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The collection consists of documents relating to Dorothy Jones [donors' mother] (b. July 17, 1914) who on July 1, 1945 began to work as Assistant Welfare Officer of UNRRA in US zone in Germany and left in September 1948 as Chief Welfare Officer. The documents include different reports, passports, lists, correspondence, UNRRA publications, and others. Two UNRRA uniforms (2 jackets and 3 skirts), sweaters, ...

Major Henry G. Plitt, an American Jew, was raised in N.Y. During World War II, he was a member of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army, was among the first to parachute into Normandy on D-Day, and was among the first to jump in the Allied invasion of occupied Holland. He was wounded four times and was decorated with the Silver Star and Cluster, the Bronze Star with Cluster and Valor, ...

Provides a close-up look at the story behind Berlin's Jewish Hospital, the only Jewish institution in Germany to survive the Holocaust, drawing on accounts of survivors to describe daily life in the hospital under the Nazis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-283) and index. xxii, 311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm

Bodleian Library; Ashmolean Museum. Bell being rung in Bodleian Library to announce closing time. CU Sir William Patrick reading large book. Men walking down aisle between book shelves. Students reading. VAR people studying. CU man reading ancient MSS. CU MSS. Foundation of building. Men digging sand away for foundations. Men waterproofing a wall. Men at work with barrows, shovels. General view of ...

Major Henry G. Plitt, an American Jew, was raised in N.Y. During World War II, he was a member of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States Army, was among the first to parachute into Normandy on D-Day, and was among the first to jump in the Allied invasion of occupied Holland. He was wounded four times and was decorated with the Silver Star and Cluster, the Bronze Star with Cluster and Valor, ...

The collection contains seven copy gelatin silver prints of photographs made in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. Images are of Alice Lang (b. June 13, 1934); her parents, Ida Baehr Lang and Fritz Lang; her maternal grandparents, Johanna and Heinrich Baehr; and Paula Lang. Contains a French passport, which enabled Frieda Lang donor to return to Germany in April 1946; and a travel clearance document from ...

Contains photocopies of miscellaneous correspondence, publications and photographs which relate to the 1st Platoon, Troop D, 41st Cavalry Recon Squadron Mech., 11th Army Armored Division, liberating Mauthausen, and Harry C. Saunders' recollections of Mauthausen.