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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
…The Anne Frank Fonds has asserted copyright over all materials created by Otto Frank until 60 years after his death. Any requests to republish these…
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 … between approximately 1945 and 1985. The materials document mail systems in and around Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps and, by extension, the…
2. Medal presented to former inmates of the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the 50th anniversary of its opening
2018.228.2 a-b 3/4 view open
Object | Accession Number: 2018.228.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1941
received: 1991
… Meuselwitz, a subcamp of the Buchenwald camp system in Germany, and escaped a death march. The couple married in February 1948, the same day that the Communist…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
… to Auschwitz concentration camp. His pregnant wife, Rosa, and their 3-year old son, Uriel perished there. Norbert’s arm was tattooed with the number…
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 … draft for a pictorial exhibition: Rebirth After Liberation – The Bergen-Belsen D.P. Camp, 1945-1950, 1965 47.4 World Zionist Organization. Judy Carr, We…
6. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
…. His mother told him that the Krakow paper had reported his death in a camp. Still ailing, Henryk went to St. Lazarus hospital. It was full, but his…
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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. Selected records from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-43.138M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1945
…, and testimonies. Included are camp medical records, lists of deportees, and internees, list of arrivals and prisoners, registers of deaths and death…
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 … Extent: 59 microfilm reel (16 mm) Provenance: After liberation, the records were collected from camps by camp survivors and Allied relief and…
8. Hertha Spier collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0421
Date:
creation: circa 1993
inclusive: 1923-1946
… and later Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the conditions within the camps, the death of her sister two weeks before liberation, and her own eventual…
9. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
… after his liberation from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the end of World War II. Many of the reproductions in the collection are a result of…
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 … anthology of concentration camp music and poetry. Kulisiewicz was unsuccessful in publishing the anthology before his death but drafts for the work are found…
10. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Auschwitz. In 1945 he was sent on a death march and transported to Buchenwald until liberation in April 1945. Following liberation, Philip lived in Pyrenees…
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 … and Buchenwald, death marches, and liberation. Photographs include images taken at Auschwitz depicting views of the camp after liberation. System of…
11. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
… was sent on a death march to Germany where he was imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. A trained toolmaker, Rudi was selected for forced…
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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…
12. 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
… administration of Lublin, Poland, from 1939 to 1944. The records relate to a prisoner of war camp in Lublin, constructions of streets in Lublin, construction of…
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 … in the Lublin prisoner of war camp. 1942. Internal disposition (order). Dec. 6, 1939‐ 1941 Application for liberation of arrested functionaries…
13. 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
… raised in Miskolc, Hungary where Miksa worked as a shoemaker. He died of cancer in 1928. After their father’s death, Irene and Ilona supported the family…
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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…
14. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.456.4
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1997
bulk: 1945-1971
… was sent on a death march to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At Bergen-Belsen she had to move dead bodies to a mass grave. She was there…
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 … there for several months and then was sent on a death march to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At Bergen-Belsen she had to move dead bodies to a…
15. Norman Salsitz papers
2003.425.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 2003.425.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1889-2000
… rest of his family in the ghettos was deported to the Belzec death camp. In October 1942, Norman escaped Kolbuszowa to the surrounding forest and joined…
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 … around Stanisławów and Kraków, Poland; Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz after liberation; and the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. Languages: Polish, Hebrew…
16. Sydney Schwimmer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.2.1 | RG Number: RG-10.208
Date:
1937-1997
… till the liberation in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen by survivor.…
17. 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
… remained a forced laborer until the camp was evacuated in February 1945. During evacuation, the prisoners were sent on a death march through Lower Silesia…
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 …, escaping from a death march, her recapture and imprisonment at Theresienstadt, and liberation. The Lisa Liebschütz papers include documents related to her…
18. Holocaust survivor
Document | Accession Number: 1991.080 | RG Number: RG-02.030
Date:
1920-1975
Subtitle:
A mother writes to her children
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
19. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
…, taken to the transit camp at Malines, and in January 1944 deported to Auschwitz, where they were eventually assigned to the “Union” munitions factory for…
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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…
20. Abraham family papers
1996.126.3 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.126.3
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1960
…. Walter’s parents and grandparents were deported to Gurs internment camp in France in October 1940. In March 1941, Ruth and Walter were assigned to forced…
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 … Walter’s mother Elsa Abraham, and a declaration of death for Ruth’s mother Henriette. Other documents include documentation for Ruth’s sisters and for her…