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1. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
…’s collecting period. The “Concentration camp mail” scrapbook consists primarily of correspondence and envelopes documenting mail systems and prisoners at…
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 … “Concentration camp mail” scrapbook consists primarily of correspondence and envelopes documenting mail systems and prisoners at Buchenwald, Dachau, Oranienburg…
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
…, copy prints of liberation camp photographs of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and video recordings of presentations done by Henry.…
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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. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
…; correspondence and transcripts of speeches given at the commemoration of the 60th year of the liberation of the Wiesengrund concentration camp, April 16-17, 2005…
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 … Mutterperl; correspondence and transcripts of speeches given at the commemoration of the 60th year of the liberation of the Wiesengrund concentration camp…
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4. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
2016.287.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.287.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1960
bulk: 1945-1951
… with the Office of the Provost Marshall. He was a fingerprint analyst during the Buchenwald Trial held at the Dachau concentration camp in April 1947. He…
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 … in Germany and France, but also include copies of photographs of the execution of Benito Mussolini in 1945, and the Dachau concentration camp during…
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. Albersheim family papers
2007.18.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.18.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2003
… him in the camp, and Walter was given furlough passes to return home and visit his family. During one of these visits, the Dutch underground was able to…
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 … Amsterdam during the Nazi years, his efforts to avoid deportation during the Holocaust, the liberation of Amsterdam, and Albersheim’s immigration to the…
7. Efrem Ostrowsky family papers
1995.A.0306.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0306.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 …rd Infantry Division. His unit helped in the liberation of France, and was among the first U.S. troops to enter the Dachau concentration camp. After the war he…
8. 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
… Ganacker concentration camp, Ganacker, Germany. He was liberated in May, 1945 by the United States Army. After liberation, he went to the Eggenfelden…
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 …‐2126 Abstract: The Litke family papers document the experiences of Chaim Litke and Frida Hoffmann Litke in concentration camps during the Holocaust…
9. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers
2003.385.1 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2003.385.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1968
…. His father was arrested in 1943 and sent to Pawiak prison and then to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he is believed to have perished. Stanislaw…
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 …. His father was arrested in 1943 and sent to Pawiak prison and then to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he is believed to have perished. Stanislaw…
10. Alice and John Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.247.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-2003
… cars, arriving the next day in Buna-Monowitz concentration camp, the largest subcamp of Auschwitz. Hans was beaten, stripped, shaved, and washed in…
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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…
11. Rabbi Judah Nadich papers
1994.A.0250. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0250.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1997
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… treatment of Jewish displaced persons. Nadich was sent by Eisenhower to visit DP camps in the American zone of Germany, report on conditions, and make…
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 … at SHAEF from 1945-1946 reporting to General Dwight D. Eisenhower on the conditions in former concentration camps and in displaced persons camps…
12. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
… of the Lessing family, originally from the Netherlands, including Engeline Lessing’s deportation to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, her…
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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…
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
… she would hide her work. In the autumn of 1943, the ghetto was converted to the Kauen concentration camp. In July 1944, they began to liquidate the…
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 … few of the drawings were later recovered. In July 1944, Esther was deported to Stutthof concentration camp, and Muta and her family were sent to…
14. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…-Belsen DP camp, formerly a concentration camp. He visited the British controlled DP camp, and with Joseph Rosensaft, organized the Central Committee of…
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 … of Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg near Berlin at the end of the month. The camp was evacuated on April 20th, and Wollheim fled his SS guards on the night of…
15. 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
… Jews, who were just released from Dachau concentration camp joined them. In October 1940 a boiler on the ship exploded and the passengers of the ship…
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 … concentration camp, and their immigration to Palestine. The collection includes biographical materials such as birth, marriage, and death certificates…
16. 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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 … camp during various periods between 1940 and 1944. Béla Krausz was sent to a Nazi internment camp in May 1944, shortly after the German occupation of…
17. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
…Malines (Concentration camp)…
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 … four accounts of Eva’s experiences as a refugee in Belgium, at Auschwitz, on a death march, at Ravensbrück and Neustadt‐Glewe, and after liberation…
18. William and Bela Citron and Miriam Citron Burhans papers
2009.157.5 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2009.157.5
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2016
bulk: 1945-1983
… their families in Poland and in various concentration and labor camps before and during the Holocaust and of William, Bela, and their daughter Gela…
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 … DP camps, including the birth of their daughter Miriam in 1948, and their immigration to the United States via ship in 1949. Also depicted are William…
19. Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers
2003.361.1 Box 2 Folder 8 Image 116
Document | Accession Number: 2003.361.1 | RG Number: RG-24.021
Date:
inclusive: 1879-2001
… chief of Reich Security Main Office department IV B 4 (Jews). was responsible for organizing the mass deportations of Jews to concentration camps and…
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 … (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Czech Republic. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945), in art. Holocaust, Jewish (1939…
20. Regina and Halina Goldwag papers
2014.426.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.426.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-2008
bulk: 1944-1949
…. Halina obtained a job in the camp infirmary, dispensing medications. While in the camp, they asked one of the American soldiers stationed there to mail…
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 … concentration camps in Leipzig, immigration papers, and restitution documentation. Photographs include pre-war family photographs of the Zak and Goldwag families…