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  1. Solomon Bogard collection

    1. Solomon Bogard collection

    Consists of post-war photographs (including a photograph taken by Lee Miller) of the prison used by the Gestapo in Cologne, Germany. Also includes photographs of American and British officials touring the Buchenwald concentration camp, including one of Claire Booth Luce speaking with survivors. Also includes a photograph of a Nazi campaign poster, as well as post-liberation photographs of the Nordhausen and Landsberg concentration camps. Includes photographs of liberated prisoners at Buchenwald, German civilians touring the camp, and the arrest of Ilse Koch. Please also see 2006.171 and 200...

  2. Final argument for the United States of America on the indicted organizations

    1. William Mandel collection

    Consists of a copy of the "Final argument for the United States of America on the indicted organizations." The transcript contains information on the Reich Cabinet; the political leadership of the SS, the Gestapo, and the SA; and their criminal activities during World War II. Final argument given by Thomas J. Todd. Also includes speech by Henry S. Ott.

  3. Handkerchief carried by Hilde Anker on a Kindertransport

    1. Anker family collection

    The handkerchief was carried by Hilde Anker (later Fogelson) on a Kindertransport from Berlin, Germany, to England in June 1939. Hilde and her sister, Eva, were placed on the transport on June 12. On the way, the transport stopped in Bremen, and the sisters sent their parents, Georg and Gertrude Anker, a postcard.

  4. Walter Rudy Horenstein papers

    1. Walt Rudy Horenstein collection

    The Walter Rudy Horenstein collection includes false identification documents, postwar identification documentation, immigration documents, restitution applications and correspondence, and photographs documenting the wartime experiences of Walter Rudy Horenstein, who survived on false identification papers under the name Rudolf Budkis, and was sent to prison and forced labor camps before liberation in 1945. The collection also documents Walt’s postwar attempts to reestablish his identity and immigrate to the United States. False identification documents under the name Rudolf Budkis include ...

  5. Day 206 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 206 - Monday, August 19, 1946. Mr. Dodd speaks. The German counsel for the Gestapo addresses the court. Courtroom discussion.

  6. Day 207 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 207 - Tuesday, August 20, 1946. Counsel for the Gestapo. Courtroom discussion. Defendant Hermann Goering. German counsel for the SA.

  7. Day 210 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 210 - Friday, August 23, 1946. German counsel for the SA. Dr. Merkel for the Gestapo.

  8. Day 211 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 211 - Monday, August 26, 1946. Witness Schreiber. Dr. Merkel for the Gestapo. US counsel, Mr. Dodd, speaks. German defense for the SD and the SA and the SS.

  9. Day 25 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 25 - Wednesday, January 2, 1946. Col. Storey on the Gestapo and its activities. Defense counsel for Kaltenbrunner interjects. Col. Storey continues about the Gestapo. Lt. Harris covers the case on the SD.

  10. Day 43 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 43 - Friday, January 25, 1946. French Prosecutor Dubost on Gestapo treatment. Witness Marie Vaillant-Couturier on conditions in concentration camps. Part 1

  11. Fritz Weinschenk papers

    1. Fritz Weinschenk collection

    The Fritz Weinschenk papers primarily consist of case files documenting his assistance obtaining witness testimony related to war crimes proceedings in Germany. The papers also include Weinschenk’s writing files related to articles he wrote about the war crimes trials, and Gestapo Bremen and Abwehr files, which contain guidelines and regulations related to the Gestapo and government security. The war crimes case files document Weinschenk’s work with the West German government and West German courts and prosecutors in the prosecution of war criminals from the 1960s to the 1990s. German judic...

  12. Bruno and Jetka (Jessie) Korn papers

    1. Bruno and Jessie Korn collection

    Collection of documents, photographs, correspondence, identification cards, and restitution material relating to Bruno Korn (b. 1911 in Breslau) and his wife Jetka Bloch Korn. The couple survived in internment camps in Italy.

  13. Black leather infant's ankle boots worn by a German Jewish child

    1. Bruno and Jessie Korn collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn85405
    • English
    • 1939
    • a: Height: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Width: 2.125 inches (5.398 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm)

    Black leather baby shoes worn by Bruno Korn as a child in Hindenburg, Germany. His mother saved the shoes and gave them to Bruno, who took them with him when he left Germany in 1939. When Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933, 22 year old Bruno, a cloth cutter, was living in Breslau with his parents, Simon and Jetka, and brother Rudolf. In April, Bruno was arrested and accused of making faces at Nazi officials. He was beaten, whipped, and forced to work construction on a future concentration camp for a week. During Kristallnacht on November 10, 1938, Bruno was arrested and sent to...

  14. Pencil portrait

    1. Holub, Glaser and Ornstein families collection

    Leo Haas drawing of Richard Lichtenstern.

  15. Majakowski Eisler Lieder

    1. Music study collection

    AURORA (2) ‎– 5 80 004, Format: Vinyl, 7", Mono, 45 RPM, Black label, Country: German Democratic Republic (GDR), Released: 1968. Album is from Aleksander Kulisiewicz's personal collection. Tracklist: A1. Linker Marsch. Conductor – Walter Goehr Written By – Wladimir Majakowski A2. Zeit Marsch Conductor – Adolf Fritz Guhl Written By – Wladimir Majakowski B1. Subotnik Conductor – Walter Goehr Written by – Wladimir Majakowski B2. Vorwärts, Bolschewik! Conductor – Walter Goehr. Written By – Ernst Busch, Peter Hacks

  16. Der Deutschen Freiheit Morgengruss

    1. Music study collection

    Political songs sung by German singer and actor Ernst Busch. Album is from Aleksander Kulisiewicz's personal collection. Side A: Huttens Kampflied - 1521; Bauernkreig - 1525 Side B: Das Lied Vom Hasse -1841; Die Weber - 1844; Das Blutgericht - 1844

  17. Songs from the Depths of Hell

    1. Music study collection

    Remember: Songs of the Holocaust. Performed by Sidor Belarsky. Tracklist: A1 Josef Rosensaft; A2 Moyshelech Shloimelech; A3 Es Brent; A4 Erev Yom Kippur; A5 Brig. Gen. Glyn Hughes; A6 Zog Nit Keinmol B1 Dr. Nahum Goldmann; B2 Shtiler, Shtiler; B3 Dos Yiddish Kind; B4 Dr. Gideon Hausner; B5 Nizkor Conductor – Vladimir Heifetz; Narrator – Brigadier-General H. L. Glyn Hughes, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Dr. Gideon Hausner*, Josef Rosensaft

  18. Zipper Conducts Dachau-Lied

    1. Music study collection

    Dr. Zipper conducts the Dachau Song with words by Jura Soyfer at the September 1988 Styrian Autumn Festival in Graz. Playwright Jura Soyfer and composer Herbert Zipper, active in Viennese antifascist cabaret, were arrested by the Gestapo after the German-Austrian Anschluss of 1938. They met again at Dachau, where both toiled as “horses,” hauling cartloads of heavy stone throughout the camp. Soyfer and Zipper wrote Dachau Song [Dachau-Lied] in September 1938 as an ironic response to the motto “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Makes Freedom) inscribed on the gate at the entrance to the camp. Initiall...

  19. Hand-embroidered child's vest made by a Polish Jewish woman

    1. Sara Lamhaut Boucart collection

    Hand-embroidered child’s vest sent to Sara Lamhaut in Brussels, Belgium, by her grandmother, Rykla Goldwasser, in Łódź, Poland. Sara was born in Brussels in 1931, to Polish parents, Icek and Chana Lamhaut. After Belgium was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Chana and Icek began participating in resistance activities, including covertly printing Jewish newspapers in their apartment. On May 26, 1942, Chana and Icek were taken into custody by gestapo and SS officers. Icek was released, but Chana was imprisoned and tortured for six months in the Saint Gilles prison. She was then sent to the Mec...

  20. Bible received by a Jewish girl while in hiding at a Catholic school

    1. Sara Lamhaut Boucart collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn27592
    • English
    • a: Height: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 3.875 inches (9.843 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Bible and cover given to Sara Lamhaut in December 1943 as part of her confirmation while in hiding at a convent school in Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium. Sara was born in Brussels in 1931, to Polish parents, Icek and Chana Lamhaut. After Belgium was invaded by Germany in May 1940, Chana and Icek began participating in resistance activities, including covertly printing Jewish newspapers in their apartment. On May 26, 1942, Chana and Icek were taken into custody by gestapo and SS officers. Icek was released, but Chana was imprisoned and tortured for six months in the Saint Gilles prison. She was th...