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61. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
62. 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…
63. Ink and pencil sketch
2010.502.52 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.52
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
64. 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…
65. Jacket design, Gussi, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.14
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Gussi
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
66. Jacob Barosin drawing of a man hiding from the police
2010.502.72 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.72
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Curfew in Nimes
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
67. Jacob Barosin drawing of people waiting in a town square
2010.502.70 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.70
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
Artwork Title:
Lunel, France
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
68. Jacob Barosin drawing of three people walking
2010.502.71 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.71
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
69. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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…
70. J. Herbert Nagler papers
2018.614.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.614.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1960
bulk: 1931-1935
… Nagler Richter Patterson. In October 1931, he sailed to Germany to study medicine. He returned to America in December 1935. He married Elaine Nagler, and…
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 … parents in Philadelphia while he was studying medicine in Berlin, Germany and in Basel and Fribourg, Switzerland. His letters include his impressions of the…
71. 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…
72. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
… September 27, 1938. The family lived in Nuremberg, Germany. During the war, Josef Baur worked as a member of the Police Battalion 131 and the 14th SS Police…
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 … married Agnes Baur who was born on December 27, 1910. Their son, Josef Baur, was born on September 27, 1938. The family lived in Nuremberg, Germany. During…
73. Judith Cromwell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1990
bulk: 1914-1950
…Judith Cromwell was born Judith Hanna Lissauer on 13 November 1935 in Berlin, Germany to John and Charlotte Lissauer. Her father, John Lissauer (1890…
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 …), including John and Charlotte’s medical careers in Berlin, Germany, John’s World War I military service, their immigration to England in 1939, and Judith and…
74. Kim family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.360.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1983
bulk: 1929-1941
… United States. Jacob, aware of rising Antisemitism in Germany, was concerned about the family’s safety and was insistent that the Kims, particularly Betty…
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 ….360.1 Creator: Kim (Family : Berlin, Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box, 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
75. Klopstock family papers
1997.12 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.12
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1945
… Germany through Italy and arrived in the United Stated in early 1940. Norbert joined his family in March 1940.…
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 …: Klopstock (Family: Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.6 linear feet (1 box and 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
76. Larry Shalit (Schalyt-Tykotzki) family archive
2015.603. 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.603.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1968
… eventually moved to Berlin, Germany. Alexander married Sima Tykotzki (1898-1968), and their son Larry (1924-2009) was born on 22 October 1924. Disturbed by the…
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 … Dates: 1918-1968 Accession number: 2015.603.1 Creator: Shalit family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust…
77. Lilli Wolff papers
1999.A.0041 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0041
Date:
inclusive: 1870-1983
… certificate, application for Austrian citizenship, letters of recommendation, and a travel pass document Lilli Wolff’s life in Germany and Austria and her…
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 … Germany and Austria and her immigration to the United States. Three narratives by Lilli Wolff describe her experiences in Nazi Germany and Austria: two…
78. Loewenstein family papers
2001.65.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2001.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1943
… Ernest, Guy, and Hede Loewenstein, their emigration from Germany, and immigration to the United States. Emigration and immigration records consist of…
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 … number: 2001.65.1 Creator: Loewenstein (Family : Koblenz, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear foot (12 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust…
79. 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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80. 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…