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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

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

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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 10
Holocaust survivors 7
black-and-white negatives 6
correspondence 6
digital images 6
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black-and-white slides 5
clippings (information artifacts) 5
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 4
DVDs 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 3
facsimiles (reproductions) 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland 2
black-and-white photographs 2
color photographs 2
letters (correspondence) 2
photo CDs 2
Ahlem (Germany) 1
Aspet (France) 1
Budapest (Hungary) 1
Doetinchem (Netherlands) 1
England 1
Gunskirchen (Austria) 1
Gurs (France) 1
Hidden children (Holocaust) -- France 1
Holocaust survivors -- Austria -- Vienna 1
Holocaust survivors -- Poland 1
Holocaust survivors -- Romania 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Personal narratives 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives 1
Jewish children in the Holocaust -- France 1
Jewish refugees -- Dominican Republic -- Sosúa 1
Jewish refugees -- England 1
Kaufering (Germany) 1
Netherlands -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 1
Photographs 1
Sosúa (Dominican Republic) 1
South Carolina 1
Svinare (Czech Republic) 1
Sławatycze (Poland) 1
Transylvania (Romania) 1
Vienna (Austria) 1
World War, 1939-1945 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany -- Dachau 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Latvia 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Liberation 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- Netherlands 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Rescue 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Norwegian 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Czechoslovakia 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States -- 71st Division 1
armbands 1
badges 1
belt plates 1
books 1
color slides 1
compact discs 1
excerpts 1
flatware 1
interviews 1
newsletters 1
paper money 1
photograph albums 1
proclamations 1
programs (documents) 1
reproductions (derivative objects) 1
school yearbooks 1
videocassettes 1
Ślesin (Konin, Poland) 1
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Language
German 6
Czech 3
French 2
Dutch; Flemish 1
Hebrew 1