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1. Elsie Ragusin Azzinaro papers
2016.468.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.468.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-circa 2015
bulk: 1944-1961
… February 1945. Elsie was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp where she was a forced-laborer. She was then deported to the Ravensbrück concentration…
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 … Italian to her mother while in a train boxcar as she was being deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944; letters from the Red Cross regarding…
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2. Siegfried Halbreich papers
1995.A.0178 Oversize Folder 5 Image 89
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0178
Date:
inclusive: 1942-2004
… World War II, Halbreich was imprisoned in concentrations camps; first at Sachsenhausen, and then later Gross-Rosen, Buna/Monowitz in Auschwitz, and Dora…
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 … Auschwitz, and Dora‐Nordhausen where he was eventually liberated in 1945. Upon release, Halbreich worked with the American War Crimes Department as an…
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3. Gisela Laufer Wortman, William Laufer, and Naum Wortman papers
1996.A.0309 Box 2 Folder 15 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0309
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-2004
… deported to the concentration camp at Bogusze, Poland, and in January 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he worked in the hospital barracks. When Auschwitz…
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 …, Russia). The Dr. Naum Wortman papers document Wortman’s work as a doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp and the Ebensee and Ebelsberg displaced…
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4. Herman Taube papers
1992.A.0081.2 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0081.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2012
… Auschwitz. Marie survived Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Flossenbürg. She immigrated to the United States via Gdynia, Poland, in 1948 aboard the M.S. Stefan…
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 … Polish Army. The collection also includes biographical materials documenting Taube’s wife’s Czech stepmother, Marie Koreffová, who survived Auschwitz…
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5. Anna Koppich letters
1995.A.0229 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0229
Date:
inclusive: 1945
… to work as a physician and care for the sick. In June 1944 Anna and her family and were transported to Auschwitz, where Anna was separated from her…
6. Albert Craig Levinson collection
2013.436.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.436.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945
… Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and Ohrdruf. The testimony was typed by Albert Craig Levinson, a member of the 8th Infantry Division, after the liberation of Ohrdruf…
7. Erna Fridman manuscript, "The Long Way Home"
2010.426 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2010.426
Date:
creation: 1995
… Auschwitz in October 1944. In January 1945, Erna and her mother were forced on a death march to Ravensbrück and Leipzig and were liberated in April 1945…
8. Steven Vogel papers
2002.175.5 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 29
Document | Accession Number: 2002.175.5
Date:
inclusive: circa 1859-2009
bulk: 1940-1958
… deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. They arrived at Birkenau after several days packed into a full cattle car with no…
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 …, Hungary including his deportations to the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Mauthausen concentration camps and his immigration to the United States in 1945. Included…
9. Primo Levi manuscript collection
Primo Levi manuscript Box 1 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.78.1
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1947
… transport to Auschwitz, with approximately 650 others prisoners. Only 95 men and 29 women from this transport were selected for labor, all the others were…
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 … This Is a Man], which recounted his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz, and was later published as Survival in Auschwitz. Contains handwritten…
10. Gina Gotfryd collection
1995.A.0170 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0170
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1994
…, when they were all packed into a cattle car and sent to Auschwitz. The family was quickly separated and Cyna and Gina were placed in the women…
11. Chaim Piotrkowski collection
1996.A.0414 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0414
Date:
inclusive: circa 1995
…Chaim Piotrkowski was born in 1927 in Łódź. He survived the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Lieberose and relocated to Israel after the war.…
12. Dora Apsan collection
2005.166 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.166.1
Date:
1945 May 06-1945 May 17
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Dora grew up in the small town of Sighet in Northern Romania between the two World Wars. In May 1944 she was deported to Auschwitz along with most…
13. "My story"
1994.A.0274 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 33
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0274 | RG Number: RG-02.164
…. After the German invasion of Poland, Rita and her family were sent to the Łódź ghetto. Rita was later deported to Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and…
14. Rysia Edelman papers
1995.A.0522.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0522.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-1995
… herded the Jewish residents in a ghetto in 1940. During the war, she was imprisoned in several camps including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Near the end of…
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 … the German occupation of Tomaszów Mazowiecki and as a forced laborer in Pionki, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, and other camps. Languages: English, German…
15. "Shakespeare Saved My Life"
2008.191.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.191.1
Date:
creation: 2007
… also in Theresienstadt where she met her future husband, Honza Robitschek (now Jan Rocek). She and her parents were deported to Auschwitz in German…
16. Gitta Simon papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.125.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-circa 1949
…, nicknamed Laci) in Székesfehérvár, Hungary. He worked as a urologist before the war. In June 1944 Gitta and Laci Simon were deported to Auschwitz. She was…
17. Marti Korach Weiss collection
2010.255.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Item 68
Document | Accession Number: 2010.255.1
Date:
use: 1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The collection includes a diary written by Ilona Braunstein Korach in 1945, documenting her experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in…
18. From Antwerp to Geneva via Récébédou and Casseneuil: memoirs of the years 1940-1942
1997.A.0128 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0128
Date:
creation: 1997-1997
… later Casseneuil, his father's deportation from Casseneuil to Drancy and eventually to Auschwitz, and the author's escape to Switzerland, where he was…
19. Komlos and Grünhut families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.585.1
Date:
inclusive: 1955-circa 2003
… concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Stuttfhof, and Buchenwald. She was liberated in 1945. Irén married Ernst Glück, and they had two children: Mary and…
20. Ray Kaner collection
2008.390.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2008.390.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… ghetto received 12 marks per week. Levy survived a few years under terrible conditions until the Germans transported him to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he…