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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
Special Collection:
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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. A letter in honor of deceased American GI who experienced atrocities at Buchenwald
1995.A.0042 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0042 | RG Number: RG-09.057
Date:
creation: 1993 April 12
… of Buchenwald. Shaw explains that Lieutenant William R. Malsh commanded a Military Intelligence Interrogation team that was ordered to Buchenwald on…
3. Bill Carr papers
2019.179.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.179.1
Date:
1945
…The Bill Carr papers consists of 7 type-written pages of testimony attributed to Franz Ziereis, the former commandant of Mauthausen concentration…
4. Sydney Goodman papers
2011.148.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2011.148.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-2005
bulk: 1944-1999
undated: 
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… correspondence with Charles Vogel, an attorney building a case against two Berga commanders, as well as miscellaneous correspondence with others about their POW…
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 … attorney building a case against two Berga commanders, as well as miscellaneous correspondence with others about their POW experiences and search for answers…
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  • Series 1: Diary 1944-1945, Undated
    • File 1: Diary (2 folders) 1944-1945
5. Fritz Grünberg papers
2015.468.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.468.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1979
bulk: 1940-1945
… of documents related to the post-war investigation of the Contact Afdeling; miscellaneous documents including copies of letters Camp Commandant Albert…
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 …; miscellaneous documents including copies of letters Camp Commandant Albert Gemmeker, details of a lawsuit settled in 1944, memorandum, and blank identification…
6. Jürgen Stroop statement
2019.234.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.234.1
Date:
creation: 1946 April 26
… and served as a SS commander in occupied Poland. He was charged with overseeing suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 during which he…
7. Zyga Butler papers
2016.507.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.507.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1979
Special Collection:
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…. He served with the Polish Forces under British Command (Anders Army) from April 1942 to April 1947 in Russia, Iran, and Iraq. He was evacuated to…
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 … Russians at Lwów and taken to Russia. He served with the Polish Forces under British Command (Anders Army) from April 1942 to April 1947 in Russia, Iran, and…
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  • Series 1: Zyga Butler papers 1939-1979
    • File 4: Diary 1943-1944
8. Gina Rappaport memoir
2010.50 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2010.50 | RG Number: RG-02.251
Date:
inclusive: 1939 December-1945 April
… by her liberators to write down her experiences, which she did on the letterhead of the Commandant Hillersleben, the former German military base where…
9. 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…
10. Vladimir Lewin papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.361.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2018
… coal mining school, but left soon after and went to Uzbekistan to join the Polish army under Władysław Anders’ command (Anders’ Army), but was rejected…
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 … Uzbekistan to join the Polish army under Władysław Anders’ command (Anders’ Army), but was rejected for being Jewish. He then ended up in Siberia in a labor…
11. Alfred Traum papers
1997.A.0153.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0153.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1997
bulk: 1938-1942
… in the British Army as a tank commander in Germany in the Royal Scots Greys. After his discharge, Freddie attended the Merchant Navy Academy to train…
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 … fight in its War of Independence. After the war, he returned to England to fulfill his obligatory two year service in the British Army as a tank commander…
12. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
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… September 15, 1942, Witek was sent to a resistance unit commanded by Pole Franchisek, in the village of Lusheviza-Mala. He lived in a one room apartment; his…
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 … and all members were killed. On September 15, 1942, Witek was sent to a resistance unit commanded by Pole Franchisek, in the village of Lusheviza-Mala…
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. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
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… suffering from diphtheria; the camp commander, Erwin Metz, denied the request and hit Tony with his rifle butt. They walked for three weeks and over 150…
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  • Series 1: Anthony Acevedo papers Circa 1935-Circa 2012
    • File 1: Diary 1945
15. Michael J. Kraus papers
1995.A.1067.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1067.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1994
bulk: 1945-1947
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… lager B.II.d. Later known as the Birkenau boys, they were housed on the punishment block number 13 under the command of the Blockelteste Bednarek. Michal…
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 … command of the Blockälteste Bednarek. Eventually, he was moved into another barrack and worked in the Unterkunft, an assignment that gave him an occasional…
16. Rabbi Judah Nadich papers
1994.A.0250. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0250.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1997
Special Collection:
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… the commander of US forces in Europe, General Dwight Eisenhower. The position was created due to the Harrison Report condemning the army for its…
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 … commander of the US forces in Europe. Rabbi Nadich was born in Baltimore, MD on May 12, 1912. He was the son of a Jewish socialist and member of the Workmen…
17. Nina Merrick papers
1988.70.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1988.70.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
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…. The group commander, Sydor Artemovych Kovpak, a World War I hero, with one of the oldest and most effective partisan fighting units, was sympathetic to…
18. George and Katie Frankfurter papers
2010.442.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2010.442.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2001
bulk: 1944-1951
undated: 
…, Czechoslovakia, for basic training. From late 1941 to early 1942, he was placed in a labor battalion under the command of Hungarian military officers that was…
19. 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…
20. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
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… Merzdorf, the soldiers told them to jump off and took them to the Kamste, Mettner, and Frahne linen factory. The guards got the commandant, Ann Rinke, who…