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781. Pouch and medical instruments used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.22 a-j
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
782. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note
2007.45.87 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.45.87
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
found: approximately 1944 July
… army and, through them, cabled Bolivia to tell Gustav’s sisters that they had survived. Prior to the war, his sister, Gerda, had married Dr. Robert…
783. Alexander Bachnár papers, Bratislava component collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.201.1 | RG Number: RG-57.030
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2008
… were the only members of their large family to survive the Holocaust. After the war, he worked as a journalist and editor for Bojovník, the Pravda…
784. Dr. Willy Katz papers
1990.88.11 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 1990.88.11
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1988
bulk: 1902-1950
…, refused to divorce her Jewish husband. Helmut went to England around 1936, survived the war there, and changed his name to Henry Keith. Elsa Brann is…
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 … sister‐in‐law but had to give it up in 1939 when she, a non‐Jew, refused to divorce her Jewish husband. Helmut went to England around 1936, survived the…
785. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.12
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… survived the war after all, returned to Germany. Gabriel decided to go back to her and had his second marriage to Theresia annulled. Rita remained with her…
786. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
… to Auschwitz. Rudi was one of fifty-five members of his transport of 2,500 people to survive the initial selection of the camp. In January 1945, Rudi…
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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…
787. Giza Wiernik papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.743.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1958
… Giza's father and later her mother was taken to Delatyn and murdered with the rest of the Jewish women. Giza and her father survived one "Aktion." During…
788. Cut-paper work created by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.3
Date:
emigration: 1940 March
Artwork Title:
Scherenschnitte v. Adi Beister II
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
789. Elsie Ragusin Azzinaro papers
2016.468.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.468.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-circa 2015
bulk: 1944-1961
… December 1945 she sailed back to the United States from Sweden on the Stig Gorthon. Domenica survived the war, and sailed back to the United States on the…
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 … for around 9 months. On 10 December 1945 she sailed back to the United States from Sweden on the Stig Gorthon. Domenica survived the war, and sailed…
790. Samuel and Franka Baral papers
2008.117.4 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2008.117.4
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1966
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, and Aneta hid in an attic in a different section of the ghetto, until Franka and Aneta escaped to Tarnów, while Samuel went to Płaszow. Samuel survived…
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 … to Płaszow. Samuel survived the Holocaust by being placed on Oskar Schindler’s list. In Tarnów, Franka worked as a seamstress. She made dresses for…
791. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 1994.53.6.3
Date:
received: before 1940
…, Irene learned that only a few distant relatives and her cousins from Hamburg had survived. Her mother and brother had been forced from their home. She…
792. Selected records of the World ORT Archive (WOA), London
Document | Accession Number: 2018.468.1 | RG Number: RG-59.084
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1983
… for survival. ORT was most active in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. In Warsaw, the German authorities only allowed…
793. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.11
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… survived the war after all, returned to Germany. Gabriel decided to go back to her and had his second marriage to Theresia annulled. Rita remained with her…
794. Franka and Allen Charlupski family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2020.317.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-circa 1996
bulk: circa 1935-circa 1947
… Franka and her sister Rosa were liberated by British troops. They were reunited with their sister Mala who survived several camps. Franka and Rosa moved to…
795. Gertner family papers
2018.217.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.217.2
Date:
inclusive: 1932-2015
…, survived and later married Simon Gelbard. Hersch’s sister Scheindale (Sabina) and her young daughter Udale were killed near the end of the war. After the…
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 … the war, was informed on by a Polish woman, and was killed by the Germans. Her younger sister, Malcia, survived and later married Simon Gelbard. Hersch…
796. Markon family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.642.1
Date:
1927-1974
… invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Katia survived being imprisoned in both Kaiserwald and Stutthof concentration camps, and immigrated to the US in…
797. Mendel Grossman photograph collection
2005.214.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2005.214.2
Date:
inclusive: 1919-circa 1970
… concentration camp in 1944. Gitl perished on the forced-march, but Franka survived. In May, 1945 Moshe and his father returned to Łódź. Moshe was reunited with…
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 … the forced-march, but Franka survived. In May, 1945 Moshe and his father returned to Łódz.́ Moshe was reunited with Rozka, and they became a couple…
798. Ernest Marx photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.177.2
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1945
… survived the war. Ernie escaped from Gurs with several others and he joined the Chasseur Alpins of the Maquis, a French resistance group. After liberation…
799. Hermann family correspondence
2012.499.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1951
… husband Joseph. She survived five years in Bergen Belsen and was liberated by the Soviets. Gertrude’s mother, Elise was deported from Munich in November…
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 …, where she witnessed the killing of her husband Joseph. She survived five years in Bergen Belsen and was liberated by the Soviets. Gertrude’s mother, Elise…
800. Berland family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.188.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1948
… by partisans. Soon after Felicja learned her mother was still alive. They were reunited briefly but decided their chances of surviving were better if…