Obóz funkcjonował od kwietnia 1942 roku do kwietnia 1944 roku, a w dokumentach figurował pod nazwami: Rü. Lager Degussa, Gleiwitz Steigern oraz Zwangsarbeitlager Degussa, Gleiwitz Steigern. Kierownikiem tego obozu do 3 maja 1944 roku był Jungnikiel. Zarówno robotników cudzoziemskich, jak i Żydów początkowo zatrudniano przy budowie fabryki, a potem przy produkcji sadzy. Warunki pracy były skrajnie trudne. ...

In januari 1941 zit de auteur voor de eerste maal, min of meer toevallig, gevangen. Hij wordt op 17 maart opnieuw gearresteerd en komt weer in de gevangenis in Scheveningen, tot 12 september. Op die dag worden hij en zijn lotgenoten, allen officieren, naar Duitsland getransporteerd. De tocht gaat via Gronau, Essen en Hannover. Ze overnachten in de gevangenis of op het Polizei presidium. Na een week ...

Jaccques Furth *7-7-1910 komt uit een diamantbewerkersgezin uit Antwerpen, dat naar Amsterdam trok. Hij trouwt in 1939, gaat wonen in de Transvaalbuurt en in februari 1941 wordt zoon Dave geboren. Jacques wordt alleen, zonder vrouw en kind, van huis gehaald, op de tweede verjaardag van zijn zoon. Hij verblijft in kamp Vught en maakt hier als lid van de Ordedienst de vertrekkende Kindertransporten mee. ...

Memoirs of a Jew born in 1926 in Schmallenberg, near Dortmund. Many Schmallenbergers in official positions were in the SS; after the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, in which the synagogue was destroyed, they forced the family to "sell" them all its property. Frankenthal, his father, and his brother Ernst were sent to a nearby labor camp. In March 1943 the family was deported to Auschwitz. The parents were ...

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The collection consists of an armband, a concentration camp uniform jacket, pants, and cap, and a commemorative pin relating to the experiences of Henryk Karter (later Henry Carter) while a prisoner in Auschwitz I, II, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and III, Auschwitz-Monowitz (Buna) concentration camps in German occupied Poland during the Holocaust and in the United States after the Holocaust.

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Elias Cala was born September 19, 1917, to a Jewish family in Dobrzyn nad Wisla. His parents were Joseph (b. 1885) and Miriam (nee Diamont). He was the middle child of five siblings, Rachel (b.1914), Saul (b. 1916), Shlomo (b. 1920), and Victor (b. 1925). His father died of natural causes before World War II. In 1938, Elias entered the Polish army. His older brother, Saul, had been conscripted, but ...

The collection consists of artwork created by Walter Peiser-Preisser ("Prei"). One woodcut print that is part of a series of 12, created in the Neustadt/Holstein DP camp, circa 1946. Seven prints (one hexagon and six trapezoids) depicting scenes from multiple concentration camps including Auschwitz-Monowitz, Birkenau, Gross Rosen, and general scenes of commemoration that include names of camps, prisoner ...

Memoirs of a Czech Jew interned in the labor camp Auschwitz-Monowitz from October 1942-January 1945, ending with a death march from which he escaped. Originalausg. 190 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Contains telegrams, card files, card indexes, reports, registers, name lists, and various other documents relating to prisoner labor in Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Monowitz concentration camps. Select files relate to camp prisoners working as electricians and ironworkers. The records date from 1942 to 1945 with the bulk dating from 1944.

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Stefan Buthner (1913-1994), named Stefan Budziaszek until 1950, was born on April 24, 1913. He studied medicine at the university of Krakow and subsequently worked there as a resident. During the German occupation of Poland, Budziaszek was arrested and was committed to Auschwitz concentration camp on February 10, 1942. Via different work detachments and satellite camps, he was then transferred to Auschwitz ...

Copyright Holder: Dr. Georges Hauptmann

Consists of one memoir, 1 page, in English, by Ernest Abraham, who lived in Łódź and Krakow before the war. In the testimony, he writes about the deportation of his parents and sister to Belzec, his own forced labor in Płaszów, where he worked in a shoe factory, his deportatation to Starachowice, to Buna-Monowitz, and his eventual liberation from Buchenwald. Mr. Abraham also briefly describes his ...

Presents a compact overview of the history of Auschwitz, pointing to all of its complex aspects. Describes the functioning of the Auschwitz concentration camp, focusing on its use for the exploitation of slave labor and for the annihilation of European Jewry. Deals with the establishment and organization of the main camp, tributary and labor camps (Birkenau, IG Farben, and Monowitz), murder experiments, ...

Elias Stainfeld was born on 11 May 1907 in Antwerp, Belgium, as the son of diamond broker Mordka Stainfeld (b. 12/04/1877 in Warsaw, Poland) and his wife Chaja Hillel (b. 01/09/1883 in Krakow, Poland). Elias had two younger sisters : Sara (b. 06/10/1908 in Antwerp, Belgium), who probably died as a child, and Charlotte (b. 06/01/1912 in Antwerp, Belgium). In the 1920s, the Stainfeld family obtained ...

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Motel Jawerbaum was born in Miedzyrzeck Podlaski, Poland on June 16, 1913. In April 1940, he was deported to a forced labor camp in Biala Podlaska, returned to the ghetto in Miedzyrzec and in the sumer of 1943 he was deported to the Majdanek concentration camp and shortly after he was transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where he was tatooed with number 128085. He was imprisoned in Buna ...

Edith Birkin was born in Prague in 1927. In 1941, she was sent with her parents to the ghetto of Łódź, Poland. In 1944, she was sent to Auschwitz and then to Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross-Rosen. In Jan. 1945, she was sent on a death march to Flossenbürg. After spending a short time there, she was transported to Bergen-Belsen, where she was at the time of its liberation. After the Holocaust, ...