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1. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) was born on June 29, 1889 in Herford, Germany to Veterinarian and Eugenie Goldstein. He had two brothers, Arthur and…
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 …: Goldstein family (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.1 (4 folders, 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
2. Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
2017.355.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.2 a-b
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1905-1914
use: approximately 1905-1945
…Tool used to classify skin color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
3. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
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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4. 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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5. Dorothy Isaacsohn papers
2002.474.18 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2002.474.18
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1949
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
6. World War I Honor & Iron Crosses buttonhole ribbon bar with Combatant’s swords awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.1
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: after 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
7. 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…
8. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.3
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
…Else Henriette Rhée (née Heinemann, 1887-1978) was born on 25 October 1887 in Lüneburg, Germany to Robert Simon (1856-1920) and Selma (née Sternau, d…
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 …: circa 1890-2016 Accession number: 2019.210.2 Creator: Cohn (Family : Berlin, Germany) Additional creator: Heinemann (Family : Lüneburg, Germany…
12. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
13. Friedrich and Ruth Frankenthal papers
1988.26.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 37
Document | Accession Number: 1988.26.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1875-2002
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … materials, 1900‐1944  Series 2: Photograph album, approximately 1875‐2002 Indexing terms Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish families‐‐Germany‐‐Genealogy…
14. 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…
15. Loewy family papers
2016.167.1 Box 1 Folder 37 Image 112
Document | Accession Number: 2016.167.1
Date:
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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16. Ruth Miller papers
2006.473.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2006.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-2003
…Ruth Kittel was born on July 21, 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to Josef and Marie (Maria) Ritter Kittel. Josef Kittel, a businessman and World War I…
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 … Germany, and in America. The third album also include photographs of the Kittel family, their ancestors, Josef Kittel in uniform during World War I (with…
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17. Klopstock family papers
1997.12 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.12
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1945
… Germany through Italy and arrived in the United Stated in early 1940. Norbert joined his family in March 1940.…
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 …: Klopstock (Family: Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.6 linear feet (1 box and 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
18. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
19. Norbert Landecker family papers
1997.123 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1997.123
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1992
… Landeckers’ medical training and practices, finances related to their emigration from Germany, the transportation of their property to the United States, and…
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 …, the Landeckers’ medical training and practices, finances related to their emigration from Germany, the transportation of their property to the United…
20. 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…