HIST242/EURS290 Europe, 1914-1945 - Special Collections Resources

Diary, circa 1942-1943, of HildaHaworth, a resident of Guernsey during World War II who was deported by the German Army and imprisoned in the POW camp Lindele, Biberach in southern Germany. Includes information about daily life, including food and accomdations, other people in the camp, and relationships with the guards. Also includes information about the Red Cross and the supplies that they are able to give to prisoners throughout the course of the war.

Correspondence, official and personal, of the family of Albert W. Raymond, American volunteer ambulance driver who was taken a prisoner of war by the Germans in France on May 15, 1940. He was held at the German prison camp for officers at Hoyerswerda, near Dresden. Among the correspondents are his wife, Helen, his daughter and son-in-law, Fred I. Raymond, and Alfred R. Thomson. Includes recollections of his capture, newspaper clippings and photographs.

Photo diary (36 pp.; 59 photos), April-November, 1939, of an unidentified member of the German Reichsarbeitsdienst (RDA), which was founded by the Nationalsocialist government. Describes training, inspection, leisure activities and documents work assignments. It begins with the swearing-in of the group and ends with its dismissal at the end of the 6-months obligatory service. Common work projects for the RAD were highways, general construction and agricultural labor.

Documentation and drafts for James Critchfield's book, "Partners at the Creation the Men behind Postwar Germany's Defense and Intelligence Establishments." Includes oral history transcripts and documents relating to the Berlin Crises (1958-1961), founding of the Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), declassified Central Intelligence Agency documents (1945-1949), a German-English intelligence glossary, biographical files and correspondence. Also included are photos and records realting to WWII and the Holocaust.

Papers, 1917-1918 of Frances G. Hoppin who opened the Red Cross Grenelle Dispensary in Paris, France in 1917, one of about 30 civilian dispensaries administered by the Red Cross in Paris at that time. This accession consists of both personal papers and records relating to the dispensary.

Included are two journals in which Frances Hoppin recorded both her personal experiences as well as business items relating to the dispensary. Also included is a 3-page report on the dispensary, detailing supplies, itemized expenses and salaries, and the number of people treated, etc.; personal and business correspondence, newspaper clippings in French and English, postcards, a program for classes in social hygiene, miscellaneous ephemera, and a photograph of a nurse with bedridden children at the Grenelle Dispensary in Paris, France.

Acc. 2007.77 consist of thirteen letters, 1942-1944, written by Polish-Lithuanian Princess Matilda Bornemisza de Kaszon Sapieha-Kodenski (b. 1894) while residing in the United States during the World War II period. Her outgoing correspondence written from Pennsylvania and Florida document the perspective of a Polish American during the wartime period. Her letters express anti-Semitic views, distaste for Bolshevism, Nazism, the fate of Poland, the lack of Allied help given to Poland, emerging details about the Nazi Holocaust, and her life in the United States. Matilda married Prince Wladislaw Sapieha-Kodenski (1893-1956) in Budapest, Hungary on 25 September 1935.

Diary, 1918-1919, of Edith Gibbons of Cleveland, Ohio. Includes information about her time working with the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in England and France just after the end of World War I, giving aid to American soldiers still stationed there. There is also description of the scenery and landmarks she encountered, including the descriptions of damage done to them from the war. Gibbons also describes her experiences with German prisoners of war and her visit to a prisoner of war camp. Finally, she describes her interactions with soldiers whom she is helping and relates some of their stories about the war. Also included is Gibbons' passport.

Diary, 1929, of the trip of an American college student to Hamburg, Germany, aboard the SS Franconia. Countries visited include Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, Scotland and England. Entries include information about his departure, his activities aboard ship, and fellow passengers. Also includes details of the locations which he and his family visited, hotels they stayed at, as well as the restaurants, shows they saw, and operas they attended.

Papers, 1905-1936, concerning Anna Lou Jose’s trips through Europe. Covered are details about the sea journey to Europe as well as her daily activities and places she visited. Also includes information about the first three days of the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in Berlin.. Also includes some ephemera, an expense book , 1905 to 1906, as well as an undated address book.