The Sigtuna Foundation is a private non-profit foundation, established in 1915 in Sweden. The organization is under the leadership of the Executive Director who servers under the board of nine people. The Foundation offers a neutral ground to people of different backgrounds, traditions and/or viewpoints who wish to meet, interact and learn from one another in an atmosphere of mutual respect. After ...

The Bert Yost letter was sent by Bert Yost, an American soldier, to Lt. Dorothy Mosely, a nurse serving in United States military hospitals in Britain and France during World War II. The letter , dated May 10, 1945, describes the military hospital where Yost was stationed in occupied Germany. He also described the former prisoners-of-war and concentration camp inmates who had been admitted as patients ...

Collectie 182_ENG: Inventory 1. > Chairmen of the Jewish Council

Contains a note regarding a patient, dated 18 November 1938, handwritten on paper with the imprint of the Israelitisches Asyl für Kranke und Altersschwache (Jewish hospital) in Köln-Ehrenfeld, Germany, and stamped "Zur ärztlichen Behandlung ausschliesslich von Juden berechtigt" ("Allowed to treat Jews exclusively").

Beatrice Wachter (1906-1979) from Philadelphia, PA married Harry Wachter, a circulation agent with the Philadelphia Daily News, in 1931. She enlisted with the Army Nurse Corps at the age of 37 on June 7, 1943 and arrived in Europe on March 11, 1944. She served with the 51st Field Hospital in the campaigns of Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe, and returned home on November ...

Major John E. Karabin, MD served as an army surgeon during WWII. His served in the 93rd and possibly 91st evacuation hospitals in campaigns in Africa, Italy and France and participated in the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.

INT, hospital scenes- a pregnant woman lies in a hospital ward- these are scenes from the Catholic hospital that was destroyed in Warsaw during the German air attacks in September of 1939. Lying next to the pregnant woman is a wounded man. VS of the wounded being cared for by nurses in the hospital. 01:08:19:18 The inhabitants of the maternity ward are now lining corridors, several nurses, mothers ...

Colonel Alexander Zabin, MD was an American soldier from Malverne, Long Island, New York. As part of General Patton's 3rd Army, he served with the 4th Auxiliary Surgical Group. He landed on Normandy Beach on D-Day plus 1 and worked in the first US Army field hospital set up in France. He was with the 3rd Army through the campaigns in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Czechoslovakia. Dr. Zabin ...

Eduard Dietl, military hospital, camouflage uniforms

Esther Lamm worked as a psychiatrist at Sigtuna refugee hospital in 1945, caring for survivors from the concentration camps. She interviewed the patients on their experiences and recorded their responses to Rorschach tests.

Die Wiener Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Am Steinhof : ein Zentrum des NS-Medizinverbrechen in der "Ostmark" ; Vom "Narrenturm" zum Steinhof : die Entwicklung der Wiener "Irrenpflege" ; Rassenwahn und Menschenzucht : Eugenik und Rassenhygiene als Fundamente der NS-Ideologie ; Die "Reinigung des Volkskörpers" : Medizin in Deutschland 1933 bis 1938 ; Verfolgt und vertrieben : der Exodus der Wiener jüdischen ...

The collection includes several items relating to the Holocaust. Among these is a writing pad (item number: UM032489) kept as a memory of the patients treated at the Margaretegärdeskolan emergency hospital in Uddevalla in the summer of 1945. In the spring and summer of 1945, the school was transformed into an emergency hospital for survivors of Nazi Germany's concentration camps. The white buses arrived ...

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Beatrice Wachter (1906-1979) from Philadelphia, PA married Harry Wachter, a circulation agent with the Philadelphia Daily News, in 1931. She enlisted with the Army Nurse Corps at the age of 37 on June 7, 1943 and arrived in Europe on March 11, 1944. She served with the 51st Field Hospital in the campaigns of Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe, and returned home on November ...

Consists of certificates, correspondence, and permits related to the Holocaust experiences of Livia Molnar (later Bergen), originally of Budapest, Hungary. After dropping out of a death march from the Kristianstadt concentration camp due to frozen feet, Ms. Molnar was arrested and sent to an auxiliary hospital near Hoyerswerda, where she spent several months recovering. Includes identity and travel ...

This was a hospital for mental and nervous illnesses. Most of the surviving files (in all 4,626 items) are the personal and case notes of patients (call no. 148-4626) and the personal files of nurses and auxiliary personnel. The papers of the hospital’s director and the doctors who took part in the euthanasia programme are missing, however. From 1933 and throughout World War II, Obrzyce was the site ...

(LIB 5968) Schwarzenfeld, Germany. LS of many coffins loaded onto horse-drawn carts. German civilians from Schwarzenfeld unload and carry the coffins, walking past rows of corpses. Many civilians dig graves in a fenced area. The remains of a striped uniform are visible on at least one of the bodies awaiting burial. Houses are visible in the background. The victims died while on one of several evacuation ...

Beatrice Wachter (1906-1979) from Philadelphia, PA married Harry Wachter, a circulation agent with the Philadelphia Daily News, in 1931. She enlisted with the Army Nurse Corps at the age of 37 on June 7, 1943 and arrived in Europe on March 11, 1944. She served with the 51st Field Hospital in the campaigns of Normandy, Northern France, Rhineland, Ardennes, and Central Europe, and returned home on November ...

Contains records relating to Jewish property: expropriation of Jews; Jewish owners and renters; and sale of Jewish property; medicine: racial biology and eugenics; sterilization of disabled persons; rabbis in local hospitals; expulsion of Jewish doctors; fines for consulting Jewish doctors; list of Jewish hospitals and pharmacies; education on racial biology and genetics for Aryan doctors; statistics ...

Copyright Holder: Ms. Monique Gingold

A photocopy of parts of "Buchenwald and Beyond," which concerns the 120th U.S. Evacuation Hospital and its service to survivors and displaced persons at Buchenwald concentration camp and Cham, Germany, after liberation. Entire book is in Library collection as D807.U722 120th B83 1946.

Consists of photographs taken in the Swedish Red Cross hospital in Lübeck, Germany, where staff cared for the sick and emaciated liberated prisoners from the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Count Folke Bernadotte is depicted in one of the photographs. Ulla Knowles was a volunteer at the Swedish Red Cross hospital.

Scenes of massive VE day celebration. French civilians, American soldiers, and WACs parading in the streets, riding on military vehicles. Crowds of people, confetti. More scenes of wounded soldiers at the 48th General Hospital, upon hearing the news of victory, dancing with nurses. Marching band, parade. Ceremony in field.

The collection consists of typescript and handwritten miscellaneous correspondence and other materials (originals and annotated copies) in German from circa 1933 to 1978. Includes, but is not limited to: postcards, children's story in rhyme with color drawings, notes, receipts, ration cards, letters, regulations, scrapbook with lithography, etc., which relate to Dr. Helmut Cohen and his family who ...