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1. Small white bag with a button saved from the coat of a young Jewish girl deported to Auschwitz
1993.27.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.27.5
Date:
use: 1940-1942
received: 1945 June
…Small white bag with a button saved from the coat of a young Jewish girl deported to Auschwitz…
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2. Eugene Miller collection
1997.A.0240 Oversize Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0240
Date:
inclusive: circa 1941-approximately 1997
…The Eugene Miller collection comprises subject files documenting Miller's interest in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Treblinka; the Łódź…
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 … comprises subject files documenting Miller’s interest in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Treblinka; the Łódź ghetto (including images of Chaim…
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3. 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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 … Christel. Particularly well-documented camps include Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Ferramonti, Sachsenhausen, Theresienstadt, and Westerbork. Particularly…
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4. Irene Engelman correspondence
2003.3 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2003.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
… Ghetto in 1940 where her grandfather died. Her parents were transported to Auschwitz in August 1944 and are believed to have been killed there. Her…
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 … describe her grandfather’s death, her parents’ transport to Auschwitz, and her sister and brother‐in‐law’s unknown fates. Languages: German, Polish…
5. Jakubowicz family photographs
2004.466 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2004.466
Date:
1937-1948
… Jakubowicz family, three perished, two survived in hiding, one survived Auschwitz, and Mania Jakubowicz Gryniewicz, the donor, fled with her husband to the…
6. John and Barbara Helman papers
2006.165.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2006.165.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1951
… deported to Auschwitz with his sister, Elka, and her son. Elka was killed at Auschwitz, and her son was presumably killed there as well. Two weeks after…
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 … the Auschwitz and Görlitz concentration camps, and the couple’s postwar marriage and refugee and immigration status. Languages: German, English, Hebrew…
7. Litke family papers
2015.547.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.547.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1981
bulk: 1945-1981
…, and three brothers, Mojse (b. 1909), Schlomo, and Zachary. Chaim was first arrested in Ozorków in 1941. He was sent to Auschwitz in August, 1943. While…
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 … Eggenfelden, immigration and naturalization documents, restitution papers, Frida’s testimonies about her time in Auschwitz concentration camp, and photographs…
8. Sara Zayer papers
1995.A.0286.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1949
… with her husband, who was later transported to the Łódź ghetto, and eventually taken to Auschwitz, where he was killed. Sara (addressed as Sonia in her…
9. 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
… stayed with her. They were deported and murdered in Auschwitz in 1944. His father Mendel and his brother Henryk, with his wife Helena, left for Vilna…
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 … Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, and Birnbäumel, and Benjamin’s imprisonment in prisoner of war camps Oflag XI A ‐ Osterode and Oflag II C ‐ Woldenberg…
10. Selma Engel papers
1999.A.0201 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0201
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… family survived the war in hiding. Alida, Marthyn, Maurits, and his wife Betje all perished at Auschwitz. Selma avoided deportation to Auschwitz by hiding…
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 …. Alida, Marthyn, Maurits, and his wife Betje all perished at Auschwitz. Selma avoided deportation to Auschwitz by hiding, but her group was denounced, and…
11. Krieger and Frankel families photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.313.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1958
… then sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. When Auschwitz was liquidated in January 1945, she was sent on a forced march toward Germany. She was shot and…
12. Adam Leczycki photograph collection
2016.398.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2016.398.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-circa 1958
… Auschwitz concentration camp, and subsequently transferred to Sachsenhausen and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. After being liberated by the British Army…
13. Metal scale weight of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.285.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.11
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… year. In summer 1944, Łódź, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
14. Flat file of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.285.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.10
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… year. In summer 1944, Łódź, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…
15. Mendel Grossman photograph collection
2005.214.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2005.214.2
Date:
inclusive: 1919-circa 1970
…. His sister, Malka died in the ghetto in 1943. In 1944, the ghetto was liquidated and Moshe, Franka, Gucia, and his father were sent to the Auschwitz…
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 …. In 1944, the ghetto was liquidated and Moshe, Franka, Gucia, and his father were sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in August. Moshe and…
16. Alexander and Aviva Bartal papers
2007.148.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2007.148.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1977
…, Alexander’s family was sent to the Łódź ghetto, and when the Łódź ghetto was liquidated in 1944, they were sent to Auschwitz. Rozka and Izak were immediately…
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 … ghetto, and when the Łódź ghetto was liquidated in 1944, they were sent to Auschwitz. Rozka and Izak were immediately sent to the gas chambers. Alexander…
17. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of newcomers to the Łódź Ghetto pulling a carriage
1988.173.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.4
Date:
creation: 1964 January 04
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Newcomers to the Ghetto
Alternate Title:
2 Horseman pulling a carriage in Lodzer Ghetto
… train on August 29, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where his wife and daughter were murdered. Upon his arrival, on September 2, Friedmann’s arm…
18. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a mother with two children in Lodzer Ghetto
1988.173.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.3
Date:
creation: 1964 January
depiction: approximately 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Mother with Two Children
… train on August 29, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where his wife and daughter were murdered. Upon his arrival, on September 2, Friedmann’s arm…
19. Autobiographical tempera painting by David Friedmann of two men pumping water in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.1 a-c
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 March
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Pumping Water in Łódźer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Two Łódź Ghetto Inmates On A Water Pump
… train on August 29, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where his wife and daughter were murdered. Upon his arrival, on September 2, Friedmann’s arm…
20. Treadle sewing machine with painted star of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.4
Date:
use: approximately 1930-approximately 1945
use: 
…, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…