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101. Oral history interview with Helga Melmed
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.742 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0742
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
102. Oral history interview with Walter Taus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.101 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0101
Date:
interview: 2012 December 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… to Theresienstadt concentration camp; their transfer to Auschwitz concentration camp, where his family was murdered; his forced labor at Auschwitz…
103. Oral history interview with Dora Sorell
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1474 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1474
Date:
interview: 2005 June 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Auschwitz; her experiences in the cattle cars; the selection process at the camp; the loss of some of her family members; the conditions in the camp; her…
104. Oral history interview with Lewis Schloss and Trudy Schloss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1445 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1445
Date:
interview: 1983 April 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… derived from being a native German speaker; his escape from the camp; and the work he performed as a translator for the Americans in Germany. Trudy Schloss…
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 … is Poland. 27 INTERVIEWER Okay. Urn can you tell me then what camps you were 28 in and when an4 how old were you LEWIS SCHLOSS Well went--I was 21…
105. 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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 … several volumes. Information gathered in this collection concerned all possible aspects of life in the camp, including slave labor and extermination. Almost…
106. Oral history interview with Judith Nachum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.30 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0030
Date:
interview: 1992 February 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…; sabotaging her work in the factory; evacuating the camp in April 1945; Weniger confiding in her mother about the atrocities she committed; going back to the…
107. Oral history interviews with Eleanor Ney and Herbert Ney
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.247.2 | RG Number: RG-50.995.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Isle of Man.…
108. Oral history interviews with former Polish political prisoners of Auschwitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2017.295.6 | RG Number: RG-50.957.0005
Date:
interview: 1994
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
109. Pencil sketch of men gathered beneath trees and possibly playing Pétanque by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.56 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.56
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1941 May
… arrested Jacob and Sonia as enemy aliens and separated them. On May 25, Sonia was transported to Gurs internment camp in the Pyrenees Mountains. On June 2…
110. Memoir
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0358
…Personal narratives.…
111. Coat design, Rita, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.7
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Rita
…Birkenau (Concentration camp)…
112. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note
2005.517.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.517.5
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
…Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note…
113. Rosh Hashana card with a photo of a young woman made in Celle DP camp
Object | Accession Number: 1999.7.22
Date:
commemoration: 1947 September 15
creation: approximately 1947 September
…Rosh Hashana card with a photo of a young woman made in Celle DP camp…
114. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp ration coupon used by an Austrian Jewish inmate
Object | Accession Number: 2005.517.44
Date:
use: 1942-1945
…Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp ration coupon used by an Austrian Jewish inmate…
115. Portrait of a US soldier by George Byfield, a former camp inmate, after liberation
Object | Accession Number: 2006.405.1
Date:
creation: 1945 July
Artwork Title:
Portrait of Captain William Adams Bridgforth
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Dachau--Personal narratives.…
116. Engraved silver trophy cup won by a Polish Jewish refugee in a sports tourney at Bergen-Belsen DP camp
2000.291.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2000.291.2 a-b
Date:
received: 1946 April
…Engraved silver trophy cup won by a Polish Jewish refugee in a sports tourney at Bergen-Belsen DP camp…
117. Nazi flag acquired by a US soldier
2016.471.8 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2016.471.8
Date:
found: 1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Personal narratives.…
118. Pencil sketch of a man with a wheelbarrow drawn by Ossip Lubitch in Drancy internment camp
Object | Accession Number: 2004.386.22
Date:
creation: 1944 July-1944 August
depiction: 1944 July-1944 August
Artwork Title:
Man pushing a wheelbarrow
…Pencil sketch of a man with a wheelbarrow drawn by Ossip Lubitch in Drancy internment camp…
119. Prayer book
Object | Accession Number: 2013.484.1
Date:
use: 1949 October 18
Title:
Siddur
… was originally from Gorlice, Poland, and survived multiple concentration camps. His wife and his father were deported and killed at Belzec killing…
120. Oral history interview with Barbara Artman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0313 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0033
Date:
interview: 1995 December 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Consists of interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators conducted by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Oral History…
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 … Jewish young men were drafted to work camps 73 00:04:15,540 --> 00:04:20,040 and later sent to the Russian front, where most of them 74 00:04:20,040 --> 00…
121. Oral history interview with Eva Arond
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2020.96.1 | RG Number: RG-50.219.0001
Date:
interview: 2015 April 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… detainment in the labor camp in Oranienburg for six weeks; the destruction of her mother’s uncle’s store; the air raids in 1939 and hiding in a baker…
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 … camp in Oranienburg for six weeks. When he was released, he knew they had to leave. Mother’s uncle’s store was destroyed and closed; mother’s uncle…
122. Oral history interview with Ina Rothschild and Elsa Jaeckel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.120 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0120
Date:
interview: 1981 November 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… living conditions in the camp and the improvement after the International Red Cross supervised the institution; seeing Reinhard Heydrich shoot Jewish…
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 … SUBJECT HEADINGS Prewar Jewish Life, 1920 – 1933 – Jews - Germany World War, 1939 – 1945 – Personal narratives, Jewish World War, 1939 – 1945 - Hiding World…
123. Oral history interview with Alex Krasheninnikow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.111 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0111
Date:
interview: 1989 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… car to Brätz (Brójce) concentration camp near Schwiebus, Germany (Świebodzin, Poland); how the guards beat them with clubs and separated men from women…
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 … sent by freight car to Brätz concentration camp near Schwiebus. Watchtband guards beat them with clubs and separated men from women. Food shortages, cold…
124. Oral history interview with Sophie Roth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.96 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0096
Date:
interview: 1988 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… killing of doctors and teachers by Germans, aided by Poles and Ukrainians; working in forced labor camps in Lazczow and Kosice until 1942 when she was shot…
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 … German bombing and invasion in 1939, and the killing of doctors and teachers by Germans, aided by Poles and Ukranians. She worked in forced labor camps in…
125. Oral history interview with Simone Horowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.87 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0087
Date:
interview: 1999 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… strength from her determination to find her father after the war; how the camp was emptied in stages; being marched out of the camp with a group of girls in…
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 … father after the war gave her strength to survive. The camp was emptied in stages. In January 1945, Simone and a group of girls were marched out of…
126. Oral history interview with Herbert Finder
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.35 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0035
Date:
interview: 1987 February 19
interview: 1987 March 19
interview: 1987 March 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… American visas in April 1940 but lacking the funds to travel and being trapped by the German invasion; his father being sent to a camp near Toulouse, France…
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 … promise to leave Germany... NL: Ahhh! HF: Within a very short period of time. NL: Yes, I thought that was true just of the German concentration camps. HF…
127. Oral history interview with Ralph M. Hockley
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.60.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0873
Date:
interview: 2016 January 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … the ages I've seen, they had it. And the people on these trucks went to a concentration camp that you've never heard of before and I can't remember. Was…
128. Oral history interview with Fred Loewy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.460 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0501
Date:
interview: 2005 November 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … the camp of -- starts with an R, I forget the name now. It -- this became a woman’s -- women’s camp. Q: Ravensbrück. A: Ravensbrück, that’s correct. Q…
129. Oral history interview with Hilda Prooth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.39 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0039
Date:
interview: 1984 December 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interviews document the experiences of 136 Holocaust survivors, Righteous Gentiles, and former concentration camp liberators from the Cleveland…
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 … resident of Prague who was sent to Theresienstadt, the so- called good concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. But she was not sent there until 1943, in…
130. Oral history interview with Theodore Feder
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0335
Date:
interview: 1995 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … Committee [JDC]. As part of the JDC, Ted was involved with the distribution of supplies and other necessities, such as psychiatrists, to DP camps. He was…
131. Oral history interview with Alice Lang Rosen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.358.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0194
Date:
interview: 1990 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … pistols out. And they came and told us that they were picking us up and taking us to concentration camp. We were not allowed to take anything with us. As we…
132. Oral history interview with Harold B. Herbst
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0096
Date:
interview: 1992 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … Buchenwald, a concentration camp that was based in Germany in one of the most -- one of the larger ones and most famous for the various things that they did…
133. Oral history interview with Leo Bretholz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0332 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0038
Date:
interview: 1989 July 31
interview: 1989 September 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … believed because some of the people who were freed from camps periodically brought back other horror stories, so we know that. My mother was very much bent…
134. Ernest Sterzer memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2010.438
Date:
undated: 
…Theresienstadt (Concentration camp)…
135. Oral history interview with Helen Spitzer Tichauer and Anna Palarczyk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0523 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0446
Date:
interview: 1996 August 16-1996 August 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, relief workers, former POWs, and people of different social…
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 … new camp and I had the permission to measure each barrack, each, to take all the measurements because I pretended that I don't, that I want to do that…
136. Isadore Berenstein memoir
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0277
… camp.…
137. Oral history interview with Joseph Likwornik
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.571 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0571
Date:
interview: 1992 December 29
interview: 1993 March 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in a disguise; arriving at a displaced persons camp in Leibniz, Austria, where he met his wife and had a son; their decision to immigrate to Palestine…
138. Oral history interview with Slaviboj Kuchta
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.439.33 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0033
Date:
interview: 2015 July 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… "Work sets you free" that appeared at the entrance some Nazi concentration camps); seeing women packed in a courtyard who had sores and lice, and…
139. Oral history interview with Beta Leibovna Pankina and Jon (Yuri) Isaakovich Kesel'brener
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.103.4 | RG Number: RG-50.632.0004
Date:
interview: 2005 July 15-2006 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… was later released); being in the Pechora camp with her mother and three siblings; her husband, who was from Kaluga and was not Jewish; her father…
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 … located at Kaptsonivka.) Her father, a shoemaker, was taken into the army and was later released. Her mother with her four children was a Pechora camp…
140. Oral history interview with Judith Szpiro
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.371 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0371
Date:
interview: 2001 May 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 … wedding, we went out from the-- 49 00:02:30,580 --> 00:02:33,160 50 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,515 I was living already in camp. 51 00:02:35,515 --> 00:02:39…
141. Oral history interview with Boris Dynin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.677 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0677
Date:
interview: 1992 February 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…. Dynin discusses further relocations of members of the Jewish community to concentration and labor camps, remaining behind and escaping the ghetto, and the…
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 … relocated to concentration camps or labor camps. In a few weeks, another rumor spread that some Jews would be allowed to stay behind and work in the city…
142. Oral history interview with Ina Hoffman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1206 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1206
Date:
interview: 1988 January 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Westerbork (Concentration camp)…
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 …-Belsen concentration camp; Discusses life in Bergen-Belsen, the men were segregated from the women. Three times a day, they were fed water with turnips…
143. Oral history interview with Henry Drejer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1179 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1179
Date:
interview: 1989 May 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Henry Drejer describes his Orthodox upbringing near Poznan, Poland; being close to the age of 15 when he was sent to a labor camp in Zakopane; being…
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 … Drejer. am from Poland. was born and raised there. From 1940 until 1945 was in several concentration camps and went through hell was very very very careful…
144. Oral history interview with Efim Sochircă
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.726.136 | RG Number: RG-50.572.0136
Date:
interview: 2009 October 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Jews from their homes to concentration camps; the treatment of Jews by local collaborators, including beatings and robbery; details about Vertiujeni…
145. Oral testimony of Charles Phillip Sharp
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2004.664.2 | RG Number: RG-50.909.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The majority of the Charles Phillip Sharp collections concerns the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Sharp’s records give first…
146. Oral history interview with Robert F. Morrow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.51.93 | RG Number: RG-50.759.0093
Date:
interview: 1994 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with liberators of concentration camps, work camps, and factories, and interviews with other wartime eyewitnesses, including…
147. Allen A. Cramer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.389
Date:
1945-2005
… Gusen concentration camp. In the memoir, he describes his memories of the liberation and of his experiences guarding the camp. Also includes photographs…
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 … that we were involved with the concentration camp that the war in Europe came to its official end. I will interrupt this narrative to quote from the…
148. Initialed, cream-colored dirndl skirt with a diamond pattern owned by Herta Stoer
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.10
Date:
creation: after 1890-before 1900
emigration: 1939 February
… Austrian refugees were treated as enemy aliens. On August 1, Herta’s brother Fritz was deported to Saint-Cyprien internment camp in France. Later, he was…
149. Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 10 dollars, issued to a German Jewish couple
2006.424.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.424.2
Date:
received: after 1945 May-1946
…Deggendorf displaced persons camp scrip, 10 dollars, issued to a German Jewish couple…
150. Leo Haas illustration of the Pope blessing Himmler for crucifying an inmate on barbed wire
2003.202.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.202.17
Date:
creation: approximately 1977
Artwork Title:
Pope Blessing Himmler for Barbed Wire Crucifixion
… sent to Nisko labor camp near Lublin in German occupied Poland, where he drove supply wagons. He made portraits of SS camp personnel, in exchange for…