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1. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
…Joseph and Klara (Meyer) Berg lived in the small farming community of Lechenich (Erfstadt), Germany (near Cologne) and had two daughters: Inge (b…
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 …: approximately 1880-1957 Accession number: 1989.232.31 Creator: Berg (Family : Lechenich, Germany) Additional creator: Hermanns (Family : Mönchengladbach, Germany…
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 …, Germany (near Cologne), where her father earned his living as a cattle dealer. The Berg family had lived in that area since the 1600s. Gisela has one older…
2. Emil Neu postcards from Gurs concentration camp
1990.33 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.33 | RG Number: RG-04.062
Date:
creation: 1941 September 06-1941 September 14
…Emil Neu (1874-1944) was born in Kindenheim, Germany. He and his first wife, Anna Neu (née Rosenbaum, d. 1916) lived in Strasbourg and had three…
3. Beatrice Pappenheimer papers
1990.153 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1990.153
Date:
inclusive: circa 1941-1990
…Beatrice Pappenheimer was born in 1932 in Lauterbach, Germany, to Moritz (1900-1942) and Rosa (nee Gottlieb, 1900-1942) Stern, and her sister Susan…
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 …, Germany, to Moritz (1900‐1942) and Rosa (nee Gottlieb, 1900‐1942) Stern, and her sister Susan (Suse) was born in 1935. Her family moved to Karlsruhe…
4. Siegfried and Alma Seligmann family papers
1991.153 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1991.153
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
…Ursula Lowenstein was born in Ronnenberg, Germany in 1923 to cattle dealer Siegfried Seligman and his wife Alma. Siegfried was sent to Buchenwald…
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 … Ursula Lowenstein was born in Ronnenberg, Germany in 1923 to cattle dealer Siegfried Seligmann and his wife Alma. Siegfried was sent to Buchenwald during…
5. Antisemitic flyer acquired by a French Jewish child in hiding
1991.209.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.209.6
Date:
acquired: approximately 1942-approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
TUBERCULOSE SYPHILIS CANCER SONT GUÉRISSABLES…
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TUBERCULOSIS SYPHILIS CANCER ARE CURABLE...
…Rudolf (Rudi) Appel (later Rudy, 1925-2016) was born in Mannheim, Germany, to Julius (1881-1952) and Rose (or Rosa, nee Hofmann, later Strauss,1895…
6. Oral history interview with Fred Raymes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.105 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0105
Date:
interview: 1992 April 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Fred Raymes, born February 6, 1929 in Hoffenheim, Germany, describes experiencing serious antisemitism in school and in the neighborhood; changes…
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 …: In Germany. Q: In Germany. A: In a little village called Hoffenheim near Heidelberg in the province of Baden. Q: Supposedly it’s a nice area. A: Well…
7. Oral history interview with Ruth Wertheimes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0094.42 | RG Number: RG-50.150.0042
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ruth Wertheimes, born June 6, 1931 in Monheim, Germany, describes not being allowed to attend school after two or three years because she was Jewish…
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 …R. WERTHEIMES FW: When and where were you born? RW: June 6, 1931, Monheim, Germany. FW: You were born in Monheim? I have relatives there. Can you…
8. Herman Seligman and Alfred Mayer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0042 | RG Number: RG-10.233
Date:
1940-1941
…The material pertaining to Hermann Seligman consists of: orders and instructions to the Jewish community in Germany which were distributed by the…
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 … and instructions to the Jewish community in Germany which were distributed by the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland; a letter from the American…
9. Letter written from Gurs concentration camp
1995.A.1165 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1165
Date:
creation: 1940
…Abraham Arthur Adler (Arthur, 1887-1942) was born on 6 January 1887 in Markelsheim, Germany to Jacob (1822-1895) and Mina (née Fränkel, b. 1839…
10. Oral history interview with Hugo Schiller
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1263.30 | RG Number: RG-50.166.0030
Date:
interview: 1991 September 12
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hugo Schiller, born in Würzburg, Germany in 1931, describes his family’s background in Würzburg; his father’s arrest after Kristallnacht and…
11. Oral history interview with Sarah Colin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.5 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0005
Date:
interview: 1993
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…; the impacts of Allied bombardments in April 1945; the death march and arriving in Ravensbrück; being transferred to Grimma, Germany; the arrival of…
12. Oral history interview with Raymond Kamonier
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1281.16 | RG Number: RG-50.146.0016
Date:
interview: 1989 November 27
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… destroying the remains of the ghetto in preparation for the installment of a monument for Germany; being held in a camp that was close to Pawiak; being forced…
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 … Poland); they were 2,000 in total; they arrived and began destroying the remains of the ghetto in preparation of installing a monument for Germany; they…
13. Oral history interview with Sonja Samson
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.121 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0121
Date:
interview: 1985 June 03
interview: 1985 August 04
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Sonja Samson, born in Aurich, Germany in 1931, into an assimilated but observant Jewish family; living with her grandparents for a year in Luxembourg…
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 …, all were born and raised in a town in the northeastern part of Germany, close to the ocean and adjacent to the Dutch border. The name of the town is…
14. Oral history interview with Erika Shultz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.527 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0527
Date:
interview: 1995 November 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Erika Shultz, born on April 6, 1923 in Munich, Germany, discusses her private schooling in a Swiss convent and in Belgium; the beginning of the war…
15. Oral history interview with Hans Salomon
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.795 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0795
Date:
interview: 1985 April 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hans Salomon, born on May 11, 1922 in Mannheim, Germany, discusses the impact of anti-Jewish laws in 1935; his family’s deportation to Gurs in 1940…
16. Color drawing of a boy and an internment camp guard created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.1
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
…Manfred Wildmann (b.1930) was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, to Heinrich (1888-1943) and Rebecca (nee Neuburger, 1895-1942). At age six, Heinrich was…
17. Pencil drawing of the women’s latrine at an internment camp created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.2
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
…Manfred Wildmann (b.1930) was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, to Heinrich (1888-1943) and Rebecca (nee Neuburger, 1895-1942). At age six, Heinrich was…
18. Drawing of the hygiene barrack at an internment camp created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.3
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
…Manfred Wildmann (b.1930) was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, to Heinrich (1888-1943) and Rebecca (nee Neuburger, 1895-1942). At age six, Heinrich was…
19. Drawing of an internment camp laundry shed created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.4
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
…Manfred Wildmann (b.1930) was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, to Heinrich (1888-1943) and Rebecca (nee Neuburger, 1895-1942). At age six, Heinrich was…
20. Drawing of the interior of an internment camp barrack created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.5
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
…Manfred Wildmann (b.1930) was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, to Heinrich (1888-1943) and Rebecca (nee Neuburger, 1895-1942). At age six, Heinrich was…