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1. Orban Wales Peters, Jr. papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.294.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1998
…th artillery; Eighty-Ninth Division album; photographs of his unit on march into Germany and at Camp Phillip Morris; Correspondence; miscellaneous Army passes…
2. U.S. Window Card for the film “The Mortal Storm" (1940)
2018.590.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.16
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1940 June 14
… locations outside of the theaters. “The Mortal Storm,” based on a 1938 novel of the same name, was MGM’s first film that openly criticized Nazi Germany…
3. Chaim Melamed papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.252.1
Date:
inclusive: after 1916-1947
… brought to Heiderhorst for recovery. From there he went to Finnhorst, outside Hannover, Germany, where he met Maryla Krause, a fellow survivor from Łódź…
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 …, Germany, circa 1946. 4. Photograph of Isuchor Melamed, a pre-war portrait. Isuchor Melamed did not survive the Holocaust. 5. Photograph of Fajga Frymet…
4. Lola Byron collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.464.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1963
… Bensheim DP camp in Germany, but soon traveled to Paris to be reunited with Jakob’s two sisters: Zosia and Franka. Jakob worked there as a weaver. In 1949…
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 … and completed her schoolwork, Munich, Germany, February 1, 1951; in German. 7. Personnel File stating that Jakob Papierbuch is employed by International…
5. Scheiner family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0266
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1992
bulk: 1938-1940
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
6. Kraicer family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2000.291.1
Date:
creation: 1917-1950
… Zychlin to apprentice as a barber. He participated in Poaley Zion, a Zionist youth organization. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded and occupied Poland…
7. von Halle family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.177 | RG Number: RG-10.166
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1947
…Oscar Louis von Halle (1886-1944) was born on October 1, 1886 in Hamburg, Germany. He served in the military during World War I. After the war, he…
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 … history: Katelynn Vance, July 2020. Biographical note Oscar Louis von Halle (1886-1944) was born on October 1, 1886 in Hamburg, Germany. He served in the…
8. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border…
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 … for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their…
9. U.S. scene stills for the film “The Mortal Storm" (1940)
2018.590.19.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.19
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1940 June 14
… same name, was MGM’s first film that openly criticized Nazi Germany. Beginning in 1933, just after Hitler’s appointment as chancellor, it features a…
10. Sigall family papers
2017.237.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.237.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
…Emmy Loeb (1923-2015) was born Emmy Hanna Sigall in Darmstadt, Germany, on 31 May 1923, the daughter of Hermann Nathan Sigall (1898-1941), a furrier…
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 … Darmstadt, Germany, on a “Kindertransport” to Britain in 1939; her settlement in Britain; and the efforts of her parents, Hermann and Natalie Sigall, and…
11. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
12. Richard Towne collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.447.8
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1972
… the persecution of Jews in Germany. Also includes Richard H. Towne's notes on his memories of the relationship between Ebhardt and Towne's father, as…
13. Edna H. Greene collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0514
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1942
…Louis “Lutz” Bissinger was born on December 23, 1902 in Ichenhausen, Germany to Max Moses Bissinger (1859-1929) and Jetta Bissinger (1860-1932…
14. Greta Braude Heiman photographs
2003.246.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2003.246.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1952
… Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following their immigration to the United States. Photographs depict Greta, her parents…
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 … prints of Greta Braude Heiman and her Meyer and Michel relatives and friends in Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following…
15. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
16. Political cartoon depicting Éamon de Valera holding the Éire Constitution created by an American journalist
2018.298.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.8
Date:
creation: after 1937 July 01-1943
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
17. Erika Behr and Rudolf Faller collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.66.1
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1965
bulk: 1874-1942
…. Bernhard Behr died on March 8, 1933. Fanny and Erika Behr immigrated to the United States from Germany on October 12, 1939. Erika Behr married Rudolf Faller…
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 … Germany and their immigration to the United States. Languages: German, English Administrative information Access: Collection is open for use. Reproduction…
18. Baby doll owned by a Jewish Yugoslavian girl in hiding
2019.20.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.20.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1908-before 1945
… forces and was partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, with Skopje falling under Bulgarian control. Bulgarian authorities passed many…
19. Set of four lobby cards for the film “The Man I Married" (1940)
2018.590.24.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.590.24
Date:
Cinematic Release: 1940 August 02
… husband and their child back to his home country in 1938. Once in Germany, the husband gets increasingly involved in the Nazi party. “The Man I Married…
20. Lenore Khan collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.370.1
Date:
creation: 1875-1951
… Neustaetter family of Munich and Stuttgart, Germany.…
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 …. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: reference@ushmm.org Lenore Khan Collection Inventory 1. Photograph of man and woman, Germany, 1907; inscribed on both sides in…