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  1. The survivor as researcher

    Describes how Greenfield learned the fates of her mother and of 1,196 Jewish children and their adult guardians from Białystok, Poland, who were transported from Theresienstadt and gassed in Auschwitz on 7 October 1943. Includes a name list of those on the transport, excerpts of testimonies, photographs, and letters.

  2. Flora Herzberger memoir

    The memoir describes Flora Herzberger and her family's deportation from Düsseldorf, Germany, to the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; the death of her husband; conditions inside the ghetto; her and her children's transport to Auschwitz; her and her daughter's deportation to a forced labor camp; and their liberation.

  3. Stanley Hochman collection

    Describes Stanley Hochman’s (b. 1916) childhood in Demblin (Deblin), Poland; the death of his mother; his relocation and experiences in the Demblin ghetto and numerous concentration camps in Poland and Germany; his liberation; and his immigration to Canada.

  4. When the living envied the dead

    Describes her childhood in Poland; her imprisonment in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; her incarceration in Auschwitz; the fate of her family; her reunion with her sister in Poland; their escape to the American Zone of Occupation of Germany; the Feldafing displaced persons camp; and their emigration to the United States in 1950.

  5. Benjamin Klotz memoirs

    In his memoir Benjamin Klotz (1901-1974) describes the German invasion of Poland and his life during the occupation of Łódź, Poland; his escape to and life in Soviet-occupied Lʹviv, Poland (now Ukraine); his subsequent escape from German-occupied Lʹviv; the fates of members of his family; life in the concentration camps of Bierzanow-Płaszów, Buchenwald, and Bautzen; liberation by the Soviets; life as a displaced person, including a meeting with Earl G. Harrison; and his reunion with his son and their immigration to the United States in 1946.

  6. Fritz Buchholz's report about Auschwitz

    Fritz Buchholz's report (dated 19 Jun. 1945) describes the following in Auschwitz-Birkenau: sadistic camp guards; torture of inmates; the deaths of Jewish prisoners in gas chambers; confiscation and stockpiling of the arrivals' property; and the destruction of the camp's crematorium by the Nazi guards before the camp was overrun by the Soviet military.

  7. Hans Engel letters

    Hans Engel's letters (dated 17 May 1945; 27 May 1945; and 11 Jun. 1945) describe his impressions of the concentration camp of Sandbostel and of its survivors' medical conditions.

  8. Gerald C. Caskey letter

    Consists of a copy of a letter (dated 10 May 1945) from Gerald C. ("Babe") Caskey to Norma ("Normie") Caskey relating Gerald's feelings about seeing Dachau.

  9. Fred I. Diamond letter describing Ohrdruf

    Consists of a copy of a letter written by Corporal Fred I. Diamond to an unidentified correspondent in which Diamond describes impressions while visiting Ohrdruf concentration camp.

  10. Selected records from the Delegation of Israeli Associations in Argentina

    The collection of copied translated documents relates to Nazi war criminals and Nazi sympathisers who were believed to have or who had relocated to Argentina after World War II and whose extradition was sought by the governments of Yugoslavia, West Germany, the United States, and France. For a list of those individuals this collection relates to, examine this collection's subject headings.

  11. Chester Harrison collection

    The laminated mimeographed copy of James Cannon's article, "We weren't to blame, they said, when slaves died," which originally appeared in the April 10, 1945 issue of "Stars and Stripes" and describes what American soldiers discovered when they liberated the Ohrdruf concentration camp and the feelings expressed by Germans who lived nearby as American soldiers forced them to examine the camp. "The Holocaust did happen," from the June 17, 1993 issue of the "Hollis News" provides some biographical information about the war-time activities of Chester Harrison and also reprints the above "Stars...

  12. Chris J. Battersby collection

    Contains of a memoir written by Chris J. Battersby on an unknown date, describing his experiences with a Holocaust survivor near Gardelegen, Germany, in April 1945. Also includes an excerpt of a unit history for the 102nd Infantry Division relating to the Gardelegen Massacre.

  13. Sandbostel - April 1945

    R. Barer's memoir describes: the steps taken to liberate Sandbostel; the concerns of British military medical personnel about the presence of typhus in the camp; the sanitary conditions inside the camp; the burial of the camp's dead; the difference in conditions between political prisoners and prisoners of war; the visit to the camp of German doctors and nurses; and Barer's ideas to prevent a reoccurrence of German atrocities by an education program.

  14. Joseph G. Fogg letter and obituary

    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.

  15. Andy Murray Coffey letter and photographs relating to the liberation of Ohrdruf

    Andy Murray Coffey's collection relates to the liberation of Ohrdruf. The collection includes: photocopies of photographs taken by Andy Murray Coffey and H.L. Jamis of dead inmates who died of abuse suffered while engaged in slave labor and of dead inmates being buried by American soldiers and Germans who lived near Ohrdruf; and a letter describing Coffey's recollections about Ohrdruf, the Germans who lived near the camp, and General Patton's order forcing German citizens to view the camp and bury its dead.

  16. Dachau Remembered fifty years later

    Contains an eight-page memoir describing Ken Lagoni's experiences during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp.

  17. Rentzemuhle and Buchenwald

    Victor Geller, a Jewish-American soldier, describes how he helped the newly-liberated Jewish women prisoners of Rentzemuhle labor camp and describes his impressions and memories of Buchenwald concentration camp after its liberation.

  18. Holocaust Ohrdruf

    Contians a four-page memoir describing Edward Olson's recollections of discovering and investigating the Ohrdruf concentration camp during liberation.

  19. A catharsis November 1991

    Describes how the the author joined the 5th Ranger Battalion; the author's participation in and observations of Buchenwald's liberation; and the author's experiences after leaving Buchenwald concentration camp before the end of World War II.

  20. Probing the Cause of the Holocaust, Whereby Doctrine of the Old Testament Appears to Have Failled to Coordinate Theology and National Security Formation

    Myron Bernstein's compendium not only tries to use the Old Testament to determine the cause of the Holocaust, but it also attempts to determine whether an analysis of the Old Testament could have foretold the Holocaust.