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481. Edith Simon Rosenthal papers
2005.564.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.564.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…Edith Simon (1923-2009) was born on February 26, 1923, in Leipzig, Germany, to William and Margaret (Grete) Maerker Simon. Grete’s parents were Louis…
482. Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection
2000.506.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 65
Document | Accession Number: 2000.506.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1949
… with his sisters in the Weiden displaced persons camp in Germany. Abram eventually immigrated to the United States in March, 1947. In 1948 he was…
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 … Gelbart, wearing a concentration camp uniform and a cap. Dated June 1945; location: Altenburg, Germany. 3) Arthur Abram Gelbart, at the age of 16 years…
483. Izak Rosenblat papers
2002.436.23 front
Document | Accession Number: 1990.139.27
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1990
…. In July of 1939, their son Max was born. Soon after, Germany invaded Poland and Radom was occupied by the Nazis. Izy’s house and shop was taken from…
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 … opened his own tailoring shop. In July of 1939, their son Max was born. Soon after, Germany invaded Poland and Radom was occupied by the Nazis. Izy…
484. Werner and Rosa Sallisohn papers
2005.312.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2005.312.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1947
…Werner Sallisohn (later Bill Sallerson, 1910-2004) was born on 30 October 1910 in Berlin, Germany to Israel and Bertha (née Mehrowitz) Sallisohn. He…
485. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection
1990.23.241 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.23.241
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1990
…Felix Levi was born on May 2, 1912, in Sennfeld, Germany, to Maier and Jette Aufhauser Levi. He had several siblings, including two brothers and a…
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 … history: Julie Schweitzer, April 2015 Biographical note Felix Van Beek (1912‐2010) was born Felix Levi in Sennfeld, Germany (Schweinfurt district…
486. Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers
2003.361.1 Box 2 Folder 8 Image 116
Document | Accession Number: 2003.361.1 | RG Number: RG-24.021
Date:
inclusive: 1879-2001
…Moritz Henschel was born on February 17, 1879, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Karl and Emma Deutsch Henschel. In January 1910, he…
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 … (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Czech Republic. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945), in art. Holocaust, Jewish (1939…
487. Pauline and Joseph Charatan papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.359.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2000
…. Pauline met Joseph Charatan in Germany in 1946. They married in Munich on 23 November 1947. Their son Zygmund (later Edward Zygmund Charatan) was born on 5…
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 …. Pauline met Joseph Charatan in Germany in 1946. They married in Munich on 23 November 1947. Their son Zygmund (later Edward Zygmund Charatan) was born on 5…
488. Eugeniusz and Irena Wojtas papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.397.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1968
undated: 
…'s tailor shop. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland from the west and, three weeks later, the Soviet Union invaded from the east. Poland was…
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 …’s experiences pre-war in Poland and post-war in the Wildflecken and Heilbronn displaced persons camps in Germany. Eugeniusz and Irena, both Roman Catholics, were…
489. Charles Weingarten papers
2002.420.26 Box 10 Folder 6 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2002.420.26
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2009
… in 1904 in Leipzig, Germany, to a family of Belarusian and Polish furriers. She and her first husband, Karl Albert Foerst, left Germany for South…
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 … family of Belarusian and Polish furriers. She and her first husband, activist Karl Albert Foerste, left Germany in January 1933 and spent some time in…
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490. Straight razor in a black plastic cover brought to Shanghai by an Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.240.5 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.5
Date:
emigration: 1938 November
use: 1938-1949
… filled. A year later, he emigrated to the United States and on January 25, he married Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Gerda was born in Berlin, Germany, and fled to…
491. Blau family papers
2005.517.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2005.517.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1954
… to Kurzbach labor camp, a subcamp of Gross Rosen, where they were put to work digging ditches for the defense of Germany. Gertrude contracted typhoid…
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 … Germany. Gertrude contracted typhoid fever. Around January 1945, the Germans decided to evacuate the camp because of the encroaching Soviet Army and the…
492. Zeiss Ikon camera filter, case, and box used by German Jewish US soldier
2003.149.39_d front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.39 a-d
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1926-approximately 1945
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
493. Blake and Anna Schiff papers
2018.407.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.407.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1999
…Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Germany--History--20th century.…
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 … family. Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Germany--History--20th century. Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland. Geography: Warsaw (Poland) Hrodna…
494. Schloss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.503.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1937-1948
…Max Schloss (1907-1988) was born January 1, 1907 in Hofheim in Unterfranken, Germany. His wife, Johanna Schloss (née Sterzelbach, 1916-2003), was…
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 ….503.1 Creator: Schloss (Family : Bavaria, Germany) Extent: 0.1 linear foot (4 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
495. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… boarded with the family. In late 1939, the Folger family arrived from Poland following its invasion by Germany that September 1. The father told of the…
496. Guggenheim and Smali families papers
2016.395.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.395.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1989
…Dr. Karl Yehiel Guggenheim was born on January 20, 1906 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He was a member of the Zionist youth movement “Blau Weiss…
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 …: approximately 1900-1989 Accession number: 2016.395.1 Creator: Guggenheim (Family : Frankfurt, Germany) Additional creator: Smali (Family : Merkinė, Lithuania…
497. Chil Turek papers
2015.462.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.462.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1978
bulk: 1946-1978
… to the Dachau concentration camp. After the war he was in the Feldafing and Stuttgart-West displaced persons (DP) camps in Germany. In the DP camps he…
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 …, photographs, and restitution papers that document his time in displaced persons camps at Feldafing and Stuttgart, Germany from 1946-1948. The employment and…
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498. Felix Kaszub papers
2010.48 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2010.48.3
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1985
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations--Germany.…
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 …-1945)--Poland. Jewish refugees. Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- )--Germany. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…
499. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
2004.388.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.388.2
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… to Germany to serve in World War I (1914-1918.) While stationed in Koenigsberg, East Prussia, he was invited to the home of Max Lichtenstein, a…
500. Betty Sklow papers
1999.A.0269 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0269
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1949
bulk: 1939-1940
…Betty Sklow (née Behrendt, 1880-1961) was born on October 30, 1880 in Magdeburg, Germany to Adolph and Rosa Jeanette Behrendt. Hermann Sklow (1870…
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 … on October 30, 1880 in Magdeburg, Germany to Adolph and Rosa Jeanette Behrendt. Hermann Sklow (1870-1938) was born on March 14, 1870 to Wolf and…