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  1. David Briggs photograph collection

    Photographs of wagons containing corpses from Dachau being driven through the town of Dachau on their way to burial.

  2. David C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David C., who was drafted into the United States Army in January 1942. He describes entering Buchenwald in April 1945; many corpses; taking pictures; the reactions of Eisenhower, Patton, and Bradley; entering barracks and the crematorium; and crying when he saw human ashes. Mr. C. notes he did not discuss this experience when he returned to the United States, but it left him scarred. He shows pictures he took in Buchenwald, and discusses his volunteer work with a fellow veteren visiting schools to describe entering concentration camps in 1945.

  3. David C. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David C., a non-Jew, and an American physician now practicing in New Haven, Connecticut. He speaks of his experiences in the Dachau concentration camp, where, as a physician with the U.S. Army, he arrived a few days after liberation and remained for six weeks with another U.S. Army physician to treat former prisoners and conduct research on typhus.

  4. David C. Porter collection

    The collection consists of patches, pins, dog tags, a medal, boxes, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of David C. Porter in the United States Army in Germany during World War II and after the war as a guard during the International Military Tribunal proceedings held in Nuremberg, Germany.

  5. David Cheney: papers relating to the Jewish Health Organisation of Great Britain

    This collection consists of David Cheyney's papers relating to his work as secretary of the Jewish Health Organisation of Great Britain.

  6. David D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David D., who was born in Sierpc, Poland in 1923, one of five children. He recalls German invasion in 1939; one brother's death in the Polish military; forced transfer with his family to Warsaw; living with an uncle; working outside of Warsaw; providing food for his family; his parents' deaths from starvation; trying to persuade his sister and brother to leave with him (they refused); traveling to Racia?z?; briefly returning to Warsaw for his siblings (they would not join him); ghettoization; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau; finding a cousin; assignment to masonry s...

  7. David D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David D., who was born in Olkusz, Poland in 1920. He recalls German invasion in 1939; anti-Jewish measures; volunteering to meet his family's labor quota; deportation to Geppersdorf; building the Reichsautobahn for over a year; transfer to Brande where he found his brother; transfer to an I.G. Farben camp where his brother died; transfer to Marksta?dt, where an engineer provided extra food; working in an ammunition factory in Sudetenland, then another camp where civilian workers provided extra food; and liberation by Soviet troops. Mr. D. recounts the arrival of women...

  8. David D. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David D., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1937, the youngest of four children. He recounts living with foster parents in Bournemouth, England after being sent on a kindertransport (he thought they were his biological parents); good relations with them and their daughters; being told in 1946 that his parents were alive and he had three siblings; resentment at leaving the only home he had known; living with his siblings, uncle, and aunt in London for a year; reunion with his parents in New York in 1947; his sense he was living with strangers; and only recently learn...

  9. David Diamant collection

    The David Diamant collection includes papers documenting members of the French Resistance, a poster, and a printing press.

  10. David Diamant Collection

    Clandestine serial issues, leaflets, flyers, and reports, issued by French resistance groups, the Parti Communiste Francais, and various French Jewish and Jewish communist organizations, relating to conditions in France during World War II, especially prison conditions, conditions of Jews, and the French resistance movement.

  11. David E. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David E., who was born in Gherla, Romania in 1926, one of five children. He recounts his family's long history there; a large extended family; Hungarian occupation in 1941; anti-Jewish laws; expulsion from school; two years training as a furniture maker; deportation to a ghetto in 1944, then to Auschwitz after four weeks; separation from his family (he never saw them again); volunteering as a cabinet maker, which saved his life; improved conditions and additional food; receiving extra food and a better assignment from an SS man; friendship with a co-worker (they remai...

  12. David E. Knott memoir

    Contains a memoir, 27 pages, about David E. Knott's experiences as a member of General Patton's Third Army liberated Mauthausen-Gusen II in Austria.

  13. David Eilenberg papers

    The David Eilenberg papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting David Eilenberg’s time at the Landsberg DP Camp, his marriage to Hala Kowalska, their family members in Łódź and Malmö, and their political activities in support of the creation of the State of Israel and in assisting the emigration of European Jews to Palestine. Biographical materials include travel passes and a Landsberg residence card for David Eilenberg, the Eilenbergs’ ketubah and marriage certificate, and a newspaper clipping containing congratulations to the couple on their marriage. Photographs ...

  14. David Elentukh memoir

    Contains David Elentukh's handwritten memoir, in Russian. In the memoir, Mr. Elentukh describes his pre-war life in Minsk, being drafted into the military in 1941, and escaping to return to his family and move with them into the Minsk ghetto. Elentukh was transferred from the ghetto for forced labor in Minsk, escaped to return to the ghetto, and went into hiding in a cellar. After emerging from hiding, Elentukh and his family were rounded up and marched outside of Minsk to be shot. He managed to run from the column and escape, joining the partisans with his brother-in-law. In 1944, Elentukh...

  15. David Ettlinger collection

    Collection of 39 photographs; images of children and their activities in the Jewish Children's Home in Caputh near Berlin, Germany; dated 1934-1936.

  16. David F. Busch collection

    The collection consists of artifacts, including United States and German military clothing, equipment, and insignia, scrip, currency, pins, correspondence, documents, and publications relating to the experiences of David F. Busch in the US Army in Europe during World War II.

  17. David F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David F., who was born in a town in Poland (presently Ukraine) near Rivne. He recounts his family's comfortable life; attending private school; Soviet occupation in 1939; liquidation of his family's business; German invasion in 1941; ghettoization; escaping a year later with his immediate and extended family to a forest the night before the ghetto was liquidated; building bunkers; escaping a Ukrainian police attack a month later; separation from the others; wandering for three days; assistance from local farmers; finding his family; building more bunkers; Ukrainian po...

  18. David F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David F., who was born in Sosnowiec in 1924. He recalls attending public and Hebrew schools; anti-Semitic incidents; participating in Zionist activities; German invasion in 1939; round-ups of Jewish men including his father and uncles; and volunteering for forced labor to fill his family's quota. Mr. F. describes road building, rail work and other assignments in Koch?owice, Brande, Gross Masselwitz, Sebezh, Novosokolniki, Sakrau, Annaberg, and Marksta?dt (building a Krupp factory), always with his friend Harry; kindness from a German worker; arrival of his father; tra...

  19. David F. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of David F., who was born in Be?dzin, Poland in 1928. The youngest of five children, he recalls the town's large Jewish population; anti-Semitic violence; his father's death; attending school until the German invasion; the family's forced relocation into one room; and two brothers' deportations, then his to a nearby labor camp in 1942. He tells of transfer to Bismarkshu?tte, then Reigersfeld and Blechhammer; a forced march in December 1944 to Gross Rosen; a SS officer killing prisoners with his bare hands; transport to Buchenwald, then Langenstein; hiding among dead bodi...

  20. David family papers

    The David family papers include a pre-World War II photograph of Lili Brody-Carmosino with her brother Morris and cousin Annutza in Iaşi, Romania; a photograph of Lili planting seeds at the Beth Bialik displaced persons camp in Salzburg, Austria; an identification card for Adela David issued by the AJDC; and a photograph of Lili, Morris, and Ben David in Toronto.