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  1. Military Affairs Affaires militaires

    Record Group F9, Affaires Militaires. Contains list of internees, statistics of deportations, lists of escapees, lists of prisoner-of-war camps (1944-1946), survivor testimonies, military reports, catalog cards of people arrested for resistance activities, correspondence regarding refugees, catalog cards of missing camp inmates, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration and displaced persons camps reports, Gendarmerie and police investigations documents, and various documents related to concentration camps and prisons in France, Germany, Poland , Austria and Czechoslovakia. Pa...

  2. War Crimes trial headquarters

    Sign on building, "War Crimes Branch, Judge Advocate Section, HQ Third US Army, Court A." People exiting and entering the building. US military police guarding the entrance. Wooden sign: "PWE 29 A - Dachau", "War Crimes - A", "Muenchen 17 km", "135th AAA G BH Headquarters".

  4. Pamphlet

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- munitions/arms factory

    Can 28. 100 feet. VS, different angles of a red hot steel ingot being carried on a crane to the pressing machine. VS, ingot on machine being pressed and rounded into shape for making a cannon. Can 29. 100 feet. VS, different angles of red hot steel lengths for barrels of rifles, being beaten into shape by workman with hammer. CU, steel being taken out of machine. Can 30. 100 feet. Lt. Col. Letov of the Czech army inspecting bolts for army rifles. Letov walking into picture, checking up on man at testing machine and inspecting various trucks filled with bolts. CU, Letov inspecting bolt. CU o...

  7. John Krasny photograph collection

    The John Krasny photograph collection consists of eight photographs given to John Krasny by Steve, a fellow member of the counterintelligence unit of the United States Army. Steve [last name unknown] retrieved them from an unidentified German soldier. The photographs are images of Stalag XI D/321 camp for Soviet POWs in Oerbke, Germany, November 1941-Febraury 1942. The POWs were captured during the Operation Barbarossa in June 1941. Between November 1941 and February 1942, approximately 50,000 Soviet POWs died of starvation, hypothermia, and disease in the camp.

  8. Playing cards used by child on the Kindertransport

  9. American opposition to Nazi Regime

    America Condemns Nazi Terrorism Roosevelt Protests; Envoy to Return; Leaders Speak.

  10. Photograph of Rakhil Shkolnik

    The photograph taken in Ukraine depicts Rakhil Shkolnik wearing a head scarf with text printed above the portrait and a drawing of a train at the bottom. Inscription on verso: "Rakhit sic Shkolnik / 1945 / Chernevetzy / Vinnitskiy."

  11. Dov Katz: chapters in his life during the years of the second world war 1939-1946

    Contains a memoir, 15 pages, about Dov Katz's childhood years in Złoczow, Poland (now Zolochiv, Ukraine), his survival on false papers purchased by his father, work in a leather and iron processing plants while surviving on false papers, life in Bucharest, Romania, and later emigration to Palestine.

  12. Eva and Martin Libitzky photograph collection

    Consists of five black and white photographs showing people at a wedding and working in a DP camp. Images include Eva and Martin Libitzky on their wedding day and in the DP camp, Föhrenwald, Germany; dated 1945-1946; inscriptions in graphite in English on the backs of photographs. Created by unknown photographer,

  13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Paris during German occupation

    Paris Scenes during German Occupation, 1942-1944. Flags, travelling shots of Paris streets, poster, Metro Opera building. Riots in the Champs Elysee, burning the Great Palace, firemen fighting flames, ambulance. French prisoners of war. Laval with German officers, Longchamps race track. French collaborator Debrinon giving speech. INT shots of ceremony for the Legion against Soviet Russia. Swastikas on wall.

  14. UJA relief for refugees; Israel

    Introduced and narrated by Cedric Hardwicke. UJA appeal for relief for new refugees, immigrants to Israel. This segment of the Adventures in Freedom series focuses on daily life in Jerusalem, both religious and secular. Screen credits at end: "Support the United Jewish Appeal on behalf of the United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Commi​t​tee United Service for New Americans ​Through Your Local Campaign​"

  15. Hollander family documents

    Contains an identification card for Clara Sara Hollander and two passports for Siegmond Israel Hollander and Clara Sara Hollander.

  16. March of Time -- outtakes -- pre-war Prague; Sudetenland

    Air raid rehearsal in Prague. Tear gas released, soldiers, journalists, and cameraman wearing gas masks. Soldier on ground pretending to be dead. Nurses tend "injured." 01:17:52 Czech president Benes horseback riding near Prague. 01:18:53 Views of Prague. Konrad Henlein speaking to crowds in Hohenelbe in the Sudetenland. Parade. People wearing German national costumes.

  17. Continental typewriter with a swastika and SS emblem key and a removable lid

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn13919
    • English
    • 1933-1945
    • a: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) | Depth: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) b: Height: 14.250 inches (36.195 cm) | Width: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Depth: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)

  18. Frances Hirshfeld collection

    Consists of two documents issued to "Franciszka Rosenblum" (Frances Hirshfeld) and three letters with envelopes sent to "A.H. Wyman" (Frances Hirshfeld's uncle) in Jacksonville, Florida.

  19. Norbert Bikales photographs

    The Nobert Bikales photographs depict Bikales and other children rescued and hidden in France and sheltered in Switzerland during the Holocaust at children's homes including at Chabannes, Fursac, and the Hôme de la Forêt in Geneva, Some of the children are identified on the backs of some of the photographs. The collection also includes a postcard depicting the Chateau de Quincy-sous-Sénart.

  20. Torah scroll fragment in a wooden frame