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George Detwiler Burges collection
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.
Mickey Dorsey papers
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.
Grimke family papers
Rudolf Herz papers
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.
Holocaust archives field researchers collection
The collection consists mostly of copied materials, including photographs, memoirs, clippings, books, objects, and other papers. These materials were collected for the Holocaust Archives from Holocaust survivors, World War II veterans, and others, including liberators of German concentration camps, who settled in South Carolina.
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- clippings (information artifacts) 4
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- digital images 2
- memoirs 2
- military records 2
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- B-17 bomber 1
- Bomber pilots -- United States 1
- Charleston (S.C.) -- Politics and government 1
- Distinguished Flying Cross (Medal) 1
- Education -- 19th century 1
- Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography 1
- Gunskirchen (Austria) 1
- Holocaust survivors 1
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- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 1
- Mayors -- South Carolina -- Charleston -- 19th century 1
- Military decorations -- United States 1
- Purple Heart 1
- South Carolina 1
- South Carolina -- History 1
- Stommeln (Pulheim, Germany) 1
- Temperance -- 19th century 1
- United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Correspondence 1
- Women abolitionists -- United States -- History -- 19th century 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 -- Medals 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States -- 71st Division 1
- albums (books) 1
- armbands 1
- belt plates 1
- bills of sale 1
- black-and-white slides 1
- bookplates 1
- books 1
- broadsides (notices) 1
- certificates 1
- color photographs 1
- compact discs 1
- correspondence 1
- costumes (character dress) 1
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- flatware 1
- genealogical tables 1
- heraldry 1
- indentures 1
- interviews 1
- inventories 1
- land grants 1
- legal documents 1
- magazines (periodicals) 1
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- orders (military records) 1
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- photo CDs 1
- pistols 1
- probate records 1
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- Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 1
- Buckley, Edward D. 1
- Burges, George Detwiler, 1917-1944 1
- Burges, Julius 1
- College of Charleston 1
- Daurer, Joe, 1909-1998 1
- Dorsey, Mickey, 1925- 1
- Drayton family 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
- Gunskirchen (Concentration camp) 1
- Herz, Rudolf, 1925-2011 1
- Mehrtens, W. Rieppe 1
- Syré-Herz, Ursula 1
- Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) 1
- United States. Army Air Forces 1
- United States. Army. Infantry Division, 71st 1 ∧ less