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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. Herman Taube papers
1992.A.0081.2 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0081.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2012
… Auschwitz. Marie survived Auschwitz, Theresienstadt, and Flossenbürg. She immigrated to the United States via Gdynia, Poland, in 1948 aboard the M.S. Stefan…
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 … Polish Army. The collection also includes biographical materials documenting Taube’s wife’s Czech stepmother, Marie Koreffová, who survived Auschwitz…
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3. Lob family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.168.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2015
bulk: 1939-1954
… transit camp and in October 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was liberated by the Soviet Red Army in January 1945. He went to Krakow, Poland…
4. Stefania Hecht collection
2017.181.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.181.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2016
undated: circa 1920-1940
… were deported, first to a camp near Baia Mare, and then to Auschwitz, in May 1944. Her aunt and younger siblings were subsequently murdered, and she…
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 … German occupation and deportation of Jews to Auschwitz, and her experiences at that camp, as well as her life following World War II. In addition, the…
5. Ajlkichen and Fleichaker families papers
2016.534.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.534.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2015
bulk: 1923-1953
… the war that Dora was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp where she perished. They immigrated to the United States in 1951 on the SS Île de…
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 … his wife Tcharna Fleichaker to hide their children Roza and François, and the deportation of their daughter Dora in 1942 and her murder at the Auschwitz…
6. Simon Jeruchim papers
2001.328.41 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2001.328.41
Date:
inclusive: 1930-circa 2011
bulk: 1930-1956
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. Simon’s parents never returned; eventually the family learned that Samuel and Sonia had been deported to Auschwitz on September 11, 1942, and murdered…
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 … Auschwitz where they perished, his and his siblings survival in separate hiding places in Normandy, their reunification after the war, and their immigration…
7. Jack Garfein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.309.11
Date:
inclusive: 1921-2013
undated: 
… hid with relatives. His father was deported to Auschwitz in 1943 where he perished. In 1944 Jack, his mother, and sister were deported from Mukachevo to…
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 … including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, his life as a displaced person in Sweden, his career as a successful theater and film director, and his involvement in…
8. Margret Hantman papers
2018.70.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.70.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-2012
… and her mother did sewing. In September 1944, her father was deported on a male only transport from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz concentration camp in…
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 … 1944, her father was deported on a male only transport from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz concentration camp in German occupied Poland. Before he was taken…
9. George Rothman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.592.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-circa 2018
bulk: 1939-1948
… from Paris to Drancy on 9 August 1942 and then sent to Auschwitz on 21 August 1942 where they both perished. As George recovered, he was moved from the…
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 …’s hospitalization due to a severe illness, his parent’s deportation to Drancy and Auschwitz, and his survival as a hidden child in a Catholic orphanage. Included are…
10. Zoltan Mathe collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.402.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2012
… Auschwitz and perished. The essay was published in "Encore: A Celebration of Thirty-Five Years of Creative Work by HILR Members," in April 2012.…
11. Laura Sternberger and Adolf Preizler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.362.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
… deported to Auschwitz in May. Laura survived Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Her brother Morris survived Auschwitz and forced…
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 … deported to Auschwitz in May. Laura survived Auschwitz, Neuengamme and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps. Her brother Morris survived Auschwitz and forced…
12. Abendstern, Fleischmann, and Meyerhoff families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.494.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
… Milles. Otto was interned in seven concentration camps including Les Milles, St. Cyprien, Gurs, and Drancy. He was deported to Auschwitz in August 1942…
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 … Drancy. He was deported to Auschwitz in August 1942 where he perished. While in the camps, he wrote many letters to his brother Martin in England. In…
13. Loewy family papers
2016.167.1 Box 1 Folder 37 Image 112
Document | Accession Number: 2016.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1836-2014
bulk: 1904-1948
… sister Betty married Alfred Kohn, and they had one daughter, Eva. They all perished at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Paul’s maternal aunt and uncle…
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 … for Shanghai, China. His sister Betty married Alfred Kohn, and they had one daughter, Eva. They all perished at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Paul…
14. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
…, 1942. On October 19, 1944 she was deported from Theresienstadt to Auschwitz where she died. Martin and Ernest Ostwald were imprisoned with their father…
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 … Theresienstadt to Auschwitz where she died. Martin and Ernest Ostwald were imprisoned with their father in Sachenhausen. Their mother arranged passage for them on…
15. Kessler family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.586.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1869-2015
bulk: 1914-1998
… Auschwitz where he perished. Ivan survived the Holocaust in Ecuador. Before the war, he was an electrical engineer who worked on the electrification of the…
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 … later deported back to Austria by the Vichy government. Hans was then deported to Auschwitz where he perished. Ivan survived the Holocaust in Ecuador…
16. Annette and Franz R. Hollo collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.202.1
Date:
1939-2012
…Annette Drechsler was born on June 20, 1933 in Paris, France. In 1941, her father was arrested and taken to Drancy; he was deported to Auschwitz in…
17. Rubin and Huntly families papers
2018.327.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 67
Document | Accession Number: 2018.327.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1928-2015
… Auschwitz. Both her parents perished in the camp. One of her sisters also survived Auschwitz but died shortly after liberation. She immigrated to the United…
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 … seven siblings. Gloria was a survivor of Auschwitz. Both her parents perished in the camp. One of her sisters also survived Auschwitz but died shortly…
18. Marsha and Robert Kreuzman papers
2018.598.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.598.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-2012
bulk: 1945-1952
… to the Auschwitz concentration camp where he perished. In January, 1945, Marsha was marched to Auschwitz (five days, four nights) and later sent to…
19. Meyerstein and Echt families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.393.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2015
bulk: 1930-1983
… settled in New York. Her father perished at Auschwitz in 1944. Werner’s sister Gerda immigrated to Palestine around 1937 or 1938. Wolfgang remained in…
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 … from Sosúa to England in 1951 and the United States in 1952. They settled in New York. Her father perished at Auschwitz in 1944. Werner’s sister Gerda…
20. Lindheim family papers
2014.206.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2014.206.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2012
… lived in Belgium. On January 15, 1943, the Lindheims were deported from the Mechelen transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp on transport XVIII…
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 … the war, they lived in Belgium. On January 15, 1943, the Lindheims were deported from the Mechelen transit camp to the Auschwitz concentration camp on…