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  1. Albert Finger collection

    The collection consists of German currency, Łódź ghetto scrip, documents and a photograph relating to the experiences of Abe Fingerhut during the Holocaust in Łódź, Poland and after the Holocaust in Lampertheim displaced persons camp in Germany.

  2. Albert Ganzenmueller

    As chief of the German Reichsbahn, Albert Ganzenmüller was responsible for the employment of deportation trains. In July 1942, he wrote a letter to Karl Wolff describing the deportation trains from Warsaw to Malkinia to Treblinka. Claude Lanzmann talks about the letter by Ganzenmueller in a short recording in French. FILM ID 4605 -- Ganzenmueller 1-6 Chemin de Fer

  3. Albert Garih testimonies

    The Albert Garih testimonies consists of two testimonies written by Albert Garih in 2000 and updated in 2011. The first testimony describes Albert Garih’s personal experiences as a hidden child in France. The second testimony describes the experiences of Benjamin Garih, Albert’s father, who was sent to a forced labor camp on the Channel Islands.

  4. Albert Guenther Hess collection

    Consists of documents and photocopies related to the life and experiences of Albert Guenther Hess and his family, originally of Pirna, Germany. Includes official pre-war documents, post-war articles regarding the Holocaust and Pirna, and a reel of film (ca. 1935) depicting the Hess family. The film includes German intertitles.

  5. Albert Günther Hess collection

    The collection consists of handmade puppets, two photo albums and loose photographs relating to the experiences of Albert Günther Hess and his family before and during the Holocaust in Germany, Belgium, and France and the experiences of Albert in the United States and after his service in World War II. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  6. Albert H. Abramson collection

    Consists of twelve original photographs of the liberation of various camps including Dachau, Buchenwald, and Mauthausen. Includes photographs of survivors of Mauthausen, of summary execution of SS officers at Dachau, and a photograph of a group of female Hitler Youth/League of German Girls (BDM). Also includes copyprint U.S. Army portrait of Albert H. Abramson originally taken in Paris, 1945.

  7. Albert H. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert H., who was born in 1920 near Liège, Belgium, an only child. He recounts that his grandfather had been a priest but left the order; his father's union activities; German invasion in May 1940; military draft; serving in Charleroi; evacuation to Boulogne-sur-Mer; capture as a prisoner of war; release after a few weeks; marriage; his son's birth in January 1942; joining the Resistance; heading a clandestine press; hiding; living apart from his family in order not to endanger them; committing acts of sabotage; arrest in November 1943; imprisonment and torture; re...

  8. Albert Henry Aronson collection

    Contains a "Programm fur die Ausländischen Ehrengäste des Führers," for an event dated April 20, 1939; the pamphlet was brought back to the U.S. after WWII by serviceman Albert Henry Aronson. Includes a letter written by Albert to his sister Emelia (Mitzi) Aronson Rosenberg (donor's mother) explaining how he found the brochure.

  9. Albert Hutler collection

    These materials concern Albert A. Hutler and his experiences as a soldier in the United States Army during and after World War II. Most materials concern his work with displaced persons after the war. Some of these materials may be combined into a single collection in the future.

  10. Albert K. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert K., who was born in Forth, Germany in 1923, the youngest of three sons, one of whom was deaf. He recalls cordial relations with non-Jews until 1933; expulsion from school in 1936 due to anti-Jewish policies; attending a Jewish school in Nuremberg; his hearing brother's emigration to Argentina; moving to Nuremberg in 1938; destruction of Jewish property on Kristallnacht; assistance from non-Jewish friends; futile efforts to emigrate; internment with his family in Langwasser in November 1941; deportation to Jungfernhof in December; his mother hiding him when he w...

  11. Albert L. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert L., who was born in Paris, France in 1929 to Polish immigrants. He recounts attending public school; their poverty; an assimilated life; going to a farm in central France with his school; his father enlisting in the French military; remaining at the farm; German invasion; returning to his mother in Paris; anti-Jewish restrictions; evading the July 16th round-up; his mother's arrest; staying on a farm until her release; his father's visit using false papers; his father moving to Pau; visiting his father; his father's arrest; staying with a non-Jewish friend of h...

  12. Albert M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert M., a non-Jew, who was born in Kessel-Lo, Belgium in 1917. He recalls becoming a master tailor; owning his own store; military draft in 1936 for eight months and again during German invasion; capture as a prisoner of war; release after eight weeks; returning home; becoming a Resistance courier; arrest in December 1943; incarceration in Breendonk; never revealing information during torture; starvation and slave labor digging ditches; frequent executions, including his friends; a privileged assignment as a tailor; transfer six months later to Buchenwald, Dora, th...

  13. Albert M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert M., a well-known writer, who was born in Tunisia in 1920 to a family of eight children. He recounts the influence of his father's rigor and his mother's laughter, dancing, and singing; speaking Judeo-Arabic; his diverse neighborhood; joining a Marxist youth group that included Arabs and Jews at age twelve; attending a Jewish school which exposed him to French culture; German occupation in November 1942; his uncle being taken hostage; executions and rapes; a German officer forcing his father to make a bag from a piece of Torah scroll; forced labor in concentrati...

  14. Albert M. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Albert M., who was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1922. He recalls his military service beginning in 1942; transport to Scotland; and his battalion's progress from Omaha Beach east through the Ardennes. Mr. M. describes his arrival at Buchenwald in April 1945; complete lack of knowledge about such camps; the soldiers' shock at seeing piles of bodies; the horrible stench; the horrendous state of the survivors; and feigned ignorance of the local Germans. He notes an encounter with a German woman in another town who led him to a Jew in hiding. He discusses the permanence...

  15. Albert M. Sharon memoir

    The Albert M. Sharon manuscript is titled "Laissez Passer, A Different Holocaust Story." It was told to and transcribed by his wife, Lynn Sharon. The manuscript tells the harrowing tale of Albert Sharon and his family, as they fled Brussels, Belgium in 1940 at the outset of World War II. Fleeing into France, the family moved into several villages along the Pyrenees, before ending up in Italy in 1943, The story details the struggles of a Jewish family living on the run, and the assistance they received from many families while they traveled. The story also describes Albert's involvement as a...

  16. Albert M. Toiron's certificate

    One photocopy of a certificate from General Eisenhower commending Lucien Toiron for assisting the escape of American soldiers during World War II.

  17. Albert Martin photograph collection

    The collection consists of six propaganda photographs documenting Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany. Captions are printed on the verso in German.

  18. Albert Neuwirt collection

    Consists of seven photographs, identification cards, and vaccination cards relating to Albert Neuwirt and his experiences as a refugee in the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.

  19. Albert Newman collection

    A photograph of Chateau Viellesegure, attached to a page with handwritten song lyrics addressed to American soldiers that indicates when the soldiers leave they should "always remember those who work for Palestine."

  20. Albert Palatnik collection

    Collection consists of photographs depicting the Palatnik family in Odessa before the war; all the members of the family were murdered in Odessa ghetto. Also includes a report card issued to Albert Palatnik stating that he is Jewish; issued in Balta, after the war.