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<p>Post-World War II papers and correspondence from Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, one of the last survivors of the women's orchestra of Auschwitz concentration camp.</p><p>Includes correspondence and press cuttings relating to the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in 2000 (1661/1) as well as correspondence with Gisela Langensee regarding her biographical account entitled 'Teschuwa' (1661/2) ...

The papers consist of a note written by political prisoner Zygmunt Gemel to his father Franciszek Gemel and thrown from a train while Zygmunt was being deported to Auschwitz III-Monowitz (Buna) in 1944, and a subsequent letter Zygmunt to his father from the camp dated 23 April 1944.

The Karl Targownik papers consist of biographical materials and restitution files documenting Targownik’s partially successful efforts to receive compensation for damages he suffered during his internment in the Bochnia ghetto, Płaszów labor camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau. Biographical materials include birth certificates, tracing materials, continuing medical education documentation, ...

Claude Lanzmann was born in Paris to a Jewish family that immigrated to France from Eastern Europe. He attended the Lycée Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. His family went into hiding during World War II. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in the Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed a 1960 antiwar petition. From 1952 to 1959 he lived with Simone ...

Oorspronkelijk was Kamp Westerbork in 1939 door het ministerie van Justitie ingericht als opvangkamp voor joodse vluchtelingen uit Duitsland en Oostenrijk. In juli 1942 werd het kamp door de bezetter overgenomen en kreeg het zijn bestemming als Judendurchgangslager. Vanaf 15 juli dat jaar zijn in meer dan negentig transporten ongeveer 100.000 joden per trein naar Auschwitz, Sobibor en andere kampen ...

Consists of one memoir, 77 pages, split into two parts. Part I, entitled, "Auschwitz and Freudenthal," was written by Hella Wartski, originally of Uszhorod-Ungvàr, Hungary. She writes about her life in Hungary, her 1994 deportation to Auschwitz, and her transfer to Freudenthal, where she was liberated in 1945. Mrs. Wartski and two of her sisters were the only survivors of her family. Part II of the ...