Memoirs of a Jew, born as Zisa Fried in Khust (then Slovakia, now Ukraine) in 1928. He was deported in 1944 with his family to Auschwitz, where he worked in IG-Farben's Buna plant. His parents perished in Auschwitz. In January 1945, he and his brothers were taken on the death march to Gleiwitz and then on a ten-day journey by train with 10,000 others to Nordhausen (the Mittelbau-Dora camp), without ...

George Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. During World War II, Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day — including the only Allied European Front color film of the war — the liberation of Paris and the meeting ...

Forrest James Robinson was born on September 22, 1922, in Winfield, Kansas, to William J. and Gladys S. Sheldon Robinson. He had four older siblings: Martha, William, Frances, and Doris. On December 8, 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered World War II. Forrest was attending Southwestern College, but left to enlist in the US Army in 1943. He was sent to an Army Specialist ...

Consists of photographs taken at the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp as well as photographs of the V-2 rocket factory at the Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp. Also includes a still negative film strip of post-liberation Nordhausen concentration camp, acquired by Milton Frankel, a United States Military officer stationed in Germany. Multiple images on one uncut strip inside metal canister ...

Copyright Holder: Joe Gelber

The collection consists of 16 photographs of the liberation of Nordhausen-Dora concentration camp taken by Mortimer Greenberg, an American soldier who participated in the liberation.

Collection of four photographic prints depicting victims of the Nordhausen (Dora-Mittelbau) concentration camp immediately following liberation. American soldiers and German civilians are visible in some of the photographs; inscription on verso of one photograph.

Contains a letter from Eric Kohlhagen to his cousin in regards to sending affidavits for his parents to come to the United States and a memoir about Eric E. Kohlhagen's experiences in Sachsenhausen, Nordhausen, Bunawitz, Auschwitz, Gross Rosen, and Dora concentration camps.

Contains photographs, newspaper clippings and a book entitled "The 'Dora'-Nordhausen War Crimes Trial," likely related to Maxwell Orme Johnson's experiences as a staff member of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Most photos and some articles are on scrapbook pages.

The manuscript describes Alfred Dube's experiences in Prague, the Łódź ghetto, as a prisoner of both Buchenwald and a subcamp of Dora-Mittelbau (Nordhausen), and his liberation in Bergen-Belsen.

Forrest James Robinson was born on September 22, 1922, in Winfield, Kansas, to William J. and Gladys S. Sheldon Robinson. He had four older siblings: Martha, William, Frances, and Doris. On December 8, 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States entered World War II. Forrest was attending Southwestern College, but left to enlist in the US Army in 1943. He was sent to an Army Specialist ...

Bestandsbeschreibung Biographische Angaben: Mitbegründer der Arbeiterjugendbewegung (1912) und der KPD (1919) in Wurzen; Teilnahme an der Novemberrevolution und an den Kämpfen gegen den Kapp-Putsch; KPD-Funktionär in Frankfurt-Hessen, Berlin-Brandenburg und zentral; Inhaftierung (1934-1945), v. a. KZ Buchenwald und "Dora" Nordhausen Bestandsbeschreibung: Persönliches und Biographisches; Korrespondenzen; ...

Consists of six photographs taken by Houston "Dee" Deford, a member of the 104th Infantry Division, after the liberation of the Nordhausen concentration camp The photographs depict the preparation of corpses for burial. Includes handwritten description on the verso, giving the date of the photographs as "April 1, 1945" [likely May 1, 1945].

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 ...

Mieczyslaw (Mitchell) Lewicki was born on April 30, 1923, in Kielce, Poland, to Catholic parents. His father owned a shoe factory in Radom (Grojec). Mitchell worked for his father at the factory. Poland was occupied by Germany in September 1939. The Lewicki’s employed Jews at the factory, and they were permitted to keep them as employees even after the Germans forced all Jews to live in a ghetto. In ...

The Rotman, Rosenblatt, and Bialer families collection consists of documents and photographs documenting the experiences of Genia Strasborg Rotman, Arthur Rosenblatt, and David Bialer following their liberation and life in post-war Poland, Sweden, and the United States.

Ben Giladi (1925-2012) was born in Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland. Following the German invasion in 1939, he spent his adolescent years in the Piotrków ghetto, working in a glass factory. When the ghetto was dissolved, he was deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp, and later, to Dora-Mittelbau. He was liberated in Nordhausen in April 1945, and returned to Poland, studying at the University of ...

TR.20- Documentation of trials conducted against war criminals submitted by the United States Department of Justice 
 
 The Record Group is comprised of microfilms that contain documentation of trials against war criminals and collaborators conducted by American courts in the US Occupation Zone in Germany. The original material is preserved in the United States National Archives and Records ...

5 foto's met betrekking tot vice-consul Joop Kolkman, die vanuit Perpignan vele Engelandvaarders en andere Nederlandse vluchtelingen aan reispapieren hielp en ook anderszins ondersteunde. 1-2. Foto van visumaanvraag van Joop Kolkman, dd. 08-01-1944 (2x) 3-4 . Foto van visumaanvraag van Kolkmans echtgenote Elizabeth Kolkman-Fonkert, dd. 08-01-1944 (2x) 5. Foto van Bar La Source, in Perpignan, dat tijdens ...

Archief van Joseph Willem ('Joop') Kolkman (Den Haag, 1 december 1896 - Lublin-Majdanek, 08-02-1944). Verzetsdeelnemer. Joop Kolkman werkte voor de oorlog als journalist in Frankrijk. Na de Franse capitulatie werd hem gevraagd in Zuid-Frankrijk te helpen met het registreren van Nederlandse vluchtelingen, waaronder zich ook Engelandvaarders bevonden. Kolkman hielp velen van hen aan valse papieren, bracht ...

In this fonds we find several files which are of importance to our subject. First of all we note a number of files explicitly referring to Belgium. File 1-30 (“Hehalutz Belgium”) contains correspondence (dated 1940-1946) with members of the movement and includes a report on the situation of the Jews in Belgium during the occupation. In the file titled “Belgium” (file 1-135, dated 1940-1946) we find ...

Siegfried Halbreich (1909-2008) was born in Dziedzice, in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. After his graduation from high school, he served briefly in the Polish Army from 1930-1932, before attending the University of Krakow to become a pharmacist. He practiced pharmacy in Katowice, Poland from 1935-1939 before the outbreak of World War II. At the outbreak of war, Halbreich was drafted back into ...

<p>This collection contains the personal papers of Freddie Knoller, an Auschwitz concentration camp survivor from Vienna. His parents, David and Marja Knoller, insisted that he and his two brothers, Erich and Otto, emigrated to avoid increasing anti-Semitism and Nazi persecution after the annexation of Austria. Freddie's parents were murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp whilst his two brothers ...