George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910- 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania ...

Titles in Cyrillic - Serbo-Croatian. Series of head shots, close, of corpses with names superimposed. HAS from airplane. Destruction, ruins in town. Croatian man. Homes. Group of villagers (men) marching, soldiers guarding them. Pan up, gate with "Radna Sluzba Ustaske Obrane Sabirni Logor Br. III" German sign: "Arbeitslager..." Prisoners, soldier with rifles, walking barefoot to perform labor, horse/carts, ...

The papers consist of two manuscripts written by Bronka Grynglas Rezak [donor] for her grandsons, Avi and Ronnen Gruber, and a newspaper article. In the manuscript, titled "The History of our family," she describes the history of her family in Poland before World War II, their experiences in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland, and various concentration camps during World War II, and their immigration to ...

Group of black and white photographs: 26 mounted on two album pages and 2 loose photographs. Three photo reproductions from newspapers. Photographic prints: two pages, possibly removed from photograph album, bearing 26 captioned images, post-liberation in concentration camps Dachau and Buchenwald, taken by Pierre Jean Louis Masson (donor's father) who was part of Red Cross (in France) attached to American ...

Béla Zsolt (born as Béla Steiner, January 8, 1895-February 6, 1949) was a Hungarian radical socialist journalist and politician, novelist, poet, and journalist. Zsolt, who was born at Komárom, joined the editorial board of the radical Budapest newspaper Világ in 1921 and later worked for Magyar Hírlap and, from 1933, for Újság. In addition, he was editor in chief of the radical weekly A Toll. In his ...

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Collection of documents of Dutch inmates in German camps outside the Netherlands, 1933-1945, including documentation of the Red Cross, until 1950
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 Lists of survivors and lists of inmates who perished in Dachau, Mauthausen, Gross Rosen, Theresienstadt and Natzweiler camps during 1940-1945;
 
 Testimonies of Dutch survivors, regarding their ...

Testimonies and reports written by Jewish and non-Jewish inmates from the Netherlands, most of them political prisoners, regarding prisons and concentration camps, 1933-1945
 
 Lists of people from the Netherlands who perished in camps, and a report regarding the persecution of Jews by the Amsterdam Police, 1939-1945;
 
 Correspondence of the Netherlands Tracing Mission, 1945-1948;
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Contains photographs taken in the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation; Overseas Service Certificates issued by American National Red Cross to William Swannie; newspaper page with an article entitled “The Nazis Sent Me to a Concentration Camp,” with the testimony of an Austrian refugee, published in The Sunday Oregonian, May 21, 1939.

The Sidney Etkin collection contains documents obtained by Etkin during his time treating prisoners from the recently liberated Mauthausen-Gusen camp in June, 1945. The documents contain statements made by Franz Zeireis, the commandant of the camp. He details the camp conditions, specific torture done to prisoners, numbers of prisoners killed, and other facts regarding the management of the concentration ...

Gerhard Durlacher (1928-1996), himself a Holocaust survivor became a sociologist at the University of Amsterdam and later wrote about his own experiences in factual books and fiction, managing to trace some of his former fellow inmates at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

This project consists of fifteen interviews: thirteen interviews with survivors of the uprising on 14 October 1943 in the Sobibor extermination camp, one interview with two Polish locals and one with a survivor of the uprising in the crematorium of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The interviews of the Sobibor survivors were filmed in 1983 and 1984. During this period the trial against camp commander Karl Frenzel ...

Contains correspondence written from various concentration camps and POW camps; photo reproductions (cigarette cards), mass produced by the NSDAP of pro-Nazi propaganda; a copy of the "Chicago Daily News" newspaper, October 31, 1939, with the article "Duce Removes Pro-Nazis."

The collection documents the post-war experiences of Ludwig Hiss of Borysław, Poland in the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp; other DP camps in Linz, Austria; and the Bellfaire orphanage in Cleveland, Ohio. Documents include a civilian transportation pass from Linz; a newspaper clipping describing Ludwig’s story; and two writings of Ludwig describing his experiences during and after the war. Photographs ...

Scrapbook containing information about the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, memorial ceremonies held there after World War II, and newspaper articles about various concentration camps.

George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910- 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania ...

(LIB 5064) Unloading rations from a jeep. Liberated Allied prisoners, of Bad Orb POW camp, CU one with a turban scarf. Carrying boxes of rations. CU, two liberated men. Walking with wheelbarrow, white crosses for deceased along a barracks in the BG. Entering barracks in BG while men sit on a stone wall and read US newspaper with headline "Yanks invaded Ryukyu..." HAS men and liberating officers. Barracks ...

Copyright Holder: Mr. Jay Levine

Contains photographic prints, black and white images documenting the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation; images include survivors, victims, the memorial erected at the camp, and gallows; some include handwritten inscriptions in pencil on verso; dated April 1945. The photographs were brought home from the war and some taken by Herbert Huberty (donor's grandfather) who served with the US ...

Consists of copies of several articles published circa 1983 concerning the liberation of Landsberg, Hurlach, and other camps in the area of Dachau concentration camp. The articles describe the conditions in Landsberg and other Dachau sub-camps at the time of liberation, lists statistics for Jews killed in the Dachau camps, and quotes the eyewitness accounts of American liberators present at the Landsberg ...

Maurice Frankenhuis Collection
 
 Publications and correspondence, newspaper clippings and pamphlets regarding the Nazi crimes and trials against Nazis;
 
 Included in the file:
 
 - "A Journey into Darkness" by Maurice Frankenhuis, regarding his life in the Netherlands during the German occupation, in Westerbork camp, and during his deportation to Theresienstadt;
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Life in the Landsberg displaced persons camp. DP children writing in journals. Hebrew "Olympiad" sports events: calisthenics, flag-raising, ceremony, spectators, track races, high jump, sack races, crowd, award ceremony. People gathered in streets, on bicycles. DPs getting off truck. DP family walking slowly down road. Raking/gardening. Children, families, playing in park. Babies. Girls dancing the ...

Consists of photographs, identity cards, and a clipping from the collection of Norman Coulson, a veteran of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers who was put in charge of the post-liberation efforts to clean the Dachau concentration camp. Includes his Dachau occupation personnel identification card, photographs of the architecture of the camp, early copies of mass-produced images, and photographs of US ...