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  1. News from the UK Underground Danish periodical circulating news from the United Kingdom

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    An underground newspaper, Nyheder fra Storbritanien, acquired by Knud Dyby while he was a member in several Danish underground resistance organizations during World War II. This was one of many underground publications that grew out of increased demand for information as German authorities increased censorship in the final years of the war. In April 1940, Germany invaded and occupied Denmark, which prompted a growing demand for information about the war and the need for newspapers. Many underground publications were created as part of a robust resistance and sabotage movement in the nation....

  2. Picture Magazine Danish periodical circulating illustrated news about the liberation

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    An illustrated newspaper, Billed-Bladet, acquired by Knud Dyby while he was a member in several Danish underground resistance organizations during World War II. This was one of many publications that increased circulation due to increased demand for information as German authorities increased censorship in the final years of the war. In April 1940, Germany invaded and occupied Denmark, which prompted a growing demand for information about the war and the need for more newspapers. Many publications went underground for a time as part of a robust resistance and sabotage movement in the nation...

  3. Picture Magazine Danish periodical circulating illustrated news about the post-liberation period

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    An illustrated newspaper, Billed-Bladet, acquired by Knud Dyby while he was a member in several Danish underground resistance organizations during World War II. This was one of many publications that increased circulation due to increased demand for information as German authorities increased censorship in the final years of the war. In April 1940, Germany invaded and occupied Denmark, which prompted a growing demand for information about the war and the need for more newspapers. Many publications went underground for a time as part of a robust resistance and sabotage movement in the nation...

  4. Armband with a royal coat of arms issued to a Danish resistance member

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    Blue, red, and white armband with a medallion issued to Knud Dyby, a member of the Danish underground resistance, 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...

  5. German military identification tag given to a Danish resistance member

    1. Knud Dyby collection

    The German military dog tag was acquired by Knud Dyby while he was a member in several Danish underground resistance organizations during World War II. The dog tag originally belonged to one of five German Wehrmacht soldiers who surrendered their uniforms, weapons, and identification tags to Dyby in 1944 or early 1945. These men were originally international circus artists who wished to become refugees in Sweden rather than fight the Soviets during the winter along the Eastern Front. They and Dyby agreed that the uniforms could be useful to the resistance movement. The tag has a row of thre...

  6. Wrist watch with a brown band and engraved initials saved from Vilna ghetto

    1. Tema de Ratafia collection

    Wrist watch with a brown band owned by Tema Ginzburg that originally belonged to her uncle, Benjamin Ginzburg. Before the family was imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto in Vilna (Vilnius), Lithuania, he altered it from a pocket watch to a wrist watch to make it easier to keep in the ghetto. During the liquidation of one of two ghettos in October 1941, Benjamin was deported to Estonia, then Stutthof concentration camp, where he was killed. He gave the watch to his brother, Moise, Tema's father, before leaving. Moise wore the watch for a while; he was deported to Chelmno concentration camp and ki...

  7. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee

    1. Bertl Rosenfeld Esenstad collection

    Suitcase used by 14 year old Bertl Rosenfelt when she and two younger sisters, Edith, 13, and Ruth, 9, left Nazi Germany in March 1939 on a Kindertransport to Great Britain. After Hitler assumed power in Germany in 1933, Jews were subjected to increasingly punitive restrictions. Bertl's extended family tried to get visas for the US, but were unsuccessful because of the strict US quotas. Bertl, Edith, and Ruth were sent to Aachen to live with Friederika in 1937 to attend the Jewish school. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, they passed the burning synagogue and were told...

  8. Striped tallit and red velvet pouch used by a prewar German Jewish emigre

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn73190
    • English
    • a: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 66.875 inches (169.863 cm) b: Height: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) | Width: 9.875 inches (25.083 cm)

    Blue striped tallit with a maroon velvet storage bag used by Dr. Leo Nast, a chemical engineer who left Hamburg, Germany, for the United States in July 1934. A tallit is a prayer shawl worn by observant Jewish men during morning services. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Leo had long opposed the politics of Hitler and the Nazi Party and Leo and his wife Bertha decided to leave Germany. Their immigration was sponsored by the Catalin Corporation, a plastics company that employed Leo after his arrival in the US. The Nazi dictatorship enacted anti-Jewish laws and the persecut...

  9. Tefillin set with a dark red velvet pouch used by a prewar German Jewish emigre

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn73099
    • English
    • 1899
    • a: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Depth: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) b: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) c: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm)

    Pair of tefillin with a burgundy velvet storage pouch used by Dr. Leo Nast, a chemical engineer who left Hamburg, Germany, for the United States in July 1934. Tefillin are small boxes with leather straps used by Orthodox Jewish males during morning prayers. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Leo had long opposed the politics of Hitler and the Nazi Party and Leo and his wife Bertha decided to leave Germany. Their immigration was sponsored by the Catalin Corporation, a plastics company that employed Leo after his arrival in the US. The Nazi dictatorship enacted anti-Jewish la...

  10. Mezuzah with an embossed rising sun used by a prewar German Jewish emigre to the US

    1. Arthur Cohn and Leo Nast collection

    Gold colored embossed mezuzah used by Dr. Leo Nast, a chemical engineer who left Hamburg, Germany, for the United States in July 1934. According to the Torah, every doorpost in a Jewish home should display a mezuzah klaf, a small parchment scroll inscribed with two prayers. The scroll is enclosed in a case so that it can be affixed to the right doorpost. It serves as a reminder of the covenant of faith and a notice that this is an observant Jewish home. Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Leo had long opposed the politics of Hitler and the Nazi Party and Leo and his wife Ber...

  11. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 1 mark note, found postwar

    1. Miriam Novitch collection

    Scrip, valued at 1 mark, distributed in Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto, and found at the site of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia by Miriam Novitch after the war. The scrip was issued in the German-controlled Łódź ghetto from June of 1940 to its liquidation in the fall of 1944. The scrip was issued in denominations of: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 mark notes; 5, 10, and 20 mark coins; and 50 pfennig notes and 10 pfennig coins. Miriam Novitch was living in France, working in a factory and giving Russian and German language lessons when Germany invaded the country in May, 1941. Du...

  12. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, found postwar

    1. Miriam Novitch collection

    Scrip, valued at 2 marks, distributed in Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto, and found at the site of Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp in Czechoslovakia by Miriam Novitch after the war. The scrip was issued in the German-controlled Łódź ghetto from June of 1940 to its liquidation in the fall of 1944. The scrip was issued in denominations of: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, and 50 mark notes; 5, 10, and 20 mark coins; and 50 pfennig notes and 10 pfennig coins. Miriam Novitch was living in France, working in a factory and giving Russian and German language lessons when Germany invaded the country in May, 1941. D...

  13. Leib Garfunkel - Ghetto Kovno

    Leib Garfunkel describes the Kovno ghetto, where he was vice-chairman of the Jewish council, and the Aktion of October 1941, during which 9,200 Jews were murdered at the Ninth Fort. This was the first interview that Lanzmann conducted for Shoah and Garfunkel died one week after it was filmed. FILM ID 3125 -- Camera Rolls #1-3 -- 01:00:18 to 01:21:29 No sound until 01:05:32. Irena Steinfeldt, Lanzmann's assistant, reads passages from Garfunkel's book. Garfunkel talks about the first meeting between the Kovno Gestapo and representatives of the Jewish population. He tells of the Germans enteri...

  14. Jan Karski

    Jan Karski tells of his capture and torture by the Gestapo when he was a courier for the Polish underground. He also describes his clandestine visit to the Warsaw ghetto and his meeting with Szmul Zygielbojm, six months before Zygelbojm's suicide. See pages 491 - 494 of the English translation of Lanzmann's memoir The Patagonian Hare (March 2012) for a description of his interactions with Karski after filming this interview. FILM ID 3133 -- Camera Rolls #1-5 -- 01:00:33 to 01:32:10 Karski tells of his first missions as a courier for the Polish Government in Exile. [No visual until 01:01:56]...

  15. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    1. Jeanne Daman Scaglione collection

    The Jeanne Daman Scaglione papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, writings and artwork, and sound recordings documenting Belgian Catholic teacher Jeanne Daman Scaglione, her wartime resistance activities rescuing Jewish children, and her postwar work supporting United Jewish Appeal, the State of Israel, and Holocaust memory. Biographical materials document Jeanne’s education and teacher training, participation in the Belgian National Movement resisting Nazi occupation during the war, Immigration to the United States, her work raising funds for...

  16. Honecker, Erich

    Bestandsbeschreibung 25. Aug. 1912 in Neunkirchen/Saar als Sohn eines Bergarbeiters geboren 1913 Umzug der Familie Wilhelm Honecker nach Wiebelskirchen Volksschule, Berufsschule 1922 Mitglied des "Jung-Spartakus" 1926 Mitglied des Kommunistischen Jugendverbandes Deutschlands (KJVD) 1926-1928 Landarbeiter 1928 Mitglied des Deutschen Holzarbeiter-Verbandes (DHV) 1928-1930 Lehre und Arbeit als Dachdecker 1929 Mitglied der KPD 1930-1931 Kursant an der Internationalen Leninschule in Moskau 1931 Sekretär des KJVD-BL Saar und Gauführer der Roten Jungfront ab 1933 illegale Arbeit und Leiter der ill...

  17. Starosta Płocki

    • Der Landrat in Schröttersburg
    • Płock Country Governor
    1. Der Landrat /Landrat/ l. 1939-1945 (sygn. od 1 do 23): zezwolenia na prowadzenie sklepów i zakładów rzemieślniczych, sprawy przydziału materiałów budowlanych, nadużyć gospodarczych, zwolnienia od płacenia podatku. 2. Preisbehörde L. III /Komórka ds. Ustalania i Kontroli Cen/ l. 1940-1942 (sygn. od 24 do 277): akta przeciwko właścicielom sklepów, straganów, rzemieślnikom, przygodnym sprzedawcom nieprzestrzegającym obowiązujących zarządzeń porządkowych i cenników. 3. Abteilung Feuerpolizei L. III /Wydział Policji Ogniowej/ l. 1940-1945 (sygn. 278): odpisy zarządzeń o bezpieczeństwie przeci...

  18. Gmina Żydowska we Wrocławiu

    • Synagogen Gemeinde zu Breslau
    • Jewish Community in Wrocław (Breslau)

    Akta Gminy Żydowskiej we Wrocławiu, m.in.. - protokoły posiedzeń Zarządu 1922-1939; - korespondencja Zarządu (1796-1939) z urzędami, gminami i związkami żydowskimi oraz osobami prywatnymi; w tym m.in.: - korespondencja w sprawach opieki nad uchodźcami z Rosji, Rumunii, Galicji, Kongresówki 1867-1874, 1882-1907, 1914-1930, - dokumentacja przygotowań do III Zjazdu Związku Niemieckich Żydów w 1909 r., Okręgowego Związku Pruskich Gmin Żydowskich we Wrocławiu 1926-1931, korespondencja z Niemieckim Związkiem Gmin Żydowskich 1914-1924, korespondencja w sprawach emigracji 1934-1939; - wykazy tzw. S...

  19. Akta prokuratur niemieckich Rejencji Ciechanowskiej

    • Staatsanwaltschaft bei dem Landgericht Zichenau und Amtsanwaltschaft Zichenau

    W zespole znajdują się akta dochodzeń oraz akta podręczne prokuratur niemieckiej rejencji ciechanowskiej. Akta zawierają zarządzenia Ministra Sprawiedliwości Rzeszy, Prokuratury Generalnej w Królewcu, Prezesa Sądu Krajowego w Ciechanowie oraz Landratów i Gestapo w Ciechanowie dotyczące podziału i organizacji pracy w organach wymiaru sprawiedliwości, postępowania z więźniami, stosowania kar wobec Polaków. Listy imienne osób skazanych przez Sady Obwodowe rejencji ciechanowskiej, na obóz pracy, sprawozdania z działalności Prokuratur. Akta dochodzeń dotyczą nielegalnego handlu, uboju, przekracz...

  20. Reichswehrministerium

    1. Staatliche und parteiamtliche Akten bis 1945
    2. Deutsches Reich (bis 1945)
    3. Militär
    4. Zentrale Einrichtungen der Reichswehr und Wehrmacht
    5. Spitzenbehörden
    6. Reichskriegsministerium/Reichswehrministerium

    I. Reichswehrministerium/ Chef HL/ PA: Korrespondenzen und Notizen von 1928-1934 (Personalangelegenheiten, Ausrüstung, Organisation) (H 24/6), unter anderem: 1) Schrift Wehrmachtsamt vom 20. Dezember 1934: Einschränkung bedenklicher Familienanzeigen durch Einwirkung auf die Presse, Bl. 7261; 2) Internes Rundschreiben Allgemeines Heeresamt vom 20. Dezember 1934: Betrifft voraussichtliches Ergebnis der Wirtschaftsführung, mit Anlagen, nach dem Stande vom 31. Dezember 1934, Bl. 7262-7265; 3) Rundschreiben Reichsministerium des Innern an Oberpräsidialamt vom 27. November 1940: Durchführung der ...