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Concentration camp correspondence collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn538978
- English
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Contains three letters written by prisoners of the Auschwitz, Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camp.
Concentration camp correspondence from various prisoners
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- WL1856
- English
- 1 folder
- Updated 10 years ago
This collection mainly contains correspondence relating to Jewish inmates of concentration camps in Nazi Germany, such as a letter sent by Boleslaus Deja from Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp (1940); censored postcard sent by Emil Gans from Lodz (Litzmannstadt) ghetto (1941); postcard sent by Bernhard Steckowski from Buchenwald concentration camp (1942) and his receipts of postings of money ('Einlieferungsschein') received at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg (July 1940), Dachau (October 1940) and Buchenwald (September 1941) concentration camps; and letter from Konstanya Nowakowska at R...
Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1. Jakob Lewkowicz collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn9869
- English
- overall: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Diameter: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Striped concentration camp uniform cap issued to 21-year-old Jakob Lewkowicz in spring 1944, while imprisoned at Blechhammer concentration camp, in German-occupied Poland. Before the Holocaust, Jakob lived with his parents, Judka and Adele Poremba Lewkowicz, in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days after the invasion of Poland. At the beginning of 1940, Jakob started working for the city administration. Jakob was sent to St. Annaberg (Góra Świętej Anny), Poland, at the end of 1942, where he was registered as a forced laborer. In early 1943, ...
Concentration camp uniform cap worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
1. Herman Fayman collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn616843
- English
- overall: Height: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) | Width: 7.000 inches (17.78 cm) | Depth: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Striped uniform cap worn by Herman Fayman while he was a prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp and its subcamp, Niederorschel forced labor camp in Germany, from September 1944 to spring 1945. Herman was born in Pelizza (likely Pilica), Poland, in 1906. In September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, Herman was serving in the Polish army when he was captured as a prisoner of war (POW). Herman was interned in a POW camp in Biała Podlaska, and then sent to the town of Sosnowitz (now Sosnowiec). He was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp in March, 1941. After five months, h...
Concentration camp uniform jacket with post liberation Buchenwald patch worn by a Romanian Jewish inmate
1. Elisabet Goldstein collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn520902
- English
- a: Height: 25.000 inches (63.5 cm) | Width: 16.750 inches (42.545 cm) b: Height: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Concentration camp uniform jacket that was worn by Isidor Goldstein, husband of Elisabet Goldstein, when he was an inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1944. The jacket is made from a thin striped material sometimes referred to as “pajama stripes.” An embroidered post-liberation Buchenwald patch with the number 110099 was stitched to the breast, but has since been removed. Elisabet was from Cluj, Romania. After the area was annexed to Hungary in 1940, Jews suffered economically and physically. Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, and in May, Elisabet and her family, alon...
Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1. Jakob Lewkowicz collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn9868
- English
- overall: Height: 24.500 inches (62.23 cm) | Width: 16.250 inches (41.275 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Striped concentration camp uniform jacket issued to 21-year-old Jakob Lewkowicz in spring 1944, while imprisoned at Blechhammer concentration camp, in German-occupied Poland. Before the Holocaust, Jakob lived with his parents, Judka and Adele Poremba Lewkowicz, in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days after the invasion of Poland. At the beginning of 1940, Jakob started working for the city administration. Jakob was sent to St. Annaberg (Góra Świętej Anny), Poland, at the end of 1942, where he was registered as a forced laborer. In early 194...
Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
1. Herman Fayman collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn616842
- English
- overall: Height: 25.500 inches (64.77 cm) | Width: 16.500 inches (41.91 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Striped uniform jacket worn by Herman Fayman while he was a prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp and its subcamp, Niederorschel forced labor camp in Germany, from September 1944 to spring 1945. Herman was born in Pelizza (likely Pilica), Poland, in 1906. In September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, Herman was serving in the Polish army when he was captured as a prisoner of war (POW). Herman was interned in a POW camp in Biała Podlaska, and then sent to the town of Sosnowitz (now Sosnowiec). He was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp in March, 1941. After five months...
Concentration camp uniform likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
1. Natan Caron collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn89779
- English
- a: Height: 26.125 inches (66.358 cm) | Width: 16.375 inches (41.593 cm) b: Height: 25.625 inches (65.088 cm) | Width: 15.625 inches (39.688 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Concentration camp uniform likely acquired after the war by Natan Caron, who at age 20 was deported from Belgium and imprisoned in several concentration camps from 1942 to 1945. He described this uniform as nearly identical to the one he was issued in Auschwitz concentration camp. Natan used it during talks he gave to educate people about the Holocaust. When Germany invaded Belgium on May 10, 1940, Natan, parents Abraham and Ryfka, and sister Marie, 14, lived in Brussels. On June 26, 1942, Abraham and Natan were deported to Dannes-Camiers labor camp in northern France. On October 31, they w...
Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Hungarian Jewish prisoner
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn39195
- English
- overall: Height: 23.500 inches (59.69 cm) | Width: 18.875 inches (47.943 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Concentration camp uniform pants issued to Max Rottenberg while imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany in 1944 and 1945. Max, his parents, Albert and Anna, and sisters, Illus, Elisabet, Erna, Erzsebet, and Bozsi, lived in Dés, in the Transylvania region of Austria-Hungary (now Dej, Romania). Between February 1938 and August 1941, Max and his sisters, Elisabet and Ilus, relocated to Spišská Stará Ves, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). In the spring of 1942, the Slovakian authorities deported Elisabet to Auschwitz concentration camp German-occupied Poland, and Max began living un...
Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1. Jakob Lewkowicz collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn9867
- English
- overall: Height: 26.125 inches (66.358 cm) | Width: 17.125 inches (43.498 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Striped concentration camp uniform pants issued to 21-year-old Jakob Lewkowicz in spring 1944, while imprisoned at Blechhammer concentration camp, in German-occupied Poland. Before the Holocaust, Jakob lived with his parents, Judka and Adele Poremba Lewkowicz, in Będzin, Poland. The German army entered their town on September 4, 1939, three days after the invasion of Poland. At the beginning of 1940, Jakob started working for the city administration. Jakob was sent to St. Annaberg (Góra Świętej Anny), Poland, at the end of 1942, where he was registered as a forced laborer. In early 1943...
Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner who was in several camps
1. Herman Fayman collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn616841
- English
- overall: Height: 26.000 inches (66.04 cm) | Width: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Striped uniform pants worn by Herman Fayman while he was a prisoner at Buchenwald concentration camp and its subcamp, Niederorschel forced labor camp in Germany, from September 1944 to spring 1945. Herman was born in Pelizza (likely Pilica), Poland, in 1906. In September 1939, during the German invasion of Poland, Herman was serving in the Polish army when he was captured as a prisoner of war (POW). Herman was interned in a POW camp in Biała Podlaska, and then sent to the town of Sosnowitz (now Sosnowiec). He was transferred to Auschwitz concentration camp in March, 1941. After five months,...
Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Romanian Jewish inmate at Buchenwald
1. Elisabet Goldstein collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn520903
- English
- overall: Height: 40.250 inches (102.235 cm) | Width: 17.500 inches (44.45 cm)
- Updated 1 year ago
Concentration camp pants worn by Isidor Goldstein, husband of Elisabet Goldstein, when he was an inmate at Buchenwald concentration camp. The pants are made from a thin striped material sometimes referred to as “pajama stripes.” Elisabet was from Cluj, Romania. After the area was annexed to Hungary in 1940, Jews suffered economically and physically. Germany occupied Hungary in March 1944, and in May, Elisabet and her family, along with 18,000 other Jewish people in the area, were sent to the Kolozsvár ghetto. Within a month the ghetto was liquidated and the prisoners were transported to Aus...
Conversation with Herbert Mandel, Stuart Lesorgen, and Noel March
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn724181
- English
- 1 digital file, MPEG-4
- Updated 1 year ago
Corporal Linus Fincham collection
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- irn61068
- English
- 1945
- folder 1
- Updated 1 year ago
Consists of three photographs of the newly-liberated Buchenwald concentration camp with description on the verso. The photographs, taken by Corporal Linus William Fincham, a member of the 5th Armored Division, Third Army. depict military activity in the camp and newly liberated political prisoners. Also includes a copy of his July 31, 1945 letter in which he sent the photographs home to his family.
Correspondence with Alexander, Hanns
1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- 3000/9/1/54
- English
- 2 letters
- Updated 6 years ago
Correspondence regarding the donation of a piece of tattooed human skin to The Wiener Library. According to the donor, who had obtained it by the minister of justice of Luxemburg in 1945, the piece was one of four items used by a Ms. Koch to produce a lampshade in Dachau concentration camp.
Correspondence with and about Senator für Inneres Berlin (West) - Lipschitz, Joachim
1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- 3000/9/1/71
- English
- 65 letters
- Updated 6 years ago
Correspondence on a variety of subjects including arrangements for a visit to London; financial support for the Wiener Library regarding the research project ; antisemitic riots in Berlin; exchange of materials; membership list of the ; the death of Joachim Lipschitz in December 1961; fate of Hermann Pister, former Commandant of Buchenwald.
Correspondence with Berman, Joseph
1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- 3000/9/1/137
- English
- 10 items
- Updated 6 years ago
Correspondence regarding Berman's restitution case as well as an information request on certain German individuals suspected of having participated in the killing of Jews from the Riga ghetto. Moreover, two accounts on Antisemitism in the GDR and the lack of information about Jews at the newly opened Buchenwald Memorial are contained.
Correspondence with Brukarz, Anna
1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- 3000/9/1/221
- English
- 2 letters
- Updated 6 years ago
Correspondence regarding the reproduction of J. Burkarz’s eyewitness account on his experiences in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camp.
Correspondence with Bund der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (BVN)
1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- 3000/9/1/231
- English
- 53 letters
- Updated 6 years ago
Correspondence regarding historical subjects and political activities of the BVN. This includes among others the terms of access to German records in British archives, information about prominent Nazis and now West German officials Werner Naumann and Wilhelm Voss, the fate of Jewish refugees on the MS St. Louis liner, the conditions in Buchenwald concentration camp in the wake of the November Pogrom in 1938, and the controversial German-Jewish author and right-wing activist Josef Ginsburg (aka J. G. Burg).
Correspondence with Caton, Anne R.
1. Wiener Library Archive: Pre-1963 Correspondence
- Wiener Holocaust Library
- 3000/9/1/263
- English
- 11 items
- Updated 6 years ago
Correspondence primarily regarding former concentration camp physicians and their postwar fates. This refers especially to former Buchenwald camp doctor Hans Eisele.

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