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1241. Eva Ostwalt papers
2008.86.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.86.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-2007
bulk: 1905-2007
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… in Dresden. Eva returned to Cologne, where both she and her mother Else were eventually caught by the SS. Else was sent to Auschwitz, where she would…
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 … Else were eventually caught by the SS. Else was sent to Auschwitz, where she would be killed. Eva was sent to Ravensbrück. Eva arrived at Ravensbrück in…
1242. FK monogrammed leather document case made by a Jewish Hungarian woman
2003.198.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.2
Date:
creation: approximately 1942-1944 May
… maternal aunt and uncle, Emil and Ilona Biro, were killed in in Auschwitz. Her brother, Imre, was killed in the Hungarian Labor Service. Her sister-in-law…
1243. Casimier Claude Hampel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.298.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
… theatrical posters. Jacob married and was deported to Auschwitz with his wife and three children. His eldest son, Israël, was with him there until the very…
1244. Hana Wieder collection.
Document | Accession Number: 2000.406.1
Date:
creation: 1929-1956
… Auschwitz death camp. 1,200 of those deported Jews survived the war. Hudes, who was pregnant again, entered “Maison Maternal”, home for unwed mothers, where…
1245. Child's hairbrush and plaid handkerchief used by a young Jewish Polish refugee
2012.249.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.249.1 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-1944 August 01
… sister, were transported to Auschwitz concentration camp and murdered. Her brother, Avraham, did survive. Emil’s sisters and their families had also gone…
1246. Anthropometer used to measure length of body parts in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.255.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: approximately 1920-1945
…. Mengele was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, in order to perform experiments on Jewish and Roma twins and dwarves…
1247. Luba and Harry Weinroth papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.658.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1950
… survived but was reunited with his sister Sofi (later Glucksman, b. December 10, 1923). She survived Auschwitz, but the rest of the family perished in the…
1248. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 20 mark note
2003.413.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.26
Date:
issue: 1940 June-1944 August
… ghetto, primarily to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center. During this time, Ignacy built a bunker where he and his family hid to avoid the deportations. He…
1249. Markheim, Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.319.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2000
… Anna Markheim, b. 1923) was born in Kraków. She was deported to Płaszów in 1942 and Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1943. She was liberated in May 1945. Anna…
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 … deported to Płaszów in 1942 and Auschwitz II-Birkenau in 1943. She was liberated in May 1945. Anna and her brother Romek were the only survivors of their…
1250. Watercolor of Rivesaltes internment camp created postwar by a nurse/rescuer who worked there
2006.154.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.154.1
Date:
creation: 1994
depiction: 1942
Artwork Title:
View of Rivesaltes
…, Friedel continued to send groups of children to him. Rivesaltes was closed in November 1942, after deporting most of the Jewish internees to Auschwitz. In…
1251. Marcus family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.340.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1998
bulk: 1939-1942
… family members who were not able to escape Germany were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German occupied Poland. Erich’s parents, Emil and…
1252. Maria Segal photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2005.160.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1955
… Paris, addressed to her paternal uncle, Abraham Polanowicz. He responded and she learned that he survived Auschwitz, but his wife and child perished there…
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 … paternal uncle, Abraham Polanowicz. He responded and she learned that he survived Auschwitz, but his wife and child perished there. Abraham invited Maria to…
1253. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 … Biuletyn Informacyjny and Informationsbulletin, both published by the Comité International D'Auschwitz (International Auschwitz Committee), Warsaw, Poland…
1254. Miodownik family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.24.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1947
undated: 
… Szereszewski (Misha, later Morris Scherr, b. 1911), a survivor of Majdanek and Auschwitz. Bina found work in the black market smuggling alcohol. Anne, Bina, and…
1255. Diana Kurz papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.617.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1946
…, three year old Doriane and 2 year old Alfred, had left Vienna for the Netherlands in 1939. Emil had been deported to Auschwitz and was presumably killed…
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 … Vienna for the Netherlands in 1939. Emil had been deported to Auschwitz and was killed the day after his arrival at the camp, November 13, 1942. Klara and…
1256. Ruth Danzig Rauch papers
2012.454.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 42
Document | Accession Number: 2012.454.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1993
bulk: 1938-1956
… to Theresienstadt labor camp-ghetto. Solomon died there on October 1, 1943. Hedwig was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 18, 1944, and murdered. On…
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 … Auschwitz‐Birkenau on May 18, 1944, and murdered. On July 11, 1942, Samuel, Marta, and Siegbert, Bianca’s family, were transported to an unknown destination…
1257. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.9
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
… pharmaceutical company, but was not subjected to sterilization. They were not deported, though a number of other relatives were deported to Dachau and Auschwitz…
1258. Small white tinted all bisque doll brought by a German Jewish girl to Theresienstadt
1996.76.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.76.1
Date:
received: approximately 1935-1945
… killed upon arrival in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Her uncle Manfred was killed in 1943. In late 1945, Jutta was sent to a British rest home for Jewish children in…
1259. Brief note belonging to a hidden child
2009.204.38 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.204.38
Date:
creation: approximately 1942-approximately 1944
… Salomon Goldman and their daughter, Ilona, and their families in Oswiecim, Bochnia, and Krakow, Poland, before the war, during the Holocaust when the family…
1260. Belgian Nationalist Movement armband with an attached ribbon, BNB patch and star pin worn by a Jewish resistance fighter
Object | Accession Number: 2012.473.5
Date:
use: approximately 1942-1944
… Sonja and her husband were killed in Auschwitz. His wife Ita’s parents were hidden by an employee, Jeanne de Bruyn, and her family. During the war…