Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503431
• English
• 1992
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of a four-page typescript, written by Eli Rock, entitled "A Visit by Eisenhower." The subject is the writer's observations of a visit by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gen. George S. Patton Jr. to the Feldafing displaced persons camp in Jul. 1945.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn193206
• English
• 2015
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

A biography and family history of the mother and uncle of Eliane Ungar, Bronka (Brandla) Friedman (1925-2002) and Bernard (Berek) Friedman (1927-2015), both originally of Chrzanów, Poland. Included is a description of the history of the Jewish community of Chrzanów, the extended members of the Friedman family there and abroad, the history of the German occupation of Chrzanów and subsequent persecution and deportation of the Jews there. Also described are the wartime experiences of Bernard and Bronka as forced laborers in a number of sub-camps of Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, Flossenbürg, Buche...

1. Lili Susser collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn501290
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Manuscript of donor's memoirs of pre-war childhood in Łódź, Poland; in the Łódź ghetto, Auschwitz, Friehafen, Hamburg-Sasel, and Bergen-Belsen; and after liberation.

1. Rita Kerner Hilton collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504260
• English
• folders 3 1 linear in.,
• Updated 2 months ago

Describes author's childhood in Poland; author's experiences in the ghettos in Pabianice and Łódź, Poland; the death of her grandfather; her and her mother's deportations to Auschwitz and to Bergen-Belsen and their experiences in these camps; her experiences attending to the medical needs of Bergen-Belsen's inmates; her and her mother's liberation; and her family history since 1945.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502749
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of a copy of "Once upon four decades, 1939-1979" written by Margaret Collin. The volume contains testimonies of several Holocaust survivors seeking restitution from the German government. The various testimonies describe the experiences of the survivors in concentration camps, escape from the Nazis, life in hiding, episodes of suicide, and great mental anguish suffered since the end of the Holocaust. Also included are recollections of Margaret Collin about her own escape from Germany and the loss of her family. Intermingled in the text are several photocopies of Holocaust-related d...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn504344
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Describes the death of Ursula Korup's (b. 1935 in Germany) father, in 1938, due to mistreatment he had received in Sachsenhausen; her and her brother's separation from their mother; her experiences in the Children's Home in Eersel, Netherlands, which was run by Catholics; her baptism; the German occupation of the Netherlands; her hiding and capture; her and her brother's experiences in the concentration camps of Vught, Westerbork, and Bergen-Belsen; the death of their mother in Stutthof; their liberation and return to the Children's Home in Eersel; and their immigration to and experiences i...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503426
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of the typescript of "The Relief of Belsen Concentration Camp: Recollections & Reflections of a British Army Doctor" written by Major General James Alexander Deans Johnston, circa 1970. The typescript includes information on conditions at Bergen-Belsen under Nazi control and during liberation, as well as description of medical measures taken by the British for the benefit of former inmates of the camp. Also included is a photocopy of a photograph of James Johnston and a retype of his obituary from "The Daily Telegraph."

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503396
• English
• 1981
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Contains two articles concerning the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The first article, "Belsen Concentration Camp," by J.A.D. Johnston, describes the history of Bergen-Belsen, gives prisoner statistics, and outlines the establishment of the hospital at the camp. The second article by Chris Mitchell, entitled "The Valley of Death, the Armies of Life," appeared in "Moment" (issue date not specified). It describes the role of the British military in the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, the treatment of the SS guards captured at the camp during liberation, and the mass burials of v...

1. Nachlässe
2. Hammer, Walter (Hösterey, Walter)
3. Konzentrationslager, Straf- u. Haftanstalten

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• ED 106 / 88
• German
• 1947-1964
• Updated 9 years ago

Berichte und Korrespondenz, Statistiken, Abschriften von Zeitungsartikeln, Aufzeichnungen Hammers, Fotos der Ausstellung "Das andere Deutschland 1933-1945", 1964 (dazu Stellungnahme der ehemaligen politischen Häftlinge Hamburgs): Auschwitz; Bergen-Belsen; Berlin-Moabit (Gestapogefängnis Lehrterstr.); Berlin-Spandau (Wehrmachtsgefängnis); Berlin-Tegel Wehrmachtsgefängnis); Buchenwald; Cottbus (Frauenzuchthaus); Dachau.

1. Denes and Janos Adler family collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn537260
• English
• boxes book enclosures oversize folders oversize box 4 8 3 1
• Updated 2 months ago

The Adler family papers document the Holocaust experiences of brothers Denis and János Adler, originally of Szeged, Hungary, and members of their extended families. The collection contains correspondence, biographical materials, immigration documents, restitution claims, and photographs regarding pre-war family lives; Denis’s emigration from Szeged in 1939; János’s conscription into the Hungarian Labor Service that accompanied German troops during the invasion of the Soviet Union, and his subsequent wounding and imprisonment in the field hospital in Alexajewka-Nikolajewka; the imprisonment ...

1. Zeugenschrifttum
2. A

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• ZS 1971 / 1
• German
• 1969
• 8 Bl.
• Updated 9 years ago

Schreiben an Röder und Hoch, 09. November 1969 betreffend Aufenthalt und Kampf in den Ghettos Warschau, Wilna, Bialystok und im Konzentrationslager Bergen-Belsen; Ausreise in die Schweiz.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn610256
• English
• 1938-1945
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of color copies of report cards, a Swiss protective pass (Schutzpass), handwritten poems, postcards, letters, and photographs. The collection was created and owned by Ágnes Grünwald, who was sixteen years old when she was deported from Budapest in October 1944. The postcards, poems, and letters were sent from a forced march. Grünwald perished in a concentration camp (likely Bergen-Belsen).

1. O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Belsen POW Camp Archive

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3734057
• English, Hebrew
• 1962-1963
• Updated 5 years ago

Album including newspaper clippings regarding Bergen-Belsen DP camp and Josef Rosensaft, 1962-1963

1. O.70 - Josef Rosensaft Bergen-Belsen POW Camp Archive

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3734058
• English, Hebrew
• 1964-1965
• Updated 5 years ago

Album including newspaper clippings regarding Bergen-Belsen DP camp, 1964-1965

1. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn546848
• English
• 1939-1986
• boxes oversize folder 97 1
• Updated 2 months ago

The Alexander Kulisiewicz collection contains microfilms, correspondence, music scores and notation, personal narratives, artwork, poetry, manuscripts, research notes, photograph, negatives, and various other documents compiled by Aleksander Kulisiewicz from 1945 until the time of his death in 1982. The materials in the collection relate to a variety of Holocaust topics, but mainly music, poetry, art, and theater in the concentration camps during World War II. Kulisiewicz compiled the small archive of music, poetry, literature, photographs, and sound recordings during the years after his li...

1. Alice and John Fink collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn710964
• English
• boxes oversize folders oversize boxes 2 4 2
• Updated 2 months ago

The Alice and John Fink papers include biographical materials, photographs, printed materials, and subject files documenting Alice and John, their families in Germany, Alice’s nursing education and work in England, John’s survival in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and the couple’s work at the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp after the war. Biographical materials include identification, education, employment, displaced persons, and restitution papers documenting John and Alice Fink as well as their ketubah. John Fink materials include his Bar Mitzvah certificate, school report...

1. O.30 - Documentation regarding the Jews of Austria, mainly during the Holocaust period

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• O.30/39
• English, Hebrew
• pages 479 Official documentation List of deportees Typewritten copy Original
• Updated 9 years ago

Alphabetical lists of Austrian Jews deported to Theresienstadt, and lists of transports to Warsaw, Piaski, Lublin and other places, without the names of the deportees , 1942-1945 The lists include: the names of the deportees, transport symbol and number, arrival date, birth and death dates. Also in the file; General lists (without names) of transports that departed to Warsaw, Piaski, Lublin, Izbica, Riga, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Treblinka, Trawniki, Sobibor and Zamosc.

1. Anatol and Alexandra Gorko collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn708260
• English
• 1912-1948
• folder oversize folder 1 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Identification documents, newspaper clipping, and prewar family photographs related to Anatol Gorko and Alexandra Gorko (née Palej), both of whom survived the Holocaust and married after the war in Łódź, Poland. Documents include Łódź ghetto work cards issued to Anatol, Alexandra, and Anatol’s sister Ella Romer, a temporary travel document in lieu of passport issued to Anatol and Alexandra, and a 1945 document stating Alexandra was a prisoner in Bergen-Belsen. Both documents issued to Alexandra list her surname as Gorko, even though she didn’t marry Anatol until 1946. The clipping features ...

1. Anatol Chari collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn516272
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

The identification card ("Ausweis" /"Bescheinigung") was issued in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and acknowledges that Anatol Chari was interned in the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Poland, and in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps from May 1, 1940, to April 14, 1945.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn86804
• English
• 1945-1948
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of one memoir, 243 pages, entitled "And they do not toll the bells...": The story of the family of Dr. Hillél Friedmann, Chief Rabbi of Dombóvár," written by Erzébet Rab Friedmann, circa 1945-1948. In the memoir, Mrs. Friedmann describes the family's 1944 deportation from Dombóvár to the Kaposvár ghetto. In great detail, she describes her memories of Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, forced labor at an aircraft factory near Leipzig, and a forced march to Theresienstadt from which she was liberated. She and her daughter Judit, who remained together during these experiences, returned to Hung...