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81. 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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82. Judith Cromwell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1990
bulk: 1914-1950
…Judith Cromwell was born Judith Hanna Lissauer on 13 November 1935 in Berlin, Germany to John and Charlotte Lissauer. Her father, John Lissauer (1890…
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 …), including John and Charlotte’s medical careers in Berlin, Germany, John’s World War I military service, their immigration to England in 1939, and Judith and…
83. 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…
84. Arthur Gross photographs
2000.520.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.520.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1945
… was liquidated. Arthur and Aleksander Gross were deported to Rudolfswald forced labor camp in Germany, where they worked for a year on a gas pipeline…
85. Josepha Lanzinger collection
2008.248.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2008.248.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1959
… Schachter and her parents Filip and Janina during the Holocaust in Poland and Germany when they lived in hiding under assumed identities, and after the…
86. Ruth Loewenstein papers
2017.613.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.613.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1963
…Ruth Loewenstein was born in Munich, Germany in 1929 to Willy Loewenstein (1894-1957) and Annie Cahen Loewenstein (1902-1992) and had one younger…
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 …, Germany in 1929 to Willy Loewenstein (1894-1957) and Annie Cahen Loewenstein (1902-1992) and had one younger sister named Marianne (“Janne,” 1932-2008…
87. 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…
88. 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…
89. William Malsh papers
1994.A.0027.1 Box 1 Folder 28 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0027.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-circa 1993
bulk: 1937-1941
… sources differ as to whether they were sent to Theresienstadt, Łódź, or Auschwitz. Uncle Ernst managed to escape Germany to Shanghai in 1939.…
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 … William Malsh papers consist of letters his parents sent him from Düsseldorf describing their efforts to escape Nazi Germany. Additional correspondence…
90. Eve Przemyski papers
2010.459.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.459.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1964
Special Collection:
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… prisoner of war camps in Germany during the Holocaust, and in Italy and England after the Holocaust, of Richard Przemyski in Poland and a prisoner of war…
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 ….ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org Prisoners of war--Germany. Holocaust survivors…
91. Silberman family collection
2010.276 Box 3 Folder 15 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2010.276
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1951
…Curt C. Silberman (1908-2002) was born Kurt Silbermann in Würzburg, Germany, to Ida Rosenbusch Silbermann (1884-approximately 1944) and Adolf…
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 … Accession number: 2010.276 Creator: Silberman (Family : Würzburg, Germany) Extent: 4.5 linear feet (4 boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 3 book enclosures) Repository…
92. 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…
93. 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…
94. 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…
95. Lista Family papers
2017.522.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.522.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1992
bulk: 1945-1956
…The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Jerry Lista (born Israel Cymbalista) in displaced persons camps near Munich, Germany; his…
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 … (born Israel Cymbalista) in displaced persons camps near Munich, Germany; his immigration to the United States in 1951; his marriage to Gyta Szmulewicz…
96. William and Bela Citron and Miriam Citron Burhans papers
2009.157.5 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2009.157.5
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2016
bulk: 1945-1983
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. For the first month or two, life was not greatly changed. The Polish zloty was replaced with occupation currency and…
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 … Cytrynblum and Bela Kasztan) and their daughter Miriam Citron (Gela Machla, later Miriam Citron Burhans) in displaced persons camps in Germany prior to their…
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97. Hess and Spier families papers
2016.461.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.461.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-2010
…Hannah Spier Hess was born on 12 February 1934 in Hannover, Germany, the daughter of Alfred Spier (1900-1937), a teacher, and Ruth (née Steinberg…
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 …, Germany, and his wife, Hannah Spier Hess, originally of Wolfenbüttel, Germany, relating the experiences of their families who fled Germany in 1939 due to…
98. Otto and Erna Stein family papers
2000.229.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2000.229.1
Date:
inclusive: 1889-2000
… aunt, Wilhelm and Flora Stein, in Berlin-Neukölln, London, and then Chicago. These letters describe immigration efforts and life in Nazi Germany…
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 … in Nazi Germany Additional correspondence files include postcards congratulating Justine Selig and her family upon her engagement in 1896 and letters…
99. 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…
100. Weil and Wolf families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.628.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1997
bulk: 1916-1945
…Eric Weil (Erich, 1913-2001) was born in Mannheim, Germany to Max Weil and Jenny Weil (née Meyer) and had a sister Hannah. Max owned a liquor…