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1. Roswell and Marjorie McClelland papers
2014.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 32
Document | Accession Number: 2014.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1995
bulk: 1940-1945
… Marjorie continued to run the AFSC offices in Geneva. As part of his work with the WRB, Roswell translated the Auschwitz Protocol, from German to English…
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 … Refugee Board weekly reports, drafts and copies of the Auschwitz Protocols, McClelland’s copies of War Refugee Board cables and notes, and correspondence…
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2. Huguette Frank papers
2016.349.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.349.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1997
bulk: 1945-1962
… were arrested by the Gestapo and sent to the Drancy transit camp. They were then sent to Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp later that month, where…
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 …; Auschwitz II‐Birkenau concentration camp; Ravensbrück concentration camp; and one of the Bunzlau subcamps of the Gross‐Rosen concentration camp. Included are…
3. Oral history interview with Ester Greenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.4 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0004
Date:
interview: 1991 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… a ghetto; being taken into a brick factory and living in barracks; being taken to the railway station then Auschwitz; being separated from her parents…
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 …; soon we had to leave and we were taken to the railway station and to Auschwitz. We were there several months; I was separated from my parents and…
4. Oral history interview with Albert Grinholtz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.295.15 | RG Number: RG-50.957.0014
Date:
interview: 1994 October 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… draft of an article about Auschwitz written by Nagorski, 1995, and published version of same as it appeared in Newsweek, 16 January 1995, sound recordings…
5. Oral history interview with Hugo Schiller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.30 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0030
Date:
interview: 1991 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Auschwitz; staying in Casablanca, Morocco for four weeks; being hidden with other children in Marseille, France; arriving in New York, NY when he was 11 years…
6. Oral history interview with Yitzhak Phillip
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.173 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0173
Date:
interview: 1993 May 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… organization; Kristallnacht in Recklinghausen; being sent to Buna in Auschwitz in 1941; working in the Buna tire factory; his friend, Walter Blum; the march from…
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 … camp Parabon for reeducation to do physical work. Describes work and food. Commander Nagoni assigned work. 1.25 1941 he was sent to Auschwitz, Buna…
7. Oral history interview with Simone Horowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.87 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0087
Date:
interview: 1999 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… January 1945 and being abandoned; how they survived; walking back to Auschwitz later in 1945 and connecting with a group of French survivors; conditions in…
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 … Birkenau and abandoned. She explains how they survived. Later Simone walked to Auschwitz and connected with a group of French survivors. She talks briefly…
8. Nathan and Edith Litvin papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.493.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1999
bulk: 1945-1946
… daughter Greta, and their parents, were interned in the Satu Mare ghetto. At the end of May, they were deported to Auschwitz. Edith, Hilda, and Mendi were…
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 … (one in Paris and one in the United States) of Nathan, a Jewish‐American soldier and Edith, a survivor of Auschwitz. Also includes a large spiral bound…
9. Oral history interview with Jocheved Kasher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.7 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0007
Date:
interview: 1991 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her work in the ghetto; her sister getting married and having a child; the transports to Auschwitz and being among the last people to be deported; being…
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 … transports to Auschwitz began, and we were among the last ones to be sent there;. After 3 days I was sent to Hundsfeld, near Breslau, a working camp; we worked…
10. Oral history interview with Rachel Frankowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.2 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0002
Date:
interview: 1991 October 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being taken to a ghetto in 1944; doing forced labor in a brick factory; being taken to Auschwitz in May 20, 1944; being told to say she was 16 years old…
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 … in a brick factory and from there to Auschwitz, May 20, 1944. Tells of a German soldier who asked for her age. when she said 'fourteen' he advised her…
11. Oral history interview with Lucie Ragin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.167 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0532
Date:
interview: 2009 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… authorities about her father’s whereabouts; learning about Auschwitz from a rabbi; escaping the camp with her mother; arriving in Marseilles and reuniting with…
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 … and you know, they divided you by age. The rabbi in the camp heard that they were going to send everybody to Auschwitz, so he told my mother to try to…
12. Oral history interview with Betty Cana
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.29 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0029
Date:
interview: 1993 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… sister; deportation with her mother and husband to Auschwitz in September 1943; being separated from her mother; volunteering for specious medical…
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 … Auschwitz. Describes arrival and initiation. 1.29 She was selected (had to agree) to be in a group of young married women who were to participate in medical…
13. Oral history interview with Marthe Hoffnung Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0416 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0374
Date:
interview: 1996 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Auschwitz; becoming involved in resistance and rescue operations, which enabled her to get her parents, grandmother, two sisters, and a cousin to the…
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 … Auschwitz. And we know she went to Auschwitz because I have the book saying that her convoy went to Auschwitz in three days. And we got cards; after the war…
14. Oral history interview with Dan Labanovski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.310 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0310
Date:
interview: 1996 November 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… his father, when he was sent with other children to Dachau; transfer two weeks later to Auschwitz-Birkenau; slave labor; woman prisoners giving him…
15. Oral history interview with Ester Eisler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.300 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0300
Date:
interview: 1996 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…'s refusal to leave her relatives; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May; she and one sister's separation from their family (they never saw them again…
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 … to a larger ghetto in Nové Zámky. She was later sent to Auschwitz, where several of her family members were immediately killed. She was later…
16. Oral history interview with Iztchak Yudkes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.263 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0263
Date:
interview: 1995 November 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transferred to Auschwitz/Birkenau in July 1944; assignment with other youths to a Polish children's barrack; fasting on Yom Kippur; transfer with the other…
17. Oral history interview with Dvorah Shifron
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.14 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0014
Date:
interview: 1991 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… dying; her uncle taking care of she and her sister; being deported to Auschwitz on cattle cars; arriving in the camp and the selections; the children…
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 … and her anguish and envy.... Arrived at Auschwitz. Many expired on the way - saw the chimneys and smoke stacks. Adults and children separated left and…
18. Oral history interview with Moshe Markovich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.289 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0289
Date:
interview: 1996 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Auschwitz/Birkenau; slave labor constructing the camp; he and his brother registering as woodworkers; their privileged assignment to the carpentry…
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 … transport on a cattle train to Auschwitz Birkenau and arrival in Febuary1942. 04:00:00 Describes his arrival in Auschwitz, the people he met and the food they…
19. Odenheimer family papers
2017.241.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 04
Document | Accession Number: 2017.241.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2003
… America aboard the SS Evangeline in June 1941. Julius Odenheimer was interned at Les Milles and deported via Drancy and Auschwitz in August 1942. Ilse…
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 … Drancy and Auschwitz in August 1942. Ilse Odenheimer married Henry B. Jacobsen in 1946, and Kurt Odenheimer married Gertrude Mendelson in 1947. Scope and…
20. Gaston Kahn papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.303.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2003
… then deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. Gaston was forced to make difficult decisions and to collaborate with the Germans. On October 20, the…