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1. Card with 48 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.4
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
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…
2. Opera glasses and case owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.2 a-c
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
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…
3. Karliner family papers
1999.3.32 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1999.3.32
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1951
…The Karliner family lived in Peiskretscham (Silesia), Germany, now Pyskowice, Poland. Joseph Karliner (Josef, 1898-1943) married Martha Weissler (d…
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 ….3.32 Creator: Karliner family (Peiskretscham, Germany) Extent: 0.2 linear foot (3 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
4. Ernst Berl papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1954
bulk: 1933-1946
…, Germany, where he remained on the faculty until 1933, when the Nazis gained power in Germany, and Jewish faculty members were forced out of their positions…
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 …, and his immigration to the United States in 1933. Included is correspondence with other émigré academics from Austria and Germany during the 1930s and…
5. Renate Fleischer Fajer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.415.1
Date:
creation: 1915-1957
… born in Posen, Germany (today: Poznan, Poland) on September 28, 1904. She was the oldest child of Else Bieber Kroner (b. October 14, 1879) and Robert…
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 … Army during World War I, 1915. 2. Photograph of Else and Robert Kroner, parents of Ilse Kroner, Breslau, Germany, circa 1935. 3. Photograph of Suzi…
6. 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…
7. Baby doll owned by a Jewish Yugoslavian girl in hiding
2019.20.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.20.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1908-before 1945
… forces and was partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, with Skopje falling under Bulgarian control. Bulgarian authorities passed many…
8. Partial card with 16 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.7
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
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…
9. Electric motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.8
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1908-before 1943
…. 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…
10. Heilborn and Fassberg family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.339.1
Date:
inclusive: 1840-2009
bulk: 1933-1946
…Theodor Heilborn (1883-1969) was born on September 8, 1883 in Berlin, Germany, to Siegfried (1843-1923) and Jenny Heilborn (née Cohn, 1853-1934…
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 … Berlin, Germany and Harold Fassberg, from Ohio. Administrative Information Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material. Reproduction…
11. Card with 46 Dorset-style buttons owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
2018.258.8 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.8 a-e
Date:
creation: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
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…
12. Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.4
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: after 1900-1945
…Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
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13. Bosch engine component placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.15
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1900-before 1943
…. 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…
14. Hans Posner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.240.1
Date:
creation: 1920-1950
…Hans Joachim Posner was born on January 22, 1927 in Dresden, Germany, to Georg Josef Posner (d. 1936) and Fanny Leschziner Posner (d. 1943). Georg…
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 …, Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland), 1929-1930. 2. Photograph of Hans Joachim Posner and his brother, Freddy Posner, Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland…
15. Werner Katzenstein postcards
Document | Accession Number: 2014.307.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1948
…Werner Katzenstein was born on April 29, 1922, in Wallensen, Germany. In 1933, the Nazi dictatorship took control of Germany. All the male Jews in…
16. 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…
17. Mändle family papers
1994.58 BookEnclosure 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1994.58
Date:
creation: 1918-1945
… Kliensteinacht, Germany. Reida had three siblings, Flora Schwab-Wallach (1895-1979), Solomon Lichenstetter (1896-1974), and Selma Lichtenstetter (Thelma, 1898-1987…
18. Chaim Kamelmacher collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.404.1
Date:
bulk: 1944-1952
inclusive: 1913-2013
…Holocaust survivors--Germany--Landsberg am Lech.…
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 … (Displaced persons camp) Displaced person. Holocaust survivors—Germany—Landsberg am Lech. Manevyt︠s︡ ʹkyĭ raĭon (Ukraine) CONTAINER LIST Box Folder 1 1…
19. Bernard Feingold papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.113
Date:
creation: 1916-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
20. Short, white eyelet lace jacket owned by a Jewish Austrian refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2018.258.12
Date:
acquired: approximately 1900-before 1939 February
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…