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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
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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. Kommandeur der Schutzpolizei in Distrikt Radom work journal (Sygn.172)
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0884 | RG Number: RG-15.064M
Date:
inclusive: 1944 June 15-1944 December 12
…Contains a work journal (diary) kept by the commander of the Schutzpolizei station in Radom, Poland, from June 15, 1944, to December 12, 1944. The…
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 … the commander of the Schutzpolizei station in Radom, Poland, from June 15, 1944, to December 12, 1944. The journal contains information about police…
3. Rachel Zonszajn Benshaul collection
2012.318.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Item 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.318.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
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… home in the ghetto to an attic above the ghetto police command post with her daughter Rachel while part of the ghetto was forcibly evacuated in August…
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 … talking people telling us what is happening. There is no possibility of leading the area. My husband is leading us to the police command post, and into the…
4. Sydney Goodman papers
2011.148.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2011.148.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-2005
bulk: 1944-1999
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… correspondence with Charles Vogel, an attorney building a case against two Berga commanders, as well as miscellaneous correspondence with others about their POW…
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 … attorney building a case against two Berga commanders, as well as miscellaneous correspondence with others about their POW experiences and search for answers…
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  • Series 1: Diary 1944-1945, Undated
    • File 1: Diary (2 folders) 1944-1945
5. Charles Vogel papers
2010.500.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2010.500.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1937-2001
undated: 
bulk: 1945-1949
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… and Ludwig Merz, Commanders of Berga, in Germany. Some of the material was used, but no survivors were asked to testify. After Metz and Merz’s sentences…
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 … of Erwin Metz and Ludwig Merz, Commanders of Berga, in Germany. Some of the material was used, but no survivors were asked to testify. After Metz and…
6. Archivalien des ehemaligen Heeresarchivs (Fond 1275)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.13 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.13
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
bulk: 1941-1945
Alternate Title:
Records of the Former Military Archive in Potsdam
… photographs relating to life and work of the commander-in-chief of the 2nd German Army on the German-Soviet front (1942-1943); war diaries of German military…
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 … work of the commander-in-chief of the 2nd German Army on the German-Soviet front (1942-1943); war diaries of German military units (1939-1945); reports…
7. Dokumenty niemieckie (Sygn. IZ. Doc I)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.443.1 | RG Number: RG-15.546
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
German documents
… military commanders), as well as other records relating to: various orders of repression of Poles and Jews in the “Wartheland”, German reports on Polish…
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 …”, clippings from the German press and the German calendar (contain the biographies of German military commanders), as well as other records relating to: various…
8. Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0332 | RG Number: RG-33.002
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1948
… of the SS guards and the capos, most of whom were drawn from the veteran criminal offender population. In March 1941, a new commandant arrived. He…
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 … his son, Josef, 1940 July 8. 3. Josef and Amilia K. letter to the commander of Flossenbürg concentration camp requesting permission to visit their son…
9. Zyga Butler papers
2016.507.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.507.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1979
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…. 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
10. Arnold Lissance family papers
2014.275. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.275.1
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1973
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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. Walter Materna papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.159.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1969
… 15, 1940, Materna is listed as Fuehrer des Bau Bataillons 219, i.e. the commanding officer of Construction Battalion 219 (an auxiliary pioneer…
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 …, Materna is listed as Fuehrer des Bau Bataillons 219, i.e. the commanding officer of Construction Battalion 219 (an auxiliary pioneer battalion of the…
12. Mikhail Lev collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.12 | RG Number: RG-68.118
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2008
… as a commander of the intelligence unit and then as a chief of staff of a partisan brigade. After the war, Lev returned to Moscow and continued his…
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 … a commander of the intelligence unit and then as a chief of staff of a partisan brigade. After the war, Lev returned to Moscow and continued his work…
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 …. After surviving one year in the POW camp, he managed to escape and joined partisans in Belarus, serving first as a commander of the intelligence unit and…
13. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
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… government to form a Polish Army in the East, commanded by General Wladyslaw Anders. After his release, Edward traveled south to Tatischewo (now Turkmenbasy…
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 … the Italian Campaign under the command of the Eighth British Army. They fought their way north through Italy, experiencing high casualties, especially…
14. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
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… September 15, 1942, Witek was sent to a resistance unit commanded by Pole Franchisek, in the village of Lusheviza-Mala. He lived in a one room apartment; his…
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 … and all members were killed. On September 15, 1942, Witek was sent to a resistance unit commanded by Pole Franchisek, in the village of Lusheviza-Mala…
15. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
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… suffering from diphtheria; the camp commander, Erwin Metz, denied the request and hit Tony with his rifle butt. They walked for three weeks and over 150…
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  • Series 1: Anthony Acevedo papers Circa 1935-Circa 2012
    • File 1: Diary 1945
16. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
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… received a field promotion to captain. He served as the Deputy Commander of the Intelligence Section at Sennelager, a prisoner of war camp for high ranking…
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 … of military administration of Gladbeck. He also served as the Deputy Commander of the Intelligence Section of the prisoner of war camp for high ranking…
17. Rabbi Judah Nadich papers
1994.A.0250. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0250.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1997
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… the commander of US forces in Europe, General Dwight Eisenhower. The position was created due to the Harrison Report condemning the army for its…
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 … commander of the US forces in Europe. Rabbi Nadich was born in Baltimore, MD on May 12, 1912. He was the son of a Jewish socialist and member of the Workmen…
18. 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
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… lager B.II.d. Later known as the Birkenau boys, they were housed on the punishment block number 13 under the command of the Blockelteste Bednarek. Michal…
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 … command of the Blockälteste Bednarek. Eventually, he was moved into another barrack and worked in the Unterkunft, an assignment that gave him an occasional…
19. Henry Dressler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.379.11
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2009
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… after 3 days. The Wasserbergers fled east, eventually reaching New York. The house was occupied by the German Army commandant, but Henry and his family…
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 … Wasserbergers fled east, eventually reaching New York. The house was occupied by the German Army commandant, but Henry and his family were allowed to remain. In…
20. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
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… Merzdorf, the soldiers told them to jump off and took them to the Kamste, Mettner, and Frahne linen factory. The guards got the commandant, Ann Rinke, who…