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Lorenz C. Schmuhl (1898-1988) was born in Three Oaks, Michigan where he worked as the deputy warden for the Indiana State Prison System and was married to a school teacher. Lorenz enlisted in the United States Army at the age of 18 and served in World War I. During World War II he was deployed in May 1944 and arrived at Buchenwald on April 15, 1945 where he served as the first American commander of ...

O.4 - Legal documentation collected in Israel in preparation for criminal trials
 
 This Record Group contains material regarding Nazi criminals collected in Israel to assist in the interrogations and the placing of war criminals on trial, including:
 
 Testimonies of Holocaust survivors collected in courts in Israel as requested by courts abroad, newspaper clippings regarding criminals ...

After escaping the Mir ghetto in August 1942 with his father, Jack Sutin (1923-2017) organized a small band of Jewish partisans and lived in a small bunker where he was eventually reunited with Rochelle Szleif (1924-2010). They first met at the beginning of the war at a Soviet school. Rochelle found Jack after fleeing a ghetto when her mother and sisters were shot, swimming across the Niemen River, ...

The Avraham Polack papers contain letters relating to the Polack family in Haifa, Israel, and in particular Avraham Polack’s imprisonment with other Irgun and Lehi members in several British detention camps in Africa from 1944-1947. The letters provide detailed descriptions of his daily life within the camps and reflect Polack’s concern for his family. Other letters relate to Avraham’s continuing education ...

Roman Karmen was born in 1906 in Odessa. He enrolled in the Gerasimov Institute for of Cinematography in Moscow in 1929. Throughout the 1930s, Karmen worked at the Central Studio of Documentary Film and as a correspondent for Soviet newspapers. He covered the Civil War in Spain in 1936-39. During World War II, Karmen was present on the front lines, documenting the Leningrad blockade, the surrender ...

One scrapbook containing articles about Itshe Slotzki and his poetry and the executions of Nazi war criminals. Some of the newspaper clippings are taken from a Yiddish publication. One photograph of Itshe Slotzki. One scrapbook containing clippings concerning the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and events of World War II from newspapers and magazines. Seven photographs by Col. Max J. Mackler of ...

Consists of papers related to the Holocaust and immigration experiences of the family of Isac and Lydia Hirschfeld, originally of Liebau, Latvia. Isac Hirscheld passed away before the war, and once the war began, Lydia and her daughters Fanny, Frida, and Marie were interned, first in the Riga ghetto, and later in a forced labor camp. The collection includes a wartime address book, Fanny's diary, kept ...

Jan de Jong was born in 1916 in Arnhem, Netherlands. After hiding for several years in the Nazi occupied Netherlands he was eventually caught. Jan was taken to Westerbork transfer camp and later Sobibor extermination camp in Poland where he was murdered in June 1943.

2e dr. 236 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Contains documents, correspondence, passports, ID cards, newspaper clippings documenting the experiences of the extended Willstätter family and their internment in Camp de Gurs.