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Vladimir (William) Buckhantz (the father of the donor) was born in Kaunas, Lithuania on September 24, 1902. William Buckhantz immigrated to South Africa in 1939 and then came to the United States. He was conscripted into the American Army and sent overseas during the occupation to serve as an UNRRA officer in the Regensburg and Deggendorf displaced persons camps. While working for UNRRA, he reunited ...

Contains 2 photographs of the Dueppel Center Jewish Displaced Persons Camp in Berlin, Germany, 3 copies of the same photographs, and 11 letters written by students in the Dueppel Center Jewish Displaced Persons Camp.

Edwin Konrad Dutkiewicz (1925-1981) was born in Bydgoszcz, Poland to Stanisław Dutkiewicz and Pelagi Kocikowska and was raised Catholic. At the age of 14, Edwin was taken as a forced laborer and was assigned to Organisation Todt and later sent to Finland in 1943. From August 1943 through September 1944, he was assigned to a camp in Kuusamo, a location near the border of the Soviet Union that was used ...

Consists of post-war photographs from the collection of Motel Rajsman and his wife, Mary Droznik Rajsman (later Michael and Mary Reisman). The photographs depict Motel, Mary, children, and groups of other displaced persons in the Haid, Steyr, and Ebelsberg displaced persons camps in Austria.

Arthur Greenbaum was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1924 under the name Szlama Arpad Gruenbaum. He was a prisoner at the Mauthausen concentration camp from July 2nd, 1944 to April 4th, 1945. After liberation he stayed at the Mannheim Displaced Persons Center, and later arrived at the Backnang Displaced Persons Camp in February 1946, along with his cousin Elisabeth Wieder. He received certification from ...

Consists of photographs and photographic negatives, taken upon the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp. Also contains correspondence from American soldier Benjamin Finesmith asking family and friends to send care packages to the displaced persons in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp.

The collection consists of photographs taken at displaced persons camps in Schauenstein and Peppendorf, Germany, and two "temporary travel documents" issued to Esther Zoberman donor and Raisl Zoberman by the military government for Germany. Also included are a food knife and blanket issued at the displaced persons camp in Emden, Germany.

Joseph Greenfield (b. Josef Grünfeld, 13 February 1919, Dabie, Poland) was a Jewish survivor of several concentration camps including Mauthausen in Austria. He had at least one brother, Martin (b. Mendush Grünfeld). After liberation by the Allies, he worked for the 331st U.S. Infantry Division performing various tasks, among them photography. Greenfield took photographs in displaced persons camps in ...

The collection consists of a cane, patch, a woodcut, military records, occupation, military, and displaced persons camp life materials, photographs, and printed materials relating to the experiences of Joe Friedman and his work with displaced persons for the Third Army and Military Government and Holocaust memorial events held between 1978 and 1982.

Consists of one report, 8 pages, entitled "Notes on Feldafing," by Gershon Gelbart, dated 11 January 1946. Includes information on the physical and social environment of the Feldafing displaced persons camp. Also includes an article published in an August 1945 issue of "Stars and Stripes: Southern Germany edition" entitled "Life Begins Anew for Feldafing DPs," by Howard Byrne.