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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

Ben McCutchen Moïse papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0183
Abstract

Manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, work files, publications, and related papers of Ben McCutchen Moïse, conservation officer with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources from 1978 to 2002, author of Ramblings of a Lowcountry Game Warden: A Memoir, and editor of A Southern Sportsman: The Hunting Memoirs of Henry Edwards Davis.

Dates: 1908-2011

Vera Nathans Semel papers

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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

Ethel Jorgensen Stafford papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-021
Abstract

The collection consists of images, postcards, clippings, and photocopies of Ethel Jorgensen Stafford, a U.S. Army nurse who was stationed in Germany in 1945. Included are atrocity photographs of concentration camp victims and photographs of war damage to German cities where Jorgensen was based, including Aachen, Viersen, Gardelegen, and Berlin.

Dates: 1943-1951, 2008

Francine Ajzensztark Taylor papers

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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

Edwina Harleston Whitlock papers

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1120
Abstract Edwina Augusta Harleston Whitlock was born Gussie Louise Harleston on September 28, 1916 in Charleston, South Carolina, to Robert Othello Harleston and his wife, Marie Isabelle Forrest. She was raised by her uncle, Edwin Augustus Teddy Harleston and his wife Elise Forrest after it was discovered that Whitlock's parents had tuberculosis. Whitlock attended the Avery Normal Institute in Charleston, South Carolina, and Talladega College in Talladega, Alabama, where she...
Dates: 1918-2006

Siegmund Wolfsohn papers

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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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Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture 1
 
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 5
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 5
clippings (information artifacts) 4
photocopies 4
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Photographs 3
black-and-white negatives 3
black-and-white photographs 3
black-and-white slides 3
passports 3
birth certificates 2
correspondence 2
digital images 2
photograph albums 2
African American art -- South Carolina -- 20th century 1
African American artists -- South Carolina 1
African American families -- South Carolina 1
African American newspapers 1
African American photographers 1
African Americans -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Amsterdam (Netherlands) 1
Berlin (Germany) 1
Beverwijk (Netherlands) 1
Bussum (Netherlands) 1
Charleston (S.C.) 1
France -- History -- German occupation, 1940-1945 1
Funeral homes -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Funeral rites and ceremonies 1
Game wardens -- South Carolina -- Charleston 1
Gardelegen (Germany) 1
Gardelegen Massacre, Gardelegen, Germany, 1945 1
Genealogy 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
Racially mixed people -- United States 1
Scarsdale (N.Y.) 1
Tuberculosis -- Diagnosis 1
United States -- Armed Forces -- Women 1
Vienna (Austria) 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Germany 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Jewish resistance -- France 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Reconnaissance operations, American 1
Youth -- Counseling of 1
appointment books 1
certificates 1
color photographs 1
color slides 1
compact discs 1
diaries 1
diplomas 1
electronic mail 1
facsimiles (reproductions) 1
greeting cards 1
immigration records 1
letters (correspondence) 1
licenses 1
magazines (periodicals) 1
manuscripts (documents) 1
marriage certificates 1
negatives (photographs) 1
obituaries 1
orders (military records) 1
personal correspondence 1
photo CDs 1
photographs 1
postcards 1
prayer books 1
programs (documents) 1
report cards 1
slides (photographs) 1
videocassettes 1
writings (documents) 1
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Language
German 2
Dutch; Flemish 1
French 1
 
Names
Avery Normal Institute 1
Ball, Edward, 1958- 1
Buchenwald (Concentration camp) 1
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 1
Harleston family 1