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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:
Save Their Stories
… 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. 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…
3. Abba Kovner personal archives (RG-95-61)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.106 | RG Number: RG-68.156
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1993
Subtitle:
אבא קובנר, ארכיון אישי
… in wartime Vilnius. During the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto, he directed the escape of partisan fighters out of the ghetto, and commanded a…
4. Zyga Butler papers
2016.507.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.507.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1979
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. 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
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Mikhail Lev collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.12 | RG Number: RG-68.118
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2008
… as a commander of the intelligence unit and then as a chief of staff of a partisan brigade. After the war, Lev returned to Moscow and continued his…
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 … a commander of the intelligence unit and then as a chief of staff of a partisan brigade. After the war, Lev returned to Moscow and continued his work…
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 …. After surviving one year in the POW camp, he managed to escape and joined partisans in Belarus, serving first as a commander of the intelligence unit and…
10. Płk. Wincentego Bąkiewicza (Kol.138)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.311 | RG Number: RG-59.051
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1959
Alternate Title:
Col. Wincenty Bąkiewicz collection
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…, it commanded the largest underground army of the war, the Armia Krajowa (the Polish Home Army). In 1942, reports about the mass murder of Jews in…
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 … Commander of Polish Army in East on Polish- Jewish relations in the II Division  different reports, bulletins and memos  [Separate folder concerning…