris Stark

  9. Ukraine supreme court; Kiev; Mining in Rudnik

    Titles: "Soviet newsreel / 17 / Moscow / March 1944"/ "Directed by I. Kravchunovsky"/ "The sixth session of the Supreme Court Ukraine, USSR" High-angle ELS pan across Kiev. ELS courtroom INT, large portrait of Stalin centered in frame. Audience. MS, CU of Nikita Khrushchev addressing courtroom from podium. Courtroom. Title: 04:22:35 "On liberated Soviet ground" Workers rejuvenating factory. ELS of civilian crowd and platform. Message from Stalin read allowed to crowd. CU of crowd members applauding and smiling. ELSs river-damming facility. Shots of workers. Title: "With a camera on the coun...

  10. Capture of Rotterdam

    Spooling film animation. Title in Dutch? combined with UFA logo lower right. German narration. CU, map of Germany and surrounding territory, names in German. CU, map of Holland and Belgium showing animated pointer from England, animated Maginot Line, and defenses on German border. MCU, German Junker transport taking off. CU, engine of aircraft in flight, pan of Dutch countryside. AV, vertical shot of countryside with trees and farmland. MCU, paratrooper jumping from plane. CU, supplies thrown from plane. Parachutes with supplies landing in city. MCU, German troops running into streets getti...

  11. Portrait sketch created in Budapest ghetto

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn8906
    • English
    • 1944
    • overall: Height: 15.750 inches (40.005 cm) | Width: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) pictorial area: Height: 13.750 inches (34.925 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Sketch created in Budapest ghetto by Ilka Gedö in 1944.

  12. Maps and graphics. Banned books and music

    Maps and graphics. Map of France, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Prussia, Soviet, Ukraine, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Italy. Graphics showing radio broadcast signals, the press, local Nazi parties, and trade pressure. CUs, Germany, Ukraine, "The Partition of Czechoslovakia". CUs of forbidden books, including Schnitzler, Kant, Wassermann, Einstein, Napolean, Zweig, and Remarque. CU, Mendelsohn's Wedding March music. [Apparently outtakes similar to footage used in March of Time issue, Inside Nazi Germany.)

  13. "Great Fear and Little Bread"

    Testimony, typescript, 6 pages, titled "Great Fear and Little Bread" by R. B. Cappello.

  14. Industry along Rhine, production, farming, German trade show

    Koblenz city scape from balcony. VLS down to long train, river, men. Statue of Wilhelm I with a horse, teenage boys at balcony, slow pan view. 00:02:10 Mostly empty courtyard of military fort, Festung Ehrenbreitstein. Workers on the banks of the Rhine River, LS, gray, crossing small wooden bridge. 00:03:05 Coca-Cola sign: "Hier stets eiskalt", boy drinking cola, CUs. Trucks, cars, CU "Krupp" on motor. Slow tug, long low boats rolling down river. 00:04:12 Scientist with microscope, lab with other workers, women and men in lab coats, making cameras, zoom lens, various MS and CU of workers at ...

  15. Report from Nuremberg

    "Welt im Film": The Anglo-American newsreel series screened in occupied Germany, 1945-1950. Report from Nuremberg. A chart illustrates the NSDAP organization. Defense lawyers raise questions of translation, etc. A discussion break for the accused and counsel. Robert Jackson's opening prosecution address. Concentration camp orphans fly to England to spend Christmas. They enjoy a welcoming meal at the airport.

  16. DPs; postwar rehabilitation

    Titles read: Um Resultado da guerra. Descito por aimbere. Short film documenting the aftermath of the war, including the movement of refugees, displaced persons camps, rehabilitation, and going home. Young men crossing bridge. Women and men moving bushels of hay, a soldier guards them. Labor in fields, railroads, factories. Liberation scenes: tanks moving through villages, people shaking hands, celebrating; men emerging from forests; crowds leaning out windows, cheering; beating a Nazi?; destroying buildings. Refugees moving on foot and truck with belongings/luggage. Destroyed bridge. Milit...

  17. Jacobson family papers

    The Jacobson family papers contain letters and telegrams between the Ostermann and Jacobson families documenting the Jacobson family's attempts to immigrate to the United States; two American Joint Distribution Committee press releases and a letter documenting the voyage of the MS St. Louis; a photocopy of a letter Erich Jacobson wrote to his family from Dachau concentration camp in 1938; a newspaper clipping announcing Erich Jacobson's death in in 1952; and a photocopy of a clipping memorializing the MS St. Louis.

  18. Walter Saunders papers

    The Walter Saunders papers contains correspondence with Walter’s parents while they were in Marseille and Les Milles. The documents contain reference letters, naturalization certificate, and an Austrian citizenship certificate. The photographs include portraits of Paul and Klara while at Auschwitz, a group photo with Paul at Camp Gurs, a young Walter with his brother Kurt, and a younger Paul while serving in the Austrian Army during World War I.

  19. Leningrad troops advance

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel"/ "6"/ "Moscow"/ "January 1944"/ "Directed by I. Vendzher"/ "Film-reporting from the frontlines"/ "Leningrad advances"/ "Film coverage of the Leningrad troops approaching the Polkovo Heights" ELSs of Leningrad followed by lengthy montage of Soviet cannons firing. ELSs of Soviet airplanes intercut with POV shots of bombs dropping. Various shots of corpses. ELSs of Soviet troops advancing into the countryside. 03:30:20 Title: "In development, our armies have approached Krasno Selo" Various shots of soldiers loading mortars and advancing onto battlefield. Coverage of b...

  20. Oral history interview with Steve Haas