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1361. Oral history interview with Jack Gildar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.22 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0022
Date:
interview: 1985 January 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Jack Gildar, born in Tarnowa, Poland, describes his the strong Jewish community in his town; his close, loving family; his father’s death; going at…
1362. Survival oral history, 1933-1945
Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.077 | RG Number: RG-02.017
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… imprisoned at Auschwitz and Birkenau…
1363. Dolf and Cato Ringel papers
1993.123.10 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1993.123.10
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1989
… Jawischowitz sub-camp of Auschwitz and died working in a coal mine. The rest of the family were also sent to Auschwitz, where they were killed. Dolf’s parents…
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 … was sent to the Jawischowitz sub‐camp of Auschwitz and died working in a coal mine. The rest of the family were also sent to Auschwitz, where they…
1364. Imagined scene of inmates playing violins as Jews are sorted by German guards at a concentration camp
2006.125.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.22
Date:
creation: 2000 October 10
depiction: 1942-1945
Series Title:
Imagining Auschwitz
Artwork Title:
Auschwitz Orchestra and Crematorium
…Concentration camps--Poland--Oświęcim.--Pictorial works.…
1365. Oral history interview with Rose Schwimmer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1449 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1449
Date:
interview: 1983 April 13
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… ghetto including the lack of food, disease, and executions; being deported to Auschwitz in 1944; being forced to be part of human medical experiments there…
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 …. All the people from Poland went to Auschwit Oh. But-- But we didnt remain always in Auschwitz. Oh. The people who were working in the factories they…
1366. Oral history interview with Esther Kemeny
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.193 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0193
Date:
interview: 1990 January 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… United States in 1940; being deported with her husband to Auschwitz in 1944; the deplorable conditions at Auschwitz; the birth and tragic loss of her son…
1367. Oral history interview with Irene Weiss
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.999.0591
Date:
interview: 2017 April 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… deported with her family to Auschwitz; arriving in Auschwitz and the murder of her mother, three younger siblings, and older brother; being selected with her…
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 …, Irene and her family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The arrow on this map of major Nazi camps points to Auschwitz. This photo was taken upon Irene…
1368. Oral history interview with Anatole Gorko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.10 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0010
Date:
interview: 1985 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anatole Gorko, born in Łódź, Poland on June 28, 1907, describes his well-to-do Zionist family; working in his father’s spinning factory until 1939…
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 …Summary Anatole Gorko was born in Lodz, Poland on June 28, 1907 of well-to-do Zionists. He worked in his father’s spinning factory until 1939, when…
1369. Oral history interview with Eva Kalvariski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.212 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0212
Date:
interview: 1995 July 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… order to enter the ghetto; being moved to a fortress and daily life; being deported and the hysteria on the train; the arrival and initiation in Auschwitz…
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 ….32 Describes arrival and initiation in Auschwitz. 2.37 Saw the burning crematorium but could not believe the stories she was told about it. 2.41 Describes…
1370. Oral history interview with Fred Baum
Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.434 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0434
Date:
interview: 1991 November 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
1371. Sara Zayer papers
1995.A.0286.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1949
…Sara Mstibowski Zayer (1898-1982) was born in the city of Bialystok, Poland. She would grow up to marry Mojzesja Zazujer, and live together in…
1372. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen, owned by a former Czech Jewish inmate
2001.3.31 front
Object | Accession Number: 2001.3.31
Date:
issue: after 1943 May 12-1944
…, 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…
1373. Rywa Scwarcberg Zeidlitz papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.183
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-1950
…Rywa Szwarcberg Zeidlitz was born in Łódź, Poland on March 15, 1915. Her father, Mosze Szwarcberg dealt in real estate and her mother, Gela, took…
1374. Oral history interview with Yehuda Mymon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.109 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0109
Date:
interview: 1992 March 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Yehuda Mymon, born in 1924 in Kraków, Poland, describes his family; the Jewish community in Kraków; his desires to go to Palestine in 1938 when he…
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 … believe it would reach Poland. 1.23 Aug. 1939, he was sent home from summer camp because war had started. First actions against Jews. 1.32 Jewish schools…
1375. Oral history interview with William Schiff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1991.A.0112.31 | RG Number: RG-50.045.0031
Date:
interview: 1991 October 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Auschwitz (Concentration camp)…
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 …. OK. My name is William Paul Schiff. I was born and raised in Kraków, Poland. I was once interviewed, but I'd like to be interviewed again to let the…
1376. Postwar Belgian gazette recording the death of a German Jewish concentration camp prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 2017.143.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1950 January 08
Title:
Moniteur Belge, January 8, 1950
Alternate Title:
Belgisch Staatsblad
Belgian Official Gazette, January 8, 1950
… then Drancy transit camp. On September 7, 1942, Norbert was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland, on transport 29. He…
1377. Oral history interview with Sally Chase
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.60 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0060
Date:
interview: 1987 February 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sally Chase, born on November 28, 1928, discusses her childhood in Radom, Poland; being sent to the Radom ghetto; the murder of intellectual Jews by…
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 …. In June 1944, the labor camps were liquidated and Sally was sent in a cattle car to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland. Sally and her sisters…
1378. Oral history interview with Susana Urbanová
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2011.439.4 | RG Number: RG-50.675.0004
Date:
interview: 2011 December 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… her family's apartment; her father's arrest in 1943 and his death in Auschwitz; the liquidation of Jewish owned belongings and sale of Jewish owned…
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 … je Osvětim, to jsme nevěděli, opravdu ne. Až teda najednou přišel tatínkův ten, že jako byl v Osvětimi. Ale jinak, že šel dál, to jsme nevěděli. My…
1379. Oral history interview with Kazimierz Szymański
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.270 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0270
Date:
interview: 2009 March 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Kazimierz Szymański, born in 1929 in Lublin, Poland, describes the arrest of his father in 1941 and his death in Auschwitz concentration camp…
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 … entire organization was arrested by the Germans. The Gestapo cooperated with NKWD at the time. The Eastern territories of Poland were to be Russian, so…
1380. Oral history interview with Bolesław Kierski
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0300.23 | RG Number: RG-50.488.0023
Date:
interview: 1998 July 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Nathan Beyrak. The interview was conducted with Bolesław Kierski in Warsaw, Poland on July 5, 1998, for the Polish Witnesses to the Holocaust Project…
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 … główny kierunek, to był główny kierunek Oświęcim, to wszyscy wiedzieli co to jest Oświęcim, tam już wszystko wiedziano co się tam robi, co się tam wyprawia…