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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. 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
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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…
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:
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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…
5. 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…
6. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
…, before her death at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Felix Bachmann, a fellow prisoner held on to the letter until his liberation from Theresienstadt in…
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 … Auschwitz concentration camp. Felix Bachmann, a fellow prisoner held on to the letter until his liberation from Theresienstadt in May 1945. Bachmann located…
7. Walter and Edith Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.600.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1985
… Walter escaped while being transported between camps. The couple was reunited in France and hid in the basement of a Catholic church until liberation…
8. Beatrice Muchman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0269.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1999
… Walter. Julius was sent to Camp Agde near Montpelier, France, and later to Rivesaltes internment camp. In February 1941, he escaped from the camp and…
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 … Westheimer’s survival in hiding in Ottignies, her parents’ deportations to Auschwitz and deaths, and her immigration to the United States to rejoin her…
9. Liebschütz and Rozsa families papers
2015.574.1 Box 5 Folder 1 Image 74
Document | Accession Number: 2015.574.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2009
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… remained a forced laborer until the camp was evacuated in February 1945. During evacuation, the prisoners were sent on a death march through Lower Silesia…
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 …, escaping from a death march, her recapture and imprisonment at Theresienstadt, and liberation. The Lisa Liebschütz papers include documents related to her…
10. Betty Siebenscheinova papers
2012.491.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.491.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1971
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… months, Betty and Jakub were captured and taken to the Sereď concentration camp in late 1942 where they were interned until liberation. Dasha was born in…
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 … experiences of Betty Siebenscheinova, originally from Prague. After escaping several concentration camps, Betty was captured and taken to the Sereď…
11. Selma Engel papers
1999.A.0201 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0201
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-1946
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… revolt and escaped on October 14, 1943. They were hidden by Polish Christians Adam and Stefka Novak on a farm in Plisków until liberation by the Soviets…
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 … (1943-1944), written while in hiding in German occupied Poland, describes Selma’s arrival at the Sobibór concentration camp, the Sobibór uprising and her…
12. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… other women of German origin in Paris. She was interned first in the Velodrome d’Hiver in Paris, and then in the Camp du Gurs in southern France. She…
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 …. She was interned first in the Velodrome d’Hiver in Paris, and then in the Camp du Gurs in southern France. She managed to get released from Gurs on June…
13. Sheindel Trebits Sussman papers
2006.210.2 Book Enclosure 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2006.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1947
Special Collection:
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… ghetto. In June 1944, Sheindel and Betty were sent from the transitional ghetto in Bácsalmás to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Scheindel was forcibly…
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 … ghetto in Bácsalmás to Auschwitz- Birkenau death camp. Scheindel was forcibly separated from her mother and selected as an able bodied labor force…
14. Lucien Dreyfus papers
1994.A.0112 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0112 | RG Number: RG-10.144
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1944
Special Collection:
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…, and rumors circulating about the terrible conditions in concentration camps in France and murder in the killing centers in Poland. The last entry dates…
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 … utility of assimilation in fighting antisemitism, and rumors circulating about the terrible conditions in concentration camps in France and murder in the…
15. Zonligt family papers
2017.669.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 58
Document | Accession Number: 2017.669.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1947
Special Collection:
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… Europe in 1945 and worked for UNRRA at the Wels Displaced Persons Camp until 1946.…
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 …, their immigration to the United States in 1940 and 1941, and Gerard Zonligt’s work as an UNRRA officer at the Wels displaced persons camp. Language: Dutch…
16. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
Special Collection:
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17. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
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18. 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
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… given the number A20071. Six weeks later, Anna and Zsofi were transferred to the Parschnitz labor camp in Czechoslovakia. Anna worked in the airplane…
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 … transferred to the Parschnitz labor camp in Czechoslovakia. Anna worked in the airplane factory while her mother worked outdoors with other elderly women…
19. Fonds David Diamant (CMXXV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.20.1 | RG Number: RG-43.160
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1994
… they were to report to the local police station. This was the first step in their transfer to the internment camps of Beaune-la-Rolande and Pithiviers in…
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 … moyen de Pithiviers (16/05/1983) ; Brochure du KKL, 40e anniversaire de la libération des camps et de la victoire alliée sur le Nazisme (1985). Lettre du…
20. Szyfra Majranc papers
2005.218.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 36
Document | Accession Number: 2005.218.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1947
Special Collection:
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… forest, but were forced to return after her mother broke her leg. Later, they were deported to Sobibor death camp, where they were killed. Steffa sent…
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 … beatings. We were baited with dogs. We were treated worse than slaves. No, worse than animals. We were sent to various camps from which hardly anyone…