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1. Edmund F. Franz papers
2000.6.1 Box 1 Folder 52 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2000.6.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
…Sally Sockel and Susan Nickens donated the Edmund F. Franz papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000.…
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 ….ushmm.org Acquisition information: Sally Sockel and Susan Nickens donated the Edmund F. Franz papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000…
2. Atrocities; liberation of concentration camps
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Film | Accession Number: 2005.184.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4201 | Film ID: 2678
Film Title:
Camps of the Dead
Film Collection Title:
Gerald Nattboy Collection
Date:
Event: 1945
Production: 1947
Duration:
00:10:41
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Film copyright holder is unknown. The Museum has made reasonable efforts and has not been able to identify and/or locate a copyright owner of this…
3. Atrocities; liberation of concentration camps
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Film | Accession Number: 2009.208.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4759 | Film ID: 2880
Film Title:
Camps of the Dead
Film Collection Title:
Clayton E. Pysher Collection
Date:
Event: 1945
Production: 1947
Duration:
00:10:20
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Film copyright holder is unknown. The Museum has made reasonable efforts and has not been able to identify and/or locate a copyright owner of this…
4. John Daniel Morgan collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.147.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
… detailed to the Dachau concentration camp to support the repatriation of internees and the on-going trials of former SS personnel. He assisted in the…
5. Oral history interview with Edmund Motzko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.20 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0020
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The oral history was recorded during the International Liberators Conferences in New York and Washington, DC by the United States Holocaust Memorial…
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 …. In order to find the guilty SS officers, people were lined up in front of their houses and the survivors had to identify them. Edward recalls how they…
6. Gardelegen liberation photograph
Document | Accession Number: 2020.21.1
…Contains a black and white photograph of three corpses of prisoners shot by the SS laying in the doorway of a barn just outside of Gardelegen…
7. Kenneth Kravis photograph collection
2018.577.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2018.577.1
Date:
creation: 1945
… the 102nd Infantry Division entered Gardelegen, Germany and discovered the remains of the massacre of prisoners by the SS. Kravis witnessed and…
8. Oral history interview with Fred Kulick
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.89 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0089
Date:
interview: 1990 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive…
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 … and do the work in the fields and the barns for the farmers. Of course the difference was these people were prisoners. And there was a detail of SS men…
9. Robert Hesse papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1940
… was able to book passage on the S.S. St. Louis leaving Hamburg in May 1939. After the passengers of that ship were refused entry into Cuba and it…
10. Oral history interview with Charlotte Dessen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.1 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0001
Date:
interview: 1980 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Collection consists of 88 oral testimonies, conducted in the early 1980s by Sophie Caplan and Konrad Kwiet, with Holocaust survivors who immigrated…
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 … line up. And the SS doctor looked at us. And he looked at me. And he said, you look pretty bad. And I smiled at him. And I said, oh, I'm much better…
11. Oral history interview with Edmund Motzko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.42 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0042
Date:
interview: 1982 April 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish Community Relations Council, Anti-Defamation League of Minnesota and the Dakotas. The interview was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial…
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 … finding SS troops disguised as regular soldiers. Unit came to Gardelegen near Bismarck, Germany and entered the camp 4/13/45. Saw 2 piles of bodies still…
12. Germans surrender, infantry mop-up around Leipzig; Gardelegen barn atrocity
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Film | Accession Number: 2006.73.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4510 | Film ID: 2820
Date:
Event: 1945 April 23
Duration:
00:09:35
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the National Archives and Records Administration in January 2006.…
13. Oral history interview with Bernard Hansen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.46 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0046
Date:
interview: 1980 June 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project contains audio recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews with liberators…
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 … about it in years until I saw the Holocaust program on TV. Q: You did see the TV show. A: Right and that brought it all back. I’m glad people are looking…
14. Oral history interview with Leonard Goldfine
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.264 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0264
Date:
interview: 1988 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive…
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 … of the Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive while we were there. We were there approximately four days. And this was the first time we really…
15. Oral history interview with David Campbell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.16 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0016
Date:
interview: 1979 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The Fred Roberts Crawford Witness to the Holocaust Project contains audio recordings and transcripts of oral history interviews with liberators…
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 … an SS unit. I had a couple in there who had no sympathy with an “SSer” at all. We had fought them all the way across, and they had had some bad times…
16. Concentration camp atrocities
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Film | Accession Number: 1995.146.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2598 | Film ID: 1000
Film Title:
Welt im Film no. 5 (part 2)
Date:
Event: 1945 June 15
Duration:
00:11:05
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… civilians (under compulsion) viewing the atrocities; Josef Kramer; interrogation/detention of SS guards and camp officials Gardelegen: corpses; interview…
17. Gardelegen atrocity; German civilians gather food; bombing of train yard
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Film | Accession Number: 2013.130.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1425 | Film ID: 2984
Date:
Event: April 16-17, 1945
Duration:
00:09:14
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… the Issenschnibbe estate outside of Gardelegen. SS and auxiliary guards incinerated the building and shot all prisoners who attempted to escape the…
18. A hole in the barn wall through which the SS and their cohorts shot prisoners kept inside.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 17080
Date:
1945 April 14 - 1945 April 18
…A hole in the barn wall through which the SS and their cohorts shot prisoners kept inside.…
19. The barn outside of Gardelegen where 1,016 concentration camp prisoners were killed by the SS and German militia.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 24511
Date:
1945 April 16
…The barn outside of Gardelegen where 1,016 concentration camp prisoners were killed by the SS and German militia.…
20. Under the supervision of American soldiers, German civilians exhume the corpses of prisoners killed in a barn and buried in a mass grave by the SS.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 08052
Date:
1945 April 18
…Under the supervision of American soldiers, German civilians exhume the corpses of prisoners killed in a barn and buried in a mass grave by the SS.…