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The letter, written on May 19, 1945, describes Robert Lieberman's encounter with a newly-liberated inmate of Buchenwald. Robert was a Jewish soldier serving with the United States Army with the 104th Infantry Division.
Contains correspondence about the Holocaust experiences of Mina Sack Babushkina in Liepaja, Latvia.
Consists of one letter, four double-sided pages, written by Clayton Lee Shedivetz, a member of the United States Army, on 14 June 1945. In the letter, Mr. Shedivetz describes taking a tour, with a former inmate guiding him, of the Buchenwald concentration camp; the history of the camp, and what he witnessed there. He urges his wife to keep the letter because he felt the visit was very important.
The Peter Piper letter contains a handwritten letter, dated April 8, 1945, written by Peter Piper, a member of the Fourth Armored Division of the United States Army, and sent to Mary Alice Boyd in Madison, Wisconsin. In the letter, Piper describes capturing a liquor storehouse and distributing the contents to his friends, and the concentration camp he toured [likely Ohrdruf] and commented on the suicide ...
The Daryl Ratzlaff letters consists of two two letters written by Sergeant Daryl Ratzlaff from Linz, Austria to Mrs. Lysle G. Danger in Moscow, Iowa regarding his participation in the liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp and his recent visit to liberated Paris, France.
A letter Fred Mandel wrote to his mother in Austria while he was interned as a youth in Dachau. Donor was released from Dachau and immigrated to the United States.
Contains a letter of protection issued to Dr. Farago Gyorgi, signed by the Apostolic Nuncio in Budapest, Monsignor Angelo Rotta, dated November 15, 1944.
The letter was written to Julio Herman by a friend describing the sad situation of his parents in Vienna, Austria, in 1943.
Contains English translations of letters from individual survivors describing the ordeals that they experienced in the Minsk ghetto or as partisans hiding in the forest during the Holocaus.
This collection contains photocopies of the personal letters, newspaper clippings, and postcards of Deborah (Nina) Iakovleva Averbukh, who survived the early German occupation of Kharkov in 1941.
Letter, five pages, written by Samuel J. Comisaroff (donors' father), enlisted American Army soldier, to his family in the United States describing his visit to Buchenwald concentration camp on April 20, 1945.
Photocopy of a letter, apparently written in Zborów, Poland, July 1943, but then later sent (with annotations) from Ludwik Krzywonowski from Zborów in 1947, to Wilek Heilmann in Palestine.