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1. 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…
2. Malcolm A. Vendig papers
1990.107.88 Box 2 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1990.107.88
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1967
bulk: 1944-1945
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… concentration camp in Germany by US troops in April 1945, Vendig was appointed military governor of Dachau Landkreis.…
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 …’s service with the 83rd U.S. Infantry Division and his tenure as the military governor of Dachau, Germany after the liberation of the concentration camp in…
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3. Edwin Dutkiewicz papers
2014.74.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2014.74.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1980
bulk: 1941-1947
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…Organisation Todt (Germany)…
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 … 1: The Edwin Dutkiewicz papers Indexing terms Dutkiewicz, Edwin Organisation Todt (Germany) World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Bydgoszcz. World War, 1939…
4. Seymour Krieger papers
1986.A.0024.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1986.A.0024.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
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…Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.…
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 … material: The Museum’s Library hold a copy of Nazi Germany's war against the Jews (D810.J4 N39 1947), prepared and complied by Seymour Krieger. Accruals…
5. Levinson and Stern family papers
2015.606.1 Box 2 Folder 39 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.606.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1995
bulk: 1875-1958
…Sidney Jack Levinson (1901-1969) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to concert pianist Else Hanff Levinson (1875-1948) and Siegfried Levinson…
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 …-1958) Accession number: 2015.606.1 Creator: Levinson family (Homburg :Germany) Stern family (Kassel :Germany) Extent: 1.25 linear feet (3 boxes, 1…
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6. Stefi Geisel papers
2005.288.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2005.288.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1956
bulk: 1914-1956
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…Stefi Siegel was born on December 25, 1919, in Mosbach-Baden, Germany. Her father, Siegfried, was born in Mosbach in 1884, and her mother…
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 … materials, and writings documenting the lives of the Siegel and Geisel families in Germany before the war, Stefi and Gus Geisel’s immigration to the United…
7. 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…
8. Paul Mayer papers
2019.208.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2019.208.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1982
bulk: 1938-1954
…Paul Gustav Wilhelm Mayer (1923-1983) was born on 3 November 1923 in Fechenheim, a suburb of Frankfurt am Main, Germany to Friedrich Mayer (Fritz…
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 … Biographical note Paul Gustav Wilhelm Mayer (1923-1983) was born on 3 November 1923 in Fechenheim, a suburb of Frankfurt am Main, Germany to Friedrich Mayer…
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9. 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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10. Gerda and Sylva Löwenstein papers
1995.56.5 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1995.56.5
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1951
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… volunteered to join her father on an October 1944 transport that was supposed to be a work transport to Germany but that really went to Auschwitz, where her…
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 … transport that was supposed to be a work transport to Germany but that really went to Auschwitz, where her parents were immediately sent to the gas chamber…
11. 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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12. Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers
2010.171.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image
Document | Accession Number: 2010.171.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1953
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… towns in Germany until liberation followed by a return trip home to Užhorod after the war. The diary also includes an allegory titled Inventory and dated…
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 … Schwarzenberg, and other towns in Germany until liberation followed by a return trip home to Užhorod after the war. The diary also includes an allegory titled…
13. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
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…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
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 … family of Moritz and Else Gans, originally of Borken, Germany, who were living in Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Prior to the war, Moritz and Else emigrated…
14. Jäckel and Wetterhahn family papers
2017.297.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.297.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2002
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…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…
15. 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
16. 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…
17. John and Dorothy Fried Goldmeier papers
2014.101.1 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 121
Document | Accession Number: 2014.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2002
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…Hans Goldmeier was born on July 20, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Isidor and Erna Lippmann Goldmeier. Hans had an older brother, Rolf. In…
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 … Main, Germany, to England as part of the Kindertransport, his schooling at the Stoatley Rough boarding school with other refugee children, his post-war…
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  • File 1: Loose photographs 1908-2005
    • Pages: 9
18. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
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… from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany. When Lau continued his diary in 1944, he describes the end of the war, when he and his father went to Germany…
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 … school because he was half-Jewish, and his mother being forced into the ghetto. There is a gap in the diaries from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany…
19. Ruth Mueller papers
2017.651.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 2017.651.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1986
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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…
20. Lilly Isaacs diaries and photographs
1995.88.5 Book Enclosure Box 1 Folder 25
Document | Accession Number: 1995.88.5
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
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… in Prague, but returned home in 1939 after Germany annexed the Sudetenland because of concerns for her safety. In 1944, Lilly and her family were sent…
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 … hardware store. Lilly attended school in Prague, but returned home in 1939 after Germany annexed the Sudetenland because of concerns for her safety. In 1944…