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1. Alice and John Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.247.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-2003
… in prewar Berlin, and their postwar work at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. This series includes copy prints of liberation photographs of the…
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 … postwar work at the Bergen- Belsen displaced persons camp. This series includes copy prints of liberation photographs of the Bergen- Belsen concentration…
2. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
….S. citizen (she knew some English). After liberation she was sent to the UNRAA refugee camp Jeanne d’Arc in Philippeville, Algeria (Skikda). She returned to…
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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. Charles Phillip Sharp collection
2004.664.3 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 73
Document | Accession Number: 2004.664.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1993
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Belsen after its liberation. The guards continued to kill inmates even as British troops entered the camp. When Sharp and his contingent told them to stop…
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 … liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This includes photographs of the camp, the graves, survivors, and commanders at the camp such as Josef…
4. Wacław Głouszek papers
1998.116.15 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1998.116.15
Date:
inclusive: circa 1942-1968
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Głouszek’s camp, transport, and liberation experiences and including partial lists of fellow prisoners, a 1968 letter describing Głouszek’s efforts to save…
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 … sheet music from Dora‐Mittelbau, lyrics to patriotic and religious Polish songs, two diaries describing Głouszek’s camp, transport, and liberation…
5. Lisette Lamon and Benjamin Soep papers
2006.145.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2006.145.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1980
… together and spared from the death camps because the Nazis wanted to use Abraham’s expertise to build their own diamond industry. As the Soviets advanced…
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 … transit camp, and then deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The Soep family was kept together and spared from the death camps because the Nazis…
6. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0025 | RG Number: RG-09.005.07
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Bergen-Belsen
…Contains two articles concerning the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The first article, "Belsen Concentration Camp," by J…
7. "My story"
1994.A.0274 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 33
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0274 | RG Number: RG-02.164
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
8. Oral history interview with Rašela Knežević Levi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.66 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0066
Date:
interview: 2009 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Sajmiste and Bergen Belsen concentration camps; her deportation to Terezin; liberation by Soviet forces; her time in a displaced persons camp; her…
9. Holocaust memories of Genya Rotenberg
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0319 | RG Number: RG-02.173
… escape through the sewers; the death of her mother; Genia's capture and internment in Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen; her liberation and experiences in a…
10. George C. Gross photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2013.382.1
Date:
creation: 1945-1945
…George C. Gross was a member of the 743rd tank battalion, U.S. Army, which participated in the liberation of a death train near Farsleben, Germany…
11. Oral history interview with Bella Tovey
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.28 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0028
Date:
interview: 1992 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… experiences with a Kapo in Gräben labor camp; how the Germans incorporated Gräben into the camp system of Gross-Rosen concentration camp; her time on a death…
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 …,300 --> 00:10:29,580 It was a real death camp. 187 00:10:29,580 --> 00:10:37,570 They had lice, and hunger, and typhus, and typhoid, 188 00:10:37,570 --> 00:10…
12. Hertha Spier collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0421
Date:
creation: circa 1993
inclusive: 1923-1946
… and later Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the conditions within the camps, the death of her sister two weeks before liberation, and her own eventual…
13. Oral history interview with Isaiah Henig
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0558 Duplicate 1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0054
Date:
interview: 1996 November 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; diseases in the camp; working to build replacement parts for machines; not believing reports about Jewish deaths; being deported to Birkenau in the summer of…
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 … circumstances were changing because they were bombed. Those prisoners who went through the death march passed through his camp. He himself was not on the death…
14. Oral history interview with Alan Zimm
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1269.25 | RG Number: RG-50.470.0025
Date:
interview: 1995 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… March going to bomb Nordhausen; being taken by train for six days to Bergen-Belsen; the Russian POWs who set up a tribunal in the camp after liberation…
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 … didn't realize that was wood alcohol, the poisonous alcohol. And all of them got poisoned. After the liberation, 30 of these people died in the camp from…
15. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
… after his liberation from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp at the end of World War II. Many of the reproductions in the collection are a result of…
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 … anthology of concentration camp music and poetry. Kulisiewicz was unsuccessful in publishing the anthology before his death but drafts for the work are found…
16. Napló közel 50 év utan
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0150 | RG Number: RG-02.209
Subtitle:
Diary nearly 50 years later
… death march from Guben to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp; her contraction of typhoid fever resulting in a temporary loss of hearing; the liberation of…
17. Oral history interview with Shmuel Tzuk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.225 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0225
Date:
interview: 1995 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the hospital; Polish partisans who were caught building escape route and hanged; a death march; train ride to camp Dora Nordhausen during which the…
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 ….39 Describes camp population. He was with children group. 5.41 End of March. Second deathe march and train ride to Bergen- Belsen. 5.45 Describes liberation by…
18. Oral history interview with Sima Skurkovitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.151 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0151
Date:
interview: 1992 September 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being liberated by the British Army; working in a children's camp in Bergen-Belsen after liberation; serving as a witness at war crimes trials; and…
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 … sadistic commanders. 8.39 Prepares Chanuka celebration in camp. 9.02 She is taken by train to Bergen Belsen, describes camp and then liberation 6 of April by…
19. "The incredible years"
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0338 | RG Number: RG-02.193
Subtitle:
1939 to 1947
… the Netherlands; her hiding and capture; her and her brother's experiences in the concentration camps of Vught, Westerbork, and Bergen-Belsen; the death…
20. Oral history interview with Lech Piekałkiewicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.21 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0021
Date:
interview: 1998 July 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being interrogated and tortured in Pawiak prison; witnessing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from prison; his uncle’s death from torture; being sent to…
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 … Belsen camps in Germany. He talks about his liberation by the British army from Bergen Belsen and his return to Poland in 1945. Tape 1 [01:] 00:07:15 – [01…