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21. 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
22. Abba Kovner personal archives (RG-95-61)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.106 | RG Number: RG-68.156
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1993
Subtitle:
אבא קובנר, ארכיון אישי
… in wartime Vilnius. During the liquidation of the Vilnius ghetto, he directed the escape of partisan fighters out of the ghetto, and commanded a…
23. Rhine Army Ranges (Hohne) map with overprinting, acquired by an American soldier stationed in Germany during the 1980s
2018.389.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.389.2
Date:
publication: 1942-1953
Title:
RHINE ARMY RANGES (HOHNE)
… attack through political and military means. The political headquarters are located in Brussels, Belgium. The military command structure is headed by two…
24. 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…
25. Paul A. Roy papers
1993.A.0020 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0020 | RG Number: RG-19.032
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1983
bulk: 1942-1951
…, and Germany with the 505th and 34th Antiaircraft Artillery Groups. During the summer of 1945, he became commander of the liberated Dachau concentration…
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 … the 505th and 34th Antiaircraft Artillery Groups. During the summer of 1945, he became commander of the liberated Dachau concentration camp where his…
26. 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…
27. 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…
28. Tajna Policja Państwowa w Łodzi. Oddział w Łodzi (Sygn. 201)
Document | Accession Number: 2013.32 | RG Number: RG-15.260M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1954
Alternate Title:
Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle in Litzmannstadt
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… espionage and political units of the Prussian police and proceeded to staff them with thousands of Nazis. On April 26, 1933, Göring became the commander of…
29. Irving Heymont papers
1989.259.3 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 1989.259.3 | RG Number: RG-19.038
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1995
… his regimental commander saw two men in striped uniforms wandering dazed and confused on the road. They knew the men must be prisoners, but had never…
30. 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…
31. 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:
Save Their Stories
… 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…
32. Zyga Butler papers
2016.507.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.507.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1979
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. He served with the Polish Forces under British Command (Anders Army) from April 1942 to April 1947 in Russia, Iran, and Iraq. He was evacuated to…
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 … Russians at Lwów and taken to Russia. He served with the Polish Forces under British Command (Anders Army) from April 1942 to April 1947 in Russia, Iran, and…
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  • Series 1: Zyga Butler papers 1939-1979
    • File 4: Diary 1943-1944
33. 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…
34. 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…
35. Stanisław Paprocki (Kol. 30)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.308 | RG Number: RG-59.048
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1952
Alternate Title:
Stanisław Paprocki collection
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…
36. 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…
37. 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…
38. Weisberger family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.242.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1996
undated: 
… Army in October 1942, serving at bases in Florida, South Carolina, and Mississippi, before being sent overseas, to the Persian Gulf Command, stationed…
39. 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…
40. 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…