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1. Oral history interview with anonymous interviewee
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.182 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0182
Date:
interview: 1994 March-1994 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…A Holocaust survivor, born in 1925 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), discusses family; pre-war life; war experiences in Auschwitz…
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 …, you're going to be picked up, and you're going somewhere. They didn't tell you where. But we knew that particular one was going to Auschwitz. That…
2. Oral history interview with Marko Moskovitz
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.5 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0005
Date:
interview: 1946 July 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Zlotwina (possibly Solotvyno, Ukraine); his family's deportation to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps; the death of his mother and younger siblings…
3. Dorothea Baumgart papers
1990.11.8 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.11.8
Date:
inclusive: 1940-circa 1957
… 1939, and her children Kurt Baumgart, Frieda Boldes, and son-in-law Richard Boldes are believed to have been killed at Auschwitz.…
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 … from Dorothea Baumgart in Theresienstadt to Frieda Boldes in Auschwitz; several sheets of toilet paper used as writing paper to describe her Holocaust…
4. Oral history interview with Renee Tully
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.884 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0884
Date:
interview: 1991 March 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deportation to Drancy with her mother; their transfer to Auschwitz in May 1944; her attempts to escape during the journey by train; their experiences in…
5. Oral history interview with Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.53 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0053
Date:
interview: 1991 March 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Gestapo; her trial at Sondergericht June 5, 1943; returning to Gestapo custody; being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selections for the women’s camp orchestra…
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 …'s going on. There are ways and means of messages, and I can't tell you now who told me what, but one just knew that Auschwitz's gas chambers-- that is…
6. Oral history interview with Lory Grunberger Cahn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.32 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0032
Date:
interview: 1981 May 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being treated for meningitis with medicine provided by the Red Cross; being sent in 1943 to Auschwitz after a two week trip in a cattle car; surviving the…
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 … the Red Cross. In 1943 Lory was sent to Auschwitz after a two week trip in a cattle car. She survived a selection by Dr. Mengele. She describes living…
7. Oral history interview with Harry Sydel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.557 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0557
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… mitzvah; his brother’s deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp; working in a sausage factory; the bombing of a Japanese radio station on July 20, 1945…
8. Naumann family papers
1999.A.0010 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0010
Date:
inclusive: 1947-circa 1998
… Theresienstadt in June 1943, transferred to Auschwitz in May 1944, were subject to examination by Josef Mengele, and were liberated by the Russians in January 1945…
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 … and Auschwitz. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please…
9. Oral history interview with Barbara Artman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0313 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0033
Date:
interview: 1995 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto; her deportation with her family to Auschwitz; conditions in Auschwitz; the treatment of camp guards; being sent to a labor camp near Breslau (now…
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 … first cousins. 29 00:01:28,860 --> 00:01:33,330 All 14 aunts and uncles perished in the ovens of Auschwitz, 30 00:01:33,330 --> 00:01:38,220 along with 12…
10. Oral history interview with Madeline Deutsch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.388.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0060
Date:
interview: 1990 May 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… November 9, 1938; living under the Hungarians until March 1944 when the Germans invaded; living in a ghetto for two weeks until her transport to Auschwitz…
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 … place?" And he says...they said, "Don't you know? You are in Auschwitz." And we didn't know what Auschwitz meant or what it was. And they kept asking…
11. Oral history interview with Walter Borchheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.11 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0011
Date:
interview: 2010 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… took trains from Breslau to Auschwitz; his secular education; his father’s Zionist family; his view on the origins of anti-Semitism in Germany; his life…
12. Oral history interview with Bernard Lewkowicz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.70 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0070
Date:
interview: 1992 June 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… mechanic; being transferred to a camp in Breslau and doing forced labor on small locomotives; saving a child from going to Auschwitz by telling the guard he…
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 …. Yeah, little Grossman. He supposedly was married to a rabbi's daughter in Chrzanów, or Oswiecim, something like that. And he smuggled in a tallit and…
13. Oral history interview with Renee Fink
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.103.4 | RG Number: RG-50.865.0004
Date:
interview: 2006 October 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) in 1933; losing her parents to Auschwitz and the survival of her grandmother and aunt; the Nazi invasion in 1940; her family…
14. Caricature of a man seated with a paper by an inmate of Theresienstadt
2004.357.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.357.3
Date:
creation: 1944
Artwork Title:
Worried Man on a Bench, Theresienstadt, 1944
… been killed in fall 1944, not long after he arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Late in 1946, she filled out a US Army questionnaire about her status as a…
15. Caricature of a red haired man walking by an inmate of Theresienstadt
2004.357.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.357.2
Date:
creation: 1944
Artwork Title:
Red Haired Man Walking, Theresienstadt, 1944
… been killed in fall 1944, not long after he arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Late in 1946, she filled out a US Army questionnaire about her status as a…
16. Black leather infant's ankle boots worn by a German Jewish child
Object | Accession Number: 2013.456.2 a-b
Date:
use: approximately 1911-1915
emigration: 1939
… Czechoslovakia. Jetka died in Theresienstadt. On October 19, 1944, Simon was deported to Auschwitz and killed. On May 18, 1942, Bruno’s brother, Rudolf, was sent…
17. Circular badge with number 21968 worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.4 side A
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.4
Date:
use: 1944 March-1945 May 09
… forced march in 1944. She later learned that her mother, Sarah, and aunt were likely transported to Auschwitz killing center and murdered in summer 1942…
18. Three part badge with number 21968 worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.3
Date:
use: 1944 March-1945 May 09
… forced march in 1944. She later learned that her mother, Sarah, and aunt were likely transported to Auschwitz killing center and murdered in summer 1942…
19. Triangular, tri-color badge with number 21968 worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.5
Date:
use: 1944 March-1945 May 09
… forced march in 1944. She later learned that her mother, Sarah, and aunt were likely transported to Auschwitz killing center and murdered in summer 1942…
20. Black plastic Star of David badge worn by a German Jewish forced laborer
2017.193.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.193.2
Date:
use: 1942 May-1944 March
… forced march in 1944. She later learned that her mother, Sarah, and aunt were likely transported to Auschwitz killing center and murdered in summer 1942…