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1. Dr. Ilsen About collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.383.1
Date:
creation: 1939
…Consists of eight photographs of members of the SS in Oświęcim, Poland, in September 1939 and in Leżajsk, Poland in October 1939. Captions are…
2. Regina Bochner Schweid papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.099 | RG Number: RG-10.027
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1940
… family moved from Frysztak to Beuthen in Upper Silesia (now Bytom, Poland) then to Oświęcim, Poland, and then to Katowice, Poland. Some members of the…
3. Relacje, wspomnienia i materiały żołnierzy Batalionów Chłopskich
Document | Accession Number: 2018.184.1 | RG Number: RG-15.616
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2010
Alternate Title:
Accounts, memories and materials of soldiers from the Peasant Battalions
…Oświęcim (Poland)--History--20th century.…
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 …, artykuły polski R/871 Stefan Kobrzyński: Stanisław Dubois i towarzysze w Oświęcimiu Oświęcim 1939- 1942 no maszynopis polski R/873 Odpisy grypsów pisanych do…
4. Zentralbauleitung der Waffen-SS und Polizei Auschwitz (Fond 502)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.4 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.03
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
Alternate Title:
Waffen-SS and Police, Central Construction Office in Auschwitz
…Prisoners and prisons--Poland--Oświęcim--History--20th century.…
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 … Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities--Poland. World War, 1939-1945--Engineering and…
5. Star of David pendant and chain worn by a German Jewish woman
2018.70.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.70.6
Date:
received: 1926-before 1944 October
use: 1944 October-1945 May
…Oświęcim (Poland)…
6. Hand-embroidered child's vest made by a Polish Jewish woman
2019.302.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.302.2
Date:
creation: after 1931 May-before 1942 September
… (also known as Malines) transit camp, and deported on October 24, 1942, to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, where she was…
7. Stephen Lerman papers
1991.105 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1991.105
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…Stephen Lerman (1927-2010) was born in Zambrow, Poland, with the given name of Szlama Lermann. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939…
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 …, Poland, prior to World War II. Also included are a pass to the Nuremburg trials and an identity card which confirms that Lerman was captured by German…
8. 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:
Save Their Stories
… 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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 … Bácsalmás ghetto and Auschwitz, working in a munitions factory, and liberation on April 14, 1945. The last entry is dated September 1945. The collection also…
9. Moses Adam papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.445.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1988
… experiences of Moses Adam (later Maury Adams), before and during the Holocaust in Przemysl, Poland, while incarcerated in Plaszow, Starachowice, Auschwitz…
10. Magda Weigl Heath collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.97 | RG Number: RG-10.503
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2009
…Concentration camp inmates' writings--Poland--Oświęcim.…
11. 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
…Chaim Litke (1919-2008, later Harry Litke) was born in Ozorków, Poland to bakery owner Icek and Golda (née Moskowitz) Litke. He had one sister, Beila…
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 …‐) Holocaust (1939‐1945)‐‐Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors‐‐Czech Republic. Holocaust survivors‐‐Poland‐‐Łódź. Auschwitz (Concentration camp…
12. Alfred Büchler papers
1999.119 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.119
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
bulk: 1937-1942
…Alfred Buechler was born Alfred Büchler in 1925 in Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland) to wine merchant Jacques Büchler and Käthe Büchler (née…
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 … and Käthe Büchler, in Gleiwitz; and Jacques Büchler’s death at Auschwitz. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access…
13. 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
… Dachau to the donor's grandmother, Hedwig Kahn; a Gestapo summons issued to Ferdinand Kahn; and a post-period picture postcard of Auschwitz. Additional…
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 … concentration camp. Dated July 4, 1943. Postcard addressed to Teodor Kenin in Warsaw, Poland; sent by Zofia Kenin at Auschwitz concentration camp. Postmarked June…
14. Zbiór planów i map (Sygn. 245)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.269 | RG Number: RG-15.236
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1990
Alternate Title:
Collection of maps and plans
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…, Łódź, Sosnowiec, Warsaw. 2. Plans of concentration camps and labor camps, e.g. Bełżec, Chełmno, Sobibór, Treblinka, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Krakow…
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 … Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma, ul. Tlomackie 3/5, Warsaw, Poland 00‐090. Tel. 011 48 22 827 92 21. More information about this…
15. 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:
Save Their Stories
… Kraków, Poland when Germany invaded in 1939. Her father, Gustaw, fled east under the common assumption that only men were in danger. Ada, her mother and…
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 … (Displaced persons camp) Work camps‐‐Poland. Holocaust survivors‐‐Poland. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Płaszów (Concentration camp) Lichtewerden…
16. Norman Salsitz papers
2003.425.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 2003.425.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1889-2000
…”); German wartime atrocities; Amalie Petranker and her family in and around Stanisławów and Kraków, Poland; Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz after liberation; and…
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 … around Stanisławów and Kraków, Poland; Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz after liberation; and the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. Languages: Polish, Hebrew…
17. Star of David membership pin owned by a former concentration camp inmate
1993.90.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.90.4
Date:
commemoration: 1939-1945
…Concentration camp inmates--Medical care--Poland--Oswiecim--Biography.…
18. 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
… deported to the concentration camp at Bogusze, Poland, and in January 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he worked in the hospital barracks. When Auschwitz…
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 ….ushmm.org Indexing terms Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Ebensee (Concentration camp) Płaszów (Concentration camp) Jews--Poland--Tarnobrzeg Jews--Poland--Chełm (Lublin…
19. Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers
2015.375.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.375.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… or year is unknown. On May 20, 1944, Amalia, Ilona, and Eta were sent to the Miskolc ghetto. Three weeks later they arrived at the Auschwitz…
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 … Sosnowiec, Poland. She died in 1943 at the Auschwitz concentration camp with her children, Machla Hipszer (born March 30, 1931), Gitla Hipszer (born April 3…
20. Hertha Spier collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0421
Date:
creation: circa 1993
inclusive: 1923-1946
…Hertha Spier (1918-2020) was born Hertha Gruber in 1918 to Mauricy Gruber and Amalia Gruber in Bielitz (now Bielsko-Biała, Poland). Her siblings were…