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Japanese Warplanes Bomb US Military Airfield in an Effort to Delay Organized Response to their Attacks

US Aviators look up in dismay as Japanese bombers relentlessly strike the US military airfield on the morning of Pearl Harbor

JEWISH PARACHUTIST HANNAH SZENES WITH HER BROTHER

Jewish parachutist Hannah Szenes with her brother, before leaving for a rescue mission.

Between 1943 and 1945, a group of Jewish men and women…

JEWISH REFUGEE CHILDREN FROM CHILDREN'S TRANSPORT (KINDERTRANSPORT) ARRIVE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

Jewish refugee children, part of a Children's Transport (Kindertransport) from Germany, soon after arriving in Harwich. Great Britain, December 2,…

Jewish women and children from Subcarpathian Rus who have been selected for death at Auschwitz-Birkenau, walk toward the gas chambers.

Those pictured include Jolan Wollstein of Szombathely, her children Erwin, Judith, Dori and Naomi, her non-Jewish governess Edith, Henchu Mueller…

JEWS WHO WERE ARRESTED DURING KRISTALLNACHT

SS guards force Jews, arrested during Kristallnacht (the "Night of Broken Glass"), to march through the town of Baden-Baden. Onlookers watch from…

Leon Frank Jenkins Collection

Talks about Jenkins's deployment during the summer of 1942

Let There Be Light—known to the U.S. Army as PMF 5019—is a documentary film directed by American filmmaker John Huston (1906–1987). It was the last in…

Letter from Luis Alvarez to His Son

This item is an unsigned, three-page typewritten letter to Alvarez' son Walter, headed "August 6th, 10 minutes off the Jap coast at 26,000 feet," that…

Letter, Alexander Frieder to Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945

In this letter, Dwight D. Eisenhower's old friend, Alexander Frieder, wrote that he hoped Eisenhower would not forgot German war crimes in the…

M4 Tanks Being Loaded onto Liberty Ship

"Tanks, Medium, M4A3, being loaded in Hatch #2 on the Liberty Ship Daniel H. Lownsdale (HR-84) docked at Pier A, Inshore, Sewall Point, United…