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1. Relacje, wspomnienia i materiały żołnierzy Batalionów Chłopskich
Document | Accession Number: 2018.184.1 | RG Number: RG-15.616
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2010
Alternate Title:
Accounts, memories and materials of soldiers from the Peasant Battalions
…Oświęcim (Poland)--History--20th century.…
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 …, artykuły polski R/871 Stefan Kobrzyński: Stanisław Dubois i towarzysze w Oświęcimiu Oświęcim 1939- 1942 no maszynopis polski R/873 Odpisy grypsów pisanych do…
2. Chaim Piotrkowski collection
1996.A.0414 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0414
Date:
inclusive: circa 1995
…Chaim Piotrkowski was born in 1927 in Łódź. He survived the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Lieberose and relocated to Israel after the war.…
3. 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
…Concentration camp inmates--Poland--Oświęcim.…
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 …. Concentration camp inmates‐‐Poland‐‐Oświęcim. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Personal narratives. Jewish ghettos‐‐Poland‐‐Łódź. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Prisoners…
4. The survivor as researcher
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0255 | RG Number: RG-02.159
Date:
1988
…Describes how Greenfield learned the fates of her mother and of 1,196 Jewish children and their adult guardians from Białystok, Poland, who were…
5. When the living envied the dead
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0258 | RG Number: RG-02.165
Date:
undated: 
…Describes her childhood in Poland; her imprisonment in the ghetto in Łódź, Poland; her incarceration in Auschwitz; the fate of her family; her…
6. Siegfried Halbreich papers
1995.A.0178 Oversize Folder 5 Image 89
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0178
Date:
inclusive: 1942-2004
…Siegfried Halbreich (1909-2008) was born in Dziedzice, in the Upper Silesia region of Poland. After his graduation from high school, he served…
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 … of a list of names of 982 Jews deported from Beuthen, Germany, (now Bytom, Poland) in May and June 1942 (1993.A.0043) to the United States Holocaust…
7. Hertha Spier collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0421
Date:
creation: circa 1993
inclusive: 1923-1946
…Hertha Spier (1918-2020) was born Hertha Gruber in 1918 to Mauricy Gruber and Amalia Gruber in Bielitz (now Bielsko-Biała, Poland). Her siblings were…
8. 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
…Chaim Litke (1919-2008, later Harry Litke) was born in Ozorków, Poland to bakery owner Icek and Golda (née Moskowitz) Litke. He had one sister, Beila…
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 …‐) Holocaust (1939‐1945)‐‐Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors‐‐Czech Republic. Holocaust survivors‐‐Poland‐‐Łódź. Auschwitz (Concentration camp…
9. Renée Fodor Schwarz writings
1991.A.0095 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0095
Date:
inclusive: 1984-1994
…Renée Fodor Schwarz (1918-2000) was born Ryfka Issler in Zasów, Poland, not far from Krakow. She was the second youngest of ten children and lost…
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 … poems by Schwarz in which she remembers and reflects on her childhood in Poland, her confinement in the Krakow ghetto and at Auschwitz, and her new life…
10. "My experiences in concentration camps"
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0288 | RG Number: RG-02.180
Date:
undated: 
…Describes Stanley Kania’s (Okocim, Poland, 07 May 1920 - ) arrest for anti-Nazi activities and interrogation by the Gestapo; his transport to and…
11. Jeannette Hammer Kaufmann memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2013.41.1
Date:
inclusive: 
… August 1944, they were deported to Auschwitz; in October 1944, Jeannette's husband and sons were transported out of the camp. Jeannette describes her…
12. Wspomnienia
Document | Accession Number: 2007.41 | RG Number: RG-15.117M
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1946
Alternate Title:
Memoirs
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Source of acquisition is the Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim-Brzezinka, Poland (State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau). Memoirs were contributed by former…
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 …, ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32‐603, Oświęcim, Poland. Tel. 011 48 33 843 20 77. More information about this repository can be found at www…
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 …: The original records are held by the Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim-Brzezinka, ul. Więźniów Oświęcimia 20, 32-603, Oświęcim, Poland. Tel. 011 48 33 843 20 77…
13. "Zug Bist Ahtzen"
Document | Accession Number: 2013.154.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 2012-2012
…Consists of one typed memoir entitled "Zug Bist Ahtzen" ["Say You're Eighteen"] as told by Auschwitz survivor Gary S. Rubinstein to his grandson…
14. A void in my heart
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0237 | RG Number: RG-02.152
Date:
creation: 1989
Subtitle:
the memoirs of Regina Godinger Hoffman, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, (1927- )
…The memoir describes Regina Hoffman's (b. 1927) deportation from Czechoslovakia to Poland, the deaths of family members, her psychological trauma…
15. Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers
2015.375.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.375.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… or year is unknown. On May 20, 1944, Amalia, Ilona, and Eta were sent to the Miskolc ghetto. Three weeks later they arrived at the Auschwitz…
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 … Sosnowiec, Poland. She died in 1943 at the Auschwitz concentration camp with her children, Machla Hipszer (born March 30, 1931), Gitla Hipszer (born April 3…
16. Peter Ornstein memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2009.336 | RG Number: RG-02.247
Date:
publication/distribution: 2009
… Gleiwitz (Gliwice, Poland). After the war ended, he returned to Vienna on foot and was reunited with his sisters, both of whom also survived Auschwitz…
17. "My story"
1994.A.0274 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 33
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0274 | RG Number: RG-02.164
…. After the German invasion of Poland, Rita and her family were sent to the Łódź ghetto. Rita was later deported to Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and…
18. From Bialystok to Brooklyn
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0348 | RG Number: RG-02.202
…Sara Lew (née Majzler) was born in Sokoly, Poland on October 5, 1922. In 1950 she immigrated to the United States.…
19. Shari: a true story
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0092 | RG Number: RG-02.007.01
Date:
creation: circa 1981
… Hungarian occupation forces, Hungarian Zandars, deportations to ghettos, survival in Auschwitz and forced labor camps, reunions with relatives and friends…
20. Ferenc Klopfer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0047
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
…Concentration camps--Poland--Oświęcim.…