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  1. Green patch with a gray embroidered swastika within a diamond

    Green parch with a gray swastika to be worn by a Nazi party member or sympathizer.

  2. Roman Antoniak papers

    The Roman Antoniak papers consists of two identification documents issued by the East German Enamel and Metal Factory and the Ukrainian support committee to Roman Antoniak of Lwow, Poland (L'viv, Ukraine) in 1942.

  3. Teddy bear carried by a young boy on the Kindertransport

    Teddy bear received by 14 year old Jack Hellman as a child and carried with him on the Kindertransport in early 1939. When Jack was nine, his parents sent him away to boarding school in Frankfurt, Germany, to escape the vicious anti-semitism in his hometown, Tann. During the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, synagogues and Jewish businesses all over Germany were vandalized or destroyed. Soon after, the housemother of his boarding school petitioned Baron James de Rothschild in Great Britain to provide refuge for the 26 children in the school, as well as her own family. Rothschild ...

  4. Filip Mueller - Auschwitz Sonderkommando

    As a member of a Sonderkommando unit in Auschwitz Filip Müller worked in the crematorium. He describes the gassing and cremation process in precise detail and with great pathos. FILM ID 3206 -- Camera Rolls #1-4 -- 01:00:13 to 01:28:59 Müller recounts the first time he saw the gas chamber of the crematorium. Müller was a member of the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz. He was assigned to the Sonderkommando in May 1942, when he was 20, and worked as a Heizer, or someone who undressed the corpses (when they were clothed), put them into the crematorium, and stirred the fire while they burned. FILM I...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Drancy, France; Repatriation

    1252 K (07:01:12-07:04:00): Concentration Camp for Collaborationists, Drancy, France. LS entire courtyard. Traveling shots of people walking about in the courtyard. Shots taken from an auto. LS and MS people standing about. Shot looking up of girls leaning out of windows. Collaborationists filing through doorway escorted by ?? man. 1252 O (07:04:02-07:12:34): Repatriation of French War Prisoners and Civilians, Paris, France. French war prisoners wait on airfield. CU prisoner sitting at side of small tricolor. Close shots of prisoners waiting for planes; march toward planes and board some. C...

  6. Jesse and Ruby Goldman collection

    The collection consists of German artifacts related to the experiences of an American soldier during World War II.

  7. Nazi propaganda: leadership principle

    The compilation starts with a staged scene of an uniformed Nazi officer speaking in Russian about the Fuehrer to people with beards and shabby clothing gathering in a hut. Then documentary footage of Hitler is shown: in a car passing cheering masses, addressing a gathering about overcoming of any pre-existing cleavages in favor of the unity of the German people, at the balcony of the Reichskanzlei [Reich chancellery] watching a torch-lit parade in 1933 to the sound of the German national anthem, with Baldur von Schirach and Rudolf Hess at a stadium gathering of the Hitler Youth, at the Olym...

  8. Nazi propaganda about Jews living in ghetto and disease

    Antisemitic propaganda film showing living and housing conditions in a Jewish ghetto in Poland (probably the Warsaw ghetto), typhus patients, and measures against the spreading of lice. Reel 2: Ghetto scenes (in Warsaw, according to Bundesarchiv annotation). Workers disinfecting clothes in large cage. 00:27:54 Man shaving heads and beards, clipping pubic hair. Very thin man seated, with glasses. Man in white coat. 00:28:22 Clothes removed from steamer. 00:28:44 Naked men and boys, very thin, in showers. Man (wearing glasses) in shower, soaping. Washing pubic areas. 00:29:20 Pan of children ...

  9. Cut and uncut granite stones from a quarry at the Mauthausen concentration camp

    Granite blocks quarried from the site of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. In March 1938, Germany annexed Austria in the ‘Anschluss’, and in April established the Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke (GmbH-DESt, German Earth and Stone Works Inc.) to exploit the labor of concentration camp prisoners. In August, a concentration camp was established three miles from the town of Mauthausen, near the Wiener Graben stone quarry. Built by prisoners detailed from Dachau concentration camp in Germany, it originally functioned as a forced-labor camp, and later became a transfer point to subcamps and ...

  10. Paul Lustig letter

    Contains a typed letter addressed to Robert C. Martin, Esq in Greensboro, PA from Paul Lustig of "Vienna, Austria, Germany"; in the letter Mr. Lustig writes about losing his job at his firm Kuffners' along with other Jewish employees, the firm being forced into non-Jewish ownership and asks Mr. Marvin for assistance with getting an affidavit for travel to the United States; laminated.

  11. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Polish Diplomatic Legation in Vienna Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Wiedniu (Sygn. 453)

    Reports, studies, and other materials related to the condition of national minorities in Poland and beyond Poland, including Ukrainians and Polish Jews. Also includes materials about antisemitic riots, quotas at universities, activities of antisemitic organizations, condition of refugees and internees, as well as social relief for them organized by the Polish and International Red Cross. Other selected materials concern ritual slaughter, allowances for Jews, taking care of Polish citizens in Switzerland, passport documentation, as well as correspondence related to searching for individuals ...

  12. Loschner and Klein families collection

    Includes documents that illustrate the experiences of the Loschner and Klein families in Vienna and France during and after the war, including a German passport issued to Ruth Loschner (1924-1942), the donor's maternal aunt, who was deported Pithiviers and then sent to Auschwitz in 1942 where she perished. Also included are the written testimonies of Hedy Loschner Kelin, the donor's mother, from the 1990s, regarding her experiences in hiding in France, and a typewritten transcript of an interview with the donor's father, Emil Klein, for a school project.

  13. Mauser HSc pistol, magazine, firing pin, and mainspring used by a Yugoslavian partisan

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn6764
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.375 inches (11.113 cm) | Width: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) b: Height: 4.125 inches (10.478 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) c: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Depth: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) d: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)

    Mauser HSc pistol used by Leo Gerskovic while he was a member of the Yugoslav partisans during World War II. Based on the marking on the trigger guard, this pistol was a German military-issued pistol before Gerskovic acquired it. Leo Gerskovic, his wife Inge, and their child lived in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, when Germany and its allies invaded and occupied the country on April 6, 1941. Central Yugoslavia, including Zagreb, was formed into the independent state of Croatia, ruled by the Ustasa. Soon after occupation, Leo, with his wife and child fled and joined the partisans. After he joined, Leo ...

  14. Gardelegen burial of POWs

    (LIB 5953) "Murder, Incorporated", Gardelegen, Germany, April 25, 1945 SEQ: Catholic and Jewish chaplains conduct memorial services for 1100 prisoners of war murdered by Germans. VAR, graves in small cemetery. MS, Honor Guard firing salute. MS, bugler sounding Taps.

  15. Nazis advance in Montenegro; Serbian POWs

    Nazis continue their push Eastward. Nazis fighting partisans in rugged terrain of Montenegro. Nazi soldier setting up a telegraph machine. Soldiers on trucks on road. LS, mountain range. Nazis advance, fire artillery, scramble up mountainside. Firing. Very rugged terrain. Small forest, cavalry troops. Firing, bombing housing. Pan of "partisan" Serbian POWs, bedraggled, Asian features, swarthy skin, wearing turbans. CUs, weapons. POWs marching. Serbian villagers handing eggs to Nazi soldier as welcome gift, swastika flag visible. Farming, MS oxen plowing field. (Commentary: "The Volk thanks ...

  16. Interview of prisoners, Dachau

    (LIB 6558) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MCUs American officer (off-screen) interviews Professor Popovitch, Yugoslavian prisoner, who relates his experience in German prison camps. MCUs Captain Boullard, Dutch officer, is interviewed by off-screen voice. The Captain was taken prisoner in Holland and later transferred to Dachau. (Prisoners speak English).

  17. Poster

    Announcement concerning retrieval of valuable property from former Nazi Party. It was published in cooperation with the US Military.

  18. Bank of Factory Owners and Merchants in Częstochowa Bank Przemysłowców i Kupców w Częstochowie (Sygn.192/7)

    This collection includes protocols of the board meetings and books of shareholders and stockholders, who were primarily Jewish merchants and factory owners.

  19. Dina Michels collection

    Collection consisting of slides of Dina Michels family from pre-World War Germany; group of negative strips taken by Werner David who lived with Dina Michel's parents; and rolls of negatives.

  20. Eichmann Trial -- Session 105 -- Examination by Judge Raveh

    Session 105. This is duplicate footage from Tape 2187. Dr. Servatius begins by stating in the Sassen Document, he says things that are both anti-Semitic and the opposite. Eichmann says that he is not anti-Semitic, and was a part of the Nazi Party before it had such policies. He says that he never had a bad personal experience with Jews. 00:07:50 Dr. Servatius is finished with the re-examination of Eichmann. He will now face questions from the Judges. 00:08:22 Eichmann is being asked about when he could not live up to the Categorical Imperative of Emmanuel Kant, in which he believes. With th...