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1. Albersheim family papers
2007.18.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.18.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2003
… him in the camp, and Walter was given furlough passes to return home and visit his family. During one of these visits, the Dutch underground was able to…
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 … Amsterdam during the Nazi years, his efforts to avoid deportation during the Holocaust, the liberation of Amsterdam, and Albersheim’s immigration to the…
2. 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
… married Benno in October. In June 1941, Benno was arrested by the Germans, deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp, and murdered. Lisette joined the…
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 … squads, and hangings in the forest near the Buchenwald concentration camp. Languages: English, German, Dutch Administrative Information Access: Collection…
3. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection
1990.23.241 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.23.241
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1990
…. Flora learned that many of her relatives perished in the Holocaust. Flora’s mother Alijda was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp or Sobibor…
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 …, their survival in hiding with two separate Dutch families, their liberation, their immigration to the United States, and the deaths of their family…
4. Fritz Grünberg papers
2015.468.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.468.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1979
bulk: 1940-1945
… deportation, sabotage trains, smuggle mail and photographs out of the camp, and falsify christening documents. After the liberation of the camp in April 1945…
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 … liberation of the camp in April 1945, the Contact Afdeling was investigated and Fritz was treated as an outcast. He immigrated to the United States in November…
5. Luba Tryszynska-Frederick papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.615.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2005
…Luba Tryszynska-Frederick of Poland rescued 54 Dutch children left to die at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after she was deported there in…
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 … experiences of Luba Tryszynska-Frederick who rescued 54 children left for dead by the Nazis while she was imprisoned in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp…
6. Haim Roet papers
2010.137.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.137.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1981
… concentration camps. The Roet family was released after a week and moved to a newly established ghetto. Haim shared an apartment with his parents and brothers…
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 … Westerbork and then deportation to concentration camps. The Roet family was released after a week and moved to a newly established ghetto. Haim shared an…
7. Ullman family papers
2017.654.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.654.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
… Frank lost his job at De Beijenkorf. In 1942 Jews in German-occupied Amsterdam began to get deported to concentration camps, and Frank and Emily decided…
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 … their two sons. In 1941 Frank lost his job at De Beijenkorf. In 1942 Jews in German-occupied Amsterdam began to get deported to concentration camps, and…
8. Ursula Klau papers
2006.410.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2006.410.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1867-2006
… Westerbork transit camp, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the so-called “Lost Transport”; and Klau’s liberation and recuperation in Davos, Switzerland…
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 …-occupied Netherlands, the Westerbork transit camp, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the so-called “Lost Transport”; and Klau’s liberation and…
9. Oral testimony of Otto Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.488.1 | RG Number: RG-90.112.0001
Date:
Recorded: 1974
Alternate Title:
Otto Frank Speaks to Park View, 1974
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral testimony of Otto Frank…
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 … concentration camps. The two brothers of my wife managed to get to the United States and my mother-in-law came to live with us. One of my brothers went to England…
10. Oral history interview with Eddy Wynschenk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.382 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0382
Date:
interview: 1989 September 20
interview: 1990 March 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… liberation of the camp.…
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 … and night. Maybe that helped also to save my life that played alot of soccer. But anyway. never heard that is before 1940 about concentration camps…
11. Oral history interview with Jo Wildschut
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.590 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0009
Date:
interview: 2004 July 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 …. There were ten children. In 1934-35 she read the book De Veensoldaten about Jehovah’s Witnesses in German concentration camps. She became interested in…
12. Oral history interview with Adriana C. Gÿzenÿ-Epke
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.736 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0017
Date:
interview: 2004 December 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… company, empty Jewish houses; her father’s arrest and escape from Vught concentration camp; her parents’ involvement in helping to hide Jews; and liberation.…
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 …; talks about how her father was arrested for attempted theft; mentions that he escaped after being in camp Vught and camp Amersfoort at the end of 1944…
13. Oral history interview with Shmuel Hacohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.57 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0057
Date:
interview: 1993 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… there; the liberation of the camp; being taken to Risa, north of Leipzig, to a Polish POW camp where he contracted typhoid fever; his return to Holland…
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 ….” His brother went to Palestine. 7.00 Found the “Brown Book” that described the horrors of concentration camps. Tape 3 of 8 7.12 Talks about the media…
14. Oral history interview with Barry Spanjaard
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1458 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1458
Date:
interview: 1983 April 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… starvation, the kindness and selfishness of fellow prisoners, and his work as the message boy for camp commandant Josef Kramer; his family's release in January…
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 … disappeared. And as it turned out it was almost whole year yet before the liberation finally took place. You were in camp for total of about three years Two…
15. Oral history interview with Shaul Sadan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.131 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0131
Date:
interview: 1993 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experiences and painful memories of concentration camps.…
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 … tasks of dismantling broken buildings and selling bricks to Poles. Camp was full of lice and typhoid. No heat. Of the original 3000, 15 survived. Got…
16. Wissbrun family papers
2017.624.1_BookEnclosure Box 1 0053
Document | Accession Number: 2017.624.1
Date:
inclusive: 1886-1985
bulk: 1940-1985
…Fritz Wissbrun of Amsterdam, the Netherlands was deported to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp (Vught) in 1943. After liberation he married Edith…
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 … history: Adam Fielding, April 2018 Biographical note Fritz Wissbrun of Amsterdam, the Netherlands was deported to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp…
17. Oral history interview with Helen Waterford
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.29 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0029
Date:
interview: 1992 March 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp via Westerbork concentration camp; her experiences during a selection upon her arrival in Auschwitz; her thoughts on the lack of resistance in…
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 …-called clinic or whatever. 514 00:28:16,890 --> 00:28:21,630 What acts of resistance did you see in the camp of any sort? 515 00:28:21,630 --> 00:28:23…
18. Oral history interview with Robert Mansfeld
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.68 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0068
Date:
interview: 1987 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the disappearance of students from his school, probably to Westerbork, a Dutch concentration camp; the imprisonment of community and national leaders…
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 …. Yeah. Now, I remember very well the day of the liberation. Of course, I had made a chart in which from the radio, I charted with flags where the Russians…
19. Oral history interview with Max Garcia
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.554 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0554
Date:
interview: 1990 October 18
interview: 1990 November 15
interview: 1991 February 21
interview: 1991 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… being sent to Mauthausen in January 1945 and his experiences there and in Ebensee concentration camp, the hardships he endured, and his liberation by…
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 … of what you see. Keep me informed. When they came to the gate he got on the radio and he said think we found the concentration camp.. He said Crazy…
20. Oral history interview with Frank Gryzenhout
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.286.1 | RG Number: RG-50.740.0001
Date:
interview: 2011 February-2011 August
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … concentration camps. I met one guy, they move him from Vucht to Mauthausen and Mauthausen was one of the worst concentration camps in Germany and I met him after…