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  1. Selected records of the City Grodzisk Mazowiecki Akta Miasta Grodziska Mazowieckiego (Sygn. 36), 1869-1950

    Consists of ordinances of German authorities, registers of physicians and Jews obligated for forced labor; files of the Commissioner’s Administration of Jewish Properties, the resettlement of Jews to the "Jewish Housing Quarter”, and personal files of Jewish municipal workers, including Bernard Kampelmacher, who later was a member of “Oneg Szabat” (The Ringelblum Archives).

  2. Poster protesting Nazi threat to Christianity

    Office of War Information poster 76 titled "This is the Enemy" depicting a Nazi supporter thrusting a sword through a bible.

  3. Salpeter family collection

    The Salpeter family collection consists of biographical and genealogical information regarding the Salpeter family of Düsseldorf, Germany. The collection includes correspondence, dated 1937-1942, sent between the Salpeter family in Germany and Poland, and Klara Salpeter, who had immigrated to the United States in 1938. Photographs of the Salpeter family include candid and studio portraits of Oskar Salpeter, Brunhilde Salpeter, Klara Salpeter, Rieka Salpeter, Dorothea Salpeter, and Charlotte Salpeter. All members of the Salpeter family, except Klara Salpeter, perished in the Holocaust.

  4. Ceramic figurine of Adolf Hitler with pincushion

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn532855
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) c: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) d: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Ceramic figure of Adolf Hitler bending over with brown fabric pin cushion as his bottom. Includes original tag titled "Hotzi Notzi" and two pins with paper American flags; dated 1941.

  5. Selected records of the Ministry of Culture and Art. Department of Museums and Memorials Commemorating Polish Martyrdom Ministerstwo Kultury i Sztuki. Wydział Muzeów i Pomników Martyrologii Polskiej (Sygn. GK 185)

    Documentation and indexes of places of execution in the Polish provinces and in the city of Warsaw ("Kroniki bestialstw niemieckich: The Chronicles of German atrocities"), lists of camps on Polish territory, questionnaires of people arrested and testimonies of witnesses of war crimes.

  6. Bernard Beckerman photograph collection

    Contains a hand-made photo album and six loose photographs, assembled by Bernard Beckerman (donor’s father), who served in the 45th "Thunderbird" Infantry Division. Includes comments from Sergeant Beckerman about what he witnessed upon the liberation of Dachau in April 1945.

  7. Photographs of post-war Jewish community in Dzierżoniów, Poland (Reichenbach, Silesia)

    The photograph collection consists of photographs from the post-war Jewish community of Dzierżoniów, Poland (formerly Reichenbach, Lower Silesia, Germany). The images depict a gathering in memory of the murdered Jews of Biala (circa 1946), a New Year's greeting from the committee of survivors from Biala, and various unidentified family photographs. Following the end of the war, some Jews who had survived nearby concentration camps, such as Gross-Rosen, tried to re-establish an autonomous communal settlement in Dzierżoniów, under the leadership of Jakub Egit, a Jewish soldier in the Red ...

  9. Mission to identify missing people during the German occupation (witness statements) Missie tot Opsporing van vermiste personen tijdens de bezettingstijd (getuigenverklaringen) (Fond 244)

    This collection contains documents relating the post-war Dutch mission to identify missing persons during the German occupation (witness statements). Including are records on deportation of Jews during the so-called Cosel transports (today: Koźle (Poland) into forced labor camps of Blechhammer (Auschwitz IV), Bobrek, Neukirch, Seibersdorf, Schoppinitz (Szopienice, Katowice district, Poland), Ottmuth, Niederkirch, Gross-Sarne, Laurahütte, Malapane, Tränke, Bunzlau, Anhalt, Fürstengrube, Gräditz, Langenbielau, Freiburg and Gleiwitz. The archive contains 154 statements from men who were depor...

  10. Anti-Axis pin calling for the extermination of Axis rats

    Anti-Axis pin-back button distributed in the United States during World War II. The button compares the leaders of Germany, Italy, and Japan to rats and calls for their extermination. The name under the Japanese face, referred to as Togo, may refer to Shigenori Tōgō, who was Minister of Foreign Affairs at the beginning of the war. The name may also be a misspelling of Tojo, a reference to Hideki Tojo who was Prime Minister of Japan during the war and a more popular target of American propaganda. After the Japanese surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and Germany’s declaratio...

  11. Anti-Roosevelt 1940 Presidential Campaign button

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn561401
    • English
    • overall: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm)

    Anti-Roosevelt campaign button for the 1940 Presidential Election. Several variations of this button were manufactured with different text size and font styles. Campaign buttons were used to build awareness, and encourage positive word of mouth for the candidates. In the 1940 Presidential election incumbent president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was running against Republican challenger, Wendell Willkie. FDR was running for an unprecedented third term, which was a major factor the Republicans pressed during the campaign. Willkie also challenged FDR’s New Deal policies and his approach t...

  12. Olec As told to Anne Marie Davies

    Memoir, typescript, 47 pages with photographs, as dictated by Alex Kozlowski to his niece, Anne Marie Davis. In the memoir, Kozlowski describes his childhood in Lwów, including his life there during the German occupation, his escape with his aunt to Warsaw, liberation, life in post-war Krakow and in displaced persons camps in Austria and Germany, and his immigration to the United States. He also describes his service in the United States Air Force from 1948 to 1968, including tours of duty with counter-intelligence corps in West Germany during the Cold War, and with a unit that rescued down...

  13. Haber family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Haber family of Vienna, Austria including Fritz Haber (Fred), who emigrated from Vienna, Austria with Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus, an American couple who negotiated the American immigration of fifty Jewish children from Nazi-occupied Vienna in May, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children documenting their trip on board the SS President Harding and arrival to the United States; identification papers of Fritz’s parents Joseph and Grete Haber; education and employment papers of Joseph; documents of...

  14. Dr. Wieslaw Piller collection

    Contains documents and correspondence illustrating the experiences of Wieslaw M. Piller (donor's grandfather), who was Roman Catholic and interned in Auschwitz from June 1940 through 1944 and then Sachsenhausen from October 1944 to February 1945 Includes materials about his postwar experiences in and around Munich, Germany.

  15. Łódź ghetto document collection

    Correspondence from Chaim Rumkowski, Chairman of the Łódź Ghetto Jewish Council, concering delivery of furniture from company Schultz and Schmitz, dated November 28, 1941 and stamped December 1, 1941, on letterhead from "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt"; Receipt: discharge, stamped September 17, 1941, issued by Friedrich Hoppert [limited partnership] in Litzmannstadt [purpose of this receipt is unclear].

  16. Nazis parade in Berlin

    Parade of Nazi soldiers marching on Unter den Linden in Berlin. Crowds line the streets waving Nazi flags. They stop in front of the Neue Wache building. 01:01:22 Dignitaries arrive and walk from right to left (perhaps including high Nazi officials). Wreath-laying ceremony (possibly February 25, 1934/5 for National Mourning Day or Heroes Day).

  17. Terkeltaub and Erlich families collection

    Contains documents, photographs and correspondence illustrating the Turkeltaub and Erlich families in Łódź, Poland before the war; the Łódź Ghetto during the war; and the Fohrenwald displaced persons camp. Most documents concern Marila and Suche Erlich (donor's parents).

  18. Sarah Radzeli photograph collection

    Consists of copyprints and photographs from the collection of Sarah Schneider Ben-Ami Radzeli. Includes a copyprint of a portrait of Moishe Radzeli taken around the period of World War II and a copyprint of a portrait of Moishe's wife Ita with her grandchildren (Louis's niece and nephew Yankel), all of whom perished during the war. Also includes a pre-war portrait of the family of Esther (Adler) and Mordachai Neuman of Berezovo, Czechoslovakia; a group photo taken at the 1939 wedding of Rachel Adler of Berezov; and a portrait of Basya (Fromovitz) Katz. Basya, her husband Yossel, and the Neu...

  19. Paul Hirschfeld collection

    Collection of eight photographic postcards documenting the reburial of Holocaust victims and forced confrontation by local residents; inscribed "Naila, Nov. 1945" in black ink on verso; some also stamped as enlargements by photographer. The postcards were brought back to the United States after the war by Paul Hirschfeld (donor's father), who had fled Vienna in June 1938 and returned to Europe as a member of the US Army and OSS investigator.

  20. Paul and Judith Schneiderman collection

    Collection of photographs documenting the experiences of Paul and Judith Schneiderman (donor's parents) in the Landsberg Displaced Persons camp immediately following the Holocaust. Both survived multiple concentration camps, and they met and married while in Landsberg.