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1. 2nd Lieutenant's insignia pin worn by a Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.14
Date:
use: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
2. 2nd Lieutenant's insignia pin worn by a Jewish German US soldier
2003.149.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.149.15
Date:
use: 1945 May 09-approximately 1946 June
…Rudolf (Rudolph) Daniel Sichel was born on January 2, 1915, in the Hesse district of Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Ernst and Frieda Oppenheimer…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Abe Morgenstern photographs
1998.75 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1998.75
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1947
… displaced persons camps in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, and Bari, Italy after the Holocaust.…
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 … Africa General Eisenhower”; verso: black ink inscriptions “D.P. Camp/Frankfurt-W. Germany”; dated December 26, 1945; Frankfurt, Germany; in English and…
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6. 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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7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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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10. 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…
11. Abraham Lewent papers
1989.242.32 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1989.242.32
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
… Eibeshitz, moved in with them. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was bombed and they had no water, heat, or food. For weeks, they ate only…
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 …, an identification card from the Feldafing displaced persons camp, a membership card for the Council of Warsaw Jews in the American Zone of Germany, a…
12. 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…
13. Adam and Helen Gawara papers
2014.208.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2014.208.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1954
… United States, she claimed her birthday was May 5, 1922.) When Germany invaded Poland, she and her mother moved to Szydłowiec. Her father and brother were…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. Albert Rosenberg papers
1995.A.0606 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0606
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1983
bulk: 1945
…Albert Rosenberg (1918-2014) was born in Göttingen, Germany. Brought up in a well-to-do Jewish family, he attended school and went on to study at…
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 ….ushmm.org for further information. Processing history: Colleen Benoit, February 2016 Biographical note Albert Rosenberg (1918-2014) was born in Gottingen, Germany…
18. Albert Speer's Nuremberg war crimes trial headphones
1996.36.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1996.36.17
Date:
use: 1945 November 20-1946 October 01
…Nuremberg (Germany)…
19. 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…
20. Alexander Muller collection
2018.446.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.446.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-1946
…The collection includes a journal, on loose pages, transcribed and recorded by Alexander Muller in a displaced persons camp in Kassel, Germany. The…