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221. Continental typewriter with a green wooden cover used by Martin Niemoeller
2004.661.1_b top
Object | Accession Number: 2004.661.1 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1939
…, and eventually appointed commander. The November 1918 armistice required naval commanders to turn over their U-Boats to Great Britain. Niemoeller, like…
222. Peach floral printed chemise saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.6
Date:
received: approximately 1935-1940
use: 1935-1946
… forced into the Hungarian labor service, which was put under army command in 1940. In approximately 1940, Anna’s brother Imre was conscripted into the…
223. War Medal 1939-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.17_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.17 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1990
… government to form a Polish Army in the East, commanded by General Wladyslaw Anders. After his release, Edward traveled south to Tatischewo (now Turkmenbasy…
224. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… government to form a Polish Army in the East, commanded by General Wladyslaw Anders. After his release, Edward traveled south to Tatischewo (now Turkmenbasy…
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 … the Italian Campaign under the command of the Eighth British Army. They fought their way north through Italy, experiencing high casualties, especially…
225. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… September 15, 1942, Witek was sent to a resistance unit commanded by Pole Franchisek, in the village of Lusheviza-Mala. He lived in a one room apartment; his…
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 … and all members were killed. On September 15, 1942, Witek was sent to a resistance unit commanded by Pole Franchisek, in the village of Lusheviza-Mala…
226. Milton Shurr papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.112.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1945
… the day after Patton's 3rd Army liberated Buchenwald concentration camp on April 11, 1945. Buchenwald was then transferred to the command of the 1…
227. Fritz and Adelaide Kauffmann papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.19.1
Date:
1924-1980
… Japanese, the military commanders of Shanghai, were, due to the influence of German Gestapo agents, planning to liquidate the Jews living in Shanghai. Fritz…
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 … arrested with other committee members when they made public inquiries regarding a rumor that the Japanese military commanders of Shanghai were, due to the…
228. Defence Medal 1939-1945, ribbon and box awarded to Jewish soldier, 2nd Polish Corps
2012.471.20_a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.471.20 a-c
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
received: 1990
… government to form a Polish Army in the East, commanded by General Wladyslaw Anders. After his release, Edward traveled south to Tatischewo (now Turkmenbasy…
229. Herbert Kline papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.391.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
… Kline later recounted the irony that he, as a Jewish American and an anti-fascist, had storm troopers following his commands and carrying his film…
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 … commands and carrying his film equipment. When Crisis was released in the United States, it proved to be his most successful documentary, and was named one…
230. Wedding dress shipped to the United States by a German Jewish woman murdered at Riga
2018.58.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.58.2
Date:
use: after 1930-before 1941
… on the day they arrived. This was done under the orders of Friedrich Jeckeln, the local SS commander, who did so without authorization from Berlin.…
231. Geheime Staatspolizeistelle Stettin (Pommern) (Fond 503)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.5 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.04
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1944
Alternate Title:
Records of the Gestapo in Szczecin
…The Gestapo Office in Szczecin was under the command of the Berlin Gestapo office. The Szczecin Office conducted surveillance on all activities in…
232. Joseph Harmatz photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.193
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1948
… retaliatory attack on their former persecutors. In coordination with the Nekama central command in Paris, Joseph developed two projects: Project A, to…
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 …: Joseph Harmatz; Valia Pszewalska and Avraham Sabrin, last commander of “For Victory” battalion); verso: graphite inscription; dated: July 1944; location…
233. Harry Lindauer papers
2017.555.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.555.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2001
… home was preserved by the family and donated to the chapel. Col. Lindauer’s decorations also included the Commander's Cross of the Federal Order of…
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 … Commander's Cross of the Federal Order of Merit, awarded in 1988 by the German government in recognition of his efforts to facilitate German-American…
234. Hauptmann family papers
2018.428.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 2018.428.2
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1994
bulk: 1946-1967
… county against the Nazi commandant in Borysław, Friedrich Hildebrandt. The family later changed their last name to Hauptman.…
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 … 1960s, Ignaz gave an affidavit in a war crimes trial in Bremen county against the Nazi commandant in Borysław, Friedrich Hildebrandt. The family later…
235. Reinsch family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.402.1
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1994
… commandeered train cars to carry their personal possessions to Italy and told Helga he was taking Roy to Italy. Helga, who did not want to leave Germany, refused…
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 … the workers began to return to Italy. He commandeered train cars to carry their personal possessions to Italy and told Helga he was taking Roy to Italy…
236. Minia Moszenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.330
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1945
… the factory in the snow with no shoes. As they were marched through the town, people watched them and laughed. Minia asked the SS commander for shoes…
237. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
… a big presence of U.S. soldiers in Shanghai. Gunter was employed with the U.S. Port Command, working with GMC trucks and parts. Gunter and Hella…
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 … employed with the U.S. Port Command, working with GMC trucks and parts. Gunter and Hella married on 2 March 1947. They immigrated to the United States in…
238. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… was put under army command in 1940. In spring 1941, Hungary joined the German invasion of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. Bela was conscripted into…
239. 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
… Jewish businesses, and required thousands of Jewish men to be inducted into Hungarian forced labor brigades under military command. Among them was Irene…
240. Percy Brand papers
2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
… him during the transports, and in each camp it was confiscated and then returned to him. In Buchenwald, the commandant summoned him daily to play for…
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 … concentration camp in Germany. Percy kept his violin with him during the transports. It was confiscated then returned in each camp. In Buchenwald, the commandant…