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  1. Oral history interview with David Faber

  2. Oral history interview with Gene Klein and Jill Klein

  4. Book

    Book, Theodor Herzl, obtained by Willy Schwarz and given to Mayer Zarnowiecki from the library in the Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp in German occupied Czechoslovakia.

  5. Oral history interview with Morris Lang

  6. Werner Isenberg papers

    The Werner Isenberg papers include biographical materials and correspondence documenting Werner Isenberg’s family from Dortmund, their emigration from Nazi Germany to South Africa and the United States, and relatives murdered in the Holocaust. Biographical materials include passports for Lina and Simon Isenberg as well as certificates required for emigration. This series also includes a list of relatives of Werner and Therese Isenberg from the Isenberg, Kleeblatt, Freund, Bendorf, Hainebach, Stahl, Kahn, and Levy families who were murdered during the Holocaust. The correspondence series pri...

  7. Muzeum Slovenskeho Narodneho Povstania records relating to Jews in Slovakia

    Relates to anti-Jewish policies in Slovakia, the Hlinka Guard, and other Holocaust-related topics.

  8. "Marianna Tkaczyk" identification card

    The "Kennkarte" was issued to "Marianna Tkaczyk" in Warsaw, Poland, by "Der Stadthauptmann Polizei Direktor" in the Generalgouvernement on May 8, 1943. Anna Danzinger, alias "Marianna Tkaczyk," purchased the birth certificates of two Gentile sisters which enabled her and her sister to obtain identification cards ("Kennkarten"). The sisters survived by living and working as Gentiles in Warsaw, Poland, during the Holocaust.

  9. Leather ID bracelet with a copper tag with a prisoner number worn by a concentration camp inmate

  10. Oral history interview with Magda Blau

  11. Oral history interview with Mendel Nudel

  12. War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case), Nuremberg, Germany, October 15, 1947. Ohlendorf testifying about the number of persons his Einsatzgruppe D killed. Cross examined by US prosecutor James Heath. Musmanno rules that Ohlendorf's testimony from the International Military Tribunal regarding the number 90,000 victims stands.

  13. Gold colored patch with 2 triangles with a Reichsadler and the letters G L

  14. Ehren-Chronik photograph

    Ehren-Chronik (or "honor chronicle"). Printed text with reproduction half-tone prints and photograph album with copy prints adhered to pages accompanied by handwritten captions, material pertains to Nazi Party, volume bound with red cord; published by Friedrich Eber.

  15. National Socialist German Workers Party pin worn by a Party member

    National-Sozialisteische-Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("N.S.D.A.P.") National Socialist German Workers Party membership pin worn by SA Man.

  16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note

    Scrip, valued at 10 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.

  17. Buchenwald canteen coupon given to a concentration camp inmate

  18. Valeriu and Eva Gerson Marcu identity card

    Certificate of Identity for Traveller (Certificat d'Identit et de voyage), issued to Valeriu and Eva Gerson Marcu, September 30, 1940. Booklet format: typewritten form with handwritten entries, photographs of bearers, contains entry, exit and transit visas; issued by Rumanian consulate at Bziers, France; illegible signature; valid through September 30, 1941. In French, Rumanian, Spanish, Portuguese and English. The Marcu family were refugees in France and prominent anti-fascists; they were aided in their escape by the Centre Americain de Secours.

  19. 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.

  20. US Army in Japan

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 18, No. 431. Release date, 09/06/1945. According to UN advance information, "Tokio [sic], The Desolate City." As Yanks occupy the Japanese capital they see that Tokio is a ruined city. The antiquated Jap fire-fighting equipment was unable to save immense areas which were burned out by fire bomb raids. Yet, most of the buildings in the Mikado's compound are untouched.