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1061. Kurz family papers
2011.281.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.281.1
Date:
inclusive: 1903-circa 2011
bulk: 1903-1959
… letter Klara received from Meilech was from November 10, 1942, written during his deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was killed on…
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 … Meilech was from November 10, 1942, written during his deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He was killed on November 13th. Klara and the…
1062. Ruth Danzig Rauch papers
2012.454.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 42
Document | Accession Number: 2012.454.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1993
bulk: 1938-1956
… to Theresienstadt labor camp-ghetto. Solomon died there on October 1, 1943. Hedwig was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 18, 1944, and murdered. On…
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 … Auschwitz‐Birkenau on May 18, 1944, and murdered. On July 11, 1942, Samuel, Marta, and Siegbert, Bianca’s family, were transported to an unknown destination…
1063. Sandor Berko collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.356
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1948
… deported to Auschwitz. On the eve of Passover, the few survivors gathered for a seder but their grief was so intense they had to discontinue the ceremony…
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 … Josef Weisz, Sandor’s maternal uncle; his wife Margit Weisz and their son, Sandor, who was born on March 25, 1928; all were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau…
1064. Marcus family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.340.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1998
bulk: 1939-1942
… family members who were not able to escape Germany were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German occupied Poland. Erich’s parents, Emil and…
1065. Frank Meissner papers
2004.692.1 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.692.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1995
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… his family had not returned after the war and that after a year in Theresienstadt they had been sent to Auschwitz where they perished. In 1946, he was…
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 … English course at the University of Cambridge. Frank learned, however, that his entire family had perished in Auschwitz. Frank returned to Prague briefly…
1066. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
undated: 
… Mandel, his maternal grandparents Rabbi Aaron and Paula Klein, and his seven-year-old cousin Judit Krishaber, who was killed at Auschwitz. Settling in…
1067. Violin case used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.10 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.10
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… pharmaceutical company, but was not subjected to sterilization. They were not deported, though a number of other relatives were deported to Dachau and Auschwitz…
1068. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.8
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… pharmaceutical company, but was not subjected to sterilization. They were not deported, though a number of other relatives were deported to Dachau and Auschwitz…
1069. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.9
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… pharmaceutical company, but was not subjected to sterilization. They were not deported, though a number of other relatives were deported to Dachau and Auschwitz…
1070. Medal of the Belgian Nationalist Movement 1940-1945, ribbon and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.12 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… Sonja and her husband were killed in Auschwitz. His wife Ita’s parents were hidden by an employee, Jeanne de Bruyn, and her family. During the war…
1071. White badge with an inverted red triangle and number 1896 worn by a gay concentration camp inmate
2012.482.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.482.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 May-approximately 1945 April
… Sachsenhausen as "the 'Auschwitz' for homosexuals." Gay prisoners were assigned to their own block and had to obey special constraints, such as always sleeping…
1072. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…. Mengele was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, in order to perform experiments on Jewish and Roma twins and dwarves…
1073. Small metal coffeepot used by a Yugoslavian family
2017.609.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.609.5
Date:
acquired: before 1941 April 06
… and killed in the spring of 1942, likely in Auschwitz. Esther was able to avoid deportation and stayed in Osijek until May, when she travelled to Hvar…
1074. Lux cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.14
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
1075. Ghetto in Dabrowa Gornicza and Bedzin
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Film | Accession Number: 2003.473.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3837 | Film ID: 2661
Film Title:
Zydzi Polscy
Date:
Event: 1941-1942?
Duration:
00:10:56
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… Gornicza. Dabrowa Gornicza is in the vicinity of Auschwitz (Dabrowa is pronounced "Dombrova"). USHMM Photo Archive image #29876, obtained from Bildarchiv…
1076. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 2 mark note, found postwar
1986.33.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1986.33.2
Date:
issue: 1940 June-1944 August
found: after 1945 May
… ghetto, primarily to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. During this time, Ignacy built a bunker where he and his family hid to avoid the deportations. He…
1077. Chesterfield cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.19
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
… concentration camp in 1945. Ralf's paternal grandmother and cousin, Gertrude and Peter, died in Auschwitz death camp. Gerda’s brother, Werner, emigrated to…
1078. Medal of Remembrance of the War 1940- 1945, ribbon, and box awarded to a Belgian Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.10 a-d
Date:
commemoration: 1940-1945
… Sonja and her husband were killed in Auschwitz. His wife Ita’s parents were hidden by an employee, Jeanne de Bruyn, and her family. During the war…
1079. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families papers
2016.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2016
bulk: 1938-1945
… Marseilles. Julius was transferred to Gurs shortly after. Many of the family’s relatives were also sent to Gurs and were eventually deported to Auschwitz and…
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 … eventually deported to Auschwitz and killed. After Rudi was no longer permitted to attend school in September 1940, his mother offered his volunteer services…
1080. Kurt and Hennie Reiner papers
2018.299.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2018.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1996
undated: 
… Lemberg, Poland. Numerous cousins, aunts and uncles were also murdered at Auschwitz.…
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 …, aunts and uncles were also murdered at Auschwitz. Biography by Judy Cohen and Adam Fielding. Source: Reiner Kurt and Reiner, Gary. Counting on America: A…