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1. Alice and John Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.247.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-2003
… in prewar Berlin, and their postwar work at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. This series includes copy prints of liberation photographs of the…
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 … postwar work at the Bergen- Belsen displaced persons camp. This series includes copy prints of liberation photographs of the Bergen- Belsen concentration…
2. Nazi atrocities
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Film | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2214 | Film ID: 858
Film Title:
Death Mills [Die Todesmuehlen]
Date:
Event: 1945
Production: 1945
Duration:
00:21:24
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)…
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 … other camps 133 00:09:13,600 --> 00:09:15,910 thousands were murdered just before liberation. 134 00:09:15,910 --> 00:09:19,132 [MUSIC PLAYING] 135 00:09…
3. 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…
4. 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:
Save Their Stories
… 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…
5. Wacław Głouszek papers
1998.116.15 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1998.116.15
Date:
inclusive: circa 1942-1968
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Głouszek’s camp, transport, and liberation experiences and including partial lists of fellow prisoners, a 1968 letter describing Głouszek’s efforts to save…
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 … sheet music from Dora‐Mittelbau, lyrics to patriotic and religious Polish songs, two diaries describing Głouszek’s camp, transport, and liberation…
6. Day after liberation of Belsen by British 8 Corps; SS overseers
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Film | Accession Number: 1991.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0047 | Film ID: 7
Date:
Event: 1945 April 16
Duration:
00:10:38
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)…
7. 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…
8. Belsen: German camp personnel identify themselves; British officers describe conditions; Hadassah Rosensaft speaks
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Film | Accession Number: 1991.251.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0060 | Film ID: 9
Date:
Event: April 23-24, 1945
Duration:
00:19:17
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)…
9. Oral history interview with Helen Laks
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.397.1 | RG Number: RG-90.013.0001
Date:
interview: 1997
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camps; and her life after liberation.…
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 … labor? Helen - We worked in the factories. We were lucky we were able to work. Those that couldn’t work were sent to camps, right away they were sent to…
10. Oral history interview with Rašela Knežević Levi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.66 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0066
Date:
interview: 2009 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Sajmiste and Bergen Belsen concentration camps; her deportation to Terezin; liberation by Soviet forces; her time in a displaced persons camp; her…
11. Oral history interview with Laurence Wand
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.35 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0035
Date:
interview: 1985 September 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of huts; his memories of two specific deaths; communicating with inmates; receiving information about the camp from inmates; the question of…
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 … camps before you went? Well, yes. I mean, Belsen itself had had a tremendous amount of publicity from the time it was liberated. I think it was about the…
12. Oral history interview with Hannah Naiman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1392 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1392
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in the camp; her liberation by the British Army; the reprisal killings she witnessed of Nazi soldiers by Soviet prisoners-of-war; her time recovering…
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 … labor 22 camp which was shimburg--su--defengow and then we 23 were transferred to the concentration camp in Graben 24 that was all sudefengow. In 1944 the…
13. Oral history interview with Andizia Neuman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1374 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1374
Date:
interview: 1983 April 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experiences on a death march to Gleiwitz concentration camp; the train transport to Bergen-Belsen; her liberation by British troops in April 1945; her reunion…
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 … death camp.When came in Bergen-Belsen it was January. And then we -- after May we were -- got liberated. was there for five months. Q. Bergen-l3elsen A…
14. 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
… experiences with a Kapo in Gräben labor camp; how the Germans incorporated Gräben into the camp system of Gross-Rosen concentration camp; her time on a death…
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 …,300 --> 00:10:29,580 It was a real death camp. 187 00:10:29,580 --> 00:10:37,570 They had lice, and hunger, and typhus, and typhoid, 188 00:10:37,570 --> 00:10…
15. Oral history interview with Isaiah Henig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0558 Duplicate 1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0054
Date:
interview: 1996 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; diseases in the camp; working to build replacement parts for machines; not believing reports about Jewish deaths; being deported to Birkenau in the summer of…
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 … circumstances were changing because they were bombed. Those prisoners who went through the death march passed through his camp. He himself was not on the death…
16. Oral history interview with Alan Zimm
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.25 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0025
Date:
interview: 1995 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… March going to bomb Nordhausen; being taken by train for six days to Bergen-Belsen; the Russian POWs who set up a tribunal in the camp after liberation…
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 … didn't realize that was wood alcohol, the poisonous alcohol. And all of them got poisoned. After the liberation, 30 of these people died in the camp from…
17. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
… after his liberation from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the end of World War II. Many of the reproductions in the collection are a result of…
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 … anthology of concentration camp music and poetry. Kulisiewicz was unsuccessful in publishing the anthology before his death but drafts for the work are found…
18. Oral history interview with Mila Bachner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.72 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0072
Date:
interview: 1987 July 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Chrzanów ghetto; the confiscation of her parents' business; the death of her brother in Gross Masselwitz concentration camp in Germany; her other…
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 … labor camp? I was about three years in this labor camp. And the death march began in January sometime. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
19. Oral history interview with Shmuel Tzuk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.225 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0225
Date:
interview: 1995 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the hospital; Polish partisans who were caught building escape route and hanged; a death march; train ride to camp Dora Nordhausen during which the…
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 ….39 Describes camp population. He was with children group. 5.41 End of March. Second deathe march and train ride to Bergen- Belsen. 5.45 Describes liberation by…
20. Oral history interview with Sima Skurkovitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.151 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0151
Date:
interview: 1992 September 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being liberated by the British Army; working in a children's camp in Bergen-Belsen after liberation; serving as a witness at war crimes trials; and…
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 … sadistic commanders. 8.39 Prepares Chanuka celebration in camp. 9.02 She is taken by train to Bergen Belsen, describes camp and then liberation 6 of April by…