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Consists of material collected by Werner Kleeman, originally of Wurzburg, Germany, who immigrated to the United States and was a member of the 4th Infantry Division and participated in the liberation of a subcamp of Dachau. The collection includes a typed copy of the diary of Col. Norborne P. Gatling about his experiences in the American Army, including a tour of Ohrdruf; information about wartime ...

This letter is from a former friend of Philip Manes and his wife, addressed to Eva Manes and written in 1957. It is a long rambling letter in Suetterlin script from the lady who bought Manes' grand piano for RM 1000. She lived in the same house as Philip Manes and his wife and was obviously a great friend who adored both. She writes about arrangements for payment for the piano, about Manes' problems, ...

Contains Henry L. Goldsmith's memoir, a copy of an article entitled, "The Big Test," published in two weekly issues of the New York Forward, a chapter entitled "Buchenwald," and pages 309 and 310 our of Henry L. Goldsmith's chapter 11 "D-Day."

David Pablo Boder was a professor of psychology at the Illinois Institute of Technology who traveled in 1946 to Europe to record interviews with displaced persons. Arriving in Paris in late July, Boder would spend the next two months interviewing 130 displaced persons in nine languages and recording them on a state-of-the-art wire recorder. The interviews were among the earliest (if not the earliest) ...

"I wrote this book on June 6, 2019, 75 years after D-day, the greatest invasion the world has ever seen. Seven thousand ships, 150,000 troops, 4,000 American and British deaths on the very first day! The courage of the men, who jumped from the landing ships into the sea, sometimes drowning with their heavy equipment, and stormed the beaches under heavy fire from machine guns, rifles and artillery salvos, ...

Maurice Eis (1914-2009) was born Moritz Eis on April 15, 1914 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to Leopold (1873-1960) and Lea Eis (1890-1984 née Liebersohn). He had two siblings: Marta (b. 1920, later Martha Gordo) and Max (1911-2008). After Kristallnacht, Maurice was arrested and imprisoned in Dachau. After his release he emigrated from Germany to Shanghai, China in December 1938. His father and brother ...