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101. Metal tube for a menthol inhaler used in concentration camp
2005.457.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.8
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… political and literary organization. At Mauthausen, his prisoner number was 24993. After the war ended in 1945, he returned to Poland.…
102. Leo Haas aquatint of frail sickly people on a ghetto street corner
2003.202.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.202.5
Date:
depiction: 1942
issue: 1966
Artwork Title:
Ghetto Street Corner, Theresienstadt 1942
…Political prisoners--Biography.…
103. Oral history interview with Morris Kornberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0246 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0061
Date:
interview: 1999 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent to Auschwitz as a political prisoner; working in a coal mine in a sub-camp of Auschwitz; being forced to go to Buchenwald on a death march and…
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 … to Auschwitz as a political prisoner; working in a coal mine in a sub camp of Auschwitz; being forced to go to Buchenwald on a death march and working…
104. Oral history interview with Jeanne Dupont
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.1 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0001
Date:
interview: 1974 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Political prisoners--Belgium.…
105. Oral history interview with Rainer Küchenmeister
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.76.8 | RG Number: RG-50.720.0008
Date:
interview: 1999
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Political prisoners.…
106. Wladyslaw Minota memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2001.15 | RG Number: RG-10.203
Date:
undated: 
…Contains a memoir about Mr. Wladyslaw Minota, a former Polish political prisoner in Auschwitz.…
107. Plate 23, Herbert Sandberg series, Der Weg: artist as a young man with friends studying a woodcut
1988.12.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.12.23
Date:
creation: 1962
Series Title:
Der Weg 70 Aquatinta-Radierungen
Artwork Title:
Vorbiler 1: Frans Masereel
Alternate Title:
Idols 1: Frans Masereel
… Buchenwald concentration camp. He was prisoner number 3491 and identified as both a Jewish prisoner and a political prisoner. He was removed from a 1943…
108. Oral history interview with Henryk Prais
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1280.18 | RG Number: RG-50.225.0018
Date:
interview: 1995 May 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--Soviet Union.…
109. Oral history interview with Theresia Raich-Graf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.402.1 | RG Number: RG-50.654.0001
Date:
interview: 2009 December 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Political prisoners--Italy.…
110. Looped metal whip that may have been used at Auschwitz given to a Ukrainian journalist covering the Nuremberg Trials
2012.375.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.375.2
Date:
use: approximately 1943
received: approximately 1947 January-approximately 1947 April
… received a degree in political science from the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kiev. He was a socialist and openly opposed Soviet communism. Miroslav was…
111. Concentration camp uniform coat worn by an Austrian Catholic inmate
1989.235.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.235.1
Date:
use: 1944 March 25-1945 April 29
…Concentration camp uniform knee length coat worn by Karl Unterthiner, an Austrian Catholic political prisoner in Dachau concentration camp from March…
112. Richard Grune lithograph of concentration camp prisoners throwing dead bodies into a fire
2012.316.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.316.6
Date:
creation: after 1945 April-1945 December
…Political prisoners--Germany--Biography.…
113. Silver-plated axe and sword shaped letter opener won in a prewar swim meet by Henryk Zguda
2004.374.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.374.4
Date:
received: before 1939 September
…. Henryk was shaved, assigned prisoner number 39551, and issued a uniform with a red triangle with the letter P, identifying him as a Polish political…
114. Plate 31, Herbert Sandberg series, Der Weg: a man painting Anti-Nazi graffitti
1988.12.31 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.12.31
Date:
creation: 1962
Series Title:
Der Weg 70 Aquatinta-Radierungen
Artwork Title:
Er Reiht sich ein
Alternate Title:
He Joins the Lines
… Buchenwald concentration camp. He was prisoner number 3491 and identified as both a Jewish prisoner and a political prisoner. He was removed from a 1943…
115. Records of the Religious Society of Friends in Great Britain: Friends Committee for Refugees and Aliens (FCRA)
Document | Accession Number: 2007.377 | RG Number: RG-59.027M
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1954
…). Records relate to the situation of Jews in Germany, support for refugees, internment, political prisoners, and visits to concentration camps. The collection…
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 … refugees being helped with some names. 11) Letters sent to Goering and Hitler re conditions of political prisoners (Sept. 34) 12) Report: suggestions by the…
116. Archivalien des ehemaligen Heeresarchivs (Fond 1275)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.13 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.13
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
bulk: 1941-1945
Alternate Title:
Records of the Former Military Archive in Potsdam
… in Poland in the WWII; essays, articles, clippings, speeches (Mussolini) related to WWII matters; diaries of a prisoner of war [Opis 5]; investigation…
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 …. Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945. Forced labor--Europe--History--20th century. Prisoners of war--History--20th century. Holocaust Jewish (1939…
117. Plate 65, Herbert Sandberg series, Der Weg: communal soup pot amid empty dishes
1988.12.65 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.12.65
Date:
creation: 1962
Series Title:
Der Weg 70 Aquatinta-Radierungen
Artwork Title:
Sitschas! Sofort!
Alternate Title:
Sitschas! At once!
… Buchenwald concentration camp. He was prisoner number 3491 and identified as both a Jewish prisoner and a political prisoner. He was removed from a 1943…
118. Plate 8, Herbert Sandberg, Der Weg: youth looks with longing at a bookstore window
1988.12.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.12.8
Date:
creation: 1962
Series Title:
Der Weg 70 Aquatinta-Radierungen
Artwork Title:
Die Entdeckung
Alternate Title:
The Discovery
… Buchenwald concentration camp. He was prisoner number 3491 and identified as both a Jewish prisoner and a political prisoner. He was removed from a 1943…
119. Drypoint etching by Lea Grundig of a group of people hiding their faces
1987.92.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.92.12
Date:
creation: 1936
issue: 1972
Series Title:
Der Jüde ist Shüld!
The Jew is Guilty!
Artwork Title:
Stürmermaske
Alternate Title:
Stuermer masks
…Political prisoners--Germany--Dresden.…
120. Cyril Pearl collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.137 | RG Number: RG-69.008M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1983
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 … -- Refugees. World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German. World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Australian. Political refugees -- Great…
121. Oral history interview with Jean-Michel Rosenfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.59.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0874
Date:
interview: 2016 February 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… as a prisoner of war while serving in the French Army during WWII; attending school until the age of 14; working after the war in the French Social…
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 … that his father was French and volunteered to serve in the army before he was called up. He was taken prisoner of war and did not reveal that he was…
122. Pencil portrait of a female Polish political prisoner made by another inmate in Ravensbrueck
2014.511.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.511.3
Date:
creation: 1944
…Pencil portrait of a female Polish political prisoner made by another inmate in Ravensbrueck…
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123. Commemorative Medal of the War 1940-1945 medal and ribbon awarded to a Belgian resistance fighter
2005.25.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.25.6
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
issue: after 1946 February 16
…World War, 1939-1945--Political prisoners--Germany--Personal narratives, Belgian.…
124. Wooden sign with Biblical verse made in labor camp by a Jehovah’s Witness
1989.314.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.314.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1944
…-Dieburg with a group of political prisoners. He continued to be threatened with the consequences of not giving up his faith; one doctor told him he would be…
125. Selected records from collections of the Mureş branch of the Romanian National Archives
Document | Accession Number: 2005.223 | RG Number: RG-25.028M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American.…
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 …, 1939‐1945‐‐Deportations from Romania. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Prisoners and prisons, American. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Prisoners and prisons, British…
126. Small piece of white chalk used in a concentration camp
2005.457.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.28
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…Political prisoners--Poland--Biography.…
127. Articles from "The golden age" and the "Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses" and other publications relating to the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0101 | RG Number: RG-32.012.01
…Political prisoners.…
128. Sandbostel - April 1945
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0142 | RG Number: RG-09.038
Date:
1992
… in the camp; the sanitary conditions inside the camp; the burial of the camp's dead; the difference in conditions between political prisoners and…
129. Leo Haas aquatint of an attic overcrowded with cold, exhausted people
2003.202.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.202.7
Date:
depiction: 1942
issue: 1966
Artwork Title:
Overcrowded Attic, Theresienstadt 1942
…Political prisoners--Biography.…
130. Plate 3, Herbert Sandberg, Der Weg: youth looking out window of a crowded train
1988.12.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.12.3
Date:
creation: 1962
depiction: approximately 1925
Series Title:
Der Weg 70 Aquatinta-Radierungen
Artwork Title:
Ausblick
Alternate Title:
The View
… Buchenwald concentration camp. He was prisoner number 3491 and identified as both a Jewish prisoner and a political prisoner. He was removed from a 1943…
131. Small metal bowl used in a concentration camp
2005.457.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.457.10
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
…Political prisoners--Poland--Biography.…
132. Zygmunt Gemel papers
1989.64.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1989.64.1 | RG Number: RG-10.342
Date:
creation: 1944
…The papers consist of a note written by political prisoner Zygmunt Gemel to his father Franciszek Gemel and thrown from a train while Zygmunt was…
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 … Abstract: The papers consist of a note written by political prisoner Zygmunt Gemel to his father Franciszek Gemel and thrown from a train while Zygmunt was…
133. Watercolor portrait with frame of a Polish resistance member recovered by her family
2014.451.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.451.2 a-d
Date:
recovered: after 1945 May
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Janina Zyzniewska
… February 1942 for their political activities and sent to Radogoszcz prison. In October 1942, they were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp, where Janina…
134. Satirical drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting Nazi soldiers as pigs
1988.5.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.7
Date:
creation: 1938 February
Series Title:
Rosenmontag
Artwork Title:
Wat ess vill schlimmer wie ne jüdd?
…Political prisoners--France--Biography.…
135. Plate 55, Herbert Sandberg series, Der Weg: memorial service for Ernst Thalmann (1886-1944)
1988.12.55 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.12.55
Date:
creation: 1958
Series Title:
Der Weg 70 Aquatinta-Radierungen
Artwork Title:
Thalmannfeier
Alternate Title:
Thalmann celebration
… Buchenwald concentration camp. He was prisoner number 3491 and identified as both a Jewish prisoner and a political prisoner. He was removed from a 1943…
136. Więzienie w Kielcach (Sygn. 186)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.30.1 | RG Number: RG-15.434
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1944
Alternate Title:
Prison in Kielce
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Prison in Kielce…
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 …--Kielce. Prisons and prisons--Poland--Kielce--History. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland--Kielce. Kielce (Poland)--Politics and government--1939-1945…
137. Leo Haas aquatint of new arrivals at the ghetto gate
2003.202.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.202.15
Date:
depiction: 1942
issue: 1966
Series Title:
Zyklus Theresienstadt
Artwork Title:
Lebensraume, Theresienstadt 1942
Alternate Title:
Living Space
…Political prisoners--Biography.…
138. Medal de la Resistance Armee 1940-1945 medal and ribbon awarded to a Belgian resistance fighter
2005.25.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.25.7
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
issue: 1947 December 31
…World War, 1939-1945--Political prisoners--Germany--Personal narratives, Belgian.…
139. Portrait of a Polish female inmate drawn by a fellow inmate in a Soviet labor camp
Object | Accession Number: 2007.39.1
Date:
creation: 1944 March 15
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Roza Holcman
…Pencil portrait of Roza Holcman created by Jozia Berko in March 15, 1944, when both women were political prisoners in a Soviet labor camp in Samarka…
140. Richard Grune woodcut of a guard marching roped concentration camp prisoners
2012.316.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.316.4
Date:
creation: 1945
…Political prisoners--Germany--Biography.…
141. Pencil and ink drawing by Karl Schwesig depicting a skeletal Hitler atop an airplane
1988.5.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.8
Date:
creation: 1938 February
Series Title:
Rosenmontag
Artwork Title:
Daß wir hier in Flammen aufgehen verdanken wir den Fuhrer!
…Political prisoners--France--Biography.…
142. Selected records from the State Archives in Poznań, Branch Archives in Piła
Document | Accession Number: 2012.131 | RG Number: RG-15.228M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1946
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… prisoners of war and Polish and German workers working in German factories.…
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 …‐‐Investigations. Jews‐‐Poland‐‐Politics and government. Prisoners of war‐‐Poland‐‐Wielkopolska. Jews‐‐Persecutions‐‐Poland. Judaism‐‐Customs and practices…
143. Konzentrationslager Buchenwald (GK 127)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.47.1 | RG Number: RG-15.674
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
Alternate Title:
Selected records, Obóz Koncentracyjny w Buchenwaldzie
…Orders of the camp commandant, statistics, alphabetical list of refugees, interrogations of prisoners, personal files, list of clerical prisoners…
144. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.28
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Moosburg
…Political prisoners.…
145. Ankieta Sadów Grodzkich (Sygn.163)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0080 | RG Number: RG-15.019M
Date:
inclusive: 1945
Alternate Title:
Court inquiries about executions and mass graves in districts, provinces, camps, and ghettos
…World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons--Poland.…
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 …-1945. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Occupation–History. World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons--Poland. War crimes--History--Poland—20th century…
146. Selected papers of Oscar Plisnier
Document | Accession Number: 2011.37 | RG Number: RG-65.020M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
… secrétaires généraux meetings concerning the position and persecution of Jews. Records relate mainly to action on behalf of political prisoners and Jews…
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 …. Organization and Arrangement: Main files organization: File 32, Action on behalf of political prisoners and Jews, 1940-1944; File 50, Political prisoners, 1942…
147. Dokumentarmaterial der Polizeiorgane über polnische und sowjetische Bürger, die vor dem Zeiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland lebten oder im Krieg in deutsche Kriegsgefangenschaft gerieten (sowjetische Zusammenstellung)(Fond 1164)
Document | Accession Number: 2002.553.3 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.67
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1944
Alternate Title:
German Police Units
… espionage and political units of the Prussian police and proceeded to staff them with thousands of Nazis. On April 26, 1933, Göring became the commander of…
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 …. Prisoners of Düsseldorf (Germany) Europe--History--German occupation, 1939-1945. Germany--Politics and government -1933-1945. Page 3 Łambinowice (Poland…
148. Oral history interview with Johannes Haas-Heye
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.76.17 | RG Number: RG-50.720.0017
Date:
interview: 2001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Political prisoners.…
149. Oral history interview with Helmut Roloff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.76.11 | RG Number: RG-50.720.0011
Date:
interview: 2001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Political prisoners.…
150. Oral history interview with Tim Bontjes van Beek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.76.3 | RG Number: RG-50.720.0003
Date:
interview: 1999-2000
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Political prisoners.…