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1. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
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Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.5
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
…Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps…
2. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.3
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
…Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps…
3. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.4
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
…Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps…
4. Metal bowl recovered from a concentration camp by a Polish Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 1990.115.1
Date:
found: after 1944 August 07-1944 December 31
…Metal bowl recovered from a concentration camp by a Polish Jewish man…
5. Metal bowl recovered from a concentration camp by a Polish Jewish man
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Object | Accession Number: 1990.115.2
Date:
found: after 1944 August 07-1944 December 31
…Metal bowl recovered from a concentration camp by a Polish Jewish man…
6. Group portrait of prisoners liberated from the Gesiowka concentration camp by the Zoska battalion of the Polish Home Army during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 98679
Date:
1944 August 05
…Group portrait of prisoners liberated from the Gesiowka concentration camp by the Zoska battalion of the Polish Home Army during the 1944 Warsaw…
7. A member of the Zoska battalion of the Armia Krajowa escorts two of 348 Jews liberated from the Gesiowka concentration camp by the battalion, during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 80910
Date:
1944 August 05
…A member of the Zoska battalion of the Armia Krajowa escorts two of 348 Jews liberated from the Gesiowka concentration camp by the battalion, during…
8. Oral history interview with Henry Drobiarz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.21 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0021
Date:
interview: 1992 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… during roundups; the separation of his family to various places; working in Krakow-Jerozolimska (Płaszów) concentration camp; being sent to Mielec…
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 … brought us up to-- made a concentration camp. 191 00:11:49,110 --> 00:11:51,393 That was Krakow-Jerozolimska. 192 00:11:51,393 --> 00:11:52,810 I don't know…
9. Oral history interview with Mila Bachner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.72 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0072
Date:
interview: 1987 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.…
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 … back-- Go back. --because they will kill you. And he did. Anyway, they did find him, after all. And he was sent away to a concentration camp. He was in…
10. Oral history interview with Sam Green
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.973 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0973
Date:
interview: 1989 February 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… conscription into forced labor in 1940, and his many years in labor camps and concentration camps. Mr. Green recounts the hardships he endured in the various…
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 … they changed it to concentration camp so they put everybody number. got number on my hand. They tattoo number everybody and they changed the guards where…
11. Oral history interview with Aniela Bober
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.113 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0113
Date:
interview: 1999 October 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Aniela Bober, born in 1925 in Belżec, Poland, describes the arrival of German forces; the construction of Belzec concentration camp; Ukrainian…
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 … Bełżec talks about her life in a farmers’ family in the proximity of a concentration camp in Bełżec as well as her work in the field near the concentration…
12. Oral history interview with Mendel Herskovitz
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.8 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0008
Date:
interview: 1946 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Czestochowa, Poland; his time in Skarzysko-Kamienna concentration camp working in a large ammunition factory; his memories of the evacuations of Czestochowa and…
13. Oral history interview with Gitla Grynwald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.59 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0059
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.…
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 … Plaszow. To Plaszow, yes. This was a concentration camp. Did you know what was going on in other areas of Poland-- Not much-- --while you were in the ghetto…
14. Oral history interview with Kazimierz Szymański
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.270 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0270
Date:
interview: 2009 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kazimierz Szymański, born in 1929 in Lublin, Poland, describes the arrest of his father in 1941 and his death in Auschwitz concentration camp…
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 …? Do you remember what he wrote about in his letters? A: I remember the first letter, in which he informed us that he was in the concentration camp in…
15. Oral history interview with Charles Levine
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.37 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0037
Date:
interview: 1989 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.…
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 …,970 --> 00:46:07,550 He was with me in all the concentration camps. 889 Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a…
16. Oral history interview with Samuel Dason
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.27 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0027
Date:
interview: 1996 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains 209 oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses to the Holocaust, concentration camp liberators, prisoners of war, from the…
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 … Czestochowa, Poland. In 1943 he was moved to Buchenwald, concentration camp in Germany, and then to Schlieben(ph) where he worked for six months repairing…
17. Oral history interview with Jacob Kerbel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.414 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0414
Date:
interview: 1989 February 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp, then to Gusen concentration camp, the extreme hunger he experienced, and his liberation by American troops in May 1945. He describes his…
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 … CONCENTRATION CAMP. IF IM GOING TO LIVE THROUGH THIS IS 27 MY MOST IMPORTANT THING GO TO POLAND GET OUT WHATEVER 28 ITS LEFT FROM THE BODY AND PUT HIM IN JEWISH…
18. Oral history interview with John Komski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.16 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0016
Date:
interview: 1992 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… at Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940; the different types of prisoners in Auschwitz and the various identification badges and triangles used to…
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 …,350 --> 00:10:37,510 in Hungary at that time were the Polish camps, where 131 00:10:37,510 --> 00:10:46,120 we could stay for a while and then work toward…
19. Oral history interview with Abraham Zwirek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.57 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0057
Date:
interview: 1986 January 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Treblinka; being in Skarzysko concentration camp from 1941 to 1944; his work duties; being beaten by a Ukrainian guard for stealing potatoes; the execution of…
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 … were taken out of this little place and taken to first concentration camp, also in Skarzysko, but https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
20. Oral history interview with Wiktoria Sałęga
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.19 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0019
Date:
interview: 1998 March 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… establishment of a concentration camp next door to her house; laundering German officers’ clothing; refusing to eat food provided to them by the Germans…
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 … of the war and the establishment of a concentration camp in Trawniki. She also talks about the Jews, who she saw during the war, and describes the…