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1. Lichtenberg and Stein families papers
2014.408.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2014.408.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2001
undated: 
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…Irmgard Stein (Irma, later Lichtenberg, b. 1920) was born to Max (1871-1944, born in Arolsen, Germany) and Hedwig (Johanna, née Benjamin, 1883-1944…
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 … and undated Accession number: 2014.408.1 Creator: Lichtenberg (Family: Hannover, Germany) Additional creator: Stein (Family: Frankfurt, Germany) Extent…
2. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border…
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 … for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their…
3. Mosheim and Marx families papers
1999.A.0233 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0233
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
… City. Karl Marx had died of natural causes in 1938 in Munich, and her mother remained in Germany to care for his ailing mother, Pauline Mayer Marx…
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 … United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened…
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4. Peter Mansbacher papers
1998.A.0148 Box 1 Folder 39 Folder 12
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0148
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1991
inclusive: 1934-1991
…Peter Mansbacher (1922-1994) was born Fritz Ludwig Mansbacher in Lübeck, Germany to Martin and Juliane Mansbacher. Concerned for his safety, his…
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 … Mansbacher (1922‐1994) was born Fritz Ludwig Mansbacher in Lübeck, Germany to Martin and Juliane Mansbacher. His mother always called him Peter, and he…
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5. Seymour Krieger papers
1986.A.0024.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1986.A.0024.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
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…Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.…
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 … material: The Museum’s Library hold a copy of Nazi Germany's war against the Jews (D810.J4 N39 1947), prepared and complied by Seymour Krieger. Accruals…
6. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
…Henry Oertelt (born Arthur Karl Heinz Oertelt, 1921-2011) was born on 13 January 1921 in Berlin, Germany to Arthur and Else Oertelt. He had one…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Henry Oertelt of Berlin, Germany…
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7. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
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… from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany. When Lau continued his diary in 1944, he describes the end of the war, when he and his father went to Germany…
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 … school because he was half-Jewish, and his mother being forced into the ghetto. There is a gap in the diaries from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany…
8. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
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… establish a hospital and bring aid to the area. On April 24, 1945 he was assigned to a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany where he continued his efforts. Lorenz…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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  • Series 2: Buchenwald 1945-1978, Undated
    • File 5: Reports 1945
  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
9. Fritz Rosenthal family papers
1996.A.0249 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0249
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1995
…Fritz Rosenthal was born in Würzburg, Germany on July 4, 1911 to Dr. Karl Rosenthal and Claire Rosenthal (nee Buschhoff). He attended school in…
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 ….ushmm.org for further information. Processing history: Julie Schweitzer, May 2012 Biographical note Fritz Rosenthal was born in Würzburg, Germany on July 4, 1911…
10. Fred and Ruth Cohen papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.398.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1992
bulk: 1920-1942
…Fred (Fritz) Cohen (1914-1981) was born on October 12, 1914 in Eschwege, Germany to David and Martha Cohen. David was born on October 15, 1988 near…
11. Litke family papers
2015.547.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.547.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1981
bulk: 1945-1981
… he was there he had eight teeth forcibly extracted. He was later sent to Flossenbürg concentration camp, Flossenbürg, Germany. From there, he was sent…
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 …, and their post‐war lives in the Eggenfelden displaced persons camp, Eggenfelden, Germany from 1945‐1949. The collection includes papers from…
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12. Oscar Koppel papers
1995.A.0402 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0402
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1947
…Oscar Koppel was born in Letmathe, Germany in December 1886. After obtaining his law degree from Heidelberg University in 1912 and serving in the…
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 … to Oscar Koppel, a Jewish lawyer who lived with his wife and daughter in Bochum, Germany at the time of the Nazi rise to power in the early 1930…
13. Rose Silberberg Skier papers
1999.A.0121 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0121
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1999
bulk: 1929-1958
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…, Silberberg traveled to Neisse, Germany posing as the daughter of her aunt Sara Wachsman, both passing as Gentiles. They lived in a convent where Wachsman…
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 …, Silberberg traveled to Neisse, Germany posing as the daughter of her aunt Sara Wachsman, both passing as Gentiles. They lived in a convent where Wachsman…
14. Goldstein and Thebner families papers
2002.245.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2002.245.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1917-1958
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… their attempts to emigrate from Germany as well as pre-war family photographs. The collection also includes a diary written by Ilse Szinberger, Arthur…
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 …: approximately 1917-1958 Accession number: 2002.245.1 Creator: Goldstein (Family: Berlin, Germany) Additional creator: Thebner (Family: Vienna, Austria) Extent: .4…
15. John and Harriet Isaack papers
1992.53.45 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1992.53.45
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1991
… costume seamstress Harriet Bondy (1909-2003), born in Hohenlimburg to Hermann and Olga Bondy. The couple married in 1937 and left Germany for Shanghai…
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 … documenting the Isaack’s escape from Germany, life in occupied Shanghai, and immigration to the United States. Languages: English, German, Chinese…
16. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
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…, Stalag IX-B, in Bad Orb, Germany. Tony was prisoner number 27016. He was interrogated for several hours by a German officer in English and Spanish, and…
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 …, and was ordered to surrender. They were taken to Stalag IX‐B in Bad Orb, Germany, where conditions were terrible. He was selected as part of a group…
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  • Series 1: Anthony Acevedo papers Circa 1935-Circa 2012
    • File 1: Diary 1945
17. Herman Taube papers
1992.A.0081.2 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0081.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2012
… in nursing. He was called for duty as a medic in the Polish Army in August 1939. Germany defeated Poland by early October, the retreating Polish Army…
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 … Gershon hoped he would become a rabbi, but Herman pursued a career in nursing. He was called for duty as a medic in the Polish Army in August 1939. Germany…
18. Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers
1996.A.0391.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1966
bulk: 1945-1949
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…, when they went to Germany and ultimately escaped from the Russian sector of Germany to the American zone of Berlin. Lucy and her family settled in Berlin…
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 … Poland, Morris went to Germany with the hope of immigrating to the United States. By 1948, he had finished dental school in Munich and opened an office…
19. Honig family papers
2002.70.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.70.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2002
…Jack (Heinz) Honig (1921-2012) was born in Alsenz, Germany, to Julius (1886-1924) and Rudolfine (née Sternheimer, 1889-1942) Honig. He was imprisoned…
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 … (Family : Alsenz, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear foot (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
20. 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…