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  1. Records of the Office of the Judge Advocate General (Army) French war crimes cases

    Consists of microfilm reels containing depositions, photographs, and descriptions of incidents relating to alleged war crimes committed in France by German troops, the SS, and the Gestapo given to War Crimes Group, United States Forces, European Command (EUCOM). The incidents described involve episodes of murder, torture, and arson directed at French civilians during the Holocaust.

  2. Records of the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (R 8150)

    Records include the office files of the various departments (finance, sport, education, culture, liaison office with government agencies, director's office, liaison office with foreign Jewish agencies, etc.) of the last national-level Jewish organization in Germany during the Third Reich.

  3. Records relating to Jews and Roma in Berlin "Ostarbeiter" file from the Oberfinanzdirektion

    Includes information about various "Ostarbeiter" (forced laborers from the East) and their property.

  4. Records relating to Jews and Roma in Berlin Oberfinanzdirektion case files of Roma in Berlin

    Includes approximately 250 case files created by the Oberfinanzdirektion of Berlin concerning the evacuation of Roma in Berlin and the confiscation of their personal property. After comparing the individual case files to the name list, the accessioning archivist discovered that 20 files are missing from the collection. The missing files are: Buchler, Josef; Frolian, Peter; Haustein, Adolf; Haustein, Else; Haustein, Paul; Haustein, Rudolf; Keck, Max; Maatz, Oswald; Meinhardt, Adam; Petermann, Heini; Peterman, Hildegard; Peterman, Josef; Pohl, Hermann; Rebstock, Rosa; Rose, Karoline; Schmidt,...

  5. Records relating to Jews and Roma in Berlin Oberfinanzdirektion file concerning Roma property

    Includes information about the confiscation of property of Roma deported to concentration camps from Berlin. The bulk of the records are dated 1943 with others dating as late as 1961.

  6. Records relating to Nazi genocide in Poland from the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland

    Contains information about executions by Nazis; laws and regulations imposed on Poles and Polish Jews by the Nazis; ghettos; and deportations to German concentration camps in occupied Poland.

  7. Records relating to the occupation of Yugoslavia during World War II

    Consists of copies of documents from the Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia concerning Yugoslavia during World War II. Included are documents relating to the occupation of Yugoslavia by Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, the activities of resistance forces, executions of Jews and other civilians in retribution for German deaths, the persecution of Roma, and Hitler's plans for the partition of Yugoslavia. Also included are documents relating to the Ustaša (Ustashi) and the Zbora groups. See RG list for titles for RG-49.00201 and RG-49.00205.

  8. Records relating to the participation of Ignaz Riess in the case of Rudolf Bennewitz and Josef Schwammberger

    1. Ignac Reiss collection

    Contains information about testimony provided to West German authorities by Ignaz (or Ignatz) Riess concerning life in the Przemysl ghetto and alleged crimes committed there by Josef Schwammberger and Rudulf Bennewitz. (See NOTES field below for comments on questions concerning the correct spelling of Reiss's given name.).

  9. Records relating to the Soviet Union under Nazi Occupation

    Contains public notices, maps, testimonies, letters, and reports relating to killing in Lithuania during Nazi occupation; killing in retaliation for sabotage; activities of Einsatzgruppe A from October 1941 to January 1942; mass shootings of Soviet citizens; Soviet POWs; creation of ghettos; operation “Hornung“; the annihilation of Jews in Slutsk (Minsk Oblast); killing of Soviet citizens in retaliation for partisan activities; interrogation of Kiev inhabitants concerning the massacre at Babi Yar; operation “Swamp Fever“ near Minsk; operation “Magic Flute“ in Minsk; operation “Kottbus“ in B...

  10. Records relating to treatment of Jews by Italian and German nationals during the Holocaust

    Relates to the general treatment, incarceration, deportations, repatriation of Jews by the Nazis and Italian fascists in the Balkans, Greece, Italy, Sweden, France, Norway, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

  11. Recreation Club of Shanghai silver trophy cup with wooden base awarded to a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518153
    • English
    • a: Height: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) b: Height: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm)

    April Jockey Cup awarded to Fritz Kauffmann in 1945. He was a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. He was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 for being Jewish and living abroad. However, as a longtime resident and successful businessman in Shanghai, he was able to surmount wartime difficulties and assist the more recent...

  12. Rectangular locket with 3 photos owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    Gold colored locket that belonged to Fritz Kauffmann, or his wife, Adelaide. Fritz was a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. Adelaide was a non-Jewish British citizen and active partner in his business. Adelaide and Fritz were married on January 23, 1941, in Shanghai. Fritz was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 for b...

  13. Red and black plastic cigarette holder used by a Czech Jewish refugee

    1. Frank Meissner family collection

    Cigarette holder used by Franz Meissner. Frank, age 16, left Czechoslovakia in October 1939 because of the increasing Nazi persecution of Jews as Czechoslovakia was dismembered by Nazi Germany and its allies. With the encouragement of his family, he left for Denmark with members of Youth Aliyah, a organization that helped people to emigrate to Palestine. In 1943, the Germans began to deport all Jews from Denmark. Frank was warned that the Gestapo was looking for him and he was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden. He had been receiving weekly letters from his family, even after their deport...

  14. Red and yellow floral handkerchief carried by a young Hungarian Jewish girl on the Kasztner train

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    Floral handkerchief carried by 7 year old Judit Gondos when she left Budapest, Hungary, with her parents Bela and Anna on the Kasztner train in June 1944. It was a gift from her maternal aunt, Iren (Pircsi) Havas, in prewar Bekes. Jews were increasingly persecuted by the Nazi-influenced Hungarian regime. Bela worked on 2 or 3 forced labor battalions until released in 1942, because he was a physician. On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and the authorities prepared to deport all the Jews from Hungary to concentration camps. In mid-May, Bela heard about the Kasztner train, negotiated b...

  15. Red checked dress with smocking made for a young Jewish girl who escaped Germany on the Kindertransport

    Red checked dress with smocking made for Esther Rosenfeld by her maternal aunt Friederika Lemberger in Aachen, Germany. Esther, age 2, was sent on a June 1939 Kindertransport [Children's Transport] from Germany to Great Britain. Her older sisters, Bertl, Edith, and Ruth, had gone in March. See 2012.451 for two pairs of boots also brought on her journey. Esther was placed with Dorothy and Harry Harrison and their son Alan in Norwich. Hitler's assumption of power in 1933 resulted in increasingly harsh persecution of the Jewish populace in Germany. Esther's extended family got affidavits of su...

  16. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Red windowpane checked dish towel monogrammed ES received as a wedding gift by Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt in 1933. It was one of a pair, and they received a matching black set as well. These towels were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled Cologne in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were det...

  17. Red checked towel embroidered ES saved by German Jewish refugees

    1. Fred and Juliana Silversmith family collection

    Red windowpane checked dish towel monogrammed ES received as a wedding gift by Fritz and Juliane Else Silberschmidt in 1933. It was one of a pair, and they received a matching black set as well. These towels were among the very few items that they were permitted to take with them when they left Nazi Germany for the Netherlands in 1939. The rest of the family's personal and household belongings were confiscated by German authorities. Fritz and Juliane, and Fritz's mother Selma and brother Rudolph fled Cologne in 1939. After Germany invaded Poland that September, even legal emigrants were det...

  18. Red crayon sketch of 4 females in heavy scarves created postwar by a Swiss Aid nurse and rescuer

    1. Margot Schwarzschild Wicki collection

    Red Conte crayon sketch created by Friedel Bohny-Reiter in 1989. It depicts a partial view of four females of varying age, with their heads wrapped in scarves, standing close together. It is based upon memories of the Rivesaltes internment camp in France where she worked from 1941-1942 as a nurse for Secours Suisse aux Enfants [Swiss Aid to Children]. She gave the drawing to Margot Schwarzschild Wicki who as a 10 year old child was interned in the camp. In 1940, Margot, her parents, Richard and Luisi,and 11 year old Hannelore, were deported to Gurs prison camp from Kaiserlautern, Germany. T...

  19. Red hunt jacket owned by a German Jewish businessman in Shanghai

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    Red hunt jacket that belonged to Fritz Kauffmann, a German Jewish businessman, who lived in Shanghai, China, from 1931-1949. He was active in Jewish community aid efforts before and during World War II. In 1940, because of Nazi politics and the outbreak of war, he resigned from the German firm for which he worked and opened his own import/export business. He was deprived of his German citizenship in 1941 for being Jewish and living abroad. However, as a longtime resident and successful businessman in Shanghai, he was able to surmount wartime difficulties and assist the more recent Jewish re...

  20. Red leather purse used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Red leather shoulder bag given to 6 year old Franziska (Ruth) Danzig by her mother Gerda before she was sent from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parent found a Jewish foster family, the Pastern...