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Doily with embroidered flowers recovered by 17 year old Masza Senderowksi after the war from the house of a non-Jewish neighbor who had looted the Senderowski home. It was likely embroidered by one of her older sisters, Frieda or Lea, who were presumed killed during the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Zdzieciol, Poland (Dziatlava, Belarus.) Masza, her parents, and three sisters lived in Zdzieciol, ...

Jerzy Guminski (1923-1942) was born on March 20, 1923 in Warsaw, Poland. He had a sister Hanna Guminski. Jerzy and his mother, Zofia Guminski, worked for a Polish partisan group called the Związek Walki Zbrojnej (ZWZ). Among other activities, they assisted escapees from prison and gave shelter to endangered individuals in their pension in Świder, near Warsaw, Poland. In late 1940, Jerzy and Zofia were ...

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1915 in Vilna. Yones was active in the Bund. With the Soviet occupation of Vilna, he fled in order to escape arrest. (After the Nazi occupation in 1941, his father and two brothers were murdered by the Nazis.) Yones managed to reach Lvov, where he experienced a pogrom incited by the Germans in July 1941, during which several thousand Jews were murdered. Yones was one of only ...

Embroidered doily with crocheted trim recovered by 17 year old Masza Senderowksi after the war from the house of a non-Jewish neighbor who had looted the Senderowksi home. It was likely embroidered by her younger sister Sonia, 13, who was killed during the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Zdzieciol, Poland (Dziatlava, Belarus.) Masza, her parents, and three sisters lived in Zdzieciol, which was ...

The collection of memoirs in the Military Historical Archive was created from the memoirs obtained from the Military Historical Institute in Bratislava and from the archive's own collection activities since the archive was founded in 1994. The authors of the memoirs are mainly military persons who served in the Austro-Hungarian army and in the Czechoslovak legions during the First World War, in the ...

A history of the Holocaust in Greece and of Jewish participation in Greek partisan warfare during World War II, based largely on personal accounts of survivors. Describes the development of events that ended with the deportations of Jews to death camps, from the German zone of occupation (which included Salonika), the Bulgarian zone, and the Italian zone (which included Athens). Although the Allies ...

During the National Socialist dictatorship, SS and police forces made frequent use of the phrase 'shot while trying to escape' to describe the killing of the regime's putative political and racial enemies within the confines of the concentration camps, the Jewish ghettos in the occupied territories, and in anti-partisan operations in the East. In many cases, the phrase normalized the act of murder ...

Red fez with a swastika and Death's head given to Lt. Colonel Lee Israel by a German camp guard immediately after the liberation of the camp by US troops on April 29, 1945. Lt. Col. Israel gave it to Richard Price n the circa 1950s. The red fez was part of the dress uniform of a Waffen-SS military detachment composed of Muslims from Bosnia, Croatia, and Herzegovina in occupied Yugoslavia, with one ...

Anti-Semitic, anti-American Nazi propaganda poster issued in German occupied Italy ca. 1943, with a cartoon of a Jewish Bolshevik shaking his fists at all comers. The threat of the Jewish Bolshevik or Judeo-Communist conspiracy was a cornerstone of Nazi Party ideology. The 1917 Communist revolution that brought down the Russian Empire shocked the world. The prominence of Jews in the Bolshevik leadership ...

Footage with musical soundtrack documenting several years in occupied France from the perspective of the resistance. Brief shot, city street. Doriot speaking (synch): "L'Angleterre est vaincue." Maps, airplanes, air attack. 02:20:23 "1941" Train station, people, children getting off train, smiling. Various CUs. Tracking shot, city street, buildings, German signs. INT, party. Hitler. Children presenting ...