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1. Margret Hantman papers
2018.70.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.70.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-2012
… survived. Margret was taken to Sackisch‐Kudowa labor camp, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen concentration camp in Poland, on the border of Czechoslovakia. There she…
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 … describing her Holocaust-era experiences in Germany and concentration camps, photographs of theatrical performances at the Deggendorf displaced persons camp, a…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. William and Bela Citron and Miriam Citron Burhans papers
2009.157.5 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2009.157.5
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2016
bulk: 1945-1983
… their families in Poland and in various concentration and labor camps before and during the Holocaust and of William, Bela, and their daughter Gela…
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 … DP camps, including the birth of their daughter Miriam in 1948, and their immigration to the United States via ship in 1949. Also depicted are William…
5. 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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 … station and sent to a forced-labor camp. Several months later they were deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp. Ferenc arranged for his son Tibor…
6. 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
… Auschwitz, but was later transferred to an ammunition factory in the Sudetenland, where she worked until the end of the war. After liberation, she went to…
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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…
7. 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…
8. Alice Goldberger papers
2007.423.1 Box 3 Folder 4 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2007.423.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2013
… and Families). In 1945, after the end of the war and the liberation of the concentration camps, the Central British Fund brought child survivors, some…
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 …, after the end of the war and the liberation of the concentration camps, the Central British Fund brought child survivors, some still infants, from Europe…
9. Ratafia family papers
2005.198.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-2011
bulk: circa 1930-1964
… Stutthof concentration camp where they were killed. Her father was sent to Chelmno death camp and killed. During the liquidation, Tema and her friend Esther…
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 … Stutthof concentration camp where they were killed. Her father was sent to Chelmno death camp and killed. During the liquidation, Tema and her friend Esther…
10. 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…
11. Ullman family papers
2017.654.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.654.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
… Frank lost his job at De Beijenkorf. In 1942 Jews in German-occupied Amsterdam began to get deported to concentration camps, and Frank and Emily decided…
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 … their two sons. In 1941 Frank lost his job at De Beijenkorf. In 1942 Jews in German-occupied Amsterdam began to get deported to concentration camps, and…
12. Norman Coulson collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.544.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2013
… put in charge of the post-liberation efforts to clean the Dachau concentration camp. Includes his Dachau occupation personnel identification card…
13. Don and Ada Timmer testimonies
Document | Accession Number: 2012.325.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2011
…, while Don Timmer participated in the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp as a member of the 89th Infantry. Includes two DVDs of oral history…
14. Ernest Wachtel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.603.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-2012
bulk: 1943-1945
… camp. Following the liberation of Dachau concentration camp, Ernest visited and photographed victims, survivors, and perpetrators. He spoke a little…
15. Preston Hill collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.187.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2011
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Austria.…
16. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
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… subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp. They were placed in Berga 2. Berga 1 held political and Jewish prisoners from other countries who wore striped…
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 … diary he kept as a prisoner of war describing his experiences at Stalag IX‐B in Bad Orb and Berga concentration camp and on a death march, listing fellow…
17. Jack Garfein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.309.11
Date:
inclusive: 1921-2013
undated: 
…, Czechoslovakia (Bardejov, Slovakia), including his survival of several concentration camps including Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, his life as a displaced person in…
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 … Jack Garfein (born Jakob Garfein), originally of Bardejov, Czechoslovakia (Bardejov, Slovakia), including his survival of several concentration camps…
18. Kurz family papers
2011.281.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.281.1
Date:
inclusive: 1903-circa 2011
bulk: 1903-1959
…, he was sent to Amersfoort concentration camp and then to Westerbork transit camp on November 7, 1942. During this time, Meilech was able to correspond…
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 …; the Doriane Kurz collection consists of artifacts related to the experiences of Doriane Kurz following her liberation from Bergen-Belsen concentration…
19. Ruth Reed family papers
2016.510.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 2016.510.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2016
… concentration camps where they both perished. Amalie and Ruth were also in Będzin at the time of the Nazi invasion of Poland. They were deported to Sosnowiec by…
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 … medication the same year. In 1942, Ruth was deported to the Neusalz subcamp of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, where she was a forced-laborer in the…
20. Lob family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.168.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2015
bulk: 1939-1954
… deportation to Auschwitz II-Birkenau and return to Paris after liberation. It also includes documents related to the experiences of his wife Helene Lob (née…