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You searched for: Subject Germany. Remove constraint Subject: Germany. Dates 1971-1990 Remove constraint Dates: 1971-1990 Key Camps Buchenwald Remove constraint Key Camps: Buchenwald Holding Institutions United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Remove constraint Holding Institutions: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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1. L'univers concentrationnaire
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0100 | RG Number: RG-04.001.02.01
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Conference internationale du 26 au 28 Octobre Washington sur la liberation des camps de concentration Nazis par les Arme Allie et Franaise
…Germany. Gestapo…
2. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.08
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Buchenwald
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.…
3. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.09
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Dachau (Ackerman - Zolkower)
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.…
4. "I saw Buchenwald"
Document | Accession Number: 1991.064 | RG Number: RG-09.009
Date:
1985
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.…
5. Irwin B. Zeisel's recollections of his experiences in the United States Army in Germany
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0582 | RG Number: RG-09.045
Date:
creation: 1983
…Irwin B. Zeisel's recollections of his experiences in the United States Army in Germany…
6. 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…
7. 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
8. 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…
9. 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.…
10. 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…
11. Oral history interview with Ralph Codikow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.416.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0055
Date:
interview: 1990 June 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… were separated; his transfer to Landsberg, a sub-camp of Dachau in Germany, and then to Dachau and Auschwitz-Birkenau; contracting measles but being…
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 … morning, I was woken and told that the Germany invaded Russia and they're going to be in our town any day, the German army, and we have to leave because…
12. Oral history interview with Michael Diamond
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.363.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0061
Date:
interview: 1990 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Buchenwald, Bergen-Belsen, Neuengamme, and Mauthausen; working as an engineer and repairing railroad engines; ending up in Wurttemberg, Germany, where he was…
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 … concentration camps. Most of these guys who came home, like me in '42, they were taken straight to the concentration camps to Germany and anyplace else. Me, I was…
13. Oral history interview with Beno Helmer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.413.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0093
Date:
interview: 1990 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … was Foreign Minister of Hungary from 1938-1941. 2 Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0093 3 A: The attic was very low…
14. Oral history interview with John Komski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.401.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0115
Date:
interview: 1990 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … territory into...into the Germany, and I went back to Kraków. But this was, this was city looked completely different. First of all, the whole government of…
15. Oral history interview with Abraham Lewent
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0344 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0130
Date:
interview: 1989 October 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … coals went to Germany. So this was mine job, to unload and load coals. And once we clean airplanes...once in a while they took us to clean out the http…
16. Oral history interview with Eugene Lipman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.346.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0135
Date:
interview: 1990 February 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; continuing his work with the Haganah in Regensburg, Germany; going home to the United States for a short time in April 1946 but returning in late 1946 with his…
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 … Germany and I had asked the Chief Chaplain's office to ship me to Germany. Going overseas was unavoidable. I knew that. And so…uh...in February of 1945, I…
17. Oral history interview with David Pollack
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.345.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0182
Date:
interview: 1990 February 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Charlotte Islands and then in England in 1943; joining a mobile radar unit outside of Weimar, Germany in 1945 and visiting Buchenwald, where he was shocked by…
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 … I was doing. The Americans were bombing Germany by daylight with a bombsight called Norden (ph). You actually looked down and the bombardier…
18. Oral history interview with Walter Schnell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0323 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0206
Date:
interview: 1989 June 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Schnell, born on April 16, 1904 in Strehlen, Germany (Strzelin, Poland), describes his family and childhood; going to study crystal and…
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 … Schnell. And I was born on April 16, 1904. Q: OK. Where? A: In Strehlen. This is Silesia...is the province of Silesia in Germany. Q: Thank you. A: You…
19. Oral history interview with Guy Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.379.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0223
Date:
interview: 1990 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Guy Stern, born on January 14, 1922 in Hildesheim, Germany, describes growing up in a Jewish family; attending a German school, where he had many non…
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 … course even USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0223 2 as it does now in Germany at age ten, and uh uh his name was Heinrich, Heinrich Hennes, and uh he uh when the…
20. Oral history interview with Alexander Breuer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.3 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0003
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … negotiated with Germany for the surrender of the city. Alex took part of these negotiations, Alex says that the Mayor of Weimar mentioned off handedly the…