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1. Robert B. Austin photographs
1988.167.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.167.1 | RG Number: RG-09.047
Date:
creation: 1945 April
…The photographs depict Buchenwald concentration camp at the time of liberation as well as bridges built in Germany by the 61st and the 296th Engineer…
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 … concentration camp at the time of Liberation as well as bridges built in Germany by the 61st and the 296th engineer Combat Battalions of the United States Army…
2. 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
Special Collection:
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… establish a hospital and bring aid to the area. On April 24, 1945 he was assigned to a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany where he continued his efforts. Lorenz…
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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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  • Series 2: Buchenwald 1945-1978, Undated
    • File 5: Reports 1945
  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
3. Donald R. Wheeler photographs
1988.94.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1988.94.1 | RG Number: RG-10.263
Date:
creation: 1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
4. Ilse Salomon collection
1988.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.13 | RG Number: RG-10.273
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1958
…Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from the Preungesheim prison in Frankfurt am…
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 … Adam Fielding, March 2020 Biographical note Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from…
5. Leslie J. Kinney photographs
1989.17.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.17.1 | RG Number: RG-10.338
Date:
creation: 1945 April
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
6. Dr. Sheldon C. Sommers papers
1989.82.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1989.82.1 | RG Number: RG-10.344
Date:
creation: 1945 April 19
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
7. Sidney Stenzler papers
1994.A.0231 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0231 | RG Number: RG-19.035
Date:
circa 1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … (Concentration camp) Holocaust survivors‐‐Germany‐‐Landsberg am Lech. Jewish refugees‐‐Germany‐‐Landsberg am Lech. Soldiers‐‐United States‐‐Correspondence…
8. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
2014.557.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.5
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
9. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… overseas in Germany and France.…
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 … forcibly drafted into the French Air Force. He immigrated to the United States in 1951 and became a citizen after serving in the US army overseas in Germany…
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  • Series 1: Philip D. Vock papers 1941-1975, Undated
    • File 4: Journal 1945
10. Louis Oppenheimer papers
1992.49.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1992.49.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Louis Oppenheimer (?-1967) owned a clothing business and lived in Frankfurt, Germany with his wife (?-1967) and two children, Alfred (c. 1915-1991…
11. Anthony Dotta photograph collection
2019.325.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2019.325.1
Date:
creation: 1945 April
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
12. Lt. Col. Alexander H. Rosenbaum collection
1996.15 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1996.15
Date:
creation: 1945 August
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
13. Walter Furman papers
1996.A.0131 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0131
Date:
inclusive: 1945
… 1945, traveled through Germany as a soldier, making stops at Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Mr. Furman died in 2010 in Arizona.…
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 …, and in 1945, traveled through Germany as a soldier, making stops at Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps. Mr. Furman died in 2010 in Arizona…
14. Albert Cohen letter
2018.431.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.431.1
Date:
creation: 1945 April 26
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
15. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
…Rudi Dingfelder (later Robert Felder, 1924-1986) was born on April 21, 1924 in Uehlfeld, Germany to Leopold Dingfelder (1886-1943) and Johanna…
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 … family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, a studio…
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  • Series 1: Photographs Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
    • File 1: Dingfelder and Wolff families Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
      • Pages: 5, 7
16. Bayard L. Cabe papers
2009.280 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2009.280
Date:
creation: 1945 April 23
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
17. Prisoner identification tag with attached charms issued to Bronia Eiger-Sitner
1989.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.173.1 a-b
Date:
Issued: after 1944 November 23-before 1945 March
… camp in Germany. This group of women was taken to Lippstadt, and assigned to work as forced laborers in a munitions factory. Each woman was assigned a…
18. Button-flap, cloth pouch used by John Bolé
2011.174.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.3
Date:
use: approximately 1944 November-1945 April
…, French, and Serbo-Croatian. On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, invaded and divided Yugoslavia. Laibach was in the…
19. Aluminum ring with a letter and prisoner number owned by John Bolé
2011.174.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.4
Date:
use: approximately 1945 April
…, French, and Serbo-Croatian. On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, invaded and divided Yugoslavia. Laibach was in the…
20. Brown hat with a triangular patch bearing a J and initials worn by John Bolé
2011.174.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.174.2
Date:
use: approximately 1944 November-1945 April
…, French, and Serbo-Croatian. On April 6, 1941, the Axis powers, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria, invaded and divided Yugoslavia. Laibach was in the…
21. Ernest Wachtel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.603.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-2012
bulk: 1943-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
22. Anton Kozlowski photograph collection
2018.344.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 51
Document | Accession Number: 2018.344.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Ohrdruf.…
23. Pete Pease photograph collection
2018.104.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2018.104.1
Date:
creation: 1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
24. Clinton Gardner papers
1994.25.3 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.25.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945
… return to their homes. After turning Buchenwald over to the Soviets, he worked for another army administration team for several towns in Germany, before…
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 … return to their homes. After turning Buchenwald over to the Soviets, he worked for another army administration team for several towns in Germany, before…
25. Frank Shurman collection
1995.A.0362 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0362
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1994
…Frank Shurman (1915-1999) was born Fritz Schürmann in Hildesheim, Germany to Willy and Alma Schürmann. His father owned a custom-tailoring business…
26. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
2016.287.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.287.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1960
bulk: 1945-1951
… Investigation. In 1945 he joined the United States Army as a fingerprint classifier for the Public Safety division in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His division was…
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 … collection documents Maurice La Kerr’s post-war experiences in Germany and France as a fingerprint analyst with the United States Army. Maurice worked in…
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27. Solomon Meyer papers
2001.170 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2001.170
Date:
creation: 1945
…Contains one letter with envelope written by Solomon Meyer to his wife from Germany, twelve black and white photographs from Buchenwald taken by…
28. Dr. John D. Singer correspondence
2016.283.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.283.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
… 773rd in France and Germany, including heavy fighting in the region of the Moselle and Saar Rivers, where he participated in the capture of a German…
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 … captain, and subsequently as commanding medical officer in that battalion, at the rank of major. He saw action with the 773rd in France and Germany…
29. Handmade American flag created by former concentration camp inmates and given to a U.S. liberator
2015.450.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.450.1
Date:
received: 1945 April 11
… Harbor and Germany declared war on the United States on December 11, pulling the U.S. into World War II. In August 1943, Donald was drafted by the Army…
30. Charles Froelicher papers
1992.43.5 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1992.43.5
Date:
inclusive: 1945
… Charge of the Counter Intelligence Corps in Donauwörth, Germany.…
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 …, Germany. Scope and content of collection The Charles Froelicher papers consist of photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp and children who…
31. Helga Freeman McNair photographs
2018.116.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.116.1
Date:
circa 1945
…Consists of two loose album pages of photographs depicting Germany in the immediate postwar period, including scenes of Buchenwald shortly after…
32. Lt. Col. George R. Snyder papers
2012.391.2 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2012.391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1947
… Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Subjects include the Camp New Orleans, German and Polish…
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 …. George R. Snyder documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg…
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33. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 3 Reichsmark, issued to inmate
1992.36.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.36.6
Date:
use: 1945 February 10-1945 April
… the store. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. A week later, a group of German soldiers broke into the Silberberg's store and robbed it. On…
34. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border…
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 … for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their…
35. Dark blue concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1992.36.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.36.2
Date:
issue: approximately 1945 February
… the store. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. A week later, a group of German soldiers broke into the Silberberg's store and robbed it. On…
36. Striped concentration camp uniform trousers worn by Polish Jewish inmate
1992.36.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.36.1
Date:
use: 1945 February-1945 April
… the store. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. A week later, a group of German soldiers broke into the Silberberg's store and robbed it. On…
37. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 3 Reichsmark, issued to inmate
1992.36.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.36.7
Date:
use: 1945 February 10-1945 April
… the store. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. A week later, a group of German soldiers broke into the Silberberg's store and robbed it. On…
38. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 3 Reichsmark, issued to inmate
1992.36.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.36.5
Date:
use: 1945 February 10-1945 April
… the store. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. A week later, a group of German soldiers broke into the Silberberg's store and robbed it. On…
39. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 3 Reichsmark, issued to inmate
1992.36.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.36.4
Date:
use: 1945 February 10-1945 April
… the store. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. A week later, a group of German soldiers broke into the Silberberg's store and robbed it. On…
40. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, issued to inmate
1992.36.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.36.3
Date:
use: 1945 February 10-1945 April
… the store. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. A week later, a group of German soldiers broke into the Silberberg's store and robbed it. On…
41. Dr. Willy Katz papers
1990.88.11 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 1990.88.11
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1988
bulk: 1902-1950
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … files, 1929‐1945 Indexing terms Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Dresden. Jewish physicians…
42. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
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 … September 1937. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Częstochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the…
43. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
…Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma, and Ruth. Arthur worked as a draftsman by trade, but as…
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 …. Processing history: Michael Folkerts, July 2015 Biographical note Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma…
44. Alfred Fabian papers
1995.78.11 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.78.11
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1947
…Alfred Fabian was born on May 24, 1910, in Neumark, Germany (now Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Poland), to a Jewish couple. Alfred’s mother was Erna Leyser…
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 …: Julie Schweitzer, February 2016 Biographical note Alfred Fabian (1910‐1998) was born in Neumark, Kreis Löbau, Germany (Nowa Marchia, Poland). He…
45. Jules Barrash letter
1995.A.0508 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0508
Date:
creation: 1945 April 16
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
46. Abraham Lewent papers
1989.242.32 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1989.242.32
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
… Eibeshitz, moved in with them. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was bombed and they had no water, heat, or food. For weeks, they ate only…
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 …, an identification card from the Feldafing displaced persons camp, a membership card for the Council of Warsaw Jews in the American Zone of Germany, a…
47. Bill Carr papers
2019.179.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.179.1
Date:
1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
48. Irene Kedroff Kay photographs
2017.607.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.607.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1946
… acquired the photographs in Germany after the war while employed at one of the Dachau trials.…
49. Carl Heinz Rosner papers
2016.308.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2016.308.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2010
bulk: 1930-1957
…Carl Heinz Rosner (born Karl Heinz Rosner, 1929-) was born on 4 April 1929 in Hamburg, Germany to David and Rachel (née Hausner) Rosner. He had two…
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 … Carl Heinz Rosner of Hamburg, Germany including his stay at a Jewish orphanage from 1937-1942; the deportation of Rosner and his brother Joseph to the…
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50. Alfred Büchler papers
1999.119 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.119
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
bulk: 1937-1942
…Alfred Buechler was born Alfred Büchler in 1925 in Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland) to wine merchant Jacques Büchler and Käthe Büchler (née…
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 …. Processing history: Julie Schweitzer, March 2013 Biographical note Alfred Buechler was born Alfred Büchler in 1925 in Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice…