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2101. Lieutenant Jack Taylor testifies for the prosecution at the trial of 61 former camp personnel and prisoners from Mauthausen.
prisoners from Mauthausen. Lieutenant Jack Taylor (b. 1908). Lt. Taylor served in the OSS (American ... Secret Service). He was captured by the Germans and imprisoned in Mauthausen.
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2102. German civilians from Ludwigslust file past the corpses and graves of 200 prisoners from the nearby concentration camp of Woebbelin.
grounds of the Archduke of Mecklenburg. A sub-camp of Neuengamme, Woebbelin was captured by British and ... American troops on 4 May 1945. Upon entering the camp, the liberators discovered nearly 4,000 prisoners
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2103. Major Irving Heymont and Pfc. Markovitz speak to the Jewish police in the Landsberg displaced persons camp.
he remained during the summer and fall of 1945. He reported to General Onslow Rolfe and eventually ... moving non-Jews out of Landsberg and for abolishing the pass system which had restricted the freedom of
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2104. The Mayos visit relatives in Belgrade, travel on the SS Normandie, and celebrate at home in NY
Americans’ cargo onto the train. View of passing houses and countryside through the train window. [the ... camera at a train station in Greece. Anna Mayo and Calev Elias are in the group. People wave from the
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2105. Citation and Medal
Olympics, and for Mr. Brown's participation as a member of the American Olympic Delegation: dated January ... Olympic rings with Nazi eagle and swastika hanging on a red, white and black ribbon. The citation is ... printed in red and black ink with an embossed Nazi seal. There is a descriptive plaque on the frame ... The citation and medal were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1999 by Paula
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2106. Wedding celebration of Joseph and Heika Straus. Joseph's sister Betty is on the left, and Heika's sister is on the right.
Betty Cohen (born Betty Straus) is the daughter of Benjamin Straus and Hedwig Levita Straus. She ... wa Betty Cohen (born Betty Straus) is the daughter of Benjamin Straus and Hedwig Levita Straus. She
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2107. Group portrait of family and friends attending a banquet to mark the departure of the Ciechanow brothers, Alex and Adolf, for Colombia.
the top, center). Also pictured are Estera and Adolf Ciechanow and Chana (Ciechanow) Olszyn. ... Flora Singer (born Flora Mendelowicz) is the daughter of David and Fani (Davidowicz) Mendelowicz
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2108. Book with stereoscopic glasses and photos celebrating the Anschluss
The collection consists of a propaganda book containing stereooptic glasses and 120 double imaged ... the glasses. The book and photographs deal with Hitler's conquest of Austria; text written by Karl ... Bartz, forward by Hermann Goerring and photographs taken by Heinrich Hoffman; published by the NSDAP.
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2109. The defendants and their lawyers hear the reading of an indictment on the first day of the International Military Tribunal of war criminals at Nuremberg.
trial's rules were the result of delicate reconciliations of the Continental and Anglo-American judicial ... criminals. On December 17, 1942, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union
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2110. Two soldiers from the 42nd Rainbow Division and a liberated prisoner fish the body of an SS guard out of the moat surrounding the Dachau concentration camp.
liberated, among them some Englishmen, Canadians and Americans. The camp was formally surrendered by an SS ... Some SS guards were killed and thrown into the moat by the liberated prisoners, others by American
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2111. SS: Decline, Disintegration, and Trials
at the height of its power and influence in 1942–1944, the SS was not all-powerful inside ... authorities and even the Wehrmacht. However, as the invading Allied armies and Allied bombings from the air ... who also had state authority in their positions as Reich Defense Commissars and could mobilize the ... and woman-power into military, police, and auxiliary functions in the last year of the war. Moreover
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2112. Tatsuo Osako and another crew member of the Amakusa-maru pose on board the ship next to the life preserver.
American Jewish organizations sent money and papers via the Walter Brown Company (later Thomas Cook) to ... then the American Jewish Society in Kobe came and guaranteed their expenses. Many of the refugees whom
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2113. Joasia and Nadzieja Klein pose on the deck of the USS President Harrison while en route to the United States.
's remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, Jerzy applied for American visas for his family and first learned of the ... destroyed. In Istanbul, Jerzy obtained a job teaching calculus and physics in English at the American ... immigration visas for Brazil. However, the Kleins and Elizawieta Palcew obtained American visas, valid for ... American ship in the midst of a round-the-world cruise, and thus reached American soil for the purposes of
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2114. A man and woman walk past the markers in the newly built cemetery at the Mauthausen concentration camp.
camp. Original caption reads: "New Cemetery the Americans built in Camp Mauthausen July 1945." ... MAJOR CONCENTRATION CAMPS 1940-45 -- Mauthausen -- LIBERATION (May 5, 1945) -- Victims (The Dead)
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2115. Mixed media wall sculpture in three sections by Daisy Brand memorializing the betrayal and destruction of Jewish culture and religious faith during the Holocaust
the camp was evacuated as Soviet and American forces approached. Aranka disappeared during the forced ... sick bay barracks. In July 1944, as Soviet and American forces advanced into Germany, the prisoners ... Americans, rather than the Soviets, so they disobeyed orders and led the prisoners towards the Americans. On ... April 24, 1945, they encountered a US military tank near Wurzen. The Americans disarmed the guards and
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2116. Teaching Materials on Nazism and Jim Crow
Holocaust. Racism also legitimized the continued subjugation and persecution of African Americans long after ... Germany. Black Americans and the Nazi Olympics Although different in many ways, antisemitism in Nazi ... racism in Nazi Germany and the United States? African American Soldiers during World War II Afro ... -Germans during the Holocaust The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936: African American Voices and “Jim Crow
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2117. Group portrait of members of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims that came to Luxembourg for the signing of the Reparations Agreement between the German Federal Republic, the State of Israel, and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims.
Group portrait of members of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims that came to Luxembourg for ... the Conference on Jewish Material Claims.
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2118. Members of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims meet in Luxembourg for the signing of the Reparations Agreement between the German Federal Republic, the State of Israel, and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims.
Members of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims meet in Luxembourg for the signing of the ... AMERICANS; CONFERENCE ON JEWISH MATERIAL CLAIMS; FERENCZ, BENJAMIN; INTERIORS; JEWS (AMERICAN
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2119. A briefing by members of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims in Luxembourg during the signing of the Reparations Agreement between the German Federal Republic, the State of Israel, and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims.
briefing by members of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims in Luxembourg during the signing ... AMERICANS; CONFERENCE ON JEWISH MATERIAL CLAIMS; FERENCZ, BENJAMIN; INTERIORS; JEWS (AMERICAN
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2120. 2022 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar
president of the American Friends of the Documentation Center of the Austrian Resistance from 2012-2014 and ... Ribbon panel that examined changes to the ethics policies and structures of the American Psychological ... the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH), chair of the Ethics Forum of the American ... of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
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2121. Two typed alphabetical lists relating to financial support former passengers of the 'Flandre' and the 'St.Louis' received from the
France. They are financial reports relating to support former passengers of the 'St.Louis' and the ... 'Flandre' received while they were in France during the months of April and May 1942.
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2122. Rabbi Herbert Friedman blesses a bride and groom under a marriage canopy during a wedding at the Berlin chaplain's center.
Herbert Friedman (b. 1918), American Reform rabbi and U.S. Army chaplain, who during the American ... oc Herbert Friedman (b. 1918), American Reform rabbi and U.S. Army chaplain, who during the American ... increasingly angry at the inaction of American Jewry in the face of the Nazi threat and steadily more drawn to
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2123. Group portrait of DPs selected to attend a class on American administration in preparation for assuming leadership positions in their camps.
Rita Sloan (born Rita Slepian) is the daughter of Natan Slepian and Marysia (nee Tomkiewicz ... ). Natan Rita Sloan (born Rita Slepian) is the daughter of Natan Slepian and Marysia (nee Tomkiewicz ... mobilized and sent to the Western front. By then living conditions had deteriorated. Shortly thereafter ... relinquish their Polish passports, the NKVD arrested them and deported them to a labor camp in the Republic
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2124. Online Tools for Learning and Teaching
Newspapers and the Holocaust Join our team of citizen historians researching American newspapers from the ... 1930s and 1940s to find out what Americans knew about the Holocaust and the Nazi threat. This website ... online versions of current and past exhibitions, such as Americans and the Holocaust and Some Were ... The Museum offers a wide selection of online resources about the Holocaust and other genocides and
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2125. Dr. and Mrs. Heitan (in uniforms) speaking with Gizelle Herskovits in the Feldafing displaced persons camp.
ending up exactly where it started and liberated by American forces. The Army cared for the girls for ... Gloria Hartenbaum (born Gizelle Herskovits, later Gizelle Hersh) was the oldest daughter of Emanuel and