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1. Medal presented to former inmates of the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the 50th anniversary of its opening
2018.228.2 a-b 3/4 view open
Object | Accession Number: 2018.228.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1941
received: 1991
…Medal presented to former inmates of the Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp during the 50th anniversary of its opening…
2. Metal identification pendant belonging to a Czech Jewish ghetto-labor camp inmate
2018.228.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.228.1
Date:
acquired: before 1944 September 28
… Meuselwitz, a subcamp of the Buchenwald concentration camp system in Germany. In April 1945, American troops were approaching and the Germans liquidated the…
3. Liebschütz and Rozsa families papers
2015.574.1 Box 5 Folder 1 Image 74
Document | Accession Number: 2015.574.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2009
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Save Their Stories
…, during a “selection” of camp inmates, Selma was originally directed by a camp doctor to join a group that subsequently were killed in a gas chamber…
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 … deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she remained as a forced laborer for several months. At the end of that time, during a “selection” of camp inmates…
4. Oral history interview with Helmut Kobler
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.254 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0254
Date:
interview: 1993 February 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s transformation from a concentration camp to a forced labor camp; working as a coal miner at the camp; the camp’s liquidation in June 1942; being transferred to…
5. Oral history interview with Helmut Kobler
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.707 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0707
Date:
interview: 1992 November 23
interview: 1993 June 17
interview: 1993 September 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s transformation from a concentration camp to a forced labor camp; working as a coal miner at the camp; the camp’s liquidation in June 1942; being transferred to…
6. Oral history interview with Helmut Kobler
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1008 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1008
Date:
interview: 1994 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…’s transformation from a concentration camp to a forced labor camp; working as a coal miner at the camp; the camp’s liquidation in June 1942; being transferred to…
7. Oral history interview with Anna Hanusova-Flachova
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0426
Date:
interview: 1996 February 12
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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 … there we were until my seventh year and after we moved to Ber-nar (ph) where I lived until the transport to concentration camp, in my 11th of the year. Q…
8. Oral history interview with Helmut Kobler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.91 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0091
Date:
interview: 1992 August 13
interview: 1992 November 23
interview: 1993 June 17
interview: 1993 September 09
interview: 1993 February 11
interview: 1994 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deported to a camp near Ivancice, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) in 1939; the camp’s transformation from a concentration camp to a forced labor camp…
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 … concentration camp. It was not two layers of barbed wire it was just one barbed wire. It was typical prisoner-of-war camp. It used to serve as prisoner-of-war…
9. Oral history interview with Rose Lazarus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.83 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0083
Date:
interview: 1984
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto in Mátészalka, Hungary; the beating of her mother by a member of the Gestapo; being transported to Auschwitz concentration camp with her family…
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 … transported to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. During selection, she was sent to the left, while most of her family were sent to the right towards the…
10. Oral history interview with Edith Adler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.10 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0010
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undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…; arriving in Mauthausen in mid-April 1945; how the Germans fled the camp; the American liberation of the camp; returning to Brno; her second marriage; moving…
11. Oral history interview with Suzi Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.241 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0241
Date:
interview: 1995 June 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… taken by train to Hamburg; working in a factory and being housed in a grain silo; being sent to camp Neugraben; the march to Bergen-Belsen; liberation by…
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 ….32 Describes the camp, people and work in clothing storage. A plot to burn the camp. 4.39 Describes kapo at work. Decline of morals. 4.48 A day in the camp. 4…
12. Oral history interview with Avraham Benesh
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.227 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0227
Date:
interview: 1995 November 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 …. 5.10 Avraham talks about social relations in the camp and how he kept his spirits up. 5.19 He describes the evacuation of the camp and the four day…
13. Oral history interview with František Daniel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.12 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0012
Date:
interview: 1997 June 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… around 1940 and being sent to a labor camp in Morava, Czechoslovakia (Moravia, Czech Republic); his father’s death and taking on the responsibility of…
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 … half of her behind fell off. She was so beaten, the flesh was so beaten, that it simply fell off. _____she returned from the concentration camp, but she…
14. Oral history interview with Miriam Chervenka
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.323 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0323
Date:
interview: 1997 January 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… “adopted” by the members of the Judenrat; an average day in the life of the ghetto; romance in the camp and meeting her future husband; her cousin and her…
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 …’s liberation. After leaving the ghetto, Miriam was able to relocate her husband, who had been transported to Auschwitz near the close of the war. 1:00:34 Miriam…
15. Oral history interview with Kurt Thomas
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0233
Date:
interview: 1990 November 09
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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 … other cities, and also a concentration of a few Jewish families from little villages. They were not allowed to stay there any longer. Long before the…
16. Oral history interview with Markéta Holomková
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0445.19 | RG Number: RG-50.444.0019
Date:
interview: 1997 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… (Czech Republic); being sent to Block 10; getting tattooed; roll calls; her memories of the Romani camp; working in the forest; her brothers being killed…
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 …. That’s right. One more boy. I had a younger brother. Eight years. He never returned from the concentration camp. Q: And what was your father’s job? A: My…
17. Oral history interview with Lisa Rozsa
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.574.2 | RG Number: RG-50.925.0001
Date:
interview: 1993 December 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, including Liebschütz's account of being deported to Auschwitz, her experiences in several subsequent camps as a forced laborer, escape from a death march…
18. Oral history interview with Tamar Goldshmidt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.348 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0348
Date:
interview: 1998 May 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sered (Concentration camp)…
19. Oral history interview with Riane Gruss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0067 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0113
Date:
interview: 1994 April 22
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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 … photos of the concentration camp and the visit bore them out. It was a horrible, depressing day. Riane did not learn anything new. After the War, her…
20. Class portrait of the Juedische Gemeinde Schule in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 67360
Date:
1932 - 1934
… Malvine were transported to Auschwitz. Sali and Malvine managed to remain together through transfers to various concentration camps, including Kurbach…