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1. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers
2003.385.1 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2003.385.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1968
…. His father was arrested in 1943 and sent to Pawiak prison and then to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he is believed to have perished. Stanislaw…
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 …. His father was arrested in 1943 and sent to Pawiak prison and then to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he is believed to have perished. Stanislaw…
2. Rabbi Judah Nadich papers
1994.A.0250. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0250.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1997
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… treatment of Jewish displaced persons. Nadich was sent by Eisenhower to visit DP camps in the American zone of Germany, report on conditions, and make…
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 … at SHAEF from 1945-1946 reporting to General Dwight D. Eisenhower on the conditions in former concentration camps and in displaced persons camps…
3. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
… of the Lessing family, originally from the Netherlands, including Engeline Lessing’s deportation to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, her…
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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. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
5. Ada Abrahamer papers
2015.442.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.442.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1989
bulk: 1941-1948
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The Ada Abrahamer papers primarily consist of a diary and photographs related to Ada Abrahamer’s wartime experiences in work camps and concentration…
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 … diary and photographs related to Ada Abrahamer’s wartime experiences in work camps and concentration camps in Poland, as well as her postwar life in…
6. Jiří Lauscher collection
1993.A.0003 Box 4 Folder 18 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0003 | RG Number: RG-35.001
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1989
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…-era ghettos and concentration camps. The collection also includes a Star of David badge and postage stamps. Lauscher collected the materials during…
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 … culture of Theresienstadt; and Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps. Records documenting the Jüdische Kultusgemeinde in Prague relate to two of the…
7. Werner Kleeman collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.157
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2010
… along with his family members. His father was soon released because of his service in World War I, but Werner was sent to the Dachau concentration camp…
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 … the Ohrdruf concentration camp; information about wartime in Würzburg; copies of Werner's postwar correspondence from Würzburg and with Ulrich Strauss…
8. Susie Greenbaum Schwarz papers
1990.30.10 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1990.30.10
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… place in the Harteminks’ barn around the time of liberation. Tracing correspondence consists of letters from the Dutch Central Registration for Jews…
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 … and her mother in their hiding place in the Harteminks’ barn around the time of liberation. Tracing correspondence consists of letters from the…
9. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
… September 28, 1936 under the suspicion of communist activities and sent to Oldenburg prison. In October, he was sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp where…
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 … Auschwitz concentration camp. Felix Bachmann, a fellow prisoner held on to the letter until his liberation from Theresienstadt in May 1945. Bachmann located…
10. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … concentration camps and culminating in Manfred’s visit to Theresienstadt, where he located his parents. The bulk of the collection consists of extensive wartime…
11. Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers
2015.375.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.375.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… sisters ultimately survived Płaszów concentration camp, a return to Auschwitz, Augsburg (a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp), and were liberated from…
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 …, Augsburg (a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp), and were liberated from Mühldorf (also a subcamp of Dachau) in April 1944. After liberation, Ilona and Eta…
12. "My camp diary"
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0270
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
…Rosa Mayer-Murr was a prisoner in Gurs and other concentration camps during the Holocaust. She died at the age of 70 in a displaced persons camp…
13. 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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 …, two diaries describing Głouszek’s camp, transport, and liberation experiences and including partial lists of fellow prisoners, a 1968 letter describing…
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  • Series 2: Personal narratives Circa 1945-Circa 1968
    • File 1: Diary written in Bergen-Belsen 1945
14. Malcolm A. Vendig papers
1990.107.88 Box 2 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1990.107.88
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1967
bulk: 1944-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… military governor of Dachau, Germany after the liberation of the concentration camp in 1945. Topics discussed include the activities of the 83rd U…
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 …’s service with the 83rd U.S. Infantry Division and his tenure as the military governor of Dachau, Germany after the liberation of the concentration camp in…
15. 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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 …, their survival in hiding with two separate Dutch families, their liberation, their immigration to the United States, and the deaths of their family…
16. Szyfra Majranc papers
2005.218.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 36
Document | Accession Number: 2005.218.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… married Nechemia (Tadek) Majranc (later Mairanz), born May 29, 1908. He was a rabbinical student from Łódź, who came from a wealthy family of Gerer Chasidim…
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 … side, but mainly from town to town, or to camps, from where the deportees had the opportunity to give a sign of life at once. The Germans carried out…
17. Liebschütz and Rozsa families papers
2015.574.1 Box 5 Folder 1 Image 74
Document | Accession Number: 2015.574.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2009
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, during a “selection” of camp inmates, Selma was originally directed by a camp doctor to join a group that subsequently were killed in a gas chamber…
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 … deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she remained as a forced laborer for several months. At the end of that time, during a “selection” of camp inmates…
18. Pamietniki Żydów (Sygn. 302)
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0867 | RG Number: RG-02.208M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
Alternate Title:
Memoirs of Jews
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland.…
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 … camps and ghettos, liberation of Theresienstadt. Reel 39 File #265 Szereszewska, Helena 25 p. Polish 1942-43 Warsaw ghetto Fate of Warsaw ghetto residents…
19. Selected records from former Archives of the Communist Party of Ukraine
Document | Accession Number: 2003.260 | RG Number: RG-31.026M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1950
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… POWs in Nazi camps (Fond 166). Posters from the period of the Great Patriotic War derive from Fond 56, and records of the Ukrainian staff of the division…
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 … 1, Opis 23, Delo 2595 Document on the international conference of former political prisoners in German Concentration Camps 1946 15 Fond 1, Opis 23…
20. Selected records of the Moreshet Archives (Givʻat Ḥavivah, Israel)
Document | Accession Number: 2019.293.1 | RG Number: RG-68.220
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1963
… Holocaust survivors–survivors of the camps, partisans and Jewish fighters, and immigrants and refugees from different countries.…
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 …. A77 Cohen, Zvi: The Jews of Holland, Westerbork & Bergen-Belsen Camps. A78 Grossman, Moshe: Jews in the Czechoslovak Army in The USSR. A79 Anonymous…