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1. 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…
2. Moshe Sheps photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.439.1
Date:
creation: circa 1925-1946
…" in Gersfeld, Germany and in Italy awaiting immigration to Palestine; four family photographs from Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; and three photographs of…
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 ….” 18. Photograph of a group of Jewish survivors during their stay in “Kibbutz Buchenwald,” Germany, November 27, 1945. Inscribed in Polish: “Stride in…
3. Political cartoon depicting Joseph Stalin created by an American journalist
2018.298.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.6
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Artwork Title:
Josef (sic) Stalin
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
4. German Rentenbank, 2 Rentenmark note
2003.413.97 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.97
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
5. Print of the Zülz synagogue brought to the US by German Jewish refugees
Object | Accession Number: 2004.482.2
Date:
1920-1945 May 09
Artwork Title:
Synagoge Zülz
…Donald Harry Hirschberg (later Harter, 1933-2019) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Harry Morton (1899-1957) and Lenore Evelyne…
6. 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
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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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7. Inscribed Siddur carried through hiding and slave labor by a Jewish Polish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2018.369.3
Date:
use: approximately 1921-approximately 1998
…-?), Samuel (1916-?), Lana (later Lena Mandelkorn, 1916-?), Etta (1918-?), and Chaia (later Chust, 1920-?). On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded and occupied…
8. 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…
9. Ruth Wertheim papers
2004.676.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2004.676.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1946
bulk: 1945-1946
…Ruth Wertheim (later Bacow, 1927-1994) was born in Giesen, Germany on March 28, 1927 to Leopold (1891-1944) and Emma Wertheim (1896-1944). Before the…
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 … gewiss.” Since he was handicapped our chances of getting out of Germany were nil when anti semitism reared it’s ugly head. In 1933 I started my first…
10. Tom Hardisty collection
2012.246.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2012.246.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1947
…The collection consists of a poster, correspondence, and documents relating to the activities and administration of the Nazi Party in Germany and…
11. German Rentenbank, 2 Rentenmark note
2003.413.96 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.96
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
12. Renate Fleischer Fajer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.415.1
Date:
creation: 1915-1957
… born in Posen, Germany (today: Poznan, Poland) on September 28, 1904. She was the oldest child of Else Bieber Kroner (b. October 14, 1879) and Robert…
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 … Army during World War I, 1915. 2. Photograph of Else and Robert Kroner, parents of Ilse Kroner, Breslau, Germany, circa 1935. 3. Photograph of Suzi…
13. Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
…Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
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14. Israel Elefant family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.475.1
Date:
creation: circa 1929-1946
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…-war family photographs in Łódź, Poland and post-war photographs taken in the Deggendorf DP camp, Germany.…
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 … Elefant in the Łódź ghetto. 3. Identification photograph of Israel Elefant, Deggendorf, Germany, 1946. Israel Elefant (1917-1999) was born in Ostroviec…
15. 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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16. Ullrich Remak papers
2014.425.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.425.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1973
bulk: 1939-1944
… children were sent to Britain, Nanni Remak continued her efforts to emigrate from Germany, initialing applying for a visa to immigrate to the United States…
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 …, immigration documents, newsletters, and other documents related to the immigration of Ullrich Remak from Breslau, Germany to Scotland on a Kindertransport in…
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17. Political cartoon depicting Agustín Justo created by an American journalist
2018.298.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.11
Date:
creation: 1936-1943
Artwork Title:
Augustin (sic) Justo
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
18. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
…Germany.…
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 … (organizer of the anti-fascist platform in West Germany) -- Monachium [Munich?] 1966; a telegram "Komma-Klub" from Munich[?] 1965; a money transfer for Radio…
19. Coat design, Görlik, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.5
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Görlik
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
20. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2