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1. Wilfred Kay papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.18
Date:
issue: 1948-1949
… Rosenheim, Germany. Alternate spellings used in the certificates were "Katz Szloma," "Salomon Katz," and "Katz Szlojma."…
2. 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:
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… including Auschwitz, munitions factory Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen, in Poland, and Bergen-Belsen in Germany where they were liberated. They were…
3. 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.…
4. Vera Herz papers
1999.92 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.92
Date:
inclusive: 1947-1951
bulk: 1947-1948
… camp in Germany. The family was reunited at Eggenfelden in 1946. Vera taught dress and pattern making at the Eggenfelden ORT school. While at Eggenfelden…
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 … ORT identification document that states she was working as a teacher at the ORT school in Eggenfelden, Germany. The second is an ORT certificate issued…
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  • File 2: Photographs Approximate 1948
5. Sasha Kaufman letter
2019.174.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.174.1
Date:
creation: 1947 April 25
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
6. Julius Goldstein papers
1990.244.29 Box 4 Folder 1 Image 350
Document | Accession Number: 1990.244.29
Date:
inclusive: approximately 1942-1984
…, France, and Germany from 1942-1946 and visited Dachau two days after its liberation.…
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 …, photographs, printed materials, and a scrapbook documenting Goldstein’s military service with the 64th Fighter Wing in Italy, France, and Germany during World…
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7. Edward Anders papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0231
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1973
… received an induction notice from the Waffen-SS but was given a deferment because of his non-Aryan background; their escape to Germany in 1944 where they…
8. Solomon Bogard photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.132.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Natzweiler-Struthof, Wöbbelin, Flossenbürg, and Vught. Also included are depictions of Germany’s surrender at Reims, France…
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 … included are depictions of Germany’s surrender at Reims, France, and several executions of perpetrators. Other material includes Dutch food ration stamps…
9. Werner Katzenstein postcards
Document | Accession Number: 2014.307.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1948
…Werner Katzenstein was born on April 29, 1922, in Wallensen, Germany. In 1933, the Nazi dictatorship took control of Germany. All the male Jews in…
10. Michael V. Roth photographs
1997.A.0446 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0446
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1955
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Second World War in Germany. A misty cold morning in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. On that morning, the clouds were hanging low on the mountain top on…
11. 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…
12. Lily Wysinski collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.41
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1948
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … in the Greifenberg DC Camp, Germany. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection https…
13. Sally Muschel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.450.1
Date:
creation: 1946-1949
…, Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1949. Today, Muschel is the mother of two married daughters and has seven grandchildren.…
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 … standing with them, Ainring, Germany, 1946-1947. Sally Muschel is seen being over on the left. Inscribed in Polish: “Ainrig [sic] 46/47” and “Sally Muschel…
14. Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.85.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2011
…Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling (1902-1939) was born on February 12, 1902 near Leipzig, Germany to Karl Schilling (1874-1958) and Luise Schilling (née…
15. Elsa and Selmar Biener papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1968
bulk: 1936-1941
…Selmar Biener (1906-1988) was born on May 15, 1906 in Magdeburg, Germany to Philip Biener (b. 1870) and Regina Biener (née Sternberg, b. 1876). He…
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 … (1906-1988) was born on May 15, 1906 in Magdeburg, Germany to Philip Biener (b. 1870) and Regina Biener (née Sternberg, b. 1876). He had three brothers…
16. Alan Zimm photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1992.166
Date:
1946
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
17. Malcolm A. Vendig papers
1990.107.88 Box 2 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1990.107.88
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1967
bulk: 1944-1945
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… concentration camp in Germany by US troops in April 1945, Vendig was appointed military governor of Dachau Landkreis.…
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 …’s service with the 83rd U.S. Infantry Division and his tenure as the military governor of Dachau, Germany after the liberation of the concentration camp in…
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18. Beatrice Maier papers
1995.A.0290 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0290
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
… Staatsanwaltschaft in April 1947, in which he describes events he witnessed during Kristallnacht in Mühlheim, Germany, and identifying by name the perpetrators who…
19. Heinz Dieter Menge papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.662.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-2002
…Heinz Dieter Menge was born on September 13, 1919 in the Ilten district of Sehnde, Germany, near Hannover. During World War II he was a German…
20. 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…