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1. My meeting with Heinrich Himmler - April 20/21, 1945
1995.A.0211 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0211
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1993
…Norbert Masur (1901-1971) was born in 1901 in Friedrichstadt, Germany to Leiser and Hanna Masur. He served as a Swedish representative to the World…
2. Jürgen Stroop statement
2019.234.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.234.1
Date:
creation: 1946 April 26
…Jürgen Stroop (born Josef Stroop) was born on September 26, 1895 in Detmold, Germany to Konrad and Katherine Stroop. He joined the Nazi party in 1932…
3. Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss papers
2014.471.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.471.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1961
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… including Auschwitz, munitions factory Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen, in Poland, and Bergen-Belsen in Germany where they were liberated. They were…
4. Joe Van Rooyen collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.53 | RG Number: RG-10.496
Date:
inclusive: 1941-2009
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. Henry Hirschmann papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.205.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2013
…Henry Hirschmann was born Heinz Hirschmann in Grossauheim, Germany, on August 5, 1920. His parents, Maier and Ida Hahn Hirschmann, had three sons…
8. Machtinger family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1988.090.2
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1988
… camp in Germany on July 23, 1946. Ruth married Morton Faller and they had two children, Bryan and Scott Faller. Paul Machtinger died on September 9…
9. Mikhail Lev collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.12 | RG Number: RG-68.118
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2008
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Ukraine--Personal narratives, Jewish. Geography: Germany. Israel. Minsk (Belarus)--History--20th century. Poland. Ravensbrück…
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 …- 1964 Inquiries to various official institutions and individuals in Poland, France, Germany and received responses 17 pp. Correspondence of editor of…
10. Lichtenberg and Stein families papers
2014.408.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2014.408.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2001
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Irmgard Stein (Irma, later Lichtenberg, b. 1920) was born to Max (1871-1944, born in Arolsen, Germany) and Hedwig (Johanna, née Benjamin, 1883-1944…
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 … and undated Accession number: 2014.408.1 Creator: Lichtenberg (Family: Hannover, Germany) Additional creator: Stein (Family: Frankfurt, Germany) Extent…
11. Alexander Muller collection
2018.446.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.446.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-1946
…The collection includes a journal, on loose pages, transcribed and recorded by Alexander Muller in a displaced persons camp in Kassel, Germany. The…
12. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
…Henry Oertelt (born Arthur Karl Heinz Oertelt, 1921-2011) was born on 13 January 1921 in Berlin, Germany to Arthur and Else Oertelt. He had one…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Henry Oertelt of Berlin, Germany…
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13. Albert Rosenberg papers
1995.A.0606 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0606
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1983
bulk: 1945
…Albert Rosenberg (1918-2014) was born in Göttingen, Germany. Brought up in a well-to-do Jewish family, he attended school and went on to study at…
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 ….ushmm.org for further information. Processing history: Colleen Benoit, February 2016 Biographical note Albert Rosenberg (1918-2014) was born in Gottingen, Germany…
14. Hinsel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.721.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1960
…Luneberg, Germany, and Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp documents and realia collection…
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 …: Hinsel (Family : Lüneburg, Germany) Extent: 1.2 linear feet (2 boxes, 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
15. Honig family papers
2002.70.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.70.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2002
…Jack (Heinz) Honig (1921-2012) was born in Alsenz, Germany, to Julius (1886-1924) and Rudolfine (née Sternheimer, 1889-1942) Honig. He was imprisoned…
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 … (Family : Alsenz, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear foot (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
16. Mosheim and Marx families papers
1999.A.0233 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0233
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
… City. Karl Marx had died of natural causes in 1938 in Munich, and her mother remained in Germany to care for his ailing mother, Pauline Mayer Marx…
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 … United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened…
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17. Karl Schwesig manuscript
1988.5.21 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 44
Document | Accession Number: 1988.5.21
Date:
creation: 1948
…Karl Schwesig was born on June 19, 1898, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. His father was a miner. From 1916 to 1918, Schwesig served in the German Army…
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 … (Germany) and studied art in Düsseldorf. He was imprisoned for seventeen months when the Nazis came to power, and sought political asylum in Belgium after…
18. Reborn
Document | Accession Number: 1986.019.2 | RG Number: RG-02.004.01
Date:
1947-1986
Subtitle:
memoirs of a camp survivor
…Kay Gundel (Karla Elkeles) is a native of Berlin, Germany, and a survivor of three concentration camps. She emigrated to the United States in 1947.…
19. Gertrude Jorisch papers
2000.529.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2000.529.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-2007
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …‐‐Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors‐‐Germany‐‐Deggendorf. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about…
20. Elise Schapira papers
1991.157.5 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.157.5
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1991
…Elise Schapira (1920-1998) was born in Bad Brückenau, Germany to Max Goldschmidt (1892-?) and Sibylla Goldschmidt (nee Klein, 1891-?). When Jews…
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 … brief testimony recounting her family life in Germany, her escape to England, her immigration to the United States, and the loss of her brother and…