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1. Charlene Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0028.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2004
bulk: 1945-1951
… several displaced persons camps including Föhrenwald and Bensheim. She also attended the University of Heidelberg for a year. Charlene was able to contact…
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 … and Bensheim displaced persons camps (DP camps) and immigration to the United States in 1948. Included are documents, correspondence, and photographs…
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2. Dr. W. Lehman Guyton collection
Document | Accession Number: 1987.115.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945
…Consists of twelve photographs, some bearing inscriptions, taken of the Gardelegen massacre site, and of the Hillersleben displaced persons (DP) camp.…
3. Machtinger family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1988.090.2
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1988
… Lech (Displaced persons camp) in 1946, as well as Sophie Machtinger's memoir "Recollections from my life's experiences" written in Polish in 1955 and…
4. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… Passover Seder at the home of Mary Ganzweich in Bayreuth, Germany, 1946; groups of people at the displaces persons camp in Weiden in der Oberpfalz, Germany…
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 … at Auschwitz. Welek and Hinde were reunited in October 1945. They married at the displaced persons camp in Weiden in der Oberpfalz on March 2, 1947…
5. Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service
1988.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.1
Date:
manufacture: 1938
received: 1945 April
… that the Americans would not retreat. She then went to Stuttgart displaced persons camp. She worked as liaison between displaced persons camps and the…
6. Our Lady of Czestochowa medal given to a Polish Jewish woman hiding as a Catholic laborer
1988.154.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.154.2
Date:
received: 1943 June
commemoration: 1932
… that the Americans would not retreat. She then went to Stuttgart displaced persons camp. She worked as liaison between displaced persons camps and the…
7. Oral history interview with Boleslaw Brodecki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0335 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0040
Date:
interview: 1989 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; his liberation in Theresienstadt by Soviet forces in 1945; going to a displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany in 1945 and getting a job as…
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 … was a displaced person camp. It was run by American. I don't know. There was a... You heard of IRO, International Refuge Organization. It was run by the…
8. Oral history interview with Zelda Piekarska Brodecki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0336 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0041
Date:
interview: 1989 September 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… meeting her cousin there; moving to the Landsberg am Lech displaced persons camp, where she met her husband, Boleslaw Brodecki; and living in Germany until…
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 … Landsberg, to a DP camp, displaced person camp. My husband was a policeman there. That's where I met him. Q: Was he from Poland also? A: He's from Warsaw, yes…
9. Anvil-shaped paperweight given to a US soldier serving as a displaced persons camp administrator
1989.259.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.259.1
Date:
received: 1945 October 12
…Anvil-shaped paperweight given to a US soldier serving as a displaced persons camp administrator…
10. Irving Heymont papers
1989.259.3 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 1989.259.3 | RG Number: RG-19.038
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1995
… Landsberg displaced persons (DP) camp from the deactivated 80th Division. The Army had received bad publicity about the conditions and treatment of refugees…
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 … officer who assisted in the liberation of Gunskirchen, and was tasked in the administration of the Landsberg am Lech displaced persons camp. Within the…
11. Jean B. Rosensaft photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1989.304
Date:
creation: 1945 April
…The collection consists of photographs depictiong the Wiesbaden displaced persons camp and the Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after liberation.…
12. Oral history interview with Barbara Gerson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.14 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0014
Date:
interview: 1983 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; reuniting with her brother; she and her husband staying at the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany; telling her children about her…
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 …:20:00 After the liberation she and her husband stayed at the displaced persons camp in Lanzberg Commer (ph). They got an apartment in Lanzberg that was…
13. Oral history interview with Tema Bauer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.4 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0004
Date:
interview: 1992 November 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; returning to Łódź but not finding any family members; her time in a displaced persons camp in Pocking, Germany, where she married and had a child; emigrating…
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 … for children until 1942, when the children were sent to concentration camps. Ghetto life became very difficult due to hunger and diseases including…
14. Oral history interview with Felicia Brenner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.7 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0007
Date:
interview: 1985 November 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp)…
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 …Time-coded notes of Interview with Felicia Brunner November 24, 1985 Felicia Brunner is a survivor of the Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen camps as well…
15. Oral history interview with Felicia Brenner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.8 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0008
Date:
interview: 1990 July 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jewish people who were coming back to find family and claim their property; going to Salzheim (Zeilsheim) displaced persons camp; and feeling bitter and…
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 … displaced persons camp. 00:27:42 Felicia never went home because she heard stories about the Polish people killing the Jews who returned looking for…
16. Oral history interview with Walter Gray
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.22 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0022
Date:
interview: 1982 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, French, Russians, and Poles in the camp; the importance of giving testimony on what happened during the Holocaust; his experiences with displaced persons…
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 … the afternoon and stayed for a period of about two hours. 00:36 After the war was over, I had considerable experience with displaced persons camps…
17. Oral history interview with Ernest Lorge
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.43 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0043
Date:
interview: 1984 April 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Displaced persons camps.…
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 … enough to transport, others were too weak to walk; visiting hospitals, including Grimma, Germany, which was full of displaced persons who did not want to…
18. Oral history interview with Helen Meisels
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.44 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0044
Date:
interview: 1991 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Displaced persons camps.…
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 … we got false papers to go to Germany because the Germans took Polish girls to work to Germany, like a forced labor. It was not a concentration camp…
19. Oral history interview with Herbert Joseph
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.8.12 | RG Number: RG-50.063.0012
Date:
interview: 1989 November 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany; his duties at the Landsberg Prison, which involved escorting convicted SS troops to be executed; the riot in the Landsberg displaced persons camp…
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 … spelling or accuracy. they got, this retribution. 21:41 Herbert first mentions the riot in the Landsberg displaced persons camp. 21:46 People who had been in…
20. Oral history interview with Sara Eisen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.12 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0012
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp)…
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 …'t tell us what for or nothing. So we got dressed, and my parents ran after us. And there, we found out they want to sent us away to the camp, to a working…