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1. 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…
2. 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.…
3. Robert H. Harlan diary
2000.190 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.190
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
bulk: 1938-1939
Special Collection:
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…-Universitat in Marburg, Germany. Following Kristallnacht, Robert helped his friend Bruno Stern (1880-1957) and his family escape to the United States. Robert…
4. Michael V. Roth photographs
1997.A.0446 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0446
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1955
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Second World War in Germany. A misty cold morning in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. On that morning, the clouds were hanging low on the mountain top on…
5. 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…
6. Myron and Dottie Miller collection
2013.39.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.39.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1948
… Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Palestine, and Switzerland.…
7. Metis family papers
2004.575.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.575.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1967
bulk: 1939
…Annette Virginia Metis (later Gallagher) was born on December 20, 1930, in Grunberg, Germany, to Felix and Lotte Metis. Felix (1989-1984) was born in…
8. 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…
9. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
10. Rabbi Eli A. Bohnen photograph collection
2015.458.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 86
Document | Accession Number: 2015.458.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1948
… led a Passover seder in Germany in March 1945 for over 1500 American soldiers of the 42nd Rainbow Infantry Division and printed a haggadah for the seder…
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 … experiences of United States Army Chaplain Rabbi Eli Bohnen in Austria and Germany from 1943-1946. The photograph album was presented to Bohnen, who worked with…
11. 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…
12. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
…Rudi Dingfelder (later Robert Felder, 1924-1986) was born on April 21, 1924 in Uehlfeld, Germany to Leopold Dingfelder (1886-1943) and Johanna…
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 … family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, a studio…
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  • Series 1: Photographs Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
    • File 1: Dingfelder and Wolff families Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
      • Pages: 5, 7
13. 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: 
Special Collection:
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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…
14. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
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… children. In the mid-1930s, Henry’s older brother, Alfred, left Germany with the hopes of training at a Zionist-sponsored camp in Yugoslavia, in order to…
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 … currency from Poland and Germany from the 1910s and 1920s; and luggage tags and labels used when Henry Wachs immigrated to the United States in 1938…
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15. Lindheim family papers
2014.206.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2014.206.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2012
…Fred Lindheim was born on July 3, 1932 to Berthold Lindheim (1895-1973) and Hertha (née Frankel, 1897-1992) Lindheim in Frankfurt am Main, Germany…
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 ….206.1 Creator: Lindheim family (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
16. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
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 … September 1937. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Częstochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the…
17. 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…
18. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) was born on June 29, 1889 in Herford, Germany to Veterinarian and Eugenie Goldstein. He had two brothers, Arthur and…
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 …: Goldstein family (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.1 (4 folders, 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
19. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
… (June 6, 1884-September 7, 1943) married Hedwig Strauss (November 27, 1889-October 1944) on December 19, 1920 in Dortmund, Germany. They had two children…
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 …: 1890s-1950s Accession number: 2018.663.1 Creator: Ostwald (Family: Dortmund, Germany) Additional creator: Strauss family Additional creator: Tendlau…
20. Greta Braude Heiman photographs
2003.246.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2003.246.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1952
… Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following their immigration to the United States. Photographs depict Greta, her parents…
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 … prints of Greta Braude Heiman and her Meyer and Michel relatives and friends in Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following…