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World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Osias Korman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2803
Scope and content Papers include a narrative about Korman's experience on the S.S. St. Louis; correspondence in English, Dutch, German, Hebrew, and Polish, including Rosa Korman's correspondence with dignitaries and officials about the release of her husband Osias from Camp Westerbork, Holland, 1939-47. Also, correspondence with his sons, Gerd and Manfred Korman, from England and the U.S. after their immigration, ca.1942; small notebooks in Hebrew, 1940-44; legal documents, affidavits on behalf of Osias...
Dates: 1939-1948.

Samuel Garmezy papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6443
Scope and content Legal documents and stock agreements from the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific Company of Manila; correspondence, invitations, and brochures relating to his time in the Philippines; correspondence, documents and clippings relating to his time in internment camps at Santo Tomas and Los Baños, and war damage claims; photographs and other items of or relating to the Philippines; and items relating to the Cornell Club of New York, Cornell reunions, the Tower Club, the College of...
Dates: 1918-1973.

Thomas J. and Caroline Crawford Wolff. Santo Tomás Internment Camp miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064927027]
Identifier: 2809
Scope and content

Items concerning life in the Santo Tomás Internment Camp in the Philippines include two photographs; Japanese occupation money; camp meal tickets; general rules; mimeographed program "Our Time," presented by internees to mark one year's existence at the camp; poems; and a "graduation" certificate for 100 days interneeship in the camp.

Dates: 1942-1946.