Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Search

Search Results

1. German election poster featuring a photographic portrait of Adolf Hitler
1990.333.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.33
Date:
depiction: approximately 1927-1945
Title:
ja!
Alternate Title:
yes!
…Germany…
2. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
3. Ruth Wertheim papers
2004.676.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2004.676.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1946
bulk: 1945-1946
…Ruth Wertheim (later Bacow, 1927-1994) was born in Giesen, Germany on March 28, 1927 to Leopold (1891-1944) and Emma Wertheim (1896-1944). Before the…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … gewiss.” Since he was handicapped our chances of getting out of Germany were nil when anti semitism reared it’s ugly head. In 1933 I started my first…
4. Mändle family papers
1994.58 BookEnclosure 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1994.58
Date:
creation: 1918-1945
… Kliensteinacht, Germany. Reida had three siblings, Flora Schwab-Wallach (1895-1979), Solomon Lichenstetter (1896-1974), and Selma Lichtenstetter (Thelma, 1898-1987…
5. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …: 1890s-1950s Accession number: 2018.663.1 Creator: Ostwald (Family: Dortmund, Germany) Additional creator: Strauss family Additional creator: Tendlau…
6. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their…
7. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
8. 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
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… concentration camp in Germany by US troops in April 1945, Vendig was appointed military governor of Dachau Landkreis.…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …’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…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
9. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.11
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
10. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.12
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
11. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note
2003.413.95 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.95
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
12. Meir Shapiro family photographs
2013.227.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2013.227.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1947
…Photographs relating to the experiences of Meir Shapiro and his family surrounding the Holocaust in Poland and Germany. Included are pre-war…
13. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… (Kazio) Szelest, organized a group and retaliated against the other group. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Henryk was at work. He headed…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …. Water polo coaches – Poland. Belgium. Germany. New York (N.Y.) Poland. United States--Emigration and immigration--History. Correspondence. Photographs…
14. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … September 1937. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Częstochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the…
15. German Rentenbank, 2 Rentenmark note
2003.413.96 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.96
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
16. Luftwaffe KRS shoulder board with gold piping acquired by US soldier
1985.1.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1985.1.13
Date:
found: approximately 1945
issue: after 1936 May 25-before 1945
…Germany. Luftwaffe…
17. Ester Ajzen Lewin family photographs
2004.396 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.396
Date:
creation: circa 1927-circa 1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
18. Rosenwald and Stahl families papers
2017.222.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.222.1
Date:
inclusive: 1885-1980
bulk: 1920-1955
…Gerhard (later Gerald) Stahl was born on 3 May 1922, to Martin and Sofie (née Bauer) Stahl, in Nuremberg, Germany. He left for Britain (on a…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … of Otto and Elfriede Rosenwald, and their daughter, Helene, from Germany in 1936, to escape Nazi persecution. Includes materials from their extended…
19. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
20. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…