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1. 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…
2. Jürgen Stroop statement
2019.234.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.234.1
Date:
creation: 1946 April 26
…Jürgen Stroop (born Josef Stroop) was born on September 26, 1895 in Detmold, Germany to Konrad and Katherine Stroop. He joined the Nazi party in 1932…
3. Upright, wardrobe-style trunk used by a Jewish family during their postwar emigration
Object | Accession Number: 2002.416.2 a-b
Date:
emigration: 1948 October 21-1948 October 30
… family. Efraim was in Warsaw with his mother and brother, following his father’s death, when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Germany began…
4. Oral history interview with Jurek Kestenberg
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.9 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0009
Date:
interview: 1946 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Children's songs--Germany.…
5. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.5
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
… 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…
6. Luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.4
Date:
use: 1946 May 10-1946 May 20
… Poles and were put on a crowded cattle train with no food or water. On October 2, Regina and Halina arrived at a labor camp near Leipzig, Germany. They…
7. 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…
8. Fanny Auerbach papers
1995.A.0365 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0365
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-circa 1985
…Fanny Auerbach and her husband John, were German Jews living in Cologne, Germany. As John attended dental school, Fanny worked at the Abram Frank…
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 … German Jew who escaped Germany in 1935, and Malchen Banner, a young woman who Fanny helped raise while Fanny worked at an orphanage in Cologne, Germany…
9. Eve Przemyski papers
2010.459.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.459.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1964
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… prisoner of war camps in Germany during the Holocaust, and in Italy and England after the Holocaust, of Richard Przemyski in Poland and a prisoner of war…
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 ….ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org Prisoners of war--Germany. Holocaust survivors…
10. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
…Rudolph Daniel Sichel (1915-1978) was born in Frankfurt, Germany to clothing store owner Ernst Sichel (1874-1962) and Frieda Sichel (nee Oppenheimer…
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 … persecution of his family under Nazi Germany. Languages: English, German, French Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored…
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11. Regina and Halina Goldwag papers
2014.426.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.426.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-2008
bulk: 1944-1949
… 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…
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 … Göppingen, Germany, and depictions of Regina and Halina’s immigration to the United States onboard the SS Marine Flasher in 1946. Languages: Polish, English…
12. Edith Brandon papers
1996.A.0070.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0070.1 | RG Number: RG-10.250
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
bulk: 
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. Forced labor--Latvia--Rīga. Jews--Germany--Minden (North Rhine-Westphalia). Minden…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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)…
16. Blake and Anna Schiff papers
2018.407.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.407.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1999
…Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Germany--History--20th century.…
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 … family. Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Germany--History--20th century. Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland. Geography: Warsaw (Poland) Hrodna…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. 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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20. Florentyna Kosmider papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.149
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1947
… 1939 the couple left Warsaw for Słonim. They married in 1940 when Słonim was under the Soviet rule. In June 1941 Germany attacked USSR and in December…
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 …. Photograph of Yechiel Henek Kołobielska, Germany, circa 1945; possibly Munich, Germany. 4. Photograph of Yechiel Henek Kołobielska, Germany, August 9, 1945…
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 …. In August 1939 the couple left Warsaw for Słonim. They married in 1940 when Słonim was under the Soviet rule. In June 1941 Germany attacked USSR and in…