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1. Kopolovic family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.315.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2010
bulk: 1937-1948
… Olga Schuman (formerly Ester Kopolovicova) of Drahova, Czechoslovakia (Drahovo, Ukraine), who survived Auschwitz and Stutthof. Also includes a DVD photos…
2. Henryka Wagner Goldsher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.154.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1984
… persons documentation for Henryka, who survived Auschwitz and Majdanek. Also includes documentation related to Selma Goldsher and her brother Saul, who…
3. Gina Gotfryd collection
1995.A.0170 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0170
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1994
…’s barracks, where they continued to perform hard labor. Against all odds, Gina and her mother survived, and after the Russians liberated the camp, eventually…
4. George Rothman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.592.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-circa 2018
bulk: 1939-1948
… Emmanuel and Esfira had likely perished, but that George had survived. He began corresponding with George and the Lequiens, and in March 1947 George…
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 …’s hospitalization due to a severe illness, his parent’s deportation to Drancy and Auschwitz, and his survival as a hidden child in a Catholic orphanage. Included are…
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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 … internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, and Hugo’s escape to Monaco, eventual…
6. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… that she would not survive. In April 1945, the factory ran out of raw material and work was halted. On May 5, 1945, the guards opened the camp gates…
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 …, and Theresienstadt materials documenting Hana and Charles Bruml from Czechoslovakia, their families, their survival in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and…
7. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
… Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Antwerp; her father’s and brother’s expulsion into Poland in 1938; Eva’s survival in Auschwitz with her sister Erna; and her husband…
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 … Poland in 1938; Eva’s survival in Auschwitz with her sister Erna; and her husband, Naftali Baumohl. Languages: German, English, Hebrew, Dutch…
8. Gerda and Sylva Löwenstein papers
1995.56.5 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1995.56.5
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1951
Special Collection:
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… Deggendorf displaced persons camp, dating, going to movies, receiving mail from her surviving family members, and making plans to immigrate. The diary…
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 … Deggendorf displaced persons camp, dating, going to movies, receiving mail from her surviving family members, and making plans to immigrate. The diary…
9. Jack Garfein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.309.11
Date:
inclusive: 1921-2013
undated: 
… Auschwitz. Jack survived eleven concentration camps, including Auschwitz, camps in Riese (Silesia), Flossenburg, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen. He was…
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 … Jack Garfein (born Jakob Garfein), originally of Bardejov, Czechoslovakia (Bardejov, Slovakia), including his survival of several concentration camps…
10. Serafina and Bola Friedler papers
2011.158.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2011.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1966
… presumed to have perished in 1945. Serafina and Bola survived and were liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. After the war, they traveled from Jewish home to…
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 … survived the Holocaust after being liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. Among the documents collected by the Serafina and Bola are Red Cross identification…
11. Hertha Spier collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0421
Date:
creation: circa 1993
inclusive: 1923-1946
… Max Gruber survived this action in hiding. Eugenie Gruber was sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp, where she perished. It is believed that…
12. Basel family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0268 | RG Number: RG-19.054
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1975
…Aliana Brodmann E. von Richthofen's parents, David and Rysza Brodmann (nee Liebgold) survived Auschwitz, along with Rysza Brodmann's, sister Fela…
13. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
… sent on a forced-march to Theresienstadt where they were liberated by the Red Army on May 9. Her brother Karl survived the war, but perished shortly…
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 … Theresienstadt where they were liberated by the Red Army on May 9. Her brother Karl survived the war, but perished shortly after being liberated. Marion reunited…
14. Brunn and Ornstein family photographs and diary
2004.225.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2004.225.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1950 September
Special Collection:
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… Jewish orphanage. They discovered that neither Anna's father nor her two brothers, Paul and Endre survived the war. However, Anna did reunite with her…
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 … two brothers, Paul and Endre survived the war. However, Anna did reunite with her boyfriend, Paul Ornstein. Paul brought his father and Anna to Cluj…
15. Stephen Lerman papers
1991.105 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1991.105
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…, but Stephen, who was separated from his family remained behind in the ghetto, until he managed to escape and survived by living in the forest outside of…
16. Felix Kaszub papers
2010.48 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2010.48.3
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1985
… Buchenwald concentration camp. Felix’s mother and sister both perished in the Holocaust, but his father and brother survived. After Felix was liberated, he…
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 …’s mother and sister both perished in the Holocaust, but his father and brother survived. After Felix was liberated, he stayed at the Feldafing displaced…
17. Norman Salsitz papers
2003.425.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 2003.425.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1889-2000
…, Ukraine), had two sisters named Celia and Pepka, and survived the Holocaust in Kraków under the assumed identity of Felicia Milaszewska, a Catholic Pole…
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 … was raised in Stanisławów, Poland (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), had two sisters named Celia and Pepka, and survived the Holocaust in Kraków under the…
18. 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
… liberated by the Red Army. Benjamin returned to Łódź, where he found no surviving family members. He met Bella Sztajnhorn, who was from Zdunska Wola. They…
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 … Łódź ghetto in March 1940. Bella and her sister Róza survived the Łódź ghetto where Bella worked in the Marysin orphanage and then the Schwachstrom…
19. Hand-carved wooden chain carried to Australia by a Jewish refugee
2016.183.1 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2016.183.1
Date:
creation: before 1924
… likely died of natural causes in Paris. Yakob survived and remained in France. He later married Hentsza and they had a son, Bernard. Sarah had sailed to…
20. 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
…’s Rheinhold family also survived the war.…
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 …, Marcel and Albert. His stepmother’s Rheinhold family also survived the war. Dr. Naum Wortman (1914-1988) was born in Chełm, Poland to Izak Wortman and…