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Box JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8

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Contains 13 Results:

Negatives and slides, 1905-1957, undated

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8, Folder: 1
Collection Overview From the Collection: Slides, negatives, and digital images of Tola Wilner Widawski, a Jew from Łódź, Poland, who survived the Holocaust. Pre-war images show Wilner with friends and family, including her father, aunt, sister, and cousins. Other pre-war images show Wilner's husband, Michislaw Widawski, and his family, including his grandmother. Post-war images show the Widawskis with their children, Eva and Jerry. Also included are images of the Polish exit permits the family used to leave Poland for Israel in...
Dates: 1905-1957, undated

Postcards, clippings, and photocopies, 1943-1951, 2008

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents Includes postcards of Berchtesgaden and Hitler's Eagle's Nest, as well as five propaganda postcards issued by the German Red Cross. Also includes facsimiles of Jorgensen's 113th Evacuation Hospital identity card, New York City War Emergency Identification Card, currency exchange control book, and cover of My Military Missal prayer book. Photocopies include part of The Nurses's Prayer of Faith prayer book, the May 1945 ...
Dates: 1943-1951, 2008

Photographs, negatives, and slides, 1945

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents Includes images taken by Jorgensen while stationed in Germany in 1945. Images include the 113th Evacuation Hospital in Aachen and Viersen, bodies of concentration camp inmates killed by Germans in Gardelegen and the cemetery in which they were buried, American troops meeting with Russian troops in Gardelegen, damage to the Reich Chancellery and other locations in Berlin, displaced persons traveling by train, and Jorgensen with relatives in Sandefjord, Norway. Also includes digital images on...
Dates: 1945

Photographs and clippings, 1945, circa 2000

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Four atrocity photographs from the Ohrdruf concentration camp taken after its April 4, 1945, liberation by the 89th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. Two photocopied clippings from a circa 2000 Rolling W, the newsletter for the 89th Infantry Division, describe the liberation of Ohrdruf. Also includes negatives, slides, and digital images on DVD.

Dates: 1945, circa 2000

Images, 1945

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Negatives and slides of atrocity photographs from an unidentified concentration camp located in Bavaria near the German-Austrian border. Includes brief field notes with descriptions of the photographs. Also includes digital images on DVD.

Dates: 1945

Right to be Proud: History of the 65th Infantry Division's March Across Germany, 1945

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8, Folder: 2
Collection Overview From the Collection:

The collection consists of twenty-six Holocaust atrocity photographs taken by Robert Turner, a U.S. soldier from the 65th Infantry Division who photographed victims in a Bavarian concentration camp after it was liberated. Included is a photocopy of the 1945 booklet Right to Be Proud: History of the 65th Infantry Division's March Across Germany.

Dates: 1945

Photographs, 1945

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8, Folder: 1
Collection Overview From the Collection:

The collection consists of twenty-four Holocaust atrocity photographs collected by U.S. soldier Clarence Holland. Some of the concentration camps photographed include Buchenwald, Dora, Gardelegen, and Ohrdruf.

Dates: 1945

Photographs, 1945

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8, Folder: 1
Collection Overview From the Collection:

The collection consists of approximately 42 photographs showing war damage in Germany taken in 1945 by Harold Schreiner, a U.S. Army tank commander. Photographs show the ruins of Berchtesgaden and other areas in Germany; U.S. troops, tanks, and other equipment; and damaged German military equipment, including airplanes, tanks, and guns. Other images include 14 Holocaust atrocity photographs from Dachau concentration camp.

Dates: 1945

Negatives and slides, 1945

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Negatives and slides of select photographs in folder 1. Digital images on DVD are also included.

Dates: 1945

Images, 1905-1961

 File — Box: JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Photographs of Alexander Kornfeld, his wife, Mathilde, and their son, Walter. Nearly all photographs were taken in pre-war Vienna and include family portraits and group photographs, including Alexander Kornfeld with his military unit. Other images include the Kornfeld family's German passports, U.S. certificates of naturalization, ghetto money, and other papers. Materials consist of digital images on CD and photocopies.

Dates: 1905-1961