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1. 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
2. Ilse Salomon collection
1988.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.13 | RG Number: RG-10.273
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1958
…Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from the Preungesheim prison in Frankfurt am…
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 … Adam Fielding, March 2020 Biographical note Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from…
3. 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
4. Louis Oppenheimer papers
1992.49.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1992.49.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
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…Louis Oppenheimer (?-1967) owned a clothing business and lived in Frankfurt, Germany with his wife (?-1967) and two children, Alfred (c. 1915-1991…
5. 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
6. 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.…
7. Frank Shurman collection
1995.A.0362 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0362
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1994
…Frank Shurman (1915-1999) was born Fritz Schürmann in Hildesheim, Germany to Willy and Alma Schürmann. His father owned a custom-tailoring business…
8. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
2016.287.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.287.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1960
bulk: 1945-1951
… Investigation. In 1945 he joined the United States Army as a fingerprint classifier for the Public Safety division in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His division was…
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 … collection documents Maurice La Kerr’s post-war experiences in Germany and France as a fingerprint analyst with the United States Army. Maurice worked in…
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9. 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…
10. Dr. Willy Katz papers
1990.88.11 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 1990.88.11
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1988
bulk: 1902-1950
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … files, 1929‐1945 Indexing terms Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Dresden. Jewish physicians…
11. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
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 … September 1937. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Częstochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the…
12. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
…Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma, and Ruth. Arthur worked as a draftsman by trade, but as…
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 …. Processing history: Michael Folkerts, July 2015 Biographical note Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma…
13. Irene Kedroff Kay photographs
2017.607.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.607.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1946
… acquired the photographs in Germany after the war while employed at one of the Dachau trials.…
14. Carl Heinz Rosner papers
2016.308.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2016.308.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2010
bulk: 1930-1957
…Carl Heinz Rosner (born Karl Heinz Rosner, 1929-) was born on 4 April 1929 in Hamburg, Germany to David and Rachel (née Hausner) Rosner. He had two…
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 … Carl Heinz Rosner of Hamburg, Germany including his stay at a Jewish orphanage from 1937-1942; the deportation of Rosner and his brother Joseph to the…
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15. 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…
16. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… (Kazio) Szelest, organized a group and retaliated against the other group. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Henryk was at work. He headed…
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 …. Water polo coaches – Poland. Belgium. Germany. New York (N.Y.) Poland. United States--Emigration and immigration--History. Correspondence. Photographs…
17. Irving Newman papers
1995.A.0753.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0753.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1949
… war and reunited in Łódź, Poland in 1945. For four years the family lived in displaced person camps in West Germany, where Irving became active in…
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 … articles Irving wrote for the Jidisze Cajtung, one of the largest displaced persons newspapers while living in displaced persons camps in West Germany…
18. Heinrich Stern collection
1995.A.0363 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0363
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1986
bulk: 1909-1944
…Heinrich Stern (1882-1949) was born and lived in Nordhausen, Germany. He would eventually marry Charlotte Herzog, and they had one child, Eva…
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 … and lived in Nordhausen, Germany. He would eventually marry Charlotte Herzog, and they had one child, Eva. Heinrich became a notary and lawyer, and…
19. Erna Ketchie collection
1999.205.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 1999.205.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1951
… Jewish. The family lived in Frankfurt am Main, Germany prior to World War II where Hans was a hairdresser. During the war, both Hans and Frieda were…
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 … white image of two women standing together, woman on left is holding a book; verso: “Atelier Rembrandt…” printed in black ink; Karlsruhe, Germany; in…
20. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, acquired by a US soldier
1988.168.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.168.1
Date:
issue: after 1938 July-before 1945 April
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…