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  1. Winter 1941/Spring 1942 on the Eastern Front

    November - December 1941 Poor quality shots at first. It is now winter; snow lies on the ground. Wreckage of cars and corpses. A cow wanders past. 01:38:52 A group of Russian partisans has been hung and left on display with a sign that reads (partly illegible) "On the night of November 24th, 1941 these beasts of the Russian regiment 239 813 a. 817 mutilated and murdered German wounded." Good CUs of the dead men. Horses drag wounded soldiers on sleds through a small village. The wind whips snow all around and it looks bitterly cold. Three men walk away from the camera through deep, heavy sno...

  2. Bomb damage in Germany; water lines; USO show at Nuremberg stadium

    (AT THE FRONT slate). Tanks and men around airfield. Military looking out of hatches of tank. Men stand around fire warming themselves. Coffee pot on fire. Armed half-track in FG as they guard airport. Men in half-track, two gunners and a wireless operator. Wireless operator types message, uses decoder. Half-track and trailer move away from camera on edge of airstrip. Panning past furrows on airstrip. This plowing was done by the Germans to make the airfields unusable for the American forces. Tanks move along wooded road past camera. GI vehicles advance through (under) wrecked railroad subw...

  3. Concentration camp striped uniform jacket and pants worn by Romanian Jewish female inmate

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn43161
    • English
    • a: Height: 26.500 inches (67.31 cm) | Width: 41.000 inches (104.14 cm) b: Height: 38.000 inches (96.52 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm)

    Concentration camp uniform jacket and trousers worn by 31 year old Malka Polak-Adler from summer 1944-April 1945. She received the uniform in 1944 in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland from a friend and fellow inmate to whom it had been issued. Malka wore the uniform when she was transferred in August 1944 to Bergen-Belsen in Germany. In May 1944, six weeks after Germany occupied Hungary, Malka and her parents, Leib and Gitza, were deported from the Viseu de Sus ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her parents were killed, presumably upon arrival. Malka was transferred in August to Be...

  4. Stadelheim death certificates

    The Stadelheim death certificates consists of certificates documenting the deaths of prisoners at the Stadelheim prison in Munich, Germany, between 1942-1944. The certificates indicate that the vast majority of the prisoners were executed by beheading in groups and their bodies transferred to the Anatomical Institute in Munich. Includes some bureaucratic correspondence and transport bills for taking the bodies to the Institute. Also includes the original binder which housed the documents, on which "Leichen" [Corpses] is written, and on the inside of the binder, the chemicals used to create ...

  5. Herbert Huberty collection

    Contains photographic prints, black and white images documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation; images include survivors, victims, the memorial erected at the camp, and gallows; some include handwritten inscriptions in pencil on verso; dated April 1945. The photographs were brought home from the war and some taken by Herbert Huberty (donor's grandfather) who served with the US Army during WWII. Also includes additional photographs from Herbert Huberty's wartime experiences, including two photo booklets, lists of members of the platoons in the 976th Engineer Maintenance ...

  6. Notice restricting opening of Jewish store

    Notice restricting the opening of a Jewish shop in Berlin, Germany.

  7. Charles Martin Roman papers

    The Charles Martin Roman collection consists of photographs, documents, and identity paperwork related to the Holocaust experiences of Carl (Carlo) Roman, now Charles Roman. The photographs depict his pre-war life in Vienna, images of Carl and his mother with a group of Jews on an escape over the Alps to Italy from the Italian-occupied zone of France in September 1943, family photographs, and photographs of the OSE-run Font-Romeu camp and Montintin children's home. Includes Carl's identity paperwork, a falsified document stating that Marianne Roman authorized Carl to leave the OSE children'...

  8. "A Hidden Child's Story"

    Consists of one article, entitled "A Hidden Child's Story" by Sam Lauber, which originally appeared in the Dayton (OH) Jewish Observer in May 2005. In the article, which includes copies of photographs, Mr. Lauber describes the Nazi occupation of Antwerp, where he was born in 1942. Mr. Lauber's parents arranged for him to go into hiding with the Detry family in La Louviere, Belgium, where he remained for a year before reuniting with his family. In 1948, the family immigrated to the United States. Mr. Lauber describes his post-war life and decision in 1986 to travel to La Louviere to find the...

  9. Willy van Gurp testimony

    Consist of one testimony, five pages, presumably written in 1945, by Willy van Gurp, a female member of the Dutch Underground. Ms. van Gurp was arrested in June 1944 due to her involvement in the Underground. After questioning, she was imprisoned, first in the Vught concentration camp, and at the evacuation of the camp, she was sent to Ravensbrück. She describes conditions in Ravensbrück in the fall of 1944 and her deportation to Munich, where she worked in a munitions factory connected to Dachau. As the Americans approached, she was sent on a death march toward a camp near Innsbruck and wa...

  11. Martin Weiss papers

    The Martin Weiss papers consists of identification documents collected by Martin Weiss in post-war Czechoslovakia. The documents were collected by Weiss after his release from the Gunskirchen concentration camp, a sub-camp of Mauthausen concentration camp, and were intended to be used for Weiss’ immigration to the United States.

  12. Adolf Eichmann passport

    Consists of copies and enlargements of the passport issued by the Italian delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross to Ricard Klement, a pseudonym used by Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann used this passport to immigrate to Argentina in 1950.

  13. Albert Balassa Schutzpass

    Consists of one Swedish safe conduct pass issued to Mr. Albert Balassa in Budapest on October 22, 1944. The document, in which Mr. Balassa's name is filled in to a form, is signed by Raoul Wallenberg.

  14. Joseph Winkler memoir

    Consists of one memoir, 660 pages, untitled, by Joseph Winkler, originally born in Sambor, Galicia, in 1903. The memoir was dictated in August 1974 and transcribed. In his memoir, Mr. Winkler describes his childhood, life under Russian occupation during World War I, and seeing his town become Polish territory. He got a job at a petroleum refinery in Drohobycz in 1927, received his doctorate in chemistry, and met and married Eugenia (Genia) Weidenfeld, with whom he had a daughter, Lili. He describes the German invasion of Poland in 1939 and life under the Russian occupation. After the German...

  15. Fred Haber Signal Corps collection

    Consists of 8x10 black and white Signal Corps photographs taken during and immediately after World War II. Includes photographs of Allied conferences (including Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam, and Quebec), journalists visiting the concentration camps in April 1945, the capitulations of both Japan and Germany, the Nuremberg trials, Landsberg prison, members of the Signal Corps, USO shows, atrocities in the Pacific theater, the death of Benito Mussolini, Franklin Roosevelt's funeral procession, and the 1945 victory parade in Washington DC, as well as many other candid and posed photographs. The photo...

  16. Marie Warschawsky manuscript

    The Marie Warschawsky manuscript consists of one bound copy of handwritten testimony and copies of personal documents and photographs relating to the life of Marie Warschawsky (Maroussia, 1881-1964). It relates Warschawsky’s upbringing in Russia among the Jewish upper middle class close to the Tsar’s court, her travel in France and interest in fashion, and her creation of a workshop in Saint Petersbourg to make luxury dresses. The document outlines her nursing education and career, her conversion of the family dacha into a hospital during the Russo-Japanese War, her work at the hospital in ...

  17. "Crystal Night in the Heart of a Jewish Child"

    Consists of a lecture delivered by Dr. Shmuel Kneller at the Holocaust Studies Centre in Haifa upon the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, November 9, 2008. In the lecture, entitled "Crystal Night in the Heart of a Jewish Child," Dr. Kneller describes his memories of Hitler coming to power, of pre-war antisemitism, and of his experiences in Berlin during Kristallnacht. The lecture, originally given in Hebrew, was translated in English.

  18. Hugo Princz restitution case files

    Consists of documents pertaining to the restitution and indemnification case brought by Mr. Hugo Princz against the German Republic. Mr. Princz's case was represented by Washington DC attorney Steven R. Perles. Mr. Princz was one of the exceptionally few American-Jews who was liberated from a concentration camp in 1945. The case was settled for $2.1 million dollars.

  19. Gelb family collection

    The Gelb family collection consists of documents and photographs related to the family of Josef and Helena Feldmanova Gelb, originally of Vynohradiv (Sevlus), Czechoslovakia. In 1928, Mr. Gelb immigrated to the United States and managed to bring his family in January 1933. Includes photographs taken in Czechoslovakia, visa and immigration paperwork, and paperwork regarding the Gelbs' son Jacob, who fought as a member of the United States Army during World War II.

  20. War victims; Flossenbuerg liberated; camp survivors and medics; women at Lenzing; burning belongings at 121st Evac Hospital; digging graves

    Removing bodies of victims from wreckage, mattresses, covering bodies with sheet. Pan up, body of victim hanging over wall. Civilians look at ruins and wipe eyes, mountain in far BG. CU American holds battered body of a girl. 03:00:56 (LIB 6355) May 4, 1945. View of concentration camp buildings. CU, sign, "Zugang zu den Krankenbaracken" with figurines. Barbed wire fence and guardtower surrounding Flossenbuerg slave labor camp. CU, bullet-marked and blood-smeared wall - the scene of executions in the camp. INTs, barracks/living quarters, dead prisoners. Steel grating over open pit, crematori...