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Identification card: issued to Renate Adler-Rudolphi immediately following the Holocaust, by the “Committee for Ex-Political Prisoners”. Renate, born July 22, 1925, Jewish, was deported from Hamburg, Germany to the Theresienstadt concentration camp in the Czech Republic in 1942. From there she was deported in October 1944 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in Poland and then to Oederan slave labor ...

Consists of Signal Corps images of the wartime European and Pacific theaters, of the liberation of concentration camps, and of the Nuremberg trials. Includes images of the liberation of the Braunschweig, Bergen-Belsen, Braunlage, Buchenwald, Dachau, Dortmund, Ebensee, Flossenbürg, Landsberg, Neunburg, Nordhausen, Ohrdruf, Schwabmünchen, Schwarzenfeld, Struthof, Woebbelin, and Wuelfel concentration ...

The Joseph Komito memoir is a typewritten memoir of Joseph Komito in which he describes life in Mielec, Poland, before and during the German occupation; his experiences as a forced laborer first in an unnamed airplane factory and later in Wieliczka, Auschwitz, Flossenbürg, and Leitmeritz concentration camps; and his postwar life in the United States.

Contains 18 documents pertaining to the Holocaust experiences of Adam Duda in Pawiak, Majdanek, Flossenbürg, his service with the Polish Guard Units for the American Occupation Army, and work for the IRO as a driver and metal-polisher. Other documents contain information about Janina Duda that include her work card from Warsaw and a letter from the War Relief Service National Catholic Welfare Conference ...

On the basis of archival material and reminiscences of German eyewitnesses, describes the mistreatment and death of forced laborers in the Passau district in Bavaria, among them Jews in the Plattling and Pocking-Waldstadt labor camps (satellites of Flossenbürg). Also describes hostility toward Jewish DPs who remained in these camps after the war, and the neglect and obliteration of cemeteries in which ...

The papers consist of two police certificates issued in Theresienstadt on July 18, 1945, attesting to the residency of Rachela and Isaak Friedman [donor's parents]; a drivers license issued to Isaak Friedman in Landsberg am Lech, Germany, on September 11, 1946; a certificate issued to Rachela Friedman in Landsberg am Lech on September 11, 1945, identifying her as a political prisoner interned in Flossenbürg ...

Collectie 250k: Concentratiekampen buiten Nederland > Flossenbürg

Copyright Holder: Ms. Daniella Gross

Archief van F.G.M.J. Coehorst. Frans Gerard Marie Joseph Coehorst, geboren 22 september 1925 - overleden Zwickau 1 november 1944. F.G.M.J. Coehorst was ongehuwd en als koerier-secretaris een provinciaal leider van de verzetsgroep LO-Limburg. Hij werd gearresteerd in Venlo op 29 februari 1944. Hij overleed in het concentratiekamp Flossenburg in Zwickau. Het archief omvat Couhorst' bidprentje. Tekst: ...

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Karl Sack (geb. 9.Jun. 1896 in Bosenheim, ermordet 9. Apr. 1945 KZ Flossenbürg) 1914 Infanterie-Regiment 168 1915 Leutnant Februar 1926 Hilfsrichter, Amtsgericht Schlitz Mai 1926 Oberamtsrichter 1930 Landgerichtsrat, Mainz 1934 Wechsel zur militärischen Justiz Sommer 1941 Gruppenleiter der Wehrmacht-Rechtsabteilung August 1944 Generalstabsrichter am Reichskriegsgericht ...

Collectie 250k: Concentratiekampen buiten Nederland > Flossenbürg

The collection consists of a Star of David badge, Hitler Youth armband, photographs, copy prints, identity card, written testimony and presentations relating to the experiences of Henry Oertelt during the Holocaust when he was imprisoned in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Flossenburg, his postwar marriage to Inge Fromm in Germany, as well as materials used and received by Henry Oertelt and ...

Duitstalig

Testimony, 4 pages, handwritten, relating experiences of donor, originally of Kalisz, Poland, in pre-war times, German occupation, and her own time as forced laborer at Neusalz (sub-camp of Gross Rosen) and Flossenbürg.

Letter to USHMM from ex-POW (Donald Ebsch), relating his experiences and seeking to contact other former prisoners. Was imprisoned in a number of locations between Nov. 1944 and May 1945, but was seeking info about camp Rabstein, a subcamp of Flossenbürg, which had an underground aircraft factory, and from which Ebsch was liberated in May 1945. Includes photos of memorial site in 1993.

An album of photographs of the Theresienstadt ghetto and the Litoměřice (Leitmeritz) labor camp, a branch of Flossenbürg in which Jews from various European countries constituted a substantial share. Reflects various aspects of the ghetto and camp existence, including forced labor, transports to and from Theresienstadt, cultural activities in the ghetto, and the liberation of Theresienstadt and ...

The collection primariy consists of original photographs and copy-prints of the Münchberg displaced persons camp. The bulk of the photographs depict a funeral and re-interment ceremony in 1946 for women who perished between the Helmbrechts subcamp of Flossenbürg and Münchberg on the death march that originated from the Schlesiersee subcamp of Gross-Rosen in January 1945 and terminated in Volary (Volary, ...

The collection consists of a photograph and 3 theater programs. The photograph shows Charles Kotkowsky playing the role of Adolf Hitler in a theater production entitled "Hitler's Last Night." The programs include one for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of "Hitler's Last Night," written and produced by Charles Kotkowsky; and two for the Leuca Dramatic Group presentation of "Tovia, the Milkman," ...

Consists of one memoir, 13 pages, entitled "The Story of Esther Salamanovich Fortgang 1938-1948," by Esther Fortgang, originally of Praszka, Poland. In the memoir, written circa 1990, the author describes her experiences in Praszka after the outbreak of war, forced labor in a small camp for women in Grünberg, forced labor in an ammunition factory in Neusaltz, the arrival of Hungarian women from Auschwitz, ...

The collection contains photographs and identification papers documenting Henry Greenbaum’s Holocaust-era experiences as a refugee in several displaced persons camps. Documents include identification papers from the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, a Jewish Committee membership card from Neunberg vorm Wald, a document stating that he was an inmate of the Flossenbürg concentration camp, and a driver’s ...

The Leo Parenti collection consists of a black and white photograph of female corpses lying on the ground near the Helmbrechts concentration camp. Helmsbrechts is a sub-camp of Flossenbürg concentration camp. The photograph was taken by a member of the 26th Infantry (Yankee) Division, United States Army immediately after the discovery of the mass grave in 1944. Leo Parenti was present at the discovery ...

Charles Kotkowsky is a native of Piotrków, Poland. He participated in underground resistance while living in the Piotrków ghetto and was a victim of slave labor there. He was deported to Buchenwald and later transferred to Flossenbürg. He managed to escape his German captors during a railroad transport through Czechoslovakia.