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1. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
2. Myron and Dottie Miller collection
2013.39.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.39.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1948
… Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Palestine, and Switzerland.…
3. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
…Rudi Dingfelder (later Robert Felder, 1924-1986) was born on April 21, 1924 in Uehlfeld, Germany to Leopold Dingfelder (1886-1943) and Johanna…
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 … family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, a studio…
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  • Series 1: Photographs Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
    • File 1: Dingfelder and Wolff families Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
      • Pages: 5, 7
4. 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…
5. Gerda and Sylva Löwenstein papers
1995.56.5 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1995.56.5
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1951
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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…
6. Holub, Glaser, and Ornstein families papers
2019.320.1 Box 5 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.320.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2006
… Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2. Immigration papers include paperwork related to Arno…
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 … regarding Josef’s life insurance with Assicurazioni Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2…
7. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… (Grete) Katz. Walther was born on December 12, 1906, in Kesselbach, Germany, where his parents, Simon and Malchen Katzenstein Schoenfeld, had a farm. He…
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 … Margareta were living in Germany, but deciding that it would be too dangerous to remain, they moved to Amsterdam in 1936. In 1939, Trudy was born. After the…
8. Helen Kulka Fanta collection
2007.195.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2007.195.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1997
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… detachment while stationed in Eutin, Germany. After the war, Helen moved to England, where she met her future Husband Erich Fanta. In 1952, the couple…
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 … was liberated, before serving as a secretary and interpreter for the same detachment while stationed in Eutin, Germany. After the war, Helen moved to…
9. Gina Gotfryd collection
1995.A.0170 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0170
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1994
…Jewish refugees--Germany--Stuttgart.…
10. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
…Siegfried Strauss (later Fred Strauss, 1898-1956) was born in Marburg, Germany to Hermann (1856-1934) and Johanna (née Wertheim, 1859-1942) Strauss…
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 …: 2016.565.1 Creator: Strauss family (Marburg :Germany) Extent: 1.33 linear feet (2 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 2 book enclosures, 2 oversize folders…
11. Weil and Wolf families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.628.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1997
bulk: 1916-1945
…Eric Weil (Erich, 1913-2001) was born in Mannheim, Germany to Max Weil and Jenny Weil (née Meyer) and had a sister Hannah. Max owned a liquor…
12. Stephen Lerman papers
1991.105 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1991.105
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.…
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 … not until Germany invaded Russia in 1941 that life changed drastically. The Jewish population of Zambrow, including the Lermann family, was rounded up…
13. Serafina and Bola Friedler papers
2011.158.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2011.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1966
… Jewish home around the Silesian region of central Europe. In late 1945, they were sent to a displaced persons camp in Bad Reichenhall, Germany through…
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 … were sent to a displaced persons camp in Bad Reichenhall, Germany through arrangements made by the UNRA. Serafina and Bola stayed in that camp for…
14. Ansbacher family papers
2015.534.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.534.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1875-1990
…Sigrid Ansbacher (later Jean Strauss, b. 1928) was born in Dinkelsbühl, Germany to Selma Schlossberger (1897-?) and Ludwig Ansbacher (1888-1950) and…
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 … Accession number: 2015.534.2 Creator: Ansbacher (Family : Dinkelsbühl, Germany) Extent: 1.2 linear feet (2 boxes, 2 oversize folders) Repository: United…
15. Abraham family papers
1996.126.3 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.126.3
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1960
…Walter Abraham (1906-1979) was born in Frankenthal, Germany to a secular Jewish couple, Elsa and Julius Abraham. He was a partner in his father…
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 … Frankenthal, Germany to a secular Jewish couple, Elsa and Julius Abraham. He was a partner in his father’s furniture business and later became a partner at the…
16. 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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17. Max and Rose Feld papers
2005.602.1 Oversize 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2005.602.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1989
bulk: 1905-1957
…The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Feld and Raisa Steinberg in Germany and Poland…
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 …--France. World War, 1939-1945--Children--France. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Paris. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Deaf—Germany Holocaust, Jewish…
18. 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…
19. John and Barbara Helman papers
2006.165.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2006.165.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1951
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … (Concentration camp) Görlitz (Concentration camp) Jews--Poland--Łódź. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź. Holocaust survivors--Germany--Hannover. Łódź (Poland) Hannover…
20. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… regime came to power in Germany, Prague saw a large influx of Jews fleeing persecution. In September 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region…
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 … narratives. Political prisoners--Germany--Rottenburg am Neckar. World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish. Women psychologists. Prague (Czech Republic…