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1. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
2. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
3. False tooth with a cavity for a poison capsule
Object | Accession Number: 2016.561.1
Date:
acquired: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
… to forced labor in Germany along with other Polish men and women. On July 20, 1943 Ita was sent to Göttingen, Germany, and from there to a small farm…
4. Lola Byron collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.464.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1963
… Bensheim DP camp in Germany, but soon traveled to Paris to be reunited with Jakob’s two sisters: Zosia and Franka. Jakob worked there as a weaver. In 1949…
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 … and completed her schoolwork, Munich, Germany, February 1, 1951; in German. 7. Personnel File stating that Jakob Papierbuch is employed by International…
5. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm (Sygn.72)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0081 | RG Number: RG-15.012M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
inclusive: 1939-1945
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 … (Sygn. 72) Dates: 1939-1945 RG Number: RG-15.012M Accession Number: 1993.A.0081 Creator: Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei. Extent: 4 microfilm reels (35 mm…
6. Forced laborer identification badge worn by a Polish Jewish woman using a false identity
2014.426.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.2
Date:
use: 1944 December 15-1945 April
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…
7. German occupation records from the Archive of New Records, Poland (Syg 1335)
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0032 | RG Number: RG-15.008M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 … Against Germany. Accruals: Accruals may have been received since this collection was first processed, see archives catalog at collections.ushmm.org for…
8. Minna Aspler papers
1999.267.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.267.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
… Wahlwinkel, Germany. She moved to the Landsberg DP camp, married its deputy director, Moe Aspler, from Montreal, and moved home to Canada with him. The couple…
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 … photograph a Warsaw classroom, and one postwar photograph of Minna with friends in Wahlwinkel, Germany. Languages: English, German, Yiddish Administrative…
9. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.3
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…
10. Abraham Lewent papers
1989.242.32 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1989.242.32
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
… Eibeshitz, moved in with them. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was bombed and they had no water, heat, or food. For weeks, they ate only…
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 …, an identification card from the Feldafing displaced persons camp, a membership card for the Council of Warsaw Jews in the American Zone of Germany, a…
11. Forced labor badge worn by a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.450.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.4
Date:
use: 1944 August-1945 May 03
… countryside villa with his mother and brother when Germany invaded western Poland on September 1, 1939. They could hear bombs being dropped, and decided to…
12. Selected records of postwar East German investigative court cases and trials to Nazi war crimes
Document | Accession Number: 2004.300 | RG Number: RG-14.068
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1990
Subtitle:
Records ZUV
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Finding Aid RG-14 Germany Revised Sep. 17, 2012 RG-14.068 Acc. 2004.300 Title: Postwar East German Investigative Court Cases and Trials to Nazi War Crimes…
13. Walter Rudy Horenstein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.664.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2002
undated: 
… provided by his father. He learned in June 1941 that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union had started. As a Soviet citizen, he was ordered to report…
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 … father. He learned in June 1941 that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union had started. As a Soviet citizen, he was ordered to report for internment…
14. Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter papers
2014.413.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 64
Document | Accession Number: 2014.413.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1956
…Wilhelm Stahl (1890 - ?) was a non-Jewish German born on April 18, 1890 in Sulzheim, Germany to “Marg.” [Schneider] Stahl (d. 1926) and Christoph…
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 … relating to the forced sale of Jewish assets in Frankfurt, Germany, postcards, as well as photographs of Wilhelm Stahl and family, Walter Lewalter, and…
15. Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.268.6
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1999
… with the Polish Army after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. After Warsaw was occupied he joined the Polish Resistance where he helped publish…
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 … fought with the Polish Army after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. After Warsaw was occupied he joined the Polish Resistance where he helped…
16. Edith Jacoby letter regarding the Warsaw ghetto
Document | Accession Number: 1988.152 | RG Number: RG-05.003.01
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1946
…Edith Jacoby was born in Worms, Germany, ca. 1899. She married Kurt Jacoby in the 1920s. Instead of attempting to emigrate to the US, the Jacobys…
17. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers
2003.385.1 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2003.385.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1968
… Ciecierska’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war as…
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 … Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war. The papers also document her husband Stanislaw Ciecierski and his…
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18. White handkerchief with a stitched border carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.9
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
19. Wanda Rotbart papers
2002.78.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.78.1
Date:
creation: circa 1944-1945
…, Wanda stayed in Breslau, Germany, where she worked for the government and then in a brewery. She eventually obtained a transit visa to go to Stockholm…
20. Prokuratura Sądu Okręgowego w Warszawie (GK 453)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.50.1 | RG Number: RG-15.691
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1963
Alternate Title:
Prosecutor's Office of the District Court in Warsaw
…Organisation Todt (Germany)…