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1. Ring with a red heart and inmate numbers made from a spoon in a concentration camp
2006.467.1, ring with heart made from spoon, Solomon Goldstein Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2006.467.1
Date:
received: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
creation: after 1943 October-before 1945 January
…, had active Jewish organizations, including a Zionist group. On September 1, 1939, western Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany and a few weeks later…
2. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
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…Ursula Lenneberg was born on April 24, 1926, in Dortmund, Germany, but raised in Aplerbeck. Her father, Otto, was Jewish and her mother, Caroline…
3. Gerda and Sylva Löwenstein papers
1995.56.5 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1995.56.5
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1951
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… volunteered to join her father on an October 1944 transport that was supposed to be a work transport to Germany but that really went to Auschwitz, where her…
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 … transport that was supposed to be a work transport to Germany but that really went to Auschwitz, where her parents were immediately sent to the gas chamber…
4. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
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… overseas in Germany and France.…
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 … forcibly drafted into the French Air Force. He immigrated to the United States in 1951 and became a citizen after serving in the US army overseas in Germany…
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  • Series 1: Philip D. Vock papers 1941-1975, Undated
    • File 4: Journal 1945
5. Helen Kulka Fanta collection
2007.195.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2007.195.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1997
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… detachment while stationed in Eutin, Germany. After the war, Helen moved to England, where she met her future Husband Erich Fanta. In 1952, the couple…
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 … was liberated, before serving as a secretary and interpreter for the same detachment while stationed in Eutin, Germany. After the war, Helen moved to…
6. 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…
7. Martha Bernstein collection
1994.A.0114 Box 1 Folder 2 Item 7
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0114
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1944
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…Martha (Heumann) Bernstein was born in 1902 in Benrath, Germany to a Jewish family. Martha's family and the family of her youngest sister, Helene…
8. 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…
9. Serafina and Bola Friedler papers
2011.158.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2011.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1966
… Jewish home around the Silesian region of central Europe. In late 1945, they were sent to a displaced persons camp in Bad Reichenhall, Germany through…
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 … were sent to a displaced persons camp in Bad Reichenhall, Germany through arrangements made by the UNRA. Serafina and Bola stayed in that camp for…
10. Brown enamel mug used by a Polish Jewish concentration camp prisoner
1996.5.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.5.1
Date:
issue: after 1943 January-before 1945 February
… September 1, 1939, Germany invaded western Poland, and in mid-September, the Soviet Union occupied eastern Poland in accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop…
11. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… regime came to power in Germany, Prague saw a large influx of Jews fleeing persecution. In September 1938, Germany annexed the Sudetenland border region…
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 … narratives. Political prisoners--Germany--Rottenburg am Neckar. World War, 1914-1918--Participation, Jewish. Women psychologists. Prague (Czech Republic…
12. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
…Rudi Dingfelder (later Robert Felder, 1924-1986) was born on April 21, 1924 in Uehlfeld, Germany to Leopold Dingfelder (1886-1943) and Johanna…
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 … family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, a studio…
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  • Series 1: Photographs Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
    • File 1: Dingfelder and Wolff families Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
      • Pages: 5, 7
13. Holub, Glaser, and Ornstein families papers
2019.320.1 Box 5 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.320.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2006
… Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2. Immigration papers include paperwork related to Arno…
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 … regarding Josef’s life insurance with Assicurazioni Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2…
14. Joseph Maier collection
1992.A.0031 Box 2 Folder 12 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0031 | RG Number: RG-06.021
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1976
bulk: 1945-1946
…Joseph Maier (1911-2002) was born in Leipzig, Germany. After finishing university in Leipzig he immigrated to the United States in September 1933…
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 …-1946, and various correspondence, memoranda, notes, articles, and clippings relating to the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, from…
15. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note issued to a Polish Jewish woman
2018.31.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.31.2
Date:
issue: 1940 July-1944 August 21
… that Germany had invaded Poland. One week later, the German army occupied Łódź and immediately instigated violence and anti-Semitic policies. Jews were…
16. 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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17. Dorothea Baumgart papers
1990.11.8 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.11.8
Date:
inclusive: 1940-circa 1957
…Dorothea Baumgart (1875-1957), was born Dorothea Lissner in Obrzycko, Poland and lived in Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland). Her property was…
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 … Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland). Her property was confiscated by the Nazi regime in June 1943, and four days later she was deported to Theresienstadt…
18. Margot Schwarzschild Wicki papers
2006.464.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2006.464.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-2003
…Margot Schwarzschild was born on November 20, 1931, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, to a Jewish father, Richard, born on December 12, 1898, in…
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 … Folkerts, April 2015 Biographical note Margot Schwarzschild (1931‐ ) was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany to a Jewish father, Richard, and a Catholic…
19. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
20. Siegfried Halbreich papers
1995.A.0178 Oversize Folder 5 Image 89
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0178
Date:
inclusive: 1942-2004
…, a transport for Jewish men was being arranged by the Germans, and so he escaped by train through Germany and Austria, before being stopped at the…
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 … of a list of names of 982 Jews deported from Beuthen, Germany, (now Bytom, Poland) in May and June 1942 (1993.A.0043) to the United States Holocaust…
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