Irena Urdang deTour Collection of Holocaust Materials. undated, 1975-2012.

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Irena Urdang deTour Collection of Holocaust Materials. undated, 1975-2012.

The collection contains a few personal materials pertaining to her experiences as well as publications, newsletters, invitations and other documents from Holocaust survivor and support organizations in the United States collected by Mrs. DeTour.

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Children of Survivors

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Fisher, Regine

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Korczak, Janus

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deTour, Irena Urdang

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Irena Urdang de Tour was born in Warsaw, Poland, the daughter of Seweryn Ehrlich vel Sluszny and Felicja (Lubelczyk) Ehrlich. In November 1940, she was confined, with her parents and sister Danuta, to the Warsaw Ghetto where she worked in an Electropol factory. She escaped the ghetto to the Christian section of Warsaw in March 1943, where she acquired false documents and worked as a maid. In September 1944 she joined the underground, building barricades, organizing shelters, and wor...

Anger, Per

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Hackel, Shirley

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Rinkel, Elfriede

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Hruza, Judita

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Wiesenthal, Simon, 1908-2005

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Simon Wiesenthal was born December 31, 1908 in Buczacz, Kingdom of Galicia, Austria-Hungary (now known as Buchach, Ukraine). He is a Holocaust survivor of several concentration camps and the death march to Chemnitz. After the war he was a famous Nazi hunter, and played a small role in locating Adolf Eichmann. Before the war, he studied architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague and married Cyla Müller, 1936. In 1947, Wiesenthal co-founded the Jewish Historical Documentation Centre in L...

Bell, Daniella

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Piatka, Naava

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Strochlitz, Sigmund

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Bukety, Melvin

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Metcalf, Linda Trichter

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