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1. Luftwaffe M1942 helmet taken from a German soldier by US soldier
1985.1.3 left side
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.3
Date:
found: 1945
manufacture: 1942 August 01-before 1944
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
2. Wehrmacht M1936 belt and embossed buckle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.4 a front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.4 a-b
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1941
…Germany…
3. Luftwaffe flak artillery shoulder strap with red piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.5
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
4. Luftwaffe flak artillery shouder strap with red piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.6
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
5. Luftwaffe flak artillery shoulder strap with red piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.7
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
6. Luftwaffe flak artillery shoulder strap with red piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.8
Date:
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
7. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.9
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
8. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.10
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
9. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.11
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
10. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.12
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
11. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.13
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
12. Luftwaffe ground crew overseas cap with eagle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.14
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1938
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
13. Luftwaffe ground crew overseas cap with eagle acquired by US soldier
1985.1.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.15
Date:
found: approximately 1945
manufacture: 1938
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
14. Luftwaffe M1935 Schirmmutze with visor acquired by US soldier
1985.1.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.16
Date:
manufacture: 1938
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
15. Luftwaffe M1935 Schirmmutze without visor acquired by US soldier
1985.1.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.17
Date:
manufacture: 1939
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
16. Luftwaffe Waffenrock dress uniform jacket acquired by US soldier
1985.1.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.18
Date:
manufacture: 1939
found: approximately 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
17. Seymour Krieger papers
1986.A.0024.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1986.A.0024.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.…
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 … material: The Museum’s Library hold a copy of Nazi Germany's war against the Jews (D810.J4 N39 1947), prepared and complied by Seymour Krieger. Accruals…
18. Adolf Hitler-Strasse street sign acquired by a US soldier
1986.17.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1986.17.1
Date:
found: 1945 May
…Germany…
19. Rev. James Burwell Ficklen III papers
Document | Accession Number: 1986.31
Date:
creation: circa 1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.…
20. Charlene Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0028.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2004
bulk: 1945-1951
… Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
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 … Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
21. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate
1987.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.75.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-approximately 1945 January
…Hans Braun was born on March 6, 1923, in Hannover, Germany, to Oswald and Rosa Ernst Braun, a Sinti couple. Oswald was born on March 1, 1898, in…
22. Ilse Salomon collection
1988.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.13 | RG Number: RG-10.273
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1958
…Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from the Preungesheim prison in Frankfurt am…
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 … Adam Fielding, March 2020 Biographical note Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from…
23. Friedrich and Ruth Frankenthal papers
1988.26.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 37
Document | Accession Number: 1988.26.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1875-2002
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … materials, 1900‐1944  Series 2: Photograph album, approximately 1875‐2002 Indexing terms Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish families‐‐Germany‐‐Genealogy…
24. Ernst and Johanna Weihs collection
1988.43.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1988.43.1 | RG Number: RG-10.272
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
…Dachau (Germany : Refugee camp)…
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 …) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) 3 Topical Subject: Jews--Austria--Vienna. Holocaust survivors--Austria. Geography: Vienna (Austria) Dachau (Germany : Refugee…
25. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
1988.64.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.64.1.3
Date:
1939-1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.…
26. ID bracelet of an inmate cremated at Ebensee slave labor camp
1988.78.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.78.3
Date:
found: 1945 May 06
…Concentration camp inmates--Germany.…
27. Ann West papers
1988.82.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.82.9
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1988
bulk: 1943-1946
…Anny Neumann (later Ann West) was born in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany, to Leo and Johanna Neumann. She and her boyfriend Heinz Rosenhain joined the…
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 …‐1988 (bulk 1943‐1946) Indexing terms Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Leipzig. Holocaust survivors‐‐Germany‐‐Correspondence. Holocaust survivors‐‐Identification…
28. Donald R. Wheeler photographs
1988.94.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1988.94.1 | RG Number: RG-10.263
Date:
creation: 1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
29. Blue felt belt with appliqued flowers found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Auschwitz
1988.99.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.1
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
30. Brown and yellow striped silk handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.2
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
31. Colorful plaid handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.3
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
32. Hitler Youth armband with a swastika acquired by a US soldier
1988.99.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.4
Date:
found: approximately 1945
found: after 1944 June-before 1945 November
… Army. On April 6, 1945, Harry and his unit entered Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany, following its April 4 liberation by the US 4th Armored Division…
33. Gregg G. Kantak photographs
1988.105.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 1988.105.1 | RG Number: RG-10.265
Date:
creation: 1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.…
34. Schönberger family papers
1988.108.192 Book Enclosure 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1988.108.192
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1967
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …--France. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Jews--Hungary-- Sárvár. Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am Main. Jewish families--Austria--Vienna. Austria--Emigration…
35. Piston head ashtray made for concentration camp commander found by US military aid worker
1988.112.59 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.59
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
36. Model Stuka airplane made by liberated concentration camp inmate and given to US military aid worker
1988.112.61 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.61
Date:
received: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
37. Zeiss Z body binoculars found in a concentration camp by US military aid worker
1988.112.62 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.62
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
38. Solingen hunting knife with sheath presented to US military aid worker by liberated inmates
1988.112.64_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.64 a-b
Date:
received: 1945 April-1945 May
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
39. Semi-automatic Walther PPK pistol, holster, and magazines found at a concentration camp by Lt. Milton Shurr
1988.112.65_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.112.65 a-d
Date:
found: 1945 April-1945 May
manufacture: 1943
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
40. Soviet Union Ministry of Defense propaganda poster
1988.114.2.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.114.2.8
Date:
1945
Artwork Title:
Victory
…Germany. Reichstag…
41. Blue velvet tefillin pouch found in a shallow grave by a Jewish American soldier
1988.118.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.118.1 a
Date:
found: after 1945 April 22-before 1945 May
… school. He worked at an Austrian paper export company. On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Walter and his family had their citizenship…
42. Tefillin set found on the body of a concentration camp inmate by a Jewish American soldier
1988.118.1 b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.118.1 g-l
Date:
found: after 1945 April 22-before 1945 May
… school. He worked at an Austrian paper export company. On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Walter and his family had their citizenship…
43. Pin embroidered with a Star of David given to an inmate at Bergen Belsen for her birthday
1988.126.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.126.27
Date:
received: 1940-1945
…Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)…
44. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1988.132.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.132.1
Date:
use: 1944 May 03-1945 May
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
45. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
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 … Afterwards, he worked cleaning soldiers’ barracks. Eventually he returned to his uncle’s house in Bayreuth, Germany where he learned of the death of his family…
46. Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service
1988.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
received: 1945 April
… then Palestine. Fela did not want to start over, so Moshe decided they would stay. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was heavily…
47. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
48. Robert B. Austin photographs
1988.167.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.167.1 | RG Number: RG-09.047
Date:
creation: 1945 April
…The photographs depict Buchenwald concentration camp at the time of liberation as well as bridges built in Germany by the 61st and the 296th Engineer…
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 … concentration camp at the time of Liberation as well as bridges built in Germany by the 61st and the 296th engineer Combat Battalions of the United States Army…
49. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, acquired by a US soldier
1988.168.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.168.1
Date:
issue: after 1938 July-before 1945 April
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
50. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of freed prisoners homeward bound
1988.182.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.4 a-b
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
From Concentration Camps to Liberty
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…