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1. Mosheim and Marx families papers
1999.A.0233 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0233
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
…. Else Marx was deported to Riga on November 20, 1941, but her transport was stopped near Kovno, where she was executed by Einsatzkommando 3. Inge…
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 … stopped near Kovno, where she was executed by Einsatzkommando 3. Inge’s grandparents, Pauline Marx and Lina and Josef Zenner, were deported to…
2. Leonard Lauder collection
Document | Accession Number: 2001.146
Date:
1890-1994
… executive officer from 1982 to 1999, and chairman from 1995-2009.…
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 … joining Estée Lauder in 1958. He served as president of the company from 1972 to 1995, as chief executive officer from 1982 to 1999, and chairman from…
3. Guggenheim and Smali families papers
2016.395.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.395.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1989
… executed on September 8, 1941. Malka was confined to the Kovno ghetto in the Slobodka district, worked taking care of the two small children of a Jewish…
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 … received her last message from her mother who warned her to stay away from the danger in Merkinė. Most of the Jews of Merkinė were executed on September 8…
4. Hertha Spier collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0421
Date:
creation: circa 1993
inclusive: 1923-1946
… Bielitz and joined relatives in Kraków, Poland. On Yom Kippur, all the Jewish men were rounded up, forced to dig trenches, and then executed. Mauricy and…
5. Fruma Gulkowitz-Berger papers
2017.262.5 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.262.5
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1990
undated: 
…. On 5 December 1941 the Germans began preparing for mass executions by having large pits dug by slave Jewish labor. Murray escaped into the forest where…
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 … Wsielub. He went to Nowogródek where he remained with his cousin Alter Nochimovski. On 5 December 1941 the Germans began preparing for mass executions by…
6. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… could only comfort him as he died in his arms. Some tried to escape and were executed with wooden bullets; medics had to fill the holes with wax. They…
7. Radzinowicz family papers
2014.213.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.213.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1984
… retreat. Anatol, knowing that such prisoners would likely be executed when their work was finished, managed to narrowly escape from the prison—shot by the…
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 … Germans to hide the evidence of these atrocities before their retreat. Anatol, knowing that such prisoners would likely be executed when their work was…
8. 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
…. After one report, Karel witnessed 7 men get executed for crimes including writing to a family member and possessing cigarettes. It was a large department…
9. 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
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
10. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
  • Series 5: Writings 1939-2014
    • File 2: Diary and algebra notebook, Joseph Stripounsky 1940, (in a book enclosure)
      • Pages: 8
    • File 3: Diary, Joseph Stripounsky 1941
11. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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  • File 1: Diaries December 23, 1941-June 2, 1942, June 2, 1942-January 13, 1943, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 2: Diaries January 14, 1943-May 26, 1943, May 27, 1943-October 13, 1943, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 3: Diaries October 14, 1943-January 23, 1944, January 23, 1944-March 31, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 4: Diaries March 31, 1944-May 25, 1944, May 25, 1944-July 3, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 5: Diaries July 3, 1944-August 19, 1944, August 20, 1944-September 13, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 6: Diaries September 13, 1944-October 8, 1944, October 9, 1944-November 10, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 7: Diaries November 11, 1944-January 11, 1945, January 11, 1945-March 11, 1945, includes loose material from diaries
  • File 8: Diaries March 11, 1945-June 20, 1945, June 25, 1945-November 5, 1945, Includes loose material from diaries
12. Jüdische Nachrichten: JUNA Geschäftsarchiv und Dokumentation der Pressestelle des SIG
Document | Accession Number: 2012.284 | RG Number: RG-58.024
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1970
Alternate Title:
Jewish News: the JUNA archive and documentation belonging to the press office of the Alliance of Swiss Jewish Communities
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 … Executioner, (Autor unbekannt), in: Time. The Weekly Newsmagazine, New York, 23.2.1942 1942 1580 Exekution von Juden in "Gaswagen" 1942 - 1961 Enthält u. a…
13. Selected records from the Ghetto Fighters' House (Beit Lohamei Haghetaot)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.91 | RG Number: RG-68.112M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
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 … Leib Langfus. 8757. Articles and criticism about “Hitler’s Willing Executioners”, by Daniel Goldhagen. Articles about antisemitism among the German…
14. Michael J. Kraus papers
1995.A.1067.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1067.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1994
bulk: 1945-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 …), Loewenbach, etc. They all left soon. Executions We were frequently forced to witness executions, mainly of Jews and Poles. p.61 Those that belonged to the…
15. Territorial collection-Holland (RG-116-Holland)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.335 | RG Number: RG-67.043M
Date:
inclusive: 1790-1980
bulk: 1940-1949
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 … them for this purpose. At first the Judenrat's policy was to perform mainly executive functions, merely serving as an agency for transmitting German…
16. 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:
Save Their Stories
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 … not only the executioner who is the murderer but also the one who puts the victim in his hands…Please understand. Marysia was sobbing quietly. I told…