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1. Regina Bochner Schweid papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.099 | RG Number: RG-10.027
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1940
… concerning the viewing of a Holocaust photograph exhibit by American liberators. *See RG list for RG-10.027*01 - RG-10.027*02 titles.…
2. 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…
3. 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:
Save Their Stories
… material is correspondence between Michael and his liberators, a diary describing his memories from the war written between 1945 and 1947, and a memoir…
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 … soldiers look like. It was the first person—and a liberator to boot—whom we encountered on our way out of captivity. He was just stopping a motorcycle with a…
4. J. George Mitnick papers
2005.120.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2005.120.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-2005
… concentration camp. Another letter written in May 1945 at the Linz Displaced Persons camp by Julius Levy, a Polish Jew who addresses his letter to his liberators…
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 … concentration camp. Another letter written in May 1945 at the Linz Displaced Persons camp by Julius Levy, a Polish Jew who addresses his letter to his liberators…
5. Liberation by Russians; crowds; Polish prisoners
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Film | Accession Number: 2001.355.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3159 | Film ID: 2489
Film Title:
Liberation of Ukrainian and Belorussian Lands
Date:
Event: 1939-1941
Production: 1940
Duration:
00:02:19
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, then cut back to the center of town. Lvov: more crowds of people, fists in the air, cheering the Soviet liberators. Men climb up onto tanks and throw…
6. Lester M. Libo collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.494.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1946
bulk: 1945-1946
… overseas to France. Lester was among the American liberators of the Gunskirchen Lager, and one of the first soldiers to reach the camp. After the end of the…
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 … the American liberators of the Gunskirchen Lager, and one of the first soldiers to reach the camp. After the end of the war, he was transferred to…
7. Gina Rappaport memoir
2010.50 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2010.50 | RG Number: RG-02.251
Date:
inclusive: 1939 December-1945 April
… by her liberators to write down her experiences, which she did on the letterhead of the Commandant Hillersleben, the former German military base where…
8. Prewar Lviv (Lwow, Poland) and the first days of German occupation
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Film | Accession Number: 2001.355.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3131 | Film ID: 2488
Date:
Event: 1930-1941
Duration:
00:02:07
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…] had led to an unbelievable thing: Hitler's soldiers were met as liberators. It was impossible to imagine something more terrifying and fearful than…
9. 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
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  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
10. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
  • File 1: Diaries December 23, 1941-June 2, 1942, June 2, 1942-January 13, 1943, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 4: Diaries March 31, 1944-May 25, 1944, May 25, 1944-July 3, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 7: Diaries November 11, 1944-January 11, 1945, January 11, 1945-March 11, 1945, includes loose material from diaries
    • Pages: 7, 8
11. Levy-Saltiel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.144.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1998
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 … coming!, the liberators are coming, Avanti Englese!” “What’s going on?”, I asked the Sargent but he would not tell me. When we got to work they told us…
12. John M. Steiner collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.566.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-2014
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 … von Cornberg, Jochen Fahrenberg, Joel Dimsdale, and Philip Zimbardo; and with his Dachau liberator, Dan Dougherty. Series 6, Subject files, assembles…
13. Maria Gunsberg and Gustav Engel collection
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0079
Date:
creation: 1939 December 01-1945 May 09
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 … camps were liquidated in an extremely short time. Most of the released inmates ran in all directions, while some went to join their liberators. At the…
14. Foreign Office: General Correspondence, FO 371
Document | Accession Number: 2001.104 | RG Number: RG-59.006M
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1949
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 … Vilna, Lithuanian entry into Vilna (ceremonial entry into Vilna by "Real Masters" - liberators greeted by White Russian, Polish, Jewish Russian and Tator…