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1. Oral history interview with Samuel Sherron
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.68 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0068
Date:
interview: 1983 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Ukrainian guards killing Jewish prisoners; being sent with 5000 non-Polish Jewish volunteers to Pawiak prison to build barracks and crematoria in what had…
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 … thing... NL: Chaos. SS: Chaos, yes. NL: So the Russians were retreating. SS: They were retreating, and they were taken into prison by the thousands and…
2. Oral history interview with Herbert Finder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.35 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0035
Date:
interview: 1987 February 19
interview: 1987 March 19
interview: 1987 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, where non-Jewish German prisoners were in charge; prisoners trading for food with Poles; a typhus epidemic killing many; working in a burial detail that…
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 … was their function to, every guard was assigned a certain amount of prisoners. We called it [unclear]. NL: So they got cold. HF: They were cold. That…
3. Oral history interview with three former Hungarian inmates of Ravensbrück concentration camp
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.73.13 | RG Number: RG-50.569.0013
Date:
interview: 1974 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… beating prisoners; the roll calls early in the morning; the forced labor; the selection process and going through medical exams; being sent to a factory to…
4. Oral history interview with Raymond Kamonier
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.16 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0016
Date:
interview: 1989 November 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… evade becoming a prisoner of war; not being able to find his wife and son, who had left in the exodus of Paris; his wife’s return; the first anti-Jewish…
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 … France in June 1940; he decided to go back to Paris to evade becoming a prisoner of war; upon his return to Paris, he could not find his wife and son who…
5. Dorothea Dressel collection
1995.A.0186 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0186
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1986
bulk: 1930-1947
… the weeks prior to her husband’s arrest, being detained in the Stadelheim prison in Munich. She was ultimately released and survived the war, living…
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 … his fellow prisoners and KPD leaders, Hans Beimler, subsequently escaped from Dachau and reported on what had happened to Dressel, in one of the first…
6. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… Montelupich Prison where Henryk was interrogated and beaten for two weeks. On June 15, 1942, the prisoners were transported to Auschwitz concentration camp…
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 ….ushmm.org Related archival materials: Nancy Zguda donated a Polish Union of Swimming badge (2004.374.2) a Polish political prisoner badge (2004.374.3) and a letter…
7. William A. Grab Jr. collection
1995.A.0783 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0783
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1949
… eventually arrested by the Gestapo and held by the Nazis as a political prisoner for 6 months in Frankfurt, Bamberg, and Straubing. He survived his ordeal and…
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 …. collection is comprised of papers pertaining to Thaddaus Zalewski and Paul Flohr, both prisoners held by the Nazis during the Holocaust and collected by…
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8. Alzen family papers
2001.205.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2001.205.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1953
… in prison. He was incarcerated in Münster, transferred to Neuengamme in May 1943, to Natzweiler, and then to Dachau in September 1944 where he died…
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 … German morale and sentenced to ten years in prison. He was incarcerated in Münster, transferred to Neuengamme in May 1943, to Natzweiler, and then to…
9. Wspomnienia i pamietniki (Sygn. IZ. Doc II)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.444.1 | RG Number: RG-15.547
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2011
Alternate Title:
Memories and diaries
…, extermination of Poles in the Miechów district, stay in the prison at Montelupich prison in Kraków, 1940, memories from the Warsaw Uprising 1944, surveys on…
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 … concentration camps, liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Miechów, camp life in Majdanek, extermination of Poles in the Miechów district, stay in the prison at…
10. Oral history interview with Father Francis Cegielka
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0052
Date:
interview: 1990 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… live with temporarily; giving radio sermons denouncing Nazism until his arrest and imprisonment in a Paris prison in October 1940; his transfer to a…
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 … come with us and we will place you in the prison of Paris.” You see 26...26th of October 1940, I was arrested and placed then in prison in Paris. And…
11. Theodor Kleinsorge papers
2015.587.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.587.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-1979
bulk: 1914-1955
… a teacher. Theodor was a veteran of World War I, and was a prisoner-of-war in France. After the war he studied mining engineering and worked in…
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 … a prisoner‐of‐war in France during World War I, and an exhibit catalog on Dachau from a German exhibition on resistance to the Third Reich in 1946…
12. Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.20 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.20
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1945
bulk: 1937-1945
Alternate Title:
Concentration and POW camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories
…The collection contains various documents of concentration camps and Prisoner of War (POW) camps: regulations, instructions, daily reports, lists…
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 …Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367) Concentration and prisoner of war camps in Germany…
13. Oral history interview with Joseph Benson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.9 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0009
Date:
interview: 1984 August 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Gestapo and imprisoned for interrogation; suffering torture and imprisonment in Nuremberg, Selenstrausse, and Stadelheim prisons; being in isolation for a…
14. Oral history interview with Zohn Milam
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0112.29 | RG Number: RG-50.045.0029
Date:
interview: 1991 October 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners of war--German--Germany--1940-1950.…
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 … pretty well deigned to become war prisoners. And this is in the latter part of April or the first part of May. This is my introduction to the death camps…
15. Miscellaneous records relating to prisoner of war camps in Germany
Document | Accession Number: 2004.376 | RG Number: RG-30.007M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1945
…Miscellaneous records relating to prisoner of war camps in Germany…
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 … Aid RG-30 National Archives and Records Administration RG-30.007M Acc. 2004.376 Title: Miscellaneous Records Relating to Prisoner of War Camps in…
16. Oral history interview with Norman G. Coulson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.272.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0723
Date:
interview: 2013 October 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… for architectural work and arriving at Dachau on May 1, 1945; his first experiences there; the presence of former SS guards and around 30,000 prisoners…
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 … for the German SS shir – the SS troopers, and – Q: Who was this Alfred Kamyczek(ph) – Alfons Kamyczek(ph), who was he? A: He was – he was a prisoner of…
17. Oral history interview with Romeo Fagiolo
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.85 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0567
Date:
interview: 2010 March 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, France; memories of battles and living conditions; encountering German prisoners of war; his experiences with French and German civilians; avoiding battle…
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 … remembers coming into contact with German prisoners of war, explaining that they were always surrendering; tells story of being approached by a German soldier…
18. Oral history interview with Stanley Fennell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.9 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0009
Date:
interview: 1981 June 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoner-of-war camps--Italy--Laterina.…
19. Oral history interview with Veronika Fassler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.16 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0016
Date:
interview: 1993 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Prisoners and prisons, German.…
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 …, Veronika and Marta’s teacher threatened to notify the authorities because they refused to say Heil Hitler. After Sebastian’s release from prison in 1936, his…
20. Akta miasta Lublina (Syg. 22)
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0235 | RG Number: RG-15.075M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
Alternate Title:
Records of the city of Lublin
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… administration of Lublin, Poland, from 1939 to 1944. The records relate to a prisoner of war camp in Lublin, constructions of streets in Lublin, construction of…
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 …. The records relate to a prisoner of war camp in Lublin, constructions of streets in Lublin, construction of factories and buildings for industry in…