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1. Gisela Laufer Wortman, William Laufer, and Naum Wortman papers
1996.A.0309 Box 2 Folder 15 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0309
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-2004
… Committee. Photographs include images of survivors and camp conditions at the Ebensee concentration camp shortly after liberation and Naum Wortman and his…
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 … concentration camp shortly after liberation and Naum Wortman and his family. Printed materials include a 1945 issue of Die Mitteilungen announcing Germany…
2. Jiří Lauscher collection
1993.A.0003 Box 4 Folder 18 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0003 | RG Number: RG-35.001
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1989
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…-era ghettos and concentration camps. The collection also includes a Star of David badge and postage stamps. Lauscher collected the materials during…
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 … culture of Theresienstadt; and Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps. Records documenting the Jüdische Kultusgemeinde in Prague relate to two of the…
3. Louis Davis papers
2005.303.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 32
Document | Accession Number: 2005.303.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1968
bulk: 1942-1948
… were aware of the concentration camps and would tell themselves, at least there are no crematoriums on the front lines. Louis later would be haunted by…
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 … the Jewish population to concentration camps, and Ladislav’ parents were sent to Auschwitz and separated. Yehudah had still been at Auschwitz when it…
4. Schulhof family papers
2017.133.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.133.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1882-1999
bulk: 1903-1948
… Auschwitz. Her sister Katalin was deported to Auschwitz, and then to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she was a forced-laborer. After liberation, she…
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 … Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she was a forced-laborer. After liberation, she was sent to a rehabilitation camp in Loka Brunn, Grythyttan, Sweden…
5. Oral history interview with Karoline Fischl
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.11 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0011
Date:
interview: 1985 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… and degree of knowledge of the war’s progress; being sent to Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in 1942 and remaining there until 1944; the train journey…
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 … concentration camp. I did not get the right traveling paper to come out because of having voted German in a count. In the year 1933, everybody had to fill in…
6. Oral history interview with Benjamin Hildesheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0119 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0023
Date:
interview: 1996 March 26
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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 … to a satellite camp of Auschwitz where he remained until December 1944. The satellite camps supplied the food for the concentration camp. They had…
7. Oral history interview with Alice Lefkovic
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.36 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0036
Date:
interview: 1989 January 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; deportations of Jews from Hungary in May 1944; being deported to Sered concentration camp in Czechoslovakia; her subsequent transport to Therensienstadt…
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 … 00:35:12,550 --> 00:35:14,500 as a place of deportation. 618 00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:19,030 Meanwhile, the Jews in the concentration camp 619 00:35:19…
8. Oral history interview with Arie Distel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.33 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0033
Date:
interview: 1993 January 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camps; his liberation by French forces; his life in a transition camp; being sent to a youth camp in Magento; joining the 'Revenge' group; joining…
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 …, and the bombings of the factory. 6.00 They were marched out of the camp, in April 1945 and he and his brother escaped to the woods. 6.05 Liberation by…
9. Oral history interview with Sam Goldberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.12 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0012
Date:
interview: 1992 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… after a death march and his memories of the various colored triangle badges he saw there; his transport to Mittendorf concentration camp near Munich…
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 … they made a concentration camps out of it. They make a concentration camp out of it, became very bad, I mean this was bad. You had to, when they went to…
10. Oral history interview with Paul Zentner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1215 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1215
Date:
interview: circa 1989-1993
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… family's flight to Prague; the family's being part of the first transports to Theresienstadt (Terezin) concentration camp; being separated from his parents…
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 … halfheartedly anyhow. So at the end of 41 and 42 thats when we left for the concentration camp so... SO YOUR FAMILY REALLY DIDNT KNOW THE SCOPE OF WHAT WAS GOING…
11. Oral history interview with Kurt Schneider
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.439.12 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0012
Date:
interview: 2012 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection The following transcript is the result of a recorded interview. The recording is the primary…
12. Oral history interview with Zvi Za'ira
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.174 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0174
Date:
interview: 1992 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… number 7 (Kaufering VII or Erpfting Concentration camp); working in the nearby forest; his work disposing of bodies into an open mass grave; experiencing a…
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 … fairness kept him alive during his years in the camp. The same faith kept him in Israel even during the most difficult years. 34.03 Zvi was in charge of…
13. Oral history interview with Harold Zelmanovics
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.79 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0079
Date:
interview: 1992 December 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-day cattle car ride to Buchenwald concentration camp; his work repairing cattle cars; his march from Buchenwald to Dachau in April 1945; his liberation…
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 … received noodles or spaghetti. 01:26:00 The quantity of food in Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany and Dachau concentration camp in Germany was almost…
14. Ruth and Kurt Elias papers
2004.621. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 2004.621.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1947
… terminate her pregnancy, but they refused. She and Koni were taken on a transport to the family camp of Auschwitz. After moving rocks back and forth in…
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 … from Kurt’s father asking relatives to help him immigrate to the United States and providing his address at the Mauthausen concentration camp…
15. Oral history interview with Magda Blau
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.408.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0030
Date:
interview: 1990 June 11
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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 … beginning of my life in concentration camp. I mean, in Birkenau. From beginning...um it was...it must be August, September '42. And I was a Stubendienst -- a…
16. Oral history interview with Zipora Vardi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.161 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0161
Date:
interview: 1992 February 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 …. “Kinderblock” being established for show. Describes days of liberation – May 2-3. Everyone running to kitchen. 5:58 “The gate is open.” Thousands of women afraid…
17. Oral history interview with Eva Laks
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.38 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0038
Date:
interview: 1990 May 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.…
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 … with the others, and I'm coming right back. I never saw him in my life anymore. I never saw him. Of course I was taken away to concentration camp, and my…
18. Oral history interview with Eliezer Shvimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.248 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0248
Date:
interview: 1995 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… work, and types of punishment; being taken to Gleina (Tröglitz concentration camp); working in a Braunkohle Benzin AG (Brabag) refinery; a Serb prisoner…
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 ….49 After liberation, many tried to go back to their place of origin, others went to America, or to camps in Germany and from there to Israel. 6.52 They were…
19. Oral history interview with Hana Maria Pravda
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.31 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0031
Date:
interview: 1985 October 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being an inmate of Theresienstadt concentration camp from 1942 to 1944; the journey to the camp; her attitude towards the prospect of imprisonment…
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 … prisoners there. There was a group of men who married Jewish women who were not Jewish themselves, and who were in a sort of a milder concentration camp by…
20. Oral history interview with Manya Mandelbaum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.19 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0019
Date:
interview: 1990 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp; the gassing of children in Auschwitz concentration camp; her work for the Madritsch firm making blouses (Julius Madritsch’s factory in Płaszów…
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 …,200 --> 00:03:52,790 when they were surviving the first stage of the war, 52 00:03:52,790 --> 00:03:55,940 then they disappeared in the concentration camps, 53…