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  1. Documents and publications relating to the Kaufering group of camps surrounding Landsberg and their liberations by U.S. Army Divisions

    Photocopies, loose materials, related to 103rd Infantry Division's liberation of camps at Landsberg/Kaufering.

  2. Bertha Lurey Elston collection

    Letterhead, identification card, booklet, V-mail, and photographs related to Bertha Lurey, who worked for the US War Department during WWII. Also includes two books: "The Fighting Jew" from the Committee for a Jewish Army of stateless and Palestinian Jews and "The Battle for Jerusalem" by Pierre van Paassen.

  3. Roman and Ann Mandel collection

    Documents, identification, for Estera Schwimmer (Szwymer) and Roman Mandel, post-war Germany, documenting Schwimmer's disabilities caused by treatment in concentration camps, birth certificates, immunization documents, and others. Also has notebook with news clippings from German publications during the war, likely compiled by German schoolboy with name on front cover, scratched out and replaced with Mandel's name.

  4. Susan Toth collection

    Consists of a copyprint and a copy of a document regarding the Bor forced labor camp in Serbia. Includes a photograph of a group of men and a list dated 1944 of thirteen men who were in a forced labor commando at Bor. The copy of the list was notarized in Timisoara, Romania, in 1944.

  5. Oral history interview with Ruth Knopp

  6. Majerowicz family papers

    The Majerowicz family papers contain documents primarily relating to Arthur and Marie Majerowicz, and their son Kurt. The documents pertaining to Arthur and Marie are mainly identification documents, such as birth, death, and marriage certificates, Arthur’s employment and education history, immigration documents and membership cards. The items relating to Kurt come from his time while interned at Westerbork, and include birthday and postcards he sent to family members, a letter giving power of attorney to his father, and information requests concerning Kurt’s death at Buchenwald. Other docu...

  7. Hans Weil papers

    The Hans Weil papers consist of biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting German educator Hans Weil, his relocation to Italy following his dismissal from teaching at Goethe University, and the school, Schule am Mittelmeer, that he established for German emigrant children in Recco, Italy.

  8. Pete House letter

    One letter, from Pete House, a former American POW who was held at Stalag IX-B in 1944-1945, and who wrote to the USHMM after visiting the museum in April 1994. Describes the mistreatment of Allied POWs, including soldiers of African descent.

  9. Arkady Aleksandrovsky memoir

    Contains a photocopy of a handwritten memoir which relates to Arkady Aleksandrovsky's experiences in the Bershad Ghetto during the Holocaust.

  10. Klara Strazhnik memoir

    Klara Strazhnik's memoir describes the Holocaust in the ghetto in Zhmerynka, Ukraine.

  11. Eve Rider collection

    Testimony: 4 pages, typescript, dated 1994, plus correspondence with United States Holocaust Memorial Museum staff.

  12. Ludwik Krzywonowski letter

    Photocopy of a letter, apparently written in Zborów, Poland, July 1943, but then later sent (with annotations) from Ludwik Krzywonowski from Zborów in 1947, to Wilek Heilmann in Palestine.

  13. Anatomy of the Auschwitz death camp

    Contains the edited typescript of "Auschwitz: Anatomy of a Death Camp," co-authored by Michael Berenbaum and Yisrael Gutman.

  14. In memoriam Margarete Volinsky

    Obituary. Photocopy of typescript, one page, memorial to Volinsky (1891-1978), with annotations from her daughter, Helena.

  15. Barbara MacArthur papers

    Memorial commemoration: News clipping and program for an interfaith Holocaust memorial commemoration at Temple B'nai Israel in Petoskey, Michigan, 1994.

  16. Zeev Schuss memoir

    Testimony, photocopy of typescript, 10 pages, titled "My Glorious Journey," by Zeev Schuss, describing wartime experiences of his childhood, which led him from his native Krakow, to Lwow, Bukhara, Tehran, and finally Jerusalem. Also contains Hebrew and Polish versions of the memoir.

  17. Eugen Heydt papers

    Contains correspondence, statements of payments from the German office of retirement and aid service payments to a Charlotte Heyd, living in Miami, Florida for the year 1978, and to Eugen Heydt and his child Gisela Heydt who applied for naturalization in 1951. The Heydts left Germany in 1938, to go to Johannesburg in South Africa.

  18. Photographs of Mauthausen

    Consists of photographs taken after the liberation of the Mauthausen concentration camp depicting the reburial of corpses.

  19. Experiences of my French Jewish family under German occupation

    Contains a typescript copy of a memoir which relates to Thomas J. Schwab's French family's experiences during the Holocaust.

  20. John Warren collection

    Mixture of miscellaneous items. Snapshots and negatives from liberated camp (Buchenwald). Inflationary million-mark bank note from Germany, 1923. Complete edition of May 8, 1945 issue of "Stars and Stripes" with "Victory" headline. Postcards of Hitler with children. Poster (insert to magazine "Junge Heimat") of Hitler, greeting children at Christmas. Military order to John Weintraub authorizing him to requisition two truckloads of beds to be delivered to "town of Weimar and vicinity," likely for liberated prisoners from Buchenwald, April 1945.