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Language of Description: English
Language of Description: Multiple

  1. 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...

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Glass family collection

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

  6. 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

  7. 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.

  8. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

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

  9. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

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

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of two men dragging a corpse with tongs; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  16. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of two men holding the arm and leg of a corpse lying on the floor; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  17. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

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

  18. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

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

  19. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    View of a room full of corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.

  20. Glass plate negative of Dachau at liberation

    Image of two corpses; negative in an Agfa film box with a label in French.