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You searched for: Subject Germany. Remove constraint Subject: Germany. Digital Availability Has Supplementary Materials Remove constraint Digital Availability: Has Supplementary Materials Key Camps Buchenwald Remove constraint Key Camps: Buchenwald Holding Institutions United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Remove constraint Holding Institutions: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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1. Post-liberation Buchenwald photographs
1988.A.0116 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0116 | RG Number: RG-04.068
Date:
creation: 1945
…Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950.…
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 …: Crematoriums--Germany--1940-1950. Concentration camp inmates--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany. Geography: Buchenwald…
2. David H. Pollock papers
Document | RG Number: RG-04.075
Date:
1945-1964
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Buchenwald--Germany.…
3. 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…
4. Con Sellers photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1989.209 | RG Number: RG-09.064
Date:
creation: 1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.…
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 … or officer’s building in Buchenwald, Germany, 1945. 7. 1 photoprint: b&w. 2 ½ x 3 5/8 in. Image of soldiers marching by a field; blurry, 1945. 8. 1…
5. Howard Cwick papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.233 | RG Number: RG-09.069
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2005
… entitled "It Happened in Germany," 21 pages, by Howard Cwick, a sergeant in the Third United States Army. Mr. Cwick participated in the liberation of…
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 … photoprints, and twenty copyprints of the Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation. Also contains a memoir entitled,"It Happened in Germany," 21 pages, by…
6. 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
… 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
7. Walter Stras collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0451 | RG Number: RG-10.150
Date:
1938-1995
…Walter Stras (b. Walter Straass, 1924, Steinbach am Glan, Germany - 1995, Kansas City,Mo.) survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. He…
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 ….150 1996.A.0451 Title: Walter Stras collection, 1938-1995. Extent: 1 folder. Provenance: Walter Stras collected the materials during his time in Germany…
8. 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…
9. Charlotte Sonnenberg papers
1988.41.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.41.1 | RG Number: RG-10.275
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
…Charlotte Alexander (1910-1999?, née Lichtendorf) was born on 22 January 1910 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany to Regina and Emmanuel Lichtendorf…
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 … following Kristallnacht, identification cards of Charlotte’s from Leipzig, Germany and Shanghai, China, and a photograph of Herbert’ tombstone in Shanghai…
10. Edith Pick Lowy papers
1989.11.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 46
Document | Accession Number: 1989.11.1 | RG Number: RG-10.333
Date:
inclusive: 1944 October
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.…
11. 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…
12. Rundschreiben from the Frankfurt am Main office of the United Restitution Organization
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0013.1 | RG Number: RG-28.010
Date:
1961-1970
…Germany. Gestapo…
13. Oral history interview with Ralph Codikow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.416.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0055
Date:
interview: 1990 June 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… were separated; his transfer to Landsberg, a sub-camp of Dachau in Germany, and then to Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau; contracting measles but being…
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 … morning, I was woken and told that the Germany invaded Russia and they're going to be in our town any day, the German army, and we have to leave because…
14. Oral history interview with Michael Diamond
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.363.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0061
Date:
interview: 1990 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Neuengamme, and Mauthausen; working as an engineer and repairing railroad engines; ending up in Wurttemberg, Germany, where he was…
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 … concentration camps. Most of these guys who came home, like me in '42, they were taken straight to the concentration camps to Germany and anyplace else. Me, I was…
15. Oral history interview with Beno Helmer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.413.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0093
Date:
interview: 1990 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … was Foreign Minister of Hungary from 1938-1941. 2 Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0093 3 A: The attic was very low…
16. Oral history interview with John Komski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.401.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0115
Date:
interview: 1990 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … territory into...into the Germany, and I went back to Kraków. But this was, this was city looked completely different. First of all, the whole government of…
17. Oral history interview with Abraham Lewent
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0344 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0130
Date:
interview: 1989 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … coals went to Germany. So this was mine job, to unload and load coals. And once we clean airplanes...once in a while they took us to clean out the http…
18. Oral history interview with Eugene Lipman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.346.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0135
Date:
interview: 1990 February 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; continuing his work with the Haganah in Regensburg, Germany; going home to the United States for a short time in April 1946 but returning in late 1946 with his…
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 … Germany and I had asked the Chief Chaplain's office to ship me to Germany. Going overseas was unavoidable. I knew that. And so…uh...in February of 1945, I…
19. Oral history interview with Bernard Pasternak
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0177
Date:
interview: 1994 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Germans were not the same type of Germans as in Germany. They all speak German, but they call them Sipser (ph), a Shwab, some kind of a Shwab name. There…
20. Oral history interview with David Pollack
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.345.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0182
Date:
interview: 1990 February 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Charlotte Islands and then in England in 1943; joining a mobile radar unit outside of Weimar, Germany in 1945 and visiting Buchenwald, where he was shocked by…
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 … I was doing. The Americans were bombing Germany by daylight with a bombsight called Norden (ph). You actually looked down and the bombardier…