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1. Kopolovic family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.315.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2010
bulk: 1937-1948
… Olga Schuman (formerly Ester Kopolovicova) of Drahova, Czechoslovakia (Drahovo, Ukraine), who survived Auschwitz and Stutthof. Also includes a DVD photos…
2. Csengeri family photograph collection
2004.622.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.622.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1948
… twin sisters, Lea and Yehudit Csengeri, who survived experiments performed by Josef Mengele in Auschwitz. Includes photographs sent by their mother…
3. Margot Schlesinger papers
2013.224.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2013.224.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
undated: 
… from July 1942 – September 1943. The family survived multiple deportations and selections. When the ghetto was liquidated on September 2, 1943, Margot…
4. John and Barbara Helman papers
2006.165.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2006.165.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1951
…, Laja (married name Pakin), survived the war. He traveled to the Bergen‐Belsen displaced persons camp to find his sister and also found Bronia Wiewióra…
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 … biographical materials and photographs documenting the Helman and Wiewióra families from Łódź, John and Barbara’s survival of the Łódź ghetto, John’s survival of…
5. Henryka Wagner Goldsher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.154.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1984
… persons documentation for Henryka, who survived Auschwitz and Majdanek. Also includes documentation related to Selma Goldsher and her brother Saul, who…
6. Gina Gotfryd collection
1995.A.0170 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0170
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1994
…’s barracks, where they continued to perform hard labor. Against all odds, Gina and her mother survived, and after the Russians liberated the camp, eventually…
7. 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
… concentration camp, where Amalia perished upon arrival. Ilona and Eta survived the initial selection and were sent for forced labor in munitions factories. The…
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 … the Miskolc ghetto. Three weeks later they arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Amalia perished upon arrival. Ilona and Eta survived the…
8. George Rothman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.592.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-circa 2018
bulk: 1939-1948
… Emmanuel and Esfira had likely perished, but that George had survived. He began corresponding with George and the Lequiens, and in March 1947 George…
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 …’s hospitalization due to a severe illness, his parent’s deportation to Drancy and Auschwitz, and his survival as a hidden child in a Catholic orphanage. Included are…
9. Joseph and Josie Peretz papers
2011.278.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.278.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1957
… who survived the Holocaust. Joseph, after being released as a prisoner of war with the Belgian army was deported to a labor camp in northern France and…
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 … Peretz papers comprise documents and photographs concerning Joseph and Josie Peretz, a Jewish couple living in Antwerp, Belgian who survived the Holocaust…
10. Henry Knepler papers
2004.683.1 Box 3 Folder 12 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.683.1 | RG Number: RG-10.458
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2004
… Monte Carlo where his cousin Hilda Lorant lived. He was arrested in 1944 and transported to Drancy and then Auschwitz. He did not survive. Henry…
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 … internment as an enemy alien in England and Canada, his mother’s survival in Austria by hiding under a false identity, and Hugo’s escape to Monaco, eventual…
11. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… that she would not survive. In April 1945, the factory ran out of raw material and work was halted. On May 5, 1945, the guards opened the camp gates…
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 …, and Theresienstadt materials documenting Hana and Charles Bruml from Czechoslovakia, their families, their survival in Theresienstadt and Auschwitz, and…
12. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
… Berlin, Tel Aviv, and Antwerp; her father’s and brother’s expulsion into Poland in 1938; Eva’s survival in Auschwitz with her sister Erna; and her husband…
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 … Poland in 1938; Eva’s survival in Auschwitz with her sister Erna; and her husband, Naftali Baumohl. Languages: German, English, Hebrew, Dutch…
13. 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:
Save Their Stories
… Deggendorf displaced persons camp, dating, going to movies, receiving mail from her surviving family members, and making plans to immigrate. The diary…
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 … Deggendorf displaced persons camp, dating, going to movies, receiving mail from her surviving family members, and making plans to immigrate. The diary…
14. Jack Garfein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.309.11
Date:
inclusive: 1921-2013
undated: 
… Auschwitz. Jack survived eleven concentration camps, including Auschwitz, camps in Riese (Silesia), Flossenburg, Buchenwald, and Bergen-Belsen. He was…
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 … Jack Garfein (born Jakob Garfein), originally of Bardejov, Czechoslovakia (Bardejov, Slovakia), including his survival of several concentration camps…
15. 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
… presumed to have perished in 1945. Serafina and Bola survived and were liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. After the war, they traveled from Jewish home to…
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 … survived the Holocaust after being liberated from Auschwitz in 1945. Among the documents collected by the Serafina and Bola are Red Cross identification…
16. Hertha Spier collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0421
Date:
creation: circa 1993
inclusive: 1923-1946
… Max Gruber survived this action in hiding. Eugenie Gruber was sent to the Ravensbruck concentration camp, where she perished. It is believed that…
17. Basel family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0268 | RG Number: RG-19.054
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1975
…Aliana Brodmann E. von Richthofen's parents, David and Rysza Brodmann (nee Liebgold) survived Auschwitz, along with Rysza Brodmann's, sister Fela…
18. Kürschner family photograph collection
2013.134.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 51
Document | Accession Number: 2013.134.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1948
… and later in Sommerda. Both survived the death march and immigrated to Israel. Dita’s father, Lajos, died in Buchenwald on January 2, 1945.…
19. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
… sent on a forced-march to Theresienstadt where they were liberated by the Red Army on May 9. Her brother Karl survived the war, but perished shortly…
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 … Theresienstadt where they were liberated by the Red Army on May 9. Her brother Karl survived the war, but perished shortly after being liberated. Marion reunited…
20. Martha Bernstein collection
1994.A.0114 Box 1 Folder 2 Item 7
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0114
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1944
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… until the camp was liberated in 1945. The surviving members of the Bernstein, Heumann, and Blumenfeld families immigrated to the United States in 1947…