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1. 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…
2. 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: 
Special Collection:
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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
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. 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…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
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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
10. 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
Special Collection:
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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…
11. 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…
12. Henry Dressler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.379.11
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2009
undated: 
… after 3 days. The Wasserbergers fled east, eventually reaching New York. The house was occupied by the German Army commandant, but Henry and his family…
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 … Wasserbergers fled east, eventually reaching New York. The house was occupied by the German Army commandant, but Henry and his family were allowed to remain. In…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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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Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
  • Series 5: Writings 1939-2014
    • File 2: Diary and algebra notebook, Joseph Stripounsky 1940, (in a book enclosure)
    • File 3: Diary, Joseph Stripounsky 1941
16. Oskar Mendelsohn collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0108 | RG Number: RG-10.254
Date:
1940-1991
bulk: 1940-1948
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 ….254 Oskar Mendelsohn Collection, 1940-1991 (bulk 1940-1948). 6 1. Extracts: Quisling Criminal Case. 2. Extracts: Ernst Flesch, German Commandant, Trondheim. 3…
17. "Clandestinely: 1943-1945"
Document | Accession Number: 2009.328 | RG Number: RG-02.242
Date:
inclusive: 2009
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 … years when her husband commanded her to “shut up, Jews have nothing to say in Germany,” years that had made her life intolerable, were finally over. On 19…
18. In command of history : Churchill fighting and writing the Second World War / David Reynolds.
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Publication | Library Call Number: D743.42 .R48 2005
Author/Creator:
Reynolds, David, 1952-
Published:
New York : Random House, [2005]
©2005
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…In command of history : Churchill fighting and writing the Second World War / David Reynolds.…
19. Angel of Auschwitz / Tarra Light.
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Publication | Library Call Number: BL520.L54 A3 2008
Author/Creator:
Light, Tarra
Published:
Berkeley, Calif. : Frog Books, 2008
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…My early years -- The secret to Hitler's power -- My ministry -- Healing apprenticeship -- Bond of the heart -- Debates with the commandant -- My…
20. Death dealer : the memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz / by Rudolf Höss ; edited by Steven Paskuly ; translated by Andrew Pollinger.
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Publication | Library Call Number: D805.P7 H6713 1992
Uniform Title:
Kommandant in Auschwitz. English
Author/Creator:
Höss, Rudolf, 1900-1947
Published:
Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1992
Availability
…Internment camp commandants--Biography.…