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1. 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…
2. 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
Special Collection:
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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…
3. 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…
4. 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:
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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…
5. 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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…The Ada Abrahamer papers primarily consist of a diary and photographs related to Ada Abrahamer’s wartime experiences in work camps and concentration…
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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…
6. Jiří Lauscher collection
1993.A.0003 Box 4 Folder 18 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0003 | RG Number: RG-35.001
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1989
Special Collection:
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…-era ghettos and concentration camps. The collection also includes a Star of David badge and postage stamps. Lauscher collected the materials during…
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 … culture of Theresienstadt; and Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps. Records documenting the Jüdische Kultusgemeinde in Prague relate to two of the…
7. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
… September 28, 1936 under the suspicion of communist activities and sent to Oldenburg prison. In October, he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where…
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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…
8. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
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…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … concentration camps and culminating in Manfred’s visit to Theresienstadt, where he located his parents. The bulk of the collection consists of extensive wartime…
9. Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers
2015.375.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.375.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
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… sisters ultimately survived Płaszów concentration camp, a return to Auschwitz, Augsburg (a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp), and were liberated from…
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 …, Augsburg (a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp), and were liberated from Mühldorf (also a subcamp of Dachau) in April 1944. After liberation, Ilona and Eta…
10. Malcolm A. Vendig papers
1990.107.88 Box 2 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1990.107.88
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1967
bulk: 1944-1945
Special Collection:
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… military governor of Dachau, Germany after the liberation of the concentration camp in 1945. Topics discussed include the activities of the 83rd U…
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 …’s service with the 83rd U.S. Infantry Division and his tenure as the military governor of Dachau, Germany after the liberation of the concentration camp in…
11. 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
…. Flora learned that many of her relatives perished in the Holocaust. Flora’s mother Alijda was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp or Sobibor…
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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…
12. Szyfra Majranc papers
2005.218.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 36
Document | Accession Number: 2005.218.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1947
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… married Nechemia (Tadek) Majranc (later Mairanz), born May 29, 1908. He was a rabbinical student from Łódź, who came from a wealthy family of Gerer Chasidim…
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 … side, but mainly from town to town, or to camps, from where the deportees had the opportunity to give a sign of life at once. The Germans carried out…
13. 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: 
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…, during a “selection” of camp inmates, Selma was originally directed by a camp doctor to join a group that subsequently were killed in a gas chamber…
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 … deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she remained as a forced laborer for several months. At the end of that time, during a “selection” of camp inmates…
14. Pamietniki Żydów (Sygn. 302)
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0867 | RG Number: RG-02.208M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Memoirs of Jews
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.…
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 … camps and ghettos, liberation of Theresienstadt. Reel 39 File #265 Szereszewska, Helena 25 p. Polish 1942-43 Warsaw ghetto Fate of Warsaw ghetto residents…
15. Selected records of the Moreshet Archives (Givʻat Ḥavivah, Israel)
Document | Accession Number: 2019.293.1 | RG Number: RG-68.220
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1963
… Holocaust survivors–survivors of the camps, partisans and Jewish fighters, and immigrants and refugees from different countries.…
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 …. A77 Cohen, Zvi: The Jews of Holland, Westerbork & Bergen-Belsen Camps. A78 Grossman, Moshe: Jews in the Czechoslovak Army in The USSR. A79 Anonymous…
16. Zbiór akt Stowarzyszenia byłych Więźniów Zamku Lubelskiego i Więzienia "Pod Zegarem" (Sygn. XXV)
Document | Accession Number: 2013.246 | RG Number: RG-15.275M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1991
Alternate Title:
Records of the Association of Former Prisoners of the Lublin Castle and the "Under the Clock" Prison
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Records of the Association of Former Prisoners of the Lublin Castle and the "Under the Clock" Prison…
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 …. Transports of prisoners of the Lublin Castle to concentration camps. Edited by professor Zofia Leszczyńska. XXI-17/IX cz. 1 Opracowania. Monografia. Wykaz…
17. Josef Kohout/Wilhelm Kroepfl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0332 | RG Number: RG-33.002
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1948
… death or killed by heavy carts falling down the steep slopes of the pits. On January 27, 1940, Josef was registered for Flossenbürg concentration camp as…
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 … fragments relating to the imprisonment of Josef K at Flossenbürg concentration camp (persecuted as a homosexual); attempts by his parents, Josef and Amilia K…
18. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
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… subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp. They were placed in Berga 2. Berga 1 held political and Jewish prisoners from other countries who wore striped…
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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…
19. Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers
2010.171.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image
Document | Accession Number: 2010.171.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1953
Special Collection:
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… Leipheim displaced persons camps after the war, relatives in Užhorod before the war, and the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps at liberation. The…
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 … handmade diary created at the Sömmerda slave labor camp that describes a death march near the end of the war and photographs depicting Clara and Jacob…
20. 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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… Auschwitz with her parents, the murder of her parents, her transfer to a labor camp at Birnbäumel, her forced march to Gross Rosen, liberation by the Russian…
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 … Auschwitz with her parents, the murder of her parents, her transfer to a labor camp at Birnbäumel, her forced march to Gross Rosen, liberation by the Russian…