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James B. Donovan. United States Navy Commander. Associate Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, where he coordinated and presented all Nazi films at the trials. General Counsel to OSS. Negotiated the exchange of Bay of Pigs prisoners with Fidel Castro as an independent lawyer under backdrop of the missile crisis, securing the freedom of nearly 10,000 people. Portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Bridge of Spies". ...

Documentation of the Romanian authorities in the Bukovina and Transnistria area, 1941-1942
 
 Included in the collection:
 
 - Letters sent by inmates in camps in the Bukovina area to their family members in Cernauti, regarding life in the camps, 1941;
 - Regulation of Sadagura camp, regarding inmates in the area of northern Bukovina;
 - Report prepared by commander Chelmeniti, ...

Mr. Dixon chronicles the progress of the 99th Chemical Mortar Battalion, primarily in Germany, includes captured German POWs, victims of concentration camp, and liberated former camp inmates most still in uniforms walking in line along the road. Trip to Paris Arc de Triomphe, Tomb of Unknown soldier. Group shot of battalion commanders, army vehicles in snow of courtyard going back to front. Trucks ...

Consists of 20 photographs depicting scenes at post-liberation Ebensee and a notice entitled "The Camp of Ebensee" with handwritten annotations by Paul Seres. The notice contains information about the evolution of the camp, conditions for prisoners, and atrocities committed by the camp commanders. It appears to have been written by a camp prisoner shortly after liberation. The photographs and the "notice" ...

Slate: GEVAERT CINE-FILM. WS of outdoor wooden sign: INDUSTRIE, VERWALTUNG, HAUPTMAGAZIN, KLEIDER KAMMER. 03:12:15 WS choir, children and adults singing. Shots of conductor and piano player [VQ: washed out, unfocused]. 03:13:41 CU of two young girls singing in the choir with Star of David on one of girls' blouse. Christian religious service, wooden cross in front of minister dressed in black cloak ...

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 ...

MS, horse, pasture. CU, feeding horse. Little boy sitting on horse without saddle. WS, horse running through field. CU, sheep. 02:30:11 Moving train, shot from inside, piles of bricks in open wagons. Farming: young man plowing by hand. Horse-pulled plower. Pan of group of young men and women in black uniforms preparing soil for seeds, using cylindrical wooden tool. Women with yutta bags around their ...

The letter was written to Col. Wooten from J. Nestel in Salzburg, Austria, requesting that Capt. D'Jernes remain as commander in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) displaced persons camp "Beth Bialik" (Jewish Transit Camp #2). Attached are 51 sheets containing 1,417 signatures from camp residents.

CU, wooden table covered with buttons. CU of man's and woman's hands covering buttons in leather, putting it through a press. 02:04:05 Pan of a large working hall with people sewing. Laundry room: MS of women in white overcoats putting white sheets through a press and folding sheets. Men pulling out clean laundry from large washing machines and separating them into tall wooden crates. Row of women ...