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  1. James D. Newton memoir

    Testimony: Typescript, two pages, excerpted from book by donor titled "Remount the Red Horse." This excerpt describes Newton's experience as U.S. soldier discovering concentration camp in 1945.

  2. James E. Tate papers

    The collection consists of two letters written by Corporal James E. Tate. One of the letters was written in Reims, France, and discusses Tate's impending return to the United States, and the other describes the condition of liberated prisoners in Germany after World War II. Also includes the envelope used to send the letters to the United States.

  3. James Edward Kirkebo collection

    The collection consists of artifacts: badges, foreign currency, a jacket, maps, posters, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of James Edward Kirkebo in the United States Army in Europe during World War II, including the liberation of Gusen and Mauthausen concentration camps.

  4. James F. Tent Papers

    Reports, memoranda, studies, correspondence, minutes, conference proceedings, and interview transcripts, relating to educational policy and denazification in the American occupied zone of Germany after World War II, the establishment of the Freie Universität Berlin, and Nazi persecution of persons of partial Jewish ancestry. Includes photocopies of records of the Education and Cultural Relations Division of the United States Office of Military Government for Germany, 1945-1949, and photocopies of Nazi police files. Used as research material for the books by J. F. Tent, Mission on the Rhine:...

  5. James G. McDonald collection

    The James G. McDonald collection consists of diary entries, correspondence, subject files, photographs, and printed materials documenting McDonald's work as chair of the Foreign Policy Association, League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Jewish Problems in Palestine and Europe, U.S. Special Representative to the Jewish State, and U.S. Ambassador to Israel. The collection also includes a name plate for Ambassador McDonald and a bible presente...

  6. James Georg Lau papers

    The James Georg Lau papers consist of five diaries written by James Georg Lau between 1939-1941 and 1944-1953, describing his life in Liepāja Latvia, the Soviet occupation, being forced out of school because he was half-Jewish, and his mother being forced into the ghetto. There is a gap in the diaries from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany. When Lau continued his diary in 1944, he describes the end of the war, when he and his father went to Germany, and working as a journalist in Bayreuth from 1945-1953. The collection also includes loose pages and newspaper clippings from the diaries, w...

  7. James H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of James H., who was born in Satu Mare, Romania in 1928. He recounts his large extended family; attending cheder; moving to Carei; Hungarian occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; German invasion in March 1944; ghettoization; transfer to the Satu Mare ghetto; deportation to Birkenau; selection with his father and brother for work; his mother visiting their barrack (only his father was allowed out to see her); transfer to Auschwitz, then Buna/Monowitz; slave labor unloading cement; a friend who was sterilized in specious medical experiments; working with British POWs; Alli...

  8. James H. Mahoney collection

    Consists of a collection of photographs taken at the Buchenwald concentration camp immediately after the liberation of the camp, as well as a Rolleiflex camera discovered at the camp. Dr. James Mahoney, a member of the 120th Evacuation Hospital, took the photographs of the liberation and brought the camera home with him.

  9. James Harmon Kirkendall photograph collection

    Contains photographs depicting the Dachau concentration camp at liberation on April 15, 1945. The images were kept by James Harmon Kirkendall (donor's great uncle) who served in the 99th Infantry Division of the US Army and was one of the 15 soldiers sent to the Dachau concentration camp to report on the conditions; dated April 1945.

  10. James Lichtman newspaper collection

    Twenty complete or partial issues of the extreme right-wing, anti-Semitic newspaper "Magyar Futár" [Hungarian Courier] published by Nazi collaborator Ferenc Rajniss; Budapest, Hungary.

  11. James Livesay papers relating to the liberation of Nordhausen

    The records relate to James Livesay's experiences at the liberation of Nordhausen (a.k.a. Dora, Dora-Mittelbau): an original photograph that Livesay took during the burial of the camp's inmates accompanied by a brief testimony of Livesay's; two 1945 newspaper clippings from a West Virginia newspaper, "The Register," describing the activities of Livesay and the 104th U.S. Infantry Division; a copy of a "Witness to the Holocaust" questionnaire distributed by Emory University's Center for Research in Social Change that Livesay filled out to describe his war-time experiences, including those wh...

  12. James Sayers photographs

    The collection consists of photographs and a photograph album documenting the Ohrdruf concentration camp after liberation by the United States Army in April 1945. The photographs depict corpses awaiting burial, civilians digging graves, Allied soldiers, and trains with Russian armaments. All photographs were taken by James Sayers, a member of the Allied forces who helped liberate the camp. The photos have been removed from the album.

  13. James Stein collection

    Collection consisting of one certificate issued to a member of the Nazi party and group of small Nazi propaganda posters (28). See numbered list in accession file

  14. James T. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of James T., who was born in New Hampshire in 1923. He recalls enlisting in the United States military; joining the 90th Infantry Division; shipping out to England; landing on Omaha Beach in Normandy; transfer to the 4th Armored; moving through France; the Battle of the Bulge; encounters with General George Patton; entering Germany; liberating Buchenwald; having no previous knowledge of concentration camps; the pervasive stench of rotting flesh which still stays with him; not understanding they were viewing starved people; the expressionless eyes of the prisoners; and le...

  15. James Worley collection

    Consists of a description, written by James Worley, of the liberation of Dachau. Mr. Worley was a member of the 977th F.A. Brigade of the American Army. Also includes twelve poems, written by Mr. Worley, regarding the Holocaust; these poems were influenced by his experiences as a liberator.

  16. Jamila Kolonomos collection

    The collection consists of medals, medallions, bar pins, cases, certificates, an oral history, documents, photographs and CDs with songs in Ladino relating to the experiences of Jamila Kolonomos and her family in Bitola, Yugoslavia before and during the Holocaust, her time as a partisan fighter, and of Jamila and her husband in Skopje, Yugoslavia. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  17. Jampel family: personal papers

    This collection contains the personal papers of Polish Holocaust survivors Samuel and Anna Jampel who emigrated with their children to England in 1938/1939.Personal papers Including marriage certificate, Heimatschein and certificates of residence, certificates of mortality and 'Führungszeugnis', confirmation of award of Austrian First World War 'Kriegserinnerungsmedaille', birth certificates, tax clearance certificates ('steuerliche Unbedenklichkeitsbescheinigungen'), reference by the synagogue committee of Gelsenkirchen, and letters from American and Polish Consulates regarding their appli...

  18. Jan and Helena Bodakowski photographs

    Consists of three photographs Jan and Helena Cenkar Bodakowski in the Wildflecken and Schwarzenborn displaced persons camps. Includes photographs of the couple's June 6, 1946 wedding in Schwarzenborn, and a 1948 photograph of Jan Bodakowski chopping wood at Wildflecken.

  19. Jan and Irena Otrebski collection

    Contains a memoir, Mauthausen concentration camp publication, and video tape of oral history relating to fate of Jehovah's witnesses.

  20. Jan B. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan B., a Romani, who was born in Czechoslovakia in 1925. He recalls being raised in Sásová; his father's role as a village elder; all Romanies living in wooden houses; shopping in the store of a Jewish merchant; attending films, cultural events, and musical performances by Romanies; attending school; expulsion under the Slovak regime; training as a mason and working in construction; persecution of both Jews and Romanies; the Jews being forced to wear stars and confiscation of their property; a local priest hiding Romanies when police pursued them; leaving with othe...