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1. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
…’s collecting period. The “Concentration camp mail” scrapbook consists primarily of correspondence and envelopes documenting mail systems and prisoners at…
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 … “Concentration camp mail” scrapbook consists primarily of correspondence and envelopes documenting mail systems and prisoners at Buchenwald, Dachau, Oranienburg…
2. Nazi Germany, 1 Rentenmark note, owned by a former concentration camp prisoner
2013.223.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.223.3
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
… of Flossenbürg concentration camp, and assigned prisoner number 26495. In January 1945, the prisoners were forced to march to Hohenstein-Ernstthal…
3. Litke family papers
2015.547.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.547.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1981
bulk: 1945-1981
… Ganacker concentration camp, Ganacker, Germany. He was liberated in May, 1945 by the United States Army. After liberation, he went to the Eggenfelden…
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 …‐2126 Abstract: The Litke family papers document the experiences of Chaim Litke and Frida Hoffmann Litke in concentration camps during the Holocaust…
4. Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
2010.472.2_g front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.2 a-u
Date:
use: before 1944 August-after 1945 May
recovered: after 1945 February
… deportation to various concentration camps during the Holocaust and to Henry's recovery of the instruments and their use in his band, The Happy Boys, that…
5. Violin, bows, case and accessories recovered from Łódź ghetto and played in DP camps by a Polish Jewish musician
2010.472.1_c front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.1 a-t
Date:
use: before 1944 August-after 1945 May
recovered: after 1945 February
… deportation to various concentration camps during the Holocaust and to Henry's recovery of the instruments and their use in his band, The Happy Boys, that…
6. Saxophone, case and accessories used by a Polish Jewish musician in a band that toured DP camps
2010.472.3_ad front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.472.3 a-ah
Date:
use: after 1945 May
… deportation to various concentration camps during the Holocaust and to Henry's recovery of the instruments and their use in his band, The Happy Boys, that…
7. Singer style treadle sewing machine table of the type used in Łódź Ghetto
1990.78.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.78.1
Date:
manufacture: 1920
use: 1920-1945
… destruction, was included and censored by Mordechai. Deportations to the concentration camps began in December 1940. Mordechai cooperated and fulfilled the…
8. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of newcomers to the Łódź Ghetto pulling a carriage
1988.173.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.4
Date:
creation: 1964 January 04
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Newcomers to the Ghetto
Alternate Title:
2 Horseman pulling a carriage in Lodzer Ghetto
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
9. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a mother with two children in Lodzer Ghetto
1988.173.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.3
Date:
creation: 1964 January
depiction: approximately 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Mother with Two Children
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
10. Autobiographical tempera painting by David Friedmann of two men pumping water in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.173.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.173.1 a-c
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1941 October-1944 March
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Pumping Water in Łódźer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Two Łódź Ghetto Inmates On A Water Pump
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
11. Engraved medallion presented to Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, head of the Jewish Council, by bakers in the Łódź ghetto
2010.74.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.74.1
Date:
issue: 1943
… destruction, was included and censored by Mordechai. Deportations to the concentration camps began in December 1940. Mordechai cooperated and fulfilled the…
12. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of two Jewish couples and their children huddled on a Ghetto street
1993.165.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.165.2
Date:
creation: 1963
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Hunger im Łódźer Ghetto 1941 - 1945
Alternate Title:
Hunger in Łódź Ghetto
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
13. Steven N. Montrose papers
2005.167.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2005.167.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1990
… married a German concentration camp survivor and immigrated with her to the United States in 1950; Natek joined them a couple of years later.…
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 …, concentration camps, postwar Germany, immigration to the United States, and new life in America. Languages: English, Polish, German Administrative Information…
14. Concentration camp from Oct. 1941 to May 1945
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0167 | RG Number: RG-02.148
…); her deportation to the camps of Auschwitz and Mittelsteine; her liberation and her return to Vienna.…
15. Pen and ink drawing by David Friedmann of Jews hauling waste in the Ghetto given postwar to a fellow former resident
1993.126.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.126.1
Date:
depiction: 1942
creation: 1942
received: 1950 June 16
Artwork Title:
1942 Ghetto Łódź
… April 6, 1921, a survivor of several concentration camps. The couple fled to Israel in 1949 because of the Stalinist policies of the Communist government…
16. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
Date:
inclusive: circa 1907-2006
… was put on a train for transport to a POW camp. While the train was passing through Łódź, Benjamin threw a piece of paper out of the window, notifying…
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 …, liberation, return to Łódź, and meeting her husband. Photographs depict Benjamin Herson in the Polish military and in prisoner of war camps, his aunt and…
17. Alexander and Aviva Bartal papers
2007.148.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2007.148.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1977
… Buchenwald for slave labor and died shortly before liberation; and Aviva was transferred with her mother and aunt to the Halbstadt subcamp of Gross-Rosen where…
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 … in Poland and after liberation in Germany, Italy, and Israel. The papers also include photocopies of 1970s correspondence about Folke Bernadotte, Count…
18. Szyfra Majranc papers
2005.218.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 36
Document | Accession Number: 2005.218.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… married Nechemia (Tadek) Majranc (later Mairanz), born May 29, 1908. He was a rabbinical student from Łódź, who came from a wealthy family of Gerer Chasidim…
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 … side, but mainly from town to town, or to camps, from where the deportees had the opportunity to give a sign of life at once. The Germans carried out…
19. Records of the Gestapo in Łódź
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0037 | RG Number: RG-15.002M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 … to concentration camps in Gusen and Mauthausen. Correspondence with families of dead inmates about returning the confiscated personal property to the…
20. Oral testimony of Paula Dash
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.281.1 | RG Number: RG-50.009.0001
Date:
interview: 1987 November 23
Subtitle:
Paula Dash Remembers
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
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 …. She was sent to work cleaning bombed out houses (Bremen camp) and she found a piece of curtain in a deserted basement. She hid that cloth in her bosom…