Box JHC Holocaust Archives Box 18

Scope and Contents Photocopies of images from the U.S. Army's 29th Division yearbook. Images show Schloss Rheydt, a German castle given to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and captured by American troops, and a Jewish service held in the castle by the 29th Division's Jewish chaplain. Included is a photocopied clipping describing Abrams's experience as a Jewish soldier and a photocopied letter written by Abrams explaining the Schloss Rheydt images. Also included are notes from Karen Tannenbaum, field...

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Two Holocaust atrocity photographs from Dachau concentration camp, photocopied booklets about the 20th Armored Divison, and a division patch of Bernard Bakeman (1923-2009), a U.S. soldier who served with the division during World War II.

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Copy slides of a Nazi flag owned by T. Moffatt Burriss, a commander in the U.S. Army's 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. Included is a clipping detailing his experience liberating Wobbelin concentration camp.

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Copy negatives, contact sheets, slides, and digital images of Holocaust atrocity photographs taken by Richard DiDiego, a U.S. soldier who visited Dachau concentration camp shortly after it was liberated. Included are notes from Karen Tannenbaum, field researcher for the Holocaust Archives.

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Materials related to Horace Lennon, a U.S. Army soldier, including reproductions of photographs he and others took of Buchenwald concentration camp, a brief videotaped interview with Lennon, and his funeral program and other papers. Included are notes from Karen Tannenbaum, field researcher for the Holocaust Archives.

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Yearbook commemorating the 20th Armored Division in World War II. Included is photograph of Carl Leonard, a U.S. soldier who served with the division.

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Includes a chapter written by Chan Rogers describing his experience as a soldier with the U.S. Army's 157th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Division, which liberated Dachau concentration camp. Included are notes from Karen Tannenbaum, field researcher for the Holocaust Archives.

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Photocopies of a letter written on April 17, 1945, by U.S. Army Lieutenant Carl Romack to his family describing conditions at Buchenwald concentration camp. Included are photocopies of Buchenwald photographs and a newspaper article that reprinted Romack's letter.

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Jewish Calendar for Soldiers and Sailors, 1944-1945, published by the National Jewish Welfare Board. The calendar belonged to Morris Lapin, grandfather of donor Barry Stiefel. Also included is an undated German postage stamp depicting Adolf Hitler.

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Letters and and emails to Holocaust field researcher Karen Tannenbaum from World War II veterans who participated in the liberation of German concentration camps, including Dachau and Nordhausen.