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1. 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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 …, Russia). The Dr. Naum Wortman papers document Wortman’s work as a doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp and the Ebensee and Ebelsberg displaced…
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2. Eisner family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2004.359
… Klara Eisnerova. All pictured perished in Auschwitz.…
3. Oral history interview with Sam Goldberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.12 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0012
Date:
interview: 1992 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp and his eventual move to Auschwitz; hearing about Josef Mengele's medical experiments in Auschwitz; working in the "Canada" commando, sorting…
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 …. I heard about Auschwitz. I didn't hear about Birkenau. Birkenau was... We have to reload. Okay, I want you to just back up and tell me how this was…
4. Oral history interview with Judith Silberger Guttman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0261
Date:
interview: 1994 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sister to Auschwitz, where she worked in the Revier under Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz; her sister’s death in the camp due to typhus; developing typhus…
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 … Auschwitz. So I never made it. Q. Tell me what your family relationship was like. Were you close with both parents? 1 NB: German 2 NB: Hungarian USHMM…
5. Jiři Eisenstein letter
Document | Accession Number: 2011.79.1
Date:
creation: 1942
… was smuggled out of Prague and sent to New York, where Mr. Kussi received it in 1944. In January 1944, Jiri Eisenstein was deported to Auschwitz, where…
6. "Strangers in the Heartland"
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0206 | RG Number: RG-02.142
Date:
creation: 1989 January
… from Europe, of those who survived in Polish forests, and of one man who survived Auschwitz. The narratives include such subjects as: emigrating to the…
7. "Shakespeare Saved My Life"
2008.191.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.191.1
Date:
creation: 2007
… also in Theresienstadt where she met her future husband, Honza Robitschek (now Jan Rocek). She and her parents were deported to Auschwitz in German…
8. Oral history interview with Zipora Vardi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.161 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0161
Date:
interview: 1992 February 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Europe in 1939; the German occupation of Hungary in 1944; the establishment of a ghetto; arriving in Auschwitz-Birkenau; the death march from Auschwitz…
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 … to jump, but she doesn’t. Arrive Auschwitz with open freight car door. 3:00 Train stays all night in Auschwitz. Father puts on talith and prays…
9. Oral history interview with Irena Kirkland
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0274 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0029
Date:
interview: 1996 June 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the yellow star; being deported to Theresienstadt with her family; daily life in the camp; contracting encephalitis; being deported to Auschwitz…
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 … train going to Auschwitz. 703 00:37:31,070 --> 00:37:32,780 I don't remember this one. 704 00:37:32,780 --> 00:37:36,272 What was your first impressions…
10. Oral history interview with Benjamin Hildesheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0119 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0023
Date:
interview: 1996 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Holocaust; his time in the ghettos of Sieradz and Łódź, Poland; his adoption by Chaim Rumkowski; his imprisonment at Auschwitz, Babice/Babitz (a…
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 … reading circle August 1944 - put in sealed cattle car to Auschwitz Went through selection, disinfection Put into Gypsy barracks - stood naked at Appel for…
11. Oral history interview with Hana Lowy Weiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.236.1 | RG Number: RG-50.600.0001
Date:
2008
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hana Lowy Weiner, born in Pilsen, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) in 1924, describes her deportation to Theresienstadt; being sent to Auschwitz and…
12. Oral history interview with Irene Hizme and Rene Slotkin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.56 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0056
Date:
interview: 1992 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… father, Herbert Guttman, who was arrested as a political prisoner in December 1941 and eventually sent to Auschwitz, where he died; being deported with…
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 …,720 --> 00:15:22,370 And I remember having that for a long time, even when I 325 00:15:22,370 --> 00:15:24,050 arrived in Auschwitz. 326 00:15:24,050 --> 00:15…
13. Oral history interview with George Havas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0420 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0378
Date:
interview: 1996 August 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Sudetenland; his father no longer being allowed to practice medicine; the German takeover of Mukacheve in March 1944; his transport to Auschwitz on May 15, 1944…
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 … record how long were you in Auschwitz_? 03:56 A: Well, let me get to this, we were standing in the formation all day, or in ____, we were just standing in…
14. Oral history interview with Irene Hizme and Rene Slotkin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0320
Date:
interview: 1995 April 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… again after the German soldiers took him away to Auschwitz on December 18, 1941; seeing bodies being taken away in carts, music being played, and waiting…
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 … three weeks ago from the Chronicles of Auschwitz1 that he actually was executed December 18, 1941. R: It's in there. The name, a number. I: So — the…
15. Oral history interview with Morris Kornberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0246 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0061
Date:
interview: 1999 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent to Auschwitz as a political prisoner; working in a coal mine in a sub-camp of Auschwitz; being forced to go to Buchenwald on a death march and…
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 … to Auschwitz as a political prisoner; working in a coal mine in a sub camp of Auschwitz; being forced to go to Buchenwald on a death march and working…
16. Oral history interview with Frank Hyde
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.89.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0706
Date:
interview: 2013 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Theresienstadt, where he stayed until September 1944; being sent to Auschwitz in an open box car; the selections; being in Auschwitz from September 28th to…
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 …,370 when I was going to Auschwitz. 473 00:21:05,370 --> 00:21:07,230 I never heard of Yiddish. 474 00:21:07,230 --> 00:21:09,630 There was Czech or German…
17. Oral history interview with Alexander Ehrlich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.230 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0230
Date:
interview: 1995 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experienced from starvation; being sent to Auschwitz; conditions in Auschwitz; his work in Braunschweig for eight months; his transfer to Watenstedt and life in…
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 … learned English. There were ups and downs. Old sick and children were sent away. [INTERRUPTION] He has not heard about Auschwitz, or Warsaw revolt…
18. Oral history interview with Ruth Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.209 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0190
Date:
interview: 2011 October 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… prewar life in Czechoslovakia; her family’s religious beliefs; her family’s deportation to Auschwitz in 1944; her mother and brother’s death immediately…
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 … rest of your family, and the whole city 30 00:01:28,020 --> 00:01:31,680 was taken to Auschwitz. 31 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:32,640 Right. 32 00:01:32…
19. Oral history interview with Irene Hizme and Rene Slotkin (Guttmann twins)
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.485.5 | RG Number: RG-50.718.0005
Date:
interview: 2002 October 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Auschwitz in 1941; the night they were marched to the cattle car to be deported; arriving at Auschwitz; the conditions of the camp; violence in the camp…
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 …,250 --> 00:12:00,030 239 00:12:00,030 --> 00:12:03,600 My father-- and we only know this now-- 240 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,140 was deported to Auschwitz in…
20. Lottie Wallerstein Salz papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0084
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1994
… Theresienstadt on March 8, 1942 on transport AAw. They were transferred on transport Dr to Auschwitz, where Salz was assigned prisoner number 71935 and where her…