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Languages: German, English 1901–1946
28 microfiche cards
Source of Acquisition: Seymour Z. Mann
Finding aid: Folder-level inventory
Restrictions: Published materials protected under copyright
See the finding aid for this collection: RG-10.142
Accession 2000.6 --- Edmund F. Franz Papers
USHMM, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies � 144
This collection contains copies of statements and interrogation interviews with German
war criminals. Also included are 52 black-and-white official U.S. Army photographs
taken by the rehabilitation officers of the U.S. Army‘s Chief Surgeon‘s Office or Third
U.S. Army photographers. The photographs depict scenes of atrocities at Buchenwald
and Nordhausen concentration camps, and at Gardelegen, Penig, and Gotha in Germany.
Provenance: Edmund F. Franz acquired the materials while serving as the chief
administrator of the U.S. Army‘s War Crimes Branch in Wiesbaden, Germany, after
World War II. Before his death, Franz instructed that the collection be given to David M.
Berke, who donated the materials to the Jewish Studies Program at Kent State University.
Language: English 1945
1 box (49 folders; 52 photo prints)
Source of Acquisition: Nancy Birk (Kent State University)
RG-19.011 --- Isaac Bitton Papers.
This collection contains materials, in six subsections, concerning the situation of
Portuguese Jews during and after the Holocaust. Among the topics covered are Jewish
refugees in Lisbon (photographs of arrivals and departures); Libyan and Tunisian Jews
exchanged for German prisoners of war; emigration to Palestine (photographs of Jews in
Lisbon, October 1944); the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes as a Righteous Among
the Nations; the memorial at Nahariya on the site of the wreck of the ship Aliyah and to
the Jewish refugees on board; the Jewish community in Lisbon; and the ship Nyassa, and
the unsuccessful attempt to emigrate to the United States by a Portugese Jewish family in
Germany, the members of which perished in the camps.
Provenance: Isaac Bitton, a Portuguese Jewish refugee, collected the documents after
1945.
Note: Some of the photographs are copies from the holdings of the Diario de Noticias
newspaper archives in Lisbon.