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1. 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
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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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2. 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…
3. 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…
4. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
… September 27, 1938. The family lived in Nuremberg, Germany. During the war, Josef Baur worked as a member of the Police Battalion 131 and the 14th SS Police…
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 … married Agnes Baur who was born on December 27, 1910. Their son, Josef Baur, was born on September 27, 1938. The family lived in Nuremberg, Germany. During…
5. 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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6. Dorothy Isaacsohn papers
2002.474.18 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2002.474.18
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1949
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
7. 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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8. Abraham family papers
1996.126.3 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.126.3
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1960
…Walter Abraham (1906-1979) was born in Frankenthal, Germany to a secular Jewish couple, Elsa and Julius Abraham. He was a partner in his father…
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 … Frankenthal, Germany to a secular Jewish couple, Elsa and Julius Abraham. He was a partner in his father’s furniture business and later became a partner at the…
9. Loewy family papers
2016.167.1 Box 1 Folder 37 Image 112
Document | Accession Number: 2016.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1836-2014
bulk: 1904-1948
…Paul Loewy (born Alfred Paul Loewy, 1905-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany to Hermann and Else (born Sara, née Lasker) Loewy. He had three siblings…
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 ….167.1 Creator: Loewy family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box; 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
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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. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
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 … Germany. Emigration and immigration files include affidavits, forms, supporting documentation, packing lists, and correspondence with government agencies…
12. Holländer family papers
2017.182.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.182.1
Date:
inclusive: 1889-1959
bulk: 1930-1945
…Jenny Lea Renzer (later Jenny Holländer, 1910-1974) was born on 4 September 1910 in Berlin, Germany to Golde (born Chaja Golde Friedwald, 1865-1915…
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 … number: 2017.182.1 Creator: Holländer (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 17 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
13. Aenni and Eric Kaufman papers
2013.124.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2013.124.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1972
bulk: 1945-1972
…Aenni Karoline Ehrlich (later Aenni Kaufman, 1894-1952) was born on 24 August 1894 in Berlin, Germany to Paula (née Kaufmann, 1868-1942) and Emanuel…
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 … lawsuits brought forth by Aenni and Eric Kaufman, originally of Berlin, Germany, to recover ownership of shares of I.G. Chemie (later known as Interhandel…
14. Charles Laufer papers
1996.A.0372.1 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1977
… Jewish boxing club "Maccabi." He was expelled from Germany in 1938 as an alien under a new law regarding immigrants. He immigrated to the United States…
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 …. Subjects include Laufer's boxing achievements, his expulsion from Germany in 1938 and his immigration to America, and the pension Laufer's mother received…
15. Hertha Wolff Hellmann papers
1994.62 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1994.62
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1952
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … collection http://collections.ushmm.org Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish refugees‐‐China‐‐Shanghai. Jewish children in the Holocaust‐‐China‐‐Shanghai…
16. Irene and Henry Frank papers
2016.496.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.496.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1992
…Irene Frank (nee Silberstein, b. 1927) was born in Berlin, Germany to Dr. Friedrich (Fritz) Silberstein (1890-1944) and Lotte Frank Silberstein (1903…
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 … helped a lot of Jewish families leave Germany, but ultimately it became too late for him and his family to get out. In 1941, Irene’s mother, Lotte, was…
17. Lothar Kahn papers
1995.125.14 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1995.125.14
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2004
…Louis Hane (1910‐1979) was born Lothar Kahn in Lollar, Germany, to Albert and Regina Kahn and had an older sister named Leni. He became a Social…
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 … materials, a personal narrative, and photographs documenting Louis Hane, born Lothar Kahn, of Lollar, Germany, his marriage to Maria Dort, who was not…
18. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
…Johann Niemann (1913-1943) was born August 4, 1913 in Völlen, Germany to farmer and milkman Klaas Johann Niemann (b. 1882) and farmer and housewife…
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 … Völlen, Germany to farmer and milkman Klaas Johann Niemann (b. 1882) and farmer and housewife Bilda Johanna Niemann (b. 1879). He was the middle of nine…
19. 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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20. 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…