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581. Shoemaker's tack hammer of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
Object | Accession Number: 1990.285.4.14
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
… of the year. In summer 1944, Łódź, the last ghetto in Poland, was destroyed and the remaining Jews were sent to Chelmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau killing…
582. Dawid Sierakowiak diary
Document | Accession Number: 1999.93.1 | RG Number: RG-10.247
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1943
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… his sister was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. They both perished. His father died in the ghetto.…
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 … 1943 Dawid died in the Łódź ghetto of tuberculosis. His mother was deported to Chełmno concentration camp and his sister was deported to Auschwitz…
583. Drawing by Hannah Messinger of a woman with two emaciated children
2010.489.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.489.5
Date:
depiction: 1941-1945
creation: approximately 1970
Series Title:
Last Journey
Artwork Title:
Young Girl Reaching
… 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…
584. Rina Nadel photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2003.345.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1945
… survived imprisonment at the Gleiwitz labor camp. Her mother and sister, however, both perished in Auschwitz. Renia then went to live in Sosnowiec with three…
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 … imprisonment at the Gleiwitz labor camp. Her mother and sister, however, both perished in Auschwitz. Renia then went to live in Sosnowiec with three cousins…
585. Hebrew prayer book, owned by a Romanian Jewish woman killed in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.1
Date:
use: 1940-before 1944
recovered: 1946
Title:
Ünnepi Imádságok A Templomban Használatos Sorrendben
Subtitle:
Jomkipur vagyis az engesztelő ünnep napjára
Yom Kippur, that is, the Day of Atonement
Alternate Title:
Festive Prayers In The Order Used In The Temple
… surrounding communities. Between May 25 and June 9, six transports emptied the ghetto, deporting the inhabitants to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German…
586. Charles Rojer photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2013.420.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2009
…, where he only saw his parents one more time, before their arrest and deportation to Auschwitz in January 1943, where they subsequently perished. For the…
587. Kessler family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.586.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1869-2015
bulk: 1914-1998
… Auschwitz where he perished. Ivan survived the Holocaust in Ecuador. Before the war, he was an electrical engineer who worked on the electrification of the…
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 … later deported back to Austria by the Vichy government. Hans was then deported to Auschwitz where he perished. Ivan survived the Holocaust in Ecuador…
588. Jiří Lauscher collection
1993.A.0003 Box 4 Folder 18 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0003 | RG Number: RG-35.001
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1989
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 1945, all of Jiri’s close friends were deported to other camps, primarily Auschwitz, and as the last member of the group, he became the guardian of their…
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 … were deported to other camps, primarily Auschwitz, and he became the guardian of their personal papers. The family returned to Prague following…
589. Wellisch and Auerbach families papers
2018.646.1 Box 2 Folder 27 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.646.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1961
… correspondence is a September 20, 1943 postcard she wrote from Vught to Sam. She was transferred to Westerbork transit camp the same day, deported to Auschwitz the…
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 … postcard she wrote from Vught to Sam. She was transferred to Westerbork transit camp the same day, deported to Auschwitz the following day, and killed. This…
590. Jacqueline Mendels Birn papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.188.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1943
… Auschwitz. Most of the roundups took place in areas of Paris with a high concentration of foreign Jews, but the Mendels lived in a primarily Catholic, French…
591. Susi Cohn Podgurski papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-10.286
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1992
bulk: 1938-1947
… Cohn and Toni Cohn, were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on March 12, 1943. They perished in Auschwitz, likely upon arrival. Susi Cohn married…
592. Luba Tryszynska-Frederick papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.615.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2005
… 1944 from the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp where her husband and son were killed. Luba Tryszynska-Frederick (born Luba Tryszynska, 1918…
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 … Bergen-Belsen concentration camp after she was deported there in 1944 from the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp where her husband and son were…
593. Moshe Sheps papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.258.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1945
… deported to the Auschwitz death camp. They were murdered upon arrival. Moniek continued sending food packages to his sisters in spite of a German order…
594. Honig family papers
2002.70.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.70.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2002
…. Rudolfine was transferred to Noe in June 1942 and then deported via Drancy to Auschwitz in August 1942 and killed.…
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 … to Auschwitz in August 1942 and killed. Jules (Julius) Honig (1924-2011) was born in Alsenz, Germany, to Julius (1886-1924) and Rudolfine (née…
595. Regina Wolbrom papers
1995.A.0484.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0484.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1942
… celebrate her birthday while in hiding. On October 29, 1942, Max and Tema were denounced, deported to the Malines transit camp, and then sent to Auschwitz…
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 … written by Regina Rotenberg (age 19) while in prison awaiting transport to Auschwitz concentration camp, dated May 19, 1944, two Poesie books kept by Regina…
596. Manfred Haber family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1963
bulk: 1938-1946
… St. Cyprien internment camp in France, and Les Milles by 1941. He was deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on 14 August 1942 where he perished. Dora was…
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 … deported from Drancy to Auschwitz on 14 August 1942 where he perished. Dora was deported from Mechelen to Auschwitz on 15 August 1942 where she perished…
597. Armband worn by a Jewish American prisoner in Compiègne internment camp
2018.337.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.337.4
Date:
use: 1940 September-1943 July
… secret until their return. One of George’s younger brothers, Isaac, was deported from Drancy transit camp in France to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in…
598. Liebermensch family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.223
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-circa 1946
… transit camp to Drancy transit camp. On September 16, Samuel was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where he was killed. Richard’s parents…
599. De Kadt family life
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Film | Accession Number: 2016.79 | RG Number: RG-60.1784 | Film ID: 4144
Film Title:
Willie learning to walk -- home movies
Date:
Event: Winter 1940-1941
Duration:
00:24:48
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…. The children's parents, Louis de Kadt, 29 (born May 13, 1913), and Sonja Rita de Kadt-Swaap, 22 (born October 8, 1919), were murdered in Auschwitz on…
600. Small leather case with a detached lid used by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2013.461.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1936-1945
… to Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was killed in 1943. Most of Walter’s extended family perished in the Holocaust.…