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1. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… officer for the Württemberg district, and later as the director of the Jewish displaced persons camp in Backnang.…
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 …. After the war, Michel joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. He was sent to Germany and served as a supply officer for the…
2. Pistiner family papers
2016.187.1 Box 3 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2016.187.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-2000
bulk: 1908-1972
… British police officer briefly before apprenticing to become a diamond cutter. He married Nehama Bloom (b. 1920) in 1940. While apprenticing to be diamond…
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 …, Max moved to Palestine, and spent the remainder of his life in Israel. He was a soccer player and British police officer briefly before apprenticing to…
3. Shames family collection
2018.649.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2018.649.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1948
… Lejb was taken to a work camp in Siberia where he felled trees. In his spare time, he worked as a barber for military officers to earn extra ration…
4. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
…, giving Hitler dictatorial powers. Hitler issued a decree prohibiting non-Aryans from public offices and Karl was dismissed from his judgeship. In March, he…
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 … States. The collection also includes a World War I photo album and scrapbook documenting the military service of Mina’s uncle, Julius Oppenheimer, in…
5. Fritz Gluckstein papers
1991.141.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1991.141.9
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1948
… a Jew, and the family attended a liberal synagogue. When Hitler came to power in 1933, Jews soon were prohibited from holding public office and his…
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 …’s Gestapo headquarters in the Reich Security Main Office, along with other Mischlinge. Surprisingly, for the four days he worked there, he was supervised by…
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 … headquarters in the Reich Security Main Office, along with other Mischlinge. Surprisingly, for the four days he worked there, he was supervised by a sympathetic…
6. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
… approximately 600 remaining prisoners killed eleven members of the SS and several auxiliaries. As the highest-ranking SS officer on duty that day, Niemann was the…
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 … of the SS and several auxiliaries. As the highest-ranking SS officer on duty that day, Niemann was the first to be targeted. Survivor witnesses report…
7. Ruth Miller papers
2006.473.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2006.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-2003
… War II began after Germany invaded Poland. On September 19, 1941, 14 year old Ruth reported to the office of the Jewish Organization to pick up Star of…
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 … materials include birth, marriage, and death certificates; school records; military papers; medical records; identification papers; ration coupons…
8. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
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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…
9. Photograph collection from the Russian State Archive of Film, Video and Photo Records
Document | Accession Number: 1989.1024 | RG Number: RG-22.013
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1961
…Military personnel--Soviet--1940-1950.…
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 … Union. Concentration camps‐‐Soviet Union. Concentration camps‐‐Europe. Military personnel‐‐Soviet‐‐1940‐1950. Mass burials‐‐1940‐1950. War criminals…
10. Klaus Zwilsky papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.200.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1946
… (today Ostroda, Poland) and at age 18, in 1914 he fought in WWI in the German Army. Upon his release from the military service he attended Königsberg…
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 …. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: reference@ushmm.org Klaus Zwilsky Papers Inventory 1. Photograph of Ehrich Zwilsky during his military service in the German Army…
11. Jack Sutin collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.310.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
… nearby castle (Mirski Zamek). A group of Zionist youth members planned to escape. A Jew, Oswald Rufeisen, had infiltrated the local German military police…
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 … Employment Office, Area Team 1065, Siedlung to Jack Sutin, which states that he is employed with the IRO Team VI Gauting, APO 407 US Army as Camp Leader…