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  2. Ruth Karliner Friedman biography

    Testimony, typescript, 10 pages, about Ruth Karliner Friedman, written by daughter Vivian Zoe. Describes family and childhood of Karliner in Beuthen (Silesia), deportation to labor camps (Gross-Breesen, Auschwitz, Ravensbrück), and post war experiences.

  3. Oral history interview with Arthur Kastle

  4. Photographs relating to the deportation and emigration of Jews

    Contains three photographs. One shows suitcases in a Holocaust museum exhibit, focusing on one for Hanna Minska, a child. Label on edge of photo is from Mrs. Rubin Minsky of Anaheim, CA, so is likely photo of her suitcase during time of deportation to camps (credited to L.A. Times). Other two photos are of Carole Kahan and Sara Zilberstein.

  5. Documents and publications relating to the Kaufering group of camps surrounding Landsberg and their liberations by U.S. Army Divisions

    Photocopies, loose materials, related to 103rd Infantry Division's liberation of camps at Landsberg/Kaufering.

  6. Stanisławów diaries and testimonies

    The Stanislawów diaries and testimonies document life within the Stanislawów ghetto from 1941-1943. Eliszewa Binder’s diary was written by a young Jewish girl, between 1941 and 1942. Her given name was Elza, but she was called Eliszewa by her friends. The entries discuss life in the ghetto, and several entries are written by a friend, explaining the fate of her family to the Nazis. She was most likely murdered shortly after the last entry in June, 1942. Juliusz Feuerman was born in Stanislawów in 1889, and was educated as a building engineer. During WWI, he was seriously injured on the Ital...

  7. John Warren collection

    Mixture of miscellaneous items. Snapshots and negatives from liberated camp (Buchenwald). Inflationary million-mark bank note from Germany, 1923. Complete edition of May 8, 1945 issue of "Stars and Stripes" with "Victory" headline. Postcards of Hitler with children. Poster (insert to magazine "Junge Heimat") of Hitler, greeting children at Christmas. Military order to John Weintraub authorizing him to requisition two truckloads of beds to be delivered to "town of Weimar and vicinity," likely for liberated prisoners from Buchenwald, April 1945.

  8. Efrem Ostrowsky family papers

    The collection primarily consists of wartime photographs taken by Efrem Ostrowsky and others as well as liberation photographs taken at the Dachau concentration camp by Ostrowsky. The photographs depict Allied troops in Austria, France, and Germany, captured German soldiers, liberated concentration camp survivors, cannons, tanks, and aircraft. The captured German soldiers include Major Wilhelm Oxenius, Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, and Colonel-General Alfred Jodl. Documents primarily relate to Efrem’s father Samuel Ostrowsky’s art career, including clippings, a program from a Spertus Museum...

  9. Letter about the liberation of Hersbruck by the 65th U.S. Army Infantry Division

    Testimony, in form of letter to USHMM from Leo Serian, 1994, describing his experiences in the U.S. Army in the liberation of a sub-camp of Flossenbürg.

  10. Combat in Soviet Russia

    Military Film Report: On the German and Russian encounter in the area of Kharkov, Murmansk, Rostov and Sevastopol, Russia. 02:00:00 Reel 1: Part 1: The battle for Kharkov ["Die Schacht bei Charkow"]. Animated map of Kharkov-Poltava area illustrates the May 12, 1942, convergence of German ground and air forces. Germans take Russian prisoners after scrimmage of May 30, 1942. German Gen. Heinz Guderian visits Ukrainian front. German troops cross Dnieper and Desna rivers, encircle Gomel and Kiev. Odessa falls after two months of battle. 02:07:31 Part 2: From Murmansk to Africa ["Von Murmansk bi...

  11. A tapestry of treasure

    Contains a memoir about Ellen Summer's experiences living in the United States with her mother, a survivor of the Holocaust.

  12. Letter relating to the bombing of Auschwitz

    Photocopy of one letter, from Norman Bottomley to Carl Spaatz, providing rationale for not bombing Auschwitz, September 1944.

  13. DPs; postwar rehabilitation

    A Crown Film Unit Production. Short film documenting the aftermath of the war, including the movement of refugees, Displaced Persons camps, rehabilitation, and going home. Young men crossing bridge. Women and men moving bushels of hay, guarded by a soldier. Labor in fields, railroads, factories. Liberation scenes: tanks moving through villages, people shaking hands, celebrating; men emerging from forests; crowds leaning out windows, cheering; beating a Nazi?; destroying buildings. Refugees moving on foot and truck with belongings/luggage. Destroyed bridge. More refugees, smiles beaming (sta...

  14. A memoir

    Testimony, 7 pages, photocopy of typescript in German, along with English summary, relating to experiences of Martin Starke during war. Starke's own account was written in 1947. Describes Starke's arrest in Hamburg, imprisonment at Fuhlsbuettel, deportation to Auschwitz, time there as forced laborer, death march to Gleiwitz, then train to Mauthausen and other locations before end of war.

  15. Oral history interview with Max Nirenberg

  16. Oral history interview with William Serog

  17. Harvey S. Mamat photographs

    Consists of eight photographs of corpses at the liberation of the Seeshaupt concentration camp in Germany, April 1945.

  18. Fred Steiner papers

    Documents (3) related to Steiner (born Fritz Steiner), including "Kennkarte," photostat of employer letter from Vienna, 1938, and photostat of letter from Consulate General of Italy in New York, 1960, confirming that Steiner was interned at a camp in Malfi from 1941-1943.

  19. Oral history interview with Mark Zilist

  20. Arcady and Tanya Goldstein Letters

    Letter, written by donor's great uncle (Arkady), from Riga, December 1944, to his niece, Tanya (Karapetian), in Novikovo, explaining what happened to family in Riga during German occupation. Tanya's reply is written on the blank space of the same letter. Donor translations provided.