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Claude C. Barnes Buchenwald atrocity photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-054
Abstract

5 black and white photographs taken after the liberation of Buchenwald concentration camp by Corporal Claude C. Barnes.

Dates: 1945

Minnie Tewel Baum papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-045
Abstract

The collection consists of letters, telegrams, and other papers relating to Minnie Tewel Baum's unsuccessful efforts to aid her cousin, Malie Landsmann, and her family, in escaping Nazi Germany. Included is a photograph of Malie Landsmann, her husband, Chaim, and their daughters, Ida and Peppi.

Dates: 1938-1941

Jacques Benbassat papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-002
Abstract

The collection consists of a photograph album, memoir, passports, and other papers of Jacques Benbassat, a native of Austria who immigrated to the United States in 1949. Materials mostly relate to the Feuerstein family, including identification cards used by Adela Feuerstein, his maternal grandmother, and photographs of Feuerstein family members traveling in Austria and Poland before 1938, when they fled Austria in fear of Nazi persecution.

Dates: 1906-1942, 1998

Buchenwald concentration camp photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-031
Abstract

The collection consists of four photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp taken in April 1945, shortly after its liberation by the U.S. Army.

Dates: 1945

Charles Cross collection of Buchenwald concentration camp photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-032
Abstract

The collection consists of nine photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp taken in April 1945, shortly after its liberation by the U.S. Army. Also included is a 1993 interview on videocassette with Corporal Charles Cross, who collected the photographs.

Dates: 1945

Mickey Dorsey papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-046
Abstract

The collection consists of letters, photographs, negatives, and other papers of Mickey Dorsey, an American soldier with the 71st Infantry Division, who participated in the liberation of Gunskirchen Lager, a German concentration camp in Austria. Photographs and negatives taken by Joe Daurer, the photographer for Dorsey's unit, show victims and survivors in the camp.

Dates: 1944-1946, 1999

Samuel Greene papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-013
Abstract

Photographs, a memoir, and other papers of Samuel Greene, a native of Sławatycze, Poland. Materials include photographs of Greene and his wife, Regina Kawer Greene, before, during, and after World War II.

Dates: 1927-2007

Rudolf Herz papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-050
Abstract

The collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, interviews on videocassette and DVD, photographs, and other papers of Rudolf "Rudy" Herz, a native of Stommeln, Germany, who survived incarceration in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and other concentration camps during World War II. After immigrating to the United States in 1946, he served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.

Dates: 1944-2011

Clarence Holland collection of Holocaust atrocity photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-024
Abstract

The collection consists of twenty-four Holocaust atrocity photographs collected by U.S. soldier Clarence Holland.

Dates: 1945

Lawrence Layden scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-042
Abstract

The collection consists of a scrapbook compiled by Lawrence "Ed" Layden, an officer with the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Group of the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. The scrapbook contains photographs of Layden at various bases during the war, reconnaissance photographs, and photographs of Buchenwald concentration camp, which Layden visited on April 17, 1945, six days after it was liberated.

Dates: 1941-1945

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black-and-white negatives 10
photocopies 7
DVDs 6
digital images 6
black-and-white slides 5
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correspondence 5
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany -- Weimar (Thuringia) 4
clippings (information artifacts) 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany 3
memoirs 3
photo CDs 3
postcards 3
videocassettes 3
Berlin (Germany) 2
Dachau (Germany) 2
Germany 2
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 2
color photographs 2
identity cards 2
letters (correspondence) 2
orders (military records) 2
prayer books 2
Antisemitism -- Czechoslovakia 1
Austria 1
Gardelegen (Germany) 1
Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945 1
Gunskirchen (Austria) 1
Holešov (Czech Republic) 1
Holocaust survivors -- Austria 1
Holocaust survivors -- Czechoslovakia 1
Holocaust survivors -- Germany 1
Holocaust survivors -- Poland 1
Jews -- Persecutions -- Czechoslovakia 1
Mauthausen (Austria) 1
Military decorations -- United States 1
Poland 1
Stommeln (Pulheim, Germany) 1
Sławatycze (Poland) 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women 1
United States -- Emigration and immigration 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Jewish 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Reconnaissance operations, American 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States -- 71st Division 1
booklets 1
color slides 1
compact discs 1
contact sheets 1
costumes (character dress) 1
dog tags (military tags) 1
manuscripts (documents) 1
maps (documents) 1
medals 1
military records 1
newsletters 1
notes (documents) 1
obituaries 1
passports 1
photograph albums 1
translations (documents) 1
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