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1. Peter Veres family papers
2010.81.1 Box 13 Folder 1 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2010.81.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1844-2013
… David armbands, move into designated buildings, and deportations to concentration camps began. Since 1939, George had been in and out of forced labor…
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 … camp during various periods between 1940 and 1944. Béla Krausz was sent to a Nazi internment camp in May 1944, shortly after the German occupation of…
2. Pope Pius XI medal, ribbon and case worn to disguise the identity of a Jewish woman in hiding
2008.117.2_a closed
Object | Accession Number: 2008.117.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… them cousins, from Krakow, where they are in danger of deportation to the concentration camps. Franka later wrote about these years in her diary…
3. Brust family papers
1992.13.11 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.13.11
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1955
Special Collection:
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… and Eva returned to school. Most of Lilly’s extended family perished, many killed in Auschwitz concentration camp. As Soviet control over Hungary…
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 … and Eva returned to school. Most of Lilly’s extended family perished, many killed in Auschwitz concentration camp. As Soviet control over Hungary…
4. Schultz and Bodnar families papers
2017.336.1 Box 4 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.336.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2015
bulk: 1916-1954
…. In April 1945, Zoltan and other forced-laborers were sent on a death march to the Mauthausen concentration camp. On 17 April, Zoltan and two others…
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 … others. In April 1945, Zoltan and other forced-laborers were sent on a death march to the Mauthausen concentration camp. On April 17, Zoltan and two others…
5. Finland Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives records
Document | Accession Number: 2001.36 | RG Number: RG-29.001M
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1950
… Polish refugees, reports on prisoners of war who were held in Finnish POW camps, lists of camps, reports on confiscation of Jewish property in Romania in…
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 … concentration camp to be built on Suurisaari [Gogland] Island; nine-page statement by For. Min. advisor Dr. Erik Castrén re legality of granting/not granting…
6. Steven Vogel papers
2002.175.5 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 29
Document | Accession Number: 2002.175.5
Date:
inclusive: circa 1859-2009
bulk: 1940-1958
…The collection consists of a cotton shirt and a leather belt worn by Steven Vogel as he exited Mauthausen concentration camp upon liberation in April…
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 … concentration camps and his immigration to the United States in 1945. Included are pre-war identification documents of Steven, his parents Ödön and Vilma (née…
7. Pick family photograph collection
1999.282.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 65
Document | Accession Number: 1999.282.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-1946
… concentration camp. After the war, György remained in Hungary, where he earned a degree in engineering. In 1956, he came to the United States as a refugee. He…
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 … the remaining Jews to various concentration camps. György’s father was able to save the family from deportation by hiding them in a vacant building…
8. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
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… United States in April 1941 and spent most of the war in Shreveport, Louisiana, giving birth to daughter Barbara in August 1941. Son Stephen was born in…
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 …) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Consists of seventeen bound…
9. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
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…-occupied Europe. After difficulties in the negotiations, Manny and his mom and uncle were diverted on a train to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. After…
10. Gold and blue enamel Masonic medal with the compass and square emblem owned by a Jewish Hungarian emigre
2010.81.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.9
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 01
emigration: 1949 March 29
commemoration: 1871
… and anti-Jewish decrees were put in place; Jews had to wear Star of David armbands, move into ghettos, and deportations to concentration camps began. On…
11. Ceremonial Masonic blue and white ribbon collar owned by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.8
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 01
emigration: 1949 March 29
… and anti-Jewish decrees were put in place; Jews had to wear Star of David armbands, move into ghettos, and deportations to concentration camps began. On…
12. Masonic tie pin with a gold compass and square emblem owned by a Hungarian Jewish emigre
2010.81.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.81.10
Date:
received: approximately 1945 April 01
emigration: 1949 March 29
use: 2000
… and anti-Jewish decrees were put in place; Jews had to wear Star of David armbands, move into ghettos, and deportations to concentration camps began. On…
13. Macramé bag with 2 wooden handles used by a Polish Jewish family while in hiding
2008.117.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.117.3
Date:
use: 1943-1945
… them cousins, from Krakow, where they are in danger of deportation to the concentration camps. Franka later wrote about these years in her diary…
14. Woman's engraved gold wrist watch given to one inmate by another in Auschwitz
2009.119.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.119.2
Date:
received: approximately 1945 January
… sent to Germany. Esther was in Auschwitz until January 1945, immediately prior to the liberation of the camp by the Russian Army. The camp was evacuated…
15. Red and yellow floral handkerchief carried by a young Hungarian Jewish girl on the Kasztner train
2003.198.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.10
Date:
received: approximately 1942
use: approximately 1942-1946
… water. Kasztner was not able to raise sufficient funds, so the transport was sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. They went to Bratislava…
16. Charles (Carl) and Gertrud Lutz pose with police and former employees among the ruins of the British legation in Budapest after the liberation.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 45641
Date:
February 1945
… concentration camp to rescue Jews who were about to be deported. In November 1944 he was responsible for liberating an entire column of 1,000 Jews who had been…
17. Commemorative postcard with a drawing of barrack 11 of Bergen-Belsen and marking the time the people on the Kasztner Train spent in the camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 62307
Date:
1945
…Commemorative postcard with a drawing of barrack 11 of Bergen-Belsen and marking the time the people on the Kasztner Train spent in the camp.…
18. Interior page of an identification card initially issued to Andor Weidlinger by the Swiss Red Cross and then reissued by Soviet authorities.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 97600A
Date:
1944 - 1945
… camp. Andrew's younger brother Joseph (b. March 12, 1903) went from a Hungarian labor battalion to Buchenwald where he died shortly after liberation…
19. Identification card initially issued to Andor Weidlinger by the Swiss Red Cross and then reissued by Soviet authorities.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 97600
Date:
1944 - 1945
… camp. Andrew's younger brother Joseph (b. March 12, 1903) went from a Hungarian labor battalion to Buchenwald where he died shortly after liberation…
20. Hungarian Zionists who had come to Switzerland with the Kasztner transport pose inside and outside a train adorned with a Zionist flag.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 62306
Date:
1945
…. Eva remained in the concentration camp for five months before being released to neutral Switzerland. Eva arrived in Switzerland on December 7, 1944 and…