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781. Rose Kaplovitz papers
1996.A.0576.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0576.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1947
… Cyma and Regina, and Regina’s husband and daughter, Lala, were selected for Auschwitz but escaped. Tola was selected for forced labor in August 1942 and…
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 …-Altstadt subcamp. That summer, Rose, her parents, her sisters Cyma and Regina, and Regina’s husband and daughter, Lala, were selected for Auschwitz but…
782. Partially embroidered tablecloth made by a Belgian Jewish woman recovered postwar
2005.606.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.606.1
Date:
creation: 1940-1941
recovered: 
… was caught. She was arrested and sent to Mechelen (Malines) transit camp. On September 26, 1942, Salomea was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau…
783. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of a large group of Jews living in an attic in the Łódź Ghetto
1987.114.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.114.2
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
A Garrett to Live in was a Luxurious Apartment
Alternate Title:
A garret in the Lodzer Ghetto
… train on August 29, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where his wife and daughter were murdered. Upon his arrival, on September 2, Friedmann’s arm…
784. Bernard Lee papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.62
Date:
1938-1946
…/August 1943. He describes life in the camp. Bernard was then transferred by train to Auschwitz, stayed for a night and he then moved to Birkenau. In…
785. Elsa and Selmar Biener papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1968
bulk: 1936-1941
… the Holocaust including Philip Fischel Biener at Theresienstadt concentration camp, Regina Biener and Abraham Friedler at Auschwitz concentration camp…
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 … including Philip Fischel Biener at Theresienstadt concentration camp, Regina Biener and Abraham Friedler at Auschwitz concentration camp, and Eugen Biener at…
786. Inert Zyklon B, spent Gypsum pellets, from Majdanek concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 1990.192.1 a-b
Date:
recovered: after 1944 July
manufacture: 1941 October-1944 July
… used as a delousing agent, before its effectiveness for mass executions was discovered at the Auschwitz main camp in September 1941. It then held dual…
787. Franziska Nunnally papers
1996.63.4 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1996.63.4
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1996
… Auschwitz, and transferred to Buchenwald and Mauthausen. He is believed to have died at Flossenbürg. Her mother was detained in November 1941 and deported…
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 … in hiding in Paris until 1944, when he was detained at Drancy, deported to Auschwitz, and transferred to Buchenwald and Mauthausen. He is also…
788. Frank Liebermann family papers
2000.103 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2000.103
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1997
… he died. Alfred and Hedwig Orgler were deported to Theresienstadt in July 1943 and from there to Auschwitz in October 1944. The Orglers’ three sons…
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 … Hedwig Orgler were deported to Theresienstadt in July 1943 and from there to Auschwitz in October 1944. The Orglers’ three sons, Walter, Heinz, and uut…
789. Pink chemise with corded, floral lace appliques owned by Lilly Brust Gach
2018.409.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.409.3
Date:
use: approximately 1933-2001
… nearly 440,000 Jews, likely including Elek’s parents and extended family members, were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland…
790. Fringed apron embroidered with a blue and orange geometric band recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
2010.442.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.442.16
Date:
creation: 1941
recovered: 1945 July
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. Her parents, her sister, her aunt, and her cousin were sent immediately to the gas chamber. SS guards selected…