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1. Ring with a red heart and inmate numbers made from a spoon in a concentration camp
2006.467.1, ring with heart made from spoon, Solomon Goldstein Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.467.1
Date:
received: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
creation: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
… and went to Föhrenwald, a displaced persons (DP) camp in Germany. There, he worked as an auto mechanic and furrier. After Maria’s death in 1955, Lieb…
2. Izac Holcman papers
2003.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2003.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1949
… Soviet Army in Wlodawa, Poland and was sent to the U.S.S.R. Izac lived in a camp until 1941, when he was given work as a bookkeeper until his release in…
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 … veteran of the Polish Armed Forces, who worked in the Traunstein displacement camp before immigrating to the United States in 1949. This collection…
3. Ratafia family papers
2005.198.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.198.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-2011
bulk: circa 1930-1964
… Stutthof concentration camp where they were killed. Her father was sent to Chelmno death camp and killed. During the liquidation, Tema and her friend Esther…
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 … Stutthof concentration camp where they were killed. Her father was sent to Chelmno death camp and killed. During the liquidation, Tema and her friend Esther…
4. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
…, before the Holocaust, in the United States Army in Europe during the war, including the liberation of Dora-Mittelbau concentration camp, and in New York…
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 …-Mittelbau, efforts to begin restitution proceedings for the family store, the deaths of relatives at Theresienstadt, the Deggendorf displaced persons camp…
5. Oral testimony of Golda Finkler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2018.266.1 | RG Number: RG-50.110.0001
Date:
Recorded: 1971-1991
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Trybunalski, Poland; her time in slave labor camps, including Skarszysk; a death march through Germany; her liberation and return to Poland; and her life in the…
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 … Leipzig. Excellent. Audio files 34-35: From Camp Schenefeld. Thru Germany. Death march. April 1945. Unfortunately much of this tape, especially half of Side…
6. Holocaust memories of Genya Rotenberg
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0319 | RG Number: RG-02.173
… escape through the sewers; the death of her mother; Genia's capture and internment in Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen; her liberation and experiences in a…
7. Oral history interview with Shlomo Shapira
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.137 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0137
Date:
interview: 1991 June 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the Warsaw ghetto from 1941 to 1942, including death from hunger and typhoid fever; being sent to a labor camp and escaping; receiving a letter from his…
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 … terrible and crowded conditions in the train car. He was determined to escape as he suspected they were sent to death camps. He pryed open the bars on a…
8. 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
…; surviving a death train in 1945; liberation by American forces in Tutzing, Germany in 1945; returning to Neutitschein after the war; his marriage and return…
9. Oral history interview with Ben Stern
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1364 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1364
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp in January 1945 and the subsequent death march to Buchenwald; working in quarries at Buchenwald until the liberation of the camp in April 1945…
10. Oral history interview with Dora Goldstein Roth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0319 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0197
Date:
interview: 1989 June 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; seeing her mother die from hunger; her sister's death in the camp; difficult memories including mass rape of camp inmates, forced labor, and struggling to…
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 … my father. And soon, there was, uh, and soon there was the ghetto. If I remember very well, the scene of the death of my father was that my mother…
11. Oral history interview with Hyman Blady
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.172 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0172
Date:
interview: 1982 October 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… factory in Gusen in 1944 and being sent on a death march to Gunskirchen; liberation; recuperating in Wels; living in Föhrenwald displaced persons camp from…
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 … camp Mauthausen Concentration Camp Gusen labor camp Linz Gunskirchen Föhrenwald DP camp Wels Death March https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference…
12. Presentation by Sigmund Boraks and Martin Wasserman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.17.5 | RG Number: RG-50.689.0005
Date:
interview: 1999 April 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto; his time in the Czestochowa ghetto, from which his parents and sister were shipped off to the Treblinka death camp; his experience at Blizyn labor…
13. Oral history interview with Lech Piekałkiewicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.21 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0021
Date:
interview: 1998 July 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being interrogated and tortured in Pawiak prison; witnessing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising from prison; his uncle’s death from torture; being sent to…
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 … Belsen camps in Germany. He talks about his liberation by the British army from Bergen Belsen and his return to Poland in 1945. Tape 1 [01:] 00:07:15 – [01…
14. Recollections of a Polish Holocaust survivor
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0038 | RG Number: RG-02.075.01
Date:
creation: 1992
… against the German occupiers; his incarceration in Pawiak Prison, Majdanek, Buchenwald, and Flossenbürg; his experiences on a death march from Flossenbürg…
15. 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
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 … towards the trains, while the town’s people stood along their way to see them off. 1.28 Amsterdam: He lived with a Jewish family, his father at a camp for…
16. Oral history interview with Adam Starkopf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0299 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0046
Date:
interview: 1999 June 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp; escaping the ghetto; his family living as Roman Catholics; liberation by Russian forces; escaping communist forces and going to the American zone…
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 … as Roman Catholics; liberation by Russian forces; escaping Communism and going to the American zone in Germany; staying in the displaced persons camp…
17. Oral history interview with Irving Schaffer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1594 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1594
Date:
interview: 1981 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
18. Oral history interview with Abram Shnaper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.523 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0523
Date:
interview: 1981 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being deported to a series of camps in Estonia, including Vaivara; liberation on September 22, 1944; returning to Vilna in November 1944 where he worked…
19. Oral history interview with Abram Shnaper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.524 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0524
Date:
interview: 1994 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being deported to a series of camps in Estonia, including Vaivara; liberation on September 22, 1944; returning to Vilna in November 1944 where he worked…
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 … where they burnt to death. Upon liberation, Mr. Shnaper returned to Vilna and reunited with Abba Kovner. Money was being sent from the American Joint…
20. Oral history interview with Sam Goldberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.12 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0012
Date:
interview: 1992 March 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… from Auschwitz by train; his participation on a death march; his friendship with a young boy named Herbie; his time in Flossenbürg concentration camp…
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 … walked out from this compartment, both of us were, you know, travelling, I came home with that salami, had been scared to death. I said to myself, "I'm not…