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11. Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe carried by a US soldier
2013.318.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.318.2
Date:
use: 1945 May
Title:
Belgium and Germany (New Frontier), - Sheet C/43C- Sheet D/43D
… concentration camp, a subcamp in the Neuengamme system. Following the liberation, Leonard visited the camp and photographed the atrocities. In a May 6 letter to…
12. Certificate for the French Resistance and Cross of War medals awarded to a German Jewish resistance fighter
2011.160.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.160.1
Date:
issue: 1960 May
commemoration: 1944 August 07-1944 August 18
… Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. On August 7, 1944, Henri was arrested for acts of resistance and imprisoned at Montluc Prison, which was under the…
13. Map of Bergen-Hohne NATO training area acquired by an American soldier stationed in Germany during the 1980s
2018.389.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.389.1
Date:
publication: 1961-1962
Title:
NATO-Schießplatz Bergen-Hohne
…. Southwest of the installation was the complex’s construction camp, which was a prisoner of war (POW) camp in 1940, and became Bergen-Belsen concentration camp…
14. Map of Buchenwald created after his liberation by a former inmate
Object | Accession Number: 1992.103.1
Date:
creation: 1939
…Map of Buchenwald Concentration Camp Drawn from memory immediately after Henry Glass's release in Feb. 1939.…
15. Nazi propaganda leaflet mimicking a US silver certificate given to a US soldier after the liberation of Paris
Object | Accession Number: 1992.71.1 a-c
Date:
received: 1944 August 25
… concentration camp liberated by US troops on April 4, 1945, that he was kicked out of his office. Weinstein had to get him there by a ruse, but afterwards…
16. Postcard with New Year's wishes and a drawing of a barracks sent from Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp
Object | Accession Number: 2005.61.2
Date:
creation: 1942 January
Artwork Title:
Bonne Annee 1942 from Beaune-la-Rolande
…Postcard with New Year's wishes and a drawing of a barracks sent from Beaune-la-Rolande transit camp…
17. Printed map of Theresienstadt Ghetto obtained by a Jewish Czech woman
Object | Accession Number: 1992.132.1
Date:
creation: 1941 November 24-1945 May 09
…, Reinhard Heydrich, SS Chief of Security for the Reich, became Reich Protector, and prioritized the expulsion of Jews to concentration camps. Regular…
18. Wooden sign with red lettering
1992.160.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.160.1
… after his liberation from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the end of World War II. Many of the reproductions in the collection are a result of…
19. US Third Army report poster for May 1945 received by a unit soldier
2010.456.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.456.4
Date:
publication/distribution: 1945 May
Artwork Title:
Final Periodic Report 081200B May 45 to 09001B May 45 Headquarters Third US Army
… General George S. Patton. The unit fought its way through France and into Germany. James participated in the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp on…
20. Rhine Army Ranges (Hohne) map with overprinting, acquired by an American soldier stationed in Germany during the 1980s
2018.389.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.389.2
Date:
publication: 1942-1953
Title:
RHINE ARMY RANGES (HOHNE)
… concentration camp in 1943. Following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen on April 15, 1945, British forces took control of the area and set up 14,000 emergency…