Oranienburg concentration camp

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn77714
• English
• 2014
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of one memoir written by Magda Altman Philip entitled "Budapest, Auschwitz, Sydney: Magda Altman Philip's Journey." The typed memoir details accounts of her family's life in pre-war Hungary, her arrest in Budapest, Hungary, as well as her time in Auschwitz and Oranienburg where she was liberated. The memoir includes copies of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502754
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of copies of a memoir of an anonymous Holocaust survivor. A member of the French resistance, the young woman was captured by the Gestapo and subjected to severe treatment. The testimony describes her deportation from France to Ravensbrück, slave labor in a German plane factory, experiences with female SS guards, her many illnesses as a prisoner, and her eventual liberation by the Red Army.

1. Manuskripte
2. Abhandlungen, Studien, Berichte

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• MS 2255 / 1
• German
• 2013-2014
• Manuskripte 82 Seiten
• Updated 9 years ago

Am Beispiel seiner Eltern Hans und Gabriele Seidel stellt der Verfasser dar, in welcher Weise die Erfahrungen des Dritten Reiches ihr Leben beeinflussten und wie unterschiedlich sie damit umgegegangen sind. Beide Elternteile waren Mitglieder der Bündischen Jugend und mit Eberhard Köbel bekannt, waren aufgrund ihrer Mitgliedschaft 1937/1938 im Gefängnis gewesen, die Familie der Mutter jüdischer Abstammung hatte Deutschland verlassen müssen. Auch nach dem Krieg ist Hans Seidel in Kontakt mit Köbel und beschäftigt sich in diesem Zusammenhang auch mit Hans Scholl;Msch., Druck.

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. The Mecker Collection: Letters and newspaper clippings from the"Forverts"newspaper published in New York regarding the search for relatives, 1940-1951

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 5596784
• English, Hebrew
• Handwritten, original 9 pages/frames
• Updated 5 years ago

Article written by the Holocaust survivor Simon Koc from Kielce and Ostrovitz, regarding his experiences and the experiences of the Kielce Jews during the Holocaust The article has no date: Description of his experiences during the Ostrovitza occupation by the German Army, late 1939; various decrees including the obligation to wear an armband as a sign of recognition; establishment of a ghetto, from 20 March 1940; murder of the elderly and children; deportation of all the Jews aged 12-65 to labor camps, among them Treblinka, Plaszow, Majdanek, Lublin and Auschwitz under the orders of Frank,...

1. Sammlungen
2. Herrmann, Franz (Heilmann/ KZ Oranienburg)

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• ED 564 / 1
• German
• 1933-1954
• Updated 9 years ago

Schreiben von Franz Herrmann an die Witwe von Ernst Heilmann vom 13. März 1954, in dem er die Lebensumstände Ernst Heilmann im Konzentrationslager Oranienburg schildert (Fotokopie); Entlassungsschreiben und Entlassungsurkunde für Franz Herrmann aus dem Justizdienst von 05. August 1933 von Roland Freisler (Original und Fotokopie).

1. Maureen Graney collection

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• irn14042
• English
• Updated 2 months ago

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503408
• English
• 1941-1945
• folders 12
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of copies of Auschwitz administration records and copies of log books of prisoners' names. The documents relate to general camp operations, distribution of labor, orders from the Kommandant, transfer of prisoners to and from other camps, and biographical information concerning several Auschwitz prisoners. See RG list for titles of RG-04.01301 through RG-04.01306.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn503420
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Contains information about inmates in Theresienstadt, Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, and Oranienburg concentration camps.

1. P.10 - Archive of Mark Dworzecki, physician, Vilna Ghetto underground member and researcher of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust, 1945-1975

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3690124
• English, Hebrew
• 1944-1946
• Handwritten, original Typewritten original
• Updated 5 years ago

Correspondence of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) with the International Red Cross (Geneva), 1944-1946; Visits by Red Cross representatives in Oranienburg, Ravensbrueck, Dachau, Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Mauthausen, Turkheim and Theresienstadt The file includes: - report by the WJC about vocational studies in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1941; - report by the Polish Bund organization about the persecution of Jews in Warsaw, 1942; - correspondence relating to the transport of medicine to Theresienstadt, 1942; - note about cooperation between the Red Cross and the JDC, 06 February 1945.

1. O.65 - Collection of Jacob Robinson, Jurist and Diplomat

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 10621750
• English, Hebrew
• xerox
• Updated 5 years ago

Documentation regarding Aryanization, expropriation of property, and forced labor - Commercial activities of the I.G. Farben Company; - Banking activities of the Dresdner Bank and other German factories; - German investments in Greece, Belgium and the Netherlands; - Expropriation of Jewish owned real estate in the Generalgouvernement; - Testimony in the Nuremberg Trial, regarding the expropriation of Polish and Jewish property in Lodz; - Business report regarding the Lodz Ghetto; - Business report prepared by the SS in Dachau; - Forced labor in German factories in Auschwitz and Oranienburg;...

1. P.10 - Archive of Mark Dworzecki, physician, Vilna Ghetto underground member and researcher of Lithuanian Jewry during the Holocaust, 1945-1975

• ארכיון יד ושם / Yad Vashem Archives
• 3690121
• English, Hebrew
• 1933-1939
• Print
• Updated 5 years ago

Documentation: Documents and maps related to research about the Holocaust period, 1933-1939 The file includes: - opinion in Hebrew by the Reichvertretung der deutschen Juden in Deutschland (National Delegation of German Jews), 29 September 1933; - "Our educational goal", from a circular of the Ministry of Economics of the Reich relating to the "transfer" conditions, 25 August 1933; - memorandum of the National Delegation of German Jews in Charlottenburg, January 1934; - legislation and directives relating to the Jews of Germany, 1935-1939; - instructions in German from Oranienburg about the...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn42092
• English
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

The Ernest Sterzer memoir consists of a copy of a memoir, 23 pages, untitled, by Ernest Sterzer, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, which is in English, Mr. Sterzer describes his experiences as an insulin-dependent diabetic during the Holocaust, including his family's 1942 deportation to Theresienstadt (Terezin), and the lengths his family went to in order to obtain insulin. In October 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he eventually went into the hospital because he didn't have insulin. He was deported to Heinkel, Germany, where he performed forced labor, sporadically obt...

1. Henry F. Kahn collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn77424
• English
• boxes oversize folder 2 1
• Updated 2 months ago

The Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail primarily consists of envelopes, letters, postcards, and philatelic materials Kahn collected between approximately 1945 and 1985. The materials document mail systems in and around Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps and, by extension, the survivors and victims who passed through them or perished in them. Kahn arranged the materials in three annotated scrapbooks, providing context and history for the ghettos, camps, and mail systems. Most of the materials date from the 1930s and 1940s while the reproductions and commentary date fro...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn605149
• English
• folders 2
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of a handwritten memoir in Hungarian authored by Herman Wolf (later Herman Woolf), originally of Buštino, Czechoslovakia (Bushtyno, Ukraine). The memoir discusses the occupation of Hungary, Herman’s experiences in Auschwitz-Birkenau and Oranienburg with his son John, their separation, and his liberation from Sachsenhausen. The memoir was written around late 1945 or early 1946 while Herman was recovering in a sanatorium in Liberec, Czechoslovakia (Liberec, Czech Republic). Also included is a typed, English language translation prepared by Herman’s son John Woolf in 2013.

1. Zeugenschrifttum
2. H
3. Hielscher - Huwe

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• ZS 2467 / 1
• German
• 1993
• 5 Bl.
• Updated 9 years ago

Niederschrift Hofmann, Juli 1993 "Meine Erlebnisse mit Oberstleutnant Karl-Hans von Hardenberg im Konzentrationslager Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen Ende Juli 1944-21. April 1945".

1. Manuskripte
2. Erinnerungen, Erlebnisberichte, Autobiographien

• Ein Tatsachenbericht über die Vorgänge des 30. Juni 1934, hrsg. von Hermann Jacobssen

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• MS 594 / 1
• German
• 1949
• Manuskripte 253 Seiten
• Updated 9 years ago

Der Verf. schildert Vorgeschichte, Hintergründe und Verlauf des Röhm-Putsches 1934; im Anhang: Totenliste; Erwerbskorrespondenz sowie Stellungnahme Karl Buchheims vom 24. Juli 1951; (1930-1934)Mschr., Original.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn59332
• English
• 1944
• folder 1
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of one letter, dated September 24, 1944, written by Josef Jasny, prisoner number 22088 from Sachsenhausen/ Oranienburg, to his wife Gertrud and their children, who were living in Toruń, Poland,

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn502901
• English
• 1981
• folder 1 , 2 microfiche,
• Updated 2 months ago

Consists of "L'univers concentrationnaire" compiled by the French Embassy for the International Liberators Conference in October 1981. Included is a report concerning the general history of concentration camps and reports on selected individual camps. Among the camps with individual reports are Dachau, Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Mauthausen, and Alderney (a.k.a. Aurigny).

1. Zeugenschrifttum
2. L
3. Laemmermann - Leyser

• Institut für Zeitgeschichte–Archiv
• ZS 260 / 1
• German
• 1946
• 3 Bl.
• Updated 9 years ago

Eidesstattliche Erklärung Langenstedt, 16. März 1946; Dubletten.