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1. Drawing of a murdered inmate by a concentration camp fence on a lampshade panel
2019.523.2.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.523.2.5
Date:
creation: after 1945 April
…Auschwitz-Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
2. Woodcut print depicting a prisoner beside a concentration camp fence
2019.523.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.523.1
Date:
creation: 1946
…Auschwitz-Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
3. Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
2014.557.5 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.5
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. On September 30, Herman was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany…
4. Drawing of concentration camp inmates during roll on a lampshade panel
2019.523.2.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.523.2.6
Date:
creation: after 1945 April
…Auschwitz-Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
5. Drawing of a nightime hanging at a concentration camp on a lampshade panel
2019.523.2.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.523.2.4
Date:
creation: after 1945 April
…Auschwitz-Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
6. Drawing of concentration camp that also names many others on a lampshade panel
2019.523.2.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.523.2.2
Date:
creation: after 1945 April
…Auschwitz-Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
7. Drawing of concentration camp inmates working in a quarry on a lampshade panel
2019.523.2.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.523.2.7
Date:
creation: after 1945 April
…Auschwitz-Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
8. Drawing of concentration camp-related symbols on the top panel of a lampshade
2019.523.2.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.523.2.1
Date:
creation: after 1945 April
…Auschwitz-Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
9. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.3
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. On September 30, Herman was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany…
10. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.4
Date:
use: 1944 September-1945 April
… to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. On September 30, Herman was transferred to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany…
11. Oral history interview with Stanisław Hantz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.269 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0269
Date:
interview: 2005 November 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Stanisław Hantz, born in 1923 in Poland, describes his imprisonment and forced labor in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from 1940 to 1944…
12. Oral history interview with Leopold Page
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.22 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0022
Date:
interview: 1992 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from Auschwitz (Birkenau) concentration camp and male prisoners from Gross-Rosen concentration camp after they were misrouted on the way to Bruennlitz…
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 … what happened. And I followed her on from Kraków to ghetto, from ghetto to concentration camp. And then we were separated. The men went to Gross-Rosen…
13. 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…
14. Oral history interview with Charles Levine
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.37 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0037
Date:
interview: 1989 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…,000 Jews to Treblinka concentration camp and their murder there; being sent to Birkenau concentration camp in January 1943; building the crematoria; the…
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 … transport. Its destination was Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. There was a selection. About 200 boys and 200 young women were taken. 01:31:00 All…
15. 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…
16. Fate
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0456 | RG Number: RG-02.191
Date:
creation: 1994
Subtitle:
one man's journey through the Holocaust
… Ghetto; his deportation to and experiences in various concentration camps, including Gross-Rosen, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Hirschberg, Bolkenhain, Ohrdruf, and…
17. Chaim Piotrkowski collection
1996.A.0414 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0414
Date:
inclusive: circa 1995
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
18. Oral history interview with Philip Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.37 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0037
Date:
interview: 1992 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … at night and the rest in the morning, you could manage a little faster, a little better. But Birkenau was not a concentration camp in the usual sense…
19. Oral history interview with Martin Kohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.11 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0011
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-Birkenau in May 1944; being in Birkenau for a week before being shipped to the Płaszów concentration camp; staying in Płaszów until around September when he…
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 … to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a…
20. 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)…
21. 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…
22. Oral history interview with Iehudit Maraton
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.100 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0100
Date:
interview: 1993 July 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … commander. 5.16 Children in the camps. 5.17 Punishments. 5.22 Health conditions. 5.31 When Russian front advanced, they were transported to Birkenau. 5…
23. Oral history interview with Lanka Ilkow
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0041
Date:
interview: 1991 October 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
24. Oral history interview with Clara Dan
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0019
Date:
interview: 1982 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
25. Oral history interview with Aliza Green
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.253 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0253
Date:
interview: 1995 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … conditions. Fear of beating. 130: to 1:53 Birkenau Transferred there in July-August. Somewhat better conditions. Describes Mengele’s visit (knew all Germans…
26. Oral history interview with Fred Schwartz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.384.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0208
Date:
interview: 1990 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … the crematorium and we stayed in Birkenau for 3 days and then we were taken for to work in a concentration camp in Silesia, Poland. We didn't know what…
27. 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…
28. Oral history interview with Leslie Robicsek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.112 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0112
Date:
interview: 1984 August 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … concentration camp. And that camp was located where, which camp? They took us first in Auschwitz, in Birkenau, and from there, the outskirts of Auschwitz. Mr…
29. Oral history interview with Tom Figueras
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.19 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0019
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … his immediate family survived. The Nazis came to his town in March 1944 and within two months of their arrival Tom was in Auschwitz-Birkenau. He was…
30. Oral history interview with Samuel Goetz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.345.16 | RG Number: RG-50.005.0016
Date:
interview: 1983 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 …, are transported to Cracow -Plaszow concentration camp. Felt abandoned, friendless. Then comes a 4-day train ride to Germany (Gross Rosen). (LG…
31. Oral history interview with Fishel Yungman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.297 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0297
Date:
interview: 1996 October 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … also saw the transport bringing the Jews from Hungary to be burnt, and the crematorium worked ceaselessly. 6:19:13 Talks about his work in Birkenau…
32. Oral history interview with Elizabeth Klein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.87 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0087
Date:
interview: 1994 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
33. Oral history interview with Edith Riemer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0110.11 | RG Number: RG-50.266.0011
Date:
interview: 1991 October 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 …. Auschwitz - first stop Birkenau. Describes cruelty of Jewish Slovak capo. Capo pulled her out of line assigned to labor camp and threw her to line sent to gas…
34. Oral history interview with Otto Presburger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.341 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0341
Date:
interview: 1998 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 …” their food in order to survive. 7:21:57 In the summer of 1944, there was an uprising in Birkenau’s crematorium III. All but two Jews involved were killed…
35. Oral history interview with Aleksander Henryk Laks
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.603.3 | RG Number: RG-50.637.0003
Date:
interview: 2005 January 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … the war all over the world, all over the world – wrote Red Cross and all things because my mother died in the gas chamber in Auschwitz, in Birkenau…
36. 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…
37. Oral history interview with Martin Hoffman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.23 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0023
Date:
interview: 1985 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … concentration camp in Birkenau. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection This is a verbatim…
38. Drawing of an arm tattooed with a prisoner number and prisoner patches on a lampshade panel
2019.523.2.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.523.2.3
Date:
creation: after 1945 April
…Auschwitz-Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
39. Oral history interviews with Esther Moses and Herbert Moses
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.206.1 | RG Number: RG-50.701.0001
Date:
interview: 1997
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
40. Hanukkah menorah with rearing lions used by a Polish German survivor
2014.557.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.2
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1933
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
41. Oral history interview with David Schnitzer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.136.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0209
Date:
interview: 2013 July 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … in Brezinca, that was in Birkenau, not a mile away from the concentration camp. And he produced Birkenau kinds of things. They also had a railroad…
42. Oral history interview with Arie Taboh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.370 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0370
Date:
interview: 2000 March 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
43. Oral history interview with Natan Raviv
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.299 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0299
Date:
interview: 1996 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … sister were sent to death. Describes his state of mind. 8:08 He and his father were taken to Birkenau. Describes the disinfection, shaving, clothing, and…
44. Souvenir pencil drawing of several people belonging the Halerie family
Object | Accession Number: 2014.230.3
Date:
creation: 1943
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
45. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, belonging the Halerie family
Object | Accession Number: 2014.230.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942 June-1944 August 25
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
46. Oral history interview with Henry Freier
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0126.14 | RG Number: RG-50.156.0014
Date:
interview: 1985 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … Birkenau he saw Mengele watching selection process. As a healthy male, he was taken to the Ziegenlager, the Gypsy camp. Stayed until most gypsies gassed…
47. Oral history interview with Eldar Berko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.326 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0326
Date:
interview: 1997 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
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 … a work camp, however he was really taken to Auschwitz and then to Birkenau. He describes the population of Auschwitz and his experience as a…
48. Partial gold dental bridge with crown owned by Herta Stoer
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.4
Date:
emigration: 1939 February
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
49. Card with 24 Dorset-style buttons owned by Herta Stoer
2018.258.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.6
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
50. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by Herta Stoer
2018.258.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.5
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
emigration: 1939 February
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…