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Documents and correspondence concerning Samuel Halber (donor’s father). Born June 22, 1914 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, he fled Nazi-occupied Europe in 1941 through Spain and Portugal were he applied for a US visa, ultimately arriving in New York City in 1941. He was drafted into the United States Army and was a Military Intelligence Interpreter, translating German, Dutch, and French in England until ...

The Nuremberg Trials - IMT Collection is a wide-range collection of documents related to the well-known trial against 23 major Nazi war criminals, held by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg between 1945 and 1946. Nuremberg documentation includes: the trial’s transcripts, the archival series NG (Nazi Government), NO (Nazi Organization), OKW (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, Supreme Command ...

Brick rubble from the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto. The rubble was excavated from the site of what is now the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, located among the ruins of the former Crown Artillery Barracks. The Barracks housed the ghetto post office, and at one point was the seat of the Judenrat. The monument was commemorated on April 19, 1948, and was the second monument, following a modest memorial unveiled ...

This collection contains materials related to the research and investigation of perpetrators of war crimes such as: witness testimonies after the invasion of Germany in September 1939, reports of crimes committed against Poles on Polish territory and in Germany, lists of local German officials, Gestapo chief officers, guards of concentration camps, data related to concentration camps, German police ...

The Simcha Dimant papers relate to the Holocaust and immediate post-war experiences of Simcha Dimant, a Polish Jew. The papers contain identification documents including a provisional identification card issued by the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Buchenwald concentration camp, April 1945; a Haftlings-Personal-Karte (Prisoners-Personal-Card); a Mandat-Karte (Mandate Card), July 1945; and a fragment ...

Handbook for the Nazi Storm Troopers and the Nazi Schutzstaffel elite military forces.

"In this compelling account of life and death in a Russian province under Nazi occupation, Johannes D. Enstad challenges received wisdom about Russian patriotism during World War II. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how hopelessly destructive Germany's war against the Soviet Union was. Yet ordinary Russians witnessing the advancing German forces saw things differently. For many of them, having ...

Jews are rounded up in Lvov, Poland. Barely-clothed or naked men and women are tortured and pulled along ground. Soldiers. Jews are lined up around building and civilians crowd the streets. The Soviet Union occupied Lvov, Poland in September 1939. Germany invaded the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, occupying Lvov within a week. The Germans claimed that the city's Jewish population had supported the ...

Air raid rehearsal in Prague (see Story 2157, Film ID 2246 for similar footage, although this sequence may be longer). German Army Day, Sham Battle and Air Force (with sound). 01:17:06 Runciman visits Prague. 01:17:16 Sokol Festival? Stadium performance in Prague.

Members of the Polish air force fought through the defeat of their own country in 1939 and then alongside the French until the fall of France the following year, when they made their varied ways to Britain. There the Poles were among the Air Force's most successful aces. During the Battle of Britain, the pilots of the all-Polish Kosciuszko Squadron - 303 Squadron to the RAF - downed more German planes ...