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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. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
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 … confession given by Heinrich Müller, commandant of Kaiserwald. The identification and passes series http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
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3. Regis Gignoux papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.66.1
Date:
creation: 1945
… Miller to the Buchenwald concentration camp, but his commanding officer chose to fly them himself. Gignoux died in France on January 21, 2005.…
4. Frederick B. Lea collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.300
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1992
…Consists of material related to the experiences of Frederick B. Lea, Company Commander of the 46th Armored Medical Battalion, Fourth Armored Division…
5. 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…
6. Oral history interview with Jack La Pietra
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.16 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0016
Date:
interview: 1989 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jack La Pietra describes being sent to England as a part of the 9th Air Force, Tactical Air Command, supporting the 3rd Army; being a pilot for The…
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 … Air Command 1:03:45 Their mission was air support for the Third Army, strafe and bomb targets. He was a pilot for 'The Black Widow' or P 61 1:07:30 It…
7. 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…
8. Dr. John D. Singer correspondence
2016.283.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.283.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
… as a surgeon at the rank of captain, and subsequently as commanding medical officer in that battalion, at the rank of major. He saw action with the…
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 … Army, Third Army, 773rd Tank Destroyer Battalion, as a surgeon and commanding medical officer, 1944-1945. The letters, addressed to his wife Genise in…
9. Oral history interview with Melvin H. Rappaport
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.51.102 | RG Number: RG-50.759.0102
Date:
interview: 1994 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… knowledge of current youth about the war; the imprisonment and disposition of the Commandant of the Buchenwald and the Commandant’s wife; and attending a…
10. Oral history interview with John Friedmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.29 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0029
Date:
interview: 1993 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, which allowed him a pass to leave the ghetto; the arrival of American troops and being hired as a foreman in the ATC (Air Transport Command); flying to…
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 … command, we have a good commander. O.K. so I was shifting over, which was not allowed but I did it, I went to the other commander, the commander was a…
11. Oral history interview with Joe Friedman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0481 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0380
Date:
interview: 1996 October 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… attention they needed; volunteering for work in displaced persons camps, which included Wildflecken in Germany and Baumberg, Germany; becoming the commander…
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 …, other than that, I, the work really for me sort of died down a bit, until, until my commanding officer asked me if I thought I would like to get involved…
12. Oral history interview with Henry Kolber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0436 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0008
Date:
interview: 1994 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… learn to shoot; covering graves and filling them with dirt and antiseptic; the commander, Rosenbaum, whom he testified against in Hamburg, Germany in 1968…
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 … to become SS. Immediately, Commandant Rosenbaum selected ten of the young men in Henry’s group to be shot. This was 1/10th of the transport. This…
13. Oral history interview with Henry Lauth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.46 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0046
Date:
interview: 1989 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the interrogation of Josef Kramer, commandant of Bergen-Belsen.…
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 … women, the prisoners in Bergen-Belsen, because they had caught Kramer, who was the head, the commander of the camp of Bergen-Belsen. So I went there with…
14. Oral history interview with Herman Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.18 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0018
Date:
interview: 1984 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Gleiwitz; being evacuated in January 1945; escaping but being captured and sent to Gross-Rosen; being propositioned sexually by the camp commander…
15. Oral history interview with Bella Mischkinsky
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0340
Date:
interview: 1995 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Ashmiany commandant’s house; escaping to the Vilnius ghetto in 1942; her deportation to the Kaiserwald concentration camp in Riga, Latvia and sorting…
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 … found a job for a German commandant of ______________ as a cleaning woman or cleaning girl, but she did have a German who took care of his needs. I was…
16. Oral history interview with Harriet Steinhorn-Roth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.281.9 | RG Number: RG-50.009.0009
Date:
interview: 1988 December 14
Subtitle:
Shadows of the Holocaust: Harriet Steinhorn Roth
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… so she could avoid being sent to the sick ward, where she risked being shot; being sent to the sick ward but being rescued by a Jewish commander; going…
17. Oral history interview with Aba Prawer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.63 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0063
Date:
interview: 1987 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Ilse Koch, the wife of Buchenwald's Commandant, Karl Koch; his liberation from Buchenwald in 1945; his life after liberation and his move to the United…
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 … out, but just commanders-- daily work. And then was evacuation, means eliminating the ghetto. Between the first and your second visit? This was in '42…
18. Oral history interview with Milton Harrison
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.85 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0085
Date:
interview: 1987 August 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… command of Captain Kiefer with a total of four Americans was dispatched to investigate; following shortly after with a small group of 28 men; finding on the…
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 … left. A tank under the command of Captain Kiefer, with a total of four Americans was dispatched to investigate. Shortly thereafter, a small group of 28…
19. Oral history interview with Arthur Johnson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.24 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0024
Date:
interview: 1986 November 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the reporting they had read in the Stars and Stripes newspaper; the conditions of the former prisoners; going on a tour in the camp commandant’s house…
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 … the military compound. So that was vivid. And then I remember a compound. So that was vivid. And then I remember a tour over into the commandant s house…
20. Oral history interview with John Orr
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.51.95 | RG Number: RG-50.759.0095
Date:
interview: 1994 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; seeing the Camp Commandant’s quarters; seeing up to 200 prisoners stacked in bunks within the barracks; speaking with some of the ex-prisoners who spoke…