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1. Hebrew prayer book, owned by a Romanian Jewish woman killed in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.3
Date:
use: 1940-before 1944
recovered: 1946
Title:
Ünnepi Imádságok A Templomban Használatos Sorrendben
Subtitle:
Kol-nidre vagyis az engesztelő nap előző való estéjére
Kol-nidre, that is, the previous evening of the Day of Atonement
Alternate Title:
Festive Prayers In The Order Used In The Temple
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
2. Hebrew prayer book, owned by a Romanian Jewish woman killed in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.1
Date:
use: 1940-before 1944
recovered: 1946
Title:
Ünnepi Imádságok A Templomban Használatos Sorrendben
Subtitle:
Jomkipur vagyis az engesztelő ünnep napjára
Yom Kippur, that is, the Day of Atonement
Alternate Title:
Festive Prayers In The Order Used In The Temple
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
3. Hebrew prayer book, owned by a Romanian Jewish woman killed in a concentration camp
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.2
Date:
use: 1940-before 1944
recovered: 1946
Title:
Ünnepi Imádságok A Templomban Használatos Sorrendben
Subtitle:
ros-hasono ünnep második napjára
Second day of the Rosh-Hashanah holiday
Alternate Title:
Festive Prayers In The Order Used In The Temple
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
4. Pair of Tefillin and pouch originally used by Nuham Adler
2006.516.5 a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.5 a-c
Date:
use: before 1944 May
recovered: 1946
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
5. Pair of Tefillin and pouch owned by Mihail Adler
2006.516.4 a-c front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.516.4 a-c
Date:
use: before 1944 May
recovered: 1946
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
6. Exposé and synopsis of the book a generation of wrath
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0318 | RG Number: RG-02.172
Date:
creation: 1984
Subtitle:
a story of embattlement
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
7. Oral history interview with Daniel Hassan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.99.1 | RG Number: RG-50.717.0001
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
8. Oral history interview with Daniel Hassan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.353 | RG Number: RG-50.788.0001
Date:
interview: 2006 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
9. Oral history interview with David Kempinski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.11 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0011
Date:
interview: 1987 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transport to Britz; his transport to in Birkenau concentration camp; his transport to and work at I.G. Farben from September 1944 until January 1945…
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 …. However, after a four day train ride, they arrived at Birkenau, a concentration camp in Poland. From Birkenau, David was sent to I.G. Farben where he worked…
10. Oral history interview with Antonin Hlaváček
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.17 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0017
Date:
interview: 1997 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…), where they joined other Roma; being deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration camp in Poland in March 1943; being sent to work in the potato…
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 …, they then moved us to Birkenau, or Ausschwitz. Osvetim was after all a wooden camp. Q: Yes. A: From there, we went on foot. Q: So you arrived to the…
11. Alberto Sotto affidavit
Document | Accession Number: 2024.150.1
Date:
creation: 1953
…-war life in Salonika, Greece, life in the Salonika ghetto, death of family members, deportation and time in the concentration camps Birkenau, Dachau…
12. Oral history interview with Max Mannheimer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.100 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0100
Date:
interview: 2011 December 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Hungary in 1938; his marriage in 1942; the deportation of his family to Theresienstadt concentration camp; his transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau; the murder of…
13. Oral history interview with Eli Okon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.760 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0760
Date:
interview: 1985 April 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
14. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … and autographs of Falkensee prisoners; information about camp music; recollections of orchestra members from Birkenau and Gross-Rosen concentration…
15. Oral history interview with Alexander Karp
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0046
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
16. Oral history interview with Elie Alevy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.1 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0001
Date:
interview: 2011 July 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
17. Oral history interview with Ralph Codikow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.416.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0055
Date:
interview: 1990 June 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … Auschwitz, that was the big concentration;3 %~ camp near Birkenau. And then they took us to which was called farm. And that farm wascalled _ Birkenau again…
18. Oral history interview with Alexander Schleifer
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0096
Date:
interview: 1982 August 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
19. Oral history interview with David Burdowski
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0012
Date:
interview: 1982 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
20. Oral history interview with Sholom Rosenheck
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.93 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0529
Date:
interview: 2009 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … you up like unbelievable. So finally they put us in wagons. And we didn’t know where we are going, but we wi – wind up in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Q: Who was…
21. "My deportation"
Document | Accession Number: 1984.066 | RG Number: RG-02.005.01
Date:
creation: circa 1945
…, Majdanek, Trzebinia, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Dachau. He was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp by the U.S. Army. Bernard immigrated to the…
22. Oral history interview with Leslie Schwartz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.94 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0094
Date:
interview: 2011 September 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
23. Oral history interview with Michael Vogel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0329 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0240
Date:
interview: 1989 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 …, Auschwitz II, which was Birkenau. Course we knew nothing about it. The only thing we knew there were boys working in Birkenau, building a new camp. As I told…
24. Oral history interview with Sally Chase
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0129.10 | RG Number: RG-50.029.0010
Date:
interview: 1992 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … women traveled in cattle trains to Auschwitz-Birkenau. When they arrived, women told they were going into shower and could only keep their shoes. Then…
25. Oral history interview with Alexander Karp
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0089.27 | RG Number: RG-50.155.0027
Date:
interview: 1995 September 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
26. Oral history interview with Stephen Nasser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.17 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0017
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 …-Birkenau. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim transcript of spoken word…
27. Dino A. Brugioni collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.433.2
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2001
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 …) Majdanek (Concentration camp) Westerbork (Concentration camp) Auschwitz-Birkenau (Concentration camp) Monowitz (Concentration camp) Mittelbau-Dora…
28. Oral history interview with Ben Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.33 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0033
Date:
interview: 1991 August 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
29. Poetry and songs relating to German and Stalinist camps
Document | Accession Number: 1988.022 | RG Number: RG-04.001.01.01
Date:
1930-1950
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
30. Oral history interview with Frida Mendelovich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.60 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0060
Date:
interview: 2010 September 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… father’s secretary sending them food in the ghetto; being sent to a concentration camp and avoiding the crematorium; being in Birkenau, Auschwitz…
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 … suffered hunger. When they were sent to the concentration camp, Frida missed going to the crematorium. She doesn’t know why. She was in Birkenau, Auschwitz…
31. Oral history interview with John Komski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.401.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0115
Date:
interview: 1990 June 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … in the future. On one (cough)...one area of that uh big territory there, the camp on...later on they built a huge compound "Birkenau," which is the…
32. Oral history interview with Jaffa Neuman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.356 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0356
Date:
interview: 1999 November 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … Ghetto was liquidated, the four sisters managed to stay together. They were first sent to Auschwitz‐Birkenau, where they were processed. After two weeks…
33. Oral history interview with Naftal Sieff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.128 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0128
Date:
interview: 1990 May 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
34. Oral history interview with Ben Lesser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.3 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0003
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … Nazis invaded Hungary and Ben was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau and other camps. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further…
35. Oral history interview with Erwin (Froim) Baum
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0016
Date:
interview: 1994 July 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … ramp in Birkenau22 and he said, “Everybody out,” and we see the boys in the striped suits. Q: So you were on this train, you had really no idea where you…
36. Oral history interview with Jack Klinger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.75 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0075
Date:
interview: 1991 September 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … in Birkenau. Handled all the reports of transports into and out of the camp, of "Special treatment", that is deliveries for extermination in gas…
37. Oral history interview with Eugene Miller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.249 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0585
Date:
interview: 2010 September 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … Auschwitz. We are in Birkenau. We call that such. Birkenau was Vernichtungslager. Q: Was an extermination camp. A: Yeah. Auschwitz also a working lager, and…
38. Oral history interview with Samuel Sherron
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.68 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0068
Date:
interview: 1983 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … occupation, 1940-1941 Lithuania - History - German occupation, 1941 Labor camp Heydekrug, Germany Labor camp Muhldorf, Germany Auschwitz-Birkenau…
39. Oral history interview with Shaul Sadan
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.131 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0131
Date:
interview: 1993 May 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 ….08 Auschwitz and Birkenau: Repeats his experiences in these camps as related in TapeI with some elaboration on topics such as: shock, the selections, the barrack…
40. Oral history interview with William J. Lowenberg
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0139
Date:
interview: 1993 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … camp commander, I think was _________(ph), I think it was, used to drive through the camps of Birkenau on a motorcycle with a pistol and USHMM Archives…
41. Oral history interview with Moshe Shoham
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.314 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0314
Date:
interview: 1996 December 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … describes his arrival in Auschwitz and then Birkenau and the selection of twins for experiments by Mengele and how he and his brother were able to escape the…
42. Oral history interview with Kalman Arieli
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.307 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0307
Date:
interview: 1996 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … stayed for seven months. Life there was bearable. They had heard that being sent to Auschwitz meant certain death. 5:24 On the train to Birkenau, two boys…
43. Oral history interview with Daniel Chanoch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.226 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0226
Date:
interview: 1995 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … chimneys.]. 41.00 Birkenau's survivors are different, and the effect on their families. No spokesmen from Birkenau; there are no words to describe the horror…
44. Oral history interview with Meir Gecht
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.282 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0282
Date:
interview: 1996 July 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … Description of the block population in Meir’s barrack in Birkenau. 4:25:10 Sexual molestation of children who were in better physical shape. 4:26:58 Almost no…
45. Oral history interview with Dan Labanovski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.310 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0310
Date:
interview: 1996 November 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
46. Oral history interview with Erich Kulka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.404.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0119
Date:
interview: 1990 June 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … this is, you can see there is a lager plan ____________ Auschwitz. This is from Birkenau. They called it ________, never an original concentration camp…
47. Oral history interview with Moshe Kravitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.272 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0272
Date:
interview: 1996 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … Birkenau Describes the 3-4 day trip, expecting to die, hellish arrival, chimneys’ smoke, wondering why they survived. Describes their ‘cleansing’ procedures…
48. Oral history interview with Moshe ben Ozer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.318 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0318
Date:
interview: 1996 December 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … winter clothing in the camp. 25:18 As the Russians approached Auschwitz and Birkenau, the Germans decided to evacuate the two camps. As they were leaving…
49. Oral history interview with Pinchas Zabludovitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.175 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0175
Date:
interview: 1992 September 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … after arrival in Birkenau, there were only 250-300 surviving Jews from Ciechanow. Some were transferred to other camps; many died. 59.07 After a month in…
50. Oral history interview with Dov Hershkovitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.278 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0278
Date:
interview: 1996 February 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … primary source, and it has not been checked for spelling or accuracy. 6:41 to 7:00 (end tape 2/3) Transport to Auschwitz-Birkenau November ’43. Describes…