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521. Lewis Shabasson collection
1999.88 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.88
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-approximately 1948
… 1944 as the Soviet Army approached the vicinity of Radom, he was sent to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz, he was deported to the Wittenberg labor camp near…
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 … approached the vicinity of Radom, he was sent to Auschwitz. From Auschwitz, he was deported to the Wittenberg labor camp near Stuttgart. In March 1945 he was…
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  • File 7: Najman family: Radom, Poland Circa 1910-Circa 1938
522. Pencil drawing of internment camp barracks created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.21
Date:
creation: after 1941 March 11-before 1942 March
… administrators began arresting Jews in unoccupied France and deporting them along with those from occupied areas via Drancy transit camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau…
523. Ring hidden by a Polish Jewish girl while in a concentration camp
2015.465.1 top
Object | Accession Number: 2015.465.1
Date:
received: before 1942 September
…. In June 1944, the three sisters were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Upon arrival, they survived the selection process. The guards only allowed them…
524. Brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish prisoner
2016.151.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.151.2
Date:
use: after 1941 December-1949 September
… about missing their old house and having moved an hour away from Będzin to share a summer place with another family transported from Oświęcim, Poland…
525. Pen and ink drawing by David Friedmann of Jews hauling waste in the Ghetto given postwar to a fellow former resident
1993.126.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.126.1
Date:
depiction: 1942
creation: 1942
received: 1950 June 16
Artwork Title:
1942 Ghetto Łódź
… 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…
526. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note issued to a Polish Jewish woman
2018.31.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.31.2
Date:
issue: 1940 July-1944 August 21
… August 1944, in response to advancing Soviet forces, the Germans began transporting the remaining Jews out of the ghetto, primarily to Auschwitz-Birkenau…
527. Medical field sterilizer kit used by a German Jewish refugee nurse and postwar aid worker
2005.579.21_a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.579.21 a-g
Date:
use: 1938-1949
emigration: 1949 August 26
…, mother, and brother were deported to Auschwitz and murdered. At the DP camp, Alice met Hans Finke, born in Berlin on August 12, 1920. He was a former…
528. Watercolor greeting card of his barracks at Beaune-la-Rolande created by a camp inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2005.602.4
Date:
creation: 1942 January 01
Artwork Title:
Bonne Annee 1942 [Happy New Year 1942]
… they learned that at age twenty-seven, he had been killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau in September 1942. In 1947, the Venezuelan government announced that they…
529. SA brown uniform shirt with Rottenfuhrer insignia acquired by a US soldier
1988.99.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.5
Date:
found: approximately 1945-before 1945 November
manufacture: after 1934-before 1945
… survived imprisonment in Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, and Malchow concentration camps. Harry disliked his desk job and he and Ruth began a furrier business in…
530. Concentration camp uniform pants with red triangle patch worn by Polish Jewish inmate
1993.159.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.159.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945 May
… identity papers at a university in Warsaw. The Gestapo did not know that Mieczyslaw was Jewish. He was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp as a Polish…
531. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1993.159.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.159.3
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1945 May
… identity papers at a university in Warsaw. The Gestapo did not know that Mieczyslaw was Jewish. He was sent to Auschwitz concentration camp as a Polish…
532. 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…
533. Walter and Gretel Kleeblatt collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.533.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1945
… Auschwitz where he perished. Already ill with cancer, thirty-four year old Edith died in 1941. Her young son Werner was placed in the Jewish orphanage on…
534. Witelson and Laks families collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.480.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1998
bulk: 1922-1957
…. Ruska and Hela Witelson and Zoshia and Helinka Zarska were deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The three sisters were selected for work, but…
535. Postwar visionary painting commemorating the first deportation of Jews from Drancy by a Turkish Jewish woman who witnessed the event
2004.662 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.662.1
Date:
commemoration: 1942 March 27
creation: 2003 June 18
Artwork Title:
The First Deportation of the Jews from Paris, France from the train station at Le Bourget-Drancy March 27, 1942
… schools. In 1949, they learned that her brother Marcel had been on the transport witnessed by Louise and Djoya on March 27, 1942. It had gone to Auschwitz…
536. Karl Akiva and Ella Huppert Schwarz papers
2004.273.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image13
Document | Accession Number: 2004.273.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1981
bulk: 1939-1948
… Theresienstadt in June 1943, and then transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1944 where they perished.…
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 …. Henrietta and her husband Pavel Beran were deported to Theresienstadt in June 1943, and then transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in January 1944…
537. Blogier, Wekselman, and Wides families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.514.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1969
bulk: 1945-1969
… subsequently transferred to Auschwitz, where Benjamin was a kapo and Abraham worked in the kitchen. They survived subsequent interments at Sachsenhausen and…
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 … were both subsequently transferred to Auschwitz, where Benjamin was a kapo and Abraham worked in the kitchen. They survived subsequent interments at…
538. Vera Waisvisz-Reiss papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.140.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1947
… 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…
539. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. Walther and Grete were sent to Westerbork on the next day, September 7, 1943, and then deported to Auschwitz. Four year old Truusje was placed with a…
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 … survived their incarceration at Theresienstadt. Walter and Margareta had been sent to Auschwitz where they were killed. Trudy lived with her relatives for a…
540. Blue two-piece dress with multicolored hearts
2008.226.4_a front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.226.4 a-b
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… men and sent to the Topoya holding center. From there, they were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. In 1944, Yehudit, her mother, and her…