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1. Militaergeschichtliche Sammlungen
Document | Accession Number: 2007.3 | RG Number: RG-14.089M
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1959
Alternate Title:
Military Historical collections
…Military Historical collections…
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 … = Military Historical Collections (1917-1959) Extent: 6 microfilm reels Provenance: Files mostly from collection Msgl; also includes one from collection Msg…
2. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… officer for the Württemberg district, and later as the director of the Jewish displaced persons camp in Backnang.…
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 …. After the war, Michel joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. He was sent to Germany and served as a supply officer for the…
3. Pistiner family papers
2016.187.1 Box 3 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2016.187.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-2000
bulk: 1908-1972
… British police officer briefly before apprenticing to become a diamond cutter. He married Nehama Bloom (b. 1920) in 1940. While apprenticing to be diamond…
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 …, Max moved to Palestine, and spent the remainder of his life in Israel. He was a soccer player and British police officer briefly before apprenticing to…
4. Shames family collection
2018.649.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2018.649.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1948
… Lejb was taken to a work camp in Siberia where he felled trees. In his spare time, he worked as a barber for military officers to earn extra ration…
5. Generalbauinspektor für die Reichshauptstadt Berlin (Fond 1409)
Document | Accession Number: 2004.756.6 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.77
Date:
bulk: 1934-1942
inclusive: 1920-1944
Alternate Title:
Chief building inspector for the Reich capital, Berlin
… to Speer; inquiries from private builders from Berlin and surroundings; correspondence with the press office; exemption requests from military service…
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 … builders from Berlin and surroundings; correspondence with the press office; exemption requests from military service; construction projects and housing…
6. Edmund Schechter papers
1999.A.0276 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0276
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1995
… inducted into an auxiliary unit of the French military in the spring of 1940, taken prisoner by the Germans, and escaped to Marseille and then to Casablanca…
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 … of North Africa; his military and civil service career at the Office of War Information (OWI), the American Broadcasting Service in Europe (ABSIE…
7. Gerd Pleiss photograph album
2013.455.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2013.455.1
Date:
bulk: 1936-1937
inclusive: 1910-1942
… bodyguard, charged with guarding Hitler, his office, and personal residences. Pleiss attended SS-Junker school in Braunschweig and, in April 1939, was…
8. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
…, giving Hitler dictatorial powers. Hitler issued a decree prohibiting non-Aryans from public offices and Karl was dismissed from his judgeship. In March, he…
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 … States. The collection also includes a World War I photo album and scrapbook documenting the military service of Mina’s uncle, Julius Oppenheimer, in…
9. Fritz Gluckstein papers
1991.141.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1991.141.9
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1948
… a Jew, and the family attended a liberal synagogue. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Jews soon were prohibited from holding public office and his…
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 …’s Gestapo headquarters in the Reich Security Main Office, along with other Mischlinge. Surprisingly, for the four days he worked there, he was supervised by…
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 … headquarters in the Reich Security Main Office, along with other Mischlinge. Surprisingly, for the four days he worked there, he was supervised by a sympathetic…
10. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
… approximately 600 remaining prisoners killed eleven members of the SS and several auxiliaries. As the highest-ranking SS officer on duty that day, Niemann was the…
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 … of the SS and several auxiliaries. As the highest-ranking SS officer on duty that day, Niemann was the first to be targeted. Survivor witnesses report…
11. Ruth Miller papers
2006.473.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2006.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-2003
… War II began after Germany invaded Poland. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth reported to the office of the Jewish Organization to pick up Star of…
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 … materials include birth, marriage, and death certificates; school records; military papers; medical records; identification papers; ration coupons…
12. Sketch
2010.502.57.6 left
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.57.6
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
… Poland on September 1, 1939, Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France. Eight days later, French police…
13. March of Time -- outtakes -- Various captured newsreels
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Film | Accession Number: 2004.723.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4096 | Film ID: 2734
Film Title:
Underground Report
Date:
Event: October 1942
Production: 1942
Duration:
00:13:18
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…SOLDIERS/MILITARY…
14. Pencil and ink drawing
2010.502.51 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.51
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
… Poland on September 1, 1939, Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France. Eight days later, French police…
15. Portfolio front and back covers, "Drawings 1940/1944"
2010.502.57.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.95 a-b
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Title:
Drawings 1940/1944
… Poland on September 1, 1939, Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France. Eight days later, French police…
16. Watercolor painting of a street scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.14
Date:
creation: 1941 May-1942 November
… Poland on September 1, 1939, Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France. Eight days later, French police…
17. Watercolor painting
2010.502.92 left
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.92
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
… Poland on September 1, 1939, Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France. Eight days later, French police…
18. Watercolor portrait
2010.502.48 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.48
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
… Poland on September 1, 1939, Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France. Eight days later, French police…
19. Pencil sketch
2010.502.30 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.30
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
… Poland on September 1, 1939, Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France. Eight days later, French police…
20. Watercolor painting
2010.502.40 right
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.40
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
… Poland on September 1, 1939, Jacob voluntarily enlisted in the French military. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France. Eight days later, French police…