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1. Renée Fodor Schwarz writings
1991.A.0095 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0095
Date:
inclusive: 1984-1994
… school because she was Jewish. She survived the Krakow ghetto, Płaszów labor camp, Auschwitz concentration camp, and a death march during the Holocaust…
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 … school because she was Jewish. She survived the Krakow ghetto, Plaszow labor camp, Auschwitz concentration camp, and a death march during the Holocaust…
2. Pauline Buchenholz memoirs
1994.A.0198.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 45
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1983-1991
…The Pauline Buchenholz memoirs consist of Buchenholz’s 1983 memoir As I Remember: Memoirs from the War and Concentration Camps and 1991 memoir The…
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 … her sister, being transferred to the Kraków‐Płaszów concentration camp in March 1943, her impressions of Amon Göth, finding again and becoming engaged…
3. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
…Malines (Concentration camp)…
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 … four accounts of Eva’s experiences as a refugee in Belgium, at Auschwitz, on a death march, at Ravensbrück and Neustadt‐Glewe, and after liberation…
4. Ada Abrahamer papers
2015.442.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.442.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1989
bulk: 1941-1948
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The Ada Abrahamer papers primarily consist of a diary and photographs related to Ada Abrahamer’s wartime experiences in work camps and concentration…
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 … diary and photographs related to Ada Abrahamer’s wartime experiences in work camps and concentration camps in Poland, as well as her postwar life in…
5. Sam Kornhauser papers
2005.538.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2005.538.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1998
… family members and friends in Poland, Belgium, and Germany, the opening ceremony of the Jewish Committee in Selb, Germany, in 1946, and the folding camp…
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 … Germany, the opening ceremony of the Jewish Committee in Selb, Germany, in 1946, and the folding camp chair patented by Israel Kornhauser. This series also…
6. Oral history interview with Władysław Szepelak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.288 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0288
Date:
interview: 2009 August 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… transfer to Zakopane, Poland and his torture there; his transfer to Krakow, Poland; his transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp; surviving with the help of…
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 … (NKVD). Had WS not had the cover that he was in concentration camp, he would have been also arrested and accused of serving in the AK and he would have…
7. Hanna Moneta photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.202.1
Date:
undated: 
…, Poland during "Hachshara"; Hanka Moneta, who survived Płaszów, Auschwitz concentration camp and Bergen-Belsen, after the liberation in Sweden during…
8. Josef Horowitz papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.33.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1948
… extermination camp including Josef's grandfather, Izaak Horowitz. Sometime in the winter 1942/1943 two Jewish men arrived in Chaim's store. They had a sample of a…
9. Oral history interview with Danuta Osikowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.94 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0094
Date:
interview: 1999 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… forces at Majdanek concentration camp; the conditions of Szebnie concentration camp, including the treatment of the prisoners by German forces; an SS…
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 … camp in Szebniea. She concentrates her narration on SS-man Benke [Behnke], employee of the camp, who helped camp’s prisoners. She also describes the…
10. 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
… concentration camp; the establishment of the Kraków ghetto and resistance activities he witnessed there; how he and his wife, Ludmilla Page, escaped from the…
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 … group of gypsies come to Krakow Plaushau concentration camp, and there was close to 800 with them, and on Sunday??? a friend of mine who lives now in…
11. Oral history interview with Henry Drobiarz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.21 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0021
Date:
interview: 1992 March 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… during roundups; the separation of his family to various places; working in Krakow-Jerozolimska (Płaszów) concentration camp; being sent to Mielec…
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 … they brought us up to-- made a concentration camp. That was Krakow- Jerozolimska. I don't know if you heard of that? Yeah. And there I worked in the…
12. Oral history interview with Alexei Gorlinsky, Lieutenant Petrenko, and Colonel Kotlyar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.264.15 | RG Number: RG-50.234.0015
Date:
interview: 1981 October
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Includes oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps.…
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 … his concentration camps, but the general had not anticipated the degree of inhumane cruelty which he would see upon liberation of the camps. When the…
13. Return to life
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0212 | RG Number: RG-02.128
Date:
creation: 1985
… Auschwitz and in a camp in Kraków, Poland, and her liberation.…
14. Hedy Tugendhaft Rosen photographs
2002.155.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2002.155.2
Date:
creation: circa 1929-1987
… liberation; and Hedy with other displaced persons in Heidelberg. Additional photographs depict staged scenes at Dachau concentration camp after liberation, a…
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 … depict staged scenes at Dachau concentration camp after liberation, a roundup of Jewish deportees in Ukraine, and three nuns at the St. Joseph convent in…
15. Oral history interview with Zygmunt Sikora
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.68 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0068
Date:
interview: 1998 November 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the gassing of Jews; his transfer to Buchenwald and other camps; his liberation; returning to Kielce; witnessing a pogrom in 1946; and protecting his…
16. Oral history interview with Ludmilla Page
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.21 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0021
Date:
interview: 1992 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Oskar Schindler and how he protected the Jews working in his factory; how Schindler compiled his list of names of prisoners from the Płaszów concentration…
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 … when we were in the camp, which 270 00:15:26,100 --> 00:15:30,120 he established in Sudeten at the very end of the war. 271 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32…
17. Oral history interview with Murray Pantirer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.373.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0174
Date:
interview: 1990 April 23
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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 … went. The end of '41 he went to camp. It was called U lag, near Kraków. In March of 1942, they said they need more men to go to a brick factory. So again…
18. Oral history interview with Sigmund Strochlitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0030 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0397
Date:
interview: 1999 February 25
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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 … and giving us those concentration camp uniforms. And marching us to the -- End of Tape Five http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
19. Oral history interview with Meir Bussak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.26 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0026
Date:
interview: 1991 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … concentration camp. Saved thanks to the Righteous Gentile, Oskar Schindler, who employed him. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
20. Oral history interview with Renate Mann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.276.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0229
Date:
interview: 2013 October 10
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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 … one who was taken into camp, sent into concentration camp. Q: Okay. A: And that was 1940, I think. Q: 1940? A: '41. Q: '41. Okay. A: And I was sent…