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1201. Fringed apron embroidered with a blue and orange geometric band recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
guards selected Kato for forced labor. She was taken to a separate area where she was ordered to undress ... and her hair was cut short; she was allowed to keep only her shoes. She was given a prisoner’s uniform ... ensuring them that she was alive and well. She was placed in the same barrack as her former classmate ... female SS guard after other inmates suggested that Kato looked like her. The camp was liberated by the
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1202. Apron embroidered with a multicolored, floral garland recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
guards selected Kato for forced labor. She was taken to a separate area where she was ordered to undress ... and her hair was cut short; she was allowed to keep only her shoes. She was given a prisoner’s uniform ... ensuring them that she was alive and well. She was placed in the same barrack as her former classmate ... female SS guard after other inmates suggested that Kato looked like her. The camp was liberated by the
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1203. Crocheted lace tablecloth with a rose and scrollwork design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
guards selected Kato for forced labor. She was taken to a separate area where she was ordered to undress ... and her hair was cut short; she was allowed to keep only her shoes. She was given a prisoner’s uniform ... ensuring them that she was alive and well. She was placed in the same barrack as her former classmate ... female SS guard after other inmates suggested that Kato looked like her. The camp was liberated by the
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1204. Tablecloth embroidered with a multicolored floral design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
guards selected Kato for forced labor. She was taken to a separate area where she was ordered to undress ... and her hair was cut short; she was allowed to keep only her shoes. She was given a prisoner’s uniform ... ensuring them that she was alive and well. She was placed in the same barrack as her former classmate ... female SS guard after other inmates suggested that Kato looked like her. The camp was liberated by the
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1205. Table runner with a tatted and red embroidered design recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
guards selected Kato for forced labor. She was taken to a separate area where she was ordered to undress ... and her hair was cut short; she was allowed to keep only her shoes. She was given a prisoner’s uniform ... ensuring them that she was alive and well. She was placed in the same barrack as her former classmate ... female SS guard after other inmates suggested that Kato looked like her. The camp was liberated by the
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1206. Embroidery sampler depicting a woman and a cat recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
guards selected Kato for forced labor. She was taken to a separate area where she was ordered to undress ... and her hair was cut short; she was allowed to keep only her shoes. She was given a prisoner’s uniform ... ensuring them that she was alive and well. She was placed in the same barrack as her former classmate ... female SS guard after other inmates suggested that Kato looked like her. The camp was liberated by the
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1207. Small linen square with an embroidered girl recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
guards selected Kato for forced labor. She was taken to a separate area where she was ordered to undress ... and her hair was cut short; she was allowed to keep only her shoes. She was given a prisoner’s uniform ... ensuring them that she was alive and well. She was placed in the same barrack as her former classmate ... female SS guard after other inmates suggested that Kato looked like her. The camp was liberated by the
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1208. Small linen square with an embroidered boy and a bird recovered by Kato Ritter from her neighbors
guards selected Kato for forced labor. She was taken to a separate area where she was ordered to undress ... and her hair was cut short; she was allowed to keep only her shoes. She was given a prisoner’s uniform ... ensuring them that she was alive and well. She was placed in the same barrack as her former classmate ... female SS guard after other inmates suggested that Kato looked like her. The camp was liberated by the
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1209. White shirt made from a rayon parachute for a Czech Jewish man for his wedding in a DP camp
getting married in a white dress, so he obtained a white rayon parachute from a former German airman for 2 ... Ludwig lived at the displaced persons camp established near the former concentration camp. He learned ... dress. Ludwig found a former German airman with a white rayon parachute and he bartered his coffee and ... strip. This was against their religious beliefs and they refused to disrobe in front of the male guards
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1210. Wooden tile with Terezin coat of arms made by a Czech Jewish inmate
A female prisoner did so, and was shot by a guard. She was the first person Hana saw killed in a ... On May 5, 1945, the guards opened the camp gates and released the prisoners. Hana walked to the ... after the war, he gave the tile to his cousins Hana and Charles Bruml, both former camp inmates. Jiri ... received transport notices. At the train station, they were assigned prisoner numbers, 984 and 1101, and
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1211. FNDIRP engraved commemorative medal with box awarded to a French Jewish survivor
Internes Resistants Patriotes (FNDIRP), a group of survivors and former prisoners. Yvonne operated a dance ... June 15, 1944. Two weeks later, on June 30, she and thirty seven other prisoners were deported on ... convoy 76 to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland. She was tattooed with prisoner number A8616 ... In January 1945, she was part of a group of prisoners forced on a death march. The group was
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1212. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of newcomers to the Łódź Ghetto pulling a carriage
(Litzmannstadt) Ghetto in Poland from October 1941 - August 1944 and as a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau ... death of enteritis on June 18. Transports came in and out of the camp and prisoners lived in terror of ... told another prisoner that Karl was 55, he pointed toward the smokestacks and said that was where her ... father was. She found Karl, now prisoner A-2377. He told her to save herself and not worry about him, but
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1213. Jiří Lauscher collection
Theresienstadt album included photographs of prisoners, guards, buildings, mass graves, and life and work in ... children and taught them about Jewish traditions. In January 1943, Irma bribed a camp guard to smuggle her ... personal possessions. The International Red Cross took over the camp on May 2, 1945. The guards fled, and ... prisoners in Theresienstadt. All of the materials in this series are photocopies. Reproductions of artwork
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1214. Esther Lurie self-portrait study while a concentration camp inmate
Sketch for a self-portrait in a prison uniform drawn by Esther Lurie in 1958, based upon one she ... drew in 1944 while a prisoner in Stutthof concentration camp. Esther, originally from Liepaja, Latvia ... Esther Lurie (1913-1998) was born in Liepaja (formerly Libau), Latvia, to a religious, intellectual ... not easy and it could be dangerous – they were always under observation from guards. But other ghetto
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1215. Esther Lurie full length self-portrait while a concentration camp inmate
Full length self-portrait in a prison uniform drawn by Esther Lurie ca. 1957, based upon one she ... had drawn in 1944 while a prisoner in Stutthof concentration camp. Esther recreated the drawing in ... Esther Lurie (1913-1998) was born in Liepaja (formerly Libau), Latvia, to a religious, intellectual ... not easy and it could be dangerous – they were always under observation from guards. But other ghetto
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1216. Metal identification pendant belonging to a Czech Jewish ghetto-labor camp inmate
during the trip, and the prisoners were forced to march instead. There were not enough SS men to guard ... facilities, for transport to what the prisoners believed was a temporary labor assignment. Instead, they were ... Czechoslovakia, encountering a French prisoner of war camp on the way. After the American army liberated Plzeň on ... spring of 1947, he met Edith Weinstein (b. 1925), the niece of his former boss at Theresienstadt. Edith
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1217. Dokumentarmaterial der Polizeiorgane über polnische und sowjetische Bürger, die vor dem Zeiten Weltkrieg in Deutschland lebten oder im Krieg in deutsche Kriegsgefangenschaft gerieten (sowjetische Zusammenstellung)(Fond 1164)
Russian State Military Archive, formerly the Osobyi archives. In 1992, the Osobyi was renamed the Center ... Jews in Eastern Europe were interned in ghettos, the Gestapo was charged with guarding and supervising ... leaflets with reports of escaped Soviet prisoners of war and civilian workers from concentration camps ... prisons, and labor work places; statistics of the death of Soviet prisoners of war in the concentration
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1218. Wedding veil and train worn by multiple Jewish brides in a DP camp
former German airman for 2 pounds of coffee and cigarettes. The veil and train are made from 11 feet of ... strip. This was against their religious beliefs and they refused to disrobe in front of the male guards ... political prisoners from Krakow and shot them. They fell into the ditches and Lili and the other prisoners ... and had little food. After 3 weeks, Lili was tattooed with the prisoner number A-18649. They were
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1219. Aleksander Kulisiewicz sound recordings - Jak umierał mój glos [JUM]
reproductions in the collection are a result of Kulisiewicz borrowing materials from former fellow camp inmates ... learned from fellow prisoners, dictating hundreds of pages of text to his attending nurse at a Polish ... of prisoners. Performed at secret gatherings, imbued with biting wit and subversive attitude, these ... artwork created by camp prisoners, gathering this material through correspondence and hundreds of hours of
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1220. Sophie Kimelman-Rosen papers
a Ukrainian guard who could not read the German on her papers. Miraculously, the guard released the ... was sent to the front, and the Kimelmans’ former maid, Maria Fil, her sister, and child moved into the ... a spy and sent him to prison in Kiev, Ukraine. Sophie found him there, brought him packages, pleaded
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1221. Child's watercolor of a house near a road leading to the Alps by a young Jewish boy
Jewish population. Nazi Party SA members, known as brown shirts, stood guard at the Vendig store entrance ... concentration camp. Dr. Hugo Heim, a former Deutsche Bank director and relative by marriage to Fritz’s aunt Anne ... was sent to Aubagne work camp. He warned them that the Germans had begun deporting prisoners to ... where transports were loaded for Auschwitz. Ernst found a guard from Les Milles and reminded him they
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1222. Child's watercolor of a house near a lake in the Alps by a German Jewish refugee
Jewish population. Nazi Party SA members, known as brown shirts, stood guard at the Vendig store entrance ... concentration camp. Dr. Hugo Heim, a former Deutsche Bank director and relative by marriage to Fritz’s aunt Anne ... was sent to Aubagne work camp. He warned them that the Germans had begun deporting prisoners to ... where transports were loaded for Auschwitz. Ernst found a guard from Les Milles and reminded him they
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1223. Faux alligator photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
Jewish population. Nazi Party SA members, known as brown shirts, stood guard at the Vendig store entrance ... concentration camp. Dr. Hugo Heim, a former Deutsche Bank director and relative by marriage to Fritz’s aunt Anne ... was sent to Aubagne work camp. He warned them that the Germans had begun deporting prisoners to ... where transports were loaded for Auschwitz. Ernst found a guard from Les Milles and reminded him they
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1224. Black leather photo wallet used by a young German Jewish refugee
Jewish population. Nazi Party SA members, known as brown shirts, stood guard at the Vendig store entrance ... concentration camp. Dr. Hugo Heim, a former Deutsche Bank director and relative by marriage to Fritz’s aunt Anne ... was sent to Aubagne work camp. He warned them that the Germans had begun deporting prisoners to ... where transports were loaded for Auschwitz. Ernst found a guard from Les Milles and reminded him they
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1225. Max Michelson photograph collection
office manager. The family lived in a large villa on Pulkvedis Briedis iela 35 (formerly named ... well. Max never saw his mother again. There were indications that she was in prison; but even if that ... abandoned in the city apartment. A barbed wire fence and armed guards surrounded the ghetto. Jews were ... April, as the American Army neared the city, the camp SS guards had disappeared. Together with three