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1. Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
2017.355.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.2 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1905-1914
use: approximately 1905-1945
…Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
2. Ceramic change holder in the shape of an Orthodox Jewish man
2016.184.4 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.4
Date:
manufacture: 1890-1962
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
3. 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
Special Collection:
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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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4. 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…
5. German Rentenbank, 2 Rentenmark note
2003.413.97 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.97
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
6. 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.…
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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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7. 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…
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 … of Otto and Elfriede Rosenwald, and their daughter, Helene, from Germany in 1936, to escape Nazi persecution. Includes materials from their extended…
8. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note
2003.413.94 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.94
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
…Germany.…
9. Norman A. Miller family papers
2016.203.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2016.203.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2015
…Norbert Müller (later Norman A. Miller) was born on June 2, 1924, in Tann in der Rhön, Germany, to Sebald and Laura Jüngster Müller. Sebald was born…
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 … family's life in Nürnberg, Germany; the effects of Nazi persecution during the 1930s, Miller's immigration to England via a Kindertransport, his service…
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10. Baby doll owned by a Jewish Yugoslavian girl in hiding
2019.20.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.20.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1908-before 1945
… forces and was partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, with Skopje falling under Bulgarian control. Bulgarian authorities passed many…
11. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
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…
12. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
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 … Afterwards, he worked cleaning soldiers’ barracks. Eventually he returned to his uncle’s house in Bayreuth, Germany where he learned of the death of his family…
13. 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…
14. 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…
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 … 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…
15. 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…
16. 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…
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 …. Water polo coaches – Poland. Belgium. Germany. New York (N.Y.) Poland. United States--Emigration and immigration--History. Correspondence. Photographs…
17. Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
…Custom carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
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18. 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…
19. 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.…
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…