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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
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

Francine Ajzensztark Taylor papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-010
Abstract

Photographs and false identification papers of Francine Ajzensztark Taylor, a Polish-born Jew raised in France before World War II. Photographs depict her and her family members in pre-war England and Poland, as well as in France before, during, and after the war. Also includes four videocassette programs, including two detailed interviews with Taylor in which she discusses her life in France before, during, and after the war.

Dates: 1913-1998
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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Photographs 3
birth certificates 2
black-and-white negatives 2
black-and-white slides 2
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passports 2
photograph albums 2
Amsterdam (Netherlands) 1
Beverwijk (Netherlands) 1
Bussum (Netherlands) 1
DVDs 1
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 1
Hidden children (Holocaust) -- Netherlands 1
Holocaust survivors -- Austria -- Vienna 1
Holocaust survivors -- France 1
Holocaust survivors -- Netherlands 1
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France 1
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- Netherlands 1
Jewish refugees -- United States 1
Kindertransports (Rescue operations) 1
Scarsdale (N.Y.) 1
Vienna (Austria) 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- France 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Reconnaissance operations, American 1
black-and-white photographs 1
correspondence 1
digital images 1
diplomas 1
facsimiles (reproductions) 1
immigration records 1
marriage certificates 1
negatives (photographs) 1
orders (military records) 1
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photo CDs 1
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Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 1
Layden, Lawrence, 1916-2011 1
Paerl family 1
Semel, Vera Nathans, 1943- 1
Taylor, Francine Ajzensztark, 1928- 1
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United States. Army. Air Corps. Air Force, 9th 1
Wolfsohn, Siegmund, 1919-2000 1
Wolfson, Janet 1
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