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1. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
… family had been deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and perished. Among them were his mother Golda, his brothers Béla and Géza, and his sisters…
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 …, 1944 his house was empty, and he later learned that 82 members of his extended family had been deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and perished…
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2. 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
… deported to the concentration camp at Bogusze, Poland, and in January 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he worked in the hospital barracks. When Auschwitz…
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 …, Russia). The Dr. Naum Wortman papers document Wortman’s work as a doctor at the Auschwitz concentration camp and the Ebensee and Ebelsberg displaced…
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3. Walter Saunders papers
1995.A.0383 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1944
bulk: 1938-1944
… Europe, were arrested and placed in Les Milles and Gurs concentration camps, before being sent to Auschwitz in 1942, where they both were killed.…
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 … Auschwitz. Included in the papers are correspondence with Walter’s parents, photographs, reference letters and naturalization papers. Languages: German…
4. Renée Lang papers
2006.355.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2006.355.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2006
… tailor, and he would sneak her bread, telling her that he got extra. They remained there until May 1944, when they were transferred to Auschwitz, where…
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 … Łódź, Dachau, Schwarzenberg, and possibly Auschwitz, and Lang’s efforts to obtain restitution. Languages: German, English Administrative…
5. Henry Knepler papers
2004.683.1 Box 3 Folder 12 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.683.1 | RG Number: RG-10.458
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2004
… Monte Carlo where his cousin Hilda Lorant lived. He was arrested in 1944 and transported to Drancy and then Auschwitz. He did not survive. Henry…
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 … arrest, and transport to Auschwitz where he did not survive. Some of these materials are photocopies. Languages: German, English, French, Swedish…
6. Charles Roman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.91.2
Date:
inclusive: 1894-circa 1953
bulk: 1940-1949
… transferred to Drancy and then Auschwitz where he was murdered. Prior to fleeing Paris, Marianne placed Charles under the care of Oeuvre de Secours Aux Enfants…
7. Rottenberg family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.661.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1966
… deported from Mechelen on 19 April 1943 on Transport XX to Auschwitz. During the trip, the family managed to open a window and jumped from the train. Bobby…
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 … Auschwitz from the Mechelen transit camp by jumping off the train in April 1943. The collection also includes material related to Bertha’s family, the…
8. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
2017.101.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2017.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1995
bulk: 1913-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Theresienstadt. In 1944, Bernhard, Joseph, and Helli and her husband Bertl were deported to Auschwitz. Joseph was killed upon arrival. Bernhard and Bertl were…
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 … with their sister Helli. They were deported to Theresienstadt. In 1944, Bernhard, Joseph, and Helli and her husband Bertl were deported to Auschwitz…
9. Prayer book owned by a Jewish Austrian musician and concentration camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2017.101.2
Date:
publication: 1913
Title:
Seder Tefillat Yisrael
Alternate Title:
Prayer Book - Prayers for Israel, German translation
… status that had protected him from earlier transport. Seven days later, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, on…
10. Kessler family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.586.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1869-2015
bulk: 1914-1998
… Auschwitz where he perished. Ivan survived the Holocaust in Ecuador. Before the war, he was an electrical engineer who worked on the electrification of the…
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 … later deported back to Austria by the Vichy government. Hans was then deported to Auschwitz where he perished. Ivan survived the Holocaust in Ecuador…
11. Peter Kossowsky family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.526.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-1939
… was killed at Auschwitz except for one uncle. In 1961 Schifra married her second husband, Salomon Kowalek, who was born in Husiatyn (now Ukraine) in…
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 … September 12, 1939. Moses Friedman’s entire family was killed at Auschwitz except for one uncle. In 1961 Schifra married her second husband, Salomon Kowalek…
12. Henry Blumenstein family papers
2000.388.1 Box 1 Folder 35 Image 153
Document | Accession Number: 2000.388.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1994
… Holland. Regina was arrested and sent to Auschwitz but saved Henry by hiding him in a closet. Elsa and Henry fled to northern Holland where Heinz was…
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 … not obtain exit visas from German‐ occupied Holland. Regina was arrested and sent to Auschwitz but saved Henry by hiding him in a closet. Elsa and…
13. Manfred Haber family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1963
bulk: 1938-1946
… St. Cyprien internment camp in France, and Les Milles by 1941. He was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on 14 August 1942 where he perished. Dora was…
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 … deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on 14 August 1942 where he perished. Dora was deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz on 15 August 1942 where she perished…
14. Hanoch Gerstel papers
1999.52.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1999.52.1
Date:
inclusive: 1854-1975
… and Edith Gerstel are believed to have been killed at Auschwitz and Chełmno. He worked with the Israelsmissionen Immanuel and the Swedish Society of…
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 … prison. His sisters Charlotte Gerstel Engel and Edith Gerstel are believed to have been killed at Auschwitz and Chełmno. He worked with the…
15. Josef and Josefine Schmitz papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.475.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1974
… November 1939. Henriette was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942 and then to Auschwitz in 1943, where she was killed.…
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 …, Josefine, and Judith relocated to Tel Aviv in November 1939. Henriette was deported to Theresienstadt in 1942 and then to Auschwitz in 1943, where she was…
16. Liebermann family correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2014.353.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-2014
bulk: 1938-1941
…. Bettina was deported to Auschwitz on October 26, 1942, where she perished. John and Marianne (who changed her name to Marian) Liebermann had two children…
17. Emil Schattner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.129.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2005
… Theresienstadt to Auschwitz where she likely perished. His brother Itzak also likely perished during the Holocaust. Nuchim’s other brothers all escaped from Berlin…
18. Stekler family papers
2011.156.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2011.156.2
Date:
inclusive: 1893-1970
bulk: 1911-1941
… was killed in a hospital, and her father David was deported from Vienna to Riga on 3 December 1941. He was later deported to Auschwitz where he perished.…
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 … Auschwitz where he perished. Scope and content of collection The collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs documenting the…
19. Peter and Berta Victor papers
1990.114.74 Box 1 Folder 27 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1990.114.74
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1991
… in 1938, a refugee from Nazi ruled Vienna. Her parents, Joseph and Anna Scheier Neidermann, were murdered in Auschwitz. Peter and Berta settled in…
20. Dora Pollak family correspondence
1989.289.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1989.289.1
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1954
… magazine Hej Rup and participated actively in Theresienstadt’s cultural life. They were then transferred in 1943 and 1944 to Auschwitz where all but Josef…
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 … life. They were then transferred in 1943 and 1944 to Auschwitz where all but Josef and Marianne were killed. Josef survived a death march to…