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George Detwiler Burges collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0095
Abstract

George Detwiler Burges graduated from the College of Charleston in 1938. He served as a B-17 pilot during World War II and was killed in action in 1944. This collection consists of Burges' personal papers, letters, military records, photographs, newspaper and magazine articles, and military decorations including the Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.

Dates: 1929-1944
Found in: Special Collections

Harriet McBryde Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0156
Abstract Writings, working files, diplomas, awards, recognitions, memorials, and audiovisual materials of Harriet McBryde Johnson. Materials document Johnson's disability and civil rights advocacy and activism, her career as an author and an attorney, and her participation in Charleston city and county politics. Disabled due to a congenital degenerative neuromuscular disease she came to prominence after debating Peter Singer concerning his views on disability-based infanticide and for her annual...
Dates: 1971-2010
Found in: Special Collections

Laufer family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1034-076
Abstract

Papers of the Laufer family, Polish immigrants who ran a kosher restaurant on King Street in Charleston, South Carolina. Materials include an original Laufer's Kosher Restaurant business card, naturalization certificates, a ketubah, and two family photographs. Most materials are photocopies. Also included are 12 cupping glasses or "bankas" used for medicinal purposes.

Dates: 1910-circa 1945
Found in: Special Collections

Vera Nathans Semel papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-016
Abstract Photographs, birth certificates, marriage certificates, identity cards, passports, and other papers of Vera Nathans Semel, a Dutch Jew who survived World War II in hiding. Most papers, including birth and marriage certificates, relate to Nathans's maternal family, the Paerls. Pre-war photographs show Nathans's maternal grandparents and uncle in Amsterdam; post-war photographs show her, her parents, husband, and children in Beverwijk and Bussum, both in the Netherlands, and in Scarsdale, New...
Dates: 1830-1996
Found in: Special Collections

Siegmund Wolfsohn papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-018
Abstract

Photographs, citizenship papers, immigration and school records, and other papers of Siegmund Wolfsohn, an Austrian Holocaust survivor who escaped Austria as part of the Kindertransport in 1939 and eventually settled in the United States.

Dates: 1918-2005
Found in: Special Collections

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clippings (information artifacts) 3
diplomas 3
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 2
Photographs 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 2
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birth certificates 2
certificates 2
identity cards 2
marriage certificates 2
negatives (photographs) 2
passports 2
photograph albums 2
slides (photographs) 2
Amsterdam (Netherlands) 1
Authors with disabilities -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
B-17 bomber 1
Beverwijk (Netherlands) 1
Bomber pilots -- United States 1
Bussum (Netherlands) 1
Charleston County (S.C.) 1
Disability awareness -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Distinguished Flying Cross (Medal) 1
Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography 1
Hidden children (Holocaust) -- Netherlands 1
Holocaust survivors -- Austria -- Vienna 1
Holocaust survivors -- Netherlands 1
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Netherlands 1
Jewish marriage customs and rites 1
Jewish merchants -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jewish refugees -- United States 1
Kindertransports (Rescue operations) 1
Kosher restaurants -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Lawyers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Military decorations -- United States 1
People with disabilities -- Civil rights -- United States 1
People with disabilities -- Legal status, laws, etc. 1
People with disabilities, Writings of, American 1
Purple Heart 1
Scarsdale (N.Y.) 1
Vienna (Austria) 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Medals 1
audiocassettes 1
black-and-white negatives 1
black-and-white photographs 1
black-and-white slides 1
business cards 1
color photographs 1
compact discs 1
correspondence 1
cupping glasses 1
files (document groupings) 1
immigration records 1
ketubahs 1
letters (correspondence) 1
magazines (periodicals) 1
medals 1
military records 1
naturalization records 1
orders (military records) 1
periodicals 1
personal correspondence 1
pistols 1
report cards 1
videocassettes 1
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Language
Dutch; Flemish 1
German 1
Hebrew 1
Polish 1
 
Names
Berle, Helen Laufer Dwork, 1923- 1
Buckley, Edward D. 1
Burges, George Detwiler, 1917-1944 1
Burges, Julius 1
College of Charleston 1
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Johnson, Elizabeth Ross 1
Johnson, Harriet McBryde 1
Laufer (Family : Charleston, S.C.) 1
Laufer family 1
Laufer's Kosher Restaurant (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Laufer, Tillie Hufeizen 1
Lewis, Jerry, 1926-2017 1
Mehrtens, W. Rieppe 1
Paerl family 1
Semel, Vera Nathans, 1943- 1
Singer, Peter, 1946- 1
United States. Army Air Forces 1
Wolfsohn, Siegmund, 1919-2000 1
Wolfson, Janet 1
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