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  1. Walter Reed photograph collection

    The collection consists of 160 photographs and copyprints depicting children and workers doing chores and playing at a children's home in Belgium and children's homes in Seyre, France, and at Chateau de La Hille during the Holocaust.

  2. Fred Arthur Porkka photographs

    Consists of two photographs taken by a German soldier in 1939. The photographs are described as Kraków/Tarnów; one shows citizens walking down a street, and the other shows two German soldiers with a man described as Jewish. The photographs were confiscated by Private First Class Fred Arthur Porkka, who captured the photographer in 1945.

  3. Kathleen Quinn photographs

    Consists of photographs of Dachau post-liberation, including photographs of survivors and victims, as well as numerous photographs of the destruction encountered by the United States Army as it crossed Germany and Austria. Includes photographs of Munich and Aachen, Germany.

  4. Photograph of the Landsberg concentration camp

    The photograph depicts the remnants of a burned-out building in the Landsberg concentration camp in April 1945.

  5. Jack Caminer photographs

    Consists of 40 photographs taken by Jack Caminer [donor], a member of the United States Armed Forces, in the spring of 1945 as his unit traveled through Germany and Austria. Many of the photographs are of the destruction in Nuremberg. Includes one photograph of the donor, described as "Crossing the Rhine; 29 March 1945", taken during the holiday of Pesach. Also includes photographs of Jack Caminer (originally Hans Wolfgang Caminer) as a child in Berlin with various family members. His paternal grandfather, Max Lang, who appears in the photographs, perished of natural causes in Theresienstad...

  6. Willis Hancock liberation photograph negatives

    Contains negatives of photographs taken upon the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp, 1945.

  7. Renata Gejler Avinoam photographs

    Consists of photographs from the collection of Renata Gejler Avinoam [donor]; includes photograph of donor with aunt, described as "Białystock, 1934," donor with another girl in Saratov, Russia, 1944, and donor with large group of children, described as "Warsaw, 1946." The Gejler family was originally from Warsaw and Białystock, but escaped to Russia in 1939.

  8. Meier de Leeuw collection

    Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of the de Leeuw and Frankenhuis families of the Netherlands. Includes photographs of the familes, correspondence from the Westerbork deportation camp, and post-war documents from the Dutch Red Cross.

  9. William Cygelfarb photographs

    Contains 45 post-war photographs of William Cygelfarb and many of the children he worked with as a member of Hashomer Hatzair in Łódź, Poland. William Cygelfarb was in the Łódź and Piotrków ghettos, as well as in the Buchenwald and Dora-Mittelbau concentration camps, and survived a death march. After the war he returned to Łódź and worked as a Hashomer Hatzair counselor for formerly hidden children. He emigrated to Canada in 1950.

  10. Berthe Pesses Cygelfarb photographs

    Contains wartime and post-war photoprints relating to the Holocaust experiences of Berthe Pesses Cygelfarb. Includes a 1942 photoprint of her father, Israel Pesses, as well as numerous post-war photographs taken at the Le Tremplin OSE children's home. Also includes one framed pre-war family photograph.

  11. Edith Schwalb Gelbard collection

    Contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and a photoprint of Edith Schwalb Gelbard and her family. Her father, Chajem Schwalb perished in Auschwitz, but Edith, her sister Konyi, and mother Magdalene survived in hiding in France. Also includes photocopy of a letter written from Chajem to his children in 1942.

  12. George L. Scott memoir

    Contains memoir, poetry, and prose written by George L. Scott, a survivor of the concentration camps of Savar, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering, Landsberg, and Dachau. His memoir "Life, Reach for it!" (formerly titled "The Way it Happened!") centers around his memories and descriptions of Birkenau. He now spends much of his time talking to students about his experiences at the Toronto Holocaust Centre.

  13. Ted Sheppard photograph

    Consists of a photograph appearing to be of a recently liberated camp, described as "Meserburg"; other than this, camp is unknown.

  14. Robert Julian Weill letter

    The Robert Julian Weill letter consists of one letter, dated May 17, 1945, from Major Robert Julian Weill to his wife, Lou Ellen Weill. Major Weill served with the 42nd Rainbow Division and participated in the liberation of Dachau concentration camp. In the letter, Major Weill reports that he has assumed control of a German prisoner of war camp near Kufstein, Austria, and remarks upon the irony that he, a Jewish man, is in charge of the Germans.

  15. Kitty Koretz Saunders photograph

    Consists of photograph of twins Kitty and Peter Koretz, taken in Prague, in 1939. Peter perished in Auschwitz in 1944.

  16. Arie Sagi photograph collection

    The collection consists of photographs depicting Rachel Roza Weksler, originally of Švenčionys, Lithuania, her husband Mordechai Sergowicz, and Rachel’s brother Hirsz Zvi Weksler, all of whom survived the Holocaust in Švenčionys and the Soviet Union.

  17. Sandomirski family papers

    The papers consist of correspondence, a passport, and photographs relating to the Sandomirski family in Vienna, Austria, and their experiences during the time period of the Holocaust. Most of the collection is correspondence, 1939-1941, from Aron and Feige Sandomirski in Vienna to their son, David, who was able to immigrate to Washington, DC, in 1939. Aron and Feige were deported to Riga in 1942, where they perished.

  18. Sol Goldberg collection

    Consists of a post-war photograph of Sol and Fryda Kleinwachs Goldberg [donor]; photographs of Jews being humiliated in the town square of an unknown Polish town and found by the donor in the Ebensee concentration camp after liberation; one letter to Sol Goldberg from Roman Englander recounting Mr. Englander's remembrance of the death of Poldek Goldberg, the donor's brother; and one short article by Sol Goldberg about Poldek Goldberg.

  19. Josef Kliger collection

    Consists of the wedding contract marking the marriage of Yaakov Feldman to Sara Adler, Tomaszowska, 1939; photographs of the family of Chaim Klinger, who married Pajga Adler in 1938, and spent the war in Karasyara, Russia. His parents perished during the war. Also contains post-war photographs of survivors at Holocaust commemorations.

  20. Buchenwald liberation photographs

    Consists of 13 photographs taken by Jay C. Christensen, a member of the Air Corps from Elk Horn, Iowa, upon the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Includes photographs of survivors of the camp.