Contains photographs, negatives, and documents collected by U.S. serviceman T/Sgt. Ralph J. Scheiderer. Many images concern the liberation of Landsberg/Kaufering concentration camp, and bear handwritten descriptions on the verso. Contains a typwritten report prepared by Robert J. Hartwig entitled "Atrocities of Lansburg [sic] Concentration Camp," and the text of an April 17, 1945 radio report about ...

The collection consists of three photographs of Leslie (Laszlo) Aigner with his immediate family in Nové Zámky, Czechoslovakia, in May 1944. Soon afterwards, Leslie was deported to Auschwitz where his mother and little sister, Marika, were murdered, was transferred to Landsberg-Kaufering, and was liberated from Dachau. His father and sister, Elisabet, were taken to a forced labor camp in Hungary, ...

Consists of photographs of the extended family of Chaim Ariyah and Esther Chasen, originally of Grodno, Poland. The family moved to Vilna after World War I. Most of the members of the family were killed in Ponar during the Holocaust. Also includes photographs taken upon the liberation of the Landsberg-Kaufering IV concentration camp, taken by Albert Gaynes, a member of the 12th Armored Division as ...

Consists of 58 photographs taken upon the liberation of various concentration camps (including Dachau, Buchenwald, Nordhausen, Kaufering IV, Dora-Mittelbau, Bergen-Belsen, and photographs of the Gardelegen massacre). Also includes wartime photographs of mass arrests of Jews in Amsterdam and photographs taken upon the liberation of that city as well as photographs taken after a massacre of Belgian civilians ...

Contains photographs taken by John J. Garvey (donor’s father), who enlisted in the US Army in 1939 and served in 62nd Armored Field Artillery Battalion. He fought in North African Campaign, in the invasion of Sicily and took part in the D-Day crossing. Corporal Garvey’s unit liberated the Hurlach concentration camp, a Kaufering IV sub camp of Dachau, on April 30, 1945. Includes a photograph showing ...

Consists of an oral history interview conducted by the University of Oregon with Leslie (Les) and Eva Aigner. The Aigners both grew up in Budapest, Hungary; Eva spent the last year of the war in the ghetto in Budapest, while Les was deported to Auschwitz, transferred to Landsberg-Kaufering, and ultimately liberated from Dachau. They met and married after the war. Also includes photocopies of documentation ...

Describes the author's (b. 1926) childhood in Vienna, Austria; the Anschluss; Kristallnacht; author's emigration to Belgium and his subsequent escape to France; author's return to Austria in hopes of getting a transport to Sweden; author's arrest and his experiences in Terezin (a.k.a. Theresienstadt), Auschwitz, Dachau, Erpfting, and Kaufering; his liberation; the death of members of his family; his ...

Julien D. Saks was a Chemical Warfare Officer for the 12th Armored Division which captured eleven concentration camps satellite to the Dachau concentration camp. He was present at the liberation of Landsberg concentration camp.

The collection related to the life of Abrasza Feldman during the time of the Holocaust and includes certificates, letters, photographs, and medical reports.

Consists of a memoir, 9 pages, by Edward Gruzin, entitled "Surviving the Holocaust and New Life in America." In the memoir, Mr. Gruzin describes his memories of his childhood in pre-war Kovno (Kaunas), Lithuania, his wartime experiences in the Kovno Ghetto and in the Landsberg-Kaufering concentration camp, his post-war experiences regarding liberation, and his emigration to the United States in 19 ...

Shlomo Shafir (1924-2013) was born Selimar Frenkel in Berlin, Germany in 1924. During his childhood, his mother, Esther Frenkel (nee Berkmann), was seriously ill with encephalitis. He was educated by his father and grandmother in Eitkoven, a small town in the Lithuanian on the east Prussian border. In 1938 he moved with his father to Kovno, Lithuania (now Kaunas, Lithuania). They eventually moved into ...

Contains photographs, four notebooks (in Yiddish), identification documents, certificates, and correspondence, related to the wartime experiences in France of Kopel Kaufman, originally of Busko, Poland, and Wulf Finkielsztejn, originally of Wilno (Vilnius). Documents attest to the experiences of both men in resistance activities during the occupation of France, their imprisonment by the Germans, and ...

Ester Abel (1902-1988), originally of a small village in Lithuania referred to as Stojaziski, met August Moller (1899-1935), a Protestant who grew up in Bochum, Germany, through the socialist movement in Bochum. They married in 1926, and had two sons, Levi Willi (1927-2006) and Ruben Horst (1929-). The family lived in Bochum where August worked as an insurance broker. August died in 1935, and the family ...

Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by Benjamin Milich, age 30, in Auschwitz, Kaufering, and Dachau concentration camps from August 1944 to May 1945. The jacket has a hidden pocket and a patch with his Dachau prisoner ID number, 96699. Benjamin, his mother Rajzla, and his siblings Abram, Leib, and Anita lived in Łódź. In spring 1940, they were forced into the ghetto. In July 1942, Abram was sent ...

"Exposé and synopsis of a generation of wrath: a story of embattlement, survival and deliverance during the Holocaust of World War II" (1984) by Elio Romano (b. 1923) contains information about Elio's childhood in Oświęcim, Poland; the German occupation of Poland; his attempted escape to Czechoslovakia; his work as a slave laborer helping to build the Auschwitz concentration camp; his internment ...

Bestandsbeschreibung Der größte Teil des Bestandes (ca. 1926-1945) ist noch nicht endgültig bearbeitet. Überliefert sind hier in großer Zahl Unterlagen der Rechts-, Revisions- und Bilanzabteilung, Materialien und Spesen und Frachten sowie Statistiken. Zitierweise BArch R 15-VII/...

Schenja alias Jenny Birnbaum or Birenbaum was born on 19 April 1929 in Cologne, Germany. She was the eldest child of Simon Birnbaum (born on 13 August 1897 in Checiny, Poland) and Salka Flescher (born on 23 February 1900 in Stanislawow, Poland). Jenny had three younger siblings: Esther who was called Erna (born on 8 November 1931), Joseph (born on 26 December 1932) and Herschel (born on 4 November ...

Mascha Berkmann (née Rutstein, later Marsha Berkman, 1920-2007) was born in Raseiniai, Lithuania to Rachel (née Seidman) and Hershel Rutstein. She had three brothers, Benjamin, Henry, and Israel. Her father was a cobbler, but died when Mascha was 2 years old. Her mother supported the family by cooking and cleaning for other families. The children were not able to go to school, and Mascha began working ...

Copyright Holder: Mr. Gary Younger

Eugene Miller (1923- ) was born Eugeniusz Rozenblum in Merecz (Merkinė), Lithuania, to Marcus (Mordechai) and Ida Rozenblum, but his parents registered his birth and raised him in Łódź. His family was forced into the Łódź ghetto in 1940. He continued to attend school until the ghetto school closed, and then he worked in the ghetto's labor, economic, and fire departments. Both of his parents perished ...

The collection primarily consists of Holocaust-era photographs of the Orbach family, originally of Częstochowa, Poland. Includes depictions of Elias and Dobra Orbach, their sons Heniek (in the center) and Cadok. The photograph of Cadok (on the left) was taken in France shortly after he was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Also included is Zeev Orbach’s Association des Anciens Prisonniers ...

Eric Sonner (birth name Eric Sonnenschein, b. 1916 in Šumperk, Moravia, Austrian Empire) and Rose Sonner (née Ruzena or Roszi Deutsch, b. 1917 in Veľká Bytča, Trencsén county, Kingdom of Hungary) were Ashkenazi Jews from what is now the Czech Republic; both lost their first spouses during the Holocaust. They married in 1947 and immigrated to Vancouver, via Gottenberg, New York, and Toronto, in 1949.Rose ...

David Goldschild was born on October 13, 1929 in Huszt, Czechoslovakia. His father, Menhardt Meir Goldschild owned a wholesale fruit store, imported citrus fruit and exported apples. David’s mother, Berta Badner Goldschild owned a canned goods store. David was the oldest of three children; Yehuda was born in 1932 and Esther was born in 1940. The family was orthodox. David attended regular high school ...

George Kadish, born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin (1910- 1997), was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust. Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras. During the period of Nazi control of Lithuania ...