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1. Elsie Ragusin Azzinaro papers
2016.468.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.468.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-circa 2015
bulk: 1944-1961
… accusation of being American spies. They were separated and interrogated. Giovanni was deported to Buchenwald concentration camp where he perished on 28…
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 … Ravensbrück (IRN# 556084). She also published her memoir An American in Auschwitz in 2010 (D805 G3 R245 2010). Accruals: Accruals may have been received since…
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2. 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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3. 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
… to the Timberwolves (104th Infantry Division), German organizational charts, Jewish prayer books for the American Armed Forces, and a newsletter…
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 … to the Timberwolves (104th Infantry Division), German organizational charts, Jewish prayer books for the American Armed Forces, and a newsletter…
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4. Frances Grün papers
1989.184 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.184 | RG Number: RG-10.332
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1942
… written by William N. Fraleigh, American Vice Consul in Naples, Italy, to Leopold Grün regarding the German quota waiting list; and a letter written by the…
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 …, American Vice Consul in Naples, Italy, to Leopold Grün regarding the German quota waiting list, and a letter written by the Grün children to their parents…
5. 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
… responsible for assisting the German police on how to fingerprint German citizens. After the project ended, he was transferred in early 1946 to the American…
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 … several capacities including fingerprinting German citizens, identifying the identities of deceased American soldiers, and fingerprinting defendants during…
6. Solomon Bogard photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.132.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
…The collection primarily consists of copyprints depicting concentration camps, survivors, victims, liberators, and perpetrators collected by American…
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 …, survivors, victims, liberators, and perpetrators collected by American World War II veteran Solomon Bogard. The bulk of the photographs were taken and…
7. Carl Heinz Rosner papers
2016.308.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2016.308.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2010
bulk: 1930-1957
… the time. The letters are arranged alphabetically. A: Abel, Isidore; Aktiebolagst Aerotransport; American Legation in Stockholm; Anderson, Ludwig…
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 … the time. The letters are arranged alphabetically. A: Abel, Isidore; Aktiebolagst Aerotransport; American Legation in Stockholm; Anderson, Ludwig…
8. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
… date book, an autograph book, and German and American identification cards documenting the Berg family and the Pauly family (Gisela Berg’s husband and…
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 … belongings Klara Berg took to Kenya, Kenyan certificates of registration, a miniature date book, an autograph book, and German and American identification…
9. Masha Rolnikaite papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.436.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2015
… from the diaries of children from the Vilna ghetto (Yitskhok Rudashevski, Gabik Hellere, Masha Rolnikaite); a letter from David Fishman, an American…
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 … ghetto (Yitskhok Rudashevski, Gabik Hellere, Masha Rolnikaite); a letter from David Fishman, an American Jewish historian, with a manuscript; “Songs from…
10. 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
… Germany and immigrated to Shanghai, China. Herbert was a doctor and practiced medicine at a hospital run by the American Presbyterian Mission during the war…
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 … immigrated to Shanghai, China. Herbert was a doctor and practiced medicine at a hospital run by the American Presbyterian Mission during the war. Herbert died…
11. David Wittner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.165
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
…Twenty of the items were given to David Wittner, an American soldier in World War II, by Robert Rensch, a survivor of Buchenwald concentration camp…
12. Armand Eisler papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.086 | RG Number: RG-10.024
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1957
….Z. American Association of Former Inmates of Concentration Camps.…
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 … immediately immigrated to the United States. Eisler served as chairman of many committees, among them, the K.Z. American Association of Former Inmates of…
13. Heilpern family papers
2015.528.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 41
Document | Accession Number: 2015.528.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1940
… and briefly interned in Buchenwald. In May 1939, the Heilperns were able to send Felix to the United States with the assistance of an American couple…
14. Beruh family correspondence
2011.137.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.137.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
… United States, they applied for visas. The American consulate however, denied the family and told they would have to wait one year because too many Polish…
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 … from Yaakov’s younger brother in the United States, they applied for visas. The American consulate however, denied the family and told they would have…
15. Roger François papers
2005.25.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2005.25.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1990
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… negotiated by the Dutch. Buchenwald was liberated by American troops in April 1945, not long before the war ended in May. Roger was honored with multiple…
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 … pursuant to a prisoner release agreement negotiated by the Dutch. Buchenwald was liberated by American troops in April 1945, not long before the war ended in…
16. Frank Shurman collection
1995.A.0362 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0362
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1994
… 1939, Frank moved to England where he volunteered at the Lord Kitchener transit camp while he waited for his American visa. He moved to the United…
17. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
… Ruth left Germany via the Kindertransport. While living in England, Irma married an American soldier, Irving Cantor, and immigrated to the United States…
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 … married an American soldier, Irving Cantor, and immigrated to the United States in 1947. Once in the United States, she was able to help her parents…
18. Randolph Braham collection
Document | RG Number: RG-52.000
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2011
…, 1944-1994. Series 6: Records from Hungarian Archives Relating to the Holocaust in Hungary, 1938-1949; Series 7: Records from European, American, and…
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 … translation. Series 7 consists of records from European, American, and Israeli Archives Relating to the Holocaust in Hungary. Records include photocopies of…
19. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC or Joint), who helped the refugees settle in. The Stern family was taken to a shelter in an…
20. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
…. They could hear combat a few miles away. On April 13, 1945, they were liberated by African American soldiers. Herman was taken back by jeep to the now…
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 … the field until the American forces arrived. Following liberation, Herman was taken back to Buchenwald before returning to Gelsenkirchen and Essen to…