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151. Drawing of a sleeping man created by a Hungarian Jewish musician in Drancy internment camp
2012.245.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.245.3
Date:
creation: after 1941 August 21
Artwork Title:
Man Asleep, Drancy, 1941
…Drawing of a sleeping man created by a Hungarian Jewish musician in Drancy internment camp…
152. Mixed media wall sculpture by Daisy Brand mourning the cremation of her father at Auschwitz
2009.400.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2009.400.5
Date:
creation: 2003
depiction: 1944 May
Artwork Title:
Looking Back: Then and Now
… interned in ghettos and soon the Germans began systematic deportations of the Jewish population to concentration camps. In May, Daisy and her family were…
153. Buchenwald Aussenkommando coupon for SS Ko. Altenburg, 1 Reichsmark issued to a Jewish female slave laborer
Object | Accession Number: 2003.77.3
Date:
received: 1944 October-1945 April
… Adrienne's support, began to do so. Adrienne was imprisoned in B-3 section, called Mexico, because it had the worst conditions in the entire camp. She…
154. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note
2005.517.26 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.517.26
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
…Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note…
155. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note issued to a Polish Jewish woman
2018.31.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.31.2
Date:
issue: 1940 July-1944 August 21
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Personal narratives.…
156. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of concentration camp inmates who preferred the electric wire rather than more tortures
1998.80.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.80.1
Date:
creation: 1964 January 23
depiction: 1944 August-1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Electrocution by Choice
…Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of concentration camp inmates who preferred the electric wire rather than more tortures…
157. Watercolor
Object | Accession Number: 2011.411.4
Date:
creation: 1943
…Zdenka Eismannova was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic), in 1897. She was deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp in September…
158. Oral history interview with Livia Krancberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.141.1 | RG Number: RG-50.107.0001
Date:
interview: 1994 May 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 …, speaking to a high school student audience, states she is a survivor of Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Neuestadt-Glewe concentration camps; arriving in Auschwitz…
159. Oral history interview with Boris Naumovich Chandros
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1287.8 | RG Number: RG-50.226.0008
Date:
interview: 1994 August 08
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Pechera work camp; escaping from the Pechora; going to the Mogilevsky ghetto to see his uncle; being shot by a German soldier; the liberation of his town…
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 … received orders that one member from each family must go to ghetto for work. So I went to work camp in Pechora. 2.19.15 First time we had very hard work in…
160. Oral history interview with George Hill Leonard
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.32 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0136
Date:
interview: 2001 January 10
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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 …, I think that fear of Russia-- 488 00:28:18,020 --> 00:28:24,350 this was before the stuff about the camps ad become obvious-- 489 00:28:24,350 --> 00…
161. Oral history interview with Tilda Finzi Cohen
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0059 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0096
Date:
interview: 1998 April 14
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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 …:03:16,060 --> 01:03:19,180 They knew by the time there were concentration camps. Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
162. Oral history interview with Philip Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.37 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0037
Date:
interview: 1992 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; life in the camp; contracting typhus; walking from Auschwitz to Birkenau; living conditions in Birkenau; mass killings in Birkenau; building the gas…
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 …-- that was August of 1940-- almost all able-bodied young Jewish males received orders to report for shipment to forced labor camps on the German-Soviet…
163. Oral history interview with Chaia Pshititzki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.291 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0291
Date:
interview: 1996 August 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… man; helping care for children in the family camp; moving to a swamp when a German attack was imminent; traveling to Rafalovka, then Sarny; draft by the…
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 …. Described the ‘Partisan’ camp as also called “Jewish camp” (distinguishable form Gentile partisans who were mostly from the villages or Russian officers…
164. Oral history interview with Samuel Golombek
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.272 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0272
Date:
interview: 1981 August 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deported to Nowe Miasto Ghetto; doing forced labor; being deported to Auschwitz concentration camp November where he was from 1942 to 1945; working on sewage…
165. Oral history interview with Victor Elias
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.219 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0219
Date:
interview: 1983 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…); experiencing antisemitism before the war; studying in Yeshiva; apprenticing as a baker circa 1936; the Hungarian occupation; being sent to a detention camp…
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 … Bushtyna. In 1939, he was seized by the Hungarian Army and endured hard labor in the Ujhel3, Korony [phonetic], and Yasinya labor camps. He describes…
166. Oral history interview with Marian Turzanski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.73 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0073
Date:
interview: 1983 December 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… brothers became messengers; the family’s deportation to Germany in sealed cattle cars in December 31, 1944 to Wilhelmshaven work camp near Berlin; the…
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 … messengers. He describes the family’s deportation to Germany in sealed cattle cars, December 31, 1944 to Wilhelmshaven work camp near Berlin, in great detail…
167. Oral history interview with Betti Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.59 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0059
Date:
interview: 1991 March 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Amsterdam were shipped to Vught concentration camp; turning down a chance to escape with false papers to stay with her mother; the terror tactics used to…
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 … narratives World War, 1939 - 1945 - Concentration camps World War, 1939 - 1945 - Personal narratives, Jewish Jews - Dutch Slave labor Atrocities Death march…
168. Oral history interview with Harry Kamel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.479.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0862
Date:
interview: 2015 December 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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 … broke out. I didn't remember to take that postcard, but when I wound up at this displaced person camp after the war and I told them that, they said, where…
169. Oral history interview with Rafael Wilschanski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.50.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0655
Date:
interview: 2012 March 25
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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 … in the war. But after the war now, what information coming back about the extermination camps, the concentration camps, the murder, mass graves in A…
170. Oral history interview with Isadore Helfing
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1994.A.0447.14 | RG Number: RG-50.042.0014
Date:
interview: 1992 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Isadore Helfing discusses his arrival in Treblinka concentration camp and his work burying the bodies of persons who died during the transports in…
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 … they go, 70 00:03:29,510 --> 00:03:34,430 but then they went to the gas chambers all together. 71 00:03:34,430 --> 00:03:36,090 What was the camp like…
171. Oral history interview with Richard R. Seibel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0123.1.6 | RG Number: RG-50.035.01.0006
Date:
interview: 1986
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, concentration camp liberators, rescuers, a child of Holocaust survivors and a German…
172. Oral history interview with Sulamif Shreyber Zhabinskaya
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0183 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0399
Date:
interview: 1999 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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 … fascists had brown, you know, shirts. And it was horrible. There -- there are pictures there about the concentration camps already in Germany. At first…
173. Oral history interview with Irene Weber
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.A.0337 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0247
Date:
interview: 1989 September 20
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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 …: Describe your family. A: I left for concentration camp in 1943. Q: Hold on, I'm not ready for that yet. I want to know where you were in your early life…
174. Oral history interview with Walter Greenberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0458.24 | RG Number: RG-50.413.0024
Date:
interview: 1994 August 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Greenberg, a resident of the Safe Haven refugee camp during WWII, discusses how his father helped smuggle Jews out of Yugoslavia, was…
175. Oral history interview with Louie Gillespie
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.38 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0038
Date:
interview: 1980 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Regensburg (Concentration camp)…
176. Oral testimony of Paula Dash
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.281.1 | RG Number: RG-50.009.0001
Date:
interview: 1987 November 23
Subtitle:
Paula Dash Remembers
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… conditions in the camp; using the latrine; the sleeping conditions; how one afternoon she was sent to the gas chambers, told to undress, made to wait until the…
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 … September). The morning came and there was a miracle; somewhere in a labor camp there was a demand for 300 women. The Germans had to round up 700 women from…
177. Oral history interview with Gloria Lyon
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.421 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0421
Date:
interview: 1990 September 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… concentration camp. She describes her liberation by the Swedish Red Cross in the White Buses Rescue operation headed by Count Bernadotte. Ms. Lyon discusses…
178. "Every Day a Gift: The Holocaust Memoir of Leah Goltzman as told to Janis Haswell"
Document | Accession Number: 2011.112.2
Date:
creation: 2011
… displaced persons camps, including in Ebelsberg, Austria (near Linz), before immigrating to the United States in 1950.…
179. Oral history interview with Motek Leon Feldmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.184.122 | RG Number: RG-50.820.0121
Date:
interview: 2009 June 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bergen-Belsen (Concentration camp)…
180. Oral history interview with Betty Sved
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.160 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0160
Date:
interview: 1996 February 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 … camps. INT: And what is your level of education? BETTY: Well, because of the times, there were always soldiers in our town, in our schools. I had just…
181. Oral history interview with Chanie Singer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.16 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0016
Date:
interview: 2014 December 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… three years in Kassel, Germany displaced persons camp in the American zone; living in small room and studying Hebrew; her aunt in the US sending care…
182. Oral history interview with Isaac Kurtz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.177.1 | RG Number: RG-50.677.0001
Date:
interview: 2011 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… brother in the concentration camp; forced labor on the railroad; miserable conditions in the barracks; the murder of his oldest brother; a prisoner doctor…
183. Oral history interview with Susan Cernyak-Spatz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.416.13 | RG Number: RG-50.650.0012
Date:
interview: 1979 August 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… separate from her mother who was gassed upon arrival at Auschwitz; her later deportation to Auschwitz in 1943; the physical effects of camp food on the…
184. Oral history interview with Martin Alexander
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.618 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0618
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Martin Alexander, born on February 16, 1920 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in February 1943…
185. Oral history interview with Frania Haverland
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.19 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0019
Date:
interview: 1994 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the ghettoization of her town; her parents’ arrest; her deportation with her older brother to Płaszów by cattle car; the conditions in the camp…
186. Portfolio
Object | Accession Number: 1989.19.13
Date:
publication/distribution: 1947
Series Title:
12 puvodnich litografii z nemeckych koncentracnich taboru Leo Haas
… 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…
187. Oral history interview with Bernard Werth
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.590 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0590
Date:
interview: 1990 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … round up terminated that evening so never went to the concentration camp. Wrth 15 Coming back to the British Consul General -- Soon as my father was…
188. Oral history interview with Joe Fabry
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.811 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0811
Date:
interview: 1991 March 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… camp in Merxplas, Belgium. Mr. Fabry was able to obtain an affidavit for the United States, and fled to England. He lived in London before moving to New…
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 … then we were told that the Belgian government and the Jewish Community Center had made an arrangement that a detention camp would be set up for Jewish…
189. Oral history interview with Estelle Laughlin
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0386
Date:
interview: 2012 June 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Skarzysko concentration camp to work in a munitions factory and later to camp Czestochowa; being liberation by Soviet forces from Czestochowa in January 1945…
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 … July to September 1942, 300,000 ghetto residents were deported to Treblinka II, an extermination camp. During this time Estelle and her family hid in a…
190. Oral history interview with Henryk Slebzak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.28 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0028
Date:
interview: 1998 July 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… told the local people about the construction of the camp; the German and Ukrainian guards trading with Jewish prisoners on the train; violence by the…
191. Oral history interview with Tomislav Erak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.504.3.47 | RG Number: RG-50.587.0047
Date:
interview: 2009 October 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… he wrote anti-Italian slogans; his imprisonment in Perugia until the capitulation of Italy; his transfer to Dachau concentration camp in 1943 and then…
192. Oral history interview with Kathleen Hay
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2006.70.76 | RG Number: RG-50.583.0076
Date:
interview: 1990 June 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…; giving her food away to the prisoners; daily life at the camp; the advantage of being able to keep her own shoes; being transferred to Liebau camp in…
193. Oral history interview with Roelof Arnoldi
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2005.588 | RG Number: RG-50.570.0028
Date:
interview: 2005 July 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Westerbork (Concentration camp)…
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 … him to Westerbork to bring coffins to the camp. Tape 1 of 1 0 Born in Assen June 1 1929. I lived there until 1952. There were a lot of Dutch Nazi’s in…
194. Oral history interview with Boleslaw Brodecki
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2003.206 | RG Number: RG-50.549.02.0070
Date:
interview: 2003 July 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in a resettlement camp in Landsberg, Germany; working as a policemen; meeting his wife and starting a family; immigrating to the United States…
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 … resettlement camp in Landsberg, Germany; working as a policemen; meeting his wife and starting a family; immigrating to the United States; segregation and civil…
195. 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
… given the number A20071. Six weeks later, Anna and Zsofi were transferred to the Parschnitz labor camp in Czechoslovakia. Anna worked in the airplane…
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 … transferred to the Parschnitz labor camp in Czechoslovakia. Anna worked in the airplane factory while her mother worked outdoors with other elderly women…
196. Ray Kaner collection
2008.390.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2008.390.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 1940 Levy volunteered to go to a labor camp and build a highway between Frankfurt and Poznan. The families of the volunteers which remained in the…
197. Oral history interview with Norman K. Holloway
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2012.194.3 | RG Number: RG-90.081.0001
Date:
interview: 2004
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Buchenwald concentration camp.…
198. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, belonging to a German Jewish woman
2016.552.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.552.23
Date:
use: after 1943 May-before 1945 May 09
publication: 1943 January 01
…Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, belonging to a German Jewish woman…
199. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note
2005.517.36 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.517.36
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
…Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note…
200. Golden-brown comb owned by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate
1997.31.2.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1997.31.2.1
Date:
use: after 1944 July-before 1945 April
…Golden-brown comb owned by a Lithuanian Jewish concentration camp inmate…