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81. Sonja Speyer Echt papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.260.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-2014
…Sonja Speyer Echt (born Sofie Speyer or Speier, 1926-) was born on 20 August 1926 in Guxhagen, Germany to Emanuel and Betty Speyer. Emanuel (1884…
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 …, originally of Guxhagen, Germany, including her childhood in Guxhagen, immigration to the United States in February 1938 on a Kindertransport, and her efforts…
82. Paul Tauchner document collection
1996.7.11 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1996.7.11
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1946
… army propaganda leaflet, documents regarding restrictions on Rosa Block (1867-1942) as a Jewish woman in Germany, and it also includes photographs of…
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 … primarily documents restrictions on Rosa Block (1867‐ 1942) as a Jewish woman in Germany, and it also includes photographs of Karl Hermann Frank, a postcard…
83. Adler and Cohn families papers
2018.393.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 77
Document | Accession Number: 2018.393.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2018
…Ernst Cohn (later Ernest Cornell, 1907-1986) was born on 24 December 1907 in Münster, Germany to Carl (d. 1959) and Johanna Cohn. He had several…
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 … Accession number: 2018.393.1 Creator: Adler (Family: Bad Mergentheim, Germany) Additional creator: Cohn (Family: Münster, Germany) Extent: 3.93 linear feet…
84. Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers
2010.171.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image
Document | Accession Number: 2010.171.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… towns in Germany until liberation followed by a return trip home to Užhorod after the war. The diary also includes an allegory titled Inventory and dated…
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 … Schwarzenberg, and other towns in Germany until liberation followed by a return trip home to Užhorod after the war. The diary also includes an allegory titled…
85. 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…
86. 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…
87. 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…
88. Gary Heymann photograph collection
2018.544.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.544.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1979
bulk: 1936-1938
…Gary Heymann (born Gerhard Heymann, 1923-2016) was born in Germany to Hartwig (1896-1993, son of Solms and Adele Heymann) and Helene (née Rosner…
89. 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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90. 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…
91. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
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… establish a hospital and bring aid to the area. On April 24, 1945 he was assigned to a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany where he continued his efforts. Lorenz…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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  • Series 2: Buchenwald 1945-1978, Undated
    • File 5: Reports 1945
  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
92. 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…
93. 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…
94. 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…
95. Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers
2018.38.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.38.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
…Ellen Kaufmann Boucher (1920-2014) was born to Hermann (1882-1942) and Ella (née Barth, 1890-1920) Kaufmann in Mainz, Germany. Hermann Kaufmann, a…
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 …, prewar and wartime photographs of her family in Mainz, Germany, and a transcript of an interview she gave in 1995. Languages: English, German…
96. Dorothea Dressel collection
1995.A.0186 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0186
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1986
bulk: 1930-1947
… World War I, he was severely wounded, and returned to Munich. Following the war, he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and was…
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 … Party of Germany (KPD), and was active politically, serving as a district leader for the party in southern Bavaria, and eventually serving as chair of…
97. Chaim and Rita Wind collection
2017.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2017.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1952
…), Margot (1918-2018), and Rosa (1920-2009), were born in Germany. The Wind's maintained a religious household and Chaim grew up attending both secular and…
98. Odenheimer family papers
2017.241.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 04
Document | Accession Number: 2017.241.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2003
…Isidor Odenheimer (1883-1940) was born in Odenheim, Germany and inherited a grocery and dry goods store from his father. He married Marie Herz (1897…
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 ….241.2 Creator: Odenheimer (Family : Odenheim, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear foot (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
99. Litke family papers
2015.547.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.547.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1981
bulk: 1945-1981
… he was there he had eight teeth forcibly extracted. He was later sent to Flossenbürg concentration camp, Flossenbürg, Germany. From there, he was sent…
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 …, and their post‐war lives in the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp, Eggenfelden, Germany from 1945‐1949. The collection includes papers from…
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100. Walter Keller papers
2004.64.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2004.64.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1974
… and Caroline Keller, their lives in prewar Germany, their immigration to the United States, and the reestablishment of their medical and nursing careers…
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 … personal narrative, and photographs documenting Walter and Caroline Keller, their lives in prewar Germany, their immigration to the United States, and the…