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1. Buchenwald concentration camp scrip, -.50 Reichsmark note, inscribed by an inmate
2003.413.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.34
Date:
issue: 1937 July 19-1945 April 11
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
2. Betty Sklow papers
1999.A.0269 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0269
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1949
bulk: 1939-1940
…Betty Sklow (née Behrendt, 1880-1961) was born on October 30, 1880 in Magdeburg, Germany to Adolph and Rosa Jeanette Behrendt. Hermann Sklow (1870…
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 … on October 30, 1880 in Magdeburg, Germany to Adolph and Rosa Jeanette Behrendt. Hermann Sklow (1870-1938) was born on March 14, 1870 to Wolf and…
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
Special Collection:
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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. Teardrop pendant with an engraved inscription
2015.563.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.563.2
Date:
inclusive: 1865-2001
bulk: 1901-1957
…Jewish children in the Holocaust--Germany.…
5. Violin case used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.10 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.10
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
6. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.11
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
7. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.9
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
8. Violin bow used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.12
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
9. Violin used by a Sinti musician
2005.453.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.453.8
Date:
use: approximately 1930-before 1979
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
10. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
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…Peter Feigl was born Klaus Feigl on March 1, 1929 in Berlin, Germany to Ernst Feigl and Agnes Feigl (née Bornstein, 1904-1942). His father, Ernst…
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 …. Arrangement and description were updated and revised. August 2024. Biographical Note Peter Feigl was born Klaus Feigl on March 1, 1929 in Berlin, Germany to…
11. Reich service flag with a swastika and Nazi eagle captured by an uknown soldier
2000.610.1 detail
Object | Accession Number: 2000.610.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1936-1945
…Königsberg (Germany)…
12. Megillat, Book of Esther, scroll handwritten by a sofer for Isaac Ossowski
1992.8.24_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.24
Date:
use: 1910-1943
emigration: 1938
Title:
Megillat Ester
… a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt…
13. Megillat, Book of Esther, scroll handwritten by a sofer for Isaac Ossowski
1992.8.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.8.23
Date:
use: 1910-1943
emigration: 1938
Title:
Megillat Ester
… a shochet and Isaac attended Yeshiva in Russia. He resettled in Germany, first in Frankfurt am Main, then in Berlin. He married Frieda Schwartzbardt…
14. Watercolor painting of a domestic scene by Jacob J. Barosin
2010.502.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.4
Date:
depiction: 1933 June-1947 October
Artwork Title:
Villiers-sur-Morin
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
15. Felix Librach papers
2012.469.6 Box 1 Folder 31 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2012.469.6
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1965
…Felix (Shraga) Librach was born in 1919 in Halle, Germany, to Avram (Abram/Adolf) Librach (1891-1941) and Gutta (Gitel/Gizela) Librach (1891-1942…
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 … records, and kibbutz records documenting Felix, Martin, and Sophie Librach's emigration from Germany and Poland to Palestine in the 1930s, their lives in…
16. Isidor Gross papers
2012.433.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.433.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1997
bulk: 1936-1945
…Isidore (later Edward) Gross was born on October 31, 1921, in Aachen, Germany, to Markus and Ida Reiter Gross. Markus was born on July 27, 1895, in…
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 …, Germany for the United States and successfully rescued his mother and two younger siblings from a holding camp. Included in this collection are several…
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17. Salm family papers
2012.360.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2012.360.1
Date:
inclusive: 1776-1985
bulk: 1898-1944
…David Salm (1878-1954) was a merchant and World War I veteran born in Schweich, Germany to Joseph and Gertrude Salm. His wife, Anna (Darnbacher) Salm…
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 …) Accession number: 2012.360.1 Creator: Salm (Family :Cologne, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial…
18. Tom Hardisty collection
2012.246.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2012.246.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1947
…The collection consists of a poster, correspondence, and documents relating to the activities and administration of the Nazi Party in Germany and…
19. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee
2004.286.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.286.2
Date:
use: 1933-1947
… boarded with the family. In late 1939, the Folger family arrived from Poland following its invasion by Germany that September 1. The father told of the…
20. Peach floral printed chemise saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.6
Date:
received: approximately 1935-1940
use: 1935-1946
… Judit spent the summers visiting Anna’s family in Bekes. Hungary was governed by a fascist regime, allied with Nazi Germany. From 1939, Jewish men were…