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  1. Sandbostel - April 1945

    R. Barer's memoir describes: the steps taken to liberate Sandbostel; the concerns of British military medical personnel about the presence of typhus in the camp; the sanitary conditions inside the camp; the burial of the camp's dead; the difference in conditions between political prisoners and prisoners of war; the visit to the camp of German doctors and nurses; and Barer's ideas to prevent a reoccurrence of German atrocities by an education program.

  2. Joseph G. Fogg letter and obituary

    Contains a copy of a April 30, 1945 letter by Joseph G. Fogg to his parents describing what he saw at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp the week after liberation including health conditions of and care given to the camp's surviving inmates, the camp's sanitary conditions, and the fate of some of the camp's SS guards. Also contains a photocopy of an obituary for Joseph G. Fogg, from the April 4, 1992, issue of "The Plain Dealer." The obituary provides additional information about Fogg's military experiences, interests, and family life.

  3. Andy Murray Coffey letter and photographs relating to the liberation of Ohrdruf

    Andy Murray Coffey's collection relates to the liberation of Ohrdruf. The collection includes: photocopies of photographs taken by Andy Murray Coffey and H.L. Jamis of dead inmates who died of abuse suffered while engaged in slave labor and of dead inmates being buried by American soldiers and Germans who lived near Ohrdruf; and a letter describing Coffey's recollections about Ohrdruf, the Germans who lived near the camp, and General Patton's order forcing German citizens to view the camp and bury its dead.

  4. Dachau Remembered fifty years later

    Contains an eight-page memoir describing Ken Lagoni's experiences during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp.

  5. Rentzemuhle and Buchenwald

    Victor Geller, a Jewish-American soldier, describes how he helped the newly-liberated Jewish women prisoners of Rentzemuhle labor camp and describes his impressions and memories of Buchenwald concentration camp after its liberation.

  6. Holocaust Ohrdruf

    Contians a four-page memoir describing Edward Olson's recollections of discovering and investigating the Ohrdruf concentration camp during liberation.

  7. A catharsis November 1991

    Describes how the the author joined the 5th Ranger Battalion; the author's participation in and observations of Buchenwald's liberation; and the author's experiences after leaving Buchenwald concentration camp before the end of World War II.

  8. Probing the Cause of the Holocaust, Whereby Doctrine of the Old Testament Appears to Have Failled to Coordinate Theology and National Security Formation

    Myron Bernstein's compendium not only tries to use the Old Testament to determine the cause of the Holocaust, but it also attempts to determine whether an analysis of the Old Testament could have foretold the Holocaust.

  9. George Blau collection

    The collection includes Blau's certificate of discharge from Les Milles (dated 18 September 1939); a photograph of Blau taken at an unknown time; a letter from the police of Marseille vouching to Blau's good conduct; a document from the consulate general of Siam granting Blau permission to emigrate to Siam (dated 28 Sep 1940); a document from a Dr. Monteux that stated Blau was medically ineligible for military service; and documents granting Blau permission to emigrate to the Dominican Republic if the United States did not allow him to enter (dated 30 May 1941). The collection also includes...

  10. Joel Citron collection of family materials

    The original letters and documents (some of which have been either translated or summarized) from the Hebrew Sheltering and Immigration Aid Society of America and the International Committee of the Red Cross document the status of and experiences of members of Joel Citron's family from Poland. Most letters are from family in Poland asking for help from family members living in the United States. Among those letters written after the Holocaust, one from Itka Radoszynska (dated 4 Dec 1945) describes how only she, out of all her family from Siedlce, Poland, survived by throwing herself off a t...

  11. Schreter family tree

    The Schreter family tree identifies those family members who died during the Holocaust.

  12. Beno Axelrod correspondence

    Beno Axelrod's two letters (dated 17 Sep. 1939 and 11 October 1939) from Prague to his cousin, Gladys Schneider, in New York City, describe his attempt to emigrate to the United States.

  13. Genocide as the Nazi locomotive of history Trains of boxed victims

    Helen Fein's essay, which she presented to the "Les genocides" conference in Paris (08-10 December 1989), "Genocide as the Nazi Locomotive of History: Trains of Boxed Victims," attempts to prove that the Holocaust should be "understood in the context of Nazi ideology and German war goals" and that "genocide was the ultimately defining program and strategy of Nazi Germany." To demonstrate the correctness of her hypotheses, Fein's essay discusses Nazi antisemitism and members of the party's attitudes about gays, people of Slavs, and Roma.

  14. Helga Burch collection

    Describes the author's feelings about and experiences related to the Holocaust, including the fate of young victims and of her father and other family members; "Selektion;" and being an invited guest of the Berlin Senat in 1969.

  15. Walter Clifton collection

    Relates to Walter Clifton's (née Cohen) registering as an alien and attempts to secure employment in Great Britain.

  16. Memories of a generation

    The memoir describes Michael Goldberg's (1916-1993) childhood in Polan, Polish and Soviet antisemitism before the Holocaust; his interest in Zionism, the German occupation of western Poland and the Soviet occupation of Eastern Poland, the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, his activities while serving in the Soviet military, the end of World War II, his return to Poland, the death of his first wife, his second marriage, and Goldberg's immigration to the United States in 1961.

  17. Where is justice? Case history of divorced father Holocaust survivor

    Samuel Hofman's explanation to his son, Joshua, why he felt his divorce with Joshua's mother was due, in part, to his Holocaust-related experiences.

  18. My story 50 years later

    Describes Helen Hellman's (née Bamberger, b. 1926) childhood in Würzburg, Germany; her family's emigration to Denmark in 1933 and their escape to Sweden in 1943; their experiences in Denmark and Sweden; the family's return to Denmark after World War II; Helen's marriage to Norbert Hellmann, a Holocaust survivor from Germany; the birth of their children; and their immigration to the United States 1954.

  19. A dramatic story of Jewish wandering: brother and sisters meet in Argentina after 46 years of separation

    The newspaper article, "A dramatic story of Jewish wondering, brother and sisters meet in Argentina after 46 years of separation," from the 28 November 1959, Buenos Aires issue of "Die Presse", describes the war-time experiences of Charles Zacepitzky's children whose surviving family members were able to meet in Buenos Aires in 1959. The article also relates how some members of this Polish Jewish family: hid and tried to survive in the forests; joined the partisans; suffered in ghettos; and were killed by Nazis or antisemitic Poles. The newspaper article also includes a photograph of the su...

  20. Alfred Gruenspecht memoir

    The memoir describes Alfred Gruenspecht's childhood in Wüstensachsen, Germany; his family's experiences in Germany before the Holocaust; his immigration to the United States; his family's assimilation; the death of his parents; and the growth of the Gruenspecht family.