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  1. Charles Blythe papers

    The papers consist of captioned United States Army Signal Corps photographic prints of concentration camps taken immediately following liberation as well as a card with a photograph of Charles T. Blythe and the caption: "Born: May 13, 1924 / Last Wishes: July 11, 2001"; "Look out for one another."

  2. Charles Burns collection

    The Charles Burns collections contains two drafts of Douglas Kelley’s book, 22 Cells in Nuremberg. The book describes the psychological profiles of high ranking members of the Nazi party, who eventually stood trial at the Nuremberg War Trials. Douglas Kelley who was in charge of evaluating the defendants, writes of his experiences with the individuals. The drafts are heavily edited by Kelley’s editor, Charles Burns. Also included in this collection are some notes made by Charles Burns, a letter to other editors about the book, and some news clippings concerning notorious Nazi members. The C...

  3. Charles Byron Smith, Jr. collection

    The collection consists of a banner and a cigarete album relating to the experiences of Charles Byron Smith, Jr. when he served in the United States Army, European Theatrer, during World War II.

  4. Charles Cohen collection

    Consists of documents collected by Sgt. Charles Cohen, a member of the United States Army during World War II. Includes a two-page narrative Sgt. Cohen wrote on May 4, 1945 in Germany after witnessing Jewish religious services and the reaction of local Germans to these services. Also includes a mass-produced copy entitled "War-Crime Trials; Nurnberg, Germany, November 20, 1945--" introducing the reader to the Nuremberg war crimes trial and the defendants, as well as a translated copy of testimony given by Hermann Goering about gifts he gave to Major Paul Kubala of the United States Seventh ...

  5. Charles Corn collection

    Contains the Holocaust related publications in English, French, and German, a published portrait of Adolf Hitler, and two blank Fire Brigade Commendation certificates dated April 20, 1937 , signed by Heinrich Himmler.

  6. Charles Davey liberation photographs

    Consists of 34 photographs, some duplicates, taken upon the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp; includes photographs of corpses.

  7. Charles Deibel collection

    This collection relates to an attorney with the United States military who served as a defense attorney at the Dachau War Crimes trials, which were run by the Judge Advocate General’s Department of the United States Third Army. Charles B. Deibel, Jr. served in this role between 1945-1946, spanning the trials of personnel from the Dachau, Mauthausen, and Flossenbürg concentration camps. The collection includes original photographs and photographic negatives of images taken during the trials and candid photographs of Deibel and the rest of the defense team. The collection also includes intere...

  8. Charles Dennis Bobo collection

    Contains a photograph album compiled by Charles Dennis Bobo (circa 1960s) of images, copies created likely from negatives or other original images of Nazi propaganda, Nuremberg defendants, and a visit to the Dachau memorial site.

  9. Charles E. Pollak collection

    Contains documents relating to the Rosenberg family of Vienna, Austria. Includes a German passport stamped with the red letter "J," issued to Margarette Rosenberg in October 1938; correspondence written by Sofie and Karl Rosenberg in Vienna to their daughters Gertrude Rosenberg Pollak and Margarete Rosenberg Roberts in the United States, dated 1941; and family photographs from Vienna, dated 1920s and 1930s.

  10. Charles Ernest collection

    Illustrations, 10 woodcuts from series titled "Folterqualen am K.Z.," depicting different types of torture inflicted on camp prisoners. Illustrations by Albert Kayser.

  11. Charles F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles F., who was born in Nuremberg, Germany in 1923. He remembers SA street marches; his parents' divorce; attending boarding school in Austria; moving to Florence with his mother; moving to Berlin because his father wished him to have a German education; the 1936 Olympics; attending boarding school in Coburg; destruction of his school on Kristallnacht; his father's arrest; moving to Paris with his mother; attending boarding school; German invasion; joining his mother in La Bourboule; their move to Nice; attending hotel management school; traveling illegally to Por...

  12. Charles Froelicher papers

    The Charles Froelicher papers consist of photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp and children who were part of the transport Charles Froelicher accompanied from Buchenwald to Switzerland in June 1945; a document issued by the Allied Expeditionary Force Military Government authorizing him to accompany the transport; two German language clippings about the transport; and a blank questionnaire used by the Counter Intelligence Corps for interrogating arrested Nazis. The photographs were taken by Charles Froelicher or other soldiers from the U.S. 6th Armored Division.

  13. Charles Gross collection

    The collection consists of two Star of David badges relating to the experiences of Charles Gross during the Holocaust.

  14. Charles Gross memoir

    Charles Gross' memoir, "My story," describes his experiences after the German annexation of Austria and during his internment in Dachau and Buchenwald.

  15. Charles H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles H., who was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 1920. He recounts his family's move to Vienna; the Anschluss; an uncle who had emigrated to the United States sending them emigration papers; moving to Prague so they could leave from a neutral country; German occupation; deportation to the Łódź ghetto in 1940; his father being "taken away"; transfer to Poznań, Auschwitz, then Myslowice (Fürstengrube) in January 1941; assignment to an I. G. Farben coal mine; a German supervisor allowing his group to rest and providing extra food; shootings of every tenth pr...

  16. Charles H. Turner collection

    The collection consists of coins relating to the experiences of Walther von Scheidt, who was one of Hitler's bodyguards during World War II.

  17. Charles J. Fiore collection

    A memoir in Italian and English with copies of publications, etc., which relate to the Holocaust-related experiences of Father Sam Bartoli while he was a prisoner in the Fossoli and Mauthausen concentration camps.

  18. Charles Jordan case (ÚDV-76/VvK-95). Investigation of Charles Jordan's death by the Office of the Documentation and Investigation of the Crimes of Communism (ÚDV)

    Consists of the records of the investigation of the death of Charles Jordan, the executive vice-chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, who was found drowned in Prague’s Vltava River on August 20, 1967.

  19. Charles Keller papers

    The Charles Keller papers include two photographs of Charles Keller and a Third United States Army memorandum quoting the orders of General George S. Patton directing members of the Army to bury victims of Nazi atrocities reverently. The photographs depict Keller in military uniform and one shows him with fellow soldiers stationed in Puerto Rico right before he was sent to Europe in about 1943..

  20. Charles Kotkowsky collection

    The collection consists of a photograph and 3 theater programs. The photograph shows Charles Kotkowsky playing the role of Adolf Hitler in a theater production entitled "Hitler's Last Night." The programs include one for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of "Hitler's Last Night," written and produced by Charles Kotkowsky; and two for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of "Tovia, the Milkman," by Shalom Aleichem, one in English and one in Yiddish.