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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. 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…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Joseph and Josie Peretz papers
2011.278.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.278.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1957
… documents to obtain a French identification card after removing the Star of David from his Belgian papers. In 1944, during transfer to a different camp…
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 …. Joseph, after being released as a prisoner of war with the Belgian army was deported to a labor camp in northern France and escaped after procuring false…
6. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… the concentration camps and the liberation of Dachau. Emigration and immigration materials include documentation of employment, application to change…
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 … his mother, Karoline Zguda, during his time in Auschwitz and Buchenwald about life and conditions in the concentration camps and the liberation of…
7. Serafina and Bola Friedler papers
2011.158.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2011.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1966
… Jewish home around the Silesian region of central Europe. In late 1945, they were sent to a displaced persons camp in Bad Reichenhall, Germany through…
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 … cards issued to them after their liberation, an autograph book used by Bola while living at the Bad Reichenhall displaced persons camp, correspondence…
8. Stefania Hecht collection
2017.181.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.181.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2016
undated: circa 1920-1940
… Auschwitz, but was later transferred to an ammunition factory in the Sudetenland, where she worked until the end of the war. After liberation, she went to…
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 … German occupation and deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, and her experiences at that camp, as well as her life following World War II. In addition, the…
9. Izak Rosenblat papers
2002.436.23 front
Document | Accession Number: 1990.139.27
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1990
…-Vaihingen, Germany, where he remained until liberation. After being liberated, Izy obtained a visa to the United States through the family of friends, and…
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 … about this collection http://collections.ushmm.org Treblinka (Concentration camp) Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Holocaust survivors‐‐United States…
10. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
Date:
inclusive: circa 1907-2006
… was put on a train for transport to a POW camp. While the train was passing through Łódź, Benjamin threw a piece of paper out of the window, notifying…
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 …, liberation, return to Łódź, and meeting her husband. Photographs depict Benjamin Herson in the Polish military and in prisoner of war camps, his aunt and…
11. 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
… 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…
12. Records relating to Auschwitz and other camps from the Central State Archive of the Ministry of Defense, Podolsk
Document | Accession Number: 2001.119 | RG Number: RG-22.008
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… Polish towns by the Germans, the construction and running of a concentration camp in Lublin, the killing of populations at Sobibor and Odessa, and…
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 … the Germans and the construction and running of a concentration camp in Lublin; reports on the killing of populations at Sobibor and Odessa and…
13. Akta miasta Lublina (Syg. 22)
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0235 | RG Number: RG-15.075M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
Alternate Title:
Records of the city of Lublin
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… factories and buildings for industry in Lublin, plans for the crematoria in Lublin concentration camp, housing for factory labor, the role of the Waffen SS in…
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 … Lublin, plans for the crematoria in Lublin concentration camp, housing for factory labor, the role of the Waffen SS in Lublin, plans for structures in the…
14. 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:
Save Their Stories
…, 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…
15. Records of the Gestapo in Łódź
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0037 | RG Number: RG-15.002M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 … to concentration camps in Gusen and Mauthausen. Correspondence with families of dead inmates about returning the confiscated personal property to the…
16. Delegatura Rządu Polskiego na Kraj, Ministerstwo Spraw Wewnętrznych (Sygn. 202/II)
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0142.1 | RG Number: RG-15.043M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
Alternate Title:
Delegacy of Government for a Country Poland, Department of Internal Affairs records
…. Of special interest is information about prisons in various Polish cities; concentration camps; communist activity; conditions in the Warsaw ghetto…
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 … subordinate units during the German occupation. Of special interest is information about prisons in various Polish cities; concentration camps; communist…
17. Persecution of Jews; isolating, labeling, deporting, murdering Jews
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Film | Accession Number: 2002.546.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3716 | Film ID: 2576
Film Title:
Der gelbe Stern [The Yellow Star]
Date:
Event: 1933 - 1945
Production: 1980
Duration:
01:24:15
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)…
18. Service de recherche de crimes de guerre ennemis de la police judiciaire (SRCGE)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.251.1 | RG Number: RG-43.176
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1949
Alternate Title:
Department for the Investigation of Enemy War Crimes by the French Judiciary Police
… involving French citizens in camps outside of France. The investigations were conducted by judiciary police starting in late 1944. They are organized…
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 … in camps outside of France. The investigations were conducted by judiciary police starting in late 1944. They are organized alphabetically by…
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 … militaires français en Allemagne et contre les personnels d'encadrement des camps de concentration. 1946-1948. • BB/30/1800 à 1805 : Courrier départ. 1944-1948…
19. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
… concentration camp in Poland in 1943 where they perished. Rudi was sent to Vught concentration camp and then back to Westerbork. On March 5, 1944, he was deported…
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 … they perished. Rudi was sent to Vught concentration camp and then back to Westerbork. On March 5, 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz. Rudi was one of…
20. Yaakov Borenstein collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.133
Date:
1940-1945
…The collection consists of a prayer-book found by Marguit Loewy Borenstein [donor's mother] in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945 and a photograph…