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  1. Star of David badge with a Z for Jew worn by a Yugoslavian Jewish woman

    Badge worn by Yugoslavian Jewish woman during the Holocaust; Issued to and worn by Erika Reiss Kinel, 1941. "Z" identified bearer as a Jew.

  2. Oral testimony of Julian Noga during his visit to the Flossenbürg memorial camp

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn501175
    • English
    • 1995
    • overall: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) overall: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) 1 videocassette (VHS), sound, color ; 1/2 in.

    Amateur footage of Julian Noga and his daughter at the Flossenbürg memorial camp

  3. Thoughts and observations glimpses of Europe

    Typescript, 15 pages, recounting author's experiences in Germany and France, 1939-1940, until immigration to U.S. via Bermuda.

  4. John F. Bolton papers

    Contains photographic prints of scenes of U.S. troops liberating various locations in southern Germany, including images of captured German POWs. Also includes a copy of a book entitled "Dachau."

  5. Morris and Mathilde Hasson papers

    Consists of letters written by Morris and Mathilde Hasson between 1940 to 1947 discussing the experiences and fates of members of the donor's family during the Holocaust in France.

  6. Document

    The Jewish Communities of Shanghai collection comprises photocopies of a sample of archival materials about the Jewish communities of Shanghai from archival and private sources in Taipei, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Materials include records from the Kuomintang Archives and Shanghai Municipal Archives and from individuals Regina Strubreiter, Annemarie Pordes, and Tess Johnston. Records from the Kuomintang Archives include catalogs, foreign ministry records, Shanghai city government announcements, Shanghai Kuomintang Party records, newspapers, and clippings. Records from the Shanghai Municipal ...

  7. Grigory Flom memoir

    Testimony, typescript, 2 pages, written circa 1990s, giving brief overview of Grigory Flom's activities during WWII, including his service in Red Army, capture by Germans and experiences as POW in Malinovka, Volchansk, Belaya Kalita, and other locations, until liberation in July 1943.

  8. Vladimir Rayzman memoir

    Testimony, typescript copy, one page. Describes experiences of Vladimir Rayzman, from the German invasion of his hometown of Brest (Poland/Belarus) to his time as a forced laborer in "Keln-Doits," which is the city of Deutz, across the river from Cologne (Koeln).

  9. Antisemitic Nazi propaganda film (3 reels)

    A propaganda film declared as a "documentary film contribution about the problem of world Judaism," in which antisemitic stereotypes are disseminated by the Nazis, including scenes showing: Poland as a nesting place for Judaism; the comparison of Jews with rats; the difference between Jews and Aryans; "international crime"; "financial Judaism"; "assimilated Jews"; the Jewish influence on economics, culture, and politics; and Jewish religious practice with a portrayal of haggling and misused sacred Jewish texts.

  10. A memoir

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript. Describes family's experience in Łódź ghetto, and his own journey (as six year old) with his mother to Ravensbrück in closing stages of war.

  11. Lena Fishman Fagen collection

    The Lena Fishman Fagen collection consists of original documents Fagen collected while working as a chief document screener for the prosecution at the Nuremberg war crime trials. Most of the records are original signed correspondence addressed to Alfred Rosenberg or his adjutants, Adolf von Trotha or Werner Koeppen. Correspondents include high-ranking Nazi party officials such as Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Hans Frank, and Joseph Goebbels. The collection also includes four Nuremberg trial briefs and a 1951 report on the sentences of Nuremberg-convicted war criminals.

  12. "Memoirs of Violet Dattner"

    Consists of a transcript of the dictated memoir of Violet Dattner, originally of Transylvania. She studied in Paris in the 1930s and met and married her husband, Willy, in Belgium in 1938. They lived in Antwerp until May 1940 when they escaped into France. They were temporarily arrested in 1940, attempted to escape through Spain, but were turned back to Belgium. In 1940, they were able to escape to Havana, Cuba. She also describes her experiences trying to help other family emigrate and in the post-war years, to obtain restitution and information regarding family who perished, as well as he...

  13. Jolan Kovacs papers

    Photocopied documents showing that Jolan Lebovits was a prisoner at Dachau, and copies of pages from publications about Dachau.

  14. Harry Boonin collection

    Contains the photocopies of six depositions and relating to mass killings of Soviet civilian Jews and Soviet Jewish prisoners of war from Starokosti︠a︡ntyniv, Vinnyt︠s︡i︠a︡ Gaysin, and Uman in Ukraine. The killings took place in Kirovohrad, Ukraine, around September 1941, and were carried out by Police Battalion 304. The depositions were used by the German Democratic Republic as prosecution evidence in war crimes trials held in Halle, circa 1970 to 1988.

  15. Short history of my life

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, of survivor who was infant at time of occupation of Riga.

  16. Igor Shtaygman memoir

    Contains a testimony, typescript, two pages, in which Igor Shtaygman describes his experiences in Chernovtsi after occupation, and deportation to ghettos near Vinnitsa.

  17. Why is Lola alive

    Testimony, typescript, 9 pages, titled "Why is Lola Alive?" by Zygmunt Przybylowski, translated from Polish by Jack Taczanowski. The testimony gives Przybylowski's account of the German invasion and occupation of Lvov, Poland (Lviv, Ukraine) and his efforts as a non-Jewish Polish man named “Ted” to assist Jews in the area.

  18. Joseph G. Rowley collection

    The Joseph G. Rowley collection contains documents and photographs related to Joseph Gilmor Rowley (1915-2004) a Special Agent with the Counterintelligence Corps who served in central Europe at the time of German surrender. His collection is comprised of material presumably collected during his tour in Germany and France between 1944 and 1945. Included is a series of photographs which document the liberation of Dachau, images of Allied forces at Adolf Hitler’s “Eagle’s Nest” (Kehlsteinhaus), and one image of the German surrender at Brest, France, among others. Also comprised in this collect...

  19. Collective farms; Zhukov decorates partisans; soldiers defending Latvia

    Titles: "Soviet Newsreel / 35 / Moscow / April 23, 1942 / Directed by M. Fidelevoy" / "Through the front-line of Leningrad" Angled ELS of procession of partisans in horse drawn sleds moving through the woods. LS of men conferring on skis. Procession passing through collective farm. Title: 01:41:10 "Award of the homeland" Coverage of ceremony where Commander Zhukov greets and decorates partisans. LS of Zhukov giving partisan lengthy kiss. CU of woman adjusting medal pinned to her shirt. LS Zhukov speaking to assembly. Title: "An investment in the military - an investment in victory" ELS grou...

  20. Volf Ashkinadze memoir

    Testimony, manuscript, six pages, undated (circa 1990s), by Wolf Ashkinadze, in which he describes his experiences in the Mogilyov-Podolsky ghetto and the Pechora concentration camp