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  1. Sign excluding Jews from a property

    Enameled, metal sign prohibiting the presence of Jews. Such signs were often present in shops, restaurants, and other public buildings during the Nazi regime. While there was no singular law requiring the physical segregation of Jews from other Germans, a series of over 400 laws enacted throughout the 1930s increased restrictions for Jews in every aspect of their lives. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. The German government began instituting laws the following April, which began negatively defining and segregating Jews f...

  2. Oral history interview with Icek Wluka

  3. Photograph of a field

    Contains an undated image of a field with trees and a fence in the background.

  4. SA.: Mann in Front (Munich, Germany) [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  5. Cemetery; synagogue

    Contemporary footage of a memorial or Jewish cemetery. CU, EXT ornate sign in Hebrew (gravestone?). Different views of synagogue. Pan to Jewish star on roof of building.

  6. Large wooden crate used by Zegota, a Polish underground group, to hide false documents

    Large, lidded wooden chest used by Rada Pomocy Zydom (Council to Aid Jews), called Zegota, to hide false identity documents for Jews in German occupied Poland. Zegota was an underground organization, most active in the Warsaw region, where its members, Jewish and non-Jewish, helped Jews go into or remain in hiding. It found them hiding places and provided them with medical care, food, money, and false identity documents. About 50,000 sets of false identity documents were distributed during the German occupation, which began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Zegota was f...

  7. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of two corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  8. Arrest of Jews in Romania

    MCU, low angle, soldiers marching into a town. Cut to MCU, Jews with their hands in the air, emotional shot of a woman clinging to and hiding behind a man (presumably her husband or a relative), the man has his arms raised. MCU, men with their arms raised, being searched by Romanian soldiers. They open their jackets, check pockets, etc. MCU, low angle, a man sleeping, curled up on the ground, another man, or possibly a woman, covered in a blanket is curled up, sleeping next to him, a cat is visible cleaning itself in the background. Low angle pan of a street in the village.

  9. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of two men standing at the door of an oven with a corpse on a stretcher; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  10. Bronze sculpture of a woman resting in the shelter of a cupped hand

    Bronze sculpture created by Theo Balden in 1988.

  11. Victor Wieruszowski Postcard

    The postcard was written by Victor Wieruszowski to his wife Frieda Schwerin Wieruszowski from Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938. In the postcard, Victor asks his wife to quickly sell as much of the inventory of his plumbing supply wholesale business as possible, and to send warm woolen socks.

  12. Cigarette case carved in a POW camp

    Carved by Pieter Kaufmann while he was in a prisoner of war camp. He was a Viennese Jew who joined the British army at the beginning of the war. While stationed in Greece he was captured by the Germans.

  13. [Newspaper]

    German National Socialist newspaper.

  14. Purse made while interned in Gurs concentration camp

    Purse made while interned in Gurs camp

  15. Oral history interview with Sam Dicker

  16. Cobblestones from Chłodna Street, which separated the two sections of the Warsaw Ghetto

    Cobblestones removed from Chłodna Street in Warsaw, Poland. The street was an important east-west thoroughfare in the city of Warsaw. On October 12, 1940, German authorities in Warsaw decreed the establishment of a 1.3-square-mile Jewish ghetto, and required over 400,000 Jews from the city and nearby towns to relocate inside the 10-foot-high wall that bounded it. An approximately 650-foot-long portion of Chłodna Street was contained within the ghetto until December 1941. Afterward, it became an Aryan-only street that divided the ghetto into two sections, with the relatively elite and intell...

  17. US Tanks Advance; German POWs; Burning village

    Slate: PROJ 186, MURPHY, 24 MAR M3. 03:20:48 MS, US tanks rolling into village, some greenery, trees, and a large white house visible in BG. 03:21:09 MS, Establishing shot, through opening in rock formation. Open field and road beyond field. Tank rolling by 'window' in FG. One tank has a visible #48 painted on the side, in white. 03:21:22 MCU, back of head and helmet of US MP in FG as he motions for tanks to pass by. MSs, US army vehicles, mainly tanks moving along dirt road, alternating scenery in FG, chain link fences, MPs, shrubs and tree branches. 03:21:41 MSs, military vehicles approac...

  18. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of U.S. soldiers standing near pile of bodies outside; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  19. Dachau liberation negative

    Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation. Image of a pile of corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  20. Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland. Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland. Records from Yad Vashem collection

    Contains samples of Main Commission documents relating to war crimes and war crimes investigations from file 2848 in the collections of Yad Vashem.