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  1. Pin-back button

    American propaganda anti-Axis pin

  2. Ceramic figurine of a skunk with Adolf Hitler's face

    Figurine of a skunk painted in black and white with the face of Adolf Hitler. The tail is broken off from the body.

  3. Robert Slack collection

    Consists of 26 original photographs of the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp. Contains images of clothed and unclothed bodies in mass graves, local townspeople forced to move bodies from mass grave sites, and live prisoners in bunks. Taken by Robert Slack during his service with the US Army during WWII.

  4. Art installation

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn694102
    • English
    • a: Height: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Depth: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) s: Height: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Width: 33.500 inches (85.09 cm) | Depth: 19.000 inches (48.26 cm) t: Height: 21.000 inches (53.34 cm) | Width: 47.750 inches (121.285 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)

    Artistic installation entitled "Voyage" by Diana Kurz, who documents in this piece the flight of her immediate family from Austria to the United States in 1938.

  5. Poster stamp

    American propaganda anti-Axis poster stamp

  6. Notice about forced labor requirements in Łódź Ghetto

    Announcement for display in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) ghetto about forced labor.

  7. Selected records from the State Archive of Orvieto

    Records of discrimination and persecution of Jews in Italy in the community of Orvieto.

  8. Teardrop pendant with an engraved inscription

    Teardrop shaped pendant with Hebrew inscriptions on both sides

  9. American nurses sightseeing in Paris

    Sights in Paris in late August 1944 following the liberation of the city from German control. The 51st Field Hospital visits the Arc de Triomphe, the Seine, and the Eiffel Tower. 01:13:16 Beatrice and a man pose for the camera outside Notre Dame. French civilians near a Red Cross truck. The July Column with pedestrians and bicyclists.

  10. Oral history interview with Irving Bashevkin

  11. 51st Field Hospital at camp, visiting ruins, and advancing into Belgium or Germany

    Two women sunbathe while other personnel of the 51st Field Hospital relax at camp, either in Belgium or Germany in early fall 1944 [The 51st Field Hospital entered Belgium on September 9 and Roetgen, Germany on September 16]. Beatrice digs a hole, perhaps a latrine (probably not a foxhole since there is no combat). A soldier plays a violin and sings by the hole. 01:15:21 51st Field Hospital personnel pose for the camera. Ruins of buildings in the countryside. Pan across the landscape and the remains of buildings, including one still smoldering and an untouched church. Some civilians in BG a...

  12. Trunk brought to the United States by an Austrian-Jewish refugee

    Trunk brought to New York in January, 1940 by Bertha Lifschutz when she immigrated to the Untited States. Bertha's son Fred had come to the United States the previous year as part of the "50 children" transport led by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus.

  13. Dozia Altschuler Mehl photograph collection

    The Dozia Altschuler Mehl photograph collection consists of 11 photographs depicting the family of Dozia Altschuler in Ukraine, and the family of her husband Wolcio Mehl.

  14. Santa Maria di Leuca DP camp; Jewish family; protesting British policy against immigration

    Quick pan of buildings at Santa Maria di Leuca DP camp, brief shot of two women and a Red Cross truck. Hannah plays with her son in the water at the beach, Moshe walks toward camera holding the baby. Hannah and Menachem play outdoors on a blanket with various toys, headphones. Hannah and another friend (seen in Film ID 4155 at 6:02) make faces for the cameraman. 02:11 City EXTs, building with British flag, plaque/crest in Bari city (note the fountain of Cavour Avenue in later shots). Men in uniform and large crowd of protestors gathered on street. Young people stand on others’ shoulders, ma...

  15. Cemetery, daily activity, and synagogue in Filipow

    Country road. Lottie poses with locals and relatives, probably in Suwalki, including Peretz Lansky and his wife Razel, Nahum Lansky (01:00:10), Zawel Borodowski (man with cane), next to Labe Hirsch Borodowsky (man with hat), next to Rivka Borodowsky with her children David and Eliyahu Vinizky at 01:00:16, and Rachel and Shlomo Quint at the end of the group (cousins); some children, probably Avraham and Binyamin Borodowsky, hide behind Zawel. A different group poses for the camera on cobbled streets. The countryside around Filipow, LS of town square. The American Blands arrive in a horse-dra...

  16. Selected records of the court of the First Instance in Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą Sąd Grodzki w Nowym Mieście nad Pilicą (Sygn.1089)

    Court civil cases relating to promissory notes and repayment of debts. Parties in these processes were Jews, residents of Nowe Miasto nad Pilicą. The files contain personal data about participants of lawsuits.

  17. Dodge family papers

    Book and folder: records of the hospital laboratory in the Dachau concentration camp. Recorded in book and on separate pages contained within the folder are last names of victims interned in Dachau and records of their blood and urine work. The book, which dates November 30, 1942 - April 7, 1943 is labeled on cover "Häftl.-Revier Laboratorium" [prisoner laboratory area]. The folder bears pink label imprinted "SS Hauptsanitätslager Aeusserlich" and stamped "Häftl. -Revier Laboratorium" and contains loose pages, dated August 21, 1942 - December 4, 1942 recording the same information. Occasion...

  18. Sabrina Mandelberger collection

    Contains a letter, one page, written by Sabina Mandelberger (donor’s grandmother) after her liberation from the Bergen Belsen concentration camp; dated 1945.

  19. Poster encouraging voter turnout as a way to support freedom and the war effort

    Poster titled Your Right to Vote, promoting Roosevelt's Four Freedoms. Different types of wartime propaganda campaigns were designed around these slogans. This poster says that exercising the right to vote is the way civilians on the home front can protect the freedoms the US is fighting for overseas during World War II. This poster shows a vote for Freedom of Enterprise. The other choices on the ballot machine are Freedom of Worship, Freedom of Speech, and Freedom of Press. In his January 1941 State of the Union address, FDR proposed four fundamental freedoms that people everywhere in the ...

  20. Oral history interview with Simon Konover