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  1. Ohrdruf liberation photo

    Photographic print: black and white image of American soldier standing next to open trailer loaded with corpses; caption handwritten on verso: “Murdered slaves about to get a decent burial / Ohrdruf, Germany”; dated April-May 1945; in English

  3. German and Austrian mountain hunters

    A propaganda film by Wolfgang Gorter. The 1st Mountain Division Mittenwald in the Caucasus 1939 - 1942. The footage for this film comes from the camera of a mountain hunter of the former 1st Mountain Division Mittelwald. Includes fight at 50 degrees below zero, flagging on the 5,633 meter high Elbrus and daily life of the soldiers in an occupied country.

  4. Oral history interview with Hanna Green

  5. Woven shirt made by a woman for her infant nephew while in a labor camp

    Infant's blouse made for Ivan Répás by his aunt Kato Holtzek in Strasshof labor camp in 1944. Ivan was born while they were being transported to the camp.

  7. Provincial Command of the State Police in Kielce Komenda Wojewódzka Policji Państwowej w Kielcach (Sygn. 111)

    Orders, ordinances, reports, registers, correspondence, questionnaires and minutes of the Provincial Chief Officer of the State Police in Kielce. Included are registers of crimes, police reports, opinions and instructions, photos of criminals from the register of the State Police, reports of the chief officers of Major Security Organizations in Poland, personnel lists of the State Police in Kielce and subordinate police stations, personal questionnaires, personnel matters of the State Police officers, reports and information concerning police informers, information on the national movements...

  8. Dr. Jacob Tombak correspondence

    Contains two letters written by Dr. Jacob Tombak (donor's grand uncle), who was a child psychiatrist in Warsaw, Poland, to his sister, Lillie (donor's grandmother), in which he describes his many efforts to obtain a US visa. Dr. Tombak would later be in the Warsaw ghetto, and he did not survive.

  9. Children; soldiers; lake; "Jews forbidden" sign on tram

    City streets. A large building marked “MOCKBA,” or Moscow, possibly in Lwiw. Local children in rows pose for the camera. German soldiers looking out of a train. “IVAN PASPAISINOVI ELEKTRO-INDUSTRIJA” building. Men stuff cloth bags with hay. A mliltary car is camouflaged in leaves next to a house in a rural location. 10:09:37 Various scenes/locations - civilians walk in a city, house and trees, lake, swimmers, plane, dock, lake, and surrounding environs, boat, German soldiers shows off lobster. 10:12:29 City in ruins. Civilians. Trolley car with a German painted sign forbidding Jews passes: ...

  10. Stukas; gliding

    Private films. Stukas. Gliding (color film). Occupied France. Bombing. Air field. On the beach.

  11. Self portrait by George Byfield given to an Australian solicitor

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn600868
    • English
    • a: Height: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) b: Height: 15.625 inches (39.688 cm) | Width: 15.625 inches (39.688 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm)

    Self portrait by Gyorgy Beifeld (George Byfield) given as a gift to H.W. (Peter) Tebbutt, an Australian solicitor. Beifeld was deported from Budapest, Hungary, in March 1944 to Auschwitz concentration camp. He was later transferred to Dachau where he was liberated by American troops of the 7th Army on April 19, 1945.

  12. Goebbels and SA in Berlin; Hans-Joachim Marseille

    Hitler Youth, Marseille speaks to the boys and writes dedication in a book: "Do not turn around, always look forward, your Marseille, Berlin 24. 7. 1942."

  13. Trommer and Geldmann families collection

    Contains documents and photographs relating to the Trommer and Geldmann families from Copenhagen; documents include marriage certificate of Moses Diament of Copenhagen, Denmark and Pesa Geldmann of Łódź, Poland, issued in Zbaszyn, Poland on April 22, 1939; Ketubah of Josef Geldmann and Kaja Diament, dated October 27, 1935 in Copenhagen. Josef, son of Moses Geldmann (donor's grandfather) was born on September 9, 1914 in Łódź. Josef's sister Pesia Geldmann married Moses Diament and was able to come to Denmark just before the outbreak of the war. In 1943 the whole family was able to escape to ...

  14. Romania in color

    German soldier's home movies. Family, civilian, domestic scenes. Krad, with car, private swimming pool, trucking, guns, women and soldiers on the street, snow shovelling soldiers in 1941, picnic in the forest

  15. French Campaign, North African Campaign 1940

    Submarine, Swearing-in of Tunisian volunteers

  16. Germans Fleeing from the Eastern Territories

    Crowds of people travelling through the snow and elements, ocean, freight ships, fire.

  17. Parade in Vienna - Anschluss

    Aerial view of German planes in formation. Crowds flank the streets of Vienna for the Anschluss parade in March 1938, tanks parade through the streets. A few spectators hold umbrellas. More tanks and military vehicles, packed with troops. Many in the crowd now have umbrellas to protect themselves from the falling rain. An enormous crowd in the Heldenplatz (Heroes’ Square) in Vienna. The Äußere Burgtor, a gateway to the square is on the left. The Austrian Parliament building is visible in the background. The equestrian statue of St. Eugene of Savoy in front of the Neue Burg. Soldiers stand i...

  18. Silver box commemorating the launch of the MS St Louis

    Silver box commemorating the MS St. Louis given to Mrs. Carl F.G. Meyer in honor of the launching of the transatlantic liner on August 2, 1928. Mrs. Meyer sailed aboard the ship which sailed on December 6, 1928 to New York City, then from New York City back to Europe on December 27, 1928.

  19. Pre-war holiday in Tyrol

    color film. Vacation in the Tyrol District.

  20. Goering, soldiers tour

    B/w Cars move through a rainy street. Assembled Wehrmacht units and high officers stand in formation alongside the road. Mountain chapels. Göring exits a building in a fur hat. He then stands back under the doorway. Marching band. Snowy hillside from a funicular car, mountain railway. Snowy view from the top of the hill. Small log cabins. An avalanche. Göring walks with his cane and fur hat, followed by multiple men. Mining carts. 11:07:46 Soldiers line up alongside train tracks. Sign “Leoben.” Leoben, Austria. The soldiers perform a rifle drill, led by their commander whose back is to the ...