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Nazi Ideals and American Society

Americans and the Holocaust

"America First" License Plate Attachment

tags: belongings propaganda visual art

type: Equipment
Family Life During the Holocaust

Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust

"Family Life" in the Łódź Ghetto

tags: children & youth family food & hunger ghettos

type: Manuscript
Family Life During the Holocaust

Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust

"Food, Money, and Human Life"

tags: black market children & youth family food & hunger money

type: Manuscript
Soviet POWs in German Captivity

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

"Guidelines for the Treatment of Political Commissars"

tags: borderlands food & hunger German military humiliation Red Army

type: Official document
Family Life During the Holocaust

Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust

“A Jewish Woman in Warsaw from September 1939 to the Present”

tags: family sex women's experiences

type: Manuscript
Objects of Memory

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Address Book Owned by Richard Weilheimer

tags: children & youth immigration to the US Jews in North America refugees & immigration relief & rescue

type: Equipment
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Anonymous Diary from the Warsaw Ghetto

tags: children & youth community food & hunger health & hygiene living underground

type: Diary
Objects of Memory

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Calendar from the Łódź Ghetto

tags: bureaucracy community ghettos Judaism

type: Equipment
Objects of Memory

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Camp Prisoner Uniform Jacket Worn by William Luksenburg

tags: belongings forced labor liberation

type: Clothing
Concentration Camp Prisoners

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Chart of Prisoner Markings

tags: bureaucracy court and legal documents humiliation

type: Official document
Concentration Camp Prisoners

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Death Certificate for Fritz Dressel

tags: court and legal documents family fear & intimidation politics of fear

type: Official document
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Abraham Frieder

tags: bureaucracy community deportations depression fear & intimidation

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Adolf Guttentag

tags: aging & the elderly deportations family ghettos health & hygiene suicide Theresienstadt

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Aharon Pick

tags: fear & intimidation ghettos health & hygiene humiliation

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Đura Rajs

tags: aging & the elderly belongings children & youth deportations forced labor health & hygiene

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Elisabeth Ornstein

tags: belongings children & youth children's diaries family homesickness religious life

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Elvira Kohn

tags: food & hunger health & hygiene hope liberation women's experiences

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Herzl Mazia

tags: food & hunger leisure & recreation letters & correspondence

type: Diary
Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Irene Hauser

tags: children & youth depression family food & hunger gender health & hygiene women's experiences

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Jacques Berenholc

tags: children & youth depression food & hunger friendship health & hygiene refugees & immigration

type: Diary
Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust

Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust

Diary of Janusz Korczak

tags: children & youth deportations depression health & hygiene

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Jechiel Górny

tags: black market deportations forced labor ghettos group violence

type: Diary
Concentration Camp Prisoners

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Diary of Klara Samuels

tags: children & youth children's diaries poetry & literature sex

type: Diary
Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust

Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust

Diary of Maria Madi

tags: antisemitism community family letters & correspondence science & medicine

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Michal Kraus

tags: children & youth family

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Mirjam Korber

tags: depression Displaced Persons friendship ghettos health & hygiene homesickness letters & correspondence money

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Moryc Brajtbart

tags: children & youth deportations depression family homesickness living underground loneliness

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Peter Feigl

tags: belongings children & youth family health & hygiene hope money refugees & immigration religious life

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Saartje Wijnberg

tags: family gender health & hygiene liberation living underground loneliness women's experiences

type: Diary
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Diary of Susi Hilsenrath

tags: children & youth children's diaries family health & hygiene refugees & immigration religious life

type: Diary
Displaced Persons and Postwar America

Americans and the Holocaust

Dress Made by Margret Hantman in Deggendorf DP Camp

tags: belongings Displaced Persons immigration to the US theater women's experiences Zionism

type: Clothing
Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Electrical Insulator from Auschwitz

tags: Auschwitz belongings Roma & Sinti

type: Equipment
Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust

Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust

False Identity Documents of Mordechai Tenenbaum

tags: children & youth family living underground science & medicine

type: Diary
Objects of Memory

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Friendship Ring from the Riga Ghetto

tags: belongings children & youth deportations friendship ghettos Theresienstadt

type: Equipment
Targets of Eugenics

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

German Motherhood Medals

tags: belongings children & youth eugenics family women's experiences

type: Clothing
Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Identification Card for Gerd Katter

tags: belongings court and legal documents gender law enforcement

type: Official document
Exclusion of Jews in Nazi Germany

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Identity Card of Ruth Kittel

tags: antisemitism court and legal documents law enforcement religious life

type: Official document
Objects of Memory

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Leather Bouquet of Flowers Made in Bergen-Belsen

tags: belongings forced labor immigration to the US women's experiences

type: Equipment
Targets of Eugenics

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Letter to SS Doctor Gregor Ebner

tags: children & youth eugenics family forced sterilization people with disabilities science & medicine women's experiences

type: Official document
American Witnesses and the Third Reich

Americans and the Holocaust

Lothrop Stoddard: "In a Eugenics Court"

tags: Americans abroad eugenics immigration to the US law & the courts people with disabilities propaganda

type: Manuscript
Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust

Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust

Manuscript of Douglas M. Kelley

tags: Americans abroad science & medicine US armed forces

type: Manuscript
Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Memoir of Calel Perechodnik

tags: antisemitism ghettos Judaism law enforcement religious life Zionism

type: Memoir
Soviet POWs in German Captivity

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Memoir of Fedor Fedorovich Khudiakov

tags: borderlands family Red Army written testimony

type: Memoir
Holocaust Diaries

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Memoir of Fryderyk Winnykamień

tags: children & youth family fear & intimidation ghettos hope humiliation living underground

type: Memoir
Everyday Encounters with Fascism

Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the Holocaust

Pages from the Antisemitic Children's Book The Poisonous Mushroom

tags: antisemitism children & youth politics of fear propaganda

type: Manuscript
Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Police Statement from Margot Liu

tags: gender law enforcement sex sexuality women's experiences

type: Official document
Objects of Memory

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Portrait of a German Girl in a Handmade Frame

tags: belongings deportations family forced labor women's experiences

type: Equipment
Sexuality, Gender, and Nazi Persecution

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Prisoner Badge Worn by Josef Kohout

tags: fear & intimidation humiliation sexual violence

type: Clothing
Jewish Religious Life and the Holocaust

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Rabbi Shimon Huberband, "On Religious Life"

tags: activism community ghettos Judaism religious life

type: Manuscript
Gendered Experiences of Jewish Persecution

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Recipes from the Cookbook of Eva Ostwalt

tags: food & hunger forced labor gender homesickness women's experiences

type: Manuscript
Objects of Memory

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Silver Cup Made in a Labor Camp

tags: belongings forced labor hope liberation religious life women's experiences

type: Equipment
Targets of Eugenics

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Sterilization Order for August Alzen

tags: eugenics forced sterilization German military law & the courts letters & correspondence people with disabilities

type: Official document
Objects of Memory

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Tefillin Owned by Alexander Kuechel

tags: belongings hope Judaism religious life Zionism

type: Equipment
Concentration Camp Prisoners

Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule

Tin Pail Made by a Prisoner in a Forced Labor Camp

tags: belongings family food & hunger forced labor friendship

type: Equipment
Objects of Memory

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Trap Door to a Hiding Place

tags: children & youth children's diaries hiding immigration to the US

type: Equipment
Objects of Memory

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Violin Hidden in the Łódź Ghetto

tags: displacement ghettos hope music theater

type: Equipment
Objects of Memory

Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust

Wooden Pen Made in a French Internment Camp

tags: belongings children & youth family hiding

type: Equipment

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