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National Archives Records Related to the Holocaust 1 | Page New Jersey National Archives Records related to the Holocaust Photographs On April 1, 1933, the boycott which was announced by the Nationalsocialistic party began. Placard reads, "Germans, defend yourselves, do not buy from Jews", at the Jewish Tietz store. Berlin. New York Times Paris Bureau Collection., ca. 1950 - ca. 1950 http://research.archives.gov/description/541929 Prisoners in the concentration camp at Sachsenhausen, Germany, 12/19/1938 http://research.archives.gov/description/540175 Stroop Report, 04/1943 http://research.archives.gov/description/6003996 Jewish Rabbis. Copy of German photograph taken during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, 1943., ca. 1945 - ca. 1946 http://research.archives.gov/description/540126 Jewish civilians. Copy of German photograph taken during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, 1943., ca. 1945 - ca. 1946 http://research.archives.gov/description/540124 Starving inmate of Camp Gusen, Austria., 05/12/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531344 German atrocities. Germany, Poland & Czechoslovakia, 1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/292593 This Polish Jew was shot in cold blood by the retreating Germans as the 3rd U.S. Army advanced into the Ohrdruf area, Germany., 04/12/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531266 WWII Europe: Germany: Concentration Camps: "Two men sitting after liberation from Lager-Norhausen Death Camp", ca. 04/14/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/196311 Chaplains of the U.S. Third Army conduct burial services for the 120 Russian and Polish Jews, victims of SS troopers' killing in a wood near Neunburg, Germany., 04/29/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531347 Buchenwald, Germany: Concentration Camps; "Man stands next to pile of dead bodies, Christmas wreaths in background" http://research.archives.gov/description/195357 Buchenwald, Germany: Concentration Camps; "Oven where prisoners were burnt, dead and alive" http://research.archives.gov/description/195356 Germany: Concentration Camps: "Piles of dead prisoners" http://research.archives.gov/description/195344 Aerial Photography of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, 1973 - 1973 (21 Photographs) http://research.archives.gov/description/305893 1 | Page New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education National Archives Records related to the Holocaust German civilians, under direction of U.S. medical officers, walk past a group of 30 Jewish women starved to death by SS troops in a 300 mile march across Czechoslovakia. http://research.archives.gov/description/196310 These are slave laborers in the Buchenwald concentration camp near Jena; many had died from malnutrition when U.S. troops of the 80th Division entered the camp. Germany, April 16, 1945., 1942 - 1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/535561 Photograph of Railroad Cars at Dachau Concentration Camp: 1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/849160 Letter to Rev. and Mrs. D. H. Porter, 05/07/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/1055429 German atrocities. Germany, Poland & Czechoslovakia: 1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/292597 Muhlhausen, Austria. Nador Livia, in pre-Nazi days, was a beautiful, talented, and famous actress on the Budapest stage. She was taken prisoner, eventually to Gusen where she is pictured. Reason for imprisonment: Jewish heritage. http://research.archives.gov/description/531274 Photograph of Wedding Rings Removed by the Germans from Holocaust Victims, 05/05/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531294 Rows of bodies of dead inmates fill the yard of Lager Nordhausen, a Gestapo concentration camp. This photo shows less than half of the bodies of the several hundred inmates who died of starvation or were shot by Gestapo men. Germany, 04/12/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531259 Bones of anti-Nazi German women still are in the crematoriums in the German concentration camp at Weimar, Germany, taken by the 3rd U.S. Army. Prisoners of all nationalities were tortured and killed., 04/14/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531260 These Russian, Polish, and Dutch slave laborers interned at the Buchenwald concentration camp averaged 160 pounds each prior to entering camp 11 months ago. Their average weight is now 70 pounds. Germany, 04/16/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531267 Photograph of Clothes That Belonged to Prisoners of the Dachau Concentration Camp http://research.archives.gov/description/531288 Starved bodies of prisoners who were transported to Dachau from another concentration camp, lie grotesquely as they died enroute. This is contents of one of 50 similar freight cars. Germany, 04/30/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531342 Starved prisoners, nearly dead from hunger, pose in concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria. The camp was reputedly used for "scientific" experiments. It was liberated by the 80th Division., 05/07/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531271 2 | Page New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education National Archives Records related to the Holocaust At the German concentration camp at Wobbelin, many inmates were found by the U.S. Ninth Army in pitiful condition. Here one of them breaks out in tears when he finds he is not leaving with the first group to the hospital. Germany, 05/04/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531292 Wobbelin Concentration Camp, recently captured by troops of the 82nd Airborne Division. Many prisoners were found nearly starved to death. Here former prisoners are being taken to a hospital for medical attention. Germany, http://research.archives.gov/description/531291 Some of the bodies being removed by German civilians for decent burial at Gusen Concentration Camp, Muhlhausen, near Linz, Austria. Men were worked in nearby stone quarries until too weak for more, then killed., 05/12/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531275 These women and children were liberated when the concentration camp for Jewish prisoners at Lambach, Austria, was overrun by the 71st Infantry Division Death rate at the camp, mostly from starvation, was reputed to be 200 to 300 a day., 05/07/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/531345 Textual Documents The Holocaust Revisited: A Retrospective Analysis of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Complex, 02/1979 http://research.archives.gov/description/305894 The Final Solution to the European Jewish Question, 03/27/1947 http://research.archives.gov/description/597047 Letter from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Harry S. Truman, 10/08/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/201126 Letter from Harry S. Truman to Dwight D. Eisenhower, 08/31/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/201125 Letter to Rev. and Mrs. D. H. Porter, 05/07/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/1055429 Translation of a Speech Exerpt in which Himmler Defines "Evacuation" of the Jews as "Extermination," Official Translation from the War Crime Trials of Nazi Leaders Held at Nuernburg, 10/04/1943 http://research.archives.gov/description/305266 Report from SS (Schutzstaffel) Lt. Dr. August Becker to SS Lt. Col. Walter Rauff, 05/16/1942 http://research.archives.gov/description/596664 Mauthausen Death Book, 03/27/1942 - 11/08/1943 http://research.archives.gov/description/596666 3 | Page New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education National Archives Records related to the Holocaust Transport List http://research.archives.gov/description/597041 Stroop Report, 04/1943 http://research.archives.gov/description/6003996 Safehaven Report Number Four, 04/09/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/595394 Film/Video Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, 10/1946 http://research.archives.gov/description/23769 Nuremberg: Army Television-Release Version, 1950 http://research.archives.gov/description/35957 Death Mills, 1946 http://research.archives.gov/description/36082 Capture of Bergenhausen and Contcentration Camp of Arnoldsweiler, Germany; Naval Anti-Aircraft Fire, Saipan, Marianas Islands National Archives Identifier 15566 http://research.archives.gov/description/15566 Concentration Camp, Ludgwigslust, Germany; American Newspapermen inspect concentration camp, Dachau, Germany; 11th Panzer Division surrenders, Neumark, Czechoslovakia; Valuables from Buchenwald, Weimar, German, 5/5/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/18161 Prosecution Exhibit 228, 229 Concentration Camps, Auschwitz, ca. 1941 - ca. 1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/22321 Prosecution Exhibit 228, 229 Concentration Camps, Auschwitz, ca. 1941 - ca. 1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/22322 Story of German Atrocities, 04/1945 http://research.archives.gov/description/66727 Researching the Holocaust International Research Portal for Records Related to Nazi-Era Cultural Property http://www.archives.gov/research/holocaust/international-resources/ Recovery of Holocaust-Era Assets http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/holocaust Series and Collections in ARC http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/topics/holocaust/series.html 4 | Page New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education National Archives Records related to the Holocaust Presidential Libraries and the Holocaust FDR Library FDR and the Holocaust http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/archives/pdfs/holocaust.pdf The Holocaust Curriculum Guide http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/education/resources/pdfs/ww_e.pdf Truman Library Truman and the Holocaust http://www.trumanlibrary.org/teacher/hcaust2a.htm Nuremberg Trials Chronology http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/nuremberg/ Holocaust
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