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2251. Roswell and Marjorie McClelland collection
relating to the experiences of Roswell and Marjorie McClelland and their work for the American Friends ... McClelland, the son of Roswell and Marjorie McClelland. ... The collection consists of a handmade card, correspondence, photographs, reports, and drafts
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2252. Roswell and Marjorie McClelland papers
relating to the experiences of Roswell and Marjorie McClelland and their work for the American Friends ... scholarship. However, Marjorie was a Quaker and was friends with a number of members of the American Friends ... established the War Refugee Board (WRB) to carry out an official American policy of rescue and relief for ... related to the American Friends Service Committee’s work in Rome, Marseilles, and Geneva during World War
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2253. An American serviceman who is visiting the Kibbutz Nili hachshara (Zionist collective) in Pleikershof, Germany, reads a desecrated tombstone that had been used by Julius Streicher for a threshold to a building on his estate.
The kibbutz successfully raised crops and livestock. Because of its location just outside of ... SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN); STREICHER FARM
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2254. Tahae Sugita (right), a Japanese-American soldier with the 522nd Field Artillery battalion, stands next to a concentration camp survivor he has just liberated on a death march from Dachau.
the spring of 1945. The enlisted men of the battalion were all Japanese Americans from the west coast ... and Hawaii. Units of this battalion liberated prisoners on one of the death marches from Dachau near
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2255. A group of concentration camp prisoners who were liberated on a death march from Dachau, sit on a bench waiting to receive food from Japanese-American soldiers with the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion.
the spring of 1945. The enlisted men of the battalion were all Japanese Americans from the west coast ... and Hawaii. Units of this battalion liberated prisoners on one of the death marches from Dachau near
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2256. The Wollheim and Fabian families sit together in the living room of the home they shared following the imposition of the Berlin blockade.
Kindertransport program; postwar leader of Jewish DPs in the British zone of Germany; and Auschwitz survivor who ... During his youth he attended public school and was active in the German Jewish Youth Alliance until its
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2257. Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum collection
(1939-1945), during which Edward, a 1st Lieutenant in the OSS and the US Army, was the first American ... The collection consists of artifacts, books, booklets, clippings, documents, and propaganda ... materials relating to the experiences of Edward and Joseph Tenenbaum, before, during, and after World War II ... and author of the Buchenwald Report. His father, Joseph Tenenbaum, was one of the organizers of the
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2258. Sietsema and Zomer families collection
The collection documents the wartime experiences of the Sietsema and Zomer families, originally ... Sietsema and her daughters Katherine and Henrietta, all three American citizens, in Liebenau internment
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2259. Nathan and Edith Litvin collection
photographs of the 1946 weddings (one in Paris and one in the United States) of Nathan, a Jewish-American ... Consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook pages documenting the experiences ... of Nathan Litvin and Edith Festinger Litvin. Includes pre-war and post-war photographs of the ... descriptions, and narrative of the collection and DVDs of film footage which Nathan Litvin produced of his trip
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2260. Officers of the Fifth U.S. Army prepare to leave Dornsberg castle after having found large quantities of silk, wool and other goods looted by the Nazis.
quantities of silk, wool and other goods looted by the Nazis. Doctor van Hartner, an alleged representative ... of the International Red Cross from Budapest who is guiding the Americans to places where looted ... Officers of the Fifth U.S. Army prepare to leave Dornsberg castle after having found large
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2261. The World Jewish Congress New York Office. Series D. Relief and Rescue Department
branch offices, and improve the image of the WJC with its affiliates. When rescue activities diminished ... Switzerland, to New York City, N.Y., due to World War II. Instrumental in its founding were the American ... Jewish Congress (AJC), established in 1918, and the Comité des Délégations Juives (Committee of Jewish
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2262. Watercolor painting of a crowd gathered in front of a decorative building in Vittel internment camp acquired by an American internee
Cross took over the American hospital, Gertrude started working for them and taking supplies to POWs in ... shoes, stamps, and documents relating to the experiences of Leonie Roualet in the Vittel internment camp ... in France during the Holocaust, and in France and the United States after the Holocaust. ... worked as an ambulance driver for the American Hospital in Paris. In July 1941, Gertrude started working
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2263. US Army 2nd Infantry Division shoulder sleeve patch with a Native American caricature on white star
"Indianhead Division" due to the design of their black badge with a cartoonlike head of a Native American on a ... Beach on D Day plus one, June 7, 1944, and were in Germany in October. In early April 1945, the division ... program for the physically and mentally disabled. The unit provided aid for the remaining inmates. They ... five point star with the head of a red faced man with black embroidered eyes, nose, mouth, and hair in
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2264. David and Lisa Eizenberg collection
The collection consists of a coat, vest, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of ... David and Lisa Eizenberg before and after the war in Germany when David worked with the Joint ... David Eizenberg was born in 1911 in eastern Poland (now Ukraine) and immigrated to the United ... for the Joint Distribution Committee and HIAS in displaced persons camps and accompanied the children
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2265. Joseph and Loeb family papers
Contains materials documenting the experiences of members of the Joseph and Loeb families. Some of ... The bulk of the collection relates to Chaim Beer Joseph and Pauline Franziska (Francis) Joseph ... to obtain restitution from West Germany, and Mrs. Joseph's payments to American welfare authorities ... relating to the postwar search by the donor's husband for his uncle, Eugen Weis, and to subsequent
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2266. Kovary and Neuhaus families papers
Budapest requesting an American passport and the recognition of his citizenship, but he was refused. In ... immigration visa. Olivio, Esther, Ernö, and Tibor registered in the American Consulate for immigration. The ... enlisted and was posted in the European theater. On June 6, 1944 Ernest was part of the American forces ... The Kovary and Neuhaus families collection includes medals, ribbons, pins, a leather wallet, a
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2267. David Treger (front row, center in white hair), President of the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in Bavaria, stands on the speakers platform with other DP leaders and official guests at a public meeting held in the Mittenwald displaced persons camp to protest British immigration policy in Palestine and to commemorate the death march from Dachau to Tyrol.
and to commemorate the death march from Dachau to Tyrol. ... (AMERICAN); STARS OF DAVID; TREGER, DAVID; UNRRA (UN RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ADMIN)
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2268. Picture postcard of the SS Sinaia, one of the ships of the Compagnie Francaise de Navigation a Vapeur Cyprien Fabre & Compagnie line that sailed between Marseilles and destinations in North and South America.
visit of Marshal Petain. The following month Fry's American passport expired, and the State Department ... mission, nonetheless, though he knew he faced ever-increasing hostility from both the American and French ... of the defeat of France and its acceptance of Hitler's terms for an armistice. Article 19 of the ... refugees from the Greater German Reich. The impetus for the ERC came from some of the leaders and
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2269. View from above of former prisoners walking along the main street and plaza of the newly liberated Dachau concentration camp.
Alexander Zabin was an American soldier from Malverne, Long Island, New York, serving with the 4th ... A Alexander Zabin was an American soldier from Malverne, Long Island, New York, serving with the 4th
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2270. Wedding portrait of Moses Weinberger and Sara Haberman.
the United States at the turn of the century and became an American citizen. He returned to Mukachevo ... Saul Weinberger (born Shlomo Weinberger) is the son of Moses and Sara (Haberman) Weinberger. He ... was Saul Weinberger (born Shlomo Weinberger) is the son of Moses and Sara (Haberman) Weinberger. He ... fixtures. The family lived in one bedroom, and Moses had his workshop in another room. Moses had moved to
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2271. Jerzy and Zofia Flajszman papers
The collection consists of photographs, identification cards, a coupon, a wedding invitation, and a ... coin relating to the Flajszman and Kolczycki families in Łódź, Poland, before and during the Holocaust ... February 1940, Jerzy, his mother, and his sister were forced into the Łódź ghetto. His father, Symcha ... escaped to the Soviet Union where he survived World War II. Czarna Chawa and Chaja Sura Flajszman worked
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2272. Nathan and Edith Litvin papers
photographs of the 1946 weddings (one in Paris and one in the United States) of Nathan, a Jewish-American ... The Nathan and Edith Litvin collection document the marriage of a Jewish American soldier and an ... Holocaust Memoir and Love Story. [United States], 2008. The book is located in the United States Holocaust ... Consists of documents, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook pages documenting the experiences
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2273. Maria Gersheim, a witness for the prosecution, testifies at the trial of former camp personnel and prisoners from Buchenwald.
On March 4, 1947, American forces at Dachau charged 28 former camp personnel, 2 former kapos, and 1 ... On March 4, 1947, American forces at Dachau charged 28 former camp personnel, 2 former kapos, and 1
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2274. Heinz and Mira Wallerstein papers
letter from the Hamburg-American Line cancelling the Taussig’s trip to the United Sates in 1939; and ... Kassel, Germany until their separate immigration to the United States in the late 1930s and early 1940s. ... ). In 1923, the family moved to Plzeň to live with Mira’s grandmother and great-grandfather. Her mother ... Italy, and from there was able to book passage on a boat to the United States. She initially stayed with
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2275. Joasia Klein and two other children pose on the campus of the Robert College in Istanbul, Turkey, overlooking Bosphorus Strait.
's remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, Jerzy applied for American visas for his family and first learned of the ... destroyed. In Istanbul, Jerzy obtained a job teaching calculus and physics in English at the American ... immigration visas for Brazil. However, the Kleins and Elizawieta Palcew obtained American visas, valid for ... American ship in the midst of a round-the-world cruise, and thus reached American soil for the purposes of