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1626. German Field Marshall Gerd von Rundstedt (with his back to the camera) speaks to American prosecutor Robert Kempner (left) and interpreter Gerald Schwab during a pause at the IMT Nuremberg commission hearings investigating the Supreme Command of the German Armed Forces, OKW.
gift secured the visas, and they proceeded to Genoa. There they boarded the SS Washington bound for ... dealing with the hundreds of thousands of members of the SS and other Nazi organizations implicated in ... 1, 1946. While the leadership corps of the Nazi Party, the Gestapo, SD and the SS were all found
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1627. Nazi propaganda racial portraits of a half-Jewish girl and boy.
-Mann und Blutsfrage" by the NSDAP/Der Reichsführer, SS-Hauptamt-Schulungsamt, Berlin, 1942. The ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; G. Howard Tellier ... Nazi propaganda racial portraits of a half-Jewish girl and boy. There portraits were published in
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1628. A Jewish boy, Wilhelm Beigel, poses with his aunt and uncle on a park bench in Vilna.
immediate family lived in the ghetto for the next two years. On September 4, 1943 Latvian SS shot and ... LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Family/Friends/Portraits -- At Home/In Town ... William Begell (born Wilhelm Beigel) is the son of Ferdinand and Liza (Kowarsky) Beigel. He was ... bor William Begell (born Wilhelm Beigel) is the son of Ferdinand and Liza (Kowarsky) Beigel. He was
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1629. View of the German living quarters at the Sobibor killing center
of barracks buildings, workshops, and SS and Ukrainian guards. The ... album complements and re-enforces the testimonies of the few Jewish survivors of this notorious camp ... after which the camp was closed and demolished.
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1630. View of the city of Danzig. The silo in the center of the photograph belonged to the Anker family.
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Danzig ... Hilde (Anker) Fogelson (the mother of George Fogelson), was the daughter of Georg and Gertrud ... (Gotts Hilde (Anker) Fogelson (the mother of George Fogelson), was the daughter of Georg and Gertrud ... Danzig and the head of a household of twelve children. He was a prominent member of the local Jewish
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1631. Studio portrait of two Jewish boys. Pictured are 11-year-old Manius Notowicz (left) and his friend Amiel Gerwurz.
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Family/Friends/Portraits -- Studio Portraits ... Max Notowitz (born Manius Notowicz) is the son of Ida (Schmidek) and Osias Jehoshua Notowicz. He ... wa Max Notowitz (born Manius Notowicz) is the son of Ida (Schmidek) and Osias Jehoshua Notowicz. He ... arrested and deported to Auschwitz in 1941. A few weeks later the family was notified by telegram that
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1632. Studio portrait of two Jewish cousins in Vilna. Pictured are Szepsel Kaftanski (left) and his cousin Alter Goldstein.
discovered by the SS and their collaborators. They were sent to Ponary, where Szepsel's mother and sister ... LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Family/Friends/Portraits -- Studio Portraits ... Seymour Kaftan (born Szepsel Kaftansk) is the son of Gershon and Sara Liba (Rudomin) Kaftanski. He ... w Seymour Kaftan (born Szepsel Kaftansk) is the son of Gershon and Sara Liba (Rudomin) Kaftanski. He
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1633. The execution of twenty prisoners from Buchenwald, most of them Jews, in the forest near the camp.
The prisoners were hanged in retaliation for the murder of a German guard or policeman, and the entire ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; David Mendels ... SS (SCHUTZSTAFFELN)
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1634. A German gun crew prepares to shell the ruins of a building during the suppression of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
resolved to burn down the ghetto and smoke the Jews out of their concealed bunkers. The Jewish resistance ... the Poniatowa labor camp, and between 5,000 and 6,000 were sent to the Trawniki camp. The Warsaw Jews ... who were deported to Poniatowa and Trawniki were shot during the Erntefest action of November 3-4
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1635. An American soldier stands near the corpses of Dachau guards who were executed just after the liberation of the camp.
the soldiers advanced, they found stacks of bodies in other parts of the camp and thousands of ... wall and gunned down by members of the 1st Company. Others were shot in one of the boxcars or beaten ... to death outside with the participation of a few survivors. Pfc. John Lee and others from the unit ... were later summoned by military investigators to give testimony about the killings and to supply
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1636. The defendants are led into the courtroom at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp war crimes trial in Berlin.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; Central Archive of the Federal Security Service ... Anton Kaindl, the former commandant, and Paul Sakowski, a kapo who had served as an executioner. The ... Fifteen of the defendants were sentenced to life in prison with forced labor and one, to fifteen years in
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1637. Franz Ziereis poses in front of the commandant's headquarters on the wall overlooking the garage courtyard (Garagenhofmauer) in Mauthausen.
army with the rank of sergeant and joined the SS. He was appointed SS Obersturmführer (SS first ... lieutenant), and in 1937 took over the leadership of the 22nd Hundertschaft (hundred-man-unit) of the SS ... "Thüringen" as a training instructor. Upon an order by the leader of the SS Death's Head formations and by ... On August 25, 1939 Ziereis was promoted to the post of SS-Sturmbannführer (SS major), and on April 20
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1638. View of the Olympic stadium where young women practice for the opening ceremonies of the Berlin Olympics.
volunteered for the SS and was accepted into the Leibstandart, Hitler's personal bodyguard. He was awarded for ... Gerhard Pleiss, Hauptsturmfuhrer in the Waffen-SS, SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS "Adolf ... Hitler Gerhard Pleiss, Hauptsturmfuhrer in the Waffen-SS, SS-Panzer-Division Leibstandarte SS "Adolf ... his leadership in the May 1940 invasion of France and the April 1941 Balkans campaign. In June 1941
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1639. Ketty Levy (maiden name, Beniakar) poses with her two sons, Maurice and Albert.
lived in hiding for five months until the SS arrested Henrietta and her family on March 25, 1944. They ... Greece prior to the war. In late 1943 the family went into hiding and assumed Christian names. They ... were sent to the concentration camp, Haidari, outside of Athens. The family survived the war and
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1640. Israel Zaks, Lipke, and Heniek Ehrlich go for a bicycle ride through Hanover.
Israel Joe Sachs (born Israel Zew Zaks) is the son of Hela Gelbart (b. 1905) and Jakob (b. 1897 ... Zak Israel Joe Sachs (born Israel Zew Zaks) is the son of Hela Gelbart (b. 1905) and Jakob (b. 1897 ... their extended family. Following the Nazi invasion, Israel and his family lived in the Jewish quarter ... young men and placed in a holding cell before being taken to a camp in Germany to set up the Krupp
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1641. Ralf Harpuder and his older cousin Peter pose on a sidewalk in Berlin.
Ralf Harpuder and his older cousin Peter pose on a sidewalk in Berlin. Peter later perished in the ... Ralf Harpuder, the son of Hans and Gerda Lewin Harpuder, was born April 12, 1934, in Berlin. He ... had Ralf Harpuder, the son of Hans and Gerda Lewin Harpuder, was born April 12, 1934, in Berlin. He ... secured passage aboard the SS Conte Verde, which sailed from Trieste to Shanghai in March. Upon their
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1642. Prisoners construct a building in the Auschwitz concentration camp [possibly the home of Dr.
in college Wirths became attracted to Nazism. He joined the SA in 1933 and the SS in 1934 and ... physician in Norway and Russia, but after suffering a mild heart attack he left the front lines to work in a ... physician at Auschwitz on September 6, 1942 where he oversaw some twenty SS physicians, dentists and medical
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1643. A Jewish family poses outside in their garden. Ruth (Kaufmann) Kaiser (right) poses with her mother, sister and nephew.
left Shanghai on March 20, 1947 on board the SS Marine Lynx. Siegfried's parents and most of his ... LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Germany (pre-1933) -- Family/Friends/Portraits ... Sonja Kirschner (born Sonja Kaiser) is the daughter of Siegfried and Ruth (Kaufmann) Kaiser. She ... wa Sonja Kirschner (born Sonja Kaiser) is the daughter of Siegfried and Ruth (Kaufmann) Kaiser. She
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1644. Portrait of Israel Rakowski that his mother kept hidden in her shoe during her imprisonment in labor and concentration camps.
LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Poland -- Family/Friends/Portraits -- Studio Portraits ... labor and concentration camps. A female guard discovered the photograph and promised to keep it for her ... until after the war. She kept her promise and returned the photograph after liberation. ... Samuel Ron (born Shmuel Rakowski) is the son of Jozef and Sophie (Banach) Rakowski. He was born
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1645. Walter and Siegfried Jacobsberg sit on a park bench in Berlin.
United States, Walter and his father obtained immigration papers and left Shanghai aboard the SS General ... Walter Jacobsberg was the only child of Siegfried and Betti Heimann Jacobsberg. He was born on ... Marc Walter Jacobsberg was the only child of Siegfried and Betti Heimann Jacobsberg. He was born on ... Stettin for Berlin in the spring of 1939, where Betti died quite suddenly. Walter, his father and an
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1646. Ellinor and Evelyn Perl hug each other on a Berlin street while their parents look on.
Paris and then sailed to the United States on board the SS Nyassa on June 3, 1941 and arrived in New ... Heimann) Perl. The family fled to Lisbon via Paris and succeeded in sailing to the United States on board ... the SS Nyassa on May 25, 1941. They settled in New York where the girls attended a pre-school for ... Evelyn Perl is the daughter of Ernst Walter Perl and Frieda Felicie (nee Heimann/Heymann) Perl
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1647. Portrait of sisters Nelly and Lilly Rattner, wearing coats made for them by their uncle Richard, a tailor.
realized that Nazi raids were underway. The SS officers entered their room and had begun to search, when ... LIFE BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST -- Austria (pre-1938) -- Family/Friends/Portraits ... was the daughter of Joseph and Mathilde (nee Grunwald) Wiener, and had two older brothers, Rudolph and ... Emil immigrated to the United States on April 13, 1927, and Bella emigrated to Palestine in the late
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1648. Facsimile of Hollerith punch card used in a 1933 Berlin population and vocational census.
during the war, the SS used them to manage the huge numbers of prisoners shipped in and out of ... .E. LABEL: "The Hollerith Machine sophisticated technology helped the regime locate its victims quickly and ... counted the already sorted cards. Hollerith machines tabulated national census data in 1933 and 1939
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1649. Leopold Guttman (left) and another POW stand outside a barrack in Stalag 10C.
Before the war he lived in Antwerp, Belgium. His sisters and their families immigrated to the United ... Germany, and he became head of the housing section. An officer in the Belgian army, he was mobilized ... during Germany's 1940 invasion of Belgium and spent the remainder of the war as prisoner of war in Stalag ... after the German invasion of Belgium on board the SS Bartlesville Victory. Four years later he married
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1650. Entwicklung der Bandenlage showing partisan activity for August 1942, December 1942 and May 1943.
in Eastern Europe and measures taken to suppress it by the German military, SS and police ... Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; National Archives and Records Administration ... These partisan warfare maps are part of a collection of 36 maps from the National Archives and ... Recor These partisan warfare maps are part of a collection of 36 maps from the National Archives and