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481. 2nd Polish Corps Syrenka patch with the Warsaw Mermaid worn by a Jewish medical officer, 2nd Polish Corps
2002.477.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.477.4
Date:
use: after 1942 December-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…
482. Arthur Jacobs photograph collection
2017.636.1 Oversize Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.636.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-circa 1945
… Navy at Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on the United States. An executive order in February 1942 allowed government agencies to rationalize the…
483. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.186.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1961
bulk: 1939-1945
… efforts in Europe. Some of this information was also transmitted to the British secret wartime organization, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She…
484. Salomon Slowes papers
2002.477.10 Oversize Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.477.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2003
…. 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…
485. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers
2017.556.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.556.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1830-2016
bulk: 1937-1948
…Executive departments…
486. Brown tablecloth with a floral design saved during a pogrom in Ukraine and recovered after the war
Object | Accession Number: 2009.115.1
Date:
recovered: approximately 1944
use: 1944-1948
… rounded up 370 Jewish men, beat and then executed them on the village outskirts. Vova and his father hid in the neighbor’s barn, but two of his paternal…
487. Buchenwald camp at liberation - the dead and the living
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Film | Accession Number: 1990.492.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0001 | Film ID: 1
Date:
Event: April 15-19, 1945
Production: 1945 April
Duration:
00:19:29
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… organs sit on a shelf. Three survivors demonstrate how prisoners were executed by hanging and then how they were beaten in the head to ensure their death…
488. Herbert A. Fierst papers
2006.8.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2006.8.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-2004
…Executive departments…
489. Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.20 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.20
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1945
bulk: 1937-1945
Alternate Title:
Concentration and POW camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories
… of various concentration camps in Germany, Poland, France and other countries: 3. Death and burial lists of Soviet POWs, and lists of POWs executed and…
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 … and burial lists of Soviet POWs, and lists of POWs executed and cremated in Gross Rosen, 1941-1942; 4.Testimonies and reports of former prisoners…
490. Irena Bloch papers
2001.300.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2001.300.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1969
… train to Lwów. They initially stayed with his parents at 27 Kochanowskiego Street, but the Soviets soon arrested and subsequently executed Bernard Zimand…
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 …. They initially stayed with his parents at 27 Kochanowskiego Street, but the Soviets soon arrested and subsequently executed Bernard Zimand. In 1940…
491. Ze’ev Raveh Werba papers
Document | Accession Number: 2009.153.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2005
… rounded up 370 Jewish men, beat and then executed them on the village outskirts. Vova and his father hid in the neighbor’s barn, but two of his paternal…
492. UNRRA selected records AG-018-013 : Bureau of Services
Document | Accession Number: 2018.78.1 | RG Number: RG-67.068
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1948
…Selected records arranged in six sub-series: 1. Executive Office, 1943-1948 [Selection of files: S-1248 to S-1249]; 2. Division of Repatriation and…
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 … Combined Displaced Persons Executive - CDPX 1943-1949 Policy - Operational. Responsibilities 1943-1949 Yugoslavia Mission - Displaced Persons 1943-1949…
493. Regina Gruber and Tuvia Sheres papers
2016.204.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.204.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1998
bulk: 1943-1968
… mass executions of Vilna Jews in the Ponary forest; thousands of Jews were massacred. Jews were drafted for forced labor, and had to wear yellow badges…
494. Gisela Eden papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.476.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1995
… in New York. She worked as a nurse, file clerk, and executive secretary. Gisela met John Peter Eden (1923-2013) at a British social club event. John…
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 … worked as a nurse, file clerk, and executive secretary. She met John Peter Eden (born Hans Eibuschitz, 1923-2013) at a British social club event. John Eden…
495. Framed set of military medals, ribbons and insignia awarded to US Army Captain J.G. Mitnick
2006.11.45, Framed set of military medals, ribbons and insignia, J. George Mitnick Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.11.45
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.…
496. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
…, where he worked for the next twelve years. In the mid-1960s he handled promotion for Epic and Dot Records, and he went on to become a prominent executive…
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 … handled promotion for Epic and Dot Records, and he went on to become a prominent executive for Atlantic records in New York. Gunter and Hella had two more…
497. Randolph Braham collection
Document | RG Number: RG-52.000
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2011
…Executive departments.…
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 … Holocaust-related photographs, including several depicting the execution of Hungarian war criminals, and printed materials including review articles and a…
498. Fruma Gulkowitz-Berger papers
2017.262.5 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.262.5
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1990
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…. On 5 December 1941 the Germans began preparing for mass executions by having large pits dug by slave Jewish labor. Murray escaped into the forest where…
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 … Wsielub. He went to Nowogródek where he remained with his cousin Alter Nochimovski. On 5 December 1941 the Germans began preparing for mass executions by…
499. Dr. Sophie Turner-Zaretsky papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.442.1
Date:
1944-1946
…, but Emanuel was arrested at the Lvov train station and later executed. Laura and Selma were living under the aliases of Bronislawa and Zofia Tymejko…
500. Metal pin made for a former concentration camp inmate with her prisoner number and the camps where she was held
1993.27.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.34
Date:
creation: approximately 1945 April-1945 May
commemoration: 1943-1945
… day, a Belgian girl was caught trying to escape. All the inmates were called to see her execution by hanging; someone slipped her a razor blade and she…