Box JHC Holocaust Archives Box 8

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Includes pre-war images of Guta Blas and her family in Łódź, Poland, and Leon Weintraub and his family in Bodzentyn, Poland. Also included are images of Leon Weintraub in the Tartak work camp in Starachowice, Poland, Guta Blas in Sweden after her rescue by the Swedish Red Cross, and the Weintraubs in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp and in Charleston, South Carolina. Digital images on DVD are included.

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Includes three newspaper clippings from The Post and Courier which describe Blas's actions at Majowka and her testimony in the trial of the guard who shot her. Also included are Weintraub's obituary and researchers' notes from discussions with Weintraub's daughter, Blanche Weintraub Wine.

Collection Overview From the Collection: Slides, negatives, and digital images of Tola Wilner Widawski, a Jew from Łódź, Poland, who survived the Holocaust. Pre-war images show Wilner with friends and family, including her father, aunt, sister, and cousins. Other pre-war images show Wilner's husband, Michislaw Widawski, and his family, including his grandmother. Post-war images show the Widawskis with their children, Eva and Jerry. Also included are images of the Polish exit permits the family used to leave Poland for Israel in...

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Four atrocity photographs from the Ohrdruf concentration camp taken after its April 4, 1945, liberation by the 89th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army. Two photocopied clippings from a circa 2000 Rolling W, the newsletter for the 89th Infantry Division, describe the liberation of Ohrdruf. Also includes negatives, slides, and digital images on DVD.

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Negatives and slides of atrocity photographs from an unidentified concentration camp located in Bavaria near the German-Austrian border. Includes brief field notes with descriptions of the photographs. Also includes digital images on DVD.

Collection Overview From the Collection:

The collection consists of twenty-six Holocaust atrocity photographs taken by Robert Turner, a U.S. soldier from the 65th Infantry Division who photographed victims in a Bavarian concentration camp after it was liberated. Included is a photocopy of the 1945 booklet Right to Be Proud: History of the 65th Infantry Division's March Across Germany.

Collection Overview From the Collection:

The collection consists of twenty-four Holocaust atrocity photographs collected by U.S. soldier Clarence Holland. Some of the concentration camps photographed include Buchenwald, Dora, Gardelegen, and Ohrdruf.

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Photographs of Alexander Kornfeld, his wife, Mathilde, and their son, Walter. Nearly all photographs were taken in pre-war Vienna and include family portraits and group photographs, including Alexander Kornfeld with his military unit. Other images include the Kornfeld family's German passports, U.S. certificates of naturalization, ghetto money, and other papers. Materials consist of digital images on CD and photocopies.

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Alexander Kornfeld's memoir details his family history, his Austrian military service in World War I and subsequent business career, and his struggle to flee Austria with his family at the beginning of World War II.

Scope and Contents Includes postcards of Berchtesgaden and Hitler's Eagle's Nest, as well as five propaganda postcards issued by the German Red Cross. Also includes facsimiles of Jorgensen's 113th Evacuation Hospital identity card, New York City War Emergency Identification Card, currency exchange control book, and cover of My Military Missal prayer book. Photocopies include part of The Nurses's Prayer of Faith prayer book, the May 1945 ...