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  1. Selected records from the American Field Service Archives and Museum relating to Bergen-Belsen

    Relates to the work of the American Field Service (C and D Platoons) at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after liberation. Contains information about starvation of prisoners; sanitation in the camp; disease; forms of execution used in the camp; mass burials of Bergen-Belsen victims; medical care for survivors; and activities of specific AFS personnel during the post-liberation clean up of the camp.

  2. "Soldiers Without Weapons" excerpt

    Consists of an excerpt from the book by Sophia Binkiene, which is comprised of testimony by Dr. F. Gurviciene concerning the rescue of her daughter during the Holocaust by Dr. Ona Landsbergiene, the mother of the future democratically elected president of Lithuania, Vytautas Landsbergis.

  3. Willard Lyon letter relating to Hitler's rise to power

    Consists of a photocopy of a 21 March 1993 letter written by Rev. Willard Lyon of Gary, Indiana. In the letter, addressed to Herman Stern, Rev. Lyon asks the latter for his impressions of the changes that have taken place in Germany since Hitler's rise to power, and shares his opinions about the same.

  4. Maria Davidson remembrances

    Contains information about Maria Davidson's experiences and observations in Poland and Germany during World War II as a Jew living under an assumed Christian identity.

  5. Report and photographs relating to post-liberation Buchenwald

    Contains information about the experiences of Major Donald Luby and others in a reconnaissance group that visited Buchenwald, including a photocopied report dated Apr. 18, 1945 concerning the post-liberation situation on the camp. Also includes photocopies of photographs, including one showing what appears to be an African-American soldier standing in front of a cart full of corpses. The photographs also contain scenes from Dachau and Ohrdruf camps.

  6. Adolf Hitler's political and private testaments

    Contains photograph copies of documents relating to Adolf Hitler's final thoughts before suicide, his denial of guilt as cause of World War II, his ascribing the entire tragedy to international Jewry, his removal of Göring and Himmler from their offices for disloyalty in negotiating with the enemy without his consent, his choice of Admiral Dönitz and a slate of cabinet members to carry on the struggle, and his marriage to Eva Braun. Included is a note from Martin Bormann to Admiral Dönitz, which served as a cover letter to Hitler's political testament.

  7. Altman, Weiniger and Yurman family trees

    Contains information about the Atlman, Weiniger and Yurman families and relationships of various branches of Shirley Newman's family. The tree includes notations concerning family members who died in the Holocaust.

  8. Reichskommissariat für die Ukraine and Einsatzstab Rosenberg records from the Ukraine Central State Archive

    Contains information about the German occupation of the Ukraine; the activities of the Reichskommissariat für die Ukraine; the activities of the Einsatzstab Rosenberg; control of partisan activity; police activities in the occupied territories; Reichskommissariat personnel matters; development of agriculture in Ukraine; population of Ukrainian towns and villages; railroad schedules; railroad construction; use of Soviet POWs in labor; Göring's instructions on the organization of an economic headquarters in the East; various libraries, archives and museums under the surveillance of Einsatzs...

  9. Baltimore Emergency Committee records

    Contains information about the Baltimore Emergency Committee post-World War II claims of former European Jews living in the Baltimore area who sought restitution from the government of West Germany and some of its courts for losses suffered during the Nazi regime and who served as court witnesses to Nazi atrocities, especially in Poland. Also included is information about war crimes, war criminals, concentration camps, survivors, expropriation of Jewish property, persecution of Jews, and Auschwitz.

  10. Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz, and Rimalower family papers

    Contains correspondence, photographs, poems and various other documents relating to the persecution and incarceration of Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, especially at Gurs concentration camp in France. Also contains information about attempts at emigration by members of the Malz, Finkelstein, Rosenthal, Schwarz, and Rimalower families.

  11. Ferdinand and Halina Birnhack letter

    The letter, sent by Halina and Ferdinand Birnhack to Mr. and Mrs. Irwin Beckenstein on 08 April 1949, expresses thanks for assistance and explain their need for clothing and food. The Birnhacks were "adopted" by the Beckensteins through B'nai B'rith. The letter also describes the Birnhack's plans for emigration to Israel.

  12. Selected records from the National Archives of Moldova

    Various documents relating to internment of Jews in several ghettos in Romania and Bessarabia; administration of the Chișinău ghetto (including census information); the ghetto in Bălți ; the ghetto in Soroca; activities of the police in the Chișinău ghetto; disposal of Jewish property; deportations of Jews from Bessarabia to Transnistria (Ukraine); and executions of Romanian Jews.

  13. Wrist watch with a brown leather strap removed from Sobibor

    The watch was removed from Sobibor, Poland by Zindel Honigman when he escaped.

  14. Luba Krugman Gurdus photograph collection

    The collection consists of a photograph album with approximately 46 images documenting the early life of Robert Michael Gurdus (1938-1942; donor's son) who died in the Holocaust, as well as the kindergarten in Netanyah, Israel, dedicated to his memory by his parents (1978).

  15. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 2 kronen, 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.

  16. The Liberators: The Liberation by the Criminal Army! Political poster of the French resistance group Manouchian network

  17. Joel Shapiro bronze sculpture

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7314
    • English
    • 1993
    • a: Height: 288.000 inches (731.52 cm) | Width: 180.000 inches (457.2 cm) | Depth: 102.000 inches (259.08 cm) b: Height: 96.000 inches (243.84 cm) | Width: 60.000 inches (152.4 cm) | Depth: 90.000 inches (228.6 cm)

    Joel Shapiro site-specific sculpture displayed outdoors in the 15th Street Plaza of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The towering work is constructed from two bronze forms suggesting a symbolic dialog addressing the disintegration of families and the tragedy of lives interrupted by the Holocaust. It was commissioned by the Museum's Art in Public Spaces program.

  18. Charles Marks photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken by Charles Marks while in the United States Army Air Forces. The photographs depict Red Cross workers uncovering buried bodies in Lyons, France in November 1944.

  19. Children in Berestowitz, Poland

    Children stand in front of BIBLIOTEKA.

  20. Bernard Rechnitz memoir

    This collection includes a memoir written by Bernard Rechnitz from 1946-1947. In the memoir Bernard records his thoughts on what happened during the Holocaust and recounts his family’s experiences from 1939-1943. Bernard writes about life before the war, moving his family from Katowice to Kraków, the German invasion, confiscation of Jewish property, and their imprisonment in the Płaszów labor camp. The collection also includes a translation of the diary.