U.S. Army

Amerikaanse Strijdkrachten

United States Army

Identifier: 004289
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

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"A Visit by Eisenhower"
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503431
- English
- 1992
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of a four-page typescript, written by Eli Rock, entitled "A Visit by Eisenhower." The subject is the writer's observations of a visit by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gen. George S. Patton Jr. to the Feldafing displaced persons camp in Jul. 1945.
1981 International Liberators Conference collection Thekla labor camp
1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502661
- English
- 1981
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains a copy of a letter written by J. Milnor Roberts, April 10, 1981, in which Roberts gives his account of a small slave labor camp in the town of Thekla, Germany, near Leipzig where SS troops attempted to burn the prisoners alive.
Abinew Dubensky papers
1. Abinew Dubensky Collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn559764
- English
- 1944-1945
- folders 2
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists of wartime documents and photographs of Lt. Abinew Dubensky (later known as Abraham Dubensky) of the 80th Infantry of the United States Army. The documents include a pamphlet entitled, "Pocket Guide to Germany," and a flyer intended for German soldiers entitled "Retreat on All Fronts." The photographs include photographs acquired from German soldiers and ones taken by Dubensky in 1945. The photographs from German soldiers include depictions of public humiliation of rabbis by German soldiers in Poland and Romanian troops with dead bodies at an unidentified concentrati...
Abraham Bohrer photograph album
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn61148
- English
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains a WWII photo album from the US Army 45th Signal Corps.
Alan M. Lanard letter
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn508319
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Letter, typescript, sent by Alan M. Lanard, a major in the U.S. Army, from Brussels, to "Frank," February 1945. In it, Lanard describes his experiences in the Army the past three years, and impressions of liberated Brussels, including his conversations with Jewish Belgians and a man who told him about his imprisonment at Dachau.
Albert Hutler letters relating to displaced persons in the American Zone of occupied Germany
1. Albert Hutler collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503715
- English
- 1945
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Relates to U.S. Army's military government postwar management and care of displaced persons and their repatriation, particularly in the American Zone of occupied Germany.
Army talks
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn521350
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains an issue of "Army Talks" magazine, dated November 11, 1945.
Articles, clippings, and other materials relating to the UNRRA and displaced persons
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn503019
- English
- oversize folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of several newspaper and magazine articles concerning Jews and displaced persons and the activities of American and British armies in the occupied zones in Europe after World War II. Included are three issues of "UNRRA," which concern the work of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) with displaced persons after the Holocaust. Also included are issues of Jewish publications in Brazil containing articles about displaced persons and two issues of "Army talks."
Audio recording of Telford Taylor
1. Oral history interviews of the Linda Hunt collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn48076
- English
- 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
- Updated 1 year ago
Audio recording of Wernher von Braun
1. Oral history interviews of the Linda Hunt collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn48075
- English
- 1 sound cassette (60 min.),
- Updated 1 year ago
Berthold Meier papers
1. Berthold Meier collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn613343
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains documents, certificates, a German Kennkarte, and a Deutsches Reich Reisepass marked with a red "J," and US Army papers, all documenting the experiences of Berthold Meier (donor's uncle), a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany in 1939 and entered the United States Army after his arrival.
Breisacher family photographs
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn612958
- English
- oversize boxes folder 3 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection consists of three photograph albums documenting the Breisacher family of Breisach am Rhein, Germany. The photographs depict the family's pre-war lives in Breisach am Rhein and their wartime and post-war lives in the United States after emigration from Germany in 1938. Wartime photographs include depictions of Walter Breisacher with the United States Army.
Bronze Star medal with ribbon presented to a Jewish US soldier
1. Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn106407
- English
- overall: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Bronze Star Medal awarded to Sidney Cooley for heroic, meritorious achievement as a US Army officer in Europe from January 1945 to September 1946. On January 1, 1945, Sidney’s Division was deployed to Marseilles, France, and quickly advanced north into Germany. The 63rd Infantry crossed the Siegfried Line and fought through central Germany, arriving in Landsberg am Lech by April. Sidney was promoted and assigned to General Louis Hibb’s staff. On May 7, 1945, Germany surrendered. Sidney was promoted to Captain, assigned to the Third Army, and placed on occupational duty in the American zone....
Chandler Keller letters
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn504346
- English
- 1945
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains photocopies of an undated letter from Chandler Keller to his father describing conditions inside the newly liberated Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as well as two letters from Keller describing how he and other American soldiers took care of the medical needs of Holocaust survivors.
Charles Cohen collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn45752
- English
- 1945-1946
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of documents collected by Sgt. Charles Cohen, a member of the United States Army during World War II. Includes a two-page narrative Sgt. Cohen wrote on May 4, 1945 in Germany after witnessing Jewish religious services and the reaction of local Germans to these services. Also includes a mass-produced copy entitled "War-Crime Trials; Nurnberg, Germany, November 20, 1945--" introducing the reader to the Nuremberg war crimes trial and the defendants, as well as a translated copy of testimony given by Hermann Goering about gifts he gave to Major Paul Kubala of the United States Seventh ...
Curtis Sloan papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn501440
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The Curtis Sloan papers consists of a "Report On Camp At Auschwitz," 10/12/1944; "Notes About The Camp of Civilian Prisoners at Ravensbruck;" 10/12/1944; and United States Army Signal Corps photographs of survivors and victims at the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and the Volary Death March. Photographers include unidentified photographs, as well as J.R. Bradley and Howard E. James.
David Frohman papers
1. David Frohman collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn607570
- English
- folders oversize box 4 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Correspondence written by David S. Frohman (donor's father), a member of the 89th Infantry Division, Third United States Army ["Patton's Own"]. Included in the correspondence are two sets of letters from David in Camp Roberts, California and Fort Benning, Georgia, and from Germany and post-war Austria. Letters describe David's experiences in the military and overseas as an American Jewish soldier. First set of letters written to David's parents in Chicago area. Includes a second set of letters written to family friend Leandro Pastorelli in Chicago area.
Donald W. Rust papers
1. Donald W. Rust collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn550197
- English
- folders 2
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains newsletters and documents of Donald Rust’s US Army unit, including a photograph of woman depicted in Abadi drawing; photograph of Donald Rust; and a photograph and obituary of Edwin Rust (Donald’s brother).
Edward J. Diehm collection
1. Edward J. Diehm collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn86882
- English
- 1941-1945
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of photographs, a letter, and identity cards owned by Edward J. Diehm, a Sergeant in the Military Police of the United States Army. Includes photographs from his military training, of his service in Europe, and of the occupation of Germany, as well as one photograph of corpses taken at an unknown concentration camp. Also includes copies of his service records, his discharge card, his card for the marine barracks in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, and a typescript letter to Diehm's wife in which he describes the desire of liberated prisoners to return to their homes, as well as warti...
Erfgoed van de Oorlog, Bystander Memories, interview RG-50.570.0006
1. World War II
- Data Archiving and Networked Services
- urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-3bu-sya
- Dutch
- 2010
- Updated 10 years ago
De geïnterviewde werd geboren op 28 augustus 1926 en groeide op in Schiedam. In deze plaats heeft hij gezien hoe de joodse overburen werden weggehaald. Hij vertelt voornamelijk over de periode in Duitsland waar hij sinds december 1944 werkzaam was vanwege de Arbeitseinsatz. Gedurende zijn werkzaamheden in de buurt van Müchen kwam hij in aanraking met joodse dwangarbeiders uit Dachau. Hij heeft gezien hoe erg deze mensen er aan toe waren en vertelt welk werk ze moesten doen. Hij beschrijft tevens het moment waarop joodse gevangenen gedwongen werden een medegevangene dood te schoppen. Verder ...

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