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  1. John H. Farley collection

    The John H. Farley collection includes photographs, clippings, and articles related to the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp and the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. Photographs include images of German soldiers near Łódź during the invasion of Poland and of Dachau following liberation. The collection also includes a letter John wrote to his wife, Mary Jane, describing his emotions and his impressions of Dachau shortly after liberation.

  8. Ammy and Nico Herschel collection

    The Ammy and Nico Herschel collection consists of correspondence, personal papers, biographical materials, newspapers, speeches, programs, and ephemera relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Ammy Herschel (née Weyel/Weijel) and Nice Herschel of the Netherlands. The biographical materials includes the diaries of Nico Herschel written in the Netherlands from July 1, 1933 to September 7, 1942; Nico Herschel’s school diplomas and report cards, 1927-1928; 1931-1937; Nico Herschel’s ID card for hiking organization, 1935; and Ammy Weyel’s Zionist membership card, September 1940. The He...

  9. Sherman Carpenter letter

    The collection consists of a letter written by Sherman Carpenter who served with the 45th Infantry Division of the United States Army during World War II. He wrote the letter to his Baptist minister back home in Louisville, KY on Adolf Hitler’s stationary which he found in an empty office in a government building in Munich. In the letter, Sherman describes what he witnessed in the Dachau concentration camp.

  10. Franz Gerhard Back papers

    The Franz Gerhard Back papers include documents, correspondence, report cards. university records, baptismal certificates, and immigration papers documenting Frank Back, his parents, Anton and Wilhelmine (Minna) Back, and his grandparents, Ignatz and Julie Sommer and Ignatz and Katharina Back.

  11. Concentration camp uniform worn by Mihaly Borsa

    Two-part prisoner uniform, a jacket and pants, worn by Mihaly Borsa in Dachau concentration camp during the Holocaust.

  12. Groszman family papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Groszman family of Vámosmikola, Hungary, including wartime life in Budapest, Hungary; post-war immigrations to Vienna, Austria and Buenos Aires, Argentina. It also documents the experiences of Gabriel’s Groszman’s wife Ruth Heda and her family, primarily of Trnava, Slovakia, including their immigrations to England and Argentina. The collection consists of biographical materials, immigration paperwork, and photographs. Biographical material includes identification papers; birth, marriage and death certificates; education papers of...

  13. Stephen Bass document

    Liberation document issued for Istvan [Stephen] Bass, who was born in Koszeg, Hungary in 1923 and was deported to concentration camps, and liberated in Gusen concentration camp, a subcamp of Mauthausen in Austria. Document dated June 8, 1945; entitled "Provisional identification card for civilian internee of Mauthausen," and "Ausweis - Certification."

  14. Suzanne Friedmann photographs

    The Suzanne Friedmann photographs depict Suzanne Friedmann and other young women and children at the Rothschild orphanage and hospital in Paris where Friedmann lived before and during the war. The collection also includes picture of her brother Jacques Friedman in the French Amry and picture postcards of the Rothschild hospital.

  15. Oral testimonies of Lewis Schloss and Trudy Schloss

  16. Gardelegen photographs

    Series of seven original black and white photographs taken at Gardelegen, Germany in April 1945. Each photograph measures approximately 3 5/8" x 2 1/2." Four of the series are captioned on the back.

  17. Aaron Finger papers

    The collection primarily documents the wartime experiences of Aaron Finger, originally of Toronto, Canada, who trained at Camp Ritchie and was in Germany from 1945-1946. Included is an identification card, letter of commendation, a small amount of correspondence, photographs, and a photograph album. Also included are a small amount of documents and photographs related to the family of his wife, Henrietta Finger (née Treister). The Aaron Finger documents include an identification card, a 1946 letter of commendation, a postcard inscribed in Yiddish to the Finger family in Toronto, and a 1991 ...

  18. Arthur Fishman collection

    Photographs, photograph album pages, and a letter documenting Arthur Fishman’s experiences as a soldier in the United States Army visiting the Dachau concentration camp shortly after its liberation in April 1945. The photographs include depictions of corpses in the camp and the Dachau death train, survivors, German prisoners, and camp architecture. There are also photographs of a 3rd anniversary celebration of the 2829 Engineers “C” in Flintsbach, Germany, and of Arthur Fishman in uniform. The Dachau photographs include original photographs in the album pages and loose contemporary copy pri...