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1. Oral history interview with Henry Kronberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.5 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0005
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the ghetto was liquidated, he and the other Jews who worked in Gestapo headquarters were housed in a prison and then in a convent that was converted to…
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 … Henry and the other Jews who worked in Gestapo headquarters were housed in a prison and then in a convent that was converted to a prison. He worked in…
2. Records of United States Army commands
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0056 | RG Number: RG-06.005.05M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1949
Subtitle:
War crimes cases not tried
… file relate primarily to events in concentration camps. Other files deal with prisoners and prisoner of war camps. The earliest war crimes cases were…
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 … concentration camps. Other files deal with prisoners and prisoner of war camps. Administrative Information Restrictions on access: No restrictions on access…
3. Oral history interview with Susan Eisdorfer Beer
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0326
Date:
interview: 1995 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deportations of the Nazi-sympathetic Slovakian regime in 1942; her arrest in 1943 and being sent to a prison in Budapest; her deportation to Auschwitz in 1944…
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 … behind that were not being taken. We were marched to the train station and we were called 'political prisoners' because we wanted to escape the Germans…
4. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
… on May 2, 1945, he remembered his songs, as well as those learned from fellow prisoners, dictating hundreds of pages of text to his attending nurse at…
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 … material: The Alexander Kulisiewicz also includes the following items in the object collection: Prisoner badge with number and red triangle (1992.160.2, 1992…
5. William A. Davis papers
2000.244 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2000.244
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1946
… put in charge of typhus control and made responsible for delousing the prisoners, vaccinating key personnel, helping with diagnosing cases, and…
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 … Services, Second Army, at Bergen‐Belsen. He was put in charge of typhus control and made responsible for delousing the prisoners, vaccinating key personnel…
6. Oral history interview with Henry Lauth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.46 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0046
Date:
interview: 1989 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, French.…
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 … you a story, which is, as we say in French, rather grand Guignol. Once I was called by the Gestapo. Because I was sent to Nordhausen, to the prison of…
7. Renata Laqueur papers
1995.A.1169.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1169.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1995
… several months while they recovered, Renata helped in a hospital for liberated camp prisoners, until she fell ill with typhus. The couple returned to…
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 … 23. For several months while they recovered, Renata helped in a hospital for liberated camp prisoners, until she fell ill with typhus. The couple…
8. Oral history interview with Fred Knoller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.42 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0042
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisons--France--Orléans.…
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 … other political prisoners were taken. But mass murder as such we were not told about. We heard rumors that people, that Jews were killed. But the Germans…
9. Oral history interview with Thomas Finigan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.10 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0010
Date:
interview: 1993 February 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--Germany.…
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 …. You didn't realize what we had actually done. You thought to yourself, why didn't they give in? Did you see German prisoners there? Yes, we saw German…
10. Oral history interview with Alexandra Gorko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.9 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0009
Date:
interview: 1985 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners--Abuse of--Poland.…
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 … prison uniforms, blue and white stripes. And they gave us clogs, wood en clogs. And the same night they put us again in cattle cars. And we were, I don…
11. Oral history interview with Jerzy Orwovski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.39 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0039
Date:
interview: 1980 February
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--Poland.…
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 … found in the basement of the building. And eventually, they were taken away to a prison camp within our lines, or within our territory. And while…
12. Oral history interview with Edna Weiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1452 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1452
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family; the work she did at Auschwitz; the guards' brutality; the dehumanization of the prisoners; her friendships with other women; the music that was…
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 …. Were there any political prisoners or any other non-- A. even met some political prisoners lots of French people. 25 Was there any difference in the…
13. Oral history interview with Fred Baron
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.5 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0005
Date:
interview: 1984 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Auschwitz; the abuse of prisoners; working with Germans while he was in Gross-Rosen; being marched to Czechoslovakia then taken by train through…
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 … whip he was pointing either left or right, left or right, as each prisoner – that’s what we were – was marched in front of him. And whichever direction…
14. Adler family papers
2016.458.1 Book Enclosure 8 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.458.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880 September-2003
… the hospital, and János was sent to a prison camp (sometimes referred to as Prison Camp 188) in Tambov, Russia. The Russians assigned him to deliver…
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 … collection https://collections.ushmm.org 3 Russians took control of the hospital, and János was sent to a prison camp (sometimes referred to as Prison Camp 188…
15. Ursula Klau papers
2006.410.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2006.410.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1867-2006
… records, a Displaced Person registration card and a membership card for the Association of Former Prisoners of Concentration Camps in Germany, records…
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 …, American Chamber of Commerce records, a Displaced Person registration card and a membership card for the Association of Former Prisoners of Concentration…
16. Oral history interview with Chana Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.27 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0027
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners--Abuse of.…
17. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… Marie were sent to Theresienstadt. On August 10, 1942, Rudolf and Hana received transport notices. At the train station, they were assigned prisoner…
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 … in 1941 to Theresienstadt, where he worked in the technical department, and then transferred to Auschwitz, where he painted numbers on prisoner…
18. Oral history interview with Walter Lachman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.64 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0064
Date:
interview: 1992 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisons--Germany--Hamburg.…
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 … prison wanted to get rid of us and said “ look, take these guys away, I don’t want them here” or somebody said, “What do we do with these people?” So, they…
19. Oral history interview with David Dorfman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.32 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0032
Date:
interview: 1989 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners--Abuse of.…
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 … French prisoners, 416 00:19:42,860 --> 00:19:44,490 French soldier prisoners. 417 00:19:44,490 --> 00:19:46,790 And she spoke fluent German. 418 00:19:46…
20. Oral history interview with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.53 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0053
Date:
interview: 1991 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 …. will just go back a little bit that in that paper factory we got involved with French prisoners and started making forging papers for French prisoners. I…