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1. Renée Fodor Schwarz writings
1991.A.0095 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0095
Date:
inclusive: 1984-1994
… school because she was Jewish. She survived the Krakow ghetto, Płaszów labor camp, Auschwitz concentration camp, and a death march during the Holocaust…
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 … school because she was Jewish. She survived the Krakow ghetto, Plaszow labor camp, Auschwitz concentration camp, and a death march during the Holocaust…
2. Pauline Buchenholz memoirs
1994.A.0198.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 45
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1983-1991
…The Pauline Buchenholz memoirs consist of Buchenholz’s 1983 memoir As I Remember: Memoirs from the War and Concentration Camps and 1991 memoir The…
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 … her sister, being transferred to the Kraków‐Płaszów concentration camp in March 1943, her impressions of Amon Göth, finding again and becoming engaged…
3. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
…Malines (Concentration camp)…
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 … four accounts of Eva’s experiences as a refugee in Belgium, at Auschwitz, on a death march, at Ravensbrück and Neustadt‐Glewe, and after liberation…
4. Ada Abrahamer papers
2015.442.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.442.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1989
bulk: 1941-1948
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The Ada Abrahamer papers primarily consist of a diary and photographs related to Ada Abrahamer’s wartime experiences in work camps and concentration…
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 … diary and photographs related to Ada Abrahamer’s wartime experiences in work camps and concentration camps in Poland, as well as her postwar life in…
5. Sam Kornhauser papers
2005.538.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2005.538.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1998
… family members and friends in Poland, Belgium, and Germany, the opening ceremony of the Jewish Committee in Selb, Germany, in 1946, and the folding camp…
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 … Germany, the opening ceremony of the Jewish Committee in Selb, Germany, in 1946, and the folding camp chair patented by Israel Kornhauser. This series also…
6. Oral history interview with Władysław Szepelak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.288 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0288
Date:
interview: 2009 August 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transfer to Zakopane, Poland and his torture there; his transfer to Krakow, Poland; his transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp; surviving with the help of…
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 … (NKVD). Had WS not had the cover that he was in concentration camp, he would have been also arrested and accused of serving in the AK and he would have…
7. Oral history interview with Ella Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.228.1 | RG Number: RG-50.060.0001
Date:
interview: 1988 June 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … of physical demand. She was spared because she had a camp card saying that she worked but her father actually paid someone else to work for her. At the…
8. Oral history interview with Aron Grynwald
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.58 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0058
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Ebensee on May 6, 1945; returning to Kraków after liberation; his wife's time in Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp; the communist leadership of…
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 … here. We have-- I was still able to-- we was able to walk. We walked out from the concentration camp. What kind of contact did you have with the…
9. Oral history interview with Henry Lowenbraun
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.41 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0041
Date:
interview: 1992 June 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp in the spring of 1943; the shooting and hanging of inmates by the commandant in Szebnie; the Appel in Szebnie, during which every tenth…
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 … experience at the appel where every 10th person was executed. In the fall of 1943, he was transported, barefoot, to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. He…
10. Oral history interview with Danuta Osikowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.94 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0094
Date:
interview: 1999 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… forces at Majdanek concentration camp; the conditions of Szebnie concentration camp, including the treatment of the prisoners by German forces; an SS…
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 … camp in Szebniea. She concentrates her narration on SS-man Benke [Behnke], employee of the camp, who helped camp’s prisoners. She also describes the…
11. Oral history interview with David Rosenblum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.71 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0071
Date:
interview: 1993 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … Jews to be held? Because usually you don't hear of Jews being held in prisons. They were either in ghettos or sent to concentration camps. https…
12. Oral history interview with Aba Prawer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.63 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0063
Date:
interview: 1987 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… labor assignments while in Kraków; working in the Buna synthetic-rubber works factory at Monowitz (Monowice) concentration camp, a subcamp of Auschwitz…
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 … concentration camp, the way you wear the suit with lines, you know? Stripes. Stripes. And I ask him if he knows Isaac Prawer. He's supposed to be here, in here…
13. Oral history interview with Leopold Page
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.22 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0022
Date:
interview: 1992 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp; the establishment of the Kraków ghetto and resistance activities he witnessed there; how he and his wife, Ludmilla Page, escaped from the…
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 … group of gypsies come to Krakow Plaushau concentration camp, and there was close to 800 with them, and on Sunday??? a friend of mine who lives now in…
14. Oral history interview with Aaron Schwarz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.48 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0048
Date:
interview: 1989 March 19
interview: 1989 April 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deportation train on the way to Treblinka concentration camp in 1944; his liberation by the Russians in 1944; traveling throughout Poland after liberation and…
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 … of how precious 368 00:18:50,780 --> 00:18:56,240 life was to live a day in the concentration camp. 369 00:18:56,240 --> 00:18:58,949 I think-- pardon…
15. Oral history interview with Henry Drobiarz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.21 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0021
Date:
interview: 1992 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… during roundups; the separation of his family to various places; working in Krakow-Jerozolimska (Płaszów) concentration camp; being sent to Mielec…
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 … they brought us up to-- made a concentration camp. That was Krakow- Jerozolimska. I don't know if you heard of that? Yeah. And there I worked in the…
16. Oral history interview with Alexei Gorlinsky, Lieutenant Petrenko, and Colonel Kotlyar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.15 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0015
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Includes oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps.…
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 … his concentration camps, but the general had not anticipated the degree of inhumane cruelty which he would see upon liberation of the camps. When the…
17. Oral history interview with Sally Levenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.18 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0018
Date:
interview: 1983
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… establishment of Płaszów concentration camp in 1942; the liquidation of the Kraków ghetto in 1943; hiding in a bunker with her children for 70 days near Kraków…
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 …:42:34,280 --> 00:42:35,740 The rest of your family-- 1200 00:42:35,740 --> 00:42:39,430 Went to concentration camps, to Plaszów. 1201 00:42:39…
18. Hedy Tugendhaft Rosen photographs
2002.155.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2002.155.2
Date:
creation: circa 1929-1987
… liberation; and Hedy with other displaced persons in Heidelberg. Additional photographs depict staged scenes at Dachau concentration camp after liberation, a…
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 … depict staged scenes at Dachau concentration camp after liberation, a roundup of Jewish deportees in Ukraine, and three nuns at the St. Joseph convent in…
19. Oral history interview with Richard Horowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1284.7 | RG Number: RG-50.147.0007
Date:
interview: 1983 May 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 …http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word…
20. Oral history interview with Henry Wermuth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.56 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0056
Date:
interview: 1986 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent to Płaszów concentration camp in February 1943; his work duties; Commandant Goeth shooting at inmates; conditions in the camp; the role of…
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 … for about six weeks, which is something I couldn't think of that it would ever happen in another camp, a later camp, a concentration camp to be six…