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Forced labor--Germany

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

William R. Auld papers

 Collection — Box 00.0646 - Box 1
Identifier: 00.0646
Scope and Contents

The William R. Auld papers include over 800 photographs taken by Major William R. Auld who served with the 31st Photo Reconnaissance Squadron of the Ninth Army Air Force following General George S. Patton throughout the United States, England, France, and Germany.  The William R. Auld papers also include various sketches done by one of his comrades, a promotion notice, and two poems.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-1945; Other: Date acquired: 07/12/2000

George Oliver Craig collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 11.0036
Content Description

This collection relates to George Oliver Craig who served with the 99th Infantry Division during World War II in France, during the Battle of the Ardennes, and Germany. The collection contains letters, photographs, government documents, newspaper clippings from Craig's experiences in the Civilian Conservation Corps, at training camps in the U.S., and at various stations in Germany, France, and England. The collection also contains a diary. His burial flag is also included in this collection.

Dates: 1935-1946

Sylwester B. Knap papers

 Collection — Single Folder Collections - 2002 Box 18 (02.0487-02.0511), Folder: 02.0507 - Folder 1
Identifier: 02.0507
Scope and Contents

The Sylwester B. Knap papers contain an oral history transcript and a political prisoner certificate. Knap's oral history focuses on his childhood during the time World War II began in Europe which includes attempting to find refuge in Czestochowa, his experiences in the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, forced labor, mistreatment, camp selections, contracting Typhus, liberation, becoming wounded, finding his family after the war, his uncles involvement in the resistance movement, and his feelings toward talking about the war.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1939-2002; Other: Majority of material found within 1939-1945; Other: Date acquired: 12/11/2002

Natalia Grauer Rosenbald transcript

 Collection — Single Folder Collections -2004 Box 7 (04.0217-04.0263), Folder: 04.0246 - Folder 1
Identifier: 04.0246
Scope and Contents

Natalia Grauer Rosenbald's oral history outlines her life growing up in Krakow, Poland and her experiences in the Krakow ghetto, Mauthausen, and Ravensbrück. She speaks about hiding, dog attacks, working in the crematorium sorting clothes, stealing food, the Death March, how the SS tried disguising themselves with the advance of the Allies, liberation, reprisal shootings, finding her family after the war, living in Cyprus, Israel, Australia, and Germany before settling in the United States. She concludes her oral history with her experiences talking at schools about the Holocaust, visiting Auschwitz, and her message to the world about the Holocaust.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1939-2004; Other: Majority of material found in 1939-1945; Other: Date acquired: 08/13/2004