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1. Sirota family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.126
Date:
creation: 1939-1947
… immigration of Johann Sirota, Alice Sirota, and Horst Sirota from Berlin, Germany to Shanghai, China in 1939 and the United States in 1947.…
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 …) 479-9717 e-mail: reference@ushmm.org Sirota Family Papers Inventory 1. A passport for a stateless person, issued to Johann Sirota in Berlin, Germany…
2. Rothstern family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.186.3
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1960
… employees. In February 1939, Irma left Germany via the Brenner Pass into Italy, from which she travelled to China, arriving in Shanghai in March of that…
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 … cards, letters of reference, photographs, and other items, that primarily document the lives of Irma Rothstern and her son Heinz, of Hamburg, Germany…
3. Oral history interview with Marion Ladar
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2013.306.106 | RG Number: RG-50.694.0106
Date:
interview: 1996 October 14
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Marion Ladar, a Holocaust survivor, born in 1920, discusses her parents' divorce when she was a child; leaving Germany in 1939 for Shanghai, China…
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 …, and where you were born, and things like that. I was born in Berlin, Germany in 1920. And [? can you ?] [? tell me, ?] did you have brothers and sisters…
4. Frank Osborn papers
Document | Accession Number: 2007.40.1
…Collection consisting of correspondence, photographs, and documents surrounding the Oschitzki and Hermann families in Germany and Shanghai, China…
5. Harpuder family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.240.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1952
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
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 …-2126 Abstract: The Harpuder family papers documents the experiences of the Harpuder family in Berlin, Germany and Shanghai, China, 1915-1952; as well as…
6. 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…
7. Oral history interview with Ernest G. Heppner
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1989.H.0315 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0095
Date:
interview: 1989 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ernest G. Heppner, born in 1921 in Germany, describes his experiences with antisemitism in his youth; participating in a Jewish youth organization…
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 …. Christkiller and especially, you see in Germany, the profession of your father follows you. So any time you started a new class and the teacher would call the…
8. Oral history interview with Idel Mathias
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.411 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0411
Date:
interview: 1991 October 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Idel Mathias, born in 1907 in Braila, Romania, discusses moving to Germany with his parents in 1912; the difficulty in getting German citizenship…
9. Case and paper insert owned by a former German Jewish forced laborer
2017.661.3 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.3 a-b
Date:
received: after 1945
…Julius Löwenstein (later Loewenstein, 1913-1995) was born in Ortenberg, Germany, to Siegmund (1876-1942) and Sophie (1885-1942) Zimmermann Löwenstein…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. Edith Bredehoft papers
Document | Accession Number: 1993.136
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
13. Oral history interview with Harry Sydel
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.557 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0557
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Harry Sydel (né Seidel), born on March 6, 1930 in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), discusses his family; Kristallnacht; the destruction of the…
14. Oral history interview with Esther Marcus
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.1016 | RG Number: RG-50.477.1016
Date:
interview: 1996 May 10
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Esther Marcus describes her childhood in Berlin, Germany; her family's flight to Shanghai, China in 1939; her memories of life in the Hong Kew ghetto…
15. Charlotte Sonnenberg papers
1988.41.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.41.1 | RG Number: RG-10.275
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
…Charlotte Alexander (1910-1999?, née Lichtendorf) was born on 22 January 1910 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany to Regina and Emmanuel Lichtendorf…
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 … following Kristallnacht, identification cards of Charlotte’s from Leipzig, Germany and Shanghai, China, and a photograph of Herbert’ tombstone in Shanghai…
16. Oral history interview with Peter Silberman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2022.79.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.1136
Date:
creation: 2022 August 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Berlin (Germany)…
17. Rabbi William Z. Dalin family papers
2005.108.2 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2005.108.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1872-1968
bulk: 1938-1948
… the United States Army and served as a chaplain, first in Phoenix, Arizona and then India. From March 1946-1947 he was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany…
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 … regarding his deployment in post-war Wiesbaden, Germany; post-war correspondence of his wife Bella Dalin; wartime correspondence of Helene Dreydel with her…
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18. Oral history interview with Paul Richards
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.783 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0783
Date:
interview: 1990 May 03
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…The interviews describe Mr. Richards's childhood in Schenklengsfeld, Germany; his arrest in Soest, Germany after the events of of Kristallnacht on…
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 …Bachofen originally, my grandfather changed it. What was it originally? Bachofen. Also comes from Germany. My name was-- my name was Richheimer. I…
19. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.4
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
20. William Malsh papers
1994.A.0027.1 Box 1 Folder 28 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0027.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-circa 1993
bulk: 1937-1941
… sources differ as to whether they were sent to Theresienstadt, Łódź, or Auschwitz. Uncle Ernst managed to escape Germany to Shanghai in 1939.…
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 … William Malsh papers consist of letters his parents sent him from Düsseldorf describing their efforts to escape Nazi Germany. Additional correspondence…
21. Oral history interview with Ursula Gaupp
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.250 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0250
Date:
interview: 1997 March 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ursula Gaupp (née Gaup), born on May 8, 1920 in Pforzheim, Germany, discusses her pre-Hitler experiences; her Jewish mother and Christian father; her…
22. Oral history interview with Rabbi Samuel Graudenz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.946 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0946
Date:
interview: 1995 March 21
interview: 1996 June 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Rabbi Graudenz discusses his childhood in Fulda, Germany; his Polish parents; his impoverished childhood; being sent to an orphanage in Dinslaken…
23. Eva Hirschel family papers
2016.351.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 2016.351.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2006
bulk: 1914-1975
…Hedwig Hirschel (born Hedwig Küchler) was born on 28 May 1902 in Glogau Schlesien, Germany (present-day Głogów, Poland) to Hirsch Leib and Elise (née…
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 …, her daughter Eva, her husband Max, and his son Horst in Breslau, Germany (present-day Wrocław, Poland) until 1940 and Shanghai, China from 1940-1947…
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24. Oral history interview with Inge Peebles
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.780 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0780
Date:
interview: 2003 September 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Inge Peebles discusses her assimilated childhood in Berlin, Germany; her parents’ interfaith marriage; her father’s death early in her life; the…
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 …, Germany. And how many people were in your family? My mother, my father, when I was born, my mother and my father, and myself. OK. You want to give us their…
25. Records of the Organisation Internationale pour les Réfugiés
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0004 | RG Number: RG-43.048M
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1953
…Germany--History--1945-1955.…
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 … Council of Jewish Women. 8 frames. AJ 43/19; File 56/1149: Council for the Protection of Rights and Interests of Jews from Germany. 7 frames. AJ 43…
26. Oral history interview with Evelyn Goldstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2015.250.4 | RG Number: RG-50.882.0004
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Evelyn Goldstein, born in Berlin, Germany in 1936, describes her father, who was a doctor; how her father knew someone who worked on a cruise ship…
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 …Evelyn Goldstein Virtual Book Evelyn Goldstein was born in Berlin, Germany in 1936. Her father was a doctor and he knew someone who worked on a…
27. John and Harriet Isaack papers
1992.53.45 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1992.53.45
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1991
… costume seamstress Harriet Bondy (1909-2003), born in Hohenlimburg to Hermann and Olga Bondy. The couple married in 1937 and left Germany for Shanghai…
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 … documenting the Isaack’s escape from Germany, life in occupied Shanghai, and immigration to the United States. Languages: English, German, Chinese…
28. Oral history interview with Else Nowak
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.440 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0440
Date:
interview: 1983 May 09
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Else Nowak (née Schroepel), born on June 25, 1902 in Dresden, Germany, discusses her wealthy, assimilated family; her schooling in Berlin, Germany…
29. Margot Lichtenstein collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.192.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2005
bulk: 1936-1947
…Margot Schoenherz Lichtenstein was born on June 17, 1908 to Wilhelm and Rosalie Schoenherz in Berlin, Germany. When she was thirteen, Rosalie died…
30. Oral history interview with Eric Rosenon
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0087
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Eric Rosenow, born in Berlin, Germany, discusses life before the war; being an actor in theater and cinema; the banning of Jewish people from…
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 … were? Are you on? Yeah. I was born in Germany, in Berlin, and as a child I worked in the theater and movie business as an actor. In 1934, just short…
31. Oral history interview with Hans Dreyer
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2009.214.13 | RG Number: RG-50.617.0013
Date:
interview: 1980 February 12-1981 August 26
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hans Dreyer, born April 21, 1912 in Berlin, Germany, discusses his childhood and education; his apprenticeship as a fur sorter and buyer and…
32. Oral history interview with Hennie Bergh
Oral History | Accession Number: 2019.125.25 | RG Number: RG-90.057.0025
Date:
interview: 1981 April 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Hennie Bergh (née Mattisson), born in 1906 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her childhood; enjoying a middle-class life; her Jewish public school…
33. Oral history interview with Loni Wilk
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.430 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0430
Date:
interview: 2002 January 22
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Loni Wilk (née Meyer), born on November 29, 1923 in Hamburg, Germany, discusses her childhood in Hamburg; her family life; her education; the changes…
34. Annemarie Warschauer papers
2012.244.1 Box 2 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.244.1
Date:
inclusive: 1896-2003
bulk: 1912-1952
…Annemarie Alexander was born on August 3, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Isadore and Anna Hirschensohn Alexander, who was born in 1890. Isadore, born…
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 …‐2003 (bulk 1912‐1952) Accession number: 2012.244.1 Creator: Warschauer, Anne (Berlin :Germany) Extent: 1 linear foot (3 boxes, 1 oversize…
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35. Hertha Wolff Hellmann papers
1994.62 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1994.62
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1952
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … collection http://collections.ushmm.org Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish refugees‐‐China‐‐Shanghai. Jewish children in the Holocaust‐‐China‐‐Shanghai…
36. Walter Schnell papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.171
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1939
…Walter Schnell (1904-2008) was born on April 16, 1904, in Strehlen, Germany (Strzelin, Poland) to Alfred (b. 1863) and Betty (b. 1880, née Löwenberg…
37. Oral history interview with Ruth Callman
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.670 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0670
Date:
interview: 1996 March 06
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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 …. [? You sure ?] [INAUDIBLE] OK. [? Are ?] [? you ?] [? ready? ?] This is a stamp when we left Germany at the border on the Alps going into Italy. This is…
38. Oral history interview with Walter Silberstein
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.69 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0069
Date:
interview: 1981 November 09
interview: 1981 November 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Silberstein, born November 9, 1902 in Stargard, Germany (Poland), describes being the son of the only rabbi serving around Stargard; studying…
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 … Stettin. Today it is Polish. JF: At that time it was Germany? WS: Yes. JF: Can you tell me a little bit about your family? WS: My father was a rabbi in…
39. Oral history interview with Ursula Becher
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.155 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0155
Date:
interview: 1999 October 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ursula Becher (née Hilsch), born on March 17, 1924 in Berlin, Germany, discusses her experiences with antisemitism and the anti-Jewish laws in…
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 … Record #: GC00042 Libr. Catlg. #: D 810.J4 G7 #33 Restrictions: None SUMMARY Ursula Becher, nee Hilsch, born March 17, 1924 in Berlin, Germany and was an…
40. Leo Arnfeld papers
1990.16.99 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1990.16.99
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1958
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … (Poland) Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China) Kōbe-shi (Japan) Munich (Germany) Vilnius (Lithuania) Photographs. CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Biographical materials…
41. Oral history interview with John Friedmann
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1992.A.0125.29 | RG Number: RG-50.233.0029
Date:
interview: 1993 April 12
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.…
42. Peter and Berta Victor papers
1990.114.74 Box 1 Folder 27 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1990.114.74
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1991
…Peter Max Victor was born in Munich, Germany, on April 19, 1920, the only child of Carl Nathan and Elsa Alexander Victor. Carl was born in Gusten on…
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 …, Peter’s relatives, their pre-war lives in Germany and Austria, Peter’s time in Shanghai, and their immigration to the United States. https://collections…
43. Oral history interview with Margot Grünfeld Shafran
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Oral History | Accession Number: 2016.176.4 | RG Number: RG-50.928.0004
Date:
interview: 2016 August 19
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Oral history interviews with members of the Grünfeld/Heimann family who discuss their escape from Nazi Germany and experiences as refugees in…
44. Oral history interview with Gerhard Levy
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.338.41 | RG Number: RG-50.037.0041
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Dr. Gerhard Levy, born in 1928 in Wollin, Germany (Wolin, Poland), describes his father having a large clothing store and being a German veteran from…
45. Oral history interview with Ingrid Gallin
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.249 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0249
Date:
interview: 1999 October 17
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Ingrid Gallin, born on July 16, 1937 in Berlin, Germany, discusses Kristallnacht; fleeing with her parents at three years old on the last train out…
46. Oral history interview with Walter Frank
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1999.A.0122.816 | RG Number: RG-50.477.0816
Date:
interview: 1990 May 15
interview: 1990 June 14
interview: 1990 July 24
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Walter Frank was born Walter Fackenheim in May 1920 in Wiesbaden, Germany. His father was a physician and his mother was a homemaker. Mr. Frank was…
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 … West Germany. It's near Frankfurt. My father was a physician, what was then called a [GERMAN]. Today, it'd be an internist, a family physician. And two…
47. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.60 back
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.60
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
…Ernst Günther Heppner (later, Ernest Guenter,1921-2004) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), to Isidor (1878-c.1942) and Hilda (nee…
48. Werner and Rosa Sallisohn papers
2005.312.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2005.312.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1947
…Werner Sallisohn (later Bill Sallerson, 1910-2004) was born on 30 October 1910 in Berlin, Germany to Israel and Bertha (née Mehrowitz) Sallisohn. He…
49. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
…Else Henriette Rhée (née Heinemann, 1887-1978) was born on 25 October 1887 in Lüneburg, Germany to Robert Simon (1856-1920) and Selma (née Sternau, d…
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 …: circa 1890-2016 Accession number: 2019.210.2 Creator: Cohn (Family : Berlin, Germany) Additional creator: Heinemann (Family : Lüneburg, Germany…
50. Oral history interview with Inge Booker
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.178 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0178
Date:
interview: 1992 February 06
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Inge Booker (née Brann), born on January 30, 1923 in Berlin, Germany, discusses the Nuremberg laws; being forced to attend a Jewish school in 1935…