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1. Howard Cwick papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.233 | RG Number: RG-09.069
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2005
… entitled "It Happened in Germany," 21 pages, by Howard Cwick, a sergeant in the Third United States Army. Mr. Cwick participated in the liberation of…
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 … photoprints, and twenty copyprints of the Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation. Also contains a memoir entitled,"It Happened in Germany," 21 pages, by…
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:
Save Their Stories
… establish a hospital and bring aid to the area. On April 24, 1945 he was assigned to a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany where he continued his efforts. Lorenz…
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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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  • Series 2: Buchenwald 1945-1978, Undated
    • File 5: Reports 1945
  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
3. Walter Stras collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0451 | RG Number: RG-10.150
Date:
1938-1995
…Walter Stras (b. Walter Straass, 1924, Steinbach am Glan, Germany - 1995, Kansas City,Mo.) survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. He…
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 ….150 1996.A.0451 Title: Walter Stras collection, 1938-1995. Extent: 1 folder. Provenance: Walter Stras collected the materials during his time in Germany…
4. Judith Bar-Nadav family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0129 | RG Number: RG-10.314
Date:
1938-1972
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Buchenwald--Germany--Photographs.…
5. Selected records of postwar East German investigative court cases and trials to Nazi war crimes
Document | Accession Number: 2004.300 | RG Number: RG-14.068
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1990
Subtitle:
Records ZUV
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Finding Aid RG-14 Germany Revised Sep. 17, 2012 RG-14.068 Acc. 2004.300 Title: Postwar East German Investigative Court Cases and Trials to Nazi War Crimes…
6. Wspomnienia i pamietniki (Sygn. IZ. Doc II)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.444.1 | RG Number: RG-15.547
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2011
Alternate Title:
Memories and diaries
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … nationalists with Germany, living conditions in the Dachau, Flossenburg, Weimar-Buchenwald, Ravensbrück camps, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, Ebensee and other…
7. Basel family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0268 | RG Number: RG-19.054
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1975
… Liebgold. David Brodmann was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Rysza and Fela were liberated during a death march in Grimma, Germany. After…
8. Willi Seitz papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.061 | RG Number: RG-32.008.01
Date:
creation: 1937-1990
…Willi Seitz is a native of Karlsruhe, Germany, and a survivor of the Holocaust. He was expelled from a German school at age 13 or 14 for refusing to…
9. Seconde Guerre Mondiale records (AJ 72)
Document | Accession Number: 2001.19 | RG Number: RG-43.019M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1980
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.…
10. Randolph Braham collection
Document | RG Number: RG-52.000
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2011
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Against Germany. Hungarian historian and archivist Elek Karsai (1922-1986) served as project director. The collection was titled the "I-sorozat" (I-series…
11. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
…Germany.…
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 … (organizer of the anti-fascist platform in West Germany) -- Monachium [Munich?] 1966; a telegram "Komma-Klub" from Munich[?] 1965; a money transfer for Radio…
12. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… overseas in Germany and France.…
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 … forcibly drafted into the French Air Force. He immigrated to the United States in 1951 and became a citizen after serving in the US army overseas in Germany…
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  • Series 1: Philip D. Vock papers 1941-1975, Undated
    • File 4: Journal 1945
13. Louis Oppenheimer papers
1992.49.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1992.49.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Louis Oppenheimer (?-1967) owned a clothing business and lived in Frankfurt, Germany with his wife (?-1967) and two children, Alfred (c. 1915-1991…
14. Dino A. Brugioni collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.433.2
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2001
… (NPIC). During World War II, Brugioni flew in 66 bombardment missions, as well a number of reconnaissance missions, over North Africa, Italy, Germany…
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 … War II, Brugioni flew in 66 bombardment missions, as well a number of reconnaissance missions, over North Africa, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia and France…
15. Ernest Wachtel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.603.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-2012
bulk: 1943-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
16. Frank Shurman collection
1995.A.0362 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0362
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1994
…Frank Shurman (1915-1999) was born Fritz Schürmann in Hildesheim, Germany to Willy and Alma Schürmann. His father owned a custom-tailoring business…
17. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border…
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 … for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their…
18. Dr. Willy Katz papers
1990.88.11 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 1990.88.11
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1988
bulk: 1902-1950
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … files, 1929‐1945 Indexing terms Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Dresden. Jewish physicians…
19. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
…Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma, and Ruth. Arthur worked as a draftsman by trade, but as…
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 …. Processing history: Michael Folkerts, July 2015 Biographical note Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma…
20. Commemorative armband likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.7
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…