Soldier reports on Buchenwald camp conditions
Sgt. Joseph Baratone describes in stark terms the Buchenwald concentration camp experiences he witnessed during a visit. He details whipping posts, hangings, crematoria, medical abuses, forced labor, starvation rations, and the horrific treatment of prisoners, many of whom were non-German civilians.
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Sgt
Joseph Baratone
The
Herald
Buckenwald
Germany
Buchenwald
Michigan Veterans' Vocational School at Pine Lake Opens
The Michigan Veterans' Vocational School at Pine Lake in Barry County offers health and vocational rehabilitation for World War II veterans. It features 31 acres with cabins for up to 250, red cross furnished facilities, and diverse programs from machine work to agriculture with placement assistance and low living costs under GI benefits.
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Veterans’ School
Michigan Veterans’ Vocational School
Pine Lake
Barry County
W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Foundation
Office of Veterans’ Affairs
Michigan
Michigan Falirs Association
American Red Cross
Fis
Bout Duilatgo
Suibe
Ore
State Board of Control For Vocational Education
Department of Public Instruction
Ans
Vterans
Council of Veterans’ Affairs
State Board of Control
State Board of Control For
Lansing
North Grand Avenue
Harry F. Kelly
Notice to Bid Sealed Bids for Vehicles in 1945
Sealed bids for equipment including four wheel drive trucks will be opened by the Board of County Road Commissioners at the Courthouse in Bessemer before 7 PM Central War Time on June 18 1945. Gogebic County's Seventh War Loan drive will credit $48000 of Milwaukee Road government securities purchase. Michigan is allotted $444000 to be distributed among counties served by the road.
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Board of County Road Commissioners
City of
Bessemer
Gogebic County
Milwaukee Road
Michigan
Ramsay
Gogebic Veterans Council Favors GI Bill Increase
Gogebic County Council of Veterans Affairs met June 6 1945 in Bessemer Michigan. They urged representation to raise GI Bill monthly pay from 50 to 75 dollars and to allow Vocational Rehabilitation testing and interviews through Ironwood Junior College instead of Marquette.
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Gogebic County
Veterans’ Administration
Ironwood Junior College
Marquette
Classifications This Week by Selective Service Board
The document lists draft classifications including 1-A and 1-C designations with names such as A-Tauno Rintamaki Clarence Johnson Maurice Bachand Arvid Wainio William Morriam Mickey Bishop and others. Additional entries show 1-A Mario Carpenedo Joseph Rosen Mike Obrodovich George Joschak Kino Sulmi Arthur Long Edwin Tolvanen John Pollack William Koski and more.
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Selective Service Board
Tauno Rintamaki
Clarence Johnson
Maurice Bachand
Arvid Wainio
William Morriam
Mickey Bishop
Douglas Carr
Ind
Jack Connors
Harold Ladin
Dale Morrison
Harvey McClurs
Richard Hasbrook
Fred Rowe
Mylo Jenereaul
Laurel Heinske
Tiupe Morrison
Albert Morrison
Theodore Giachino
Eugene Nikkari
Carl E. Olson
John Mesich
Leo Shearonuski
Elmer Bjorkman
Anton ‘Talkowski
Larry Niemi
Mario Zadra
Alvar Antinoja
Arthur Davis
Ernest Rintamaki
John Duba
Raymond Halama
Julius Clemboski
James Carpenter
Rutger Erickson
James Quindlan
James Beare
Dewey Delich
George Semenak
Harold Clark
Mario Carpenedo
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Hitler
Veteranews
Andrew Starkey
Delbert Peterson
Bernard Pelshaw
Ferdinand Periberg
John Groeschel
Dominic Forte
Ora Conley
Samuel Webb
Frank Belgmy
Frank Slavik
Victor Belmas
Stanley Budgick
Teodore Neznanski
Joseph Bolich
Roy Porter
Norman Arnesta
William Ruby
William Giachino
Joseph Aremovich
Waino Aho
Stanley Sokolowski
Emanuel Facchinello
Stephen Kopnick
Onnie Wainto
Charles Joswiak
Stephen Lesnieski
Weldon Carr
Earl Nordling
Daniel Kznarich
Bernard Molenda
Tyko Hedberg
Arnie Wirpie
Raymond Clemens
Earl Kersten
William Hebert
Russell Tuome
Kenneth Grenquist
Marko Ruppe
Theodore Rouse
Walter Nyman
Phillip Anderson
Leonard Tosavainen
Milton Dahlin
John Bueni, Jr
Charles Morris
Albert Dony
Martin Bersano
Carl Erickson
Arthur Larson
Howard Monty
Humbert Landretti
Stanley Serbin
Walter
Newman
Harry Anderson
George W. Koroncki
R. J. Mullen
Bessemer Township
Puritan
Arthur E. Wahlberg
Julius Rigotti
John Backman
Reino E. Laine
Steve Mussatti
Edwin Smith
America
Europe
Pacific
Victory Pulpwood Committee
Norbert P. Achatz Underwood Veneer Co. Herald Pub
Joseph Rizzie
Walter Mannie
Ishing Co
Victor
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