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  1. Hitler dart board

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn516119
    • English
    • overall: Height: 29.500 inches (74.93 cm) | Width: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm) overall: Height: 21.625 inches (54.928 cm) | Width: 6.250 inches (15.875 cm)

    The dart board was made in the U.S., possibly Massachusetts, as a reaction to events occurring in Europe during World War II.

  3. Letter, Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandel to Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung, 1950

    One autograph letter from Rabbi Chaim Michael Dov Weissmandel, addressed to Rabbi Dr. Leo Jung of Manhattan's Jewish Center, on letterhead of the Yeshiva Farm Settlement, Mt. Kisco, NY, 1950.

  4. Medical kit

  5. The Hess Family in Germany and on vacation

    IM INNERSTEN WESTFALEN. Boy in suit, VAR shots. Dog, couple playing with dog in winter. Aerial shots. FREUNDE UND BEKANNT. Young couple. CU, man writing at desk. MERAN BEISCHLECHTEM WETTEN... Trees waving in the wind. ... UND BEI GUTEN. Aerial shots, landscape, women smelling blossoms on a tree, CUs blossoms. AM MONT BLAN. Snow capped mountains, people hiking/trekking. AUF DEM GENFER SEE. Homes on waterfront, views from a boat on the sea, men playing violins. GANZ KLEIN SIEHT DER SALEV VON GENF HER AUS! Pan riverside. UEBERHOLTES AUS AROSA. In small village, pedestrians, women, cats on chai...

  6. Bond Drive

    "Four Freedoms Set Key for Bond Drive" Arlington, VT; Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands; Denver, CO; Winter Park, CO; Washington, DC. America digs in to complete $13,000,000,000 second war bond drive, greatest financial undertaking in history of the world. Paramount news presents inside story of first sales of new issue, human-interest pictures of Mr. Roosevelt and White House staff. Start of the campaign! Artist Norman Rockwell's paintings of America's great four freedoms, background theme of second war bond issue. Vermont: Norman Rockwell with models and paintings of "Freedom from Want"; "Free...

  7. Book

  8. German civilians; German troops; Elbe River bridge

    Five civilians with child and dog. Stevens carrying machine gun preceded group of civilians pushing cart with belongings. Pan of camouflaged objects, not clear what the objects are. Stevens and other members of unit talking with a German with white hat with "Berlin" written on band. Women seated nearby sewing, eating and drinking. These appear to be German civilians. Activity in city street, demolished buildings on either side. Stevens with goggles and Moffat. Civilians sitting on side of bombed out road. CUs of civilians. Their belongings are stacked in bags alongside of them. Groups inclu...

  9. Glenn L. Runyan photograph collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly following liberation; images include memorials erected in the camp, survivors, and piles of corpses. Images taken by U.S. Army Corporal Glenn Runyon, who was a member of the 465th Engineer Company.

  10. Christian mission and bell tower

    At the Kiamichi Mountain Christian Mission in Nashoba, Oklahoma, where Harold Dunson and his family were sent as missionaries in 1947. CU, bell with engraved writing on it (not legible). VS, EXT, young man and older man hoisting bell on crane into position in bell tower. MCU, panning group of young women. MS, bell tolling. MCU, townspeople pulling on chord in bell tower, exiting church. VS, MS, MCU, LS, family on horseback in countryside, man taking photos with still camera. VS, locals piling in and out of pick-up truck, mostly children playing in truck, more children exiting church.

  11. Former Reichsbank director on stand at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 163) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, May 14-15, 1946. Emil Johann Rudolf Puhl walks to witness box and is sworn in by the Chief Justice. Mr. Puhl is the former assistant director of the Reichsbank. LS, Dr. Fritz Sauter questions Puhl. Rear views, LS, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd approaches the stand and interposes a clear point concerning the witness. LS, Puhl testifies and admits that gold teeth collected from victims of concentration camps were left on deposit at the Reichsbank by members of the Nazi party. MS, witnesses in dock listen to testimony. LS, rear view, Dodd inte...

  12. Wilhelm Bauman collection

    The collection consists of correspondence, documents, and newspapers related to the experience of Wilhelm Baumann and his parents before and during the Holocaust in Austria, and Wilhelm's emigration to the United Kingdom in 1939, and deportation to Australia in 1940, and his subsequent release from interment camps and emgration to the United States. The colletion also includes artwork.

  13. Nazi propaganda cigarette card album

    Nazi propaganda cigarette coupon album celebrating Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

  14. Moosburg POW camp; bridge at Remagen; destruction of Cologne

    Liberated allied prisoners of war in the former Moosburg POW camp Stalag 7a, which housed prisoners from many countries. American pilots cook and serve food outdoors. They eat and smile at the camera. Two men wearing white shirts are shot from a low angle. Pan across former POWs sunning themselves, with barracks in the background. Nice view through barbed wire of former prisoners with rows of white tents in the background. Men shaving in the outdoors using a mirror mounted on a tent pole; a man pours gasoline into a bowl and washes a pair of pants. A group of men pose around a sign that rea...

  15. Brest Gravestones

    Four gravestones from Brest

  16. Oral history interviews of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project and the Boyer Early Las Vegas Oral History Project

    Oral history interviews conducted under the auspices of the Southern Nevada Jewish Heritage Project and the Boyer Early Las Vegas oral history Project

  17. Gitta and Martin Hoffman collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Gitta and Martin Hoffman and their families during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  18. Roma documents from the Otto Pankok Museum, Düsseldorf

    Contains information relating primarily to Otto Pankok and his strong interest in Roma, especially Roma of Düsseldorf, Germany. Of special interest in the collection are articles relating to the artwork and career of Otto Pankok and his play "Wie Wir Leben."

  19. Wolfes and Herzfeld family papers

    The Wolfes and Herzfeld family papers include a family history and family tree for the Wolfes family, and a suicide letter written by Martha Wolfes Herzfeld in a concentration camp near Aachen in June 1942. The family history consists of a genealogical booklet and table for the Wolfes family from Mehle and Hannover Germany. The book was prepared and researched by Dr. Willi Schragenheim, and it charts nine generations of the family from circa 1650 to 1936. It is accompanied by introductory letter from Hans Wolfe. Martha Herzfeld, sister of Hans Wolfe, wrote the suicide letter in a concentrat...

  20. Weissenberg-Köppell family collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of the Weissenberg and Köppell families before and during the Holocaust. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.