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1. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner
2002.366.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.366.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 December-1945
acquired: 1944 December-1945 January
…, and Alice and her siblings belonged to Zionistic organizations. Alice had just returned home from vacation when Germany invaded Poland on September 1…
2. Black plastic Star of David badge worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.2
Date:
use: 1942 May-1944 March
…Lotte Zagorska (later Charlotte Pogel, 1920 - 2016) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Leopold Leib (b.1891) and Sarah Friedlich…
3. Brown leather belt worn by a Dutch Jewish political prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau
2017.608.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.608.3
Date:
use: approximately 1941 October-approximately 1945 May 08
… France declared war on Germany. The Netherlands planned to stay neutral in this war, as they had done in World War I. Adolf Hitler, Germany’s chancellor…
4. Brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish prisoner
2016.151.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.151.2
Date:
use: after 1941 December-1949 September
… Yiddish and Hebrew. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and on September 4, the German army entered Będzin. The soldiers burned the Great…
5. Card with 24 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.6
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
6. Card with 46 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.8 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.8 a-e
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
7. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.5
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
8. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
9. Circular badge with number 21968 worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.4 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.4
Date:
use: 1944 March-1945 May 09
…Lotte Zagorska (later Charlotte Pogel, 1920 - 2016) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Leopold Leib (b.1891) and Sarah Friedlich…
10. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.3
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
11. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
2014.557.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.5
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
12. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.2
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
13. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
14. Drawing of a large white rabbit done by a Dutch Jewish man in hiding
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.5
Date:
creation: 1944 January 12
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
15. Drawing of a man at a spinning wheel done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.2
Date:
creation: 1944 January 10
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
16. Drawing of a yellow field done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.1
Date:
creation: 1944 January 10
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
17. Drawing of black and white cows in a barn done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.3
Date:
creation: 1944 January 20
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
18. Drawing of farmhouse and trees done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.4
Date:
creation: 1944 January 06
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
19. Felix Kaszub papers
2010.48 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2010.48.3
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1985
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations--Germany.…
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 …-1945)--Poland. Jewish refugees. Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- )--Germany. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
20. Gerda and Sylva Löwenstein papers
1995.56.5 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1995.56.5
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1951
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… volunteered to join her father on an October 1944 transport that was supposed to be a work transport to Germany but that really went to Auschwitz, where her…
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 … transport that was supposed to be a work transport to Germany but that really went to Auschwitz, where her parents were immediately sent to the gas chamber…
21. Handmade metal comb used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.8 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.8
Date:
creation: 1944 October-1945
…Henry Dressler (born Heniz, 1919-2005) was born on October 22, 1919, in Dresden, Germany, to Joachim (1888-1971) and Martha Miriam (1896-1956) and…
22. Handmade metal knife used by a concentration camp inmate saved by getting on Schindler's list
2013.379.7 right side
Object | Accession Number: 2013.379.7
Date:
creation: 1944 October-1945
…Henry Dressler (born Heniz, 1919-2005) was born on October 22, 1919, in Dresden, Germany, to Joachim (1888-1971) and Martha Miriam (1896-1956) and…
23. Hanukkah menorah with rearing lions used by a Polish German survivor
2014.557.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.2
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1933
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
24. Lace-trimmed Handkerchief with a cutwork floral accent owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.3
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
25. Leather briefcase owned by Runia Korman Maizels and Szlama Maizels
2018.63.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.63.3
Date:
use: approximately 1950
… (later Chana Kucheik, 1920-1942) and a brother, Abraham (1922-1942). In September 1939, Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union. Kraśnik was…
26. Leather clutch purse owned by Runia Korman Maizels
2018.63.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2018.63.2
Date:
use: approximately 1950
… (later Chana Kucheik, 1920-1942) and a brother, Abraham (1922-1942). In September 1939, Poland was invaded by Germany and the Soviet Union. Kraśnik was…
27. Opera glasses and case owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.2 a-c
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
28. Oral history interviews with Esther Moses and Herbert Moses
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.206.1 | RG Number: RG-50.701.0001
Date:
interview: 1997
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… relocation to an underground factory where she was placed into forced labor; her transfer to a factory in Hamburg, Germany; being marched to Salzburg where she…
29. Oral history interviews with Luisa Klein, Henry Landman, Anita Weisbourd, Mr. Haberman, and Steven Berger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.242.1 | RG Number: RG-50.886.0001
Date:
interview: 1995
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being transported a few weeks later to Auschwitz; arriving in the camp and the selections; conditions in the camp; being transported to Frankfurt, Germany…
30. Oral history interview with Aaron Stolzman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.71 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0071
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s death while fighting the Germans; his life before 1939; the local Jewish community and his family taking in Polish Jews who were expelled from Germany in…
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 …, before that we lived not too far from the German border. And we had an experience that the German Jews were driven out from Germany. It was about, I don…
31. Oral history interview with Abram Enzel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.33 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0033
Date:
interview: 1993 November 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… persons camp in Germany; moving to Lübeck, Germany; arriving in the United States on April 9, 1951; and settling in Pittsburgh, PA, where he worked, married…
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 … April 27, 1945. Abram spent some time in Germany and immigrated to the United States on April 9, 1951. He settled in Pittsburgh where he worked, married…
32. Oral history interview with Adam Gawara
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.208.2.1 | RG Number: RG-50.837.0001
Date:
interview: 1998 March
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Germany.…
33. Oral history interview with Agnes Hoffman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.4.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0216
Date:
interview: 2014 January 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … when I called my aunt, who was older 570 00:38:48,290 --> 00:38:55,500 than I am and she was in Germany after the war-- 571 00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:57…
34. Oral history interview with Aleksander Henryk Laks
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.603.3 | RG Number: RG-50.637.0003
Date:
interview: 2005 January 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… inmates to Bodensee to be drowned; being sent by train to Offenburg, Germany to clean up the town after a bombing; being taken to Emmendingen, Germany…
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 …? Q: I asked about the Western Jews who came into the ghetto. A: In ghetto, they came in trains with especially from Germany, not only, but especially…
35. Oral history interview with Aliza Green
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.253 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0253
Date:
interview: 1995 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
36. Oral history interview with Antonin Hlaváček
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.17 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0017
Date:
interview: 1997 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany; a brothel in the camp and the imprisoned women throwing bread to the prisoners from their windows; escaping from his…
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 … you were in Lety to where you would be taken? A: No. They told us that they would be taking us to work in Germany. No one knew anything. Q: And how was…
37. Oral history interview with Barbara Marton Farkas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.374.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0070
Date:
interview: 1990 April 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-camp of Gross-Rosen in Germany, where she worked in a chemistry lab and then in the Cathode Workshop; staying there from October 1944 through February…
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 … communist, they were taken away. And, uh, was a very strange atmosphere. People were...it...we...we heard about what happened in Poland and, uh, in Germany…
38. Oral history interview with Bella Jakubowicz Tovey
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.351.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0236
Date:
interview: 1990 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her family’s deportation to the Bedzin ghetto in 1942; her deportation to the Graeben sub-camp of Gross-Rosen in Germany in 1943 and then to Bergen…
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 … family living with us that came in from Germany, from Leipzig. They were German Jews. Uh...Some Jews had to leave. It depended on...some streets became…
39. Oral history interview with Bella Tovey
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.28 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0028
Date:
interview: 1992 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… smaller ghetto called Srodula; her time in Gräben (a.k.a. Gräen) concentration camp near Striegel, Germany, where the prisoners worked in a flax mill; her…
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 … camps in Germany. 414 00:24:34,900 --> 00:24:36,460 And there was contact. 415 00:24:36,460 --> 00:24:41,260 They were allowed to write a postcard a month…
40. Oral history interview with Beno Helmer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.413.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0093
Date:
interview: 1990 June 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … was Foreign Minister of Hungary from 1938-1941. 2 Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. USHMM Archives RG-50.030*0093 3 A: The attic was very low…
41. Oral history interview with Bernard Lewkowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.70 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0070
Date:
interview: 1992 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bernard Lewkowicz, born in 1921 in Germany, discusses his early childhood; his parents who were Orthodox and from Poland originally; baking matzos in…
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 … Resource Center here in Buffalo. Our guest is Bernie Lewkowicz. Bernie, I understand that you were born in Germany. Will you tell us a little about your…
42. Oral history interview with Chana Birnbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.1 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0001
Date:
interview: 1991 October 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family; going to Zehlendorf in Berlin, Germany; going to find her sisters in Bergen-Belsen, where they were being looked after by Mrs. Rosensaft; attending…
43. Oral history interview with Charles Glass
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.626 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0626
Date:
interview: 1990 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany and the resultant anti-Jewish laws and persecution. Mr. Glass describes his separation from his family and conscription as…
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 … because that started in 1918 1919 was born in 1923 and ah and this is and also you know we could feel the war we could feel when start when Germany when…
44. 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
… labor in Weimar, Germany; digging graves for German soldiers; being liberated by American soldiers April 13, 1945, and his memories of General Dwight…
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 … start to build in 1943. 619 00:32:39,460 --> 00:32:43,302 Came specialists from Germany, engineers. 620 00:32:43,302 --> 00:32:46,260 The bricks came from…
45. Oral history interview with Clara Dan
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0019
Date:
interview: 1982 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Bergen-Belsen; being liberated by the British Army; being placed with her sister in a displaced persons camp in Celle, Germany, where they were reunited…
46. Oral history interview with Dana V. Klanjšček
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.504.4.28 | RG Number: RG-50.592.0028
Date:
interview: 2009 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Forced labor--Germany.…
47. Oral history interview with David Bergman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.430.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0020
Date:
interview: 1990 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … from; and I saw it was American bombers flying over there on a mission to destroy Germany. And as I looked up with envy, wishing that I was one of those…
48. Oral history interview with David Burdowski
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0012
Date:
interview: 1982 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Forst to work on the Autobahn; being taken to work in a paper factory in Germany for a year and a half; being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943; being…
49. Oral history interview with David Danzyger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.346.9 | RG Number: RG-50.031.0009
Date:
interview: 1991 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp; moving to Munich, Germany; becoming a carpenter; his marriage, children, and grandchildren; and his thoughts on the lessons of the Holocaust.…
50. Oral history interview with David Davis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0347
Date:
interview: 1995 August 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Markstadt, Germany in 1943 and helping to build the Fuenfteichen concentration camp; traveling back and forth between Fuenfteichen (Miloszyce) and Wrocław…
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 … was in the middle between Russia and Germany and Austria, all the borders. And they always, every 20 years, every 40 years, always a revolution or war…