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1. Dr. Nathan Salczberger and Kahnt family collection
2008.174.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2008.174.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1949
… arrested. Erich was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Laon after being captured in Paris in December 1944 and Georgette spent time in Drancy. After the war…
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 …. Georgette, Amelie, and Erich were ultimately all arrested. Erich was sent to a prisoner of war camp in Laon after being captured in Paris in December 1944…
2. Maria Lichtsztejn and Sarah Montard collection
1994.A.0360 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0360
Date:
inclusive: 1951-1958
… men and incarcerated in a camp in Pithiviers, France. He managed to escape after three months of detention and remained in hiding in Paris until the war…
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 … her and her mother’s first arrest and ultimate liberation from Bergen‐Belsen in 1945, while Maria’s recounts the details of their second arrest…
3. Danielle and David Snegg papers
2014.230.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.230.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1990
bulk: circa 1920-1949
…, but was arrested and interned in the La Lande-à-Monts transit camp. David was later taken by truck to the city of Angers and on July 10, 1942, he was…
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 … from the concentration camps, recounts her daily activities, work, and leisure time, and passes along news of mutual acquaintances. Many of the letters…
4. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, belonging to a Jewish family.
Object | Accession Number: 2014.230.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942 June-1944 August 25
… Blechhammer forced labor camp. Danielle survived the war in hiding with family friends, under an assumed name. After the liberation of Paris on August 25, 1944…
5. Oral history interview with Philip Vock
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0442 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0433
Date:
interview: 1994 May 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … cousin over there that was protected by his Spanish wife and since he was also of Turkish origin, so he told us what was going on in the camp. For three…
6. Oral history interview with Celine Volkas
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1809 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1809
Date:
interview: 1977 October 11-1977 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; her impressions of the transports of Hungarian Jews coming to Auschwitz; being transferred to Ravensbrück concentration camp; being sent to another…
7. Territorial collection on France, Holocaust period (RG-116, France II)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.337 | RG Number: RG-67.044M
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1954
bulk: 1939-1945
…-Jewish legislation enacted by the Vichy regime, general situation of the Jews in France, deportations, situation in the internment and concentration camps…
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 …. Folder 23 Report on Bedeau concentration camp in Algeria. January-March 1943. Folder 24 Situation in Drancy, 1943. Report of OSE on deported Jews who had…
8. Oral history interview with Wolfgang Blumenreich
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.542.9 | RG Number: RG-50.812.0009
Date:
1996-1998
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the 13 selections, beginning in Auschwitz, of able-bodied workers; being eventually sent to 13 work camps; being hospitalized after liberation in Pitié…
9. Oral history interview with David Galant
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.455 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0455
Date:
interview: 1989 February 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 …) and he and his brother were separated from the rest of the family. He and his brother were sent to the Monowitz (Buna) sub-camp within Auschwitz. This…
10. Oral history interviews with Raymonde Fiol
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.13 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0013
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-Birkenau, where they were killed in January 1944; her parents arranging to have her smuggled out of the labor camp by a member of the French Resistance…
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 … smuggled out of the labor camp by a member of the French Resistance. This man took her to his home and, with his wife, protected her for the rest of the war…
11. Oral history interview with Jean Louis Steinberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.2 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0002
Date:
interview: 1994 May 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… trek to Gliwice; being transferred by train to Mittlebau-Dora; working conditions at Mittlebau-Dora; the American liberation of the camp; his…
12. Oral history interview with Fred Knoller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.42 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0042
Date:
interview: 1985 December
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; leaving the camp in May 1940 in anticipation of the German invasion of Belgium; going to France; being arrested by French police and imprisoned in an…
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 …. And the atmosphere, it was just really frightening. Did you-- you or your family or the community have any knowledge then of labor camps, concentration…
13. Oral history interview with Simone Horowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.87 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0087
Date:
interview: 1999 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… strength from her determination to find her father after the war; how the camp was emptied in stages; being marched out of the camp with a group of girls in…
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 … father after the war gave her strength to survive. The camp was emptied in stages. In January 1945, Simone and a group of girls were marched out of…
14. Oral history interview with Maurice Benadon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.1 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0001
Date:
interview: 1989 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… organization of resistors in the camp who wouldn’t let him join because he did not speak Yiddish; being left on his own in the camp; not having the skill that…
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 …, Benadon mentions an organization of resistors who wouldn’t let him join because he did not speak Yiddish; he was soon left on his own in the camp; he did…
15. 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…
16. Oral history interview with Willi (Wolf) Akselrad
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.265 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0645
Date:
interview: 2011 November 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
17. Oral history interview with Leo Bretholz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0332 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0038
Date:
interview: 1989 July 31
interview: 1989 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … believed because some of the people who were freed from camps periodically brought back other horror stories, so we know that. My mother was very much bent…
18. Oral history interview with Renee Tully
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.884 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0884
Date:
interview: 1991 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Auschwitz; their transfer to an unnamed labor camp in Czechoslovakia; the work she performed and her liberation by the Soviet Army; returning to Paris; her…
19. Oral history interview with Marcel Bercau
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2002.144 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0153
Date:
interview: 2002 May 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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 … arrived there were 20 of us in the car. We were in Oranienburg, the headquarters of all the concentration camps in Germany. Oranienburg is near Berlin. We…
20. Oral history interview with Charles Palant
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.17 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0017
Date:
interview: 1994 June 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…