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Contains three series of original German records identifying inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald Concentration Camp, for the period April 1944 to April 1945. The first group is a name series, and the other two smaller series consist of cards organized by block (barrack) number to which the inmate was assigned, and occupations or trades to which some of the ...

Speculum used by Dr. Bruno Lambert, who immigrated to the United States from Nazi Germany in 1938, and served in the United States Army Medical Corps during the war. Bruno attended medical school in Germany from 1932-1937, but was not allowed to receive a diploma as a Jew under the Nazi regime. He transferred to a university in Switzerland, and earned a Doctorate of Medicine in July 1938. With the ...

Print reproduction of a sketch, from a set of fifteen, depicting prisoners wrapped in blankets in a barrack being selected for an unknown labor detail by a Kapo and ghetto police officers at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp in France, and published in 1946. The sketches were originally created in secret in the camp by Henri Gayot and the published set includes an introduction by Roger LaPorte: ...

Part 1: Winston Churchill and Jan Christian Smuts wish luck to Allied troops boarding landing craft. General Eisenhower broadcasts to the French people. Shows street scene in London. Airborne troops board planes. The Navy and Air Force blast Normandy shore positions. Part 2: U.S. troops enter Rome. Shows General Clark. Stalin and Marshal Zhukov review Russian troops. Part 3: The 9th Air Force bombs ...

Halutzka or peasant blouse with embroidered flowers made by Shoshana Galicki Feizensztajn, about 16 years old, as a parting gift for her sister Chava when she left their hometown of Siedlce, Poland, for Palestine in 1933. Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland in September 1939. Siedlce was in Soviet controlled territory. In June 1941, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. German forces occupied ...

One document, consisting of a typescript text of General Hans von Boineburg-Lengsfeld, a German officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II, describing his involvement in the conspiracy related to the assassination attempt on Hitler on 20 July 1944, and the reaction of German military commanders in occupied France (Paris), where Boineburg was stationed at the time. Includes two typescript pages, as ...

Written note on can of 'Goenert" refers to Dr. Fritz (Friedrich) Goernnert, of Goering's administrative staff (Stabsamt), responsible for the Reich Marshal's three special trains; he maintained close contact with Martin Bormann & the Nazi Party. OSS Report on Nazi Art Looting names Goernnert and Gen. Kattengel [sic] among participants in Goering's structure for looting art in occupied Europe. The report ...

An American military truck carrying several high-ranking German officers arrives at an airfield. The officers get out of the truck and board a C-47 plane. Good shots but it is difficult to see their faces. The plane taxis and takes off. Shot of the sky and a formation of B-17s overhead. Sign beside a road lines with trees reads: "Only Road Surface Cleared of Mines." Two young women walk their bicycles ...

Typescript text in German entitled 'Beziehungen zu Nichtariern' ('Relationships with non-Aryans'), dated Jul 1945, relating to the treatment of Hahn's Jewish friends and colleagues in Germany, 1933-1945.

Robert E. Work (1916-2012) was born Heidolf Vierk on August 18, 1916 in Celle, Germany. He immigrated to the United States with his parents and sister in 1923 and settled in California. In 1941 he enlisted with the United States Army Air Corps. He rose to the rank of captain and was a Chief Interrogator for German prisoners-of-war, including Hanna Reitsch, Hitler's personal pilot. He continued to serve ...