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1. Records of Chief Prosecutor Landmesser of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz)
1998.A.0081 Box 1 Folder 4 Folder 18
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0081
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1945
…The records of Chief Prosecutor Landmesser of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) consist of correspondence, memoranda, and prisoner lists addressed to the chief…
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 …: The records of Chief Prosecutor Landmesser of Bromberg (Bydgoszcz) consist of correspondence, memoranda, and prisoner lists addressed to the chief…
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2. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
Date:
inclusive: circa 1907-2006
… September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. Benjamin was mobilized into the Polish Army as a lieutenant. He was soon captured as a prisoner of war. He…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The Bella and Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of…
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3. Mandil family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1975
bulk: circa 1920-1948
…, where they remained for ten months. While in prison Mosa Mandil ingratiated himself to his Italian captors by volunteering to take their pictures…
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 … Jewish children standing in front of a Christmas tree. The photographs also include images of the Italian controlled prison in Pristina, Kosovo, 1942; a…
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4. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
… Service to Interrogation of Prisoners of War (IPW) Team 13 as Chief Interrogator. He was second in command of his team, which was attached to the 104…
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 … materials, prisoner of war and witness reports, and a sketchbook containing drawings by German prisoners of war. The records documents Sichel’s immigration to…
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5. Adler family papers
2016.458.1 Book Enclosure 8 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.458.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880 September-2003
… the hospital, and János was sent to a prison camp (sometimes referred to as Prison Camp 188) in Tambov, Russia. The Russians assigned him to deliver…
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 … collection https://collections.ushmm.org 3 Russians took control of the hospital, and János was sent to a prison camp (sometimes referred to as Prison Camp 188…
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6. Manfred Lewinnek papers
Document | Accession Number: 2008.353.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1983
bulk: 1938-1955
… to Camp Cooke (currently Vandenberg Space Force Base) in California. The camp housed German and Italian prisoners-of-war, and Manfred worked on a re…
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 … transferred in May 1944 to Camp Cooke (currently Vandenberg Space Force Base) in California. The camp housed German and Italian prisoners-of-war, and Manfred…
7. Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers
1993.124.19 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1993.124.19
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1988
… capture as a German prisoner during World War I and subsequent release, the establishment of his family in Germany, his imprisonment in Dachau, and his…
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 …, and Klarmann families. The collection focuses on Sonja’s father, his birth in a small town in Belarus, his capture as a German prisoner during World…
8. Theodor Kleinsorge papers
2015.587.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.587.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-1979
bulk: 1914-1955
… a teacher. Theodor was a veteran of World War I, and was a prisoner-of-war in France. After the war he studied mining engineering and worked in…
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 … a prisoner‐of‐war in France during World War I, and an exhibit catalog on Dachau from a German exhibition on resistance to the Third Reich in 1946…
9. Levy-Saltiel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.144.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1998
…, Dora married Salomon Saltiel, a childhood friend who had been a prisoner of war during World War II. The couple emigrated to the United States in 1955.…
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 … walking around like they were exercising and then they stopped. About 5 to 6 prisoners gathered around each pole and started to pull the pole down. They…
10. Hanoch Gerstel papers
1999.52.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1999.52.1
Date:
inclusive: 1854-1975
… returned to Vienna to visit his family and preach, but he was arrested by the Gestapo and spent ten months in prison. His sisters Charlotte Gerstel Engel…
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 … prison. His sisters Charlotte Gerstel Engel and Edith Gerstel are believed to have been killed at Auschwitz and Chełmno. He worked with the…
11. Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.85.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2011
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
12. Otto and Erna Stein family papers
2000.229.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2000.229.1
Date:
inclusive: 1889-2000
… and apprenticeship record, military papers, records from Otto Stein’s time as a Prisoner of War in England during World War I, identification cards…
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 … Names” forms, passports, student and apprenticeship record, military papers, records from Otto Stein’s time as a Prisoner of War in England during World…
13. Lothar Kahn papers
1995.125.14 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1995.125.14
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2004
… imprisoned at the Osthofen concentration camp for three weeks in August 1933 as a political prisoner because of his party affiliation and because he was…
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 … Maria Dort, who was not Jewish. He was imprisoned at the Osthofen concentration camp for three weeks in August 1933 as a political prisoner because of…
14. Moshe Sheps papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.258.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1945
… prisoners were forced on a “Death March” to Volary in Czechoslovakia. Fela Szeps, who attended the Warsaw University until 1939, together with her younger…
15. Ursula Klau papers
2006.410.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2006.410.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1867-2006
… records, a Displaced Person registration card and a membership card for the Association of Former Prisoners of Concentration Camps in Germany, records…
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 …, American Chamber of Commerce records, a Displaced Person registration card and a membership card for the Association of Former Prisoners of Concentration…
16. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.…
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 …. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945) World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Prisoners and prisons. Jews‐‐Germany‐‐History‐‐1933‐1945. Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish refugees…
17. Bronka Hercberg Zybert papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.518.1
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1948
…Prisoners of war--Polish--Germany--Gebersdorf--1940-1950.…
18. de Boton family papers
2013.103.1 Oversize Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2013.103.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-2012
bulk: 1932-1947
… Résistance (MUR). On 1 August 1944, Yves and others are arrested by the Gestapo in Lyon. They were interrogated and sent to Montluc prison. On 20 August…
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 … arrested by the Gestapo in Lyon. They were interrogated and sent to Montluc prison. On 20 August 1944, Yves and about 120 other prisoners were taken to the…
19. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… Marie were sent to Theresienstadt. On August 10, 1942, Rudolf and Hana received transport notices. At the train station, they were assigned prisoner…
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 … in 1941 to Theresienstadt, where he worked in the technical department, and then transferred to Auschwitz, where he painted numbers on prisoner…
20. Blumenthal family papers
1993.104.11 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1993.104.11
Date:
inclusive: 1901-circa 1993
bulk: 1901-1956
…Prisons--Germany--Wolfenbüttel.…
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 …‐‐Germany‐‐Ronneburg (Hesse). Jews‐‐Germany‐‐History‐‐1933‐1945. Prisons‐‐Germany‐‐Wolfenbüttel. World War, 1914‐1918‐‐Participation, Jewish…