Testimony, 26 pages, typescript, about experiences of Pruchno, originally of Siauliai, Lithuania, about occupation of Lithuania, life in Siauliai ghetto, as well as deportation to Dachau, and time there and at Kaufering. Accompanied by photos of Pruchno and photocopied document (post-war) attesting that he had been imprisoned at Dachau.

The collection consists of a concentration camp uniform jacket, a fork, and a letter relating to the experiences of Getzel Fingerhut (later George Fine) during the Holocaust when he was a prisoner in Kaufering X concentration camp in Germany and after the Holocaust in Feldafing displaced persons camp.

Testimony, 20 pages, typescript, written by Jerry Tepperman, of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, in which he researches and reconstructs the experiences of his father, Leib Tepperman, who died when Jerry was 16 and never spoke about his Holocaust experiences. The elder Tepperman survived the Łódź ghetto, but the documentation compiled by his son focuses on his time at Dachau and Kaufering in 1944-1945. ...

Contains a photo album containing black and white copy prints of images by Lt. Ernest J. Gunther, head of a military intelligence interrogation team with the US Army 12th Armored Division, at the Kaufering IV concentration camp. Includes images of American soldiers, scenes from around the camp, and images of victims found in the camp.

Contains memoir, poetry, and prose written by George L. Scott, a survivor of the concentration camps of Savar, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kaufering, Landsberg, and Dachau. His memoir "Life, Reach for it!" (formerly titled "The Way it Happened!") centers around his memories and descriptions of Birkenau. He now spends much of his time talking to students about his experiences at the Toronto Holocaust Centr ...

Collection of documents, certificates, correspondence, wallet, tag, receipt and other papers documenting the experiences of Hersh (Herz) Berlinski, b. March 20, 1921 in Łódź, Poland who survived the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz (prisoner # 95325) and Kaufering where he was liberated by the US Army in April 1945. After the war he recuperated in Bad Wörishofen hospital. He immigrated to the United States in ...

Contains photographs, negatives, and documents collected by U.S. serviceman T/Sgt. Ralph J. Scheiderer. Many images concern the liberation of Landsberg/Kaufering concentration camp, and bear handwritten descriptions on the verso. Contains a typwritten report prepared by Robert J. Hartwig entitled "Atrocities of Lansburg [sic] Concentration Camp," and the text of an April 17, 1945 radio report about ...

The collection consists of three photographs of Leslie (Laszlo) Aigner with his immediate family in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia, in May 1944. Soon afterwards, Leslie was deported to Auschwitz where his mother and little sister, Marika, were murdered, was transferred to Landsberg-Kaufering, and was liberated from Dachau. His father and sister, Elisabet, were taken to a forced labor camp in Hungary, ...

Consists of photographs of the extended family of Chaim Ariyah and Esther Chasen, originally of Grodno, Poland. The family moved to Vilna after World War I. Most of the members of the family were killed in Ponar during the Holocaust. Also includes photographs taken upon the liberation of the Landsberg-Kaufering IV concentration camp, taken by Albert Gaynes, a member of the 12th Armored Division as ...

Consists of 58 photographs taken upon the liberation of various concentration camps (including Dachau, Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Kaufering IV, Dora-Mittelbau, Bergen-Belsen, and photographs of the Gardelegen massacre). Also includes wartime photographs of mass arrests of Jews in Amsterdam and photographs taken upon the liberation of that city as well as photographs taken after a massacre of Belgian civilians ...

Contains photographs taken by John J. Garvey (donor’s father), who enlisted in the US Army in 1939 and served in 62nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion. He fought in North African Campaign, in the invasion of Sicily and took part in the D-Day crossing. Corporal Garvey’s unit liberated the Hurlach concentration camp, a Kaufering IV sub camp of Dachau, on April 30, 1945. Includes a photograph showing ...

Describes the author's (b. 1926) childhood in Vienna, Austria; the Anschluss; Kristallnacht; author's emigration to Belgium and his subsequent escape to France; author's return to Austria in hopes of getting a transport to Sweden; author's arrest and his experiences in Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt), Auschwitz, Dachau, Erpfting, and Kaufering; his liberation; the death of members of his family; his ...

Consists of an oral history interview conducted by the University of Oregon with Leslie (Les) and Eva Aigner. The Aigners both grew up in Budapest, Hungary; Eva spent the last year of the war in the ghetto in Budapest, while Les was deported to Auschwitz, transferred to Landsberg-Kaufering, and ultimately liberated from Dachau. They met and married after the war. Also includes photocopies of documentation ...

The collection related to the life of Abrasza Feldman during the time of the Holocaust and includes certificates, letters, photographs, and medical reports.

Julien D. Saks was a Chemical Warfare Officer for the 12th Armored Division which captured eleven concentration camps satellite to the Dachau concentration camp. He was present at the liberation of Landsberg concentration camp.

Consists of a memoir, 9 pages, by Edward Gruzin, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust and New Life in America." In the memoir, Mr. Gruzin describes his memories of his childhood in pre-war Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, his wartime experiences in the Kovno Ghetto and in the Landsberg-Kaufering concentration camp, his post-war experiences regarding liberation, and his emigration to the United States in 19 ...

Shlomo Shafir (1924-2013) was born Selimar Frenkel in Berlin, Germany in 1924. During his childhood, his mother, Esther Frenkel (nee Berkmann), was seriously ill with encephalitis. He was educated by his father and grandmother in Eitkoven, a small town in the Lithuanian on the east Prussian border. In 1938 he moved with his father to Kovno, Lithuania (now Kaunas, Lithuania). They eventually moved into ...

Contains photographs, four notebooks (in Yiddish), identification documents, certificates, and correspondence, related to the wartime experiences in France of Kopel Kaufman, originally of Busko, Poland, and Wulf Finkielsztejn, originally of Wilno (Vilnius). Documents attest to the experiences of both men in resistance activities during the occupation of France, their imprisonment by the Germans, and ...

Ester Abel (1902-1988), originally of a small village in Lithuania referred to as Stojaziski, met August Moller (1899-1935), a Protestant who grew up in Bochum, Germany, through the socialist movement in Bochum. They married in 1926, and had two sons, Levi Willi (1927-2006) and Ruben Horst (1929-). The family lived in Bochum where August worked as an insurance broker. August died in 1935, and the family ...

Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by Benjamin Milich, age 30, in Auschwitz, Kaufering, and Dachau concentration camps from August 1944 to May 1945. The jacket has a hidden pocket and a patch with his Dachau prisoner ID number, 96699. Benjamin, his mother Rajzla, and his siblings Abram, Leib, and Anita lived in Łódź. In spring 1940, they were forced into the ghetto. In July 1942, Abram was sent ...

"Exposé and synopsis of a generation of wrath: a story of embattlement, survival and deliverance during the Holocaust of World War II" (1984) by Elio Romano (b. 1923) contains information about Elio's childhood in Oświęcim, Poland; the German occupation of Poland; his attempted escape to Czechoslovakia; his work as a slave laborer helping to build the Auschwitz concentration camp; his internment ...

Bestandsbeschreibung Der größte Teil des Bestandes (ca. 1926-1945) ist noch nicht endgültig bearbeitet. Überliefert sind hier in großer Zahl Unterlagen der Rechts-, Revisions- und Bilanzabteilung, Materialien und Spesen und Frachten sowie Statistiken. Zitierweise BArch R 15-VII/...

Schenja alias Jenny Birnbaum or Birenbaum was born on 19 April 1929 in Cologne, Germany. She was the eldest child of Simon Birnbaum (born on 13 August 1897 in Checiny, Poland) and Salka Flescher (born on 23 February 1900 in Stanislawow, Poland). Jenny had three younger siblings: Esther who was called Erna (born on 8 November 1931), Joseph (born on 26 December 1932) and Herschel (born on 4 November ...

Mascha Berkmann (née Rutstein, later Marsha Berkman, 1920-2007) was born in Raseiniai, Lithuania to Rachel (née Seidman) and Hershel Rutstein. She had three brothers, Benjamin, Henry, and Israel. Her father was a cobbler, but died when Mascha was 2 years old. Her mother supported the family by cooking and cleaning for other families. The children were not able to go to school, and Mascha began working ...