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1. Rothschild - Fränkel family papers
2004.248.1 Box 2 Folder 26 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.248.1
Date:
inclusive: 1898-2013
bulk: 1940-1947
…Hermann Fränkel and Gertrude (née Josephson) Fränkel were residents of Danzig, and had two sons, Herbert and Werner. Following Hermann’s death in…
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 …,” 1945 1 24 “Free French Forces,” (France Forever) 1 25 “Les camps d’extermination,” (Libération), 1945 1 26 Magazine articles about camps, undated 1 27…
2. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
… approached the camp, Henry and the other prisoners were sent on a death march to the Sachsenhausen and Oranienburg concentration camps, and then to the…
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 …’s family, an identification card of Inge’s mother Erma Fromm, copy prints of liberation camp photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and video…
3. Litke family papers
2015.547.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.547.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1981
bulk: 1945-1981
… on a death-march around December 1944. The death-march sent him through concentration camps in Augsburg, Kaufering, and Leonberg before being sent to…
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 … concentration camp in 1945, days away from liberation. Her brother Moses died in a forced labor camp. Her sister, Rae, survived the war and immigrated to the…
4. Karl Akiva and Ella Huppert Schwarz papers
2004.273.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image13
Document | Accession Number: 2004.273.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1981
bulk: 1939-1948
… additional Jews, who were just released from Dachau concentration camp joined them. In October 1940 a boiler on the ship exploded and the passengers were…
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 … concentration camp, and their immigration to Palestine. The collection includes biographical materials such as birth, marriage, and death certificates…
5. 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…
6. Peter Veres family papers
2010.81.1 Box 13 Folder 1 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2010.81.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1844-2013
… David armbands, move into designated buildings, and deportations to concentration camps began. Since 1939, George had been in and out of forced labor…
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 … experiences with labor camps, hiding, and deportations during World War II and the Holocaust, and their immigration to New York in 1949. Languages: Hungarian…
7. Alice and John Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.247.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-2003
… in prewar Berlin, and their postwar work at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. This series includes copy prints of liberation photographs of the…
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 … postwar work at the Bergen- Belsen displaced persons camp. This series includes copy prints of liberation photographs of the Bergen- Belsen concentration…
8. Pisker, Fischer, and Altstädter families papers
2014.411.1 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.411.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1987
bulk: 1935-1948
… deported to the Stara Gradiška subcamp of the Jasenovac concentration camp where he perished in 1943. After he was deported, Elvira, Boris, and members of…
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 … the camp was liberated, Elvira and Boris survived with the partisans in forests until the end of the war. After the liberation of Rab, Elvira met…
9. Lista Family papers
2017.522.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.522.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1992
bulk: 1945-1956
… the war. Jerry was deported to several camps including Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Vaihingen, Hessental, and München-Allach. On a death…
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 … and left for dead on a death march in 1945. Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Cymbalista and Szmulewicz families, Jerry in a DP camp, and…
10. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
….S. citizen (she knew some English). After liberation she was sent to the UNRAA refugee camp Jeanne d’Arc in Philippeville, Algeria (Skikda). She returned to…
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 … Lessing’s deportation to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, her experiences at the Jeanne d’Arc refugee camp in Philippeville, Algeria (Skikda), her sons…
11. Jacob Robinson papers
2013.506.1 Box 4 Folder 15 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2013.506.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1977
bulk: 1939-1977
…, he served in the Russian army. Taken prisoner in 1915, Robinson spent three years in German POW camps before settling in Virbalis (independent…
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 … prisoner in 1915, Robinson spent three years in German POW camps before settling in Virbalis (independent Lithuania), where he founded a Hebrew secondary…
12. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
Date:
inclusive: circa 1907-2006
… was put on a train for transport to a POW camp. While the train was passing through Łódź, Benjamin threw a piece of paper out of the window, notifying…
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 …, liberation, return to Łódź, and meeting her husband. Photographs depict Benjamin Herson in the Polish military and in prisoner of war camps, his aunt and…
13. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
… camps increased, Esther became concerned about the survival of her work. She asked the craftsmen in the pottery workshop to make her large jars in which…
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 …, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to Esther’s wartime experience in the Kovno ghetto, Stuthoff concentration camp, and Leibitsch forced labor…
14. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
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… first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
15. Ruth Reed family papers
2016.510.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 2016.510.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2016
…, and worked in Žatec making wreaths for dead SS soldiers prior to liberation. After the war, she went to the Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp in…
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 …, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Jewish families--Poland. Holocaust survivors--Poland. Displaced persons camps. Death march survivors. Forced Labor--Poland…
16. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
… to Auschwitz concentration camp. His pregnant wife, Rosa, and their 3-year old son, Uriel perished there. Norbert’s arm was tattooed with the number…
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 … draft for a pictorial exhibition: Rebirth After Liberation – The Bergen-Belsen D.P. Camp, 1945-1950, 1965 47.4 World Zionist Organization. Judy Carr, We…
17. Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers
1996.A.0391.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1966
bulk: 1945-1949
Special Collection:
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… labor camp in Stalowa Wola, Poland where he worked in a munitions factory. The family reunited after Lucy’s father managed to escape. In November 1944…
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 … married at the Rosenheim displaced persons camp after World War II in 1949. Included in the collection is a diary written by Morris while he was in hiding…
18. 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:
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… in March 1943 Ada and her mother were sent to the Plaszów concentration camp. After a month spent under horrific conditions, they were selected to work…
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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…
19. Radzinowicz family papers
2014.213.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.213.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1984
… liberation of Łódź in January 1945, Anatol and Zofia returned to their hometown, learning that they were the only surviving members of their families…
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 … wartime correspondence from Zofia Radzinowicz’s sister, Estera Rozenberg, sent from the Warsaw ghetto and from a French internment camp. Languages…
20. 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
… families, their liberation, their immigration to the United States, and the deaths of their family members in the Holocaust. Many documents are accompanied…
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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…