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21. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
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 … Afterwards, he worked cleaning soldiers’ barracks. Eventually he returned to his uncle’s house in Bayreuth, Germany where he learned of the death of his family…
22. Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss papers
2014.471.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.471.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1961
undated: 
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… including Auschwitz, munitions factory Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen, in Poland, and Bergen-Belsen in Germany where they were liberated. They were…
23. Letter relating to liberation experiences at Dachau and Landsberg
1994.A.0382 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0382
Date:
creation: 1993
…th Army in Italy, France, and Germany where he photographed combat and reported on American troop movements.…
24. Ernest Wachtel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.603.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-2012
bulk: 1943-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
25. Frances Potts papers
2019.67.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2019.67.1
Date:
creation: 1945 May 03
…Frances G. Potts served with the American Red Cross in Europe in 1944 and 1945. In May 1945, she visited the Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany…
26. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… (Kazio) Szelest, organized a group and retaliated against the other group. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Henryk was at work. He headed…
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 …. Water polo coaches – Poland. Belgium. Germany. New York (N.Y.) Poland. United States--Emigration and immigration--History. Correspondence. Photographs…
27. 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…
28. Karl Fritzsch documents
1998.A.0163 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0163
Date:
inclusive: 1934 April 05-1941 October 06
…Germany--Politics and government--1945-1990.…
29. Harry and Helen Berger papers
2017.596.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.596.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1972
…, postwar identification papers documenting Harry’s and Helen’s status as displaced persons in Germany, marriage records, immigration papers documenting Helen…
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 … as displaced persons in Germany, marriage records, immigration papers documenting Helen’s immigration and naturalization, and restitution papers…
30. Rosenwald and Stahl families papers
2017.222.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.222.1
Date:
inclusive: 1885-1980
bulk: 1920-1955
…Gerhard (later Gerald) Stahl was born on 3 May 1922, to Martin and Sofie (née Bauer) Stahl, in Nuremberg, Germany. He left for Britain (on a…
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 … of Otto and Elfriede Rosenwald, and their daughter, Helene, from Germany in 1936, to escape Nazi persecution. Includes materials from their extended…
31. George Howard Tellier collection
2001.68 Book Enclosure Box 1 Folder 18
Document | Accession Number: 2001.68 | RG Number: RG-10.220
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1945
… Theater, but someone who knew of his dairy engineering training and experience had him transferred to Berlin to assist in rebuilding the Germany dairy…
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 … Oberau, Germany, the Berghof (Adolf Hitler's home in the Obersalzberg of the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden), Hitler and Goering, mountain scenes, the SS…
32. Letter from Margarete Jacobson to Susan Taube
2004.240.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2004.240.1
Date:
creation: 1947 May 30
…Susan was born 9 January 1926 in Vacha, Germany, a small Thuringian town where her family had lived for more than 400 years. Her father, Hermann…
33. Gershon Kufert papers
1996.165.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.165.1
Date:
creation: 1939
…Frieda Kufert (née Kranz) was born on January 6, 1909 in Berlin, Germany. She married and her daughter Lea Kufert was born on December 21, 1938. The…
34. Rosenfeld family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.223.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1979
…Adolf Rosenfeld (1898-1942) was born on June 16, 1898 in Korb, Germany. He married Katherine Rosenfeld (née Lemberger, 1899-1942) who was born on…
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 … Catalog number: 2003.223.2 Creator: Rosenfeld (Family: Adelsheim, Germany) Extent: 1 box, 1 oversize box Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
35. Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers
1995.A.0112 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0112 | RG Number: RG-19.041
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1983
bulk: 1945-1948
… Dachau, Germany.…
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 … Indersdorf (Kibbuz Dror) near Dachau, Germany. Scope and content of collection The Shoshannah Gallowski Fine papers consist of Allied Expeditionary Forces…
36. Ann Benjamin Goldberg papers
1999.34.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.34.3
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1949
…, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and Chana fled eastwards from Zetel with a group of her schoolmates. She eventually arrived in Aktyubinsk in southern…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection consists of a health card, certificate issued in Bremen, Germany, and photographs…
37. Estelle Laughlin papers
1995.A.0251 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0251
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1947
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
38. Evelyn Klein Altman papers
2010.336.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.336.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939
… Evelyn adopted his last name. By 1939, many Jews were seeking to escape countries and regions that, like Austria, were under the control of Nazi Germany…
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 … passengers in Hamburg, Germany and aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939. Languages: German, Spanish Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but…
39. Leslie J. Kinney photographs
1989.17.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.17.1 | RG Number: RG-10.338
Date:
creation: 1945 April
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
40. Sigall family papers
2017.237.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.237.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
…Emmy Loeb (1923-2015) was born Emmy Hanna Sigall in Darmstadt, Germany, on 31 May 1923, the daughter of Hermann Nathan Sigall (1898-1941), a furrier…
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 … Darmstadt, Germany, on a “Kindertransport” to Britain in 1939; her settlement in Britain; and the efforts of her parents, Hermann and Natalie Sigall, and…