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  1. Robert C. March collection

    Consists of copies of widely reproduced images of Yugoslav survivors of the Dachau concentration camp. Also includes a typed excerpt from an article for "Stars and Stripes" written by Lt. Col. Lyman Heidtke, of the 310th Ordnance Battalion, in which he describes the Dachau concentration camp and the purposes of various areas of the camp. The excerpt and images were sent home by 2nd Lt. Robert C. March of the 334th Ordnance Battalion; when sending the material, March noted that the pictures were taken from an undeveloped roll of film from a confiscated German camera.

  2. Stanislaw Aronson papers

    Collection of photographs and documents relating to the Aronson and Kaffeman family in Warsaw and Łódź before the war.

  3. Zangwill family collection

    The collection includes an envelope and letter sent to Liby Kaplan in Slonim, Poland (present day Belarus) from her family in New Jersey in August 1939 and a letter and envelope from Liby Kaplan to her family in New Jersey postmarked August 17, 1939. The collection also includes two photographic postcards of Liby Kaplan and her husband.

  4. Henry Dressler papers

    The Henry Dressler papers consists of biographical material, writings, restitution material, photographs, and correspondence related to the Holocaust experiences of Henry (Heinz) Dressler and his family. Joachim and Martha, along with their children Henry and Susi, survived the war by working in Oskar Schindler’s factory. The collection consists of Henry’s wartime and post-war diary, the family’s work papers for Oskar Schindler, immediate post-war correspondence of Henry and Joachim Dressler to various family members, friends, and associates, and photographs depicting the Dressler family be...

  5. Maria Madi diaries

    Consists of seventeen bound volumes containing diaries written by Dr. Maria Madi, a non-Jewish female physician living in Budapest, Hungary, between December 1941 and September 1945. In the diaries, which are handwritten in English, Dr. Madi describes what she is hearing about the war, about propaganda in Hungary, and about missing her daughter, who immigrated to the United States in 1939 and started a family. After the German invasion of Hungary in March 1944, Dr. Madi describes constant air raids, intense deprivation, and what she knows and sees of the ongoing persecutions against Jews. S...

  6. Illustration 3 from a handmade portfolio of illustrations by Herbert Heyne and Erich Kästner

    Book of illustrations sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst. The book was a gift from Heyne to Furst and was written with Erich Kästner in 1945. It features color illustrations by Heyne and offers a comical and critical depiction of National Socialism and Nazi militarism.

  7. Marvin Alishouse photograph

    Consists of one photograph of corpses being dumped from the bed of a train into a pile. The photograph was taken in a rural location, not in a concentration camp.

  8. Hand carved wooden clogs found in Dachau concentration camp by an American soldier

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn78330
    • English
    • a: Height: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) | Width: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Depth: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) b: Height: 8.375 inches (21.273 cm) | Width: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) | Depth: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm)

    Handmade wooden clogs found by 22 year old Aubrey G. Kincheloe, an American soldier, in Dachau concentration camp after liberation between May 3-8, 1945. Aubrey was a private first class in the 45th Infantry Division, 179th Infantry Regiment, Company C. He entered combat in January 1944, in Italy, and fought in southern France and, in 1945, advanced into Germany. On April 29, the 45th Division liberated Dachau concentration camp, while Aubrey and the 179th Infantry Regiment were attacking Munich. On May 3, Aubrey and his regiment were sent to Dachau to guard and administer the camp. Aubrey ...

  9. "LOL* After 67 Years"

    Consists of one bound memoir entitled "LOL* After 67 Years" written in 2012 by Peter R. Span, who was born in 1938 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, In the memoir, he describes the bombing of Belgrade which ended the attempts of his parents, Ignac Rosenfeld and Elisabeth Span, to emigrate with their sons to Mexico. After the bombing, the family moved to Subotica and in 1942 and again in 1944, Ignac was sent to a forced labor battalion. In the summer of 1944, Elisabeth and her sons (including Peter) were deported to the Ulrichskirchen labor camp in Austria, where they remained until liberation in Apr...

  10. Tick, Norwind and Milchberg families collection

    Collection of photographs of the Tick, Norwind and Milchberg families in Nasielsk, Poland before the war, and after the war in several displaced persons campsin Germany, including Rosenheim. Faiga Milchberg Tick and her husband Shmuel Tick fled their hometown Nasielsk to Bialystok in the Soviet zone. In July 1940 the Soviets deported them to Vologda forced labor camp. They were able to return to Nasielsk, where their daughter Malka was born in September 1945. Soon after, they left Poland for a DP camp in Germany and immigrated to Canada in September 1948. The collection also includes photog...

  11. Sacher family papers

    This collection includes correspondence, including Red Cross letters sent to and from Israel and Grete Sacher, in Vienna, to their son Friedrich, in Tel Aviv, 1941; copies of documents (2) obtained by Friedrich Sacher prior to his emigration from Austria, 1938-1939; letter to Friedrich Sacher from Jewish Council of Prague, 1946, informing him of his mother's deportation to Theresienstadt in 1942 and her subsequent deportation to Auschwitz, 1944; a card from Grete Sacher, acknowledging receipt of a package, Theresienstadt, 1943; and three photographs of Israel and Greta Sacher, 1928-1940.

  12. Regina Holczer collection

    Consists of one handwritten poem, in Polish, which was presented in Zbąszyń, Poland to Regina Holzer for her birthday on January 22, 1939. The poem was written and presented by German Jews who were ethnically Polish and were expelled to Zbąszyń, Poland, in 1938, and the text celebrates Holzer's assistance with cooking and food, noting that next year they will be in the United States. Also includes a copy print depicting a group of Jews sent to Zbąszyń, including Regina, taken in 1938. Includes an English language translation of the poem.

  13. Selected records from the State Archives of the Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan

    Records related to the evacuation of civilians to Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan during World War II. Includes information about resettlement, employment and food supplies and medical assistance provided by the local authorities. This collection contains various lists of evacuees arriving to Karaganda from various regions of the former USSR: Communists and specialists arrived in Karaganda Region, persons arrived from the front line; the list of Polish citizens living in Karaganda Region, lists of Polish-Jewish citizens traveling to Poland; correspondence, statistics, reports, materials relate...

  14. Corporal Linus Fincham collection

    Consists of three photographs of the newly-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp with description on the verso. The photographs, taken by Corporal Linus William Fincham, a member of the 5th Armored Division, Third Army. depict military activity in the camp and newly liberated political prisoners. Also includes a copy of his July 31, 1945 letter in which he sent the photographs home to his family.

  15. Cubist lithograph of a female head created by a Jewish Polish refugee

    Green ink lithograph, 38/50, a Cubist study of a woman's head created by Morice Lipsi, an artist known for his sculptures, at an unknown date, but probably postwar. The print was given to Micheline Weinstein, a psychoanalyst, in the 1970s by a patient who had kept it hidden under his floor for years. Morice, who was Jewish and originally from Poland, had lived in France since 1912. When Germany invaded France in 1940, he, his wife Hildegard, and daughters Verna and Jeanine left their farm near Paris and fled to the Free French zone in the south. Hildegard then took the girls to her native S...

  16. Oral history interview with Simon Bornstein

  17. Jacob Silvermintz papers

    Documents related to the post-war experiences of Jacob Silvermintz (aka Jakob Silberminz), originally of Szkosin, Poland; issued while he was living as a displaced person in and around Munich, Germany, 1945-1949. Includes identification cards, including those certifying that he had previously been a prisoner at Buchenwald; residence permits; health documents; and letters of reference related to his apprenticeship as an auto mechanic at a number of German companies after 1945, including Robert Bosch, GmbH. Includes his typescript memoir, 71 pages, entitled "I'm Still Here: The Story of Jacob...

  18. Illustration 2 from a handmade portfolio of illustrations by Herbert Heyne and Erich Kästner

    Book of illustrations sent by Herbert Heyne to Walter Furst. The book was a gift from Heyne to Furst and was written with Erich Kästner in 1945. It features color illustrations by Heyne and offers a comical and critical depiction of National Socialism and Nazi militarism.

  19. Alexander Pechersky article

    Consists of a typed onion skin copy of an article, in Russian, written in 1955 by Alexander Pechersky, related to his memories and experiences at Sobibor and during the Sobibor uprising. Pechersky inscribed the copy to Masha Rolnikaite.

  20. Deportation of Jews

    Deportation scenes in Poland. Quick shot of elderly Jews next to railway car. LS, line of Jews (filmed from behind) walking beside empty railcars followed by a Reichsbahn official. An armed SS man directs the Jewish women marching left to right across the frame. Closer view of a group of Jewish women and children with armbands walking towards the camera beside the train. A man and teenage boy help load Jews onto the train. View from inside the railcar to women as they climb into the car, a SS rifleman supervises them on the platform. On a platform, another group of Jewish civilians files to...