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1. Black leather mid-calf boots worn by a female Jewish concentration camp prisoner
2002.366.1 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2002.366.1 a-b
Date:
use: 1944 December-1945
acquired: 1944 December-1945 January
… night. Alice contracted typhus, and weighed 70 pounds when the camp was liberated by British troops on April 15, 1945. After liberation, Alice was…
2. Alice and John Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.247.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-2003
… in prewar Berlin, and their postwar work at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. This series includes copy prints of liberation photographs of the…
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 … postwar work at the Bergen- Belsen displaced persons camp. This series includes copy prints of liberation photographs of the Bergen- Belsen concentration…
3. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
….S. citizen (she knew some English). After liberation she was sent to the UNRAA refugee camp Jeanne d’Arc in Philippeville, Algeria (Skikda). She returned to…
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 … Lessing’s deportation to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, her experiences at the Jeanne d’Arc refugee camp in Philippeville, Algeria (Skikda), her sons…
4. Wacław Głouszek papers
1998.116.15 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1998.116.15
Date:
inclusive: circa 1942-1968
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Głouszek’s camp, transport, and liberation experiences and including partial lists of fellow prisoners, a 1968 letter describing Głouszek’s efforts to save…
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 … sheet music from Dora‐Mittelbau, lyrics to patriotic and religious Polish songs, two diaries describing Głouszek’s camp, transport, and liberation…
5. Lisette Lamon and Benjamin Soep papers
2006.145.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2006.145.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1980
… together and spared from the death camps because the Nazis wanted to use Abraham’s expertise to build their own diamond industry. As the Soviets advanced…
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 … transit camp, and then deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The Soep family was kept together and spared from the death camps because the Nazis…
6. Selected records from the Ministère des Anciens Combattants et Victimes de Guerre
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-43.138M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1945
…, and testimonies. Included are camp medical records, lists of deportees, and internees, list of arrivals and prisoners, registers of deaths and death…
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 … Extent: 59 microfilm reel (16 mm) Provenance: After liberation, the records were collected from camps by camp survivors and Allied relief and…
7. Hertha Spier collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0421
Date:
creation: circa 1993
inclusive: 1923-1946
… and later Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the conditions within the camps, the death of her sister two weeks before liberation, and her own eventual…
8. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
… after his liberation from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the end of World War II. Many of the reproductions in the collection are a result of…
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 … anthology of concentration camp music and poetry. Kulisiewicz was unsuccessful in publishing the anthology before his death but drafts for the work are found…
9. Ursula Klau papers
2006.410.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2006.410.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1867-2006
… Westerbork transit camp, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the so-called “Lost Transport”; and Klau’s liberation and recuperation in Davos, Switzerland…
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 …-occupied Netherlands, the Westerbork transit camp, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the so-called “Lost Transport”; and Klau’s liberation and…
10. Aron Straser photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.654.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1945
… not have survived there without her mother’s presence. Shortly before liberation, Judy contracted dysentery and typhoid. The camp was liberated by the…
11. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.456.4
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1997
bulk: 1945-1971
… was sent on a death march to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At Bergen-Belsen she had to move dead bodies to a mass grave. She was there…
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 … there for several months and then was sent on a death march to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At Bergen-Belsen she had to move dead bodies to a…
12. Sydney Schwimmer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.2.1 | RG Number: RG-10.208
Date:
1937-1997
… till the liberation in the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen by survivor.…
13. Norman Salsitz papers
2003.425.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 2003.425.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1889-2000
… rest of his family in the ghettos was deported to the Belzec death camp. In October 1942, Norman escaped Kolbuszowa to the surrounding forest and joined…
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 … around Stanisławów and Kraków, Poland; Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz after liberation; and the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp. Languages: Polish, Hebrew…
14. Pia-Kristina Garde collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.635
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2014
bulk: 1990-2004
… evacuated to Sweden after liberation. Inspired by the 1945 book "De dödsdömda vittna" ("Those Who Were Sentenced to Death Witness), which was based on…
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 …-Kristina Garde from Holocaust survivors who had been evacuated to Sweden after liberation. Inspired by the book De dödsdömda vittnar [Those Who Were…
15. Affaires militaires
Document | Accession Number: 2000.251 | RG Number: RG-43.017M
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
Alternate Title:
Military Affairs
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Europe.…
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 …. Police--France--Sources. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Europe. World War, 1939…
16. Garbovits family papers
2019.292.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.292.1
Date:
creation: 1944
… forced-labor camp in Budapest. In November 1944 Arnold and Istvan were sent on a death march from Budapest to Austria. Istvan was killed during the march…
17. Pawlowicz family papers
1999.49 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1999.49
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1950
bulk: 1945-1949
… and Bronia Shani (née Pawlowicz) survived imprisonment in concentration camps. After liberation, Max spent a year in Paris, France with assistance from…
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 … concentration camps. After liberation, Max spent a year in Paris, France with assistance from the Jewish Federation. While in Paris he was informed that Rose and…
18. 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
… killing center. Leon was transported to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was later shot and killed on a death march. On…
19. Simon Slivka photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.596.1
Date:
creation: circa 1920-1946
… Bunzlau and later forced on a death march, which ended in April 1945 in Bergen Belsen. Rywka Śliwka was deported to Langbilau slave labor camp, where she…
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 … stay in the Bergen Belsen DP camp, Germany, April 29, 1946. Inscribed in Polish: “To my dear friend I give my photograph, Erna Izak.” 6. Photograph of an…
20. Curtain that was used as a towel found by a Polish Jewish forced laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2018.208.1
Date:
found: 1944 August-1945 April
Title:
Dash family collection
… killing center. Leon was transported to Auschwitz and then to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. He was later shot and killed on a death march. On…