U.S. Army

Amerikaanse Strijdkrachten

United States Army

Identifier: 004289
Type of Entity: Corporate Body

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Jewish religious services held in Paris. A congregation ...
1. Image Collection NIOD
- NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies
- 10093
- Dutch
- Updated 6 years ago
Jewish religious services held in Paris. A congregation of American and Allied Military personnel, French civilians and German refugee orphans hear Lt. Ben Wostein (facing camera, second from right) of New York, N.Y. sing the prayers at the Jewish religious services commemorating Yom Kippur (The Day of Atonement) at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris, Sept. 16, 1945. The services were held under the auspices of the U.S. Army. Facing camera, in center, are, from left to right: Irving Tasman of Huntington, Long Island; Chaplain Irwin I. Hyman of Syracuse, N.Y., assisting Cantor; Lt. Wostein, and...
John Scott collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn35278
- English
- 1940-1950
- boxes oversize boxes oversize folder 10 6 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of documents, correspondence, loose photographs, photograph albums, and film related to the wartime and post-war experiences of John Scott. Includes correspondence, documents, and photographs related to his work with the Counter-Intelligence Corps (CIC) and his experiences stationed in Frankfurt, Germany in 1962-1963 as a member of the intelligence service.
Jules Benjamin Grad papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502515
- English
- 1945-1990
- folders oversize folder 4 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains 14 black-and-white photographs, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, a memoir, and biographical information about Jules Benjamin Grad's experiences as a Sergeant pool correspondent for General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Larry Shalit (Schalyt-Tykotzki) family archive
1. Larry Shalit (Schalyt-Tykotzki) family collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn561885
- English
- 1918-1968
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection contains correspondence, immigration papers, residence permits, identification papers and other related documentation regarding the immigration of Alexander and Sima Shalit, and their son Larry, from Berlin, Germany to the United States in 1934. Also included is earlier documentation from Russia (their country of origin), photographs, and correspondence and immigration documents from other relatives in Europe. Additionally, there is correspondence between Larry Shalit and his parents while he served in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II.
Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn549447
- English
- a: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) | Depth: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 20.500 inches (52.07 cm) | Depth: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) c: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Small brown leather suitcase used by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Paris, but managed to contin...
Liberation of Landsberg and other camps
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn502574
- English
- folders 4
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of various materials relating to the liberation of Landsberg and other concentration camps. Included are copies of sworn statements by liberators; copies of articles concerning liberation; and a chronology of major events of the Holocaust.
Lloyd Harvey photograph collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn533284
- English
- 1944-1945
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection contains 15 photographs of Mauthausen concentration camp soon after liberation in 1945; United States Army soldiers; Lloyd Harvey in uniform; and Spittal an der Drau, Austria. There is also a letter dated June 6, 1945 from Lloyd to his mother Irene Harvey in Palacios, Texas describing his experience at Mauthausen.
Louis Bernard Katz photograph album
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn539189
- English
- 1944-1945
- oversize folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Loose photograph album of wartime photographs taken by Louis Bernard Katz, a field surgeon with the United States Army. The album includes photographs of the Ebensee subcamp of the Mauthausan concentration camp, Austria shortly after liberation; refugees in Waldenberg, Germany; and German prisoners-of-war in Simbach am Inn, Germany. Other cities documented include Mühlhausen, Germany; Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, Germany, Lauf, Germany; Attnang, Austria; and Vöcklabruck, Austria. The album is annotated.
Lt. Col. George R. Snyder papers
1. Lt. Col. George R. Snyder collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn628228
- English
- 1944-1947
- box 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection primarily consists of postwar photographs taken between 1945 and 1947 by Lt. Col. George R. Snyder documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Subjects include the Camp New Orleans, German and Polish POWs, refugees, landscapes, and destroyed buildings and towns. Also included is his passport and letters from George to his mother Louise Snyder, his son James, and his wife.
Maerker and Behr families papers
1. Maerker and Behr families papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn560348
- English
- boxes book enclosure 2 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Willy and Else (née Behr) Maerker, originally of Bernburg, Germany, and their children Gerhard and Inge, including their emigration from Germany in 1938. Included are identification and immigration papers, documents regarding Willy’s service in World War I, correspondence, photographs, writings, and born-digital material. The collection also documents the pre-war and wartime experiences of the Behr family, primarily of Mainz, Germany. Many documents in the collection contain translations by Gerhard. The biographical material includes...
Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn543955
- English
- 1945-1951
- folder oversize box 1 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The collection documents Maurice La Kerr’s post-war experiences in Germany and France as a fingerprint analyst with the United States Army. Maurice worked in several capacities including fingerprinting German citizens, identifying the identities of deceased American soldiers, and fingerprinting defendants during the Buchenwald trial in 1947. Included is military paperwork, identification papers, programs, ration cards, booklets, and clippings. Also included is the marriage paperwork for Maurice and Elisabeth Büttenbender along with her immigration and naturalization papers. The photographs ...
Max Bloch collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn554030
- English
- folders oversize box 2 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains a memoir written by Max Bloch (Johanna Marcus's maternal cousin) who in 1938 managed to flee his hometown of Prague to Lisbon and from there to the United States. He served in the US Army as a translator. While working for the US Military Government for Germany, Max Bloch wrote his memoir, starting on February 7, 1947 in Berlin; in German; 208 pages. Includes a photograph depicting General Dwight D. Eisenhower pinning a ribbon on Max Bloch's chest for his service; photo by the US Army Signal Corps.
Military pass
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515158
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The pass allowed Edward Moses to enter and leave Dachau concentration camp at any time of the day or night. Passes were issued by the United States Army to help control the entrance and exit of people in the camp because of disease and the death rate of the prisoners.
Morton Dannenbirsch letters
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn504202
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Morton Dannenbirsch served with the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II and the letters describe his impressions of the first Seder conducted in Belgium after the Nazi occupation and how he traced and found some Dutch Holocaust survivors, which his family knew, in a concentration camp near Groningen, the Netherlands.
Myron Halpern collection
1. Myron Halpern collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn555273
- English
- folders 2
- Updated 1 year ago
Photographs, documents, correspondence concerning Myron Halpern's experiences in the 75th Infantry Division of the United States Army in Europe, on his way back to the US, and reuniting with his son Jason and his wife. Includes telegrams notifying Myron of his son's birth; a letter; Honorable Discharge papers; and negatives of some of the photographs.
Notes of U.S. occupation days in Germany
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn515000
- English
- 1946-1947
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
The diary describes the experiences of Chester E. Beaman in Germany from 1946 to 1947 when he was Chief of Job Classification and Wage Administration for the U.S. Army. Included are descriptions of a visit to the former Dachau concentration camp as well as viewing part of the Nuremburg War Crimes Trials.
Oral history interview with Abraham Bober
1. Oral history interviews of the "Jewish American Soldiers: Stories from WWII" documentary film collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn623147
- English
- 2 digital files, MOV
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Abraham Szyller
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn44287
- English
- 1 DVD,
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Abraham Szyller
1. Oral history interviews of the NAVO and NASA Stennis Space Center collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn46267
- English
- digital files, MPEG-2
- Updated 1 year ago
Oral history interview with Albert Davis
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn46048
- English
- 1 digital files, MPEG-4
- Updated 1 year ago

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