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521. SA brown uniform shirt with Rottenfuhrer insignia acquired by a US soldier
1988.99.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.5
Date:
found: approximately 1945-before 1945 November
manufacture: after 1934-before 1945
… survived imprisonment in Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Malchow concentration camps. Harry disliked his desk job and he and Ruth began a furrier business in…
522. Concentration camp uniform pants with red triangle patch worn by Polish Jewish inmate
1993.159.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.159.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945 May
… identity papers at a university in Warsaw. The Gestapo did not know that Mieczyslaw was Jewish. He was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp as a Polish…
523. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1993.159.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.159.3
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945 May
… identity papers at a university in Warsaw. The Gestapo did not know that Mieczyslaw was Jewish. He was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp as a Polish…
524. Walter and Gretel Kleeblatt collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.533.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1945
… Auschwitz where he perished. Already ill with cancer, thirty-four year old Edith died in 1941. Her young son Werner was placed in the Jewish orphanage on…
525. Witelson and Laks families collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.480.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1998
bulk: 1922-1957
…. Ruska and Hela Witelson and Zoshia and Helinka Zarska were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The three sisters were selected for work, but…
526. Karl Akiva and Ella Huppert Schwarz papers
2004.273.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image13
Document | Accession Number: 2004.273.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1981
bulk: 1939-1948
… Theresienstadt in June 1943, and then transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1944 where they perished.…
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 …. Henrietta and her husband Pavel Beran were deported to Theresienstadt in June 1943, and then transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1944…
527. Blogier, Wekselman, and Wides families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.514.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1969
bulk: 1945-1969
… subsequently transferred to Auschwitz, where Benjamin was a kapo and Abraham worked in the kitchen. They survived subsequent interments at Sachsenhausen and…
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 … were both subsequently transferred to Auschwitz, where Benjamin was a kapo and Abraham worked in the kitchen. They survived subsequent interments at…
528. Vera Waisvisz-Reiss papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.140.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1947
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…
529. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. Walther and Grete were sent to Westerbork on the next day, September 7, 1943, and then deported to Auschwitz. Four year old Truusje was placed with a…
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 … survived their incarceration at Theresienstadt. Walter and Margareta had been sent to Auschwitz where they were killed. Trudy lived with her relatives for a…
530. Ilona Kellner papers
2017.645.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.645.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2002
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. In mid-June, the family, was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Their parents were taken to the gas chambers in the…
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 … set aside in another area of the town. In mid-June, the family was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Their parents…
531. Vogel and Baer family correspondence
2011.140. 1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2011.140.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
… was deported to Gurs and in 1942, transfer to Drancy for a period of four days before being sent to Auschwitz, where he is presumed to have perished.…
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 … being sent to Auschwitz, where he is presumed to have perished. Scope and content of collection The Vogel and Baer family correspondence comprises…
532. George and Shari Fine collection
Document | Accession Number: 1998.81
Date:
inclusive: circa 1905-1954
… taken in 1944. In March 1944, the Bistrita Jews were forced into a ghetto. And in April, the family was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. They…
533. Dolf and Cato Ringel papers
1993.123.10 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1993.123.10
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1989
… Jawischowitz sub-camp of Auschwitz and died working in a coal mine. The rest of the family were also sent to Auschwitz, where they were killed. Dolf’s parents…
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 … was sent to the Jawischowitz sub‐camp of Auschwitz and died working in a coal mine. The rest of the family were also sent to Auschwitz, where they…
534. Rosenwald, Block, and Kupferschlag families papers
1999.A.0278 Box 1 Folder 32 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0278
Date:
inclusive: 1755-1944
… and Bernhardine Block, and Gertrude's sister and her family, Hilde, Ewald, and Dan Rosenthal via Holland. Bernhardine Block died at Auschwitz in 1944…
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 … at Auschwitz in 1944. Gertrude’s relatives from Cologne, Joseph and Adele Harth and Ida Block, died in Łódź in 1942-1943. Scope and content of…
535. Drawing by Hannah Messinger of a woman sitting with her hands on her head
2010.489.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.489.7
Date:
depiction: 1941-1945
creation: approximately 1970
Series Title:
The Last Journey
Artwork Title:
Despair
… Auschwitz-Birkenau. Two weeks later, Hannah was sent there. During the march to the barracks, she threw her wedding ring and watch in the mud. A female…
536. Natalie Baum collection
Document | Accession Number: 2001.220.1
Date:
creation: circa 1938-1942
… later to Australia. On October 30, 1942 Jakub and Wittie Tisch were deported from Antwerp to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where they perished on…
537. Josef Zorski photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.254.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1941
…. Zygmunt’s mother, Roza Jasny Zorski, was a housewife. Jan Jankel’s parents were deported in August 1943 to the Auschwitz where they perished. Zygmunt and…
538. Drawing by Hannah Messinger of a woman gesturing in supplication
2010.489.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.489.3
Date:
depiction: 1941-1945
creation: approximately 1970
Series Title:
Last Journey
Artwork Title:
Why?
… Auschwitz-Birkenau. Two weeks later, Hannah was sent there. During the march to the barracks, she threw her wedding ring and watch in the mud. A female…
539. Adler and Gumpert family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.202.2
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1966
… correspondence from her until October 1941, when she was deported to Theresienstadt. Johanna Adler was sent to Auschwitz in May 1944, and was killed shortly after…
540. Left shoe template of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.12
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… year. In summer 1944, Łódź, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing centers.…