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81. Aaron Finger papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.317.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1991
bulk: 1943-1947
… went overseas in post-war in fall 1945, and spent time in Germany, including the Flossenbürg concentration camp and Hof, where he worked with his Russian…
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 … experiences of Aaron Finger, originally of Toronto, Canada, who trained at Camp Ritchie and was in Germany from 1945-1946. Included is an identification card…
82. Hirschfeld family papers
2012.337.1 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2012.337.1
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1970
…Hans Hirschfeld (born Naumann Hans Horst Hirschfeld; 1919-1969) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) to Alfred (1894-1953) and Maria…
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 ….337.1 Creator: Hirschfeld family (Breslau :Germany) Extent: 2.34 linear feet (6 boxes, 4 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
83. Frank Shurman collection
1995.A.0362 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0362
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1994
…Frank Shurman (1915-1999) was born Fritz Schürmann in Hildesheim, Germany to Willy and Alma Schürmann. His father owned a custom-tailoring business…
84. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
2016.287.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.287.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1960
bulk: 1945-1951
… Investigation. In 1945 he joined the United States Army as a fingerprint classifier for the Public Safety division in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His division was…
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 … collection documents Maurice La Kerr’s post-war experiences in Germany and France as a fingerprint analyst with the United States Army. Maurice worked in…
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85. Larry Shalit (Schalyt-Tykotzki) family archive
2015.603. 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.603.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1968
… eventually moved to Berlin, Germany. Alexander married Sima Tykotzki (1898-1968), and their son Larry (1924-2009) was born on 22 October 1924. Disturbed by the…
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 … Dates: 1918-1968 Accession number: 2015.603.1 Creator: Shalit family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust…
86. Breisacher family photographs
2018.275.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2018.275.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
… a veteran of World War I and married Hedwig Bildstein in Breisach am Rhein, Germany shortly after the end of the war. Hedwig was the daughter of Emy…
87. Wald and Breuer families papers
2015.473.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2015.473.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1946
undated: 
…Concentration camps--Germany--Dachau.…
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 …. Topical Subject: World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Austria. Jewish families--Austria--Vienna. Refugee children--Austria. Concentration camps--Germany…
88. Rabbi William Z. Dalin family papers
2005.108.2 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2005.108.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1872-1968
bulk: 1938-1948
… the United States Army and served as a chaplain, first in Phoenix, Arizona and then India. From March 1946-1947 he was stationed in Wiesbaden, Germany…
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 … regarding his deployment in post-war Wiesbaden, Germany; post-war correspondence of his wife Bella Dalin; wartime correspondence of Helene Dreydel with her…
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89. Pistiner family papers
2016.187.1 Box 3 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2016.187.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-2000
bulk: 1908-1972
…Jewish families--Germany--Berlin.…
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 …: 2016.187.1 Creator: Pistiner family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: 4 boxes (1.25 linear feet) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives…
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90. Maerker and Behr families papers
2017.404.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2017.404.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1873-1983
…William Maerker (Willy, 1889-1981) was born on 8 April 1889 in Bernburg, Germany to Louis (1858-1922) and Hedwig (née Weil, 1867-1940) Maerker. He…
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 … Accession number: 2017.404.1 Creator: Maerker (Family : Bernburg, Germany) Behr (Family : Mainz, Germany) Extent: 1.59 linear feet (2 boxes, 1 oversize box…
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  • Series 5: Born-digital family history
    • File 4: Omi's Stories, A Picnic A Very Special Wedding How Our Children, Inge and Gerd, Grew Up How We Left Germany and Came to the US Lumpi Maerker Tree from Louis 1858 Muschi Our Cat My Fondest Memory My Life My Parents Our Wedding and Our Obstacle Course to Our Honeymoon Poems to Our Youngest Granddaughter The Maerkers This is the story of your Grandparents Courtship, Marriage and Consequences To David Scott To My Grandchildren You Asked For It [Not Digital]
    91. Harry Lindauer papers
    2017.555.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
    Document | Accession Number: 2017.555.1
    Date:
    inclusive: 1918-2001
    … settled in Buttenhausen, Germany in 1787, one of twenty-five Jewish families who received the right to do so from Freiherr Philipp Friedrich von Liebenstein…
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     … (born Heinz Lindauer), including his childhood in Buttenhausen and Darmstadt, Germany, his immigration to the United States in 1936, his military…
    92. Eichengrün and Stern families papers
    Document | Accession Number: 2017.627.15
    Date:
    inclusive: 1872-2005
    bulk: 1936-1956
    …Hedwig (Hedi) Stern (née Eichengrün, later Gutmann, 1898-1983) was born on 29 April 1898 in Munich, Germany to Sally (1867-1948) and Julie (née…
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     … 1936-1956) Accession number: 2017.627.15 Creator: Eichengrün (Family : Munich, Germany) Additional creator: Stern (Family : Munich, Germany) Extent: 10…
    93. Jack Bornkind photograph collection
    2013.90.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Item 2
    Document | Accession Number: 2013.90.1
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1942-circa 1945
    … Orb, Germany and sent to perform forced labor at Berga, a sub-camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp. After a 20 day death march, Bornkind died on 23…
    94. US Army pouch for a shoe shine kit issued to Milton Emont
    2018.565.2 front
    Object | Accession Number: 2018.565.2
    Date:
    use: 1943 March 05-1946 April 16
    … both France and Germany. In 1945, he was able to complete eight weeks of graduate coursework in French and French literature at the Sorbonne and…
    95. Richard A. Ruppert collection
    1995.A.0109 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 5
    Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0109
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1933-1990
    … reporter in Germany. In 1946, he was appointed a trial attorney in Dachau and tried more than three dozen murder and mistreatment charges. He also served…
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     …, and printed materials and subject files documenting Ruppert’s role as a court reporter in postwar Germany and Austria for War Crimes Investigation Team…
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    96. Ernest Steen papers
    Document | Accession Number: 2020.300.1
    Date:
    inclusive: 1897-1967
    bulk: 1930-1948
    …Ernest Steen (1911-1987) was born Ernst Levistein on 15 July 1911 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to Henrietta (1881-1942, née Langenbach) and Adolf…
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     …, Germany, including his employment in Frankfurt, immigration to the United States in 1940, and service during World War II in the United States Army…
    97. Daniel Jacobson papers
    2014.470.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
    Document | Accession Number: 2014.470.1
    Date:
    inclusive: 1943-1945
    … Munich, Germany, to his wife Julia Jacobson, 6 May 1945. The letter written on Hitler's personal stationery, describes the irony of being Jewish and using…
    98. 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…
    99. Efrem Ostrowsky family papers
    1995.A.0306.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
    Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0306.2
    Date:
    inclusive: 1938-1946
    … concentration camp by Ostrowsky. The photographs depict Allied troops in Austria, France, and Germany, captured German soldiers, liberated concentration camp…
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     … concentration camp by Ostrowsky. The photographs depict Allied troops in Austria, France, and Germany, captured German soldiers, liberated concentration camp…
    100. Six-20 Kodak camera and accessories used by US soldier
    2000.526.2_a-g closed
    Object | Accession Number: 2000.526.2 a-g
    Date:
    use: approximately 1943-1945
    manufacture: 1932-1937
    … became a bartender. He married and had a child, but later divorced. After the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Germany declared war on…