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81. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
…Siegfried Strauss (later Fred Strauss, 1898-1956) was born in Marburg, Germany to Hermann (1856-1934) and Johanna (née Wertheim, 1859-1942) Strauss…
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 …: 2016.565.1 Creator: Strauss family (Marburg :Germany) Extent: 1.33 linear feet (2 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 2 book enclosures, 2 oversize folders…
82. Irving Heymont papers
1989.259.3 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 1989.259.3 | RG Number: RG-19.038
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1995
… with the 5th Regiment, 71st Infantry Division, nicknamed the Red Circle. They crossed the Rhine River into Germany in March. In early May, Heymont and…
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 …. In the war, Heymont served in Germany and Austria as an officer in the 5th Regiment of the 71st Infantry Division. Towards the end of the war, he…
83. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
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 … Britain. Wollheim continued to work for the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Union of Jews in Germany). In 1941 he was drafted to perform forced…
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84. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers
2003.385.1 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2003.385.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1968
… Ciecierska’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war as…
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 … Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war. The papers also document her husband Stanislaw Ciecierski and his…
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85. Fred Strauss papers
2015.533.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2015.533.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1947
…Fritz (later Fred) Strauss (1926-2013) was born in Miehlen, Germany, the only child of Albert (?-1926) and Martha (or Marta) Strauss (nee Strauss…
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 … Schweitzer, August 2018. Biographical note Fred Strauss (1926-2013) was born Fritz Strauss in Miehlen, Germany to Marta and Albert Strauss. Albert died when…
86. Max Schmeidler papers
2004.88.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2004.88.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1963
… experiences of Max Schmeidler who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.…
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 … Schmeidler, Max, 1920-1981 Shanghai (China)--Municipal Police. Jews--Germany--Berlin. Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai. Jewish police officers--China--Shanghai…
87. Jäckel and Wetterhahn family papers
2017.297.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.297.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2002
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Julius Wetterhahn (1901-1991) was born in Hersfeld, Germany to Max (1870-1942) and Matilda (née Neuhof, 1876-1943) Wetterhahn. Julius went to the…
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 … Accession number: 2017.297.1 Creator: Jäckel (Family : Herzfeld, Germany) Additional creator: Wetterhahn (Family : Kassel, Germany) Extent: 1.5 linear feet (1…
88. Wolf and Schlesinger families papers
2016.160.1 Box 6 Folder 16 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.160.1
Date:
inclusive: 1846-2008
bulk: 1924-1972
…Rudolf Wolf (1907-2005) was born in Frankfurt, Germany to Hermann (1877-1970) and Ella (born Gisella Moser, 1886-1972) Wolf. He had one brother…
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 … (bulk 1924-1972) Accession number: 2016.160.1 Creator: Wolf, Rudolf (Frankfurt :Germany) Schlesinger Wolf, Gretel (Frankfurt :Germany) Extent: 3.25 linear…
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89. Percy Brand papers
2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
… Orchestra. In August 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia. In spring 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, Riga was occupied by German…
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 …) and Mendel (1933-1941). In August 1940, the Soviet Union annexed Latvia. In spring 1941, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and, by July 1941, Riga was…
90. Walter Lubran papers
1993.A.0009.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 59
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0009.2
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2016
…Walter Heinz Lubran (1912-2000) was born Walter Lubranitzki on 29 July 1912 in Sebnitz, Germany to Benno (b. 1860) and Gertrude (née Posner, b. 1885…
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 … Sebnitz, Germany, including his immigration to the United States in 1938, his military career during World War II, and his restitution cases against the…
91. Eva Ostwalt papers
2008.86.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.86.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-2007
bulk: 1905-2007
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…Eva Ostwalt (1902-2010) was born in Cologne, Germany to Emil Lippmann and Else Ballin Lippmann. Eva had two younger sisters, Kate and Trude…
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 … father Emil and her ex-husband Karl, and some newspapers. Languages: English, Germany Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is…
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92. Minna Aspler papers
1999.267.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.267.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
… Wahlwinkel, Germany. She moved to the Landsberg DP camp, married its deputy director, Moe Aspler, from Montreal, and moved home to Canada with him. The couple…
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 … photograph a Warsaw classroom, and one postwar photograph of Minna with friends in Wahlwinkel, Germany. Languages: English, German, Yiddish Administrative…
93. Riesenfeld family papers
2017.389.1 Box 1 Folder 29 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2017.389.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-2001
bulk: 1938-1949
…Bruno Kurt Riesenfeld (1899-1974) was born on 27 October 1899 in Würzburg, Germany to Alfred (1866-1936) and Jenny (née Brauer, 1866-1938) Riesenfeld…
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 … number: 2017.389.1 Creator: Riesenfeld (Family : Würzburg, Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
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94. 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]
    95. 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…
    96. Bierzonski family papers
    2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
    Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
    Date:
    inclusive: 1930-1945
    Special Collection:
    Save Their Stories
    …Gerda Bikales (née Bierzonski b. 1931) was born in Breslau, Germany to Viktor (b. 1897) and Bronia (b. Bilma Lefkowitz in 1906) Bierzonski. Gerda had…
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     ….605.2 Creator: Bierzonski (Family: Breslau, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
    97. Levi, Kronthal, and Eis families papers
    2012.444.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
    Document | Accession Number: 2012.444.1
    Date:
    inclusive: 1867-2010
    … completed his high school education in Germany, pursued aviation studies in the Netherlands, and immigrated to the United States in 1936. He served with the…
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     …, sermons, writings, speeches, and books documenting the lives of the Kronthal, Levi, and Eis families as they were forced to flee Germany and immigrate to…
    98. Walter Rudy Horenstein papers
    Document | Accession Number: 2018.664.1
    Date:
    inclusive: 1939-2002
    undated: 
    … provided by his father. He learned in June 1941 that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union had started. As a Soviet citizen, he was ordered to report…
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     … father. He learned in June 1941 that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union had started. As a Soviet citizen, he was ordered to report for internment…
    99. 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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    100. 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…