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401. Plaid handkerchief monogrammed HG given by Hermann Goering to an American guard at Nuremberg
Object | Accession Number: 1988.175.3
Date:
received: 1945 August-1946 January
… before his scheduled execution, Göring committed suicide by cyanide in his prison cell.…
402. Ribbon bar with British War Medal 1939-1945 and Polish Army Medal for War 1939-1945 awarded to a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.9
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
…. Katyn refers to the massacre in the Katyn forest near Smolensk where 15,000 Polish Army POWs, including 8300 officers, were executed by the Soviets. This…
403. Brooch with a cut-out design of the fence and Jewish quarters sign made in Łódź Ghetto
2007.45.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.2
Date:
creation: 1943
found: 1944 July-1945 January
… point, the inmates were ordered to dig mass graves at the Jewish cemetery, which they took as a sign that the Germans were planning to execute everyone…
404. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
… and Latvians took their belongings. They lived 10 to a vermin infested room with no food. There were frequent selections for mass executions. Hermann…
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 … lived in the ghetto, while Herman worked in forced labor. They managed to survive the several rounds of mass executions, and were transferred in late…
405. British 8th Army Crusade sleeve patch worn by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.3
Date:
use: after 1944 May-approximately 1947
…. Katyn refers to the massacre in the Katyn forest near Smolensk where 15,000 Polish Army POWs, including 8300 officers, were executed by the Soviets. This…
406. Haganah War Ribbon bar awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter for his postwar support in Palestine
2012.473.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.14
Date:
issue: 1958-1966
commemoration: 1920-1948
… September 1944. At the war’s end, Moliere Group had been reduced by deportation and execution by the Germans to 130 members. During the war, Menachem’s sister…
407. US Army Bronze Star ribbon awarded to Captain J.G. Mitnick
2006.11.41 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.41
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
…'nai B'rith and he was a Member of the Executive Board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which named him "Man of the Year" in 2003.…
408. Roza and Rafal Lekach photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.295.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1972
… 1941 the Germans executed more then 400 Jews from Ziabki in the nearby Prozoroki. The Itman family and six other families were spared because of their…
409. Framed set of military medals, ribbons, and insignia awarded to US Army Captain J.G. Mitnick
2006.11.43, Framed set of military medals, ribbons, and insignia, J. George Mitnick Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.43
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
…'nai B'rith and he was a Member of the Executive Board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which named him "Man of the Year" in 2003.…
410. US Army Bronze Star ribbon awarded to Captain J.G. Mitnick
2006.11.42 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.42
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
…'nai B'rith and he was a Member of the Executive Board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which named him "Man of the Year" in 2003.…
411. Nachman Zonabend papers
1993.143.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1993.143.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1946
… Germans, forced to walk to Pszczyna, escaped execution, returned to Łódź , and was forced into the ghetto in 1940. He worked in the ghetto post office and…
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 … in 1936. He tried to escape to Warsaw in 1939, but he was captured by Germans, forced to walk to Pszczyna, escaped execution, returned to Łódź , and…
412. Ajbeszyc family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.171.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-circa 1960
… husband acquired false documents, but in February 1943 Izydor was arrested at the train station in Tarnow and executed. Adela moved to Warsaw, where she…
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 … arrested at the train station in Tarnow and executed. Adela moved to Warsaw, where she lived under a false name of Stanislawa Bartoszynska. Between April and…
413. Centralny Komitet Żydów Polskich (CKŻP). Wydział Finansowy (Sygn. 303/VII)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.56.1 | RG Number: RG-15.584M
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1950
Alternate Title:
Central Committee of the Jews in Poland. Financial Department
…. Financial records: Preliminary budgets, execution of budgets and collective balance of CKŻP [Files 28-97]; 3. Financial records: Bookkeeping of the central…
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 … records: Preliminary budgets, execution of budgets and collective balance of CKŻP [Files 28-97]; 3. Financial records: Bookkeeping of the central…
414. UNRRA selected records AG-018-003 : Bureau of Supply
Document | Accession Number: 2016.269.1 | RG Number: RG-67.061
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1948
…Selected records arranged in seven series: 1. Executive Office, 1943-1948; 2. Statistical Records and Reports Division, 1944-1946; 3. Agricultural…
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 … the most important divisions as they existed at the time (March 1949) UNRRA transferred its functions to the United Nations: a. Executive Office b…
415. Mendel Grossman photograph collection
2005.214.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2005.214.2
Date:
inclusive: 1919-circa 1970
… secretly photograph and document the daily lives of ghetto inhabitants, including starving families, deportations, Zionist youth movements, executions, and…
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 … movements, executions, and the overall worsening conditions of the camp. He printed and distributed as many prints as he could. Shortly before the ghetto was…
416. Okręgowa Komisja Badania Zbrodni Niemieckich w Katowicach
Document | Accession Number: 2010.16 | RG Number: RG-15.160M
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
Alternate Title:
District Commission in Katowice to Investigate the Nazi Crimes
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Execution sites--Poland--Katowice ( Voivodeship)…
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 …. Germanization--Poland--Katowice. Germanization--Poland--Tychy. Mass burials—Poland--Jastrzęęb Dolny. War victims--Legal status, laws, etc.- Poland. Execution…
417. Felicja Nowak collection
Document | Accession Number: 2001.305
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1956
… and executed with 5,000 other Jewish men. On August 1, 1941 Felicia and her mother were forced into the Bialystok ghetto. Felicia who was employed…
418. Markon family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.642.1
Date:
1927-1974
… daughter, Genya (b.1943), was born two months later. Raya’s mother, Genya, died of natural causes in the spring of 1941. Abram, Raya’s father, was executed…
419. Rywek Żytnik photograph collection
1998.91 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1998.91
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1950
…, Ukrainian auxiliary police surrounded the Jewish Quarter of Dashev, and in the morning German soldiers executed some 1,000 Jews. After the second Aktion, the…
420. Mandil family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1975
bulk: circa 1920-1948
…. Following complaints by the Jewish prisoners regarding the overcrowded prison conditions, half the prisoners were executed. Mosa appealed to the Italians whom…
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 …. Following complaints by the Jewish prisoners regarding the overcrowded prison conditions, half the prisoners were executed. Mosa appealed to the Italians whom…