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1. SSB blue enamelled badge with a snowflake acquired by a US soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2013.453.35
Date:
found: 1945
creation: 1907-1945
… following day the United States declared war on Japan, and on December 11, Germany declared war on the United States. On October 31, 1942 Harold was drafted…
2. 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…
3. Unser Kind
Document | Accession Number: 2010.200.3
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1946
…Klaus Werner Max Zwilsky (1932- ) was born in Berlin, Germany on August 16, 1932. He is the only son of Ruth Herzberg Zwilsky and Ehrich Erich…
4. Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930-1945
use: approximately 1930-1945
…Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
5. Chaim Kamelmacher collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.404.1
Date:
bulk: 1944-1952
inclusive: 1913-2013
…Holocaust survivors--Germany--Landsberg am Lech.…
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 … (Displaced persons camp) Displaced person. Holocaust survivors—Germany—Landsberg am Lech. Manevyt︠s︡ ʹkyĭ raĭon (Ukraine) CONTAINER LIST Box Folder 1 1…
6. Political cartoon depicting King Christian X of Denmark created by an American journalist
2018.298.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.4
Date:
creation: 1936-1943
Artwork Title:
Christian X
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
7. Karliner family papers
1999.3.32 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1999.3.32
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1951
…The Karliner family lived in Peiskretscham (Silesia), Germany, now Pyskowice, Poland. Joseph Karliner (Josef, 1898-1943) married Martha Weissler (d…
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 ….3.32 Creator: Karliner family (Peiskretscham, Germany) Extent: 0.2 linear foot (3 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
8. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) was born on June 29, 1889 in Herford, Germany to Veterinarian and Eugenie Goldstein. He had two brothers, Arthur and…
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 …: Goldstein family (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.1 (4 folders, 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
9. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
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… children. In the mid-1930s, Henry’s older brother, Alfred, left Germany with the hopes of training at a Zionist-sponsored camp in Yugoslavia, in order to…
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 … currency from Poland and Germany from the 1910s and 1920s; and luggage tags and labels used when Henry Wachs immigrated to the United States in 1938…
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10. Scheiner family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0266
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1992
bulk: 1938-1940
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
11. Baby doll owned by a Jewish Yugoslavian girl in hiding
2019.20.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.20.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1908-before 1945
… forces and was partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, with Skopje falling under Bulgarian control. Bulgarian authorities passed many…
12. Lustig and Katz family collections
Document | Accession Number: 2012.400.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2006
…Consists of identity cards, documents, and correspondence related to Albert and Erna Lustig, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes paperwork…
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 … correspondence related to Albert and Erna Lustig, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes paperwork related to the Lustigs' emigration to the United States in…
13. Political cartoon depicting terrorism in Europe created by an American journalist
2018.298.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.2
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Artwork Title:
At Large
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
14. Sliding calipers from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: after 1897-1945
…Sliding calipers from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
15. Orban Wales Peters, Jr. papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.294.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1998
…th artillery; Eighty-Ninth Division album; photographs of his unit on march into Germany and at Camp Phillip Morris; Correspondence; miscellaneous Army passes…
16. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
… September 27, 1938. The family lived in Nuremberg, Germany. During the war, Josef Baur worked as a member of the Police Battalion 131 and the 14th SS Police…
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 … married Agnes Baur who was born on December 27, 1910. Their son, Josef Baur, was born on September 27, 1938. The family lived in Nuremberg, Germany. During…
17. Unfinished jacket design created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.15
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
18. Vollweiler family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.353.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1994
…Else Rosenbaum Vollweiler was born on September 14, 1914 in Treuchtlingen, Germany to Issak Rosenbaum (d. 1930) and Pauline Rosenbaum. Her father…
19. Ernst Berl papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1954
bulk: 1933-1946
…, Germany, where he remained on the faculty until 1933, when the Nazis gained power in Germany, and Jewish faculty members were forced out of their positions…
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 …, and his immigration to the United States in 1933. Included is correspondence with other émigré academics from Austria and Germany during the 1930s and…
20. Antoni Czerniewski papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.396.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1956
… in the Polish Army taken POW and imprisoned in Oflag XI B in Germany; his older brother, Dr. Aleksander Czerniewski was executed by the Soviets in…