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1. Gerda Schild Haas papers
1989.048 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1989.048 | RG Number: RG-02.016
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
…Gerda Schild Haas was born in 1922 in Ansbach, Germany to Siegfried and Paula Schild. Her family was forced to sell their home after Kristallnacht…
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 … Jewish persecution in Berlin from 1940‐1943 and correspondence among Gerda’s family members documenting their efforts to leave Germany from 1939‐1941 and…
2. Dingfelder family papers
1994.A.0024 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0024 | RG Number: RG-10.105
Date:
inclusive: circa 1884-1966
bulk: circa 1914-1966
…Sigbert Dingfelder (1891-1978) was born Neustadt an der Aisch in Bavaria, Germany to Emma (née Gunderheimer, b. 1865) and August Dingfelder (b. 1862…
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 …-1966) Accession number: 1994.A.0024 Creator: Dingfelder family (Nürnberg :Germany) Neu family (Nürnberg :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (2 boxes, 1…
3. 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…
4. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
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…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
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 … family of Moritz and Else Gans, originally of Borken, Germany, who were living in Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Prior to the war, Moritz and Else emigrated…
5. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
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…Ursula Lenneberg was born on April 24, 1926, in Dortmund, Germany, but raised in Aplerbeck. Her father, Otto, was Jewish and her mother, Caroline…
6. 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…
7. David Weyl diaries
2017.523.1 BookEnclosure Folder 1 Image 45
Document | Accession Number: 2017.523.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
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…David Weyl (1873-1948) was born on 11 October 1873 in Erkelenz, Germany to Anselm (1831-1897) and Flora (née Leffmann, 1844-1919) Weyl. He had 15…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection consists of three diaries kept by David Weyl, originally of Erkelenz, Germany…
8. Helen Kulka Fanta collection
2007.195.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2007.195.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1997
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… 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. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
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… (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…
10. Martha Bernstein collection
1994.A.0114 Box 1 Folder 2 Item 7
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0114
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1944
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…Martha (Heumann) Bernstein was born in 1902 in Benrath, Germany to a Jewish family. Martha's family and the family of her youngest sister, Helene…
11. Lissberger family papers
1995.A.0268 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0268
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1957
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…Emil Lissberger (1873-1942) married Klara Sämann in 1899 in Sugenheim, Germany. They had one son, Moritz (Maurice) in 1901. Emil worked at a Savings…
12. 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…
13. George Lauer papers
1996.33.11 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1996.33.11
Date:
creation: 1942
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … a chemist in Germany and Czechoslovakia, married Edith Kornfeld (d. 1993) in Usti, Czechoslovakia, and fled with her to Prague following the the…
14. 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…
15. Hans Benjamin Marx papers
2018.427.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 2018.427.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-1946
…Hans Benjamin Marx (b. 1927) was born in Mannheim, Germany, to Elise (née Rihm, 1898-1976) and Ernest Marx (1895-1965). Ernest was born in Mannheim…
16. 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
17. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers
2017.556.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.556.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1830-2016
bulk: 1937-1948
…Stephen Joseph Fraenkel (born Stefan, 1917-2002) was born on 28 November 1917 in Berlin, Germany to Max and Martha Fraenkel. His father Max (born…
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 … experiences of Stephen Fraenkel of Berlin, Germany including his immigration to the United States in 1938 with the financial aid of the Sigma Alpha Mu Jewish…
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18. 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…
19. Dorothea Baumgart papers
1990.11.8 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.11.8
Date:
inclusive: 1940-circa 1957
…Dorothea Baumgart (1875-1957), was born Dorothea Lissner in Obrzycko, Poland and lived in Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland). Her property was…
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 … Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland). Her property was confiscated by the Nazi regime in June 1943, and four days later she was deported to Theresienstadt…
20. Ellen Wall papers
1991.117.52 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.117.52
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1949
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …, approximately 1930s‐1949 Indexing terms Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Frankfurt am Main. Concentration camp inmates‐‐Czech Republic…