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681. Goerz Tenax pocket camera and accessories used by US soldier
2000.526.3_a-g open
Object | Accession Number: 2000.526.3 a-g
Date:
use: approximately 1943
manufacture: 1912-1925
… the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in Germany.…
682. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 10 mark coin
1993.96.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.96.2
Date:
issue: 1943
… includes traditional Jewish symbols. The Germans closed the ghetto in the summer of 1944 by deporting the residents to concentration camps or killing centers.…
683. Brown cloth and leather trimmed suitcase used by an American internee
2018.426.2 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945 December
… published propaganda photos and press stories about Vittel to showcase it as representative of conditions in German camps. Despite these improved living…
684. Catholic, military, missal carried by Anthony Acevedo as a medic and POW
Object | Accession Number: 2010.440.4
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942
use: 1943-1945 June
Title:
My Military Missal
… subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp. They were placed in Berga 2. Berga 1 held political and Jewish prisoners from other countries who wore striped…
685. World War II Victory ribbon bar awarded to German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.88 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.88
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
686. Ribbon bar with 3 campaign ribbons issued to a Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.9
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
687. Tin candy container and lid used to store beads by a Dutch Jewish girl in hiding
2003.155.4_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.155.4 a-d
Date:
use: after 1942 November-before 1944 April
recovered: approximately 1946 August-1950
…, they were reunited with Meijer and sent to Westerbork transit camp. On May 19, they were loaded into wagon 9 of a transport and sent to Auschwitz. When…
688. U.S. soldiers stateside; providing first aid to German prisoners; war damage in France; refugees load carts; captured Germans; softball
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Film | Accession Number: 2010.481.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1312 | Film ID: 2919
Date:
Event: 1943-1944
Duration:
00:11:32
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… US Army in France and Germany. He filmed refugees, the liberation of a concentration camp, Hitler’s headquarters near Berchtesgaden, American soldiers…
689. Metal and glass rosary used by an American internee
2018.426.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.6
Date:
use: 1942 September-1944 September
… published propaganda photos and press stories about Vittel to showcase it as representative of conditions in German camps. Despite these improved living…
690. Vichy France currency, 5 franc note, acquired by an American internee
2018.426.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.426.13
Date:
issue: 1943 June 02
… published propaganda photos and press stories about Vittel to showcase it as representative of conditions in German camps. Despite these improved living…
691. US Combat Infantryman Badge in silver bullion awarded to a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2013.442.3
Date:
use: 1944-1945
commemoration: 1939-1945
issue: after 1943 October 07
… Mauthausen concentration camps, two of the largest camps in Austria. The Medical Inspector’s report on Mauthausen stated that "the situation in the camp on the…
692. Self portrait with braids by a Jewish teenager in hiding
2007.521.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.521.3
Date:
creation: approximately 1941-approximately 1944
Artwork Title:
Self-portrait with Braids, ca. 1941-1944
… of the partisan and resistance groups, where she learned that her sister Susanna had been killed just before liberation. All of the registered Jews had…
693. Walter K. and Lucie H. Sobotta papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0047 | RG Number: RG-10.171
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1975
… unable to work. After leaving the ghetto, Lucie spent time in several concentration camps until the end of the war. After liberation, she was able to join…
694. US Army 11th Armored Division two-sided commemorative poster, owned by a unit veteran
1989.324.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.324.4
Date:
commemoration: 1942 August 15-1945 August 31
creation: 1985-1988
publication/distribution: 1988
Artwork Title:
11th ARMORED DIVISION
… another subgroup of the 11th AD found Mauthausen concentration camp and its former subcamp, Gusen. Soon after, Ray accompanied the bulldozer operators to…
695. Bible received by a Jewish girl while in hiding at a Catholic school
1997.63.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.63.1 a-b
Date:
received: 1943 December
… letters to Icek and Sara. Chana was then sent to a transit camp which had been converted from the Dossin de St. Georges military barracks in the city of…
696. Macramé bag with 2 wooden handles used by a Polish Jewish family while in hiding
2008.117.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.117.3
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… them cousins, from Krakow, where they are in danger of deportation to the concentration camps. Franka later wrote about these years in her diary…
697. US Army Technician 4th class shoulder sleeve insignia worn by medic, 20th Corps
Object | Accession Number: 2011.410.3
Date:
use: after 1942 September-1945
… concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. John and his captain visited the camp a few days later to witness the horrific conditions. He took photographs of what…
698. US Army soldier's green felt military patch with 4 gold stripes
2005.416.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.416.22
Date:
commemoration: approximately 1941-1946
… battalion is known for its role in the Battle of the Bulge and for the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald, in Germany…
699. Embroidered dress worn by a Polish Jewish girl in hiding
2002.54.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.54.2
Date:
use: approximately 1943 May-1944 March
… imprisoned in Lwow ghetto and Janowska concentration camp and escaped in October 1943, living in hiding until liberation. His wife did not survive. Lola…
700. The Lonely Child
Recorded Sound | RG Number: RG-91.0089
Date:
Composed: approximately 1943
Alternate Title:
Dos einte kind
…/. Music was heard in many ghettos, concentration camps, and partisan outposts of Nazi-controlled Europe. While popular songs dating from before the war…