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1. 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…
2. Coat design created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.9
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…
3. Initialed, cream-colored underskirt with a diamond pattern owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.10
Date:
creation: after 1890-before 1900
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
4. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border…
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 … for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their…
5. Annelies Sabatowski letters
2005.142 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.142
Date:
creation: 1938-1939
…Annelies Sabatowski (1927-1943) was born on October 20, 19127 in Dresden, Germany to Isidor (Izidor, 1897-1943) and Jetka (Jeti) Sabatowski (1903…
6. Wolfgang Mueller papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.133 | RG Number: RG-10.293
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
…Letter written on the forced departure of a family from Neuhaus, Germany (1937), letter requesting assistance to obtain a visa to Cuba (1941), and a…
7. Political cartoon depicting world peace perched on a swastika created by an American journalist
2018.298.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.3
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Artwork Title:
On the Spot
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
8. Schubach family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.617.1
Date:
creation: 1939-before 1944
… and obtain visas for her parents, Bernhard and Lina, in Rudesheim, Germany. Her parents were in Rudesheim until Bernhard’s death in 1941, and Lina…
9. Cream-colored underskirt with a diamond pattern owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.9
Date:
creation: 1901-1914
emigration: 1939 February
… of complications in the 1930s. After Herta’s oldest sister, Hilda (1901-1942), was born, Arthur, worked briefly in Germany, while Pauline worked from…
10. Hedwig Goldmann papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.403.1
Date:
creation: 1939-1946
… Deggendorf.Germany, displaced persons camp; a certificate of labor performed in the Theresienstadt ghetto, issued in July 1945 to Hedwig Goldmann; a letter…
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 …, thanking her for her usefulness and wishes her a successful future. 2. Identification card issued to Hedwig Goldmann; No. G08285467, Deggendorf, Germany…
11. Loeb family papers
1997.74.49 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1997.74.49
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1939
…Hans (Harry) Otto Loeb was born on May 1, 1926 in Hamburg, Germany to Richard and Olga Loeb. His brother, Eric Stefan Loeb is 4 ½ years older. Their…
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 …: Loeb family (Hamburg, Germany) Extent: 0.2 linear foot (4 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
12. Robert S. Tullman collection
Document | Accession Number: 2007.525.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1940
…Robert S. Tullman (Tulmann) was an operatic performer in Germany but was dismissed from the opera house in Weisbaden, Germany. He sought refuge in…
13. Ruth Oppenheimer letters
1995.A.0301 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0301
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1940
…Ruth Höflich Oppenheimer was born in 1920 in Fürth, Germany to Julius and Klara Höflich. Julius owned an automobile dealership, which was eventually…
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 … 20024-2126 Abstract: The Ruth Oppenheimer letters contain correspondence collected by Oppenheimer during her time living in Nazi-era Germany. The bulk of…
14. 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…
15. Coat design, Basel, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.16
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Basel
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
16. Annelise B. Hoffman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0257
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1998
bulk: 1938-1942
… experiences of the Bernhardt family, Ernst, Ella, and their children Erika, Annelise, and Hans, of Berlin, Germany, during the early years of the Third Reich…
17. Maier family papers
2004.515.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.515.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939
…Ludwig Maier was born in Malsch, Germany on August 19, 1901 to David (b. October 14, 1873) and Pauline Maier (Line Maier, b. December 7, 1880). In…
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 … experience aboard the MS St. Louis. Processing history: Katelynn Vance, April 2019 Biographical note Ludwig Maier was born in Malsch, Germany on August 19…
18. Ardal brand civilian gas mask placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.18 a-b
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1938-1939 September
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…
19. 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…
20. Asynchronous motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.10
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1889-1942
…Allgemeine Elektricita?ts-Gesellschaft (Germany)…