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81. Pál Szegö diary
2004.375.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 76
Document | Accession Number: 2004.375.1 | RG Number: RG-10.515
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… the Mauthausen concentration camp and later to its subcamps until liberation in 1945. Throughout the months he was imprisoned, Pál kept a diary in the…
82. Max Amichai Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.307.13
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1989
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
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 … notes, personal and travel narratives, photographs, printed materials, scrapbooks titled “Remembrance of the Holocaust,” subject files, and writings…
83. Salomon Berenholc papers
2011.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2011.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1945
Special Collection:
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… assistance from Izak’s brother in New York City, the family obtained visas and immigrated to the United States, arriving aboard the SS João Belo from Lisbon in…
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 … Izak’s brother in New York City, the family obtained visas and immigrated to the United States, arriving aboard the SS João Belo from Lisbon in November…
84. Hilzenrad family papers
2011.287.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 2011.287.1
Special Collection:
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… for France and boarded the SS Providence. In July 1947 they arrived in Haifa, Israel and settled in Tivon, a small community near Haifa.…
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 …) had a large refugee camp. They left Leipheim in 1947 for France and boarded the SS Providence. In July 1947 they arrived in Haifa, Israel and settled in…
85. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
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 ….243.273, 1989.243.271, and 1989.243.54-1989.243.61. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum also holds three oral history interviews with Ernest Heppner dated…
86. Dr. Aharon Pick diary
2000.132 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.132
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
Special Collection:
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… Jewish cultural life in Šiauliai (Shavli). He and his family were forced into the Šiauliai ghetto in 1941, and Aharon worked in the ghetto hospital until…
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 … clinic, the patients’ room, the physicians and the nurses – a S.S. man who turn out to be a tyrant and a torturer even more than the rest of his evil…
87. Linhard family papers
2017.259.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2017.259.1
Date:
inclusive: 1846-1993
bulk: 1938-1939
… Hamburg, Germany, and boarded the SS President Harding which left for New York on May 23. Once they arrived in New York the children were taken to the Brith…
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 … information: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Steve and Marion Linhard in 2017. Steve is the nephew of Peter and…
88. Ben Zion Kalb papers
2014.406.2 Book Enclosure 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.406.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1968
bulk: 1942-1945
Special Collection:
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…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the family of Ben Zion and Clara Colb…
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 … the Chasidim and their observance. One very stressful day: they were looking for me at Moletz’s for 2 hours. The searching party consisted of: 2 SS men…
89. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
Special Collection:
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… United States in April 1941 and spent most of the war in Shreveport, Louisiana, giving birth to daughter Barbara in August 1941. Son Stephen was born in…
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 …. In the diaries, which are handwritten in English, Dr. Madi describes what she is hearing about the war, about propaganda in Hungary, and about missing…
90. Anna Grun manuscript
2007.474.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2007.474.1
Date:
creation: 2001
… group of women who also worked for Schindler and continued working in the factory. After the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945, Anna and her sister returned…
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 … rodzinami. Leżeli zabici na ulicy obozu równo jedno przy drugim, a cały obóz musiał przemaszerować, a SS- mani pilnowali by nie odwrócić oczu od pomordowanych…
91. Karoly Deme von Zadorgalva diary
1999.A.0249 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 156
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0249
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
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…. After the war, Karoly immigrated to the United States in 1950 aboard the SS General M. B. Stewart and settled in Ohio where he continued practicing…
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 … the United States in 1950 aboard the SS General M. B. Stewart and settled in Ohio where he continued practicing medicine. Scope and content of…
92. Pressman family papers
1991.69.4 Book Enclosure 2 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1991.69.4
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1935
Special Collection:
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… Mendelsohn. A few months later he was joined by his parents and sister. In April 1934, the family immigrated to the United States aboard the Red Star Line's SS…
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 ….ushmm.org Acquisition information: Sonia Pressman Fuentes donated the Pressman family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1991 and 2009. The…
93. Warum ich Europea verlassen, und was ich in Amerika erreicht habe
2003.8 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2003.8 | RG Number: RG-10.240
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
undated: 
…, born in Austria), immigrated to the United States in October 1938 aboard the SS Conte di Savoia. Their two children, George (1928-2000) and Joanne, were…
94. Rose Galek Brunswic papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.285.1 | RG Number: RG-10.061.01
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1989
… stopped and questioned by an SS officer. He realized she was Jewish but she bribed him with her last gold coin and he let her go. She went to the Vistula…
95. Carl Gärtig collection
2007.72 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2007.72
Date:
creation: 1922-1999
…Dr. Thomas Gärtig donated the Carl Gärtig papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998 and 2006.…
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 …) 479-9717 e-mail: reference@ushmm.org Appendix A. Translations The following translations are housed in the donor files of the United State Holocaust…
96. Ferenc Klopfer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0047
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
… he and other inmates narrowly escaped mass execution by the SS, due to the intervention of the Red Cross, prior to the camp's liberation. [Source…
97. 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
… collection is open, which means that memoirs and testimonies are still being collected. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the…
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 … and the Holocaust. Pictures from an impossible reality” (k. 6‐18), przekład z j. angielskiego na j. polski (k. 19‐31), załącznik (k. 5) 3. Adam Nycz…
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 … Oświęcim. The collection is open, which means that memoirs and testimonies are still being collected. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives…
98. Nathan Chorowicz documents
Document | Accession Number: 2012.441.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
… Gleiwitz, Silesia (Gliwice, Poland), they were forced into snow filled, open train cars with two armed SS guards and deported to Buchenwald. Of the 50…
99. Utwory literackie (Sygn. 266)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.264 | RG Number: RG-15.231
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1999
Alternate Title:
Literary works
…Jewish literary works: poems, memoirs, letters, songs, literary and political notes, written in various ghettos, mainly in the Łódź ghetto…
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 …’s collection 497. Collection of poems and songs from the times of the Holocaust Description: no date, [Wilno], photocopies of manuscripts, Yiddish, loose sheets…
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 … inventory, written in the Yiddish alphabet earlier. Approx. 90% files wwere in files and boxes. Memoir, newspapers and doctor’s cards of the SS members, such…
100. "Fight for thirteen"
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0074 | RG Number: RG-20.017
Date:
1983
… apartments in the neighborhood because they were opening a German hospital nearby. The SS took over one of the two rooms of the cottage and Stefania hastily…