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Willy Adler papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-028
Abstract

The collection consists of correspondence, certificates, and other papers of Willy Adler (1920-), a native of Hamburg, Germany, who immigrated to the United States in 1939. Materials document Nazi persecution of the Adler family.

Dates: 1913-1938, 1982-2010

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

Harry Blas and Erika Stockfleth Blas papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-029
Abstract

The collection consists mainly of copy negatives, slides, and digital images of pre-World War II photographs of the families of Harry Blas, born in Łódź, Poland, and Erika Stockfleth Blas, born in Grevesmühlen, Germany. Also included is a short memoir by Harry Blas detailing his experiences in the Łódź ghetto and Auschwitz concentration camp, and a handwritten genealogy of the Stockfleth family by Erika Blas.

Dates: circa 1910-circa 1980

Zig Boroughs papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-040
Abstract The collection consists of correspondence, memoirs, and other papers of Zig Boroughs, an American soldier who served with the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II. Two memoirs are included: one written by Edith Jakobs, a Jewish native of Germany who was liberated by members of Boroughs's unit while in hiding in the Netherlands; the other by Werner "Tom" Angress, also a Jewish native of Germany, who enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as an interrogator with Boroughs's...
Dates: 1984-2008

Paul Bridges Holocaust photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-035
Abstract

The collection consists of copies of photographs taken at Dachau concentration camp and collected by Paul Bridges, a U.S. soldier who served as a guard at the camp after its liberation in April 1945.

Dates: 1945-1946

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

Buchenwald concentration camp reports

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-030
Abstract

The collection consists of two May 1945 U.S. Army reports written by F. van Wyck Mason describing conditions at Buchenwald concentration camp and other areas in Germany.

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

Joe Engel papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-011
Abstract

Photographs, correspondence, and other papers of Joe Engel, a Polish Jew imprisoned at Auschwitz from 1942 until 1945. Photographs depict Engel and other family members in pre-war Poland, as well as in Zeilsheim, a post-war German displaced persons camp. Other photographs show Engel and family members in Charleston, South Carolina, and Natanya, Israel.

Dates: 1938-2006

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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 26
black-and-white negatives 15
photocopies 14
black-and-white photographs 13
digital images 11
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 10
correspondence 10
clippings (information artifacts) 9
DVDs 8
black-and-white slides 8
memoirs 6
Holocaust survivors -- Germany 5
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 5
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany -- Weimar (Thuringia) 5
videocassettes 5
photo CDs 4
Dachau (Germany) 3
Holocaust survivors -- Poland 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany 3
photographs 3
postcards 3
Berlin (Germany) 2
Germany 2
Holocaust survivors 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany -- Dachau 2
World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States 2
booklets 2
color slides 2
identity cards 2
orders (military records) 2
typescripts 2
Ahlem (Germany) 1
Austria 1
Bavaria (Germany) 1
Budapest (Hungary) 1
Będzin (Poland) 1
Canada 1
England 1
Gardelegen (Germany) 1
Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945 1
Germans -- Canada -- Evacuation and relocation, 1939-1943 1
Germans -- Great Britain -- Evacuation and relocation, 1940-1945 1
Grevesmühlen (Germany) 1
Hamburg (Germany) 1
Hidden children (Holocaust) 1
Holocaust survivors -- Romania 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Anniversaries, etc. 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Personal narratives 1
Jewish ghettos -- Poland -- History 1
Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany -- Hamburg 1
Kaufering (Germany) 1
Kindertransports (Rescue operations) -- Great Britain 1
Korea (South) 1
Korean War, 1950-1953 1
Military decorations -- United States 1
Nazi concentration camps -- Austria 1
Nazi concentration camps -- Germany 1
Netherlands 1
Ohrdruf (Germany) 1
South Carolina 1
Stommeln (Pulheim, Germany) 1
Transylvania (Romania) 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Europe 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Canada 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany -- Ohrdruf 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Great Britain 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Latvia 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Liberation 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 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Pictorial works 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Reconnaissance operations, American 1
Zakroczym (Poland) 1
Zeilsheim (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) 1
color photographs 1
costumes (character dress) 1
diaries 1
dog tags (military tags) 1
excerpts 1
facsimiles (reproductions) 1
genealogies (histories) 1
letters (correspondence) 1
magazines (periodicals) 1
manuscripts (documents) 1
medals 1
military records 1
newspapers 1
notes (documents) 1
photograph albums 1
poetry 1
prayer books 1
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Language
English 25
German 8
No linguistic content; Not applicable 3
Dutch; Flemish 2
Hebrew 2
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Names
United States. Army 12
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 6
Dachau (Concentration camp) 6
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 5
Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) 2
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Adler, Willy Moritz, 1920-2013 1
Ahlem (Concentration camp) 1
Angress, Werner T. 1
Baum, Minnie Tewel, 1898-1985 1
Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) 1
Betsill, Edwin 1
Blas, Erika 1
Blas, Harry, 1924-2003 1
Boroughs, Zig 1
Bridges, Paul, 1924-2010 1
Burrows, Jim 1
Cross, Charles C., 1924-2009 1
Csato, Ferike 1
Engel, Joe, 1927- 1
Freilich, Max, 1924- 1
Goldsmith, Florence 1
Goldsmith, Hilda 1
Goodin, Benjamin 1
Grabin, David, 1919-2004 1
Hellman, Ann Meddin 1
Hellman, Irene 1
Herz, Rudolf, 1925-2011 1
Holland, Clarence 1
Hudson, Carey Lee 1
Jakobs, Edith 1
Kaufering (Concentration camp) 1
Kingsley, Robert E., 1921-1999 1
Klasner, Samuel, 1917-2001 1
Lakonia (Motorship) 1
Landsmann, Malie 1
Layden, Lawrence, 1916-2011 1
Lombardi-Nash, Michael A. 1
Martin, Albert J., 1913-1997 1
Mason, F. van Wyck (Francis van Wyck), 1901-1978 1
Mauthausen (Concentration camp) 1
Muller, Meir 1
Newcombe, Liz 1
Ohrdruf (Concentration camp) 1
Pintus family 1
Pintus, Lise 1
Prayzer, Mike, 1922-1995 1
Prevost, Katherine Goldstein, 1924- 1
Rosenthal, Albert 1
Rubin, Bernice Prayzer 1
Schreiner, Harold, 1917-2005 1
Schwartz, Robert, 1916-2008 1
Sieradzki, Benjamin, 1927-2011 1
Stafford, Ethel Jorgensen, 1923- 1
Stern, Abraham, 1929- 1
Syré-Herz, Ursula 1
Tott, Vernon W. 1
Travis, Rebecca 1
Turner, Robert 1
United States. Air Force 1
United States. Army. Air Corps. Air Force, 9th 1
United States. Army. Armored Division, 11th 1
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 84th 1
United States. Army. Parachute Infantry Regiment, 508th 1
Warshaw, Bernard, 1920-2014 1
Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp) 1
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