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421. 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…
422. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
…, 1942. On October 19, 1944 she was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz where she died. Martin and Ernest Ostwald were imprisoned with their father…
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 … Theresienstadt to Auschwitz where she died. Martin and Ernest Ostwald were imprisoned with their father in Sachenhausen. Their mother arranged passage for them on…
423. Leo Yeni papers
2012.483.1 Book Enclosure 5 Image 37
Document | Accession Number: 2012.483.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2010
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. In October and November, the Germans conducted round-ups of Jews in Milan and other major cities. In fall 1943, Leo…
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 … refugee labor camps, his artistic training in Switzerland at the end of the war, and the death of his parents at Auschwitz. Language: Italian, French…
424. Leah Press Kalina photographs
2016.173.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 2016.173.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1952
bulk: 1946-1949
… Auschwitz in railroad cars. There, Eli, Sheindel, and Malka were immediately sent to the gas chambers, while Leah, Ruchel, and Bluma were selected for forced…
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 …‐Carpathian region and shortly after, the Gruenberg family was forcibly moved to the Mukacheve ghetto. On May 11, 1944 the family was deported to Auschwitz in…
425. Cohn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.370.1
Date:
1920-1961
… Cohn and Toni Cohn, were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp on March 12, 1943. They perished in Auschwitz, likely upon arrival. Susi Cohn married…
426. Sztorchan family photograph collection
2013.91.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2013.91.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1952
… the death camp had to register and both were shot and killed. Lola Erlich, her husband Oskar, and his son Jerzyk Erlich were deported to the Auschwitz…
427. Jacqueline Frenkel Lewicki papers
2017.650.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.650.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1942
… rounded up by French police and sent to Drancy. On 22 June 1942 Pejsach was deported with the third convoy from Drancy to Auschwitz. Camp death registers…
428. Black Vulcanfiber suitcase used by a Dutch Jewish family while in hiding
2004.301.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2004.301.2
Date:
use: approximately 1941-1945
… Henriette’s, wrote Schoontje, and told her that the couple had been deported to Auschwitz concentration camp together by ambulance on March 14, 1944. Many of…
429. Sam and Celia Feldman collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.167
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1948
… factory, later to Tomaszów camp, and then to Auschwitz concentration camp. In January 1945, he was transferred once again to Vaihingen concentration camp…
430. Clara and Wilhelm Dreyfuss letters
Document | Accession Number: 2003.126 | RG Number: RG-10.269
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1942
… France. In September 1942 they were deported to Rivesaltes and Drancy and then Auschwitz on 16 September 1942 where they perished. Their children were…
431. Simon Slivka photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.596.1
Date:
creation: circa 1920-1946
… Auschwitz and murdered upon arrival. A year later, in August 1943, during the final liquidation of the Dąbrowa ghetto, his sister Golda together with her…
432. Manfred Wildmann family letters
1998.A.0037 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0037
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1943
…. Hugo was detailed to the work camp at Le Barcarès, and he and Rebecca were transferred to Drancy in August 1942. Both were then sent to Auschwitz and…
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 …. Hugo was detailed to the work camp at Le Barcarès, and he and Rebecca were transferred to Drancy in August 1942. Both were then sent to Auschwitz and…
433. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection
1990.23.241 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.23.241
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1990
…. Flora learned that many of her relatives perished in the Holocaust. Flora’s mother Alijda was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp or Sobibor…
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 … deported to Auschwitz in September 1942 and perished, her sister and oldest brother were saved by families, and her youngest brother had escaped Holland and…
434. Friedrich Günser correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2016.517.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1943
… were never realized, and she appears to have been deported to a labor camp before being sent to Theresienstadt in September 1942, and to Auschwitz in…
435. Ilse Loewenberg papers
1995.A.0589 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0589
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1993
…), and survived with the help of Germans who helped them hide and procure false identification papers. Ilse was arrested and sent to the Auschwitz…
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 … false identification papers. Ilse was arrested and sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in February 1943. While on the train, she escaped by jumping…
436. Kornbluh family papers
2014.385.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2014.385.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1946
… sent to a ghtto in Satmar. They were deported to Auschwitz on Shavout. Yeshaya also received a postcard from his brother, Berel, that he was in a camp…
437. Gerald Kaiser photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.471.1
Date:
creation: 1935-1948
… Catholic families, saved his life from Nazi extermination. After Jadwiga Wlodek was taken to Auschwitz, her children moved Gerald (Jurek) to the Kowalik…
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 … were the first family to hide Jurek Kaiser for more than a year. Jadwiga-Wanda Wlodek was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp where she perished in…
438. Abram Pukacz papers
2007.150.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2007.150.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1955
… murdered at Auschwitz. When the Łask ghetto was liquidated in 1942, Abram and his sister, Ester, were sent to the Łódź ghetto while the rest of their family…
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 … murdered at Auschwitz. When the Łask ghetto was liquidated in September 1942, Abram and Ester were sent to the Łódź ghetto while the rest of their family was…
439. Henry Rosenthal collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.556.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1997
undated: 
… was told that when his father, Georg, arrived at Auschwitz and after being separated from his wife he committed suicide. Henry ’s mother, Hedwig…
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 …, Georg, arrived at Auschwitz and after being separated from his wife he committed suicide. Henry ’s mother, Hedwig, perished in Auschwitz and Georg…
440. Pair of tefillin with batim covers saved with a hidden Dutch Jewish infant
2002.140.9 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.140.9 a-d
Date:
use: before 1942
… Sophie returned to Amsterdam. Vera’s father Sal had been deported on December 8, 1942, to Auschwitz and died on February 28, 1943, in Auschwitz-Monowitz…