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1. Postcard written by Salo Blechner in the Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp to his brother Jakob in Zurich, thanking him for sending parcels.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 31717
Date:
July 1943
…Postcard written by Salo Blechner in the Auschwitz-Monowitz concentration camp to his brother Jakob in Zurich, thanking him for sending parcels.…
2. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers
1991.153 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1991.153
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
…Gurs (Concentration camp)…
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 …, Alma, 1892‐1986. Seligmann, Siegfried, 1881‐1973. Gurs (Concentration camp) Les Milles (Concentration camp) St. Louis (Ship) Jews‐‐Germany…
3. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
… concentration camp in Poland in 1943 where they perished. Rudi was sent to Vught concentration camp and then back to Westerbork. On March 5, 1944, he was deported…
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 … prisoner in Auschwitz concentration camp and other labor camps. Languages: German, Hebrew, English, Dutch Administrative information Access: Collection is…
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  • Series 1: Photographs Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
    • File 1: Dingfelder and Wolff families Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
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4. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
… Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, and imprisoned in Oranienburg concentration camp. Dr. Hugo Heim, a former Deutsche Bank director and relative by…
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 …, 1939 voyage aboard the M.S. St. Louis, refuge in Belgium, internment in French concentration camps, refuge in Switzerland, and immigration to the United…
5. Anne Löb Marx papers
1999.2.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.2.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939
… Arthur Löb was deported to the Dachau concentration camp but was released under the condition that he left Germany. In January 1939, Arthur Löb along with…
6. Oral history interview with Ernest Weil
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.588 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0588
Date:
interview: 1990 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… events of Kristallnacht in November 1938; and his father's arrest and imprisonment in Dachau concentration camp. Mr. Weil describes hiding with his mother…
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 … 1936 November 1936. Arid thats when guess mq father started to understand thats how serious it was because he was taken to concentration camp. WERE YOU…
7. Jacobson family papers
1995.A.0196.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0196.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1989
… of a letter Erich Jacobson wrote to his family from Dachau concentration camp in 1938; a newspaper clipping announcing Erich Jacobson's death in in…
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 … the voyage of the MS St. Louis; a photocopy of a letter Erich Jacobson wrote to his family from Dachau concentration camp in 1938; a newspaper clipping…
8. Oral history interview with Norbert Wollheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.32 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0032
Date:
interview: 1992 February 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…. Louis; his thoughts on revenge; his feelings at the time of liberation; his thoughts on the different types of concentration camps; his thoughts on forced…
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 …, "Well, be aware, you have just come in to the concentration, concentration camp of Auschwitz. Uh, don't ask about your uh, wives and your children if you…
9. Beate and Ernest Oppenheimer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.475.1
… extended families who escaped Germany or were imprisoned in concentration camps during the Holocaust.…
10. Oral history interview with Hans Wolfgang Philippi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.640 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0640
Date:
interview: 1998 September 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Kristallnacht in November 1938, and his father arrest and imprisonment in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Mr. Philippi describes being smuggled to Holland and…
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 … came home my father was gone. 12 Q. YOUR FATHER WAS WHAT 13 A. Was gone. They took him to concentration camp 14 in Sachsenhausen. But he was lucky enough…
11. Congregation Adath Israel commemorative material
Document | Accession Number: 2015.358.1
Date:
inclusive: 1993-1999
… the liberation of the concentration camps in 1995, the 60th anniversary of the sailing of the MS St. Louis. The postcards include artwork of the United…
12. Blechner family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.241.1
… previously contributed documenting the experiences of the Mina and Markus Blechner; their sons Salo Blechner, who was deported to concentration camps in 1939…
13. Karliner family papers
1999.3.32 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1999.3.32
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1951
… store was destroyed and Joseph Karliner was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. He was released two months later after Martha obtained a visa for…
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 … in the horse trade. In November 1938, during Kristallnacht, the store was destroyed and Joseph Karliner was sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp…
14. Alfred and Hertha Friedheim collection
2014.322.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2014.322.1
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… concentration camp in Lozere, France before getting American visas. They set sail in May 1941 on board the SS Winnipeg, but were detained in Port of Spain…
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 … page: Assembly Center for Foreigners Address Group 1 (The penciled notes over A.F.’s printed name are not legible) Feb 1, 1940 Camp for foreigners Cepoy…
15. Weil family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.415.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1928-1981
… arrested in Mannheim and sent to the Gurs concentration camp in France, and transferred to the Rivesaltes internment camp by 1941. On 11 August 1942 they…
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 … board the MS St. Louis. On 22 October 1940 Anne’s parents were arrested in Mannheim and sent to the Gurs concentration camp in France, and transferred to…
16. Oral history interview with Miriam Michaelis Skopf
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.494 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0494
Date:
interview: 1989 April 02
interview: 1989 November 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)…
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 … found out in the meantime that my father 130 00:05:59,710 --> 00:06:03,990 had gone to Cuba because he came out of the concentration camp 131 00:06:03…
17. Schönberger family papers
1988.108.192 Book Enclosure 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1988.108.192
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1967
… in March 1939; and Moritz Schönberger’s voyage aboard the St. Louis, return to Europe, internment in French concentration camps, and immigration to the…
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 … to Europe, internment in French concentration camps, and immigration to the United States in 1942. Languages: German, English, French, Hungarian…
18. Oral history interview with Sol Messinger
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.69 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0069
Date:
interview: 1991 January 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Agde (Concentration camp)…
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 …. His parents, my grandparents, lived in a smaller town nearby. My uncle, who also was deported, was put in a Polish concentration camp. And I mean, the…
19. Ludwig May reisepass
Document | Accession Number: 2022.59.1
Date:
after 1938
…Buchenwald (Concentration camp)…
20. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
… Buchenwald. Photographic materials include photographs of a liberated concentration camp (possibly Buchenwald), Julius Hermanns, and Sol and Henrietta Meyer…
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 … concentration camp (possibly Buchenwald), Julius Hermanns, and Sol and Henrietta Meyer, and a photo album depicting the Hermanns family in Germany and the Meyers…
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 … internment camp, Joseph, Ernest and George were finally released so that they could leave for Kenya. They were the first members of the Berg family to arrive…