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1. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note, acquired by a former inmate
2018.229.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.229.4
Date:
issue: 1944 February 15-1945 April 12
acquired: 1944 February 15-1944 September 04
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
2. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 25 cent note, acquired by a former inmate
2018.229.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.229.5
Date:
issue: 1944 February 15-1945 April 12
acquired: 1944 February 15-1944 September 04
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
3. Lisette Lamon and Benjamin Soep papers
2006.145.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2006.145.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1980
… together and spared from the death camps because the Nazis wanted to use Abraham’s expertise to build their own diamond industry. As the Soviets advanced…
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 … transit camp, and then deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The Soep family was kept together and spared from the death camps because the Nazis…
4. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection
1990.23.241 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.23.241
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1990
… families, their liberation, their immigration to the United States, and the deaths of their family members in the Holocaust. Many documents are accompanied…
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 …, their survival in hiding with two separate Dutch families, their liberation, their immigration to the United States, and the deaths of their family…
5. Oral history interview with Eddy Wynschenk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.382 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0382
Date:
interview: 1989 September 20
interview: 1990 March 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there to Auschwitz-Birkenau; conditions in the camp, including his work sorting the clothes of arriving Hungarian Jews who had been sent to their deaths…
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 … think about eighty percent went to their death outright and only twenty percent went to the camps think .... percentage wise more Hungarian Jews survived…
6. Oral history interview with Shaul Sadan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.131 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0131
Date:
interview: 1993 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … towards the trains, while the town’s people stood along their way to see them off. 1.28 Amsterdam: He lived with a Jewish family, his father at a camp for…
7. Oral history interview with Helen Waterford
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0352 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0246
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Czechoslovakia; going into a prisoner of war camp, where she remained until her liberation; traveling to a displaced persons camp at Plzen, Czechoslovakia…
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 … were...we were not the only ones who came. Everybody was confused. And uh we were told that we were going to a family camp to work and that we should…
8. Oral history interview with Betty Cana
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.29 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0029
Date:
interview: 1993 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her father's death; preparing to immigrate to Palestine on a Hechalutz kibbutz in Beverwijk; German invasion; returning to Amsterdam; her marriage…
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 ….05 Conditions in camp. Work in camp kitchen. 3.12 Illness – typhoid fever. 3.16 April 1945, liberation by British army and vengeance of prisoners. 3.22 Treatment…
9. Oral history interview with Renee L. Duering
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.28 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0028
Date:
interview: 1992 April 08
interview: 1992 April 23
interview: 1992 December 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experiences on a death march to Ravensbrück in January 1945; her escape during the march; hiding near Dresden, Germany until liberation by the Soviets; living…
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 … DUERING Page 12 They were suppàsed to be in Theresienstadt not in BergenBelsen. BergenBelsen was death camp. And they were promised that in Theresienstadt…
10. Oral history interview with Lotte Salus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0259 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0028
Date:
interview: 1996 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the camps Auschwitz, Stutthof, and Praust; being taken on a death march in March 1945; liberation by the Russians; sexual violence perpetrated by the…
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 … then they created this camp, Westerbork. 680 00:28:53,040 --> 00:29:00,270 So they sent my father there, my mother there, 681 00:29:00,270 --> 00:29:05…
11. Oral history interview with Renee Duering
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1181 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1181
Date:
interview: 1984 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her experiences as a subject of medial experiments, including sterilization ones; her deportation to three other camps; her experiences on a death march…
12. Oral history interview with Alexandra Steinberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.585 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0585
Date:
interview: 1996 August 15
interview: 1996 September 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
13. Oral history interview with Shmuel Hacohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.57 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0057
Date:
interview: 1993 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there; the liberation of the camp; being taken to Risa, north of Leipzig, to a Polish POW camp where he contracted typhoid fever; his return to Holland…
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 … and had to volunteer for work camps. Tape 4 of 8 10.00 1941, Judenrat and registration of all Jews. 10.10 Death notices in Jewish paper of the 400 who…
14. Oral history interview with Ruchama Pinkof
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.352 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0352
Date:
interview: 1998 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ruchama Pinkof, born in 1922 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, discusses being the youngest of three children; her mother's death when she was two…
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 … family were deported to Westerbork. While at the camp, Ruchama contracted polio and soon was transferred to Bergen-Belsen. There, she also contracted…
15. Oral history interview with Klaas De Vries and Maria De Vries
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.13 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0013
Date:
interview: 1990 September 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experience having a religious discussion with a Jew on his way to the camp and being put in a labor camp, where they made bricks and 50 people died a day; how…
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 … Christ. The professor became very angry at this. They entered the camp by an intimidating punishment. They had to roll through the mud and shit for about…
16. Oral history interview with Ruth Buhling
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.54 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0516
Date:
interview: 2007 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… death camps and antisemitism during the war; and eventually immigrating to the United States and settling in New Jersey.…
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 …: Ruth, when did you find out what had ha -- really happened during the war, about the death camps? Do you remember? A: Now, I heard from people that came…
17. Oral history interview with Frank Gryzenhout
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.286.1 | RG Number: RG-50.740.0001
Date:
interview: 2011 February-2011 August
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … layer. Childhood? Not much, I was 17 years old when they pick me up. The (Politzi) and they put me in a camp. And before that I don’t have much memory…
18. Ursula Klau papers
2006.410.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2006.410.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1867-2006
… Westerbork transit camp, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the so-called “Lost Transport”; and Klau’s liberation and recuperation in Davos, Switzerland…
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 …-occupied Netherlands, the Westerbork transit camp, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the so-called “Lost Transport”; and Klau’s liberation and…
19. Oral history interview with Renata Laqueur
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0289 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0370
Date:
interview: 1996 July 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Bergen-Belsen on March 15, 1944; writing a daily diary about her experiences in the camp; her liberation by the Soviet Army on April 23, 1945; recovering…
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 … get into the Russian liberation camp, the hospital and then I get typhus. And just...Just in that time Paul begins to sit up and he begins to spoon feed…
20. Oral history interview with Hedwig Rose
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.261 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0496
Date:
interview: 2005 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … about the -- you know, they -- they pr -- they were first perhaps not extermination camps, but you knew that people were put to death. And th -- and this…