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1. Albert M. Toiron's certificate
1992.137 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1992.137
Date:
1946-1952
…One photocopy of a certificate from General Eisenhower commending Lucien Toiron for assisting the escape of American soldiers during World War II.…
2. Bronia Landau papers
2004.345 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2004.345
Date:
inclusive: 1941-circa 2003
…, and Bronia sustained a severe head wound. In Wilkenau, she managed to escape. Through the kindness of those she encountered, she survived, kept her…
3. William Herskovic papers
1991.211.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1991.211.3
Date:
inclusive: 1942-circa 1995
… escaped in December 1942, returned to Belgium, and alerted the Judenrat and the Belgian resistance about the deportations and labor camps. He survived the…
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 … Herskovic’s report of his escape from the Peiskretscham labor camp, Suzanne Herskovic Ponder’s account of her father’s escape from Peiskretscham, and a…
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4. Irving Newman papers
1995.A.0753.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0753.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1949
… to Stutthof concentration camp. His wife and children remained in the ghetto. Lisa later escaped the ghetto and smuggled the children out to safety in…
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 … escaping Nazi detainment during a death march. Lisa smuggled the two children out of the Kovno (Kaunas) ghetto, hid them with Christian families, and…
5. Hanna Gutman papers
2011.274.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.274.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2000
… her sister escaped but were recaptured. They managed to escape a second time and hid in a forest until they parted ways. Hanna went to a Sommerfeld…
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 … was forced on a death march. During the march Hanna and her sister escaped but were recaptured. They managed to escape a second time and hid in a…
6. Nina Ebb papers
1994.A.0053.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0053.2
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1995
bulk: 1942-1944
… also included in this collection. A brief memoir entitled "Escape of B - 13375" written by Egon Ezriel Loebner describing his escape from a death march…
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 … collection. A brief memoir entitled "Escape of B ‐ 13375" written by Egon Ezriel Loebner describing his escape from a death march after the evacuation of…
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7. Joseph and Josie Peretz papers
2011.278.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.278.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1957
…, likely Auschwitz, Joseph escaped with the help of the railroad master in Charleville-Mézières, with whom he had become friendly. Using his French ID cards…
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 …. Joseph, after being released as a prisoner of war with the Belgian army was deported to a labor camp in northern France and escaped after procuring false…
8. Rohony family papers
2011.377.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2011.377.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1957
bulk: 1944
…Escapes--Hungary--Budapest.…
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 …--Hungary--Budapest. Holocaust victims--Hungary--Budapest. Jewish refugees. Jewish children in the Holocaust--Hungary. Escapes--Hungary--Budapest. Forced…
9. Nina Merrick papers
1988.70.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1988.70.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… man who had worked for her father. He yelled out to alert the Germans, but she escaped. At another farm, the Ukrainian farmer was very kind, asked about…
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 … from Rokitno, Poland, her escape from the Borisov ghetto, postwar life at the Eschwege displaced persons camp, immigration to the United States, and…
10. Dolf and Cato Ringel papers
1993.123.10 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1993.123.10
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1989
… decided to escape the now rampant anti-Semitism, fleeing to Spain in 1933. In the meantime, Dolf assisted his father with his business. In 1936, with the…
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 … escaping German occupation and living in Spain. Their papers include correspondence from family members, identification and food distribution cards, and…