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1. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
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…The Stripounsky family papers consist of identification, education, immigration, and military papers, correspondence, photographs, printed materials…
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 … of identification, education, immigration, and military papers, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting the flight of…
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  • Series 5: Writings 1939-2014
    • File 2: Diary and algebra notebook, Joseph Stripounsky 1940, (in a book enclosure)
    • File 3: Diary, Joseph Stripounsky 1941
2. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
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… to Łódź. Alexander, 51, died in July 1937 of cancer. Edward graduated from high school in May 1938, and deferred his military service to enroll at the…
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 … in Łódź and Warsaw, his imprisonment in a Russian gulag following the German and Russian partition of Poland, his military service with the Polish…
3. Militaergeschichtliche Sammlungen
Document | Accession Number: 2007.3 | RG Number: RG-14.089M
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1959
Alternate Title:
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…Military Historical collections…
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 … = Military Historical Collections (1917-1959) Extent: 6 microfilm reels Provenance: Files mostly from collection Msgl; also includes one from collection Msg…
4. Elizabeth Margosches family papers
2002.436.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 2002.436.1
Date:
creation: 1888-2010
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 … papers, 1932, 1938-1948 (5 folders) 3.1 Margosches, Karl, Medical records, 1925, 1941-1942, 1947 3.2 Margosches, Karl, Military records, 1938-1943 3…
5. 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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 … piece of paper opposite a boy in a long dark coat and hat holding a cane, a man in a light trench coat, two American military officers; others in…
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6. Liebschütz and Rozsa families papers
2015.574.1 Box 5 Folder 1 Image 74
Document | Accession Number: 2015.574.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2009
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… Germans and their allies, the British authorities released them from the internment camp on parole, and permitted Imre to join the British military forces…
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 …, the British authorities released them from the internment camp on parole, and permitted Imre to join the British military forces in East Africa as an…
7. Norman A. Miller family papers
2016.203.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2016.203.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2015
… snuck into the office and added the correct stamp and a note referencing the transport permit letter to Norbert’s passport. Norbert was able to join the…
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 …, following which Seyss- Inquart was sent to Nürnberg and tried and convicted as a war criminal at the International Military Tribunal. Miller became a British…
8. Arnold Lissance family papers
2014.275. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.275.1
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1973
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…-Revolutionary Russia, and documents collected by Lissance about the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, presumably while Lissance was on duty there with…
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 … collected by Lissance about the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, presumably while Lissance was on duty there with the United States Army, and…
9. Archiv Horst von Wächter
Document | Accession Number: 2014.103 | RG Number: RG-17.049
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1984
… office in Germany in January 1933, Wächter had married Charlotte Bleckmann, joined the SS and worked as a lawyer for the Austrian Nazi Party. In 1934 he…
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 … party and an SS officer who rose to the ranks of the District Governor of Kraków, Poland and later District Governor of Galicia. Languages: German…
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 … chemistry but that the career possibilities as an officer in the military were more appealing to him. F agrees, states that his father knew General Wächter…
10. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
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… at the time, his father wrote a letter grating permission for Tony to return to the United States and join the military. When Tony reported for…
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 … documenting his father’s consent to Acevedo entering medical service in the US military; a copy of his 2012 memoir "Personal Account of an Undesirable…
11. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
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…: Manfred’s Welsh alias was Fred Gray. The troop went through a year of rigorous training in military tactics and intelligence, as well as physical…
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 … Great Britain, where Manfred joined the military under the name “Freddy Gray.” Moritz and Else were deported to Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt, where…
12. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
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13. Levy and Lustig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.554.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1825-2004
… officer in the German Army officer during World War I, and was captured in 1915. He remained a prisoner of war in Omsk until the end of the war, but was…
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 …. Fritz’s father Siegmund owned a high-end hat manufacturing business called S. Levy and Sie. Fritz served as an officer in the German Army officer during…
14. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
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… journalists’ coverage of the war, the Nazi occupation of Poland, and Nazi military advances. The Cairo, Egypt Diary, September 5 - November 30, 1939 is…
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 … such as Palestine, refugees, Jewish immigration, Zionism, critiques of journalists’ coverage of the war, the Nazi occupation of Poland, and Nazi military…
15. Maria Madi diaries
2013.264.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.264.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1967
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  • File 1: Diaries December 23, 1941-June 2, 1942, June 2, 1942-January 13, 1943, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 2: Diaries January 14, 1943-May 26, 1943, May 27, 1943-October 13, 1943, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 3: Diaries October 14, 1943-January 23, 1944, January 23, 1944-March 31, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 4: Diaries March 31, 1944-May 25, 1944, May 25, 1944-July 3, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 5: Diaries July 3, 1944-August 19, 1944, August 20, 1944-September 13, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 6: Diaries September 13, 1944-October 8, 1944, October 9, 1944-November 10, 1944, Includes loose material from diaries
  • File 7: Diaries November 11, 1944-January 11, 1945, January 11, 1945-March 11, 1945, includes loose material from diaries
  • File 8: Diaries March 11, 1945-June 20, 1945, June 25, 1945-November 5, 1945, Includes loose material from diaries
16. James G. McDonald collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.220.1
Date:
inclusive: 1873-2010
… of refugees to leave Germany and seek asylum elsewhere. The gap in the diaries from 1936 to 1946 is reportedly attributed to McDonald’s lack of office…
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 …: Barbara McDonald Stewart and Janet McDonald Barrett also donated an office name plate and a Bible presented to James G. McDonald by Chaim Weizmann to the…
17. Ada Abrahamer papers
2015.442.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.442.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1989
bulk: 1941-1948
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… grandmother remained at home until they were forced into the Kraków ghetto in April 1941. Ada worked clearing snow, cleaning and disinfecting military…
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 … remained at home until they were forced into the Kraków ghetto in April 1941. Ada worked clearing snow, cleaning and disinfecting military installations and…
18. Fonds David Diamant (CMXXV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.20.1 | RG Number: RG-43.160
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1994
… continued his political activities with the Party. Diamant was not called up for military service during WW II, but worked in the aeronautics industry. He…
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 …. When he emigrated to France in the late 1920’s, he continued his political activities with the Party. Diamant was not called up for military service…
19. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
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… authorities instructed military age men to leave Warsaw. On September 6, Natan left for Vilna, Poland (currently Vilnius, Lithuania), to stay with his sister…
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 … invaded Poland. The Polish authorities instructed military age men to leave Warsaw. On September 6, Natan left for Vilna, Poland (currently Vilnius…
20. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
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 …, as well as a reduction of their compulsory military service to three months, academic education became more attractive. When Alexander II was…