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1. Soviet liberators witness burned corpses lying on the grounds of the Klooga concentration camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 47631
Date:
1944
…Soviet liberators witness burned corpses lying on the grounds of the Klooga concentration camp.…
2. Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.268.6
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1999
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 … Recognition of Rescuers and Camp Liberators of the Holocaust, 1991 1.2 Koper, Antoni: English language study notes, 1947 1.3 Koper, Antoni: identification and…
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3. George A. Silver collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.541.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1981
bulk: 1943-1945
… war. Also contains material documenting Silver's attendance at the International Liberators' Conference, hosted by the United States Holocaust Memorial…
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 …, Paris Guide: For Leave Troops,” undated, circa 1944-1945 2 Conference materials: International Liberator’s Conference, United States Holocaust Memorial…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. Liberation scenes
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Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0103 | Film ID: 144
Date:
Event: 1944-1945
Duration:
00:04:31
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… survivor walking, posing next to barbed wire fence. People in uniforms, grabbing potatoes from truck. Inmates offer food to liberators. Woman kisses hands of…
8. Barges; European seashore
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Film | Accession Number: 2005.245.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3221 | Film ID: 2411
Film Title:
WWII footage -- Harold L. Dunson -- amateur
Date:
Event: circa 1944-1948
Duration:
00:02:24
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…LIBERATORS…
9. laundry; French town
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Film | Accession Number: 2005.245.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3218 | Film ID: 2411
Film Title:
WWII footage -- Harold L. Dunson -- amateur
Date:
Event: circa 1944-1948
Duration:
00:02:30
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…LIBERATORS…
10. Daily activity in French town
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Film | Accession Number: 2005.245.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3222 | Film ID: 2411
Film Title:
WWII footage -- Harold L. Dunson -- amateur
Date:
Event: circa 1944-1948
Duration:
00:00:38
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…LIBERATORS…
11. U.S. military police; soldiers; wreath-laying
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Film | Accession Number: 2005.245.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3219 | Film ID: 2411
Film Title:
WWII footage -- Harold L. Dunson -- amateur
Date:
Event: circa 1944-1948
Duration:
00:01:48
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…LIBERATORS…
12. French market; American soldiers at bar
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Film | Accession Number: 2005.245.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3220 | Film ID: 2411
Film Title:
WWII footage -- Harold L. Dunson -- amateur
Date:
Event: circa 1944-1948
Duration:
00:01:26
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…LIBERATORS…
13. U.S. & German soldiers
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Film | Accession Number: 2005.245.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3224 | Film ID: 2411
Film Title:
WWII footage -- Harold L. Dunson -- amateur
Date:
Event: circa 1944-1948
Duration:
00:02:15
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…LIBERATORS…
14. Nazi propaganda: anti-Soviet
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Film | Accession Number: 2001.359.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3699 | Film ID: 2623
Film Title:
Roter Nebel / Den Roeda Dimman [Red Mist]
Date:
Production: 1944
Duration:
00:15:00
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…, corpses are exhumed and the total loss of life in the 'year of horror' is estimated at 50,000 people. The German 'liberators' are welcomed in Riga while…
15. Donald L. Hildenbrand papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.608.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1942-1970
… laborer at the Berga concentration camp. Includes: German patch and knife inscribed April 23, 1945 both given to him by one of his liberators, relics from…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. US Army medical unit conducts target practice and eats
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Film | Accession Number: 2002.189.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3642 | Film ID: 2581
Film Title:
Shooting Range -- Col. Alexander Zabin, MD -- amateur
Date:
Event: 1944-1945
Duration:
00:02:01
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…LIBERATORS…
19. POW camp; destroyed railyards; the Alps; US military discover Dachau death trains; destroyed Munich
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Film | Accession Number: 2002.535.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3830 | Film ID: 2464
Film Title:
Dachau, Germany -- Col. Wilbur G. Dockum -- amateur
Date:
Event: 1944-1945
Duration:
00:14:08
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…LIBERATORS…
20. Child's yellow skirt with heart patches made for an abandoned hidden child by her rescuer
2009.120.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.120.2
Date:
received: 1944
… that there was great joy in the town when the Soviets entered as liberators on July 17, 1944. But after the war ended, no one came to claim Ela. The…