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1. Oral history interview with Kurt Kupferberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.16 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0016
Date:
interview: 1981 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… approached Buchenwald, non-Jewish political prisoners sheltered Jews from the S.S.; liberation from Buchenwald; marrying a survivor in Berlin in 1946; and…
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 … Jew, too. They are a political prisoner, not a criminal. There were criminal Jews, too, there. Not in my barrack. JF: This was in January of 1942. The…
2. Oral history interview with Dominique Mendy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.462.2 | RG Number: RG-50.736.0002
Date:
interview: 1998 January 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Neuengamme May 24, 1944; wearing the red triangle denoting political prisoners; intense, painful interrogations; his separation from white French prisoners…
3. "I saw Buchenwald"
Document | Accession Number: 1991.064 | RG Number: RG-09.009
Date:
1985
…Political prisoners.…
4. Oral history interview with Morris Kornberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0246 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0061
Date:
interview: 1999 September 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being sent to Auschwitz as a political prisoner; working in a coal mine in a sub-camp of Auschwitz; being forced to go to Buchenwald on a death march and…
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 … to Auschwitz as a political prisoner; working in a coal mine in a sub camp of Auschwitz; being forced to go to Buchenwald on a death march and working…
5. Albert Rosenberg papers
1995.A.0606 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0606
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1983
bulk: 1945
… help of ten former prisoners, chief among them, Eugen Kogon, a notable Austrian political prisoner held by the Nazis in Buchenwald for nearly six years…
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 … political prisoner held by the Nazis in Buchenwald for nearly six years. With the help of these former prisoners, Albert and the Intelligence team…
6. Zygmunt Jastrzębski postcard
1989.206 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1989.206 | RG Number: RG-10.366
Date:
creation: 1943 April 18
… Lubochnia by the Gestapo as a political prisoner on August 19, 1940 and transferred to Buchenwald three days later. His records indicate that he was subjected…
7. Oral history interview with Artur Posnanski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.119 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0119
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Political prisoners.…
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 …. The difference 3 between political and non-political prisoners was enormous and one tried to infiltrate the political group. 3.50 A month after I came…
8. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
…. Henryk was shaved, assigned prisoner number 39551, and issued a uniform with a red triangle with the letter P, identifying him as a Polish political…
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 ….ushmm.org Related archival materials: Nancy Zguda donated a Polish Union of Swimming badge (2004.374.2) a Polish political prisoner badge (2004.374.3) and a letter…
9. Oral history interview with Herman Haller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0117.3 | RG Number: RG-50.044.0003
Date:
interview: 1989 January 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… train to Buchenwald in March 1945; receiving help from the political prisoners; being liberated on April 11, 1945; the Americans evacuating the sick…
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 … Auschwitz. It was an entirely different organization there. In Buchenwald they had political prisoners. See? Whereas in Auschwitz, they took criminal…
10. Henryk Langsam identification card
Document | Accession Number: 1993.111
Date:
creation: 1945 May 18
… political prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp.…