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1. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
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… May 1944 and arrived at Buchenwald on April 15, 1945 where he served as the first American commander of Buchenwald after liberation. He worked to…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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2. Rosenzweig and Ringelheim families papers
2000.226.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2000.226.1
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1995
… seeking information about photographic material relating to the 311 Bomber Command of the Czech Army. Rosenzweig family restitution files include…
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 … by a 1947 letter seeking information about photographic material relating to the 311 Bomber Command of the Czech Army. Rosenzweig family restitution…
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3. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
… Service to Interrogation of Prisoners of War (IPW) Team 13 as Chief Interrogator. He was second in command of his team, which was attached to the 104…
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 … of War (IPW) Team 13 as Chief Interrogator. He was second in command of his team, which was attached to the 104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Division in…
4. William Malsh papers
1994.A.0027.1 Box 1 Folder 28 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0027.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-circa 1993
bulk: 1937-1941
…, Chicago, and Los Angeles, enlisted in the Army in 1942, and commanded a Military Intelligence Interrogation team at the end of the war. His father and…
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 … in the Army in 1942, and commanded a Military Intelligence Interrogation team at the end of the war. His father and uncle, Ernst Malsch (b. 1887…
5. Norman Salsitz papers
2003.425.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 2003.425.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1889-2000
… until the command was given to seek out and kill Jews being hidden on a farm. Norman volunteered for the mission, killing the Poles who had been sent with…
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 … worked with the underground to defeat their common foes until the command was given to seek out and kill Jews being hidden on a farm. Norman volunteered…
6. Arnold Lissance family papers
2014.275. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.275.1
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1973
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… official daily diary of the German army’s supreme command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht), a post he held until 1943. Captured by the Allies at the end of the…
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 … military historian Helmuth Greiner, who had been appointed in 1939 to keep the official daily diary of the German army’s supreme command (Oberkommando der…
7. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… camp command. Karel had to report the statistics to the commandant, and sometimes got yelled at or threatened if the statistics were not to his liking…
8. Salomon Slowes papers
2002.477.10 Oversize Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.477.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2003
… between the Polish Government in Exile and the Soviet government to form a Polish army under the command of General Wladyslaw Anders, who had been a POW in…
9. Arbeiter family papers
2006.4 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2006.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1974
… perished. Chanka Balter’s family also perished. In Starachowice, Israel contracted typhus and was moved to the quarantine barrack. The commandant of the…
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 … the quarantine barrack. The commandant of the camp issued an order that everyone in that barrack was to be shot. Those too sick to walk outside were…
10. Percy Brand papers
2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
… him during the transports, and in each camp it was confiscated and then returned to him. In Buchenwald, the commandant summoned him daily to play for…
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 … concentration camp in Germany. Percy kept his violin with him during the transports. It was confiscated then returned in each camp. In Buchenwald, the commandant…
11. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
… a big presence of U.S. soldiers in Shanghai. Gunter was employed with the U.S. Port Command, working with GMC trucks and parts. Gunter and Hella…
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 … employed with the U.S. Port Command, working with GMC trucks and parts. Gunter and Hella married on 2 March 1947. They immigrated to the United States in…
12. Harry Lindauer papers
2017.555.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.555.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2001
… home was preserved by the family and donated to the chapel. Col. Lindauer’s decorations also included the Commander's Cross of the Federal Order of…
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 … Commander's Cross of the Federal Order of Merit, awarded in 1988 by the German government in recognition of his efforts to facilitate German-American…
13. Kalman Clarence and Anna Farkas Gutlohn Grant family papers
2018.286.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2018.286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1887-2019
… Company. The company commander was Istvan Kovacs, a well-known Budapest lawyer, who tried to maintain decent living conditions for the laborers, and the…
14. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
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… received a field promotion to captain. He served as the Deputy Commander of the Intelligence Section at Sennelager, a prisoner of war camp for high ranking…
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 … of military administration of Gladbeck. He also served as the Deputy Commander of the Intelligence Section of the prisoner of war camp for high ranking…
15. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
… France. On August 4, 1942, the entire family was interned at Les Milles. Men and women were housed separately. The camp commandant took pity on the family…
16. Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers
2003.361.1 Box 2 Folder 8 Image 116
Document | Accession Number: 2003.361.1 | RG Number: RG-24.021
Date:
inclusive: 1879-2001
… elected to the Judenrat (Jewish Council). The chairman of the Judenrat reported to the German camp commandant and administered the camps for the Germans. He…
17. Rittershausen fur sewing machine brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.1_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.1 a-d
Date:
manufacture: 1911-1938
use: approximately 1924-1996
… returned. Isidor ignored the command and left. Another day, soldiers invaded the Muschel home and took whatever things they wanted, including a baby grand…
18. Hans Fischböck papers
2018.636.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.636.1
Date:
inclusive: 1876-1992
bulk: 1938-1967
… in Buenos Aires on February 2, 1951 from Genoa, Italy. He found employment in the firm of the former Waffen-SS commander Karl Nicolussi-Leck. Much of…
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 … in Buenos Aires on February 2, 1951 from Genoa, Italy. He found employment in the firm of the former Waffen-SS commander Karl Nicolussi-Leck. Much of…
19. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
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  • Series 5: Writings 1939-2014
    • File 2: Diary and algebra notebook, Joseph Stripounsky 1940, (in a book enclosure)
    • File 3: Diary, Joseph Stripounsky 1941
20. Egon Weiss papers
2011.128.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2011.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2009
bulk: 1920-1945
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 …: Each section was under the authority of a section commander. The entire transport was under the jurisdiction of a Camp Directorate. The maintenance of…