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  1. Mogilev Oblast Archive records

    These files relate to the activities of various Mogilev city administration offices and German occupation agencies in the Mogilev area during World War II. Included is information about criminal proceedings, the persecution of Soviet Jews, the confiscation of Jewish property, reprisals against Jewish and partisan resistance, regulations for mixed marriages, the Mogilev ghetto, the transit of refugees, Einsatzkommando activities, forced labor, census statistics, and partisan clashes with police forces.

  2. Dark and light blue tapestry with 2 skeletons riding skeletal horses accompanied by skeletal dogs

    Tapestry created by Jan Yoors in 1958.

  3. Nazi conquest of Czechoslovakia: comedians

    A documentary about the conquest of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis just prior to World War II. Map; comedians (Jiří Voskovec and Jan Werich).

  4. Germans in Occupied Ukraine

    Footage shot by a German cameraman during Germany's occupation of Ukraine in World War II. Footage with German photographers traveling through the Ukraine photographing cities, villages, and collective farms. The most extensive footage is taken with a female photographer from her trip to Ukraine in the summer of 1943. She traveled by plane and car from southern Ukraine (the Melitopol region) just north of Crimea, then along the Dnepr River northward over Dnepropetrovsk to Kiev and then due west to Rovno and then the border of General Government. Reel 10, Agricultural labor. 06:25:15 Woman p...

  5. Tree stump from the Palmiry Forest with an embedded bullet shell

    This "AB-AKTION" was referred to by the Nazis as the "Ausserordentliche Befriedigungsaktionen (extraordinary pacification operation). Clerics, intellectuals, academics, politicians, and suspected resisters were murdered there.

  6. The Trial of Adolf Eichmann

    Universal Newsreel Vol. 34, No. 31, Part 2. Release date, 04/13/1961. Adolf Eichmann is brought before court tribunal in Israel on war crimes charges. MLS of courthouse building. HA MLS seats for three judges and tables for prosecutors and defense. MLS Eichmann enters bulletproof witness box with guards. CU of Prosecutor Hausner, then previous shot of courtroom. MS Eichmann seated, stands, MLS three judges enter. MS of Chief Judge, then MS of Eichmann standing. Voice of judge: "The accused together with others during the period 1939 to 1945 caused the killing of millions of Jews in his capa...

  7. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jews, refugee relief, England

    A refugee couple being interviewed in German at Woburn House (staged). In BG can see others being assisted. They present passport documents. MCU of couple as husband speaks, CU of him as he speaks. Woman shyly stares down at table. Both speak German? CU profile of agent providing assistance. Two women processing documents concerning boarding and lodging of refugees.

  8. American Committee for Relief of German Children form

    This is a blank application form issued by the American Committee for Relief of German Children, which had been founded in December 1923 and worked with the American Friends Service Committee to distribute food in Germany. The form is undated but likely from the 1920s, and concerns efforts to send food to specific recipients.

  9. Prayerbook kept by a Jewish woman in concentration camps

    The prayer book was originally owned by Betty Rothschild, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was received by Resa Klau at an orphanage in Westerbork. It was obtained by Ursula Klau after her mother's death in May 1945 at Bergen-Belsen and was kept by her through various DP camps and through arrival to United States at New York in 1953.

  10. Barnett Bader photograph collection

    The collection consists of four photographs of corpses and prisoners at Mauthausen concentration camp at the time of liberation in 1945. The verso of the photographs are annotated.

  11. Capture of Tarawa from Japan

    The invasion fleet moves toward Tarawa. Marines land and fight after a naval bombardment. Shows the effect of the attack on Japanese emplacement.

  12. 45th Division News [Newspaper]

    Given by an American soldier to Abe Speisman after his liberation, May 1945, Germany.

  13. Zelkowicz family photograph

    The photograph is a studio portrait of the Zelkowicz family. The photograph is hand-numbered in ink over each person depicted. Identified as follows: 1- Mother / Chaja; 2- Sister / Rochma; 3- Brother / Jeruchim; 4- Ichock; 5- Father / Jankel; 6- Brother / Szloma. Inscribed in ink on reverse but illegible due to paper glued to backing.

  14. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 2 Reichsmark

    2 Reichsmark coupon issued at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. Buchenwald opened on July 19, 1937, and issued undated notes in 0.5, 1, 2, and 3 mark denominations. The simply designed notes were printed on coarse paper. There were two types of coupons: canteen scrip and exchange scrip issued to members of outside labor brigades [Aussenkommandos.] In early April 1945, as US forces approached Buchenwald concentration camp, the German guards began to evacuate the camp. On April 11, the prisoners revolted and seized control of the camp. Later that day, soldiers from the Sixth Army Armo...

  15. Photographic negative of corpses at Buchenwald

    The photographic negative depicts American soldiers looking at a mound of corpses in front of an incinerator building at Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation.

  16. Big Three at Potsdam

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 418, Part 5. Release date, 07/23/1945. According to UN advance information: "Big Three Parley Begins." President Truman and his party are greeted by cheering crowds in Antwerp, after the USS Augusta docks them at this Belgian port. The US 2nd Armored Division stands at attention on the famed autobahn as the presidential party rolls into Berlin. After President Truman confers with Gen. Stalin at the "Little White House" in Berlin, all of the conferees adjourn to the Kaiser Wilhelm palace in Potsdam for the official opening of the Big Three Conference. Winston...

  17. Dress worn by a young girl while living in hiding

    Created by Miki Pear, 1941, Ukraine.

  18. Serbian Collaborators

    General Jonic and Ministers Kostic and Ilya (officials of Serbian puppet government) attend swearing-in of Serbian anti-guerilla police divisions in Belgrade. LS from above, men in uniform in ranks in plaza. CU small shoulder patch. MS General Kostic (?) saluted to by junior officers; minister shakes hands with general and walks past men in review. General and ministers walk along path in courtyard and then up onto platform in plaza. MLS Uniformed men in rows with hats off raise right hands for swearing-in. LA shot of General swearing, then crossing himself. MS of two ministers on podium. (...

  19. Nazi storm trooper pants

  20. The Poison Mushroom Book

    Antisemitic children's book, Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom), found by Arthur Lampner, a Corporal with the United States Army Signal Corps., 129th Sig. R.I. Co., while stationed in a manor house, Falkanhof, in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany, in May 1945. The book was published by Der Stuermer Verlag, a division of the viciously anti-Jewish newspaper, Der Stuermer, published by Julius Streicher from 1923-1945. The illustrations are by Fips (Phillip Rupprecht), the paper's well known antisemitic cartoonist. Both men were arrested by the US Army in May 1945. Rupprecht was tried by ...