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1. 4711 glass perfume bottle carried by a Jewish refugee searching for her family
2008.228.21 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.21
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
2. Aaron Finger papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.317.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1991
bulk: 1943-1947
… went overseas in post-war in fall 1945, and spent time in Germany, including the Flossenbürg concentration camp and Hof, where he worked with his Russian…
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 … experiences of Aaron Finger, originally of Toronto, Canada, who trained at Camp Ritchie and was in Germany from 1945-1946. Included is an identification card…
3. Abendstern, Fleischmann, and Meyerhoff families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.494.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
…Peter Aldin was born Peter Sigo Abendstern on 29 October 1932 in Schwerin, Germany to Otto and Elly Abendstern. His father Otto Abendstern (1904-1942…
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 …, Germany to Otto and Elly Abendstern. His father Otto Abendstern (1904-1942) was born on 5 November 1904 in Stuttgart, Germany to Samuel (d. 1923) and Regina…
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4. Abe Weiss papers
1996.A.0081 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0081 | RG Number: RG-10.173
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1996
…-Semitic harassment, efforts to emigrate from Germany and Poland, Salomon Nachbar’s and Max Birnberg’s imprisonment in concentration camps, Chaim Dudowicz…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org report on anti-Semitic harassment, efforts to emigrate from Germany and Poland, Salomon Nachbar’s and Max Birnberg’s imprisonment in…
5. Abraham and Mina Winiger papers
1998.34.3 Image 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1998.34.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-1971
…Refugees, Jewish--Germany--Föhrenwald.…
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 … Terms Jews--Poland--Nadwórna. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Refugees, Jewish--Germany--Föhrenwald. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Germany…
6. Abraham Atsmon papers
1999.A.0151 Box 4 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1994
… American sector of Germany. He intended to emigrate to Palestine and entered the Landsberg displaced persons camp. Atsmon was a political and social leader…
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 … Brest during the war, his organization and leadership of a Holocaust survivor group (Sh'erit ha-Pletah) in the American occupation zone of Germany after…
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7. 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…
8. Abram Pukacz papers
2007.150.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2007.150.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1955
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org Jews--Poland--Łask. Displaced persons--Germany--Bergen-Belsen. Holocaust survivors--Israel--Ayanot. Łask (Poland) Bergen-Belsen (Germany…
9. Adler and Cohn families papers
2018.393.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 77
Document | Accession Number: 2018.393.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2018
…Ernst Cohn (later Ernest Cornell, 1907-1986) was born on 24 December 1907 in Münster, Germany to Carl (d. 1959) and Johanna Cohn. He had several…
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 … Accession number: 2018.393.1 Creator: Adler (Family: Bad Mergentheim, Germany) Additional creator: Cohn (Family: Münster, Germany) Extent: 3.93 linear feet…
10. Aenni and Eric Kaufman papers
2013.124.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2013.124.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1972
bulk: 1945-1972
…Aenni Karoline Ehrlich (later Aenni Kaufman, 1894-1952) was born on 24 August 1894 in Berlin, Germany to Paula (née Kaufmann, 1868-1942) and Emanuel…
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 … lawsuits brought forth by Aenni and Eric Kaufman, originally of Berlin, Germany, to recover ownership of shares of I.G. Chemie (later known as Interhandel…
11. Aharon Lazer papers
2017.302.5 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 64
Document | Accession Number: 2017.302.5
Date:
circa 1942-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, Germany, and other locations in Europe.…
12. Albersheim family papers
2007.18.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.18.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2003
…Walter Werner Albershiem (1912-1988) was born in Billerbeck, Germany to Josef and Selma Albershiem. Walter had two siblings: Herbert (b. 1908) and…
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 ….18.1 Creator: Albersheim (Family : Billerbeck, Germany) Extent: 0.6 linear foot (3 boxes, 2 book enclosures, 1 oversize folder) Repository: United States…
13. Albert C. Kornblum papers
1992.203 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1992.203
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… taken by Kurt Grimm in 1936, is annotated “After V-E Day. No Nazi flags remaining then. July 4, 1945 Nuremberg Stadium Germany,” and is autographed by…
14. Alexander and Aviva Bartal papers
2007.148.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2007.148.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1977
… family and friends before the Holocaust in Poland and after liberation in Germany, Italy, and Israel. The papers also include photocopies of 1970…
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 … in Poland and after liberation in Germany, Italy, and Israel. The papers also include photocopies of 1970s correspondence about Folke Bernadotte, Count…
15. Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers
1995.A.0250 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0250
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-circa 1959
…Ellen Katz (1923 - ) was born to Martin and Edith Katz in Berlin, Germany. She was a student at the time of the Kristallnacht, when her parents…
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 …. Ellen Katz (1923 ‐ ) was born to Martin and Edith Katz in Berlin, Germany. She was a student at the time of the Kristallnacht, when her parents decided…
16. Alfred and Emma Pisko papers
2018.355.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2018.355.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1980
…Emma Heumann Pisko (1909-1980) was born on May 6, 1909 in Lechenich, Germany to Moritz Heumann and Henriette Vohs Heumann. Emma moved to the United…
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 … in 1948. Emma Heumann Pisko (1909-1980) was born on May 6, 1909 in Lechenich, Germany to Moritz Heumann and Henriette Vohs Heumann. Emma moved to the…
17. Alfred Büchler papers
1999.119 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.119
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
bulk: 1937-1942
…Alfred Buechler was born Alfred Büchler in 1925 in Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland) to wine merchant Jacques Büchler and Käthe Büchler (née…
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 …. Processing history: Julie Schweitzer, March 2013 Biographical note Alfred Buechler was born Alfred Büchler in 1925 in Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice…
18. Alfred Rosenberg diary
2001.62.14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2001.62.14 | RG Number: RG-71
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1944
…-aggression pact, the invasion of Poland, Germany’s relations with other countries prior to the war (Romania, Spain, Afghanistan, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy…
19. Alice and John Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.247.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-2003
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
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 … Germany, Alice’s nursing education and work in England, John’s survival in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and the couple’s work at the Bergen…
20. Allach porcelain figure given to a US Army doctor by recently liberated prisoners of Dachau
Sean P. Tully Collection Image, 2007.194.1
Object | Accession Number: 2007.194.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1943-1945
received: 1945 April 29-945 April 30
Artwork Title:
Musketier
Alternate Title:
Musketeer
…. There his team joined the 10th Field Hospital, supporting the 70th Infantry Division as the Allies fought to break through the Siegfried Line into Germany…
21. Allach porcelain figure given to a US Army doctor by recently liberated prisoners of Dachau
Sean P. Tully Collection Image, 2007.194.2
Object | Accession Number: 2007.194.2
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1943-1945
received: 1945 April 29-1945 April 30
Artwork Title:
Offizier d.Schlosswache
Alternate Title:
Seydlitz Kurassier
Officer of the Castle Guard
Garde du Corps
…. There his team joined the 10th Field Hospital, supporting the 70th Infantry Division as the Allies fought to break through the Siegfried Line into Germany…
22. Allach porcelain figurine found by a US Army nurse in Dachau concentration camp post-liberation
1994.46.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1994.46.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1942-1945
found: 1945 April 29-1945 July
… into France and Germany. Helen’s team accompanied the Seventh Army. On April 29, 1945, the 42nd Infantry Division, the 45th Infantry Division, and the…
23. Aluminum food container lid used by a Hungarian Jewish family on the Kasztner train
2003.198.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.3
Date:
use: approximately 1937-1946
… with Nazi Germany, with antisemitic racial laws modeled on the Nuremberg Laws. From 1939, Jewish men were forced into the Hungarian labor service, which…
24. Alzen family papers
2001.205.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2001.205.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1953
…Johann Alzen (1885-1945) and his wife, Katharina Baldus Alzen lived in Wieselstein, Germany (today Loučná, Czech Republic) with their four children…
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 … collection includes identity papers, correspondence, and court papers documenting a Catholic farming family’s life in Nazi Germany, August Alzen’s forced…
25. Anita Epstein papers
2001.321.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2001.321.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1985
bulk: 1943-1949
… for typhus she returned to Kraków and found Anita. Eda and Anita went with other Jews to a displaced persons' camp in Selb, Germany near the…
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 … with the Zendler family, as a child in a displaced persons camp near Selb, Germany, and images of Salek and Eda before the war. Language: Polish…
26. Ann Benjamin Goldberg papers
1999.34.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.34.3
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1949
…, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and Chana fled eastwards from Zetel with a group of her schoolmates. She eventually arrived in Aktyubinsk in southern…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection consists of a health card, certificate issued in Bremen, Germany, and photographs…
27. Annemarie Warschauer papers
2012.244.1 Box 2 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.244.1
Date:
inclusive: 1896-2003
bulk: 1912-1952
…Annemarie Alexander was born on August 3, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Isadore and Anna Hirschensohn Alexander, who was born in 1890. Isadore, born…
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 …‐2003 (bulk 1912‐1952) Accession number: 2012.244.1 Creator: Warschauer, Anne (Berlin :Germany) Extent: 1 linear foot (3 boxes, 1 oversize…
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28. Anne Ranasinghe papers
2018.627.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2018.627.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2017
bulk: 1936-2017
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Anne Ranasinghe (1925-2016) was born Anneliese Henriette Katz on 2 October 1925 in Essen, Germany to Jewish parents Emil and Anna Katz. Emil Katz…
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 …, writings, and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Anne Ranasinghe (born Anneliese Katz), originally of Essen, Germany, including her…
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29. Ann West papers
1988.82.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.82.9
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1988
bulk: 1943-1946
…Anny Neumann (later Ann West) was born in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany, to Leo and Johanna Neumann. She and her boyfriend Heinz Rosenhain joined the…
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 …‐1988 (bulk 1943‐1946) Indexing terms Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Leipzig. Holocaust survivors‐‐Germany‐‐Correspondence. Holocaust survivors‐‐Identification…
30. 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…
31. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, 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
32. Anti-British propaganda poster reminding people of previous British conquests of French territory
1998.136.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.136.4
Date:
publication: after 1940 September 23-before 1944 August
Artwork Title:
Français, n'oublie pas
Alternate Title:
French do not forget
…Propaganda poster in French stating how Britain created its Empire by taking French territories. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In…
33. Antisemitic flyer acquired by a French Jewish child in hiding
1991.209.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1991.209.6
Date:
acquired: approximately 1942-approximately 1945
Artwork Title:
TUBERCULOSE SYPHILIS CANCER SONT GUÉRISSABLES…
Alternate Title:
TUBERCULOSIS SYPHILIS CANCER ARE CURABLE...
…Rudolf (Rudi) Appel (later Rudy, 1925-2016) was born in Mannheim, Germany, to Julius (1881-1952) and Rose (or Rosa, nee Hofmann, later Strauss,1895…
34. Antoni Stefan Koper and Sophie Koper papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.268.6
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1999
… with the Polish Army after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. After Warsaw was occupied he joined the Polish Resistance where he helped publish…
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 … fought with the Polish Army after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. After Warsaw was occupied he joined the Polish Resistance where he helped…
35. Anton Kozlowski photograph collection
2018.344.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 51
Document | Accession Number: 2018.344.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Ohrdruf.…
36. Arnold Hartmann correspondence
2000.63 Box 1 Folder 18 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2000.63
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1949
…Arnold Hartmann (1878-1962) was born in Schildberg, Germany, to Solomon Hartmann and Rosalia Grabowski. The family settled in Boston, MA in 1880…
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 … Breslau cousins flee Germany during the Holocaust and either join their relatives who had already emigrated to Shanghai or South America or immigrate to…
37. Arnold Joseph collection
1999.A.0234 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0234
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
bulk: 1946
…Arnold Joseph was born in 1927 in Saarbrucken, Germany, to Ferdinand and Elsa Joseph. He immigrated to the United States in 1938 with his mother…
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 … the Museum. Processing history: Julie Schweitzer, September 2014 Biographical note Arnold Joseph was born in 1927 in Saarbrucken, Germany…
38. Aron Lutwak photograph collection
2015.596.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2015.596.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1959
…The collection contains photographs and photograph postcards depicting the deportation of Jews from Coesfeld, Germany to Riga, Latvia on 10 December…
39. Art Deco style lipstick case carried by a Jewish refugee while searching for her family
2008.228.24 open
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.24
Date:
use: 1943-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
40. Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection
2000.506.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 65
Document | Accession Number: 2000.506.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1949
… with his sisters in the Weiden displaced persons camp in Germany. Abram eventually immigrated to the United States in March, 1947. In 1948 he was…
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 … Gelbart, wearing a concentration camp uniform and a cap. Dated June 1945; location: Altenburg, Germany. 3) Arthur Abram Gelbart, at the age of 16 years…
41. Arthur Gross photographs
2000.520.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.520.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1945
… was liquidated. Arthur and Aleksander Gross were deported to Rudolfswald forced labor camp in Germany, where they worked for a year on a gas pipeline…
42. Arthur Kerdemann papers
1995.A.0217.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0217.3
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1994
…Holocaust survivors--Germany--Dachau.…
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 … about this collection http://collections.ushmm.org Dachau (Concentration camp) Holocaust survivors‐‐Germany‐‐Dachau. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945…
43. Asriel and Mascha Berkmann papers
2016.202.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.202.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1989
bulk: 1945-1948
…, Germany with the intention of immigrating to Israel. However, she then met Asriel Berkmann, whom she had met before in the Kaunas ghetto. They married in…
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 … Berkmann’s experiences in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and in Munich, Germany after the war. Included are identification documents; immigration…
44. Auschwitz concentration camp scrip type 3, .50 Reichsmark, received by a Polish Jewish inmate
2010.191.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.191.4
Date:
issue: 1944 August
received: 1943 December-1944 January
…, Rushkal (?), born 1933, and Lushka (?), born 1938. Germany invaded Poland in September 1, 1939, and Chaim’s business was confiscated because he was Jewish…
45. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of a starving man eating from a ghetto garbage can
1998.79.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1998.79.1
Date:
creation: 1964
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Looking for some food in backyards was forbidden!
Alternate Title:
Hunger in Lodzer Ghetto
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
46. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of despairing and hungry Jews in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.182.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.1
Date:
creation: 1963 December
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Hunger in Lodzer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Despairing and hungry Jews in Lodzer ghetto
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
47. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of two Jewish couples and their children huddled on a Ghetto street
1993.165.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1993.165.2
Date:
creation: 1963
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Hunger im Łódźer Ghetto 1941 - 1945
Alternate Title:
Hunger in Łódź Ghetto
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
48. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of a man with a Star of David badge eating in a Łódź Ghetto food hall
1988.182.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.3
Date:
creation: 1947
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Public Kitchen in the Łódź Ghetto
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
49. Baby doll owned by a Jewish Yugoslavian girl in hiding
2019.20.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.20.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1908-before 1945
… forces and was partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, with Skopje falling under Bulgarian control. Bulgarian authorities passed many…
50. Bachmann family papers
2010.256.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.256.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-circa 1962
…). He lived in Göttingen, Germany. Erika Grafenberg Bachmann (1909-1983) was born on 19 August 1909 in Offenbach, Germany to Richard (1870-1951) and Anne…