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Kurt M. Mislow's War Manpower Commission diploma
- 1944-Aug-24
Kurt M. Mislow's (1923-2017) diploma from the War Manpower Commission. Recipients of this diploma have been evaluated by the Committee on Scientific Research Personnel of the War Manpower Commission and have been deemed…
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Letter to Gabor B. Levy from Margaret Levy, June 20, 1942
- 1942-Jun-20
Letter to Gabor B. Levy (1913-1999) from his mother, Margaret Levy, who signs as "Suya." Margaret updates Gabor about family members in Sweden who are struggling due to food rationing.
Includes a handwritten note to…
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Letter from from Clyde L. Herring to Ernst Berl, March 9, 1942
- 1942-Mar-09
Letter from Clyde L. Herring (1879-1945), U.S. Senator for Iowa and a member of the Senate Committee on Finance, thanking Ernst Berl (1877-1946) for sending a letter and article regarding explosions of ordnance plants.…
- Author Herring, Clyde L. (Clyde LaVerne), 1879-1945, United States. Department of State
- Addressee Berl, Ernst, 1877-1946
- Subject Berl, Ernst, 1877-1946, Knudsen, William S., 1879-1948, Herring, Clyde L. (Clyde LaVerne), 1879-1945, United States. Congress. Senate, World War (1939-1945), United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
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28 items
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Letter from the United States Office of War Information to Ernst Berl, April 6, 1944
- 1944-Apr-06
Letter from W. O. Somin of the United States Office of War Information to Ernst Berl (1877-1946) requesting a description, in German, of Berl's invention that "turns 'farm wastes' into gasoline."
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American-Owned Properties in Enemy or Ally of Enemy Territory or Territory Controlled or Occupied by an Enemy or Ally of Enemy
- 1942-Mar-20
This March 1942 document by the United States Department of State reviews the United State's policy regarding property owned by American citizens in enemy territory during World War II.
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Atomic Energy As a Force For Good
- 1955
Atomic Energy As a Force For Good is a dramatization of a town debating whether or not to allow the Atomic Energy Commission to build a nuclear power plant nearby. Community members initially afraid of nuclear energy…
- Creator Of Work The Christophers
- Subject Nuclear energy, Atomic bomb, Nuclear medicine, Nuclear power plants, World War (1939-1945), Cancer--Treatment
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President Announces: Pacific War Ends; [Japanese] Accept Allied Terms
- 1945-Aug-14
Front page of an extra August 14, 1945 issue of The Knoxville News-Sentinel with the headline "President Announces: Pacific War Ends; Japs Accept Allied Terms. MacArthur is Top Commander," announcing that Japan has…
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A-Bomb Staggers [Japanese]
- 1945-Aug-07
Front page of the August 7, 1945 issue of The Knoxville News-Sentinel with the headline "A-Bomb Staggers Nips." The page has articles relating to the Oak Ridge Laboratory and the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan.…
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Terror Bomb Hits Nagasaki
- 1945-Aug-09
Front page of the August 9, 1945 issue of The Knoxville Journal with the headline "Terror Bomb Hits Nagasaki." The page has articles relating to the dropping of the second atomic bomb on Nagasaki; and Japan and Soviets…
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Atom Bomb Falls Again Millions Soviets Attack [Japanese]
- 1945-Aug-09
Front page of August 9, 1945 issue of The Knoxville News-Sentinel with the headline "Atom Bomb Falls Again Million Soviets Attack Japs." Notably, racist ethnic slurs are used to refer to the Japanese in the headline and…
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Atomic Bomb Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT Dropped on Japanese Port
- 1945-Aug-06
Front page of the August 6, 1945 issue of The Chattanooga News-Free Press with the headline "Atomic Bomb Equal to 20,000 Tons of TNT Dropped on Japanese Port." Notably, a racist ethnic slur is used to refer to the…
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Dr. J. R.Oppenheimer's Speech of Acceptance for Scroll Presented to the Los Alamos National Laboratory by Major General L. R. Groves, October 16, 1945
- 1945-Oct-16
Transcript of J. Robert Oppenheimer's (1904-1967) acceptance speech for a scroll presented to the Los Alamos Laboratory by Major General Leslie R. Groves (1896-1970). The Los Alamos Laboratory was given the Army-Navy…
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Oral history interview with O. Theodor Benfey
- 1991-May-24
- 1991-Jun-05
O. Theodor Benfey begins the interview with a description of his childhood in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. He tells of his experiences in England, where he was a student during the war, and then his move…
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Chemical Heritage, Volume 20 Number 4
- 2002 (Winter)
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Oral history interview with Herbert C. Brown
- 1994-Nov-11
Herbert C. Brown studied at Crane Junior College, where he became fascinated by chemistry and its history; when Crane closed down, Brown was among the students invited to work in Nicholas D. Cheronis' Synthetical…
- Interviewee Brown, Herbert C. (Herbert Charles), 1912-2004
- Interviewer Bohning, James J.
- Subject University of Chicago, World War (1939-1945), United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development. National Defense Research Committee, Wayne State University, Purdue University, Emigration and immigration, Nobel Prize winners
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Letter from Max Bredig to Salomea Fajans, February 1939
- 1939-Feb-04
Max Bredig (1902-1977) thanks Solomea Fajans (1889-1982) for her concern for his family members in Nazi-occupied Germany, who have requested immigration assistance. Bredig explains that it will be very difficult to…
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Affidavits of Support from Otto C. Warburg for Victor and Marianne Homburger
- 1940-Nov-13
Affidavits of support from Otto C. Warburg for Marianne Homburger (1903-1986) and her husband Victor Homburger (1888-1968).
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Gurs Concentration Camp
- After 1944
Small black and white photos showing graves, memorials, and barracks at Gurs concentration camp.
- Creator Of Work Homburger, Marianne, 1903-1986
- Subject Gurs (Concentration camp), Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945), Internment camps, Memorials, World War (1939-1945)
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Affidavit of Support from Ernst M. Alder for Victor Homburger
- 1938-Nov-28
Affidavit of Support from Ernst M. Alder (1906-) for his friend Victor Homburger (1888-1968).
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Letter from Ilse Wolfsberg to Max Bredig, February 9, 1942
- 1942-Feb-09
Ilse Wolfsburg requests that Max Bredig (1902-1977) get in contact with Fritz Hochwald's (1897-1968) brother, Werner Hochwald (1910-1989), in hopes that Werner will help Fritz financially. Wolfsburg tells Bredig it may…
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Letter from Ilse Wolfsberg to Max Bredig, June 17, 1943
- 1943-Jun-17
Ilse Wolfsburg writes to Max Bredig (1902-1977) about her fiance, Fritz Hochwald's (1897-1968) immigration to the United States. She says Hochwald has been released from the Miranda De Ebro concentration camp, and is…
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Letter from Ilse Wolfsberg to Max Bredig, May 13, 1943
- 1943-May-13
Ilse Wolfsburg writes to Max Bredig (1902-1977) about Fritz Hochwald's (1897-1968) immigration to the United States. She discusses cabling money to Hochwald and her hopes that Hochwald will be in America before any more…
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Letter from Max Bredig to Ilse Wolfsberg, March 4, 1943
- 1943-Mar-04
Max Bredig (1902-1977) congratulates Ilse Wolfsberg for Fritz Hochwald's (1897-1968) receiving of his immigration visa from Spain to the United States. He continues to discuss the logistics of the visa in connection to…
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Letter from Max Bredig to Francis J. Curtis, March 3, 1943
- 1943-Mar-03
Max Bredig (1902-1977) tells Francis J. Curtis that Fritz Hochwald (1897-1968) has received his immigration visa, and if all goes well he should be in the United States in one or two months.
