Box JHC Holocaust Archives Box 9

Collection Overview From the Collection:

The collection consists of approximately 70 Holocaust atrocity photographs taken in Dachau concentration camp by Bernard Warshaw, a captain in the U.S. Army. Photographs show bodies of victims on the grounds and outside the crematorium. Includes a 1942 photograph of Warshaw in Camp Stewart, Georgia, as well as three circa 2000 postcards from Dachau showing the grounds, crematorium, and fence.

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Photocopies of items in folder 1. Also includes brief field notes from researcher Sheila Rodin-Novak.

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Negatives and digital images on CD of items in folder 1.

Scope and Contents Includes images of Willy Adler and his parents, Max and Beila Adler, in the 1920s and 1930s in Hamburg, Germany. Images of documents include Max and Beila Adler's 1913 marriage license, a 1938 letter to Beila requiring her to pay 500 marks to the Nazi government, and a certificate in Hebrew from Willy Adler's bar mitzvah. Other images show documents related to Max Adler's business selling eggs, including a 1938 announcement stating that Adler's business had been sold to Aryans. Digital...

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Correspondence is mostly related to Adler's German pension payments. Also included are three newsletters from Jewish organizations in Hamburg. Correspondence is in German and English.

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Includes two booklets in German: a 1993 booklet about the Jewish school Willy Adler attended in Germany, and a 2006 booklet about the Stolpersteine (stumbling block) memorials to Holocaust victims installed on streets in Hamburg. Also includes a 2010 newspaper clipping describing Adler's life in Nazi Germany and a 1992 clipping describing a protest in Hamburg by Jews objecting to construction on the site of a Jewish cemetery.

Scope and Contents Copies (slides, negatives, and contact prints) of pre-war images of the Blas family include Israel and Liba Blass, grandparents of Harry Blas; Peretz and Sara Blass, his parents; and Freida, Malka, and Josef Blass, his siblings. Pre-war images of the Stockfleth family include Erika; her great-grandmother, unnamed; her grandmother, Dorothea Gedon Stockfleth; her parents, William and Marie-Gertrude Botta Stockfleth; and her sister, Edelheit "Heidi." Post-war images show Harry and Erika Blas at...

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Included is a copy of a four-page memoir from Harry Blas in which he describes his experiences in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz concentration camp, and the search for his family after the war. Also included is a brief handwritten genealogy from Erika Blas.

Collection Overview From the Collection:

The collection consists of two May 1945 U.S. Army reports written by F. van Wyck Mason describing conditions at Buchenwald concentration camp and other areas in Germany. The reports provide a brief history of the camp and its operations, a description of the surviving inmate population, and descriptions of the various buildings within the camp and their uses. Particular attention is paid to the crematorium and how it was operated.

Collection Overview From the Collection:

The collection consists of four photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp taken in April 1945, shortly after its liberation by the U.S. Army. Photographs show the grounds, bunks, and gallows within the camp.