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1. Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe acquired by German Jewish US soldier
2003.449.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.2
Date:
received: after 1944 June-before 1946 June
Title:
Belgium and Germany (New Frontier), Sheet C/43C- Sheet D/43D
… store to a non-Jew for less than it was worth. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and World War II began. In early 1940, Rudolph moved out of…
2. Mitteilungen fur die Truppe [Troop Announcement] issued by the German High Commanrd
Object | Accession Number: 2005.83.8
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942 September
Artwork Title:
Mitteilungen fur die Truppe
…The collection consists of World War II era artifacts, documents, and publications.…
3. Silk map
1996.A.0083.1.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.A.0083.1.2
Date:
1943
Title:
Maps of Central Europe
…World War, 1939-1945--Maps.…
4. M19 two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe
Object | Accession Number: 2003.408.1
Date:
manufacture: 1943
Title:
Holland, Belgium (except west coast), France (north east), Germany (west and central), Sheet 43 C and D
… escape and evasion strategies for soldiers and prisoners-of-war by helping them find their way to safety from behind enemy lines. Silk was used because it…
5. Copy of hand drawn map, Rainbow Division entry into Germany by division member
2010.130.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.130.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1948
depiction: 1945 March 15-1945 March 31
Artwork Title:
The Rainbow Trail, Part I: Advance of 42nd Infantry Division from the Hardt Mountains
… during World War II.…
6. Engraved brass wall nameplate for the director of the Vaad Hatzala Emergency Committee in postwar Germany
2008.180.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.180.7 | RG Number: RG-19.072.03.02
Date:
use: 1946-1949
… World War II. It later expanded to include assistance to all Jewish Holocaust survivors. Rabbi Baruch established the central Vaad Hatzala office in…
7. Map, "Germany the Beautiful Travel Country"
2014.480.130 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.480.130
Date:
publication/distribution: approximately 1937-1937
…, correspondence, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of David F. Busch in the US Army in Europe during World War II.…
8. 1942 color street map of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), Poland
Object | Accession Number: 2006.326.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942
… War I. Łódź had the second largest Jewish population in Poland and, in February 1940, they were relocated to a small, closed ghetto. By September 1942…
9. 2-sided silk escape map of Central/ East Europe owned by Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.25 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.25
Date:
issue: approximately 1943 September
Title:
Central and Eastern Europe, Frontiers as of September 1943 , Sheet E/43E-Sheet F
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
10. Photocopy of a partial document used by Gerry van Heel to forge identity documents
2010.441.97 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.441.97
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
issue: 1943 June 30
… her. She joined the Girl Scouts, assisted refugees, and returned to school. When the war ended in early May 1945, Molly, who was working for the Red…
11. Blank safe conduct pass used by Gerry van Heel to forge documents
2010.441.38 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.441.38
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
… her. She joined the Girl Scouts, assisted refugees, and returned to school. When the war ended in early May 1945, Molly, who was working for the Red…
12. Forbidden for Jews sign in Dutch displayed during the German occupation of the Netherlands
Object | Accession Number: 2000.292.1
Date:
use:  1941-approximately 1945
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the NIOD Institute for War-, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Nederlands Instituut voor…
13. Copy of hand drawn map, Rainbow Division advance into Germany by division member
2010.130.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.130.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1948
depiction: 1945 March 31-1945 April 20
Artwork Title:
The Rainbow Trail, Part 2: Advance of 42d Infantry Division from Miltenberg to Capture of Furth
… during World War II.…
14. Silk escape map of France owned by Captain Ralph M. Kopansky
2012.427.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.427.5
Date:
publication: 1944 March
Title:
Zones of France – Second Edition
… entered World War II. In 1943, Ralph was selected for training at Army intelligence school in Chicago, Illinois. As a Captain, he was assigned to the U…
15. Antisemitic Nazi propaganda leaflet mimicking a US silver certificate found by a US soldier
2006.96.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.96.1
Date:
publication/distribution: approximately 1943
found: 1944-1945
… Combat Team, 17 Airborne Division in combat for several months in France and other areas of Europe during World War II. After the war, he married Ann and…
16. Leaflet
Object | Accession Number: 1999.297.4
Title:
Antisemitic leaflet
…World War, 1939-1945--Propaganda.…
17. Two-sided silk escape map of Western Europe owned by Captain Ralph M. Kopansky
2012.427.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.427.6
Date:
publication: 1943
Title:
Belgium and Germany (New Frontier), - Sheet C/43C- Sheet D/43D
… entered World War II. In 1943, Ralph was selected for training at Army intelligence school in Chicago, Illinois. As a Captain, he was assigned to the U…
18. 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
… encouraged to document what they saw so that it could never be denied. A Dutch former prisoner of war gave him a tour of the camp. James described the…
19. Dutch-language notice used by Gerry van Heel to forge identity documents
2010.441.95 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.441.95
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
… her. She joined the Girl Scouts, assisted refugees, and returned to school. When the war ended in early May 1945, Molly, who was working for the Red…
20. Service recognition card for British commemorative medals and ribbons issued to an Austrian Jewish woman in the British Auxiliary
2009.294.6 back, service recognition card for commemorative medals and ribbons, Lilly Feldmann Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2009.294.6
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
… Services. During World War II, she was promoted to sergeant and was stationed in Palestine and Africa as a member of the Auxiliary Transport Unit. On…