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1. Dr. Nathan Salczberger and Kahnt family collection
2008.174.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2008.174.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1949
… arrested. Erich was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Laon after being captured in Paris in December 1944 and Georgette spent time in Drancy. After the war…
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 …. Georgette, Amelie, and Erich were ultimately all arrested. Erich was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Laon after being captured in Paris in December 1944…
2. Maria Lichtsztejn and Sarah Montard collection
1994.A.0360 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0360
Date:
inclusive: 1951-1958
… men and incarcerated in a camp in Pithiviers, France. He managed to escape after three months of detention and remained in hiding in Paris until the war…
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 … her and her mother’s first arrest and ultimate liberation from Bergen‐Belsen in 1945, while Maria’s recounts the details of their second arrest…
3. Danielle and David Snegg papers
2014.230.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.230.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1990
bulk: circa 1920-1949
…, but was arrested and interned in the La Lande-à-Monts transit camp. David was later taken by truck to the city of Angers and on July 10, 1942, he was…
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 … from the concentration camps, recounts her daily activities, work, and leisure time, and passes along news of mutual acquaintances. Many of the letters…
4. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… certificate of safe passage, a certificate issued to Marguerite on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camps, and a…
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 … the liberation of the concentration camps, and a membership card issued by the National Union of Deportees, Internees, and Victims of War. This series…
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  • Series 1: Philip D. Vock papers 1941-1975, Undated
    • File 4: Journal 1945
      • Pages: 3
5. Oral history interview with Philip Vock
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0442 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0433
Date:
interview: 1994 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … cousin over there that was protected by his Spanish wife and since he was also of Turkish origin, so he told us what was going on in the camp. For three…
6. Oral history interview with Annette Leiris
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.5.2 | RG Number: RG-50.498.0002
Date:
interview: 1999 September 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the liberation of the Drancy internment camp in 1944; rumors of how prisoners ate organs of the dead to survive; her contact and friendship with Jewish…
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 … in the camps and her eating Brunner’s food; focuses on the liberation of Paris while she stayed at the Hotel Lutetia; comments on deportees located at…
7. Affaires militaires
Document | Accession Number: 2000.251 | RG Number: RG-43.017M
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
Alternate Title:
Military Affairs
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… investigations documents, and various documents related to concentration camps and prisons in France, Germany, Poland , Austria and Czechoslovakia. Part of the…
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 …. Police--France--Sources. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Europe. World War, 1939…
8. Oral history interview with David Galant
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.455 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0455
Date:
interview: 1989 February 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 …) and he and his brother were separated from the rest of the family. He and his brother were sent to the Monowitz (Buna) sub-camp within Auschwitz. This…
9. Oral history interviews with Raymonde Fiol
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.13 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0013
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-Birkenau, where they were killed in January 1944; her parents arranging to have her smuggled out of the labor camp by a member of the French Resistance…
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 … smuggled out of the labor camp by a member of the French Resistance. This man took her to his home and, with his wife, protected her for the rest of the war…
10. Lucien Dreyfus papers
1994.A.0112 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0112 | RG Number: RG-10.144
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1944
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… of 700,000 Jews killed in Poland. A September 1943 entry describes letters received from persons in the Drancy concentration camp. The diary…
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 … utility of assimilation in fighting antisemitism, and rumors circulating about the terrible conditions in concentration camps in France and murder in the…
11. Selected records from the French National Archives – Police Générale
Document | Accession Number: 2000.250 | RG Number: RG-43.016M
Date:
inclusive: 1885-1967
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…” organized by Vichy, internment camps, and records of the Fichier Central in the Cabinet du Directeur Général de la Sureté Nationale. The collection also…
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 …; General Secretariat of the Police, 1941-1944; Campaign against "terrorism" organized by Vichy; Camps d'internement, 1940-49; Records of the Fichier Central…
12. 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
…; leaving the camp in May 1940 in anticipation of the German invasion of Belgium; going to France; being arrested by French police and imprisoned in an…
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 …. And the atmosphere, it was just really frightening. Did you-- you or your family or the community have any knowledge then of labor camps, concentration…
13. Oral history interview with Simone Horowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.87 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0087
Date:
interview: 1999 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… strength from her determination to find her father after the war; how the camp was emptied in stages; being marched out of the camp with a group of girls in…
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 … father after the war gave her strength to survive. The camp was emptied in stages. In January 1945, Simone and a group of girls were marched out of…
14. Oral history interview with Maurice Benadon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.1 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0001
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… organization of resistors in the camp who wouldn’t let him join because he did not speak Yiddish; being left on his own in the camp; not having the skill that…
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 …, Benadon mentions an organization of resistors who wouldn’t let him join because he did not speak Yiddish; he was soon left on his own in the camp; he did…
15. Oral history interview with Eddie Willner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0316 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0252
Date:
interview: 1989 May 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … shipped out to Germany, to concentration camps. At that time we were very well aware of concentration camps and concentration contrary to what some people…
16. Fonds Serge Klarsfeld (MDCII)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.23.1 | RG Number: RG-43.163
Date:
inclusive: 1964-1994
… concentration camp, Klarsfeld's father died there. Young Serge was cared for in a home for Jewish children operated by the OSE (Œuvre de secours aux enfants…
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 …-la-Rolande (Concentration camp) Croix-Rouge franca̧ise. International Committee of the Red Cross. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
17. Oral history interview with Friedrich Hillman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.65 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0065
Date:
interview: 1991 July 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 … detailed report on Blechhammer Labour Camp, that was in itself a huge complex of camps with Russian and British prisoners of war. In 1945 participated in the…
18. Oral history interview with Paulette Stessin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.267 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0150
Date:
interview: 2001 November 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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 … a prisoner. Tape 2, Side A 0:00 Paulette talks about liberation of her camp. Prisoners were allowed to circulate freely between the men’s and women…
19. Oral history interview with Leo Bretholz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0332 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0038
Date:
interview: 1989 July 31
interview: 1989 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … believed because some of the people who were freed from camps periodically brought back other horror stories, so we know that. My mother was very much bent…
20. Fonds Communauté israélite de Vichy (CMLV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.19.1 | RG Number: RG-43.159
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1952
…No publication of documents on the World Wide Web, Internet, etc., or reproduction of microfilm reels without the permission of the Centre de…
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 … (France) Communauté israélite de Vichy. Croix-Rouge franca̧ise. Drancy (France : Concentration camp)--History. E�claireurs israélites de France. Hebrew…