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1. Murano glass figure of a Jew holding a full money bag
2016.184.41 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.41
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1999
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Murano glass figure of a Jew holding a full money bag…
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2. Records relating to the experiences of Danish Jews
Document | Accession Number: 2014.184.1 | RG Number: RG-44.002
Date:
inclusive: 1888-2010
…Records relating to the experiences of Danish Jews…
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 …1 RECORDS RELATING TO THE EXPERIENCES OF DANISH JEWS, 1888‐2010 [Digital files] RG‐44.002 2014.184 United States Holocaust Memorial…
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 …RG-44.002 Finding Aid Part 2 Records relating to the experiences of Danish Jews, 1888-2010 Type;Magnetmediumnummer;Betegnelse;Periode;Vedhæftede…
3. Imagined scene of inmates playing violins as Jews are sorted by German guards at a concentration camp
2006.125.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.125.22
Date:
creation: 2000 October 10
depiction: 1942-1945
Series Title:
Imagining Auschwitz
Artwork Title:
Auschwitz Orchestra and Crematorium
…Imagined scene of inmates playing violins as Jews are sorted by German guards at a concentration camp…
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4. Switzer family papers
2018.392.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2010
bulk: 1914-1955
… was retreating, the Switzer family, along with 120 other Jews, left Aprica in the middle of the night and walked to the Swiss border where they were…
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 … photograph of Arthur, Frieda, and their son Steven Switzer in Aprica in 1943, a contemporary list compiled of the names of Jews who left Aprica in 1943 to seek…
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5. Danek Gertner collection
1995.A.0022 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0022
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1993
… behind Danek’s mother and his two siblings. Soon after, the Germans enlisted Jews for forced labor. It became clear to Danek and his brothers that the…
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6. Joseph W. Eaton papers
2009.401.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2009.401.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-2011
1932-2011
… up the desecrated synagogue. While in Straubing, which was near the Czech border, Joseph unofficially helped the Bricha and allowed Jews fleeing from…
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 … the situation of German Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and displaced Jews wishing to emigrate to Palestine, as well as later correspondence…
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7. Moshe Carmilly-Weinberger collection
1995.A.0092 Box 1 Folder 18 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0092
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1993
… deportations of Jews to concentration camps, resulting in the majority of the population being sent to Auschwitz. After learning this, Rabbi Weinberger traveled…
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8. Frank Meissner papers
2004.692.1 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.692.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1995
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… personal diaries, an autograph book, and items Frank collected later in life such as photocopies of an article concerning the history of the Jews in Trest…
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 … Nazi policies towards Jews, the group left Czechoslovakia, settling in Denmark. Frank attended the Veterinary and Agricultural College at the…
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 … appearance, I eat and go out into the corridor to look out the window, and discuss serious matters with “father” Pincus. You know what happens when two Jews…
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9. Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers
1999.A.0163 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0163 | RG Number: RG-10.238
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1995
… University of Vienna. He was imprisoned in Berlin between 1935 and 1937 for helping German Jews remove their property from Germany, and he fled to Austria…
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 … University of Vienna. He was imprisoned in Berlin between 1935 and 1937 for helping German Jews remove their property from Germany, and he fled to Austria upon…
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 … science from the University of Vienna. He was imprisoned in Berlin between 1935 and 1937 for helping German Jews remove their property from Germany, and…
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10. Anne Ranasinghe papers
2018.627.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2018.627.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2017
bulk: 1936-2017
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… history of the Jews of Fritzlar, Germany, including the Katz family. Photographs include a pre-war photograph album of Anne, her family, and friends, pre…
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 … Paulgehard Lohmann regarding the history of the Jews of Fritzlar, Germany, including the Katz family. Photographs include a pre-war photograph album of Anne…
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11. Isidor Gross papers
2012.433.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.433.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1997
bulk: 1936-1945
…. The family attended synagogue regularly and Isidore attended a Jewish school. In January 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Jews were…
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 …, and United States Army service of German born Jew, Isidor Gross. After being arrested by the Gestapo in 1938, Isidor and his father Markus fled Aachen…
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12. Hans Praschkauer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.398.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2002
… Betty, nee Reich, 1885-1971). He had an older brother, Max (1910-1993), and the family was among the approximately 200 Jews living in the town. Georg…
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 … Box/Folder Title BE 3 Association of Former Central European Refugees from Shanghai, 1973 1.14 Destination Shanghai: Refuge for Stateless Jews, 1996 1…
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13. Salomon Slowes papers
2002.477.10 Oversize Folder 2 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2002.477.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2003
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 …. Kozel’sk (Russia : Concentration camp) Jews-- Lithuania--Vilnius. Prisoners of War--Soviet Union. Katyn massacre, Katyn’, Russia, 1940 Holocaust, Jewish…
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14. Eugene Miller collection
1997.A.0240 Oversize Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0240
Date:
inclusive: circa 1941-approximately 1997
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 … Hungarian Jews, [1944], copy prints, approximately 1988 1.2 Bormann, Martin, [approximately 1931‐1943], photocopy and copy prints, approximately 1997 1…
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15. Knud Dyby papers
1989.297.341 Box 2 Folder 31 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1989.297.341
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1992
… developed a plan to deport the roughly 8,000 Jews in Denmark to concentration camps in early October, at the end of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. On…
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 …’s involvement in resistance work including rescuing Danish Jews and transmitting information. Languages: Danish, German, English, Swedish…
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16. Rothschild - Fränkel family papers
2004.248.1 Box 2 Folder 26 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.248.1
Date:
inclusive: 1898-2013
bulk: 1940-1947
…Jews--Poland--Gdańsk.…
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 …. Indexing terms Redgis, Yvonne. Fränkel, Gertrude Fränkel, Werner Jews--Poland--Gdańsk. Jewish refugees--France. Jews--Persecutions--France. World War, 1939…
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17. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families papers
2016.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2016
bulk: 1938-1945
… audiotape recording of his memorial service. This series also includes a report on the fate of Jews from Hockenheim and a DVD containing a photomontage…
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 …. Kershner materials also include and audiotape recording of his memorial service. This series also includes a report on the fate of Jews from Hockenheim and a…
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18. Groszman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.95.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2010
… Margit’s sister Helén’s (1900-1944) husband Géza Abelesz (1896-1944). Their business was forced to close in 1940 after new laws prohibited Jews from the…
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 … was forced to close in 1940 after new laws prohibited Jews from the agricultural commodities business. The family moved to Budapest in Fall 1941. In…
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19. Schoffelen family papers
2017.245.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2017.245.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2007
bulk: 1940-1965
… activities that included smuggling Jews and others from Germany into Limburg province, smuggling Allied pilots to Belgium, manufacturing forged food stamps and…
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 … Jews and others from Germany into Limburg province, smuggling Allied pilots to Belgium, manufacturing forged food stamps and other documents, and helping…
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20. Ernest R. Stiefel papers
1996.A.0134 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 61
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0134
Date:
inclusive: 1938-circa 1996
…Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am Main.…
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 … Kultusvereinigung and Jüdischer Kulturbund documents, approximately 1939- 1996 • Series 3: Personal narratives, 1988, 1996 Indexing terms Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am…
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