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Language of Description: English

  1. Feliks Karczewski letter

    Consists of a copy of letter written by Feliks Karczweski to his mother and to Pauline from the Dachau concentration camp on 1940 September 1. The letter, written on Dachau prisoner stationary, notes that Karczewski is well and asks about the whereabouts of family and friends. Includes an English translation.

  2. Oral history interview with Doris Roe

  3. Ava Schonberg photographs

    Consists of twelve original photographs and five copies of photographs of Ava Schonberg, her mother Roza, and sisters Celine and Alice, while they were living in wartime Switzerland and in post-war Belgium. Includes photographs of large school gatherings, of Ava alone and with friends, and of the post-war Tiefenbrunner children's home in Antwerp.

  4. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp by an American soldier. The photographs include an image of newly liberated prisoners sitting on the ground, and two images of a pile of corpses.

  5. Nazi Party rally stereograph depicting Hitler and the Nazi Leadership

    Stereoscopic photograph card, Reichsparteitag der Ehre, image 53, depicting Hitler and the Nazi Party leadership saluting a large crowd at a Nazi Party rally.

  6. Oral testimony of Eric Otto Sonneman

  8. Chana Ann Moszkowicz Wittenberg collection

    The collection primarily consists of post-war photographs related to Ann Wittenberg (born Chana Moszkowicz in Chrzanów, Poland) and others in the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Also included is a 1988 copy of her Polish birth certificate.

  9. Eugene A. Stehle photograph collection

    Collection of photographic prints depicting the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps immediately following liberation. Includes images from the series taken by former Yugoslavian prisoners documenting the cremation process in Dachau, the crematorium and victims in Buchenwald, reburial, and forced confrontation; dated April- May 1945.

  10. Jack Weiner photographs

    Consists of original photographs and glass slides from the collection of Dr. Jack Weiner, a member of the United States Army who worked at the 115th Field Hospital in Kassel, Germany, in 1945. The collection includes photographs of Weiner and his staff in the summer of 1945, of structures damaged in the war, and original glass slides of the liberation of a concentration camp. The photographs are described on the verso.

  11. Sobel family papers

    The Sobel family papers consist of a journal, photographs, and subject files relating to Herman, Salomea, and Judyta’s pre-war and postwar experiences in Ukraine and Poland. The collection includes a journal kept by Herman for his daughter from 1925-1937 documenting his observations of his family’s life and his memory of fighting in World War I, an English translation of the journal, originals and copies of family photographs from World War I to 1967, a copy of a postwar letter, and a newspaper clipping relating to Herman’s participation in the discovery of one of the Ringelblum Archive mil...

  12. David Marcus photographic negatives

    Consists of original photographic negatives of images from the collection of David Marcus, a member of the Frankfurt GI Council. Includes images taken at Kibbutz Buchenwald, in Austria, and in Munich and Lindenfeld, Germany.

  13. Gordon Witte photograph collection

    Consists of an original silver "Kodak" film canister containing a wound strip of photographic negatives depicting a large Nazi rally at which Hitler was in attendance. The negatives were found by PFC Gordon E. Witte, a member of the Company D of the 335th Infantry of the United States Army while he was in Pevestorf, Germany, at the end of the war.

  14. Bergen Belsen reunion photograph

    Black and white image of large banquet dinner; banner reading “[Bergen-Belsen; in Hebrew characters] / 1945-1961 / Bergen-Belsen reunion” hanging behind dais; captioned in lower right corner “Bergen-Belsen / reunion / Hotel Delmonico May 7, 1961.”

  15. Robert E. Magnusson collection

    Program guide: “International Military Tribunal / Nurnberg Germany / 1945-1946”; inscribed by Lt. R.E. Magnusson inside front cover; Floor plan of the International Military Tribunal; Two (2) passes to the Visitors’ Gallery at the International Military Tribunal; for sessions 341 and 342; pass for 341 signed on verso by Robert E. Magnusson. Materials acquired by 2nd Lt Robert Eugene Magnusson (donor’s father), who served as a member of the OSS in Europe during WWII. He attended the IMT in Nuremberg on July 19, 1946.

  16. Nazi Party Labor Day pin given to a US soldier by Hermann Göring

    Nazi Party Labor Day 1934 pin, likely given to Lieutenant Jack Wheelis by Herman Göring during his imprisonment at Nuremberg from 1945-1946. Labor Day (also known as May Day) takes place on May 1 to celebrate laborers and the working classes. In April 1933, after the Nazi party took control of the German government, May 1 was appropriated as the “Day of National Work,” with all celebrations organized by the government. On May 2, the Nazi party banned all independent trade-unions, bringing them under state control of the German Labor Front. Soon after the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945,...

  17. Clarence M. Sullivan, Jr. collection

    Collection of 12 photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation. Images include photos of the Dachau death train and other scenes found in the camp; dated April-May 1945. Collection also contains one newspaper clipping from "The Field Dispatch" published for the 20th Armored Division, dated 29 May 1945, and containing an article lauding the 27th Tank Battalion for their recent performance; and a roster of the 27th Tank Battalion of the 20th Armored Division. Materials were brought home from the war by Clarence M. Sullivan, Jr., of Milwaukee, W...

  18. William L. Ward, Jr. photograph collection

    Collection of 23 photographic prints documenting the Dachau concentration camp immediately following liberation. Images include photos of the Dachau death train and prisoner clothing; dated April-May 1945.

  19. Arnold Mechur papers

    Consists of documents and a photograph related to Arnold Mechur's pre-war schooling and training as a tailor in Berlin, Germany. Also includes a 1937 photograph of three boys, Mechur's immigration documents for his 1940 emigration from Europe to Cuba, his naturalization papers for the United States, and a program noting his participation in a 1974 art show in southern Florida.

  20. Bar of soap preserved by Czech Jewish concentration camp survivors

    Bar of soap brought home by returning concentration camp survivors to the temple in Kosice, Czechoslovakia, for proper burial. The soap was used in the concentration camp and the inmates believed that it was made from human fat, although this was not true. The soap was preserved by Ivan Kalina's father, a leading members of the Kosice congregation, who took it home for safeguarding and as a memory of the Holocaust. Ivan, 13 at the war's end, and his family had fled from Kosice to Hungary, after the 1938-39 collapse of Czechoslovakia. The family survived in hiding in Budapest using falsified...