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1. Shapell family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2022.138.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-2013
bulk: circa 1940-circa 1947
…The collection consists of photographs documenting German-occupied Oświęcim, Poland, circa 1940-circa 1941, and refugees living in the Münchberg…
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2. Paul Vaderlind collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.251.1
Date:
creation: 1942 October 15-1944 May 21
… son. Should I return, I will thank you personally. Greetings to you, Tadeusz.” Dated: May 21, 1944; location: Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland; in…
3. Gisela Laufer Wortman, William Laufer, and Naum Wortman papers
1996.A.0309 Box 2 Folder 15 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0309
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-2004
… deported to the concentration camp at Bogusze, Poland, and in January 1943 to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he worked in the hospital barracks. When Auschwitz…
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 ….ushmm.org Indexing terms Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Ebensee (Concentration camp) Płaszów (Concentration camp) Jews--Poland--Tarnobrzeg Jews--Poland--Chełm (Lublin…
4. Siegfried Halbreich papers
1995.A.0178 Oversize Folder 5 Image 89
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0178
Date:
inclusive: 1942-2004
…Siegfried Halbreich (1909-2008) was born in Dziedzice, in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. After his graduation from high school, he served…
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 … of a list of names of 982 Jews deported from Beuthen, Germany, (now Bytom, Poland) in May and June 1942 (1993.A.0043) to the United States Holocaust…
5. 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
… or year is unknown. On May 20, 1944, Amalia, Ilona, and Eta were sent to the Miskolc ghetto. Three weeks later they arrived at the Auschwitz…
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 … Sosnowiec, Poland. She died in 1943 at the Auschwitz concentration camp with her children, Machla Hipszer (born March 30, 1931), Gitla Hipszer (born April 3…
6. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.456.4
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1997
bulk: 1945-1971
…Josef Rosenberg (1903-1972) was born 8 June 1903 in Tuszyn, Poland to Hinda (née Lasker) and Eliezer Lipman Rosenberg. His paternal grandfather was…
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 … primarily documents the post-war experiences of Josef and Ruth Rosenberg, both of whom were from Poland, interned in the Łódź ghetto, and liberated from the…
7. Josef Helfgott papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.301.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1992
…Josef Helfgott (1910-1986) was born September 9, 1910 to Aron and Ruza (Rajsla) Helfgott in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland. He had at least 3 siblings…
8. Stephen Lerman papers
1991.105 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1991.105
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…Stephen Lerman (1927-2010) was born in Zambrow, Poland, with the given name of Szlama Lermann. Following the German invasion of Poland in 1939…
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 …, Poland, prior to World War II. Also included are a pass to the Nuremburg trials and an identity card which confirms that Lerman was captured by German…
9. Margot Schlesinger papers
2013.224.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2013.224.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
undated: 
…), Julius, Willie, and one sister, Rosa. Yakov and Sabina were originally from Poland and immigrated to Germany in 1911. The family was religiously observant…
10. Izak Rosenblat papers
2002.436.23 front
Document | Accession Number: 1990.139.27
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1990
…Izak “Izy” Rosenblat (1912-1993) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Josek and Chana Rosenblat. At the age of 9, his family moved to Radom, and at age 11…
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 …, September 2015 Biographical note Izak “Izy” Rosenblat (1912‐1993) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Josek and Chana Rosenblat. At the age of 9, his family…
11. Alfred Büchler papers
1999.119 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.119
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
bulk: 1937-1942
…Alfred Buechler was born Alfred Büchler in 1925 in Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland) to wine merchant Jacques Büchler and Käthe Büchler (née…
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 … and Käthe Büchler, in Gleiwitz; and Jacques Büchler’s death at Auschwitz. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access…
12. Chil Turek papers
2015.462.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.462.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1978
bulk: 1946-1978
…Chil Turek (1903-1971) was born in Warsaw, Poland to Isaac and Cypojra (née Goldberg) Turek. He had two brothers, Mendel and Jakov, and one sister…
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 …—History Displaced persons camps. Concentration camps—Poland—Lublin. Radom (Concentration camp) Vaihingen an der Enz (Concentration camp) Auschwitz…
13. Helen Preiss collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0578 | RG Number: RG-10.174
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1945
… 19, 1943, in which she describes her deportation from Sosnowiec, Poland; life in "Landschut Camp" (Landeshut concentration camp); and her transfers to…
14. Moses Adam papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.445.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1988
… experiences of Moses Adam (later Maury Adams), before and during the Holocaust in Przemysl, Poland, while incarcerated in Plaszow, Starachowice, Auschwitz…
15. Zyzniewski family papers
2014.451.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2014.451.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1957
…Wiesław Kazimierz Żyżniewski (later Wesley Casimer Zineski) was born on October 17, 1924 in Łódź, Poland. His parents were Zygmunt and Janina (“Jasha…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Zyzniewski family papers relate the experiences of the Zyzniewski family in Łódź, Poland during…
16. 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
… Kraków, Poland when Germany invaded in 1939. Her father, Gustaw, fled east under the common assumption that only men were in danger. Ada, her mother and…
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 … (Displaced persons camp) Work camps‐‐Poland. Holocaust survivors‐‐Poland. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Płaszów (Concentration camp) Lichtewerden…
17. Magda Weigl Heath collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.97 | RG Number: RG-10.503
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2009
…Concentration camp inmates' writings--Poland--Oświęcim.…
18. Hertha Spier collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0421
Date:
creation: circa 1993
inclusive: 1923-1946
…Hertha Spier (1918-2020) was born Hertha Gruber in 1918 to Mauricy Gruber and Amalia Gruber in Bielitz (now Bielsko-Biała, Poland). Her siblings were…
19. Kürschner family photograph collection
2013.134.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 51
Document | Accession Number: 2013.134.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1948
… deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. From June 1944 until September 1944 Dita and her mother, Hedy, were imprisoned in Gelsenberg concentration camp…
20. William Fraser papers
Document | Accession Number: 2008.268.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1980
…Concentration camps--Poland--Oświęcim.…