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1301. Star of David badge printed Jude owned by a Czech Jewish survivor
2001.3.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.3.5
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…, overcrowded train to Auschwitz in German occupied Poland. As they neared the camp, the inmates told new arrivals to throw their belongings to them over the…
1302. Oral history interview with Leon Jablon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1212 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1212
Date:
interview: 1985 March 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 … was born June 5, 1919 in Andrzjow, Poland to a Jewish family of 11 that was minimally observant; Discusses his father, who had served in WWI, sold his…
1303. Oral history interview with Shalom Kooper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.79 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0079
Date:
interview: 1992 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Shalom Kooper, born in March 1918 in Poland, describes his upbringing in an ardently Zionist family; his family’s move to Łódź, Poland; his…
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 … with Dr. Seri (from Auschwitz) in an improvised hospital. Shalom was engaged as a translator. He didn’t want to stay. 08.00 Refused to go back to Poland…
1304. Oral history interview with Abraham Munk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.11.1 | RG Number: RG-90.225.0001
Date:
interview: 1994 December 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
1305. Oral history interview with Rosa Wigmore
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.164 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0164
Date:
interview: 2000 June 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in Ungvar, Hungary (now Uzhhorod, Ukraine); their deportation to Auschwitz; the selection she survived with her sister; her illness; her experiences in…
1306. Oral history interview with Ben Lesser
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.3 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0003
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Benjamin Lesser, born in 1928 in Krakow, Poland, describes his childhood and spending summers in Munkacs (Mukacheve, Ukraine) with his mother…
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 …Ben Lesser Virtual Book Benjamin Lesser was born in 1928 in Krakow, Poland. As a child he spent summers in Munkacs, in what is now Hungary, with his…
1307. Oral history interview with Lech Grześkowiak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.40 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0040
Date:
interview: 1998 July 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Nathan Beyrak. The interview was conducted with Lech Grześkowiak in Oswiecim, Poland on July 11, 1998, for the Polish Witnesses to the Holocaust Project…
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 … obozu koncentracyjnego Oświęcim. Przywieźli nas z Poznania, było nas piętnastu, piętnastu Polaków i zostałem osadzony na bloku dziewiątym, oznaczony…
1308. Bernard Blustein memoir
1995.A.0690 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0690
Date:
inclusive: 1980
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Bernard (Beryl) Blustein (1905-1992) was born in Koscierzyna County, Poland. In 1941 he was living in Belarus and working as a railroad mechanic when…
1309. Ilona Elefánt Schwarcz papers
2015.375.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.375.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
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… or year is unknown. On May 20, 1944, Amalia, Ilona, and Eta were sent to the Miskolc ghetto. Three weeks later they arrived at the Auschwitz…
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 … Sosnowiec, Poland. She died in 1943 at the Auschwitz concentration camp with her children, Machla Hipszer (born March 30, 1931), Gitla Hipszer (born April 3…
1310. Oral history interview with Henry Joseph
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.32 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0032
Date:
interview: 1975
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Holland in April 1942 at the age of 21 and later being killed in Auschwitz (she shows photographs of his sister and of a group of children from his…
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 … concentration camps from Poland. Well, I don't believe it was Auschwitz. When we looked through all the historic books, which I've done. I don't know the exact…
1311. Ellen W. Echeverria papers
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0950
…Elke Plech (later Elke Bozena, now Dr. Ellen Echeverria) was born in April 1942 to Maria Plech who was living in the ghetto in Lubartów, Poland…
1312. Jesef Herzel photographs
Document | Accession Number: 1999.266.1
Date:
creation: circa 1945
…Five large format negatives; nine photographs depicting Jewish cemetery in Poland after the war; one photograph showing inspection of Auschwitz after…
1313. Oral history interview with Sabrina Fromel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.62 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0062
Date:
interview: 1995 March 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sabrina Fromel, born in Łódź, Poland in 1920, discusses her wartime experiences; immigrating to the United States; her post-war life; and…
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 … reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection 2 INT: Yes. SABINA: I'm seventy–four. I'm born November 19, 1920 in Poland, Lodz. INT: And…
1314. Oral history interview with Gerald B. Rosenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2007.22 | RG Number: RG-50.578.0001
Date:
interview: 2006
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deported after a few months to Theresienstadt, where he reunited with his parents; being sent with his father to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the late summer of…
1315. Oral history interview with Renee Duering
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1181 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1181
Date:
interview: 1984 July 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Westerbork; her parents deportation from Westerbork to Bergen-Belsen; her and her husband's deportation to Auschwitz; how her husband perished in Auschwitz…
1316. Oral history interview with Kazimierz Piechowski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.314 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0314
Date:
interview: 2010 July 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kazimierz Piechowski, born in 1919 in Poland, describes his arrest in 1939 and imprisonment in Sanok, Nowy Wiśnicz, and Kraków; his transfer to…
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 … follows previous discussion between Piechowski and the interviewer. Part 1 of 4 Kazimierz Piechowski, born in 1919 in Poland. Asked about his presentations…
1317. Informations bulletin
Document | Accession Number: 1988.036 | RG Number: RG-03.001.01
Date:
1959
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
1318. Oral history interview with Eta Neuman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.242 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0242
Date:
interview: 1995 February 16
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Disinfection and disinfectants--Poland--Oswiecim.…
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 … 12. In 1938 were kicked out of school. In 1942 were sent to Auschwitz. Father and brother died there. Eta and sister survived. Both now live in Israel…
1319. Oral history interview with Shmuel Tzuk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.225 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0225
Date:
interview: 1995 October 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… in trucks to a camp in Chebinya (Trzebinia), Poland, in March 1943; being sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in November 1943; the overcrowding, abuse from…
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 … Rassenschande. 3.37 In Nov. '43 camp Chebinya was abolished and he was sent to Auschwitz. From 5,000 people only 900 survived transport. 3.44 Describes arrival in…
1320. Oral history interview with Frances Davis
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.030.0348
Date:
interview: 1995 August 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Frances Davis (née Przygorska), born on November 12, 1918 in Łódź, Poland, describes growing up there; how the Jews were captured and pushed into the…
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 … Frances Davis, D-a-v-i-s. I was born in Lodz, Poland on November 12, 1918. 01:01:47 Q: Tell me a little bit about your family life before the war? A: We…