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  1. Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [German Red Cross] flag with a black eagle with a swastika and a red cross on a white field

    Very large Deutsches Rotes Kreuz [DRK; German Red Cross] flag with a Reichsadler, a black Imperial eagle, with a white Swastika on its chest and a red cross in its talons, displayed upon a white field. After Hitler's appointment as Chancellor in January 1933, the Nazi Party began to reshape the private charity sector. By July 1933, the DRK was one of only four non-state aid organizations left in Germany. Its new president was a Nazi Party official, Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. In December 1937, the DRK became a unit of the Nazi Party and, the next year, it became a Social ...

  2. Book

    A condensed version of Hitler speaks.

  3. Ink drawing by Esther Lurie of Michlean Amir

    Portrait drawn by Esther Lurie, in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1951. Michlean Amir met Esther Lurie in the apartment of her grandmother’s friend, the historian Nellie Schur. Dr Schur was working on a project to create maps of the new state of Israel with the cartographer, Joseph Shapiro, who was Lurie's husband. Lurie offered to do her portrait. Esther Lurie was a professionally trained artist whose drawings and sketches, done from 1941-1944, while she was imprisoned in the Jewish ghetto in Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, and Stutthof concentration camp, were published in 1945, providing eloquent visua...

  4. Liberation in France; French collaborator

    (INV1452) Various shots of large crowds waving to camera. 00:30 Some French soldiers try to clear the crowd to make a path on the road. 00:36 A man holds up a piece of paper. 00:43 Wider shot of crowd. 00:52 American Army car drives through the crowds. 00:54 CU on two female onlookers and then the rest of the crowd. 01:06 Very wide shot, view of the crowd filling the road. 01:08 Civilians approach soldiers sitting and standing around a car and shake their hands. 01:14 MS of the two soldiers sitting in the car. One is smoking a cigarette, the other one is facing away from the camera. 01:17 A...

  5. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note

    Scrip, valued at 1 krone, issued in the Theresienstadt (Terezin) ghetto-labor camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from deportees upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. The Theresienstadt camp existed for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich.

  6. "Un Enfant dans la Tourmente: 1942-1944"

    Consists of one memoir, 42 pages, entitled "Un Enfant dans la Tourmente: 1942-1944," by Albert Goldsztejn. Mr. Goldsztejn, a young child during the war, hid with his parents in the towns of Sassenage, France and Marcollin, France, posing as Poles and Catholics.

  7. Herman Kutun collection

    Consists of loose photographs and photograph album pages from the collection of Herman Kutun, a member of the Counter-Intelligence Corps and Army Air Corps. The photographs depict Kutun, his fellow soldiers, displaced persons, and local people in Oberammergau, Kitzingen, and Bad Kissingen. Many of the photographs were taken at a displaced persons camp in Garmisch.

  8. German soldiers in Russia; POWs

    14:00:00 - 14:15:05 Winter in Russian village. German solderis. Destroyed buildings, rubble. Russian Women. Ice. (M 3041) 14:15:05 b/w: train tracks, German soldiers, totally destroyed train, partisans. 14:15:50 Pan across forested terrain, several destroyed Russian trucks, two soldiers inspect remains. 14:16:24 Winter, wind whirls up snow, two horses pull cars (picture jumps). The extreme cold affects the cameras so that the film can no longer be transported cleanly. 14:16:33 Soldiers in drill suits are cleaning wooden carts. In the background horses with saddles (different settings). 14:1...

  9. Romania in color

    German soldier's home movies. Family, civilian, domestic scenes. Krad, with car, private swimming pool, trucking, guns, women and soldiers on the street, snow shovelling soldiers in 1941, picnic in the forest

  10. German invasion of Soviet Union

    Reel 2: German artillery and rockets fire at Russian positions along Leningrad front. German planes bomb the Russian city Orel and troops burn village of Russian partisans. Shots of captured Russian partisans and of German supply train going to Orel front. Shots of captured Russian POWs; German troops eat and go into battle.

  11. Donald Hershey collection

    The collection consists of an SS patch, correspondence, documents, and motion picture critiques of his photography relating to the experiences Donald Hershey as a Signal Corps photographer who witnessed the liberation of Dachau concentration camp during World War II.

  12. American nurses sightseeing in England

    Beatrice and some military personnel stand in Trafalgar Square in London. The 51st Field Hospital arrived in England in March 1944. Nelson's Column, the bronze lions, and crowds feeding pigeons are visible. A sign says, "Let our savings speak for us. Carry on London. Salute the soldier." on the base of the column. 01:03:47 Buckingham Palace. The group poses outside Westminster Abbey. They continue to sightsee in London: the clock tower at Westminster Palace, red double-decker busses, the Tower Bridge, the Tower of London, and St. Paul's Cathedral, and at 01:05:43 the Wells Cathedral in Some...

  13. Candleholders

    Pair of candlesticks given as a wedding gift to Tony Holtz and Max Hannes, brought to the US in 1937 by Helmut Hannes.

  14. Ella Spiegler papers

    Birth certificate, passport, autograph book, newsletter, photograph, and other documents related to the immigration of Ella Spiegler (later Goldstein), who left Austria for the United States in 1939 as one of the fifty children sponsored by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus. The Stammbuch is a booklet that was given to Ella before her departure from Vienna in 1939, and in which friends and relatives wrote poetry, greetings, drew pictures, and left other expressions that wished her well as she prepared to leave her homeland. However, since her father, Wilhelm, was the first family member who was abl...

  15. March of Time -- outtakes -- German prisoners; celebrating liberation

    Link up between American's First and Ninth Armies. American tanks on street at Lippstadt; POWs on the top of the vehicles. German prisoners under guard. Ex-slave laborers taking things from shop windows, embracing, drinking wine, carrying belongings. Released prisoner playing the accordian and singing. US armored vehicles passing through crowds.

  16. Julius Blum collection

    Collection of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Julius Blum (donor's husband) and his family during the Holocaust. Julius Blum was from Munkacs, Czechoslovakia and survived multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz and Mauthausen, where he was liberated.

  17. SD-Guide Sections Weimar und Erfurt SD-Leitabschnitte Weimar und Erfurt (Fond 1241)

    Consists of the 1939 reports of the SD sector in Eisenach; printed materials on the activities of the Institut zur Erforschung und Beseitigung des jüdischen Einflusses auf das deutsche kirchliche Leben ("Institute for the Investigation and Removal of Jewish Influence on German Religious Life"); a 1942 Himmler directive and other reports and regulations on strengthening SS and police combat forces in occupied Poland and the Eastern Territories, including the recruitment of Ukrainians, Balts, and White Ruthenians under the coordination of SS Brigade Leader Odilo Globočnik. Also included is a ...

  18. 24 drawings from the concentration camps in Germany Print

    One of a set of twenty-three prints of drawings created by George Zielezinski

  19. Belsen sign; torching barracks

    Rear shot of tank entering camp, passes barbed wire fence. Pans to sign on left of entrance. Sign reads, "This is the site of the Infamous Belsen Concentration Camp. Liberated by the British ca. 15 April 1945. 10,000 unburied dead were found. Another 13,000 have since died. All of them victims of the German new order in Europe. And an example of Nazi Kultur." Same LS, pan to sign across deserted land, barbed wire, smoke in BG. More torching of buildings. Fast pan across lots of tiny brush fires. Soldiers on tank drive through camp.

  20. Nazi flag with swastika

    Nazi flag with swastika Found by Otto Aders while billeted at a house in Bad Godesberg, Germany. Shipped to parents in Decorah, Iowa.