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1. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
….S. citizen (she knew some English). After liberation she was sent to the UNRAA refugee camp Jeanne d’Arc in Philippeville, Algeria (Skikda). She returned to…
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 … Lessing’s deportation to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, her experiences at the Jeanne d’Arc refugee camp in Philippeville, Algeria (Skikda), her sons…
2. Charles Phillip Sharp collection
2004.664.3 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 73
Document | Accession Number: 2004.664.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1993
Special Collection:
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… Belsen after its liberation. The guards continued to kill inmates even as British troops entered the camp. When Sharp and his contingent told them to stop…
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 … liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This includes photographs of the camp, the graves, survivors, and commanders at the camp such as Josef…
3. Jiří Lauscher collection
1993.A.0003 Box 4 Folder 18 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0003 | RG Number: RG-35.001
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1989
Special Collection:
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…, Jiri, Irma, and Michaela were sent on transport CK to Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp, 40 miles north of Prague. When they arrived Jiri was asked his…
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 … culture of Theresienstadt; and Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps. Records documenting the Jüdische Kultusgemeinde in Prague relate to two of the…
4. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
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… first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
5. Ada Abrahamer papers
2015.442.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.442.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1989
bulk: 1941-1948
Special Collection:
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… in March 1943 Ada and her mother were sent to the Plaszów concentration camp. After a month spent under horrific conditions, they were selected to work…
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 … diary and photographs related to Ada Abrahamer’s wartime experiences in work camps and concentration camps in Poland, as well as her postwar life in…
6. 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…
7. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
…, before her death at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Felix Bachmann, a fellow prisoner held on to the letter until his liberation from Theresienstadt in…
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 … Auschwitz concentration camp. Felix Bachmann, a fellow prisoner held on to the letter until his liberation from Theresienstadt in May 1945. Bachmann located…
8. Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers
2010.171.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image
Document | Accession Number: 2010.171.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1953
Special Collection:
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… slave labor camp and details a death march beginning April 4, 1945 from Sömmerda through Altenburg, Lichtenstein, Stollberg, and Schwarzenberg, and other…
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 … handmade diary created at the Sömmerda slave labor camp that describes a death march near the end of the war and photographs depicting Clara and Jacob…
9. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
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…. Sometimes he had trouble keeping up, as the death rate reached six a day. On April 3, 1945, as American forces advanced near the camp, the prisoners were…
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 … diary he kept as a prisoner of war describing his experiences at Stalag IX‐B in Bad Orb and Berga concentration camp and on a death march, listing fellow…
10. Clara Kramer papers
1994.95.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1994.95.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1951
Special Collection:
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… persons camps.…
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 … friendships and postwar nursing training and work in displaced persons camps and in Israel. Languages: Polish, German, English, Hebrew Administrative…
11. Walter and Edith Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.600.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1985
… Walter escaped while being transported between camps. The couple was reunited in France and hid in the basement of a Catholic church until liberation…
12. Beatrice Muchman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0269.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1999
… Walter. Julius was sent to Camp Agde near Montpelier, France, and later to Rivesaltes internment camp. In February 1941, he escaped from the camp and…
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 … Westheimer’s survival in hiding in Ottignies, her parents’ deportations to Auschwitz and deaths, and her immigration to the United States to rejoin her…
13. Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers
2015.375.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.375.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
Special Collection:
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… raised in Miskolc, Hungary where Miksa worked as a shoemaker. He died of cancer in 1928. After their father’s death, Irene and Ilona supported the family…
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 …, Augsburg (a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp), and were liberated from Mühldorf (also a subcamp of Dachau) in April 1944. After liberation, Ilona and Eta…
14. Earl G. Harrison papers
1994.A.0079 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 141
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0079 | RG Number: RG-10.088
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1946
Special Collection:
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… President Harry Truman’s request, he toured and inspected displaced persons camps in the American zone of Europe in the summer of 1945. His report, which…
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 … Harrison kept during his summer 1945 tour of displaced persons camps, a typescript of his article “The Last Hundred Thousand” about the camps he visited…
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  • Series 1: Earl G. Harrison papers 1945-1946
    • File 2: “The Last Hundred Thousand” 1945
      • Pages: 9
15. Liebschütz and Rozsa families papers
2015.574.1 Box 5 Folder 1 Image 74
Document | Accession Number: 2015.574.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2009
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… remained a forced laborer until the camp was evacuated in February 1945. During evacuation, the prisoners were sent on a death march through Lower Silesia…
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 …, escaping from a death march, her recapture and imprisonment at Theresienstadt, and liberation. The Lisa Liebschütz papers include documents related to her…
16. Betty Siebenscheinova papers
2012.491.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.491.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1971
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… months, Betty and Jakub were captured and taken to the Sereď concentration camp in late 1942 where they were interned until liberation. Dasha was born in…
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 … experiences of Betty Siebenscheinova, originally from Prague. After escaping several concentration camps, Betty was captured and taken to the Sereď…
17. Susie Greenbaum Schwarz papers
1990.30.10 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1990.30.10
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1946
Special Collection:
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… Pagrach and her husband Mozes Levisson from Westerbork to Sobibor and their deaths. Susie wrote her diary in hiding in the form of a cookbook. In it, she…
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 … Westerbork to Sobibor and their deaths. Languages: Dutch, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored…
18. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… other women of German origin in Paris. She was interned first in the Velodrome d’Hiver in Paris, and then in the Camp du Gurs in southern France. She…
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 …. She was interned first in the Velodrome d’Hiver in Paris, and then in the Camp du Gurs in southern France. She managed to get released from Gurs on June…
19. Mikhail Lev collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.12 | RG Number: RG-68.118
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2008
… by the Germans, and survived for a year in a prisoner of war camp before escaping. After his escape, he joined the partisans in Belarus where he served…
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 … to research about the Holocaust, heroism of the Jewish people during WWII and to the history of Sobibór death camp and uprising. The most important…
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 … people during WWII and to the history of Sobibór death camp and uprising. The most important part of this collection is Mikhail Lev’s correspondence with…
20. Sydney Goodman papers
2011.148.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2011.148.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-2005
bulk: 1944-1999
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… forces in Luxenberg and was sent to Stalag IX B, a German prisoner-of-war camp, in Bad Orb, Germany. He was one of 350 American soldiers sent to the forced…
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 … by German forces in Luxenberg and was sent to Stalag IX B, a German prisoner-of-war camp, in Bad Orb, Germany. He was one of 350 American soldiers sent…