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1. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
…Michel Shadur was born in 1897 in Livani, Latvia. He had an older brother, Isaac, who died in Crimea in 1916, and two younger sisters, Gitta and…
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 … / Administrative history Michel Shadur was born in 1897 in Livani, Latvia. He had an older brother, Isaac, who died in Crimea in 1916, and two younger sisters, Gitta…
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2. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
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 … Latvia until World War 2 A Holocaust Catastrophe in 1944, circa 1880-circa 1993 4.1 Part 2: May 9, 1944 until October 8, 1956, Arrival of Eliazar, Carla…
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3. Wlodek Richter collection
2001.201.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2001.201.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1954
…, Latvia where Ester’s sister Rita lived. Wolf later returned to the family and in 1957 they moved to Warsaw, Poland. Wlodek fled Poland in 1970 after a rise…
4. Jacobson and David families papers
2014.424. 1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2014.424.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-1959
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Moritz and Berta Jacobson lived in Liepāja, Latvia and had five children: Arthur, Jacob, Issie, Necha (Nanny), and Paula. Nanny remained in Liepāja…
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 … 1895-1959 Accession number: 2014.424.1 Creator: Jacobson (Family : Liepāja, Latvia) Additional creator: David (Family : Liepāja, Latvia) Extent: 0…
5. Tamara Manela and Isaac Sherman papers
2013.149.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2013.149.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1968
… Germany, Italy, and Cuba, and English translations of Izak Sermanis' (Isaac Sherman) divorce papers from his first wife in Latvia, 1938, as well as a letter…
6. Rosenwald family papers
2013.502.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 61
Document | Accession Number: 2013.502.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1962
bulk: 1938-1941
… parents and sister were deported to Riga, Latvia. His parents likely perished there, and Liesel was then deported to the Stutthof concentration camp where…
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 …, Latvia. Along with a small amount of correspondence from others, there is also correspondence, affidavits, and other documents regarding Fred…
7. Shoe worn by female prisoner in a concentration camp
1994.71.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.71.1
Date:
use: approximately 1930-1940
…Latvia…
8. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…James Georg Lau (1927-2011) was born in Riga, Latvia to a German-Latvian, Harry Lau, and a Jewish mother, Betty (née Firkser) Lau. After their…
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 … diaries written by James Georg Lau between 1939- 1941 and 1944-1953, describing his life in Liepāja Latvia, the Soviet occupation, being forced out of…
9. Serebrenik family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.559.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-circa 2018
…’s father died before the war. His mother Regina was deported from Vienna to Riga, Latvia on 11 January 1942 where she likely perished. Regina’s brother…
10. Hirschfeld family collection
2007.154 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2007.154
Date:
1936-1960
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Consists of papers related to the Holocaust and immigration experiences of the family of Isac and Lydia Hirschfeld, originally of Liebau, Latvia…
11. Percy Brand papers
2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
…Perec Brandt (later Percy Brand) was born on April 2, 1908, in Liepāja, Latvia, to a Jewish couple, Abram and Basia Brandt. He had one sister named…
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 … Percy (Perec) Brand, a violinist originally from Liepāja, Latvia, who was imprisoned in the Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps…
12. Edith Hamberg Tarcov papers
2009.298.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Item 3
Document | Accession Number: 2009.298.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-2011
bulk: 1938-1946
… deported to Riga, Latvia on 15 December 1941. Sally was deported to the Salaspils concentration camp where he likely perished in 1942. Minna perished in 1943…
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 … all contact with them by late 1941. Sally and Minna were deported to Riga, Latvia on 15 December 1941. Sally was deported to the Salaspils concentration…
13. Freyer and Lichtenstein families papers
1991.A.0033.2 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0033.2
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1985
bulk: 1938-1953
… received by Marion’s brother-in-law Zalkin Mandelstam from Michails Kan in Riga, Latvia. Photographs include prewar family photographs of the Freyer and…
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 …. Also included are postwar letters received by Marion’s brother-in-law Zalkin Mandelstam from Michails Kan in Riga, Latvia. Photographs include prewar…
14. William A. Grab Jr. collection
1995.A.0783 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0783
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1949
…Paul Flohr was born in June 1881 near what is present day Riga, Latvia. As an adult, Paul lived in Wetzlar, Germany where he worked as an engineer…
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 … liberated in 1945. Paul Flohr was born in June 1881 near what is present day Riga, Latvia. As an adult, Paul lived in Wetzlar, Germany where he worked as…
15. National Fascist Party of Italy (PNF) membership badge owned by Jewish female refugee from Nazi Germany
2005.379.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.379.7
Date:
use: 1931-1938
emigration: 1939 September
…Gitta Schadur was born on September 29, 1905, in Livengoff (Livani), Latvia, to Yeisef and Doba Schender Schadur (1868-1950). By the 1920s, the…
16. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
…Esther Lurie (1913-1998) was born in Liepaja (formerly Libau), Latvia, to a religious, intellectual Jewish family. Her parents were Josef and Bluma…
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 … history: Morgan Voth, February 2018 Biographical note Esther Lurie (1913-1998) was born in Liepaja, Latvia, to Josef and Bluma Lurie. From 1931-1934, Esther…
17. Schlachter family correspondence
2019.258.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2019.258.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1941
… Stuttgart from 1940-1941. Leopold and Gertrude were deported from Stuttgart on 1 December 1941 to the Jungfernhof concentration camp in Latvia. They both…
18. Central Archives of the Federal Security Services (former KGB) of the Russian Federation records relating to war crime trials in the Soviet Union
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0510 | RG Number: RG-06.025
Date:
1939-1992
bulk: 1945-1947
…War crime trials--Latvia--Rīga.…
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 … Riga (zoological and hygiene)" (copy). 51. Directive (in German and Russian) by the commander of the German State Security Police [Gestapo] for Latvia…
19. Warsaw street scenes; Pilsudski Square
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Film | Accession Number: 2006.454.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4565 | Film ID: 2832
Film Title:
Poland-Paris -- Benjamin Gasul -- amateur
Date:
Event: June? 1939
Duration:
00:00:31
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
…Benjamin Morris Gasul (1898-1962) was born in Latvia. He traveled to the U.S. on the "Empress of Russia" ship at the age of 16 and settled in Kenosha…
20. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
…, 1941. On January 27, 1942, Frieda and Hermann were deported to the ghetto in Riga in German occupied Latvia. People were beaten as the train unloaded…
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 … 1941, the family received an urn from the Gestapo containing the ashes of Simon. In 1942, Frieda and Herman were deported to Riga, Latvia, where they…