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1. "Survival in the Lion's Den"
Document | Accession Number: 1989.121 | RG Number: RG-02.019
Date:
1937-1989
…"Survival in the Lion's Den"…
2. Autobiographical drawing by Jacob Barosin
2010.502.79 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.79
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
An old man in gurs. Will he survive deportation?
…An old man in gurs. Will he survive deportation?…
3. John and Harriet Isaack papers
1992.53.45 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1992.53.45
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1991
… the Hongkew ghetto. John became a camp guard, and Hermann died of dysentery. John and Harriet survived the war, immigrated to California in 1947, and…
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 …. John and Harriet survived the war, immigrated to California in 1947, and became American citizens in 1952. John’s father committed suicide before…
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4. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… traveled to Lisbon, newspaper clippings, and Joseph Shadur’s memoir, A Drive to Survival.…
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 …, newspaper clippings, and Joseph Shadur’s memoir, A Drive to Survival. System of arrangement The Shadur family papers are arranged into six series: • Series 1…
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5. Hermann Zutraun papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.207
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1943
… his job in April 1939. He moved to Ankara in 1940 and survived the war there. Hermann and his family immigrated to the United States in 1949 and settled…
6. Peter Kauf collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.318.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
… survived the Holocaust in hiding; his older brother was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered upon arrival; his parents were hiding most of the time…
7. 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…
8. Walter Kamlet papers
2014.332.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 255
Document | Accession Number: 2014.332.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2007
bulk: 1940-1956
… sporting goods store in Berlin. During the war, the family moved to Belgium where Benno and Mila survived the Holocaust in hiding while Walter and Manfred…
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 …, who survived the Holocaust in hiding in Belgium. Languages: German, French, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but…
9. Beatrice Muchman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0269.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1999
… documenting the Westheimer family of Berlin, their flight to Brussels, Beatrix Westheimer’s survival in hiding in Ottignies, her parents’ deportations to…
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 … Westheimer’s survival in hiding in Ottignies, her parents’ deportations to Auschwitz and deaths, and her immigration to the United States to rejoin her…
10. Schatz and Bonder families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.429.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1991
bulk: 1940-1957
…. Both families survived the Holocaust in Italy and were united through the marriage of Henry Schatz and Rischa Bonder when the couple were married in the…
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 … Bonder) Schatz and their respective families. Both families survived the Holocaust in Italy and were united through Henry and Rischa’s marriage in the…
11. 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…
12. Rolnik family photograph collection
2016.508.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2016.508.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1988
… Vilnius, Poland (present-day Vilnius, Lithuania) and survived the war. He later immigrated to Israel. David would not discover that his father survived the…
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 …, Lithuania) and survived the war. He later immigrated to Israel. David would not discover that his father survived the war until the late 1950s. His brother…
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. Irene and Henry Frank papers
2016.496.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.496.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1992
… German-occupied Poland and Irene never saw him again. A week later, on October 6, Irene was taken to Auschwitz on Transport Eo. Upon arrival, she survived…
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 … Berlin, their survival in concentration and labor camps during the Holocaust, and their immigration to the United States in 1946. Correspondence primarily…
15. Frederick Weinstein papers
2008.321.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2008.321.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1999
bulk: 1944-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… laborer. The surviving members of the family traveled around Europe and eventually settled in the Düppel displaced persons camp near Berlin. There, Fryderyk…
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 …. The surviving members of the family traveled around Europe and eventually settled in the Düppel displaced persons camp near Berlin. There, Fryderyk met…
16. Alice and John Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.247.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-2003
… national. She returned to Bergen-Belsen and the couple married on June 20, 1948. Hans’s sister, his only surviving family member, was a seamstress. She made…
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 … Germany, Alice’s nursing education and work in England, John’s survival in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and the couple’s work at the Bergen…
17. Regina and Siegfried Keil papers, 1942-1947
1997.A.0245 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0245
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1947
… killed there as well. Regina's brother, Felix Fainariu, survived Auschwitz. Regina and Siegfried Keil were married in March 1942 and had their first…
18. Max Schmeidler papers
2004.88.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2004.88.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1963
… survived polio and encephalitis in 1943 and lived in the Hongkew ghetto. He immigrated to the United States in 1947, and his parents, who survived the…
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 … was awarded a Police Distinguished Conduct Medal. He survived polio and encephalitis in 1943 and lived in the Hongkew ghetto. He immigrated to the…
19. Karl Rosenthal family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0029 | RG Number: RG-10.087
Date:
1898-1950
…, Siegfried, was apparently shot and killed at Mauthausen concentration camp. He and his surviving family eventually immigrated to the United States. In time…
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 … apparently shot and killed at Mauthausen concentration camp. He and his surviving family eventually immigrated to the United States. In time, he became the…
20. Gerda Buchheim Haas photograph and memoir
1999.A.0209 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0209
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1996
… Tacoma, Washington. Her parent did not survive a March 1943 transport to Auschwitz.…
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 … traveled first from San Francisco to Portland before settling in Tacoma, Washington. Her parent did not survive a March 1943 transport to Auschwitz…