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1. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
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… (Grete) Katz. Walther was born on December 12, 1906, in Kesselbach, Germany, where his parents, Simon and Malchen Katzenstein Schoenfeld, had a farm. He…
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 … Margareta were living in Germany, but deciding that it would be too dangerous to remain, they moved to Amsterdam in 1936. In 1939, Trudy was born. After the…
2. Stephan H. Lewy papers
2013.440.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.440.1
Date:
1939-2012
…Heinz Stephan Lewy was born on March 11, 1925, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and Protestant mother, Arthur and Gertrude Puls Lewy. Arthur…
3. Siegfried Halbreich papers
1995.A.0178 Oversize Folder 5 Image 89
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0178
Date:
inclusive: 1942-2004
…, a transport for Jewish men was being arranged by the Germans, and so he escaped by train through Germany and Austria, before being stopped at the…
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 … of a list of names of 982 Jews deported from Beuthen, Germany, (now Bytom, Poland) in May and June 1942 (1993.A.0043) to the United States Holocaust…
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4. Sam Kornhauser papers
2005.538.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2005.538.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1998
… Kornhauser’s chance encounter with Pope John Paul II in the 1930s. Ursula and Berek Goldkorn materials include identification papers from Poland, Germany…
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 … encounter with Pope John Paul II in the 1930s. Ursula and Berek Goldkorn materials include identification papers from Poland, Germany, Belgium, and http…
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5. Ruth Mueller papers
2017.651.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 2017.651.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1986
undated: 
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…Ruth Mueller (1917-2015) was born in Mannheim, Germany to a non-Jewish father, Paul Mueller (1890-1937) and a Jewish mother, Marie Mueller (1895-1975…
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 … Frankfurt, Germany. Biographical material includes a birth certificate, marriage certificate, death certificate, and driver’s license for Paul, Ruth’s father…
6. Rose Silberberg Skier papers
1999.A.0121 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0121
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1999
bulk: 1929-1958
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…, Silberberg traveled to Neisse, Germany posing as the daughter of her aunt Sara Wachsman, both passing as Gentiles. They lived in a convent where Wachsman…
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 …, Silberberg traveled to Neisse, Germany posing as the daughter of her aunt Sara Wachsman, both passing as Gentiles. They lived in a convent where Wachsman…
7. Rolf Preuss papers
1999.A.0076 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0076
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1999
bulk: 1939-1947
…Rolf Preuss was born in 1936 in Berlin to furrier Adolf Preuss (1910-1963) and Frieda Luft Preuss (1910-1950). The family left Germany in 1939 for…
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 … Adolf and Frieda Preuss’s family members to escape Germany for Shanghai. Genealogical materials include family trees and a photocopy of Adolf Preuss…
8. Reinhold and Singer families papers
1999.A.0042 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0042
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1999
… Europe, he was reunited with his parents who had fled to France when Germany invaded Belgium. His mother had lived under a false identity using a passport…
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 …’s family in Germany, her departure via Kindertransport to England, Robert Singer’s family in Austria, his stay in the Merksplas internment camp in Belgium…
9. 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…
10. Rabbi Judah Nadich papers
1994.A.0250. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0250.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1997
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…’Elysee night club. In Paris, and later in Germany, Nadich provided help to the Bricha organization in its efforts to assist Jewish refugees to emigrate, often…
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 … Jewish displaced persons in postwar Germany and Austria; and information regarding Rabbi Nadich’s post-war work regarding World War II and Holocaust…
11. Peter Mansbacher papers
1998.A.0148 Box 1 Folder 39 Folder 12
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0148
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1991
inclusive: 1934-1991
…Peter Mansbacher (1922-1994) was born Fritz Ludwig Mansbacher in Lübeck, Germany to Martin and Juliane Mansbacher. Concerned for his safety, his…
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 … Mansbacher (1922‐1994) was born Fritz Ludwig Mansbacher in Lübeck, Germany to Martin and Juliane Mansbacher. His mother always called him Peter, and he…
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12. Ohringer and Weil families papers
2015.203.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.203.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1917-1988
bulk: 1921-1957
undated: 
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…Sigmund Ohringer (1912-1991) was born in Cottbus, Germany to Jakub (or Jacob, 1888-1948) and Mariem (née Ohrenstein, 1888-1976). Sigmund had three…
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 … families papers Dates: approximately 1917-1988 and undated (bulk 1921-1957) Accession number: 2015.203.1 Creator: Ohringer (Family: Cottbus, Germany…
13. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
…Henry Oertelt (born Arthur Karl Heinz Oertelt, 1921-2011) was born on 13 January 1921 in Berlin, Germany to Arthur and Else Oertelt. He had one…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Henry Oertelt of Berlin, Germany…
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14. Mosheim and Marx families papers
1999.A.0233 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0233
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
… City. Karl Marx had died of natural causes in 1938 in Munich, and her mother remained in Germany to care for his ailing mother, Pauline Mayer Marx…
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 … United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened…
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15. Monique Joseph papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.595.1
Date:
inclusive: 1820-2007
bulk: 1920-1951
undated: 
…Monique Joseph was born Helga Irene Kaufmann on 3 April 1924 in Cologne, Germany to Sally and Caroline Kaufmann. Her father, Sally Kaufmann (1898…
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 … Monique Joseph (born Helga Kaufmann), originally of Cologne, Germany, her parents Caroline and Sallly Kaufmann, as well as her Husband Theophile Joseph and…
16. Louis Oppenheimer papers
1992.49.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1992.49.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
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…Louis Oppenheimer (?-1967) owned a clothing business and lived in Frankfurt, Germany with his wife (?-1967) and two children, Alfred (c. 1915-1991…
17. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
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… establish a hospital and bring aid to the area. On April 24, 1945 he was assigned to a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany where he continued his efforts. Lorenz…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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  • Series 2: Buchenwald 1945-1978, Undated
    • File 5: Reports 1945
  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
18. Litke family papers
2015.547.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.547.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1981
bulk: 1945-1981
… he was there he had eight teeth forcibly extracted. He was later sent to Flossenbürg concentration camp, Flossenbürg, Germany. From there, he was sent…
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 …, and their post‐war lives in the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp, Eggenfelden, Germany from 1945‐1949. The collection includes papers from…
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19. Lilli Wolff papers
1999.A.0041 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0041
Date:
inclusive: 1870-1983
… certificate, application for Austrian citizenship, letters of recommendation, and a travel pass document Lilli Wolff’s life in Germany and Austria and her…
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 … Germany and Austria and her immigration to the United States. Three narratives by Lilli Wolff describe her experiences in Nazi Germany and Austria: two…
20. Lichtenberg and Stein families papers
2014.408.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2014.408.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2001
undated: 
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…Irmgard Stein (Irma, later Lichtenberg, b. 1920) was born to Max (1871-1944, born in Arolsen, Germany) and Hedwig (Johanna, née Benjamin, 1883-1944…
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 … and undated Accession number: 2014.408.1 Creator: Lichtenberg (Family: Hannover, Germany) Additional creator: Stein (Family: Frankfurt, Germany) Extent…