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41. 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
… sisters ultimately survived Płaszów concentration camp, a return to Auschwitz, Augsburg (a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp), and were liberated from…
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 …, Augsburg (a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp), and were liberated from Mühldorf (also a subcamp of Dachau) in April 1944. After liberation, Ilona and Eta…
42. Maria Lichtsztejn and Sarah Montard collection
1994.A.0360 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0360
Date:
inclusive: 1951-1958
… men and incarcerated in a camp in Pithiviers, France. He managed to escape after three months of detention and remained in hiding in Paris until the war…
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 … her and her mother’s first arrest and ultimate liberation from Bergen‐Belsen in 1945, while Maria’s recounts the details of their second arrest…
43. Fritz Grünberg papers
2015.468.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.468.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1979
bulk: 1940-1945
… deportation, sabotage trains, smuggle mail and photographs out of the camp, and falsify christening documents. After the liberation of the camp in April 1945…
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 … liberation of the camp in April 1945, the Contact Afdeling was investigated and Fritz was treated as an outcast. He immigrated to the United States in November…
44. Nina Ebb papers
1994.A.0053.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0053.2
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1995
bulk: 1942-1944
… Theresienstadt, but both were deported to Auschwitz in October 1944. Fredo was gassed and Hanus later died in Kaufering, a sub-camp of Dachau. After the war, Nina…
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 … Auschwitz in October 1944. Fredo was gassed and Hanus later died in Kaufering, a sub‐camp of Dachau. After the war, Nina and Emma returned to Plzeň and were…
45. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.06
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Braunau prison camp
… October 1981. The testimonies describe liberation experiences at various Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe at the end of World War II. Also…
46. J. George Mitnick papers
2005.120.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2005.120.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-2005
… liberation of Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria and after the war in the United States.…
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 … of Ohrdruf concentration camp, a subcamp of Buchenwald, shortly after its liberation in April 1945, and he described the horrors of Ohrdruf in a letter…
47. Henry Landman papers
1997.A.0175.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0175.1 | RG Number: RG-10.476
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1992
bulk: 1935-1945
… they were imprisoned in Dachau in 1938, lists of Jewish residents of Augsburg deported to concentration camps, and lists of Henry Landman’s family…
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 … collection https://collections.ushmm.org while they were imprisoned in Dachau in 1938, lists of Jewish residents of Augsburg deported to concentration camps…
48. 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…
49. Out of the hell of Minsk into the 'paradise' of Theresienstadt
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.039 | RG Number: RG-02.048
…, the "self administration" of the Jewish elders, the treatment of children and the elderly, and the liberation of the camp by the Red Army.…
50. Holocaust memories of Genya Rotenberg
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0319 | RG Number: RG-02.173
… escape through the sewers; the death of her mother; Genia's capture and internment in Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen; her liberation and experiences in a…
51. A personal memory of Flossenbürg
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0229 | RG Number: RG-09.025
Date:
creation: 1989
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
52. American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors collection
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0089 | RG Number: RG-02.002
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1983
bulk: 1983
… ghettos, and concentration camps, episodes of emigration, and liberation of the concentration camps during World War II.…
53. Schulhof family papers
2017.133.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.133.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1882-1999
bulk: 1903-1948
… Auschwitz. Her sister Katalin was deported to Auschwitz, and then to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she was a forced-laborer. After liberation, she…
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 … Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she was a forced-laborer. After liberation, she was sent to a rehabilitation camp in Loka Brunn, Grythyttan, Sweden…
54. "Tom" letter about tour of Germany
Document | Accession Number: 2016.257.1
Date:
creation: 1945 May 05
… trip to Heidelberg, Stuttgart, Munich, and to the Dachau concentration camp, where he saw the Dachau death train and witnessed the visit of American…
55. The family of Aryed-Leyb Fingerhut (Leo Gerut)
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0259 | RG Number: RG-02.210
Date:
creation: 1993
Subtitle:
father of Rosalie and Zachary Gerut
… experiences as a forced laborer; his transfer to Stutthof concentration camp in 1944; his transfer to Lager 10 of Utting, a subcamp of Dachau concentration camp…
56. The history of my persecution during the Holocaust
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0306 | RG Number: RG-02.188
…Stella Kane (née Szajndla Koniecpolski) describes the ghetto in Warsaw, Poland; fates of family members; deportation to the concentration camps of…
57. Recollections of a Polish Holocaust survivor
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0038 | RG Number: RG-02.075.01
Date:
creation: 1992
…Majdanek (Concentration camp)…
58. The three lives of Gizel Berman
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0235 | RG Number: RG-02.157
Date:
undated: 
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
59. Never to be forgotten
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0261 | RG Number: RG-02.155
Date:
1993
Subtitle:
a biography of my father
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
60. And they do not toll the bells...
Document | Accession Number: 2014.381.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1948
Subtitle:
The story of the family of Dr. Hillél Friedmann, Chief Rabbi of Dombóvár
… after liberation. Her husband and younger daughter were murdered at Auschwitz. This memoir is an English-language translation of the original Hungarian…