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Hugo Schiller papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-006
Abstract

Correspondence, newspaper clippings, memoirs, and other papers of Hugo Schiller. Materials relate to Schiller's rescue from the Gurs concentration camp in France by Alice Resch Synnestvedt, a Quaker volunteer from Norway; his time at Aspet, the Quaker children's home; and his eventual escape from France to the United States. Correspondence includes letters from his parents and aunt while he was at Aspet, discussing their life in Gurs and advice for Schiller after his rescue.

Dates: 1942-2001

Tornadoes in Charleston

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-083
Collection Overview This collection consists of two typed reports, a map and newspaper clippings about the two tornadoes which hit Charleston, S.C. on the morning of September 29, 1938. The first report by John E. Lockwood (meteorologist U.S. Weather Bureau) gives a description of the tornadoes paths, building damage, numbers killed by tornadoes and the value of property damage. The second report follows up with eyewitness accounts from Mr. W.A. Brunson, Mr. R.C. Alderedge (Weather Bureau Office), Mr. J.F. Fox,...
Dates: 1938

Vernon Tott papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-039
Abstract

The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence, clippings, and a memoir about Ahlem concentration camp written by Vernon Tott, an American soldier with the 84th Infantry Division who participated in the liberation of the camp. The memoir contains photographs, correspondence, maps, recollections of both Tott and Benjamin Sieradzki, a survivor of Ahlem, and other materials relating to the camp and its survivors.

Dates: 1997-1998

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

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Special Collections 22
Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 2
 
Subject
correspondence 13
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 11
black-and-white photographs 10
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 9
color photographs 7
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black-and-white negatives 5
memoirs 5
videocassettes 5
DVDs 4
Holocaust survivors 4
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 4
black-and-white slides 4
letters (correspondence) 4
scrapbooks 4
audiocassettes 3
digital images 3
newsletters 3
pamphlets 3
photo CDs 3
photographs 3
rosters 3
Holocaust survivors -- Germany 2
Holocaust survivors -- Poland 2
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland 2
books 2
certificates 2
diplomas 2
facsimiles (reproductions) 2
identity cards 2
magazines (periodicals) 2
military records 2
notes (documents) 2
orders (military records) 2
photograph albums 2
research notes 2
typescripts 2
33 1/3 RPM record 1
45 rpm records 1
African American children -- Institutional care -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American children -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African American fire fighters -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Charities 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Ahlem (Germany) 1
Aspet (France) 1
Authors with disabilities -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
B-17 bomber 1
Biology -- Research 1
Bomber pilots -- United States 1
Burlesques 1
Będzin (Poland) 1
Canada 1
Charleston (S.C.) 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Climate -- History 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Genealogy 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Politics and government 1
Charleston (S.C.) -- Social life and customs 1
Christmas shopping -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Czechoslovakia 1
Disability awareness -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Discrimination in employment -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Distinguished Flying Cross (Medal) 1
Edisto Island (S.C.) -- Genealogy 1
Education -- 19th century 1
Emigration and immigration -- Czechoslovakia 1
England 1
Ephemera 1
Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography 1
Fire fighters -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Fort Moultrie (S.C.) -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
Freed persons -- Poetry 1
Fund raising -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Germans -- Canada -- Evacuation and relocation, 1939-1943 1
Germans -- Great Britain -- Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945 1
Gurs (France) 1
Hidden children (Holocaust) -- France 1
Holocaust survivors -- Austria -- Vienna 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives 1
Jewish actors -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jewish artists -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jewish authors -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Genealogy 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Georgetown 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Sumter 1
Jewish families -- South Carolina -- Sumter -- Social life and customs 1
Jewish journalists -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- History 1
Jewish refugees -- United States 1
Jewish women -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Charities 1
Jews -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- Societies, etc. 1
Kindertransports (Rescue operations) 1
Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Great Britain 1
Lawyers -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Louisiana 1
Mayors -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 19th century 1
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Language
German 8
French 4
Czech 2
Hebrew 2
Dutch; Flemish 1
 
Names
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 2
College of Charleston 2
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) 2
Academy of Music (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Adams, George Alexander, 1887-1984 1
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Adams, George Smith, 1923-2018 1
Adams, Theodora Elizabeth Smith, 1888-1983 1
Ahlem (Concentration camp) 1
American Friends Service Committee 1
Archambault, Sandra, 1944-2022 1
Berlinsky, Jaclyn 1
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 1
Buckley, Edward D. 1
Burges, George Detwiler, 1917-1944 1
Burges, Julius 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Washington Artillery Battalion (New Orleans, La.) 1
D'Ancona family 1
Dachau (Concentration camp) 1
DeLeon, Isabelle, 1858-1927 1
Drayton family 1
Freilich, Max, 1924- 1
Fund family 1
Fund, Claire 1
Grabin, David, 1919-2004 1
Greene, Regina Kawer, 1920-1990 1
Greene, Samuel, 1914-2013 1
Greenhill, Marsha Silver 1
Grimké family 1
Grimké, Angelina Emily, 1805-1879 1
Grimké, Frederick, 1791-1863 1
Grimké, John Fauchereaud, 1752-1819 1
Grimké, John Paul, 1713-1791 1
Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 1
Grimké, Thomas Smith, 1786-1834 1
Gurs (Concentration camp) 1
Halio, Frances, 1932-2017 1
Herz, Rudolf, 1925-2011 1
Independent Order of B'nai B'rith 1
Jenkins Orphanage (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Jenkins' Orphanage Band 1
Jenkins, Daniel Joseph, 1862-1937 1
Johnson, Elizabeth Ross 1
Johnson, Harriet McBryde 1
Kerner family 1
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) 1
Layden, Lawrence, 1916-2011 1
Levi, Kathryn Weinberg 1
Levi, Wendell Mitchell, 1891-1976 1
Levi, Wendell Mitchell, 1927-2015 1
Levin, Nathaniel, 1816-1899 1
Levy family 1
Lewis, Jerry, 1926-2017 1
Mehrtens, W. Rieppe 1
Meyerson, Jane Pearlstine 1
Meyerson, Jerry, 1921-2015 1
Moore, Mark S. 1
Moore, William V. 1
National Council of Jewish Women. Charleston Section 1
Orphan Aid Society (Charleston, S.C.) 1
Ottolengui family 1
Ottolengui, Cecile, 1858-1936 1
Ottolengui, Daniel, 1836-1918 1
Ottolengui, Helen Rosalie Rodrigues, 1843-1866 1
Ottolengui, Rodrigues, 1861-1937 1
Palmetto Pigeon Plant 1
Prayzer, Mike, 1922-1995 1
Rosen (Family : Georgetown, South Carolina) 1
Rosen family 1
Rosen, Benedict 1
Rosen, Sylvan Lewenthal, 1913-1996 1
Rubin, Bernice Prayzer 1
Schiller, Hugo, 1931- 1
Sieradzki, Benjamin, 1927-2011 1
Silverman, Gail 1
Singer, Peter, 1946- 1
Smith family 1
Smith, Daniel Townsend, 1842-1929 1
Smith, Thomas Peter, 1814-1903 1
Stern, Abraham, 1929- 1
Synnestvedt, Alice Resch, 1908- 1
Syré-Herz, Ursula 1
Tott, Vernon W. 1
Townsend family 1
United States. Army Air Forces 1
United States. Army. Air Corps. Air Force, 9th 1
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 84th 1
Wolfsohn, Siegmund, 1919-2000 1
Wolfson, Janet 1
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