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41. Nadia Gould collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0265 | RG Number: RG-02.141
Date:
undated: 
… with her parents; her assimilation into American culture and her activities while in high school and in college; and some of her experiences afterwards…
42. Irving Schaffer manuscript
Document | Accession Number: 2011.300.1
Date:
inclusive: 1986
… liberated by the American Army, describes life in the Feldafing displaced persons camp, and his emigration to the United States in 1947.…
43. William C. Alston Jr. papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0140 | RG Number: RG-04.047
Date:
creation: 1945
… camp; a news article describing war-time activities of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division in Aschaffenburg, Germany; a photocopy of an American army medical…
44. The beginning of Sam Stammer's life
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0286 | RG Number: RG-02.178
Date:
creation: 1983-1984
Subtitle:
as written by him in German
… Ebensee); the death of family members at Treblinka; his work counterfeiting American and British money for the Nazis; his liberation and being a displaced…
45. Rose Galek Brunswic papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.285.1 | RG Number: RG-10.061.01
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1989
… bombed and German troops occupied the city on September 29. Moshe evenly divided the family’s possessions, such as jewelry and American gold coins, and…
46. Klara Süss papers
2007.344.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2007.344.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1947
… school and immediately immigrated to the United States. Erna also applied for an American visa, but her application was denied because her sponsor had…
47. Nina Merrick papers
1988.70.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1988.70.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Rokitno, Poland, her escape from the Borisov ghetto, postwar life at the Eschwege displaced persons camp, immigration to the United States, and American…
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 … American acculturation. Languages: English, Yiddish, Hebrew, German Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored…
48. Barry Spanjaard papers
2016.411.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.411.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-circa 1981
… family had some protection due to Barry's American citizenship. On 2 April 1943, Barry’s grandmother was deported, and on 6 April 1943 Barry’s family was…
49. Samuel Gottesman Collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.175.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1994
… work detail, repairing rail lines damaged in bombing raids and was eventually liberated by the American Army. He wrote this memoir in 1982 and typed it…
50. George and Katie Frankfurter papers
2010.442.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2010.442.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2001
bulk: 1944-1951
undated: 
… in March 1951 on the USNS General Muir. Kato and Gyorgy Americanized their names to Ida Katie and George. They settled in West Hartford, Connecticut…
51. Linhard family papers
2017.259.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2017.259.1
Date:
inclusive: 1846-1993
bulk: 1938-1939
… members, and neighbors began to disappear. Food was scarce, but the family was able to get daily rations at an American relief organization kitchen. Alfred…
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 …, including birth, marriage and death certificates; and letters Bernhard wrote to American aid organizations appealing for their assistance in helping him and…
52. Rolf Preuss papers
1999.A.0076 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0076
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1999
bulk: 1939-1947
… passports, a receipt for the payment of a tax related to American immigration, and student records. Inquiries from the Committee for the Assistance of…
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 … American immigration, and student records. Inquiries from the Committee for the Assistance of European Jewish Refugees in Shanghai document the efforts of…
53. "Clandestinely: 1943-1945"
Document | Accession Number: 2009.328 | RG Number: RG-02.242
Date:
inclusive: 2009
… Allied bombing raids. He describes the end of the war, life in the American zone, and his memories of returning to Berlin in 1946. His parents were…
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 … to the hilt by fleeing German soldiers. By 2 May the Americans were ten km from Tacherting, where white flags hung from every house. A few days later…
54. Joe Van Rooyen collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.53 | RG Number: RG-10.496
Date:
inclusive: 1941-2009
… factory. He describes being tortured for information. Mr. Van Rooyen was liberated by the American Army in April 1945. Includes Mr. Van Rooyen…
55. Bill Carr papers
2019.179.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.179.1
Date:
1945
… execution of camp prisoners, the capture of American officers, the hiding places of various SS officers, the sexual harassment of women, the plundering of…
56. Susan Warsinger papers
1995.A.0470.2 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0470.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Americanization school to learn English. She also studied with Rabbi Jacobs from Bad Kreuznach, who lived with his family nearby. Susan later learned that most of…
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 … Society and American Friends Service Committee as well as identification documents for herself and her brother. Photographs included in this collection…
57. 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
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Sydney Goodman (1917-2005) was a Jewish American soldier born in Detroit, Michigan where he owned a body shop. In 1940 he married Grace Goldberg and…
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 …, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to Sydney’s experiences as a Jewish American soldier who was captured as a POW during the Battle of the…
58. Bernard Frum papers
1994.A.0136 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0136 | RG Number: RG-10.152
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1960
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Fresnes prison, deportation to Drancy, forced labor in Paris, her escape from a bus, and the liberation of Paris by the American Army. Biographical…
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 … were due to arrive in Shanghai. Immigration material includes applications, correspondence from the American Consulate regarding their application status…
59. Stephen J. Schweitzer diary
2022.130 transcript
Document | Accession Number: 2022.130.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944 December 21-1945 April 12
…Stephen J. Schweitzer (1914-1989) was a Catholic American soldier who was born in Pennsylvania and lived and worked in New York City as an insurance…
60. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers
1998.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0297
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1978
…. Genealogical materials include family trees and family history. Clippings from American, Austrian, and Czech newspapers document anti-Jewish regulations imposed…
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 … collection Genealogical materials include family trees and family history. Clippings from American, Austrian, and Czech newspapers document anti-Jewish…