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61. Józef V. Czarski collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0171 | RG Number: RG-02.149
Date:
creation: circa 1993
… camp system was evacuated due to the approaching Soviet Red Army. Victor and the other prisoners were forced on a death march to Mauthausen, where he was…
62. Dr. Aharon Pick diary
2000.132 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.132
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… father’s death in June 1944 and retrieved it following liberation in July 1944.…
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 … that the text was written in the spring of 1942. 116 This addition was therefore made after the Aktion (deportation to the death camps) of the children…
63. Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family papers
2012.351.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2012.351.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-2003
… Kołomyja, the deaths of his family members, his year in the ghetto, hiding with his sister, postwar life in Poland and Germany, and immigrating to the United…
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 … occupation, life in the ghetto, the deaths of her family members, hiding with her brother, liberation, and marrying her husband. Rut Burak’s Encounters with…
64. 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
… raised in Miskolc, Hungary where Miksa worked as a shoemaker. He died of cancer in 1928. After their father’s death, Irene and Ilona supported the family…
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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…
65. "My deportation"
Document | Accession Number: 1984.066 | RG Number: RG-02.005.01
Date:
creation: circa 1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
66. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.456.4
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1997
bulk: 1945-1971
… was sent on a death march to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At Bergen-Belsen she had to move dead bodies to a mass grave. She was there…
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 … there for several months and then was sent on a death march to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. At Bergen-Belsen she had to move dead bodies to a…
67. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.15
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Gardelegen
… October 1981. The testimonies describe liberation experiences at various Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe at the end of World War II. Also…
68. Liebschütz and Rozsa families papers
2015.574.1 Box 5 Folder 1 Image 74
Document | Accession Number: 2015.574.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2009
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… remained a forced laborer until the camp was evacuated in February 1945. During evacuation, the prisoners were sent on a death march through Lower Silesia…
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 …, escaping from a death march, her recapture and imprisonment at Theresienstadt, and liberation. The Lisa Liebschütz papers include documents related to her…
69. 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.…
70. Pia-Kristina Garde collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.635
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2014
bulk: 1990-2004
… evacuated to Sweden after liberation. Inspired by the 1945 book "De dödsdömda vittna" ("Those Who Were Sentenced to Death Witness), which was based on…
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 …-Kristina Garde from Holocaust survivors who had been evacuated to Sweden after liberation. Inspired by the book De dödsdömda vittnar [Those Who Were…
71. Naumann family papers
1999.A.0010 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0010
Date:
inclusive: 1947-circa 1998
… of her death, and his worries about his own deportation. Also included are Red Cross letters from Marcel Sternberger’s sister, Annus Sternberger, who…
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 … from his daughter’s family in New York and to emigrate, his worries about his wife’s whereabouts and the news of her death, and his worries about his…
72. Betty Siebenscheinova papers
2012.491.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.491.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1971
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… months, Betty and Jakub were captured and taken to the Sereď concentration camp in late 1942 where they were interned until liberation. Dasha was born in…
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 … experiences of Betty Siebenscheinova, originally from Prague. After escaping several concentration camps, Betty was captured and taken to the Sereď…
73. Max Amichai Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.307.13
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1989
… writing. In September 1944, the Allies were fighting in the southern Netherlands. Liberation forces got pinned down by the Germans and occupied the farm…
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 …, liberation, plans for future, and news of Albert’s death in 1945. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
74. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
…, taken to the transit camp at Malines, and in January 1944 deported to Auschwitz, where they were eventually assigned to the “Union” munitions factory for…
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 … four accounts of Eva’s experiences as a refugee in Belgium, at Auschwitz, on a death march, at Ravensbrück and Neustadt‐Glewe, and after liberation…
75. Sophie Miklos memoir
Document | Accession Number: 1991.072.1 | RG Number: RG-02.026
Date:
creation: 1989
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
76. Affaires militaires
Document | Accession Number: 2000.251 | RG Number: RG-43.017M
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
Alternate Title:
Military Affairs
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Europe.…
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 …. Police--France--Sources. World War, 1939-1945--Collaborationists--France. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Europe. World War, 1939…
77. Ralph Parker testimony
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0765
Date:
creation: 1994
…. He was a survivor of Auschwitz III (Buna-Monowitz), Gleiwitz, and Sachsenhausen. Ralph was liberated by the United States Army on a death march near…
78. "Shakespeare Saved My Life"
2008.191.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.191.1
Date:
creation: 2007
… concentration camp, located in today’s Poland, north of Breslau (Wrocław, in Lower Silesia), from which they were sent on a death march in January 1945. They…
79. "Fort Montluc and Ravensbrück"
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0069 | RG Number: RG-02.038
Date:
undated: 
Subtitle:
a record of imprisonment
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.…
80. Selma Engel papers
1999.A.0201 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0201
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… revolt and escaped on October 14, 1943. They were hidden by Polish Christians Adam and Stefka Novak on a farm in Plisków until liberation by the Soviets…
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 … (1943-1944), written while in hiding in German occupied Poland, describes Selma’s arrival at the Sobibór concentration camp, the Sobibór uprising and her…