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1. Luftwaffe M1942 helmet taken from a German soldier by US soldier
1985.1.3 left side
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.3
Date:
found: 1945
manufacture: 1942 August 01-before 1944
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
2. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.9
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
3. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.10
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
4. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.11
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
5. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.12
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
6. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.13
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
7. Seymour Krieger papers
1986.A.0024.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1986.A.0024.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.…
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 … material: The Museum’s Library hold a copy of Nazi Germany's war against the Jews (D810.J4 N39 1947), prepared and complied by Seymour Krieger. Accruals…
8. Charlene Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0028.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2004
bulk: 1945-1951
… Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
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 … Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
9. Records relating to the Soviet Union under Nazi Occupation
Document | Accession Number: 1987.012 | RG Number: RG-22.001
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
…Germany. Gestapo…
10. Charred electrical insulator from Auschwitz found by a Sinti inmate
1987.75.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1987.75.1
Date:
use: approximately 1940 June-approximately 1945 January
…Hans Braun was born on March 6, 1923, in Hannover, Germany, to Oswald and Rosa Ernst Braun, a Sinti couple. Oswald was born on March 1, 1898, in…
11. Allied propaganda leaflets
Document | Accession Number: 1987.0079 | RG Number: RG-10.009.01
Date:
1941-1944
… about the activities of the U.S. and British air forces over Germany from circa 1941 to circa 1944.…
12. Klapholz and Schlesinger family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0156 | RG Number: RG-10.290
Date:
inclusive: 1885-1945
…Irene Schlesinger (later Woods Hofstein, 1921-2016) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Kurt Joseph (1885-1946) and Erna Meier Pelz (1897-1991…
13. Ilse Salomon collection
1988.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.13 | RG Number: RG-10.273
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1958
…Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from the Preungesheim prison in Frankfurt am…
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 … Adam Fielding, March 2020 Biographical note Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from…
14. Friedrich and Ruth Frankenthal papers
1988.26.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 37
Document | Accession Number: 1988.26.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1875-2002
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … materials, 1900‐1944  Series 2: Photograph album, approximately 1875‐2002 Indexing terms Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish families‐‐Germany‐‐Genealogy…
15. Fred Diament papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.56
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
… Buchenwald was organized in 1945 by survivors of Buchenwald concentration camp and was the first pioneer training group formed in Germany after liberation. In…
16. The Spiegel family papers
1988.57.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1988.57.1 | RG Number: RG-10.257
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1949
… (Bertha), and Sam. Originally from Poland, the Spiegel family moved to Leipzig, Germany in the 1920s. Upon the rise of the Nazi regime, the Spiegel brothers…
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 … Leipzig, Germany and the Soviet Union between 1938 and 1949. These documents largely described family member’s emigration and eventual deaths in…
17. Star of David badge with Jude printed in the center
1988.64.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.64.1.3
Date:
1939-1945
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.…
18. Republic of Czechoslovakia currency, 1 korunu note, acquired by a Jewish Polish survivor
1988.68.1.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.68.1.6
Date:
issue: 1944
… a Polish forced labor group that was later drafted into the Soviet Army. The war ended in early May 1945 when Germany surrendered. All of Beno…
19. Ann West papers
1988.82.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.82.9
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1988
bulk: 1943-1946
…Anny Neumann (later Ann West) was born in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany, to Leo and Johanna Neumann. She and her boyfriend Heinz Rosenhain joined the…
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 …‐1988 (bulk 1943‐1946) Indexing terms Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Leipzig. Holocaust survivors‐‐Germany‐‐Correspondence. Holocaust survivors‐‐Identification…
20. Blue felt belt with appliqued flowers found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Auschwitz
1988.99.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.1
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
21. Brown and yellow striped silk handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.2
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
22. Colorful plaid handkerchief found by a German Jewish teenage inmate at Birkenau
1988.99.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.3
Date:
use: 1943 April-1945 May
…Ruth Krautwirth was born on June 23, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, to Yitzhak (Isak) and Hanna Bina Grossman Krautwirth. She had one brother, Wolfgang…
23. Hitler Youth armband with a swastika acquired by a US soldier
1988.99.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.99.4
Date:
found: approximately 1945
found: after 1944 June-before 1945 November
… Army. On April 6, 1945, Harry and his unit entered Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany, following its April 4 liberation by the US 4th Armored Division…
24. Schönberger family papers
1988.108.192 Book Enclosure 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1988.108.192
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1967
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …--France. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Jews--Hungary-- Sárvár. Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am Main. Jewish families--Austria--Vienna. Austria--Emigration…
25. Milton Shurr papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.112.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1945
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
26. Walter Fried papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.118 | RG Number: RG-04.004.01
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
… school. He worked at an Austrian paper export company. On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Walter and his family had their citizenship…
27. Pin embroidered with a Star of David given to an inmate at Bergen Belsen for her birthday
1988.126.27 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.126.27
Date:
received: 1940-1945
…Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)…
28. Belt created from leather scraps by a concentration camp prisoner
1988.126.28 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.126.28
Date:
received: 1944
…Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)…
29. Bouquet of leather flowers made by an inmate at Bergen Belsen
1988.126.29 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.126.29
Date:
creation: 1944
…Belsen (Bergen, Celle, Germany)…
30. Ruth Wiener Klemens papers
1988.126.31 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.126.31
Date:
1941-1944
… Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany and Westerbork concentration camp in the Netherlands.…
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 … bath ticket, approximately 1943‐1944 Indexing terms Westerbork (Concentration camp) Bergen‐Belsen (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin…
31. Concentration camp uniform jacket worn by a Polish Jewish inmate
1988.132.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.132.1
Date:
use: 1944 May 03-1945 May
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
32. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
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 … Afterwards, he worked cleaning soldiers’ barracks. Eventually he returned to his uncle’s house in Bayreuth, Germany where he learned of the death of his family…
33. Edith Jacoby letter regarding the Warsaw ghetto
Document | Accession Number: 1988.152 | RG Number: RG-05.003.01
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1946
…Edith Jacoby was born in Worms, Germany, ca. 1899. She married Kurt Jacoby in the 1920s. Instead of attempting to emigrate to the US, the Jacobys…
34. World War I Honor & Iron Crosses buttonhole ribbon bar with Combatant’s swords awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.1
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: after 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
35. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
36. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.3
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
37. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
38. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, acquired by a US soldier
1988.168.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.168.1
Date:
issue: after 1938 July-before 1945 April
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
39. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of despairing and hungry Jews in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.182.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.1
Date:
creation: 1963 December
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Hunger in Lodzer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Despairing and hungry Jews in Lodzer ghetto
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
40. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of naked women and children entering the showers at Auschwitz
1988.182.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.2
Date:
creation: 1964 March
depiction: after 1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Bathhouse Auschwitz
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
41. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of a man with a Star of David badge eating in a Łódź Ghetto food hall
1988.182.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.3
Date:
creation: 1947
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Public Kitchen in the Łódź Ghetto
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
42. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of mothers, ordered to undress, who stare at their executioners as they march with their children into a mass grave
1988.182.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.5
Date:
depiction: approximately 1944 August-1944 December
creation: approximately 1946-1948
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Mass Grave
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
43. Edith Pick Lowy papers
1989.11.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 46
Document | Accession Number: 1989.11.1 | RG Number: RG-10.333
Date:
inclusive: 1944 October
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany.…
44. Gerda Schild Haas papers
1989.048 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1989.048 | RG Number: RG-02.016
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
…Gerda Schild Haas was born in 1922 in Ansbach, Germany to Siegfried and Paula Schild. Her family was forced to sell their home after Kristallnacht…
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 … Jewish persecution in Berlin from 1940‐1943 and correspondence among Gerda’s family members documenting their efforts to leave Germany from 1939‐1941 and…
45. Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by a Jewish Lithuanian resident
1989.62.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.62.1
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
found: approximately 1944 July
… soldiers. David relocated to Hannover, Germany on December. 11, 1945. While there, he met his future wife Estelle. She had been deported from Łódź and…
46. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) was born on June 29, 1889 in Herford, Germany to Veterinarian and Eugenie Goldstein. He had two brothers, Arthur and…
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 …: Goldstein family (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.1 (4 folders, 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
47. A. Morton Rosenfield collection
Document | Accession Number: 1989.96 | RG Number: RG-10.347
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
…The photographs were created by an unknown photographer, ca. 1941-1945, in Germany. They were given to A. Morton Rosenfield in 1945 at Kibbutz…
48. Bernard Feingold papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.113
Date:
creation: 1916-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
49. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish veteran
1989.113.41 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.113.41
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1944
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
…Jewish soldiers--Germany.…
50. "Survival in the Lion's Den"
Document | Accession Number: 1989.121 | RG Number: RG-02.019
Date:
1937-1989
…Fred Angress was born on 14 April 1923 in Berlin, Germany. His family fled to England in 1937 in order to avoid Nazi persecution. Angress and his…