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  • The Violin

    On Nov. 9, 1938, a teenager, 15 years old, experienced the most violent, barbaric display of anti-Semitic acts ever recorded in history. I was that teenager!The day began by witnessing the purposeful destruction of the only Jewish vocational school in the area, while people cheered and applauded. It

  • Oxtail Club

    Treated, lathed oxtail club used by a German guard who was herding Jews at Dachau. It was taken from the guard at liberation by John Bird.Click here to return to the Holocaust Exhibit Overview.

  • A Liberator's Jacket

    A native of Dayton, Ohio, Sgt. Delbert Cooper served as a soldier with the U.S. Army's 14th Regiment, 71st Infantry Division in 1945. Cooper was among the first Americans to enter and liberate Gunskirchen Lager, which was part of the notorious Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria. His most

  • Concentration Camp Uniform

    Perhaps the rarest artifact in the Holocaust exhibit, this concentration camp uniform is one of very few still in existence. It was given to the exhibit by Jack Bomstein, whose father Moritz wore the uniform while he was imprisoned at Buchenwald.Note: Allied prisoners of war interned at Buchenwald

  • Parallel Tracks to Germany

    During World War I, many American "Doughboys" traveled the front in French railcars displaying the notice that each car could carry 40 men or eight horses. Therefore, they quickly became known as "forty and eight" railcars. In World War II, "forty and eights" again transported supplies and troops to

  • Army Air Forces Victims of the Holocaust

    "The Japanese should hang -- not shoot -- every American terror pilot (Terrorflieger) then the Americans would think it over before making such attacks."- Advice given by Adolf Hitler on May 27, 1944, to the Japanese Ambassador on how to stop American air attacksAlmost 36,000 Army Air Forces (AAF)

  • Major Nazi Concentration Camps

    Arbeitsdorf, GermanyAuschwitz/Birkenau, PolandBelzec, PolandBergen-Belsen, GermanyBuchenwald, GermanyChelmno, PolandDachau, GermanyDora-Mittelbau, GermanyFlossenbuerg, GermanyGross-Rosen, PolandKaiserwald (Riga), LatviaKlooga, EstoniaMajdanek, PolandMauthausen, AustriaNatzweiler-Struthof,

  • German Camps and Hospitals Holding Internees

    The following German camps and hospitals held American POWs and civilian internees (as of Dec. 31, 1944).Lazaretts (Hospitals)Lazarett IV A Elsterhorst (Hohnstein, Czechoslovakia)Lazarett IV G (Leipzig, Germany)Lazarett V B (Rottenmunster, Germany)Lazarett VI C (Lingen, Germany)Lazarett VI G

  • Brief Retrospect on Human Rights

    1901-1913Dayton police adopted the Bertillon identification system for criminals in 1902. This system recorded body measurements as well as mental and moral qualities. A similar system would be used during the 1930s in Germany to determine "Racial Purity."Whites rioted against black inhabitants in

  • Prejudice & Memory: A Holocaust Exhibit

    This exhibit is located in the hallway between the Early Years and Air Power Galleries."Prejudice & Memory: A Holocaust Exhibit" is made up of the photographs, artifacts and memories of people who now live in the Dayton, Ohio, area. Among the contributors are concentration camp survivors and their