1. Margot Lawson collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503598
• English
• 1988
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a photocopy of a typescript memoir entitled "A true story," by Margot E. Lawson. The memoir describes Lawson's experiences in a German prison during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.

1. Jan Rozanski collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503649
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains information about Jan Rozanski's experiences during childhood in Poland; the German invasion and occupation of Poland; anti-Jewish measures; life in the ghetto and concentration camp; and liberation by Soviet troops.

1. Bernard Nissenbaum collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502874
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

The testimony describes Bernard Nissenbaum's deportation from France and his imprisonment in several concentration and labor camps during the Holocaust. The testimony includes detailed descriptions of conditions in the Trzebinia camp, the status and treatment of wealthy Jews as compared with other inmates, the division of various nationalities of prisoners in the Birkenau camp, the situation of the "Muselmänner" in various camps, the relationships between Kapos and inmates, and conditions in the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland, prior to the uprising. Bernard wrote the testimony around 1945-1946, ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503426
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of the typescript of "The Relief of Belsen Concentration Camp: Recollections & Reflections of a British Army Doctor" written by Major General James Alexander Deans Johnston, circa 1970. The typescript includes information on conditions at Bergen-Belsen under Nazi control and during liberation, as well as description of medical measures taken by the British for the benefit of former inmates of the camp. Also included is a photocopy of a photograph of James Johnston and a retype of his obituary from "The Daily Telegraph."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504297
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 1 year ago

Describes the experiences of the author's twin sisters, Hela and Rela Markovitz, before World War II; the German invasion of Poland; the confiscation of Jewish property; the establishment of the ghetto in Kraków, Poland; the death of the author's parents; the twins' deportation to and experiences in the ghetto in Tarnów, Poland, and the camps of Płaszów, Skarżysko-Kamienna, and Hasag-Leipzig; Aktionen; the sanitary conditions and distribution of food; sexual favors being sold by female inmates for food; the twins' survival of a death march; their liberation and reunion with surviving fa...

1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502630
• English
• 1981
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains testimonies and letters relating to the liberation of the three Gusen subcamps of Mauthausen. Includes information about the methods of killing used in the camps, the various types of prisoners, the medical experiments conducted on pregnant prisoners, and activities of the 131st U.S. Evacuation Hospital in the area of Linz, Austria. Also included are name lists of nurses assigned to the Gusen camps after liberation.

1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502640
• English
• 1981
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a questionnaire and letters written by Raymond S. Woods relating to the liberation of the Lambach (i.e. Gunskirchen) concentration camp involving members of the 3325th S.I. A. M. Company. One of Woods' letters describes the starvation witnessed in the camp.

1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502644
• English
• 1981
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains testimonies and other materials relating to the liberation of Landsberg-Lech concentration camp and other Dachau subcamps of the Landsberg/Kaufering group. Also includesinformation about the crematoria, conditions of starvation upon liberation, mass murders by burning,and individual liberators of the camp.

1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502657
• English
• 1981
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains testimonies, letters, and other materials relating to the liberation of Ohrdruf concentration camp and North Stalag III near Ohrdruf. Included is information about activities of the 4th U.S. Armored Division and other Allied military units involved in the liberation, gas chambers and crematoria found in the camp, and last-minute killings of prisoners by German guards before liberation. Also included are copies of photographs of Ohrdruf death scenes and clean-up efforts of liberators.

1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502663
• English
• 1981
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains of materials in various formats relating to the Terezín (Theresienstadt) concentration camp and to visits paid to the camp by members of the United States Army shortly after liberation by Soviet troops. The materials include information about the numbers of Jews in Terezín, the survival of Dr. Leo Baeck, and Terezín prisoners quarantined for typhus.

1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502665
• English
• 1981
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a copy of a letter written by Harry M. Morgan on April 1, 1981, describing the discovery of 150 Jewish women by the 2nd Infantry Regiment of the 5th United States Infantry Division in an abandoned factory in Wallern (Volary), Czechoslovakia. Morgan also explains that the 150 women were the survivors of an original 5,000 women whe were led on a death march from Grünberg in Schlesien, a Gross-Rosen subcamp.

1. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502627
• English
• 1981
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains testimonies and letters relating to the liberation of Gunskirchen concentration camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. The testimonies included information about Hungarian Jews from the Gunskirchen camp, the use of starvation as a method of torture and killing, and activities of the 71st US Infantry Division in the area of Wels, Austria.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502756
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a copy of "Death March: April 14, 1945-April 24, 1945," written by Benno Fischer in June 1945. The testimony describes Fischer's experiences as a prisoner of Flossenbürg, his forced labor in an airplane factory, and his participation in a death march through Bavaria.

1. "I'm An American" NBC radio broadcasts

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn620817
• English
• Updated 1 year ago

On January 19, 1941 Dr. Béla Schick discussed democracy and healthcare with Dr. Henry B. Hazard of the US. Department of Justice. Schick claims, “Only once you have seen the effects of war on children can one understand what it really causes.” He refers to stories of starving Austrian refugee children being brought to Hungary during WWI. He compares the environments of minors living in war-torn Europe and tranquil America. He explains the reason for growing medical advancement in America as opposed to Europe. Dr. Schick warns that although the United States is safe, has resources, high livi...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504157
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

An eyewitness account by Abner Zehm and William Birch of the U.S. Army Medical Corps describing post-liberation Buchenwald. Contains information about medical experiments on prisoners; starvation; and crematoria.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504272
• English
• 1945-1992
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains a copy of a April 30, 1945 letter by Joseph G. Fogg to his parents describing what he saw at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp the week after liberation including health conditions of and care given to the camp's surviving inmates, the camp's sanitary conditions, and the fate of some of the camp's SS guards. Also contains a photocopy of an obituary for Joseph G. Fogg, from the April 4, 1992, issue of "The Plain Dealer." The obituary provides additional information about Fogg's military experiences, interests, and family life.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn508303
• English
• 1939-1944
• 1,491 microfiche,
• Updated 1 year ago

381 individual case files from the psychiatric hospital in Kaufbeuren from the time period of Operation T4.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503745
• English
• 1945
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Consists of a copy of a letter written by Louis Eiseman to his younger sister in May 1945, relating Eiseman's general impressions of the sub-human conditions in the Nazi camps near the end of World War II. The letter describes children in the camps; starvation of prisoners; gassing and cremation of camp prisoners; the liquidation of Lidice, Czechoslovakia; and the torture and killing of American troops by the Germans.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn714997
• English
• 1946-1988
• folders 3
• Updated 1 year ago

The Machtinger family collection includes photographs of Sophie Machtinger, Paul Machtinger, and their daughter Ruth Machtinger in the Landsberg am Lech (Displaced persons camp) in 1946, as well as Sophie Machtinger's memoir "Recollections from my life's experiences" written in Polish in 1955 and translated into English in 1988.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502773
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 1 year ago

Contains information about the life of Rosa Taubman Budick in Poland before the Holocaust, the antisemitism she experienced from Poles, the ghetto in Kraków, Poland, her experiences while working for the SS in a prison, the Jewish police in the Kraków ghetto, living under an assumed identity, and liberation by the Red Army. Also included is a photograph of Taubman family members in Kraków circa 1940 and a brief biography of Rosa T. Budick written by the Ruth Taubman Glosser [donor].