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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. Public transport pass and identification tag issued to a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.450.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.2
Date:
issue: 1944 July
… 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…
5. 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…
6. White cloth armband worn by a Roman Catholic Polish firefighter in Warsaw
2014.450.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.3
Date:
use: 1939 September 27-1944 August 07
… 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Rachela Rottenberg papers
1999.25 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.25
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1949
…Rachela Rottenberg (1920-1995) was born in Sandomierz, Poland and was raised in Radom. Her family fled to Warsaw when Germany invaded Poland. She…
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 … Sandomierz, Poland and was raised in Radom. Her family fled to Warsaw when Germany invaded Poland. She and her mother returned to German‐occupied Radom…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. Kim family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.360.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1983
bulk: 1929-1941
… United States. Jacob, aware of rising Antisemitism in Germany, was concerned about the family’s safety and was insistent that the Kims, particularly Betty…
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 ….360.1 Creator: Kim (Family : Berlin, Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box, 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
14. Mauser P38 pistol found buried in the Kampinos Forest near Warsaw
1992.134.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.134.4
Date:
manufacture: after 1941-before 1944
found: after 1960-before 1965
…Oberndorf am Neckar (Germany)…
15. 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…
16. Forced labor badge worn by a Roman Catholic Polish youth
2014.469.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.2
Date:
use: 1944 August-1944 November
… school through the fourth grade. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. That day, Zbigniew was playing outside when the first German warplanes flew…
17. Inscribed wooden box with painted lid bought by a Roman Catholic Polish former forced laborer
2014.469.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.469.3 a-b
Date:
acquired: 1944 November
… school through the fourth grade. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. That day, Zbigniew was playing outside when the first German warplanes flew…
18. 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…
19. Leo Arnfeld papers
1990.16.99 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1990.16.99
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1958
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … (Poland) Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China) Kōbe-shi (Japan) Munich (Germany) Vilnius (Lithuania) Photographs. CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Biographical materials…
20. Sieraczek family papers
2015.569. 1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2015.569.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1953
… in Germany where they lived in the Zeilsheim DP camp. After the camp was dissolved, they lived in Frankfurt, Germany until 1951 when Henryk and Jerzy…
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 … to the American occupied zone in Germany where they lived in the Zeilsheim DP camp. After the camp was dissolved, they lived in Frankfurt, Germany…