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51. Leonard Lauder collection
Document | Accession Number: 2001.146
Date:
1890-1994
… executive officer from 1982 to 1999, and chairman from 1995-2009.…
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 … joining Estée Lauder in 1958. He served as president of the company from 1972 to 1995, as chief executive officer from 1982 to 1999, and chairman from…
52. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
…, giving Hitler dictatorial powers. Hitler issued a decree prohibiting non-Aryans from public offices and Karl was dismissed from his judgeship. In March, he…
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 … States. The collection also includes a World War I photo album and scrapbook documenting the military service of Mina’s uncle, Julius Oppenheimer, in…
53. American Friends Service Committee Refugee Assistance Case Files
Document | Accession Number: 2002.296
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1963
bulk: 1938-1958
…, they took over the 780 case files from Kraus's office, and Kraus became an important consultant in their work. Within a year, the Division opened more…
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 … personally and others who had been referred to her. The Refugee Division formally began work in February 1939, took over the 780 case files from Kraus's office…
54. Edith Hahn-Beer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0079.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1997
… as a seamstress and nurse. In August 1942 Edith met Werner Vetter (1912-2002). Werner was a Nazi officer and married, but fell in love with Edith and…
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 … Margarete Denner, and marriage to German Nazi officer Werner Vetter. The bulk of the collection consists of wartime correspondence between Edith and her…
55. Ester Ajzen Lewin family photographs
2004.396 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.396
Date:
creation: circa 1927-circa 1945
56. Szyfra Majranc papers
2005.218.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 36
Document | Accession Number: 2005.218.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Kolumna, Krakow, Łódź, Rome, Rzeszów, Sanok, Szczawnica, and Wisniowa. Additional photographs depict an Agudat Israel convention and a military parade of…
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 …, Rzeszów, Sanok, Szczawnica, and Wisniowa. Additional photographs depict an Agudat Israel convention and a military parade of the Podhale Brigade. Printed…
57. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
Date:
inclusive: circa 1907-2006
… went into hiding, but perished sometime in 1943. Benjamin and about eighty Jewish officers were held in Woldenberg POW camp for officers. The camp was…
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 …, liberation, return to Łódź, and meeting her husband. Photographs depict Benjamin Herson in the Polish military and in prisoner of war camps, his aunt and…
58. Ruth Miller papers
2006.473.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2006.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-2003
… War II began after Germany invaded Poland. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth reported to the office of the Jewish Organization to pick up Star of…
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 … materials include birth, marriage, and death certificates; school records; military papers; medical records; identification papers; ration coupons…
59. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
… approximately 600 remaining prisoners killed eleven members of the SS and several auxiliaries. As the highest-ranking SS officer on duty that day, Niemann was the…
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 … of the SS and several auxiliaries. As the highest-ranking SS officer on duty that day, Niemann was the first to be targeted. Survivor witnesses report…
60. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
… materials include birth certificates, a military passbook, a marriage certificate, two family registers, certificates of good conduct, a letter of…
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 … documenting the Berg family from Germany and their escape to Kenya. Biographical materials include birth certificates, a military passbook, a marriage…
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 … Joseph Berg II, Klara Berg, and Klara Berg. In English. 5. Folder 1: Letter of recommendation issued by the Passport Control Office, Nairobi, Kenya for…