…, Laja (married name Pakin), survived the war. He traveled to the Bergen‐Belsen displaced persons camp to find his sister and also found Bronia Wiewióra…

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… biographical materials and photographs documenting the Helman and Wiewióra families from Łódź, John and Barbara’s survival of the Łódź ghetto, John’s survival of…

… death of her mother when she was eight years old; her recollections of the importance of economic survival; her family not paying attention to the Nazis…

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… all, and particularly when it comes to survival, 317 00:17:30,520 --> 00:17:35,290 it's really it's my life against what I am facing. 318 00:17:35…

… guard and using false identification documents; the types of mental and spiritual resistance used to survive in Auschwitz; his thoughts on how some…

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…,310 --> 00:28:22,730 except the will to survive. 340 00:28:22,730 --> 00:28:29,720 But will not always was enough, because very often, 341 00:28:29,720 --> 00…

… difficulties with hunger and survival. Ms. Jacobs describes liberation by the Russian's troops, returning to their home town to find nothing and no-one remaining…

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… want to survive. The mean time you knowit was all in the front of my head. My little sister she was about six seven years old. As whe saw us leaving she…

… transported to Auschwitz and then Bergen-Belsen; going to a displaced persons camp in Sweden with her mother; learning that her sister had survived the war…

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… liberation, her mother and she were sent to a DP camp in Sweden. They learned that her sister, who had been sent to hiding elsewhere, had also survived the war…

… in Koloszvar, Hungary (Cluj-Napoca, Romania); being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau; surviving the selection with her sister; being sent with her sister to…

… immigration to the United States after the war; her experiences in the United States; her feelings of guilt for surviving the war; the danger of Holocaust…

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… was sleeping. So really -- and dont blame anybody for it you know war brings out the worst. You want to live and you dont care how you survive so no…

…Jack Bart, born September 2, 1929 in Łódź, Poland, describes his parents and two siblings (none of who survived); the ghetto in Łódź; being deported…

… being subjected to medical experiments; being in Płaszów, Auschwitz, and Bergen-Belsen; being protected by other people who helped her survive…

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… husband there after the war? A.S.: I met him after the war, yes, and he was looking if anybody from his family survived. At that time I was very sick after…

…Ruth Berger, born in 1919 in Mukacheve, Ukraine, discusses her childhood and her siblings; surviving several concentration camps, including Auschwitz…

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…’m curious about is that you said to me that you were more capable of surviving than the others. RB: I was stronger. Physically and emotionally. WH: You were…

… Nazi occupation; the harsh conditions of the ghetto; witnessing her children’s death; being transported to Auschwitz; survival in Auschwitz; being…

… conditions of the inmates and strategies for survival, including having faith as well as singing and dancing; being evacuated from Auschwitz and taken to…

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…. That's all they were. These were names of people who survived. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about…

… German railroads under supervision of the Bahnpolizei (railway police); the conditions in the camp and having sufficient food to survive; being sent with…

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… Bahnpolizei. Sam describes the conditions in the camp as "not too bad" with sufficient food to survive. In June 1943, Sam and his fellow inmates were moved to…

… dead mother describing her despair when, after liberation, she discovered that her mother did not survive.…

… paint factory outside of Turin, Levi began writing what would become "If This Is a Man," which was titled "Survival in Auschwitz" in later English…

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… This Is a Man], which recounted his experiences as a prisoner at Auschwitz, and was later published as Survival in Auschwitz. Contains handwritten…

… into a ghetto before being deported to Auschwitz concentration camp. Helen was tattooed with the number A999-1. Helen survived selections by Dr. Josef…

… persons documentation for Henryka, who survived Auschwitz and Majdanek. Also includes documentation related to Selma Goldsher and her brother Saul, who…

…’s barracks, where they continued to perform hard labor. Against all odds, Gina and her mother survived, and after the Russians liberated the camp, eventually…

… concentration camp, where Amalia perished upon arrival. Ilona and Eta survived the initial selection and were sent for forced labor in munitions factories. The…

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… the Miskolc ghetto. Three weeks later they arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp, where Amalia perished upon arrival. Ilona and Eta survived the…

…Consists of one memoir, 30 pages, "Peter's Story: Surviving Auschwitz and a Death March," by Dr. Peter Ornstein, originally of Vienna, Austria. In…