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1. "Survival in the Lion's Den"
Document | Accession Number: 1989.121 | RG Number: RG-02.019
Date:
1937-1989
…"Survival in the Lion's Den"…
2. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… War II Journey of Survival.…
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 … Lost between Worlds: A World War II Journey of Survival. Scope and content of collection The Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers consist of biographical…
3. Metz and Oberlaender families papers
2014.478.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 46
Document | Accession Number: 2014.478.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2015
bulk: 1915-1950
…, although Ernst later returned to Germany. Leopold and Lilly were arrested and interned at the Westerbork concentration camp for two years and survived…
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 … and survived. Oberlaender family members have spelled their name Oberländer, Oberlander, and Oberlaender, and all three spellings are used in this…
4. Max Schmeidler papers
2004.88.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2004.88.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1963
… survived polio and encephalitis in 1943 and lived in the Hongkew ghetto. He immigrated to the United States in 1947, and his parents, who survived the…
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 … was awarded a Police Distinguished Conduct Medal. He survived polio and encephalitis in 1943 and lived in the Hongkew ghetto. He immigrated to the…
5. Polish Order of Virtuti Militari 5th Class Silver medal awarded posthumously to a Warsaw Ghetto Uprising hero
1994.109.1_b closed
Object | Accession Number: 1994.109.1 a-b
Date:
issue: 1944 February 18
received: 1946
… snuck back into the ghetto with a revolver he had obtained. Two days later, German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport the surviving…
6. Beruh family correspondence
2011.137.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.137.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
…. Nechama was on the top deck at the time and managed to survive by breaking a port hole and escaping the sinking ship. She was allowed to stay in Haifa on…
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 … the Haifa Bay, killing over two hundred Jewish refugees. Nechama was on the top deck at the time and managed to survive by breaking a port hole and…
7. Liebermann family correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2014.353.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-2014
bulk: 1938-1941
… Liebermann died in August 30, 1982. His widow, Marian Glattauer Liebermann survives. Hedi and Basil Thomas had one daughter, Susan, born in 1942. After Basil…
8. Ann Strauss-Salfield collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0515 | RG Number: RG-10.194
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1990
… arrived in New York on 7 September 1939. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1943. His siblings Berta and Alfred both survived the Holocaust, but…
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 … arrived in New York on 7 September 1939. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1943. His siblings Berta and Alfred both survived the Holocaust, but…
9. David Goldschild photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.511.1
Date:
creation: 1935-1950
… younger children were killed immediately; David, after surviving numerous selections during the six weeks he was in Birkenau, was sent to Allach, a sub-camp…
10. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee in the British army
2012.478.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.478.4
Date:
use: after 1943 January 01-before 1945 May 09
publication: approximately 1943 January 01
… leaving, Peter and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Peter survived the selection process, soon fell ill…
11. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, acquired by a Polish Jewish refugee and activist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.395.9
Date:
use: after 1943 May-before 1945 May 09
… leaving, Peter and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Peter survived the selection process, soon fell ill…
12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, acquired by a Polish Jewish refugee and activist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.395.7
Date:
use: after 1943 May-before 1945 May 09
… leaving, Peter and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Peter survived the selection process, soon fell ill…
13. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note, acquired by a Polish Jewish refugee and activist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.395.10
Date:
use: after 1943 May-before 1945 May 09
… leaving, Peter and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Peter survived the selection process, soon fell ill…
14. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, acquired by a Polish Jewish refugee and activist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.395.6
Date:
use: after 1943 May-before 1945 May 09
… leaving, Peter and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Peter survived the selection process, soon fell ill…
15. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, acquired by a Polish Jewish refugee and activist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.395.8
Date:
use: after 1943 May-before 1945 May 09
… leaving, Peter and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Peter survived the selection process, soon fell ill…
16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note, acquired by a Polish Jewish refugee and activist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.395.5
Date:
use: after 1943 May-before 1945 May 09
… leaving, Peter and his family were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Peter survived the selection process, soon fell ill…
17. Alfred Traum papers
1997.A.0153.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0153.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1997
bulk: 1938-1942
… voyage, he met his future wife, Josiane Aizenberg who had survived the war as a hidden child in Belgium. After their marriage, Freddie went to work for IBM…
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 … who had survived the war as a hidden child in Belgium. After their marriage, Freddie went to work for IBM. The Traums moved to the United States in the…
18. Luftwaffe paratrooper badge with a yellow eagle acquired by a German Jewish refugee in the British army
2012.478.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.478.7
Date:
found: after 1944 July-before 1944 October 25
… enemy lines to find out, and learned they had survived. They were reunited in Theresienstadt on May 11, 1945. His parents returned to the Netherlands in…
19. Belgium, 10 francs or 2 belga note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee in the British army
2012.478.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.478.5
Date:
publication: after 1943 February 01-before 1946 August 01
use: after 1943 February 01-before 1947 November 03
… alive. He drove across enemy lines to find out, and learned they had survived. They were reunited in Theresienstadt on May 11, 1945. His parents returned…
20. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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 …. Since these are the unedited wire reports, they contain valuable details and interviews that may not have survived into a published version and many of…