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  1. Samuel and Irene Goudsmit collection

    The collection consists of typescript and handwritten originals and tissue copies of miscellaneous correspondence in German and English, circa 1944-1945. Includes but is not limited to the following: letters, directives, memorandums, drawings, annotated maps, telegrams, etc., which relate to the Nazis constructing underground installations in Germany and Austria using slave, forced, and POW laborers. In addition, there are some documents relating to medical experiments performed by German physicians in Nazi concentration camps.

  2. Photographs relating to Buchenwald and Ebensee

    Consists of seven photographs showing various scenes of the U.S. Army in Germany at end of World War II, including tanks and troops moving through a village, liberated concentration camps prisoners, a performance perhaps by Marlene Dietrich, Gen. Patton meeting with a Soviet counterpart, and ruins of German city. Likely copies of Signal Corps photographs.

  3. Oral history interview with Jakob Uszerowicz

  4. Oral history interview with Shmaryagu Shargel

  5. Oral history interview with Esther Sendrowicz

  6. Oral history interview with Benek Bolender

  7. Oral history interview with Arnold Fleischmann

  8. Oral history interview with Jacques Steinberg

  9. Oral history interview with Stanley Dabrowski

  10. Oral history interview with Alfred Loeser

  11. Oral history interview with Max Nirenberg

  12. Oral history interview with Eugene Debs Simon

  13. Oral history interview with Ruth Wells

  14. Nazi propaganda: anti-Polish

    This feature film opens in the German village of Emilienthal in the Polish district of Luzk in March 1939 as Polish authorities close a German school to turn it into a military police post. The teacher Maria Thomas constantly complains to the Polish mayor. Other Germans are angry about higher taxes for ethnic Germans and growing expropriations of land and houses. Maria's husband refuses to sing the Polish anthem and he is beaten up by Polish thugs who are said to thrive for the 'annihilation of...German pigs'. He dies because the police and the hospitals refuse to help Germans at all. Maria...

  15. Martin H. Stoll photographs

    The collection consists of photographs taken by Martin Stoll in1945 of concentration camp liberations, including some identified as occurring at Buchenwald. Images show partially destroyed and gutted buildings, crematoriums, and Allied troops.

  17. Oral history interview with Lowell Drudge

  18. Oral history interview with Alina Kerson

  20. Oral history interview with Thea Eden