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1. 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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2. 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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3. Ilse Loewenberg papers
1995.A.0589 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0589
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1993
…Ilse Loewenberg (1908-2001) was born to shop owners Simon Berghausen (1870-1943) and Hannchen (Goldschmidt) Berghausen (b. 1880) in Büren, Germany…
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 … Ilse Loewenberg’s experiences as a member of an underground resistance group and her imprisonment in Berlin, Germany from 1943-1945. Included is a…
4. 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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5. 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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6. Bier family papers
2016.522. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2016.522.1
Date:
inclusive: 1891-2008
… linen store. They immigrated to the United States with 1941. Siegfried lived in Berlin since 1929, and fled Germany in late 1938 for France. He was…
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 …: Bier (Family: Berlin, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington…
7. Edmund Schechter papers
1999.A.0276 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0276
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1995
… an American‐ controlled radio station in Germany, Radio in the American Sector (RIAS). He returned to the United States briefly in 1946 and obtained…
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 … German Radio Operations of the United States High Commissioner in Germany (HICOG); Schechter’s defense against claims made during hearings by the Senate…
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8. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
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 … Britain. Wollheim continued to work for the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Union of Jews in Germany). In 1941 he was drafted to perform forced…
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9. Charlotte Dunwiddie papers, 1907-1995
1997.A.0286 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0286
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1995
… property in Germany that had been held in trust for her stepfather during the war so that it would not be seized as Jewish property; and four family…
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 … Dunwiddie’s efforts to receive compensation for inherited property in Germany that had been held in trust for her stepfather during the war so that it would…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. Irene and Henry Frank papers
2016.496.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.496.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1992
…Irene Frank (nee Silberstein, b. 1927) was born in Berlin, Germany to Dr. Friedrich (Fritz) Silberstein (1890-1944) and Lotte Frank Silberstein (1903…
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 … helped a lot of Jewish families leave Germany, but ultimately it became too late for him and his family to get out. In 1941, Irene’s mother, Lotte, was…
13. 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…
14. Falik family papers
2016.303.4 Box 4 Folder 1 Image 50
Document | Accession Number: 2016.303.4
Date:
inclusive: 1927-2000
bulk: 1930-1947
…, Deborah, and one brother, Eli. Leon studied medicine in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Warsaw, Poland. He worked in Warsaw until 1939 when Germany invaded…
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 … photographs of post-war Germany and Europe, and the WAC. Languages: Polish, English, Russian, German, Yiddish, Hebrew Administrative Information Access…
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15. Stephan H. Lewy papers
2013.440.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.440.1
Date:
1939-2012
…Heinz Stephan Lewy was born on March 11, 1925, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and Protestant mother, Arthur and Gertrude Puls Lewy. Arthur…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. Eva Baumohl papers
2007.190.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.190.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-2007
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …) Ravensbrück (Concentration camp) Neustadt‐Glewe (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish refugees‐‐Israel‐‐Tel Aviv. Jewish refugees‐‐Belgium…
20. Frederick Weinstein papers
2008.321.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2008.321.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1999
bulk: 1944-1947
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… family lived in Łódź and all three children attended Jewish schools. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Winnykamien family fled Łódź for Warsaw…
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 … three children attended Jewish schools. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Winnykamien family fled Łódź for Warsaw, with the intention of escaping…