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1. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… Dachau to the donor's grandmother, Hedwig Kahn; a Gestapo summons issued to Ferdinand Kahn; and a post-period picture postcard of Auschwitz. Additional…
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 … Christel. Particularly well-documented camps include Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, Ferramonti, Sachsenhausen, Theresienstadt, and Westerbork. Particularly…
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2. Joseph W. Eaton papers
2009.401.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2009.401.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-2011
1932-2011
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 … und Land, Würselen (Eaton), circa 1944‐1945 Auschwitz, 1945 5 22 B, circa 1944‐1945 [Bergen‐Belsen], circa April 1945 Bericht von Frau…
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3. Edith Koenig papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.132 | RG Number: RG-10.445
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1945
…, and Hedwig Gutmann taken in 1932 in Germany. Hedwig Gutmann likely perished at Auschwitz.…
4. Magda Weigl Heath collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.97 | RG Number: RG-10.503
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2009
… join her in England, and then went to Canada. Magda's mother was deported first to Theresienstadt, then to Auschwitz, where she perished. Includes a DVD…
5. Michael J. Kraus papers
1995.A.1067.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1067.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1994
bulk: 1945-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… the Canadian northwest. On December 15th, Michal and his family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Michal was tattooed with the…
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 … Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Mauthausen before being liberated in 1945. Included in his collection are records pertaining to his parent’s property and…
6. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
… they were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp. In early 1944 Siegfried was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. He was then sent as a…
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 … internment at Westerbork concentration camp; and their deportations to Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps. Included are biographical papers…
7. Nina Ebb papers
1994.A.0053.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0053.2
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1995
bulk: 1942-1944
… Theresienstadt, but both were deported to Auschwitz in October 1944. Fredo was gassed and Hanus later died in Kaufering, a sub-camp of Dachau. After the war, Nina…
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 … Auschwitz in October 1944. Fredo was gassed and Hanus later died in Kaufering, a sub‐camp of Dachau. After the war, Nina and Emma returned to Plzeň and were…
8. Sonnenmark family correspondence
2012.65.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 72
Document | Accession Number: 2012.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
… Buchenwald, also in 1939. He remained at that camp until 1942, when he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he died on 25 November 1942. His wife and…
9. Man’s dark blue pajama shirt given to a Czech Jewish inmate of Theresienstadt by another inmate
2001.3.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.3.2
Date:
use: 1942 August-1945 May
…, Marta, and Karel were deported to Auschwitz. On October 1, 1944, Bruno was deported and Hana volunteered to go with him. They were put on a dirty…
10. Star of David badge printed Jood worn by German Jewish boy
1989.251.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.251.8
Date:
use: 1942 April 29-1945 May 09
… father Hans was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Near the end of the war in spring 1945, the German were evacuating camps in the east and…
11. Portrait of an engineer done by Peter Kien when both were inmates in Terezin
Object | Accession Number: 1992.124.1
Date:
received: after 1942 January-before 1944 October
Artwork Title:
Karel Fischer, Theresienstadt, 1942-1944
… leaving, Peter and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Peter survived the selection process, soon fell ill…
12. Woman’s lab coat owned by a Czech Jewish inmate while a nurse in Theresienstadt
2001.3.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.3.3
Date:
use: after 1942 August-before 1944 October
…, Marta, and Karel were deported to Auschwitz. On October 1, 1944, Bruno was deported and Hana volunteered to go with him. They were put on a dirty…
13. Wooden drafting triangle used by a Czech Jewish camp inmate
1989.303.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.16
Date:
use: 1941 December-1945 May
… stopped and there was no food. There was a single barrel for a toilet and an elderly man died while using it. When the train arrived at Auschwitz…
14. French curve drafting tool used by a Czech Jewish camp inmate
1989.303.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.17
Date:
use: 1941 December-1945 May
… stopped and there was no food. There was a single barrel for a toilet and an elderly man died while using it. When the train arrived at Auschwitz…
15. Large, ribbed burlap covered trunk used by Jewish Czech inmates
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.53
Date:
use: 1941 December-1944 September 24
manufacture: approximately 1900-1925
… in prison in May. On September 28, 1944, Otto, Irma, and Helene were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Before he was…
16. Concentration camp uniform cap with number 107310 issued to a Jewish Czech inmate
1989.303.25_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.303.25 a
Date:
use: after 1942 November-1945 April 15
… stopped and there was no food. There was a single barrel for a toilet and an elderly man died while using it. When the train arrived at Auschwitz…
17. 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…
18. Portrait of a fellow inmate in Terezin ghetto created by Bedrich Fritta
Object | Accession Number: 2003.396.1
Date:
creation: approximately 1942
recovered: after 1945 May
Artwork Title:
Wilda Petschau, Theresienstadt 1942
… families, were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. Bedrich, 37, died a week later of exhaustion and blood poisoning, on November 8, 1944. His son Tomas…
19. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, saved by a former German Jewish inmate
1995.78.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.78.1
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
received: approximately 1942 March
… October 12, 1944, they were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center on Transport Eq. Alfred’s wife, daughter, and mother were murdered on October…
20. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, saved by a former German Jewish inmate
1995.78.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.78.2
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
received: approximately 1942 March
… October 12, 1944, they were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center on Transport Eq. Alfred’s wife, daughter, and mother were murdered on October…