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Language of Description: English

  1. Tagebuch des Sturmes 38 Wiesbaden

    This logbook documents "Sturm 38," a Wiesbaden unit of the Sturmabteilung (SA), from 1926 to 1933. The book includes detailed entries and descriptions of educational, propaganda, and ideological activities, marches, trips, funerals, weapons training, and fights with communists. It includes photographs of Adolf Hitler, Standartenführer Philippi, and SA parades and events as well as a 1933 clipping describing the history of the SA in Wiesbaden.

  2. Lawrence Cane correspondence

    A letter relating to atrocities at Buchenwald written by Lawrence Cane to his wife, April 15, 1945.

  3. Jewish publications in Kovno

    Two newspapers, in Hebrew or Yiddish, from Kaunas, Lithuania, 1920 and 1927.

  4. "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor"

    Testimony, eight pages, typescript, with copies of photographs. Titled "Fifty Years After Liberation, 1945-1995, The Story of One Survivor," by Jack Fleischer, about experiences at Bergen Belsen. Originally from town near Kielce, and discusses experiences after invasion of Poland, time at Skarzysko camp, and later camps.

  5. Testimony relating to medical experiments and other atrocities at Dachau concentration camp

    Testimony, 3 pages, typescript, authored by Stanislaw Kamecnik, describing conditions at the medical infirmary of Dachau. Document obtained by Saul Myers, of St. Petersburg, FL, who explained in an accompanying letter of 1995 his own connection to a group of Jewish DPs in France after the war, from whom he obtained this report.

  6. Tante Liesa

    Testimony, 4 pages, photocopy of typescript. Reminiscence by unnamed author of his aunt Liese from Berlin, and what happened to her and her family during the Holocaust (author's family emigrated from Berlin to Palestine before the war).

  7. Robert W. Tighe papers

    Contains an honorable discharge document issued to Robert W. Tighe from the United States Army; correspondence from Tighe to his parents in Roxbury, MA, while he was stationed in Europe during WWII; correspondence from the University of Pittsburgh Press (1986) regarding his oral history; letters from school students thanking Mr. Tighe for a presentation at their class in 1995; news clippings; an illustrated German magazine from 1941, likely picked up by Tighe after war; and laminated pages from April 22, 1945 issues of "Yank" magazine, with cover, containing an article about General Creight...

  8. Kristallnacht

    Testimony, 6 pages, typescript, titled "Kristallnacht," recounting author's experience of this event, from arrest at his home in Braunschweig, imprisonment in local jail then state penitentiary, deportation to Buchenwald, then return after a couple of weeks to Braunschweig.

  9. Lowell "Doc" Drudge papers

    Consists of photocopies, including a one-page biography of Lowell "Doc" Drudge, which mentions his participation in the liberation of Buchenwald as a member of Company A, 317th Infantry, 80th Division; a copy of a letter he wrote to the "Vetvoice" in 1994; and a newspaper article about him on Memorial Day.

  10. Memoir

    Photocopy of German letter and English translation, from father of Erwin Knoll.

  11. Documents relating to the Exodus 47 incident

    One leaflet, printed in French, Hebrew, and likely Yiddish, expressing readiness of French government to allow passengers of Exodus 47 to disembark on French territory if they wish. Also is photocopy of an article about Exodus from Washington Jewish Week, 1988.

  12. Memoir

    Testimony, 5 pages, handwritten, describes time in eastern Poland (Bolechow), invasion of Soviets and then Germans, time in ghetto and as forced laborer.

  13. Memoir

    Testimony, 3 pages, photocopy of manuscript, about experiences in occupied Greece.

  14. Celia Trunk memoir

    Testimony, 4 pages, photocopy of typescript, sent by Celie Trunk (also Trunck), a survivor of Bergen Belsen, in response to a questionnaire sent out by historian at Bergen Belsen Memorial site in 1994.

  15. Mark and Elsa Rubenstein papers

    Testimony, 2 pages, typescript, with outline-type list of experiences of Mark and Elsa Rubinstein during Holocaust, and Polish newspaper clipping about them.

  16. Memoir

    Testimony, 5 pages, handwritten, from Tuten in form of letter to Michael Abidor at Jewish Community Center in Charleston, SC, written in 1993. Describes experiences in U.S. Army during WWII, and in particular, account of atrocities committed at camp between Helmstedt and Magdeburg (is likely describing aftermath of Gardelegen massacre).

  17. A memoir relating to experiences in Zba̧szyń and emigration to England to the United States

    Four pages of typescript testimony about the experience of a Polish family living in Minden, Germany before World War II, growing antisemitism during 1930s, training in vocational program and apprentice on farm in Oldenburg, and their arrest and deportation during the Polenaktion of 1938 to the camp in Zbąszyń. After efforts of friends from a German farm, he was able to immigrate to England in 1939, but his parents and siblings never made it out of Poland and perished.

  18. Jeanette Wohlhendler identification card

    Identification card, 1947, attesting that Jeanette Wohlhendler (nee Jeckel) had been a prisoner at Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen.

  19. Affidavits and memoir relating to experiences in Auschwitz and Mauthausen

    Testimony, 1 page, typescript, of Burekhovich, who gives a brief summary of his deportation from Hungary to Auschwitz and subsequent camps, along with notarized document from fellow camp survivor, who attested to the veracity of Burekhovich's account, Los Angeles, 1989.

  20. Moses and Ruth Rontal collection

    Consists of scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, books, family tree information and clippings regarding the life and Holocaust experiences of Moses and Ruth Rontal. Moses, originally of Vilna, was the chief cantor in Radom prior to the war; he lost his wife and daughter in the Holocaust, survived several concentration camps, and met Ruth Gold, who also lost her husband and children in the Holocaust, in the Dachau concentration camp. They married in Stuttgart in April 1946 and arrived in the United States in May 1946, where Moses Rontal continued his work as a cantor. Includes photographs of ...