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1. Shapell family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2022.138.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-2013
bulk: circa 1940-circa 1947
…The collection consists of photographs documenting German-occupied Oświęcim, Poland, circa 1940-circa 1941, and refugees living in the Münchberg…
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2. Paul Vaderlind collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.251.1
Date:
creation: 1942 October 15-1944 May 21
… son. Should I return, I will thank you personally. Greetings to you, Tadeusz.” Dated: May 21, 1944; location: Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland; in…
3. Magda Weigl Heath collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.97 | RG Number: RG-10.503
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2009
…Concentration camp inmates' writings--Poland--Oświęcim.…
4. Dorothea Baumgart papers
1990.11.8 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.11.8
Date:
inclusive: 1940-circa 1957
…Dorothea Baumgart (1875-1957), was born Dorothea Lissner in Obrzycko, Poland and lived in Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland). Her property was…
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 … camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Birkenau (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Poland‐‐Wrocław. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Germany. Holocaust…
5. 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
…Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Oświęcim.…
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 …. Concentration camp inmates‐‐Poland‐‐Oświęcim. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Personal narratives. Jewish ghettos‐‐Poland‐‐Łódź. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Prisoners…
6. Chil Turek papers
2015.462.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.462.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1978
bulk: 1946-1978
…Chil Turek (1903-1971) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Isaac and Cypojra (née Goldberg) Turek. He had two brothers, Mendel and Jakov, and one sister…
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 …—History Displaced persons camps. Concentration camps—Poland—Lublin. Radom (Concentration camp) Vaihingen an der Enz (Concentration camp) Auschwitz…
7. Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers
2015.375.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.375.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
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… or year is unknown. On May 20, 1944, Amalia, Ilona, and Eta were sent to the Miskolc ghetto. Three weeks later they arrived at the Auschwitz…
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 … Sosnowiec, Poland. She died in 1943 at the Auschwitz concentration camp with her children, Machla Hipszer (born March 30, 1931), Gitla Hipszer (born April 3…
8. Sheindel Trebits Sussman papers
2006.210.2 Book Enclosure 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2006.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… ghetto. In June 1944, Sheindel and Betty were sent from the transitional ghetto in Bácsalmás to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Scheindel was forcibly…
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 … Bácsalmás ghetto and Auschwitz, working in a munitions factory, and liberation on April 14, 1945. The last entry is dated September 1945. The collection also…
9. Max and Rose Feld papers
2005.602.1 Oversize 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2005.602.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1989
bulk: 1905-1957
…Raisa (Rose) Szteinberg was born in Pinsk, Poland in 1917 to Michel and Tauba Szteinberg. She had two other sisters; Clara and Alexandria (Sara…
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 … married couple and their daughter Esther. The Feld family lived in Paris, France, before Max was taken to Beaune-la-Rolande before being sent to Auschwitz…
10. Yaakov Borenstein collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.133
Date:
1940-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Poland--Oświęcim.…
11. Gisela Laufer Wortman, William Laufer, and Naum Wortman papers
1996.A.0309 Box 2 Folder 15 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0309
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-2004
… deported to the concentration camp at Bogusze, Poland, and in January 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he worked in the hospital barracks. When Auschwitz…
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 ….ushmm.org Indexing terms Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Ebensee (Concentration camp) Płaszów (Concentration camp) Jews--Poland--Tarnobrzeg Jews--Poland--Chełm (Lublin…
12. Sara Zayer papers
1995.A.0286.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1949
…Sara Mstibowski Zayer (1898-1982) was born in the city of Bialystok, Poland. She would grow up to marry Mojzesja Zazujer, and live together in…
13. Kürschner family photograph collection
2013.134.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 51
Document | Accession Number: 2013.134.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1948
… deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. From June 1944 until September 1944 Dita and her mother, Hedy, were imprisoned in Gelsenberg concentration camp…
14. Dino A. Brugioni collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.433.2
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2001
…, Brugioni co-authored an article with Robert G. Poirier entitled “The Holocaust Revisited: A Retrospective Analysis of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination…
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 … analysis of aerial photographs taken of Auschwitz II (Birkenau) by reconnaissance planes in 1944-1945, as well as other Holocaust-related locations. The…
15. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… Dachau to the donor's grandmother, Hedwig Kahn; a Gestapo summons issued to Ferdinand Kahn; and a post-period picture postcard of Auschwitz. Additional…
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 … concentration camp. Dated July 4, 1943. Postcard addressed to Teodor Kenin in Warsaw, Poland; sent by Zofia Kenin at Auschwitz concentration camp. Postmarked June…
16. Siegfried Halbreich papers
1995.A.0178 Oversize Folder 5 Image 89
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0178
Date:
inclusive: 1942-2004
…Siegfried Halbreich (1909-2008) was born in Dziedzice, in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. After his graduation from high school, he served…
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 … of a list of names of 982 Jews deported from Beuthen, Germany, (now Bytom, Poland) in May and June 1942 (1993.A.0043) to the United States Holocaust…
17. Stephen Lerman papers
1991.105 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1991.105
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…Stephen Lerman (1927-2010) was born in Zambrow, Poland, with the given name of Szlama Lermann. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939…
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 …, Poland, prior to World War II. Also included are a pass to the Nuremburg trials and an identity card which confirms that Lerman was captured by German…
18. Nathan Chorowicz documents
Document | Accession Number: 2012.441.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
…. Abraham’s mother and siblings were also deported to Auschwitz and killed. None of Ryfka’s family members in Poland survived. Abraham was ill and lived in a…
19. Margot Schlesinger papers
2013.224.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2013.224.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
undated: 
…), Julius, Willie, and one sister, Rosa. Yakov and Sabina were originally from Poland and immigrated to Germany in 1911. The family was religiously observant…
20. Alfred Büchler papers
1999.119 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.119
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
bulk: 1937-1942
…Alfred Buechler was born Alfred Büchler in 1925 in Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland) to wine merchant Jacques Büchler and Käthe Büchler (née…
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 … and Käthe Büchler, in Gleiwitz; and Jacques Büchler’s death at Auschwitz. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access…