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201. "Tishkovska Saga"
Document | Accession Number: 2008.355
Date:
2008
…, Dora and her sister were left in the care of relatives in the Ukraine and spent several years under German occupation. After escaping from a small camp…
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 … first days of liberation, in the spring of 1944, Dora continued to live with the Kovalenkos. They tell her the time has come to return to Nadezya. They…
202. Józef V. Czarski collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0171 | RG Number: RG-02.149
Date:
creation: circa 1993
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
203. "Eddie Klein: A Rescued Life"
Document | Accession Number: 2014.445.1
Date:
inclusive: 2014
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
204. Sydney Goodman papers
2011.148.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2011.148.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-2005
bulk: 1944-1999
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… labor camp Berga an der Elster, a sub-camp of Buchenwald concentration camp. During his time as a POW, Sydney wrote on the back of family photographs he…
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 … to the forced labor camp Berga an der Elster, a sub-camp of Buchenwald concentration camp. During his time as a POW, Sydney wrote on the back of family…
205. Bernard Rechnitz memoir
1993.A.0008 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0008 | RG Number: RG-02.069.01
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1947
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… a labor camp on the site of a munitions factory in Skarżysko-Kamienn. Bernard was put to work in subcamp C where workers filled artillery shells with…
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 …. System of arrangement The Bernard Rechnitz memoir is arranged as a single series. Indexing terms Rechnitz, Bernard. Płaszów (Concentration camp) World War…
206. Naumann family papers
1999.A.0010 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0010
Date:
inclusive: 1947-circa 1998
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 …, Josef,‐‐1911‐1979. Auschwitz (Concentration camp) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Poland‐‐Strzelce Opolskie. Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin…
207. Dora Apsan collection
2005.166 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.166.1
Date:
1945 May 06-1945 May 17
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Personal narratives.…
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 … hill is beautiful. Bread, sugar, jam and potatoes are distributed. (A real liberation) TRONER’s speech is heard on the roads. The camp is abandoned. BABA…
208. Maksymilian Wolfsthal collection
1992.129 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 78
Document | Accession Number: 1992.129
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1952
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)…
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 … 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: reference@ushmm.org Below is a translation of Maksymilian Wolfsthal’s memoir: …
209. Pia-Kristina Garde collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.635
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2014
bulk: 1990-2004
…Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)…
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 ….ushmm.org Indexing terms Garde, Pia-Kristina. Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp) Holocaust survivors—Sweden—interviews. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Personal…
210. Susan Beer collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0073 | RG Number: RG-02.144
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
211. Holocaust survivor
Document | Accession Number: 1991.080 | RG Number: RG-02.030
Date:
1920-1975
Subtitle:
A mother writes to her children
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
212. Brunn and Ornstein family photographs and diary
2004.225.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2004.225.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1950 September
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 1941. After the March 1944 German invasion, rabbinic students were forced to work in a transit camp at site of the seminary, though they still were…
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 …. After the March 1944 German invasion, rabbinic students were forced to work in a transit camp at site of the seminary, though they still were permitted to…
213. 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
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 … possible aspects of life in the camp, including slave labor and extermination. Almost all memoirs were written after the liberation of the camp in January…
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 … all memoirs were written after the liberation of the camp in January 1945. Since the opening of the Museum on January 2, 1947, the Museum’s staff has…
214. Abendstern, Fleischmann, and Meyerhoff families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.494.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
… Milles. Otto was interned in seven concentration camps including Les Milles, St. Cyprien, Gurs, and Drancy. He was deported to Auschwitz in August 1942…
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 … help support her. She was able to visit Otto at Les Milles. Otto was interned in seven concentration camps including Les Milles, St. Cyprien, Gurs, and…
215. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.29
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Muenster
… October 1981. The testimonies describe liberation experiences at various Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe at the end of World War II. Also…
216. Masha Rolnikaite papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.436.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2015
…] Provenance: After her liberation from the Strasdenhof concentration camp, Masha found a notebook in the house in which she was recuperating and wrote the songs…
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 … materials: Sketches of a fellow concentration camp inmate by Esther Lurie: Portrait of Masha Rolnik, Leibisch concentration camp, 1944 (1995.A.0989.8); the…
217. Salomon Berenholc papers
2011.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2011.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… tailor and Salomon was enrolled in business school. Fearing deportation to a concentration camp, Salomon and his family fled France in 1942 and attempted…
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 … enrolled in business school. Fearing deportation to a concentration camp, Salomon and his family fled France in 1942 and attempted to cross the border into…
218. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… family fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium in 1940. They lived in Nîmes and Gratentour and then immigrated to the United States with the help of…
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 … of identification, education, immigration, and military papers, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting the flight of…
219. Nina Kaleska papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.076 | RG Number: RG-02.029
… arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp, Sala noticed that nearly all of the 2500 passengers were being sent to one side; she told her sister to join the…
220. Death march
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0079 | RG Number: RG-02.039
Date:
creation: 1945
Subtitle:
April 14, 1945-April 24, 1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…