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Edwin Allan (1918-circa 2004) was born in Aberdeen, Scotland on November 17, 1918. Allen was captured during the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force from the French port of Dunkirk in 1940. He was taken to Stalag IX-C in 1940 and was liberated by United States troops in 1945. Edwin eventually immigrated to the United States and had a daughter, Heather.

Relates to Winfield Rosenberg's experience and the experiences of some of his American Jewish comrades at Stalag IX-B, Bad Orb, Germany, and at Berga an der Elster, a Buchenwald subcamp. There also is some information about a death march involving Rosenberg and other American prisoners of war, and their subsequent liberation by the 90th Infantry Division.

United States Army Cpl. Richard T. "Dick" Lockhart served with the 106th Infantry Division. He was captured as a POW on December 16, 1944 during the Battle of Bulge. After four days and nights in box cars with little to no food and water, he arrived on December 26, 1944 at Stalag IX-B in Bad Orb, Germany. He was liberated in April 1945.

Sydney Goodman (1917-2005) was a Jewish American soldier born in Detroit, Michigan where he owned a body shop. In 1940 he married Grace Goldberg and they had three daughters, Karen (b. 1941), Judith, and Barbara. In November 1943 Sydney enlisted into the U.S. Army and was deployed to Germany in August 1944 with the 110th Infantry Regiment of the 28th Infantry Division. During the Battle of the Bulge ...

One letter, from Pete House, a former American POW who was held at Stalag IX-B in 1944-1945, and who wrote to the USHMM after visiting the museum in April 1994. Describes the mistreatment of Allied POWs, including soldiers of African descent.

Stephen J. Schweitzer (1914-1989) was a Catholic American soldier who was born in Pennsylvania and lived and worked in New York City as an insurance adjuster. He married Helen Nelan in February 1936, and they had seven daughters, Florence, Gretchen, Marianne, Judy, Margaret, Lorraine, and Gina. He was deployed by the US Army as a member of Company L, 423rd Infantry Regiment, 106th Infantry Division, ...

The collection consists of a prisoner identification tag, dog tags, correspondence, and documents relating to the experiences of Norman Fellman, soldier, Company B, 275th regiment, 70th Infantry Division, United States Army, as well as documents from other US soldiers, who, like Norman, were held as German prisoners of war in Stalag IX-B and Berga slave labor camp from January to April 1945.

The collection's contents are described in two inventories. The inventories are arranged structurally and by document type. The collection contains documents of concentration camps and POW camps (arranged for the most part in alphabetical order by camp name. regulations, instructions, daily reports on the prisoner population, lists, summaries, journals, personnel files, card files, questionnaires, ...

The Charles Vogel papers consist of documents, diaries and testimonies, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings acquired by Charles Vogel during his efforts to document and record what occurred to the 350 American soldiers held prisoner at Berga an der Elster. The collection also includes originals and photocopies of trial documents relating to the war crimes trial of Erwin Metz and Ludwig ...