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1. Oral history interview with Marty Glickman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.348.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0079
Date:
interview: 1990 February 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, where he was a track athlete chosen to compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics in Germany; being one of two Jews on the United States Olympic track team…
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 … made the team; and, uh, at the time there was talk of a boycott. Uh, a boycott because of Nazi Germany. And the games were being held in Berlin, of…
2. Under the Nazi regime, 1933-1938
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0351 | RG Number: RG-02.203
…Olympic Games (11th: 1936: Berlin, Germany)…
3. Medal for the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin
1994.70.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.70.1
Date:
issue: 1936
…Germany…
4. Erna Rettberg Bauer papers
1995.A.0962 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0962
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1995
bulk: 1991-1995
… 1927 the family returned to Germany for what was meant to be a three-month visit to check in on an investment property belonging to Julius and Anna. The…
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 … Rettberg Bauer, a United States citizen living in Nazi Germany with her parents in the years leading up to World War II, and her quest to regain ownership of…
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5. Oral history interview with Tzvi Aviram
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1995.A.1272.4 | RG Number: RG-50.120.0004
Date:
interview: 1992 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Tzvi Aviram (b. Heinz Tzvi Abrahamason), born in 1927, discusses his family and childhood in Berlin, Germany; Berlin’s Jewish community; the Nazi…
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 … France to Palestine. 8.35 Talks about life in Israel and the adjustment of German Jews. 8.45 Talks about present day Germany. http://collections…
6. Selected records from the Politische Archiv des Auswärtiges Amts-Olympic Games 1936
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0024 | RG Number: RG-14.046M
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1938
…Germany. Auswärtiges Amt. Politisches Archiv des Auswärtiges Amt…
7. Abe Weiss papers
1996.A.0081 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0081 | RG Number: RG-10.173
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1996
…-Semitic harassment, efforts to emigrate from Germany and Poland, Salomon Nachbar’s and Max Birnberg’s imprisonment in concentration camps, Chaim Dudowicz…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org report on anti-Semitic harassment, efforts to emigrate from Germany and Poland, Salomon Nachbar’s and Max Birnberg’s imprisonment in…
8. Oral history interview with Suzanne Foldes
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0111 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0003
Date:
interview: 1996 January 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … some girls in the summer went to Germany to camp. 157 00:08:57,480 --> 00:09:00,990 Others had-- the Nazis of Hungary 158 00:09:00,990 --> 00:09:02…
9. Oral history interview with Milton Green
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0456.1 | RG Number: RG-50.429.0001
Date:
interview: 1996 May 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… interviews document the lives of five athletes and their experiences during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany…
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 … happening 112 00:08:23,870 --> 00:08:26,990 in Germany at that time, the terrible things that 113 00:08:26,990 --> 00:08:34,640 were going on and all the…
10. Oral history interview with John Woodruff
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0456.2 | RG Number: RG-50.429.0002
Date:
interview: 1996 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… interviews document the lives of five athletes and their experiences during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany…
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 … didn't do any running after the Olympics 48 00:03:50,760 --> 00:03:53,700 outside of Dresden, Germany. 49 00:03:53,700 --> 00:03:55,830 One week after…
11. Oral history interview with Herman Goldberg
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0456.3 | RG Number: RG-50.429.0003
Date:
interview: 1996 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… interviews document the lives of five athletes and their experiences during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany…
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 …,930 --> 00:04:30,420 You heard of it in Berlin, Germany for the first time 52 00:04:30,420 --> 00:04:38,160 and it was promoted by the small group of 28…
12. Oral history interview with Marty Glickman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0456.4 | RG Number: RG-50.429.0004
Date:
interview: 1996 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… interviews document the lives of five athletes and their experiences during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany…
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 …,500 know about what was going on in Europe and Germany 316 00:15:57,500 --> 00:15:59,210 in particular? 317 00:15:59,210 --> 00:16:01,310 I knew practically…
13. Oral history interview with Margaret Lambert
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1996.A.0456.5 | RG Number: RG-50.429.0005
Date:
interview: 1996 May 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… interviews document the lives of five athletes and their experiences during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany…
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 … 00:01:36,980 --> 00:01:39,150 in the south of Germany. 16 00:01:39,150 --> 00:01:40,840 And it was a great life. 17 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:42,055 And…
14. Richard Remizowski collection
1997.A.0028 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0028
Date:
creation: 1936
…92 black-and-white commercially produced cards depicting the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.…
15. Oral history interview with Frank Ephraim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0419 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0068
Date:
interview: 1997 February 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … Ephraim. 10 00:00:28,310 --> 00:00:30,810 I was born on the 19th of February, 11 00:00:30,810 --> 00:00:35,370 1931 in Berlin, Germany. 12 00:00:35…
16. Oral history interview with Ruth Horowitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0422 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0071
Date:
interview: 1997 June 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 …:04,910 --> 00:14:06,860 where Germany was. 253 00:14:06,860 --> 00:14:09,020 I mean basically, people are very ignorant. 254 00:14:09,020 --> 00:14:13…
17. Oral history interview with Susan Faulkner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.5 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0005
Date:
interview: 1983 November
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Susan Faulkner (née Neulaender), born in 1921 in Berlin, Germany, describes her father, who was a banker; being raised in an assimilated Jewish…
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 … Germany, when they were near starvation and had to exist on cabbage products, cabbage coffee, cabbage bread, etc., and went nearly hungry many times, and…
18. Doris Jacobson collection
Document | Accession Number: 1998.110.1
Date:
1925-1941
…Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)…
19. Oral history interview with Edith Deutsch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.132 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0132
Date:
interview: 1999 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Edith Deutsch, born on January 21, 1925 in Arnswalde, Germany (now Choszczno, Poland), discusses her childhood in Arnswalde; her father, Fritz…
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 …: Edith Deutsch was born in Arnswalde, Germany on January 21, 1925, to father Fritz Abrahamowsky and mother Lotte Gradnauer. She was born into a prominent…
20. Oral history interview with Cantor Hans Cohn
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.148 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0148
Date:
interview: 1999 August 11
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Cantor Hans Cohn, born in Berlin, Germany on May 31, 1926, discusses his childhood in Berlin; being forced to leave his public school after the…
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 …: Cantor Hans Cohn was born in Berlin, Germany on May 31, 1926. He was an only child. His parents are not named on the tape. His father was born in Posen in…
21. Oral history interview with Joan Kris
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.603 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0603
Date:
interview: 2002 January 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Joan Kris discusses her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her memories of increasing antisemitism after the Nazi rise to power, including being forced to…
22. Oral history interview with Renate Popper
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1494 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1494
Date:
interview: 2006 September 25
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Renate Popper describes her childhood in Hamburg, Germany; her memories of the 1936 Olympics and the Brown Shirts in the streets; Kristallnacht; her…
23. Oral history interview with Wolfdieter Skottke
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.16 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0016
Date:
interview: 1999 April 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project…
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 … 4, 1999, in Munich, Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum gratefully acknowledges Jeff and Toby Herr for making this interview possible…
24. Oral history interview with Rochus Misch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0310.28 | RG Number: RG-50.486.0028
Date:
interview: 2004 January 28
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews of the Germany Documentation Project…
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 …01/28/2004 MISCH, Rochus Germany Documentation Project German RG-50.486*0028 In diesem Interview spricht Rochus Misch über sein Leben in Adolf…
25. collection of trading cards and a photograph
Document | Accession Number: 1999.278.1
Date:
1936-1940
…The collection consists of two trading cards with black and white photographs of athletes from the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany, and one black…
26. Gyorgy Antos papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.361.1
…Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)…
27. Herman Goldberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.514.1
Date:
creation: 1936
…Consist of one photograph and one leaflet relating to Herman Goldberg, Marty Glickman, and the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany. The leaflet welcomes…
28. Book
Object | Accession Number: 2000.514.2
Date:
publication: 1936
Title:
Report of the American Olympic Committee
Subtitle:
games of the XIth Olympiad, Berlin, Germany, August 1-16, 1936 : IVth Olympic winter games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, February 6-16, 1936
…games of the XIth Olympiad, Berlin, Germany, August 1-16, 1936 : IVth Olympic winter games, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, February 6-16, 1936…
29. Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt-SS (NS 2)
Document | Accession Number: 2003.239 | RG Number: RG-68.035M
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1945
Alternate Title:
SS headquarters for race and settlement
…Bundesarchiv (Germany)…
30. Poster with maps of Berlin and the 1936 Berlin Olympics stadiums
2008.41.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.41.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1936
Artwork Title:
Olympia-Stadtplan von Berlin
Alternate Title:
Olympic City of Berlin
…Berlin (Germany)…
31. Oral history interview with Adalbert Lallier
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2008.62 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0525
Date:
interview: 2008 April 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The cataloging of this oral history interview has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … he married in 1955. Q: You were -- A: By that time he was a refugee, and having met that German in Austria, he decided to move to Germany. Q: Uh-huh. A…
32. 1936 Berlin Olympics torch holder with the torch relay route
2008.156.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.156.1
Date:
manufacture: 1936
use: 1935-1936
…Essen (Germany)…
33. Eric Frisch collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.217.1
…Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)…
34. Martha H. Patterson photograph album
Document | Accession Number: 2010.188.1
Date:
creation: 1936
…The Martha H. Patterson photograph album consists of a photograph album of the 1936 Summer Olympic games in Berlin, Germany. The album includes…
35. Oral history interview with Guenter Lewy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.56.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0204
Date:
interview: 2013 March 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 … Germany. 14 00:00:46,870 --> 00:00:50,840 Now it's called Wroclaw, and it's part of Poland. 15 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:53,130 Let's talk a little bit about…
36. Oral history interview with Hans Tuch
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.279.1 | RG Number: RG-50.106.0215
Date:
interview: 2013 November 07
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Department volunteer staff. The interviewees, among them survivors from Hungary, Germany, Austria, France, Italy, and Poland, discuss their experiences of life…
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 …? 18 00:00:58,980 --> 00:01:07,160 I was born in Berlin, in Germany, on October 15, 1924. 19 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:09,130 Let's talk now about your…
37. Oral history interview with Walter Borchheim
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.11 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0011
Date:
interview: 2010 January 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Borchheim, born in 1926 in Breslau, Germany (present day Wroclaw, Poland), describes moving to Berlin, Germany in 1932, where he saw the rise…
38. Oral history interview with Annelise Hentschel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.294.35 | RG Number: RG-50.693.0035
Date:
interview: 2011 June 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Annelise Hentschel, born in Berlin, Germany in 1921, discusses her divorced parents; her parents’ leather factory; living with her grandmother…
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 …Interviewee: Annelise Hentschel Interviewer: Andrea Berdichevsky June 2, 2011 Annelise Hentschel was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1921. Mother…
39. Gerd Pleiss photograph album
2013.455.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2013.455.1
Date:
bulk: 1936-1937
inclusive: 1910-1942
…Gerhard (Gerd) Pleiss was born on April 20, 1915, in Remscheid, Germany. He attended gymnasium in Dortmund and then began an apprenticeship with a…
40. Oral history interview with Reinhold Rosenbach
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2014.205.17 | RG Number: RG-50.719.0017
Date:
undated: 
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)…
41. 1936 Berlin Olympics torch holder engraved with the torch relay route
2014.414.1 back
Object | Accession Number: 2014.414.1
Date:
manufacture: 1936
use: 1935-1936
…Essen (Germany)…
42. Oral history interview with Alexander Kuechel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.1 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0001
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Alexander Kuechel, born in 1924 in Berlin, Germany, describes witnessing Hitler’s rise to power including the boycott of Jewish businesses, the…
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 …Alexander Kuechel Virtual Book Alexander Kuechel was born in 1924 in Berlin, Germany. He witnessed Hitler’s rise to power including the boycott of…
43. Nancy Phillips Collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.471.1
Date:
creation: 1935-1936
…, including 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany.…
44. Oral testimony of Alain Geismar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.476.4 | RG Number: RG-50.904.0004
Date:
interview: 2014 March 26
Alternate Title:
"May 68"
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… of Palestine; the massacre in Munich, Germany during the Olympics in 1972; the murder of Pierre Overney; and the dissolution of the Gauche…
45. Oral history interview with James Gibson Hull
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.83.3 | RG Number: RG-50.920.0003
Date:
interview: 2005 November 23
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, who is present during the interview, recalls attending the 1936 Olympics in Germany and related that Hitler refused to distribute medals to American…
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 … concentration camp. His wife, who is present during the interview, recalls attending the 1936 Olympics in Germany and related that Hitler refused to distribute…
46. Ruth Mueller papers
2017.651.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 2017.651.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1986
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Ruth Mueller (1917-2015) was born in Mannheim, Germany to a non-Jewish father, Paul Mueller (1890-1937) and a Jewish mother, Marie Mueller (1895-1975…
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 … Frankfurt, Germany. Biographical material includes a birth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate, and driver’s license for Paul, Ruth’s father…
47. Marion Phillips papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.562.1
Date:
1936
…Olympic Games (11th : 1936 : Berlin, Germany)…
48. Oral history interview with Walter Frankenstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.84.25 | RG Number: RG-90.047.0025
Date:
interview: 2017 November 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… public school until 1936 until he was expelled by the antisemitic principal; attending a Jewish school in Berlin, Germany while living in the Jewish…
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 … the Judische Volkschule on Rykestrasse in Berlin, Germany while living in the Jewish Auerbach orphanage; being quickly accepted by the other boys…
49. Seymour Samuels papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.337.1
Date:
bulk: 1936
… materials include official guide for Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, daily programs, and leaflets of participants.…
50. Full program for the 1936 Olympic Winter Games found by Seymour Samuels
Object | Accession Number: 2020.337.2
Title:
Amtlicher Führer zur Feier der IV. Olympischen Winterspiele Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
Alternate Title:
Official guide to the celebration of the IV Olympic Winter Games Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
…The program for the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, was found by Seymour Samuels in the 1970s and is part of a collection…