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41. Ziegler family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.340.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1947
… left a note at the Krakow train station with her whereabouts. After liberation from a German work camp, Hozia and Bella were in Czechoslovakia, planning…
42. Carl Gärtig collection
2007.72 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2007.72
Date:
creation: 1922-1999
… imprisoned at Kassel, Germany from 1935-1938, and in Buchenwald concentration camp from 1938 until its liberation in April 1945. While in Buchenwald, Gärting…
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 … between their receiving the wounds and the time of their death was precisely followed and documented. As far as I can remember, the first one died after 3-5…
43. 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
…. Sometimes he had trouble keeping up, as the death rate reached six a day. On April 3, 1945, as American forces advanced near the camp, the prisoners were…
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 … diary he kept as a prisoner of war describing his experiences at Stalag IX‐B in Bad Orb and Berga concentration camp and on a death march, listing fellow…
44. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
… was sent on a death march to Germany where he was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. A trained toolmaker, Rudi was selected for forced…
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 … fifty-five members of his transport of 2,500 people to survive the initial selection of the camp. In January 1945, Rudi was sent on a death march to…
45. Chaim Kozienicki papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.297.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1948
…, 1944. He saw his father briefly and learned that his mother had been selected for death upon arrival at the camp. Chaim never saw his father again. On…
46. Ruth Wertheim papers
2004.676.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2004.676.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1946
bulk: 1945-1946
…The Ruth Wertheim papers consists of three letters written by Ruth Wertheim following her liberation from the labor camp Marzdorf/Riesengebirge, and…
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 … transports to the concentration and death camp, Auschwitz, and our fate was to go. I have experienced much in my eighteen years of life. Maybe more than any…
47. Hedy Tugendhaft Rosen photographs
2002.155.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2002.155.2
Date:
creation: circa 1929-1987
… liberation; and Hedy with other displaced persons in Heidelberg. Additional photographs depict staged scenes at Dachau concentration camp after liberation, a…
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 … the first anniversary of liberation. 1.21 Jews rounded-up for deportation to a death camp from an unidentified location in Ukraine. Circa 1942 1…
48. 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…
49. Walter Stras collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0451 | RG Number: RG-10.150
Date:
1938-1995
…Walter Stras (b. Walter Straass, 1924, Steinbach am Glan, Germany - 1995, Kansas City,Mo.) survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. He…
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 …. Stras' son, Stephen Stras, acquired the collection after his father's death in 1995 and added the photocopies of newspaper clippings from 1994 and 1995…
50. Szlama Kleiner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.306
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1947
… him to a series of camps including Flossenbürg, Borki Wielki, Gröditz, and a sub-camp of Gross Rosen. On May 8, 1945, the Soviet Army liberated Szloma…
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 … Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, who died soon after their liberation were buried; Cesia Kleiner, Szlama’s sister is buried there; dated: 1945; location…
51. Sylvia Weiss collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.277.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1948
… forced on a death march to Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he was liberated on May 8, 1945. After liberation he returned to Beclean and re-opened…
52. Ursula Klau papers
2006.410.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2006.410.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1867-2006
… Westerbork transit camp, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the so-called “Lost Transport”; and Klau’s liberation and recuperation in Davos, Switzerland…
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 …-occupied Netherlands, the Westerbork transit camp, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the so-called “Lost Transport”; and Klau’s liberation and…
53. 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…
54. Ruth Eldar photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2005.304.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1946
… Polish Army. During this time, his family only had sporadic communication with him via the Red Cross. In May 1940, he returned from a POW camp and went…
55. Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family papers
2012.351.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2012.351.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-2003
… Kołomyja, the deaths of his family members, his year in the ghetto, hiding with his sister, postwar life in Poland and Germany, and immigrating to the United…
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 … occupation, life in the ghetto, the deaths of her family members, hiding with her brother, liberation, and marrying her husband. Rut Burak’s Encounters with…
56. Lili Scharf Deutsch papers
Document | Accession Number: 2009.260.1
Date:
issue: 1937-1946
… Hungary, and postwar, when Lili, after liberation from Bergen Belsen concentration camp emigrated to Palestine.…
57. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.456.4
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1997
bulk: 1945-1971
… was sent on a death march to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At Bergen-Belsen she had to move dead bodies to a mass grave. She was there…
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 … there for several months and then was sent on a death march to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At Bergen-Belsen she had to move dead bodies to a…
58. Aron Straser photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.654.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1945
… not have survived there without her mother’s presence. Shortly before liberation, Judy contracted dysentery and typhoid. The camp was liberated by the…
59. Irena Cymerman Wojcik collection
Document | Accession Number: 1991.229.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1933-1961
… visiting the site of the former death camp of Treblinka circa 1960. Additional individuals depicted in the photographs include Irena’s brother-in-laws…
60. 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
undated: 
Special Collection:
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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…