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  1. Giza and Leon Falik and Mildred Stern collection

    The collection consists of three US Army woman's uniform jackets, one matching cap, a bag of loose military buttons, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Mordche Lieb (Leon Falik), his wife Giza Sternchuss (later Falik), and Giza's sister Mildred Stern [Malka Sternchuss] in Poland before and during the Holocaust, when Leon fled Poland for the Soviet Union and Giza fled Tarnopol and became a partisan. Mildred left for the United States before the war where she joined the US Women's Army Corps.

  2. Giza Wiernik papers

    Papers consist of documents, postcards, and photographs relating to the experiences of Giza Wiernik before World War II in Jamna, Poland, her experiences posing as a Ukrainian woman during the war, and her journey to Israel via displaced persons camps in Germany and onboard the Exodus 1947.

  3. Gizela Flachs. Collection

    This collection contains a photo of and an interview with Gizela Genia alias Gisèle Flachs. In the interview she describes : her youth in Poland, the departure of her father Naftali Flachs to France in 1938, the brutal separation from her mother Regina Knebel in 1941/1942, the different rescuers and the places where she was in hidden in Poland (including three underground locations in the woods), the work camp Koszary-Boryslav and the gruesome scenes she witnessed there, the reunion with her uncle Leon Knebel and the abuse inflicted by his wife Esther Erbsman, her reunion with her father Na...

  4. Gizella K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gizella K., who was born in Budapest in 1907. She recalls her affluent childhood; pervasive antisemitism; her mother managing the family factory after her father's death; marriage; a daughter's birth; divorce and remarriage; her mother and daughter visiting the United States in 1939; difficulties getting them back after the war began; her second daughter's birth in 1943; learning her younger brother was killed in a forced labor battalion; her husband coming home almost nightly from his forced labor; placing her daughters in a convent; getting the younger child back; G...

  5. Glacier National Park; military parade

    Mountain shots, road, truck, lake. Pans across river/lake, houses on water front. Sign for park. 01:03:05 road, car. Dark shot - possible bear walking around. Military van passes. 01:04:39 sign for Apgar Cabin Camps. Log cabins, American flag. Sign for Lake McDonald Ranger station. Man walks past camera. 01:08:13 "Tom B Moore. W.M. Wayman" title. 3 women leave house. Then woman, man stands staring at camera. Cherries for sale. Sign for Robbinwood. Man and woman picking cherries. 01:10:35 woman taking picture of man in uniform. House shot, American flag, people outside. 01:12:29 Man in unifo...

  6. Gladys Grantz passport

    A Czechoslovakian passport issued to Gladys Grantz, 1938-1939.

  7. Gladys H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Gladys H., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1924. She recalls German invasion in September 1939; immediate anti-Jewish violence; expulsion from their home; ghettoization; forced labor in a shoe factory; deportation with her parents and younger sister to Auschwitz in August 1944; separation from her father (she never saw him again); selection with her mother and sister for transfer to Bremen; slave labor clearing Allied bombing debris; her sister's serious illness; escaping briefly to obtain medication for her; assistance from a local pharmacist; transfer to Bergen-Be...

  8. Gladys Martin collection

    One letter, written on personal stationery of Adolf Hitler, from an American soldier ("Johnny") to "Gladys," 20 June 1945. In the letter, he describes how his unit is living in Hitler's former apartment in Munich, his general impressions of Munich, his recent tour of the Dachau concentration camp, and plans to return to the United States.

  9. Glaser family papers

    The papers consist of a Kennkarte issued to Gerhard Ludwig Israel Glaser and a passport (Reisepass) stamped with a red "J", identification card, and customs notice issued to his sister, Gisela Sara Glaser. Several of the documents were issued in Berlin, Germany.

  10. Glass eye found in the Paneriai Forest, Lithuania, outside of Vilnius

    Glass eye found in the Paneriai Forest, Lithuania, outside of Vilnius. Thought to be from a burial site related to a Holocaust event.

  11. Glass family collection

    The collection onsists of photographic prints, documents and a pair of pants relating to the Glass-Mosewicka families.

  12. Glass family photograph

    Photographic print: black and white image of Wanda, Marian and Andrzej Glass seated together indoors with bookshelf and window behind them; handwritten inscription on verso; taken in New York after their journey from Poland; dated May 5, 1941; in Polish

  13. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of U.S. soldiers looking at corpses lying on ground; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  14. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Detailed image of pile of corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  15. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Detailed image of corpse; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  16. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of four men moving a corpse with tongs in front of oven; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  17. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of corpses inside truck cargo bay; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  18. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Close up view of a pile of corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  19. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of corpse lying next to a rail track; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  20. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of three men standing in front of an oven door with a corpse on a stretcher; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.