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1. Rosenwald and Stahl families papers
2017.222.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.222.1
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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…
2. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection
1995.A.0106 Box 4 Folder 11 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.237
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1986
bulk: 1937-1954
…Joseph and Caroline Schiffmann of Hoppstaedten, Germany had three children: Gustav Schiffmann, Isaak Schiffmann (1856-1910), and Johanna Schiffmann…
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 …, Alabama) Additional creator: Marx (Family: Germany) Extent: 4 boxes Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place…
3. 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…
4. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
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inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
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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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5. Weinschenk and Levi families papers
2013.508.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2013.508.1
Date:
inclusive: 1876-1986
bulk: 1888-1942
…Margot (neé Levi) Weinschenk (1912-1996) was born in Stuttgart, Germany to Nellie (neé Strauss; b. 1888) and Max Levi (b. 1886). She had one brother…
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 …-1942) Accession number: 2013.508.1 Creator: Weinschenk family (Nuremberg :Germany) Levi family (Stuttgart :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box, 1…
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6. Theodor Kleinsorge papers
2015.587.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.587.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-1979
bulk: 1914-1955
…Theodor Wilhelm Kleinsorge (1896-1945) was born on 13 May 1896 in Laßbruch, Germany to Hermann (1867-1926) and Anna Elise (née Schmidt, b. 1870…
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 … arrest of Theodor Kleinsorge, originally of Laßbruch, Germany, as a non‐Jewish political enemy of the Nazis in July 1944; his deportation to the Dachau…
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7. Schwarz and Rosenwald families papers
2017.167.1 Image 5 Box 1 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2017.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1834-2006
bulk: 1920-1960
…Richard Schwarz family (Hannover: Germany)…
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 …: 1834-2006 (bulk, 1920-1960) Accession number: 2017.167.1 Creator: Richard Schwarz family (Hannover: Germany) Extent: 2.92 linear feet (4 boxes, 1…
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8. Loewy family papers
2016.167.1 Box 1 Folder 37 Image 112
Document | Accession Number: 2016.167.1
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inclusive: 1836-2014
bulk: 1904-1948
…Paul Loewy (born Alfred Paul Loewy, 1905-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany to Hermann and Else (born Sara, née Lasker) Loewy. He had three siblings…
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 ….167.1 Creator: Loewy family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box; 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
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9. 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…
10. Jack Moses papers
1993.43 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1993.43
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1983
bulk: 1915-1947
…Jack Moses (1915-1996) was born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany to Julius Moses (1875-1956) and Louise (Liesbeth) Moses (1876-1968). He immigrated to…
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 … collection http://collections.ushmm.org concentration camps of Poland and Germany. The collection previously cataloged as accession 1995.A.0281 has been…
11. Klestadt family papers
2014.481.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.481.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
bulk: 1919-1942
…Thea Löwenstein was born December 19, 1912 in Düsseldorf, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Emil and Erna Flechtheim Löwenstein. She had an older sister…
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 … 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection primarily documents the prewar experiences of Fred and Thea Klestadt, originally of Düsseldorf, Germany, prior to…
12. Maerker and Behr families papers
2017.404.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2017.404.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1873-1983
…William Maerker (Willy, 1889-1981) was born on 8 April 1889 in Bernburg, Germany to Louis (1858-1922) and Hedwig (née Weil, 1867-1940) Maerker. He…
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 … Accession number: 2017.404.1 Creator: Maerker (Family : Bernburg, Germany) Behr (Family : Mainz, Germany) Extent: 1.59 linear feet (2 boxes, 1 oversize box…
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  • Series 5: Born-digital family history
    • File 4: Omi's Stories, A Picnic A Very Special Wedding How Our Children, Inge and Gerd, Grew Up How We Left Germany and Came to the US Lumpi Maerker Tree from Louis 1858 Muschi Our Cat My Fondest Memory My Life My Parents Our Wedding and Our Obstacle Course to Our Honeymoon Poems to Our Youngest Granddaughter The Maerkers This is the story of your Grandparents Courtship, Marriage and Consequences To David Scott To My Grandchildren You Asked For It [Not Digital]
    13. Lothar Kahn papers
    1995.125.14 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 15
    Document | Accession Number: 1995.125.14
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1900-2004
    …Louis Hane (1910‐1979) was born Lothar Kahn in Lollar, Germany, to Albert and Regina Kahn and had an older sister named Leni. He became a Social…
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     … materials, a personal narrative, and photographs documenting Louis Hane, born Lothar Kahn, of Lollar, Germany, his marriage to Maria Dort, who was not…
    14. 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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    15. Pistiner family papers
    2016.187.1 Box 3 Folder 2 Image 7
    Document | Accession Number: 2016.187.1
    Date:
    inclusive: 1899-2000
    bulk: 1908-1972
    …Jewish families--Germany--Berlin.…
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     …: 2016.187.1 Creator: Pistiner family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: 4 boxes (1.25 linear feet) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives…
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    16. Dr. Willy Katz papers
    1990.88.11 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 21
    Document | Accession Number: 1990.88.11
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1880-1988
    bulk: 1902-1950
    …The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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     … files, 1929‐1945 Indexing terms Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Dresden. Jewish physicians…
    17. 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…
    18. Bier family papers
    2016.522. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 6
    Document | Accession Number: 2016.522.1
    Date:
    inclusive: 1891-2008
    … linen store. They immigrated to the United States with 1941. Siegfried lived in Berlin since 1929, and fled Germany in late 1938 for France. He was…
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     …: Bier (Family: Berlin, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington…
    19. Norbert Wollheim papers
    Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1900-1998
    …Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
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     … Britain. Wollheim continued to work for the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Union of Jews in Germany). In 1941 he was drafted to perform forced…
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    20. Levy and Lustig families papers
    Document | Accession Number: 2017.554.2
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1825-2004
    …Fritz Levy (Friedrich Levy, 1890-1954) was born on 1 May 1890 in Cologne, Germany to Siegmund (1848-1920) and Bertha (née Lowenberg, 1856-1915) Levy…
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     … Accession number: 2017.554.2 Creator: Levy (Family : Cologne, Germany) Additional creator: Lustig (Family : Leipzig, Germany) Extent: 22 linear feet (10 boxes…