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1. Ribbon for the SS-Hauptreitschule (SS Riding School) in Munich
1995.142.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.142.19
Date:
issue: after 1937 July-before 1945
…Black cloth strip with silver stitched borders and the words "SS-H.pt.-Reitfchule München" stitched in silver…
2. Continental typewriter with a swastika and SS emblem key and a removable lid
2000.281.1_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.281.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1933-1945
…Continental typewriter with a swastika and SS emblem key and a removable lid…
3. SS recruitment poster with photos depicting SS soldiers’ activities
1990.333.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.25
Date:
publication/distribution: 1938
Artwork Title:
Deutsche Männer
Alternate Title:
German Men
… division of the Schutzstaffel (SS), the Nazi paramilitary organization that was responsible for security, intelligence gathering and analysis, and enforcing…
4. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… Rezso Kasztner to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Bela and his family reported to assembly camp in…
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 … Chase, Maryland, between 1989 and 1995 on topics including the Holocaust and Jewish communities in Hungary, the Kasztner train, and Jewish passivity…
5. Poster of Adolf Hitler and Konrad Henlein shaking hands after the annexation of the Sudetenland
1990.333.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.20
Date:
publication/distribution: 1938 March 28
Title:
Konrad henlein einte uns! Der Führer befreite uns!
Alternate Title:
Konrad Henlein united us! The leader freed us!
… was named Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter by Hitler. In 1943 he was promoted to Obergruppenfuhrer (senior group leader) of the Schutzstaffel (SS). After…
6. Maerker and Behr families papers
2017.404.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2017.404.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1873-1983
…, the family sailed out of Hamburg on the SS President Roosevelt to the United States. They settled in Philadelphia, PA. Gerhard was drafted in 1943 and…
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 … Germany. Scope and content of collection The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Willy and Else (née Behr) Maerker, originally of Bernburg…
7. Stormtrooper badge worn by a high-ranking German SS Official
1995.32.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.32.2
Date:
use: 1930-1939
…Stormtrooper badge obtained by Frank Morris in Nazi-occupied Europe during his servicein the US military and brought to the USA.…
8. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
…, they sailed on the SS Exeter on February 21, 1941. The Shadur family settled near Michel’s sister Gitta near St. Paul, MN, and Michel changed his name…
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 … the SS Exeter on February 21, 1941. The Shadur family settled near Michel’s sister Gitta near St. Paul, MN, and Michel changed his name to Michael…
9. Childsize violin and case of a young Jewish Lithuanian boy killed in the Ponary massacre
2006.88.2_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.88.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1936-1943
use: before 1943 September
… made to stand at attention in the yard for hours; if you moved, you might be shot. Every Sunday, the SS guards would come by and make them walk naked…
10. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
11. Arnoldi and Kohn families collection
2016.537.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 42
Document | Accession Number: 2016.537.1
Date:
creation: 1930-1942
…Ruth Arnoldi Kohn donated the Arnoldi and Kohn families collection to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016.…
12. Mandil family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1975
bulk: circa 1920-1948
… Jews from the Italian controlled prison; photographs of a group of Yugoslavian Jews and a Jewish wedding aboard the SS Kefalos, 1948; and images of Gavra…
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 … Jewish wedding aboard the SS Kefalos, 1948; and images of Gavra Mandil as an Israeli citizen and in the Israel Defence Force. Languages: Hebrew, Italian…
13. Joseph W. Eaton papers
2009.401.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2009.401.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-2011
1932-2011
… perished in the Holocaust. They divorced after their children left and fled separately to Amsterdam, Netherlands. Flora was a health aide for elderly people…
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 … the Museum. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum also holds an oral history interview with Joseph W. Eaton conducted by Judith Cohen and…
14. Schächter family papers
2000.407.2 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.407.2
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1998
bulk: 1938-1947
…The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Filip and Janina (née Hirsch) Schächter (later Philip and Jean Schechter) living in Poland and…
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 … Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Filip and…
15. Jack Moses papers
1993.43 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1993.43
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1983
bulk: 1915-1947
… comprised of Nazi-era newspapers and booklets. The collection also includes an SS membership booklet and a Nazi Party membership booklet for unrelated men.…
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 …. The collection also includes an SS membership booklet and a Nazi Party membership booklet for unrelated men. Languages: German, English…
16. German marching compass in a case taken from an SS officer by a US soldier
2000.598.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2000.598.2
Date:
found: approximately 1945 May
manufacture: after 1930-before 1945
…, Hy was wounded and sent to France to recover. In December, Hy rejoined his unit, which relieved the 101st Airborne Division near Bastogne, Belgium. In…
17. Typed Nazi SS tax memo about assets confiscated from a Jewish woman
2016.184.572 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.572
Date:
creation: 1938 July 09
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… the modern era, in Europe, Russia, and the United States. The collection was amassed by Peter Ehrenthal, a Romanian Holocaust survivor, to document the…
18. Hugo Zulawski papers
2015.582. 1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2015.582.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1965
… was the son of Moshe Boruch Zulawski and Chana Deborah Lifschitz. Paula was the daughter of Regina Reifka Wolkowitz and Michael Wolf Wolkowitz. In May…
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 …, Austria, who immigrated to the United States in 1939 as a child on a transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus (the "50 children" transport…
19. Erwin Tepper papers
2015.590.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.590.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2015
undated: 
… applied and Erwin was accepted as one of this group. In the spring, Juda left for Great Britain. Erwin left from Germany in May 1939 aboard the S.S…
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 … States, Juda and Schifra applied to have their son Erwin accepted as one of this group, and he was. Erwin left Germany in May 1939, on the S.S. President…
20. Fogel, Mermelstein, and Klarman families photograph collection
2005.132.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.132.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1947
…, including Irene and her family. Irene was 13 years old. Upon arrival at the camp, her mother, three younger siblings, and older brother were killed. SS…