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  1. Charles Kotkowsky papers

    Includes articles, essays, and publications concerning the Piotrków Trybunalski Jewish community in Canada, the Jewish Fighting Organization, and the plight of children in the ghettos and camps. Also included is “Remnants: Memoirs of a Survivor,” a testimony of Holocaust survival by Charles Kotkowsky. The testimony describes Kotkowsky’s life in the Piotrków ghetto, his participation in an underground resistance movement, his imprisonment in two concentration camps, and his escape from a railroad transport.

  2. Charles Kremer collection

    Contains an autobiography about Charles Kremer's experiences as a Nazi hunter, with an introduction by Simon Wiesenthal. Documents Kremer's thirty-seven year pursuit of Viorel Trifa, Iron Guard commandant turned Archbishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Other items include a copy of a July 1982, "Reader's Digest" magazine article; a copy of an article from "Esquire" magazine written by Howard Blum; a program from a banquet honoring Dr. Simon Wiesenthal and Dr. Charles H. Kremer; an article from "Health Affairs" at the University of Pennsylvania; a copy of a proclamation from the Office of...

  3. Charles L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1928. He recounts German invasion; public humiliation of Jews; ghettoization; forced labor; a round-up, including his parents; obtaining his mother's release through connections; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; separation from his mother and sister (he never saw them again); selection for work with his brother; clandestinely leaving the children's camp to join his brother; their transfer to Altenhammer; obtaining privileged work in the kitchen; providing food to his brother and others; a death march, then train transpor...

  4. Charles L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles L., who was born in ?o?dz?, Poland in 1925. He recalls the outbreak of war; ghettoization; deaths from starvation; deportations; H?ayim Rumkowski pleading for people to give up their children; his father's death from starvation in 1942; his mother's deportation four weeks later; liquidation of the ghetto in 1944; deportation to Auschwitz; pulling his brother from the "wrong" line during selection; disbelief when he learned of the gas chambers and crematoria; transfer, with his brother, to Dachau two weeks later; work in a munitions factory; the singular focus ...

  5. Charles L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles L., who was born in Paris, France in 1929. He recalls the outbreak of war; moving with his family to Montargis; living with cousins; returning to Paris; antisemitic regulation, including wearing the yellow star; his father's arrest in August 1941 (he never saw him again); his brother's arrest and release (he went to Vichy, the unoccupied zone); being warned by non-Jews of the July 16, 1942 round-up; hiding with his mother; being smuggled to Vichy France; a station master in Angoule?me helping them avoid detection; boarding a train for Saint-Junien; being force...

  6. Charles L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles L., who was born in Augusto?w, Poland in 1915, the youngest of eight children. He recounts his oldest brother's emigration to the United States in 1923; draft into the Polish military in 1937; German and Soviet invasion in 1939; deportation as a POW by the Soviets from Baranovichy; release with a group born in Latvia; escaping en route to Vilnius; returning home; German invasion in June 1941; ghettoization; deportation to Bogusze, then Auschwitz; separation from his parents and sisters (he never saw them again); selection for work with three brothers; a death ...

  7. Charles Laufer collection

    The collection consists of Gewerberlegitimationskarte, Landhurm-Pals, Reisepass, Arbeitsbuch, two Polish passports, box of correspondence, blue and white sash, three books, leather portfolio, and two photo albums.

  8. Charles Lavering collection

    Contains a scrapbook relating to the experiences of Charles Lavering, a member of the 305 and 309 Ordnance Battalions in the United States Army, while he was stationed in liberated Europe.

  9. Charles Leigh collection

    Contains materials documenting the experiences of Charles Leigh as a child on the Kindertransports in England. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Charles M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles M., who was born in Piotrko?w Trybunalski, Poland in 1926. He recalls attending Hebrew and public schools; anti-Semitic incidents; participating in a Bundist children's group; German invasion; ghettoization in October 1939; working in a forced labor camp in 1940, then in a factory near the ghetto; mass shootings, which included his mother and brother; and his father's deportation. Mr. M. recounts deportation in 1942 to Ostrowiec; transport to Birkenau, then Auschwitz, in 1944; the death march to Melk in early 1945; slave labor digging underground bunkers; tran...

  11. Charles Marks photographs

    Consists of three photographs taken by Charles Marks while in the United States Army Air Forces. The photographs depict Red Cross workers uncovering buried bodies in Lyons, France in November 1944.

  12. Charles Martin Roman papers

    The Charles Martin Roman collection consists of photographs, documents, and identity paperwork related to the Holocaust experiences of Carl (Carlo) Roman, now Charles Roman. The photographs depict his pre-war life in Vienna, images of Carl and his mother with a group of Jews on an escape over the Alps to Italy from the Italian-occupied zone of France in September 1943, family photographs, and photographs of the OSE-run Font-Romeu camp and Montintin children's home. Includes Carl's identity paperwork, a falsified document stating that Marianne Roman authorized Carl to leave the OSE children'...

  13. Charles N. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles N., who was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1924 . He recounts his family's emigration to Paris in about 1927; attending public school; training as a dental technician; fleeing with two brothers to Vazerac when Germany invaded; returning to Paris; working at farms in the country-side to hide; returning to Paris; his oldest brother's death from illness in 1941; being warned of the Vélodrome d'hiver round-up in July 1942; his mother arranging for a non-Jew to take him and his brother south; traveling by train to Bourges; arrest; imprisonment as non-Jews; transfer to ...

  14. Charles Neil Starr collection

    Letter: typed and handwritten on the back of a proof sheet of photographs documenting the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and printed by the US Army Signal Corps; written by Cpl. Charles Neil Starr (donor's friend) to his wife Vivienne in Akron, Ohio; dated August 17, 1945; in English.

  15. Charles P. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles P., who was born in Olkusz, Poland in 1923. He relates his family's emigration to Palestine, then France in 1926; participating in Hashomer Hatzair; a printer's apprenticeship; German invasion; a futile attempt to join the Resistance in Poitiers; printing Resistance papers in his father's Paris print shop; fleeing to Lyon in 1943; acquiring false papers in Montluel; arrest by the Gestapo; declaring himself a Jew to avoid more torture in Montluc; transfer to Drancy; deportation to Birkenau; slave labor in coal mines in Jawischowitz; relations between prisoners ...

  16. Charles Paul Kogel collection

    The Charles Paul Kogel papers include biographical materials and photographs documenting Charles Kogel from Antwerp, Belgium; his prewar, wartime, and postwar experiences in Belgium; his wartime alias in France; and his immigration to the United States in 1952 with his second wife, Sara Kahan, and their son Henry. Biographical materials include military papers, a 1942 letter on behalf of the King of Belgium, false French papers in the name of "Andre Ravaux," Charles and Sara's wedding booklet, a certificate awarding Charles a war medal, a Belgian passport, an American naturalization certifi...

  17. Charles Peter Heimann collection

    Consists of 14 photographs taken upon the liberation of an unknown concentration camp in the spring of 1945. The photographs, which depict corpses lined in rows, were either taken or acquired by Charles Peter Heimann, a member of the United States Army. Also includes the envelope in which they were held.

  18. Charles Phillip Sharp collection

    The majority of the Charles Phillip Sharp collections concerns the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Sharp’s records give first hand account of what he saw at the camp, and the immediate goals the British Army had in trying to save the survivors. This is further told in the Story of Belsen by Captain A. Pares, which gives the official military report on the camp. Also included are lecture notes that Sharp gave well after his time with the Army, detailing his exxperience in liberating Bergen-Belsen. Other documents include various items related to Sharp’s stay in the army, ...

  19. Charles R. Hazard and The Baltimore Sun collection

    The collection consists of fifteen courtroom sketches created by Charles R. Hazard for the Baltimore Sun newspaper during the postwar deportation trials of Karlis Detlavs and George Theodorovich in Baltimore, Maryland, for withholding information about their involvement with war crimes in Eastern Europe during World War II.

  20. Charles R. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Charles R., who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1927. He recalls his parents' divorce; the Anschluss; expulsion from school; observing violence on Kristallnacht; he and his mother smuggling themselves to France, Switzerland, and Luxembourg, but being apprehended and returned; illegally traveling to Strasbourg; arrest; his mother's brief imprisonment; moving to Paris; German invasion; living in a children's home in central France; transfer to Limoges; hiding during police searches; receiving correspondence requesting him to join his mother; going to Rivesaltes; learning...