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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. Rosenzweig and Ringelheim families papers
2000.226.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2000.226.1
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1995
… seeking information about photographic material relating to the 311 Bomber Command of the Czech Army. Rosenzweig family restitution files include…
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 … by a 1947 letter seeking information about photographic material relating to the 311 Bomber Command of the Czech Army. Rosenzweig family restitution…
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3. 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…
4. Selected records of the Slovak Armed Forces during World War II
Document | Accession Number: 2003.265 | RG Number: RG-57.002M
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1971
bulk: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… Defense of the Slovak Republic (MNO SR)/ Presidium, Central Military Command (HVV), and Land Forces Command (VPV) - Bratislava Arrangement is thematic…
5. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
… next helped establish the Belzec killing center, where he essentially commanded Camp II, the extermination side of the camp. He then helped establish the…
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 …, his family, and his SS career, culminating in his role as deputy commander of the Sobibor death camp. Niemann was killed by prisoners during the October…
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  • Series 1: Photographic materials Approximate 1870-Approximate 1944, 1934-1944 Bulk
    • File 2: Belzec (4 photos) Approximate 1941-Approximate 1942
      • Pages: 4
    • File 6: Funeral and gravesite in Chełm (14 photos) 1943-1944
    • File 9: Sobibor (62 photos) (2 folders) 1942-1943
    • File 12: Album 1, "2. SS-T.V. [Totenkopfverband] Brandenburg," [as is] Approximate 1934-Approximate 1941
    • File 14: Album 1, "2. SS-T.V. [Totenkopfverband] Brandenburg," [original order] Approximate 1934-Approximate 1941
6. Roman Kawalek collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.145 | RG Number: RG-10.477
Date:
1913-1998
… 1945, Dr. Kawalek was the commanding medical officer with the unit that liberated Buchenwald.…
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 … Normandy. That September, with her son less than 500 miles away, Dr. Kawalek’s mother died in Auschwitz. In 1945, Dr. Kawalek was the commanding medical…
7. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
… Service to Interrogation of Prisoners of War (IPW) Team 13 as Chief Interrogator. He was second in command of his team, which was attached to the 104…
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 … of War (IPW) Team 13 as Chief Interrogator. He was second in command of his team, which was attached to the 104th (Timberwolf) Infantry Division in…
8. Leonard and Edith Ehrlich research papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.537.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2005
… group of copied documents include the transcripts of the trial of Karl Rahm, the commandant of Theresienstadt, obtained from the Štatni Archiv v…
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 … papers to the Leo Baeck Institute. Another significant group of copied documents include the transcripts of the trial of Karl Rahm, the commandant of…
9. Jas̆a Altarac papers
2002.438.1 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.438.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1964
… command decided to transfer the Jewish prisoners to Albania. They were divided into groups and each group had to find trucks to take them to different…
10. Arnold Lissance family papers
2014.275. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.275.1
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1973
Special Collection:
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… official daily diary of the German army’s supreme command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht), a post he held until 1943. Captured by the Allies at the end of the…
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 … military historian Helmuth Greiner, who had been appointed in 1939 to keep the official daily diary of the German army’s supreme command (Oberkommando der…
11. Ambasada Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej przy Watykanie (A.44)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.287 | RG Number: RG-59.042
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1970
Alternate Title:
Polish Embassy in Vatican
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…
12. Katie Altenberg collection
Document | Accession Number: 2022.15.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2008
…, commandeered them out of the ghetto and brought them to their aunt’s apartment to momentary safety. Her building was one of Raoul Wallenberg’s “protected houses…
13. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
2016.287.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.287.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1960
bulk: 1945-1951
… Graves Registration Command as a fingerprint analyst identifying deceased American soldiers. He was transferred back to Frankfurt am Main later in the year…
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 … Graves Registration Command as a fingerprint analyst identifying deceased American soldiers. He was transferred back to Frankfurt am Main later in the year…
14. Norman Salsitz papers
2003.425.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 2003.425.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1889-2000
… until the command was given to seek out and kill Jews being hidden on a farm. Norman volunteered for the mission, killing the Poles who had been sent with…
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 … worked with the underground to defeat their common foes until the command was given to seek out and kill Jews being hidden on a farm. Norman volunteered…
15. William Malsh papers
1994.A.0027.1 Box 1 Folder 28 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0027.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-circa 1993
bulk: 1937-1941
…, Chicago, and Los Angeles, enlisted in the Army in 1942, and commanded a Military Intelligence Interrogation team at the end of the war. His father and…
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 … in the Army in 1942, and commanded a Military Intelligence Interrogation team at the end of the war. His father and uncle, Ernst Malsch (b. 1887…
16. Miriam Klein photographs
2011.286.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2011.286.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1960
… Marysia to leave the ghetto for the local convent under the coat of a woman who worked in the garden of ghetto commandant SS-Unterscharführer Josef…
17. 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…
18. Salomon Slowes papers
2002.477.10 Oversize Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.477.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2003
… between the Polish Government in Exile and the Soviet government to form a Polish army under the command of General Wladyslaw Anders, who had been a POW in…
19. Konkowski and Blinbaum families papers
2012.473.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1960
… the Belgian resistance. He adopted the nom de guerre Moliere, and founded and commanded a group of primarily Jewish resistance fighters known as the…
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 … resistance. He adopted the nom de guerre Moliere, and founded and commanded a group of primarily Jewish resistance fighters known as the Moliere Group. The…
20. Hafftka and Jonisch families photographs
2016.545.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2016.545.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1952
…. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the family sought ways to escape Warsaw. Aleksander was able to commandeer a car from a police station, and…
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 …. After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the family sought ways to escape Warsaw. Aleksander was able to commandeer a car from a police station, and…