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1. Oral history interview with Lech Piekałkiewicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.21 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0021
Date:
interview: 1998 July 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being interrogated and tortured in Pawiak prison; witnessing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from prison; his uncle’s death from torture; being sent to…
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 … Pawiak prison in Warsaw. He shares his observations of the Warsaw ghetto uprising and presents a detailed description of his 4 month stay in Auschwitz…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. 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
…). In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In 1942, Waclaw was arrested by the Gestapo in Krakow as a non-Jewish political prisoner. He was sent to…
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 … experiences and including partial lists of fellow prisoners, a 1968 letter describing Głouszek’s efforts to save weak and emaciated Jewish prisoners from…
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5. Frank P. Herold photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.241.1
Date:
creation: circa 1945 April
…Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950.…
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 …; black and white image of clothed corpses laying on ground, some wearing striped prisoner uniform; dated April 1945; Ohrdruf, Germany .13 Photographic…
6. Barbara and William Farkas photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1990.111 | RG Number: RG-10.420
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1966
…Prisoners--Germany--1940-1950.…
7. Zbiór dokumentów z obozów hitlerowskich (Sygn. 209)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.233 | RG Number: RG-15.154M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Collection of documents from the Nazi camps
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Contains original documents as well as copies of letters from prisoners of various camps, accounts and memoirs, camp correspondence, reports made…
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 … Suchdienst, 1979. Scope and Content of Collection Contains original documents as well as copies of letters from prisoners of various camps, accounts and…
8. 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…
9. Oral history interview with Anastazja Mazur Brodziak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0113.2 | RG Number: RG-50.059.0002
Date:
interview: 1991 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… prisoner-of-war camp with her detachment; her job as a courier of the underground army; reporting to Miss Halina Guc, who lived at Miedziana Street in Warsaw…
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 … detain people to send them to Germany for forced labor, or to concentration camps or to the Warsaw prison Pawiak. 515Jewish population was isolated from…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. Oral history interview with Michal Efrat
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.283 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0283
Date:
interview: 1996 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… friends; her father's death in December; deportation to Auschwitz/Birkenau a year later; separation from her brother; a Greek prisoner helping her and her…
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 … clothes for the soldiers. She got special conditions. 5:28 Describe the camp of the “prominent.” The commander stayed in the camp. Prisoner musicians played…
13. Oral history interview with Lubov Zhelevskaya-Savchenko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.595.18 | RG Number: RG-50.575.0018
Date:
interview: 2005 July 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… prison; her transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp; life and conditions in Auschwitz, including details about her labor, other inmates, policies of the…
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 … focuses on the relationships between prisoners and between prisoners and the guards in the camp. She also remembers many details about working in fields and…
14. Oral history interview with Paula Ruthling
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0232 | RG Number: RG-50.524.0001
Date:
interview: approximately 1973
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Karlsruhe to Auschwitz; her child being taken and her husband being sent to Dachau; being considered a political prisoner; the constant threat of death and…
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 … accused of propaganda against Hitler, which was totally unfounded. “We were totally unpolitical”. As political prisoners she was deported to Auschwitz and…
15. Oral history interview with Henry Levis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0313
Date:
interview: 1993 October 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Auschwitz but remaining there for only nine days before he was taken with a team of prisoners to construct Falkenberg, a sub-camp of Wüestegiersdorf, a…
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 … ____________ in Greece. When Titus destroyed Jerusalem and wanted to make his triumph on Rome, brought a lot of prisoner Jews, with his fleets, from Israel to Judea…
16. 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…
17. Oral history interview with Bronislaw Durewicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.11 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0011
Date:
interview: 1990 July
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… prison for six weeks and being beaten and telling them the wrong information; being sent to Auschwitz, where he stayed in a compound with other Polish…
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 …. But that is stories were telling, the other prisoners, they were telling me. Let's get back to your arrest. That was 1941. Why were you arrested? Did…
18. 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…
19. Oral history interview with Yvette Christophe
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.32 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0032
Date:
interview: 1997 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… (he later became a prisoner of war); staying in Paris with her mother; attending school wearing the yellow star of David; her mother finding a passage…
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 …) who was born ‘Nordman’; at the beginning of the war in 1939, her father was mobilized and then became a prisoner of war; Françoise and her mother stayed…
20. 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…