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George Detwiler Burges collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0095
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1929-1944

Mickey Dorsey papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-046
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1944-1946, 1999

Ehrich, Levi, and Weinberg families papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1170
Abstract

Papers consist of a scrapbook of William S. Ehrich's World War I letters and assorted photographs of the Ehrich, Levi, and Weinberg families. Also included are photocopies of Ehrich's scrapbook and the family photographs.

Dates: 1917-1946

Grimke family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0176
Abstract Materials include Revolutionary War papers of John Paul Grimke and his son John Faucheraud Grimke, with materials re the latter as intendant (mayor) of Charleston. Papers of his son Thomas Smith Grimke document temperance, politics and education and contain an autograph collection. With papers of Thomas's siblings Frederick Grimke, abolitionists Sarah Moore Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld and others. With materials of two more following generations, and genealogical materials on Grimke,...
Dates: 1678-1977, circa 1990s

Rudolf Herz papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-050
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1944-2011

Holocaust archives field researchers collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1065-049
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1894-2010

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black-and-white photographs 4
clippings (information artifacts) 4
DVDs 3
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities 2
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black-and-white negatives 2
digital images 2
memoirs 2
military records 2
notes (documents) 2
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
Holocaust survivors -- Germany 1
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 1
Jews -- Social life and customs -- 20th century 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, 1914-1918 -- Participation, Jewish 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Veterans 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
deeds 1
diplomas 1
flatware 1
genealogical tables 1
heraldry 1
indentures 1
interviews 1
inventories 1
land grants 1
legal documents 1
magazines (periodicals) 1
manuscripts (documents) 1
medals 1
orders (military records) 1
paper money 1
photo CDs 1
pistols 1
probate records 1
proclamations 1
rosters 1
scrapbooks 1
signatures (names) 1
silhouettes 1
translations (documents) 1
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Language
German 3
French 2
Czech 1
 
Names
Auschwitz (Concentration camp) 1
Buckley, Edward D. 1
Burges, George Detwiler, 1917-1944 1
Burges, Julius 1
Clark, Sylvia Weinberg 1