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1. Militär-und Militärbaueinrichtungen Deutschlands (Fond 1303)
Document | Accession Number: 2004.756.1 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.72
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1945
bulk: 1940-1944
Alternate Title:
Military and military construction institutions of Germany
… materials (1910-19440 [Opis 1]; Various records of German War and Defense Ministries, the High Command of the Navy, military offices on occupied territories…
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 … records of German War and Defense Ministries, the High Command of the Navy, military offices on occupied territories (1897-1945) (Opis 2); Records on the…
2. Deutsche Polizeieinrichtungen in den okkupierten Gebieten (Fond 1323)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.15 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.15
Date:
inclusive: 1806-1945
bulk: 1936-1944
Alternate Title:
Records of German Police Agencies in the Occupied Territories
…German Police and Administrative offices in the occupied territories. All police entities in Germany were under the command of the Reichsfurer-SS and…
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 … institutions in the occupied USSR with Feldpost numbers, 1942-1943; reports about the military commander in Warsaw and the Warsaw ghetto, 1940- 1941; 1942…
3. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
… next helped establish the Belzec killing center, where he essentially commanded Camp II, the extermination side of the camp. He then helped establish the…
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 …, his family, and his SS career, culminating in his role as deputy commander of the Sobibor death camp. Niemann was killed by prisoners during the October…
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  • Series 1: Photographic materials Approximate 1870-Approximate 1944, 1934-1944 Bulk
    • File 2: Belzec (4 photos) Approximate 1941-Approximate 1942
      • Pages: 4
    • File 6: Funeral and gravesite in Chełm (14 photos) 1943-1944
    • File 9: Sobibor (62 photos) (2 folders) 1942-1943
    • File 12: Album 1, "2. SS-T.V. [Totenkopfverband] Brandenburg," [as is] Approximate 1934-Approximate 1941
    • File 14: Album 1, "2. SS-T.V. [Totenkopfverband] Brandenburg," [original order] Approximate 1934-Approximate 1941
4. Torah breastplate recovered postwar from the site of the destroyed synagogue in Grodno
1991.140.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.140.2
Date:
creation: 1870-1880
found: approximately 1945
…Inscribed on the front are the ten commandments and the crown of the Torah.…
5. Cross-stitch table runner from a Jewish woman’s dowry
2014.490.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.490.2
Date:
creation: 1881-1910
… commander through financial support. Nonetheless, many Roman Jews were dismissed from their jobs or had their salary reduced. Some were sent to forced labor…
6. Color illustration of the 2nd Dreyfus court martial trial
2016.184.316 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.316
Date:
publication/distribution: 1899 November 23
Artwork Title:
At Rennes
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… retiring to the reserves. Dreyfus was recalled to active service in World War I, and commanded an ammunition column as a lieutenant colonel. The army finally…
7. Norman Salsitz papers
2003.425.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 2003.425.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1889-2000
… until the command was given to seek out and kill Jews being hidden on a farm. Norman volunteered for the mission, killing the Poles who had been sent with…
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 … worked with the underground to defeat their common foes until the command was given to seek out and kill Jews being hidden on a farm. Norman volunteered…
8. Desecrated, broken tombstone with carved Torah scroll from Turek Jewish cemetery
Object | Accession Number: 1990.292.6
Date:
creation: approximately 1850-1899
recovered: 1989
use: after 1939 September
… extensions connected by a panel, within a smooth, recessed space shaped like the 10 Commandments tablets, with remnants of blue paint. Above the tablets is…
9. Print of social classes based on what they give and what they take, with the Jew on top
2016.184.294 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.294
Date:
publication/distribution: approximately 1801-1900
Artwork Title:
Les Differentes Positions Sociales
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… in ascending order: a king who governs; then the gentleman who commands you; then a priest who prays for you. At the top is a Jew who makes money on…
10. Arnold Lissance family papers
2014.275. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.275.1
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1973
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… official daily diary of the German army’s supreme command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht), a post he held until 1943. Captured by the Allies at the end of the…
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 … military historian Helmuth Greiner, who had been appointed in 1939 to keep the official daily diary of the German army’s supreme command (Oberkommando der…
11. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… camp command. Karel had to report the statistics to the commandant, and sometimes got yelled at or threatened if the statistics were not to his liking…
12. Salomon Slowes papers
2002.477.10 Oversize Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.477.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2003
… between the Polish Government in Exile and the Soviet government to form a Polish army under the command of General Wladyslaw Anders, who had been a POW in…
13. Konkowski and Blinbaum families papers
2012.473.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1960
… the Belgian resistance. He adopted the nom de guerre Moliere, and founded and commanded a group of primarily Jewish resistance fighters known as the…
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 … resistance. He adopted the nom de guerre Moliere, and founded and commanded a group of primarily Jewish resistance fighters known as the Moliere Group. The…
14. Pastel portrait of a Jewish man with a toothy smile
2016.184.262 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.262
Date:
creation: approximately 1880
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… commandments of Jewish Law. Orthodox Jewish men traditionally wear a black top with a black, brimmed hat, as seen in the drawing. The black clothing conforms to…
15. Ceramic change holder in the shape of an Orthodox Jewish man
2016.184.4 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.4
Date:
manufacture: 1890-1962
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
… Judaism. Orthodox Jews believe the Torah is of divine origin and strive to adhere to the 613 commandments of Jewish Law. The long, black suit-style jacket…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. Kalman Clarence and Anna Farkas Gutlohn Grant family papers
2018.286.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2018.286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1887-2019
… Company. The company commander was Istvan Kovacs, a well-known Budapest lawyer, who tried to maintain decent living conditions for the laborers, and the…
20. Large, ribbed burlap covered trunk used by Jewish Czech inmates
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.53
Date:
use: 1941 December-1944 September 24
manufacture: approximately 1900-1925
… camp command. Karel had to report the statistics to the commandant, and sometimes got yelled at or threatened if the statistics were not to his liking…