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201. Etching by Esther Lurie of a group lined up for expulsion to the camps
Object | Accession Number: 1996.3.2
Date:
creation: 1957
depiction: 1943
Artwork Title:
Detail of Kovno Ghetto, Deportation 1943
…Etching by Esther Lurie of a group lined up for expulsion to the camps…
202. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate
2018.70.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.70.11
Date:
use: after 1943 May-before 1944 October
publication: 1943 January 01
…Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, issued to a German Jewish inmate…
203. Enameled Dutch oven used by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp
2003.193.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.193.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1947 January-1949 May
…Enameled Dutch oven used by a Jewish family in a displaced persons camp…
204. Pair of US Army 70th Infantry shoulder sleeve patches with a white axe head worn by a soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2012.302.2 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--Personal narratives, American.…
205. White armband with a blue embroidered Star of David worn by a Polish Jewish youth
1990.51.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.51.3
Date:
use: 1941
…, Sala, was born in the United States. They were taken by train to Krakow and then to Bergen Belsen concentration camp in Germany. They were to be…
206. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 3 Reichsmark, found by a US soldier
2016.136.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.136.2
Date:
found: approximately 1945 April 15
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Weimar (Thuringia)--Personal narratives, American.…
207. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.32
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Ohrdruf
…Contains testimonies written by concentration camp liberators during the 1981 International Liberators Conference held in Washington, D.C., in…
208. Oral history interview with Hannah Fisk
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0030
Date:
interview: 1983 January 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… being prevented from returning home; being sent with her sister to the Sosnowiec ghetto; being sent to Gabersdorf, a female labor camp, where she stayed…
209. Oral history interview with Irving Altus
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0003
Date:
interview: 1982 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the occupation; being arrested and sent to various labor camps throughout Europe, including one in Königsberg, Germany; being transferred in 1942 to…
210. Oral history interview with Richard W. Peterson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0066 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0114
Date:
interview: 1999 April 06
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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 … September at Camp Dodge, then to Fort Benning, Georgia Shipped to 86th Blackhawk Division, A Company, 342nd Regiment Infantry 2 months amphibious training in…
211. Oral history interview with Helen Balsam
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.3 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0003
Date:
interview: 1992 March 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Russia and internment in various labor camps; her family’s placement in a ghetto; her family’s internment in Auschwitz; the hardships she experienced…
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 … to voluntarily join a group that went to a labor camp. Didn't give his name or anything. Somehow we had somebody who helped us. Because if they would…
212. Oral history interview with Jerzy Orwovski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.39 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0039
Date:
interview: 1980 February
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of the Polish Home Army and active in resistance in Poland from 1943 to 1944; being captured; being a POW in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in…
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 … learned later on, a year or later on, we learned that they were taken to a concentration camp. They were not killed https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
213. Oral history interview with Gerald Gardiner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1285.13 | RG Number: RG-50.149.0013
Date:
interview: 1988 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… unit and training in Britain; going to northwest Europe; personnel and officer status in the group; the situation in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp on…
214. Oral history interview with Hela Manesberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.99 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0099
Date:
interview: 1993 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… worked in a knitting workshop; being taken during the third action and transported to Trzebinia near Auschwitz; her arrival at the camp, searches, and…
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 ….23 Arrival at camp, searches, physical exams. 3.27 Describes camp, work. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about…
215. Oral history interview with Itzchak Huberman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.69 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0069
Date:
interview: 1992 September 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…-Birkenau; being moved to Braunschweig work camp; the escape attempts; being sent on a death march to Wattenstedt and Ravensbrück in April 1945; outbreak of…
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 … work in the vegetable market. 4.07 Summer of 1944. Action in the ghetto. Describes the transport, arrival in camp and selection by Mengele. 4…
216. Oral history interview with Ruth Kirby
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.344.0001
Date:
interview: 1995 July 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…. Topics include nurse training, traveling to Europe aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth, and treating patients at Mauthausen and Gusen after the camps were…
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 … concentration camp outside of Linz, Austria. And that was when we drove in in the 2 and 1/2-ton truck, and we were just overwhelmed at what we could see from…
217. Oral history interview with Leah Binstock
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.11 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0011
Date:
interview: 1984 October 30
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…
218. Oral history interview with Miles Lerman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.144 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0413
Date:
interview: 2001 July 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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 … mills was right across the street from the death camp of Beljets -- Q: Unbelievable. A: But, you know, I am talking -- I’m jumping ahead of myself. Q…
219. Oral history interview with Arnold Einhorn
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0306
Date:
interview: 1995 March 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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 … French at first hadn't opened the, hadn't opened the border, so we were camping there for I think two days without having food or anything and then…
220. Oral history interview with Anna Wajcblum Heilman
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0258
Date:
interview: 1994 August 10
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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 …. Umschlagplatz is the place where the Jews were gathered, waiting for the cattle cars to take them to the camps. That my father was caught. As he was coming back…
221. Oral history interview with Johanna Neumann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.357.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0170
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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 … that at that time already existed as uh concentration camps. I'm not sure whether Mauthausen was already in existence but Dachau and were. And my aunt at…
222. Oral history interview with Jerucham Karpel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.215 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0215
Date:
interview: 2000 October 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains 209 oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses to the Holocaust, concentration camp liberators, prisoners of war, from the…
223. Oral history interview with Erika Bence
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0586.186 | RG Number: RG-50.407.0186
Date:
interview: 1999 September 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Contains 209 oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors, witnesses to the Holocaust, concentration camp liberators, prisoners of war, from the…
224. Oral history interview with Charles Levine
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.37 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0037
Date:
interview: 1989 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.…
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 … over. 775 00:40:33,940 --> 00:40:37,890 A frau lager, a camp for women. 776 00:40:37,890 --> 00:40:39,410 The children. 777 00:40:39,410 --> 00:40:44…
225. Oral history interview with Joseph Kempler
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0124.106 | RG Number: RG-50.028.0106
Date:
interview: 1996 February 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Personal narratives.…
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 … camp. He had his own orchestra, which traveled throughout the world. And my brother-in-law played with his orchestra. He played the violin, saxophone…
226. Oral history interview with Thomas Spruill
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2001.137.84 | RG Number: RG-50.010.0084
Date:
interview: 1978 December 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dachau (Concentration camp)…
227. Napló közel 50 év utan
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0150 | RG Number: RG-02.209
Subtitle:
Diary nearly 50 years later
…Katarina Bloch Feuer is a survivor of several concentration camps and of a death march from Guben, Germany, to Bergen-Belsen.…
228. Richard Weaver papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.276
Date:
interview: 1945 May 25
…The Richard Weaver collection consists of an eyewitness account, "Testimony: Concentration Camp Buchenwald," by Dr. Alfred Semank, compiled by Pvt…
229. Oral history interview with Helen Farkas
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.402 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0402
Date:
interview: 1990 November 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with her fiance Jose Farkas and their marriage. She describes their flight to a Displaced Persons (D.P.) camp in Linz, Austria to escape the Communist…
230. Oral history interview with Wanda Wos Lorenc
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.81.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0698
Date:
interview: 2013 May 07
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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 … concentration camp, or even occupation during second war in Poland. Q: Okay, well we – we want to hear about it. A: Yes. I start maybe when I was born. Q: Yes, I…
231. Oral history interview with Helen Bromberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.668 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0668
Date:
interview: 1989 February 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… then transferred from the ghetto to the Majdanek camp, where she was separated from her mother, who perished there. She worked in a hospital scrubbing…
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 … in the concentration camps. Her early memories of Warsaw are very vague. She was forced into the Warsaw ghetto in 1939 with her two sisters, brother…
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 … Poland. was teenager when was kept and sent into the 19 concentration camps. was in quite few. was in six 20 concentration camps. have list of the names of…
232. Oral history interview with Sof'ia Iosifovna Gol'fel'
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.103.27 | RG Number: RG-50.632.0027
Date:
interview: 2005 July 15-2005 July 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sof’ia (Sura) Iosifovna Gol’fel’, born in 1936, describes how in her current life she accompanies her friend Rita to Pechora camp to conduct tours…
233. "Bill Roberge: Recollections of the WWII Liberation of Europe"
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2010.148 | RG Number: RG-50.625.0001
Date:
2008
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… he participated in; and the liberation of the Dachau concentration camp.…
234. Oral history interview with Michel Margosis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0105
Date:
interview: 2003 July 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… invasion of Belgium in 1940; fleeing with his family to Southern France; being placed in an internment camp for refugees; his parents’ decision to escape the…
235. Oral history interview with Leon Merrick
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0089
Date:
interview: 2003 April 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… labor camp in Kielce, Poland; working in an ammunition factory there for three months before being sent to a forced labor camp in Czestochowa, Poland…
236. Oral history interview with Antonina Błonska
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.227 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0227
Date:
interview: 2005 April 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Antonina Błonska, born in Poland, describes being captured in a roundup; her forced labor in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp; conditions in the…
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 …-Birkenau as well as after she was transferred to another camp. She focuses on the treatment of prisoners and comments on the availability of food and water…
237. Oral history interview with Klaus D
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.34 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0034
Date:
interview: 2004 May 25
interview: 2004 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
238. Oral history interview with Tonia Blair
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1328 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1328
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Personal narratives.…
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 … important. So you were deported 11 TONIA So-- 12 INTERVIEWER What then 13 TONIA So they-- they put all the people one concentration camp and every day they…
239. Oral history interview with Leah Laskowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1228 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1228
Date:
interview: 1982 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… husband to a displaced persons camp in Germany; the birth of their daughter; and their immigration to the United States in 1950.…
240. Double-sided pencil sketches of women working and Paquo from Lunel Vendages series by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.57.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.57.5
Date:
depiction: 1942
… 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…
241. Watercolor painting of a garden scene by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.5
Date:
depiction: 1944 March-1944 June
Artwork Title:
Spring 1944 Hiding in Soisy s/M France
… 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…
242. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen, owned by a former Czech Jewish inmate
2001.3.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.3.23
Date:
issue: after 1943 May 12-1944
…Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen, owned by a former Czech Jewish inmate…
243. Child's sketch of a train by a young boy who did not survive
1989.318.1.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.318.1.2
Date:
creation: 1942 August 24
creation: 1977
Artwork Title:
The Death Train
… 12, 1942. Luba’s parents also died. Luba was interned at Majdanek concentration camp. The war ended in May 1945. Luba and her younger sister Mira…
244. Potato ration card stub issued to a Jewish Czech man for potatoes
Object | Accession Number: 1992.132.10
Date:
use: 1941 September 29-1942 July 05
… the month, Reinhard Heydrich, SS Chief of Security for the Reich, became Reich Protector, and prioritized the expulsion of Jews to concentration camps…
245. Prayer book and paper insert acquired by a Czechoslovakian Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 2018.297.2 a-b
Date:
publication: 1948 January 13
acquired: after 1949 January 01-before 1950 July 24
Title:
[in Hebrew characters] Siddur Shalem
…, Hungary, to begin an iron-working apprenticeship, and the following year was sent to a labor camp in Budapest, where he remained until liberation in 1945…
246. Oral history interview with Martin Weiss
Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0090
Date:
interview: 2003 April 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; being transported with his father to Melk, a subcamp of the labor camp Mauthausen; his father’s death; being sent on a forced march to Gunskirchen; being…
247. Oral history interview with Aleksandra Nizio
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.17 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0017
Date:
interview: 1998 March 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… with Jewish people in the town; the German invasion; the creation of a Jewish camp in Trawniki in 1941; conditions in the camp; violence against…
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 … establishment of the concentration camp in Trawniki, as well as her impressions of the Jews who were deported there from all over Europe. She describes in detail…
248. Circular, geometric-patterned earring owned by an Austrian Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2017.480.3
Date:
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…
249. Oral history interview with Mayer Lief
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.16 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0016
Date:
interview: 1983
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators.…
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 …,190 --> 00:43:15,760 They had the same system like the Germans had. 837 00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:22,250 When the Germans were shipping people to the death camps…
250. "Homoe-Homini: Czyli Martyrolagia Zydow w Deblinie"
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0104 | RG Number: RG-03.003.01
Date:
1939-1945
… the city designate concentration camps and mass graves in the vicinity. Also included is a layout of a "Labor camp 1" and the Stalag 307 II with lists…