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1. Asriel and Mascha Berkmann papers
2016.202.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.202.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1989
bulk: 1945-1948
…, Germany with the intention of immigrating to Israel. However, she then met Asriel Berkmann, whom she had met before in the Kaunas ghetto. They married in…
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 … Berkmann’s experiences in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and in Munich, Germany after the war. Included are identification documents; immigration…
2. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
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 … Germany. Emigration and immigration files include affidavits, forms, supporting documentation, packing lists, and correspondence with government agencies…
3. Dorothea Dressel collection
1995.A.0186 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0186
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1986
bulk: 1930-1947
… World War I, he was severely wounded, and returned to Munich. Following the war, he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD), and was…
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 … Party of Germany (KPD), and was active politically, serving as a district leader for the party in southern Bavaria, and eventually serving as chair of…
4. 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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5. Eichengrün and Stern families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.627.15
Date:
inclusive: 1872-2005
bulk: 1936-1956
…Hedwig (Hedi) Stern (née Eichengrün, later Gutmann, 1898-1983) was born on 29 April 1898 in Munich, Germany to Sally (1867-1948) and Julie (née…
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 … 1936-1956) Accession number: 2017.627.15 Creator: Eichengrün (Family : Munich, Germany) Additional creator: Stern (Family : Munich, Germany) Extent: 10…
6. Lista Family papers
2017.522.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.522.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1992
bulk: 1945-1956
…The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Jerry Lista (born Israel Cymbalista) in displaced persons camps near Munich, Germany; his…
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 … (born Israel Cymbalista) in displaced persons camps near Munich, Germany; his immigration to the United States in 1951; his marriage to Gyta Szmulewicz…
7. Mosheim and Marx families papers
1999.A.0233 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0233
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
… City. Karl Marx had died of natural causes in 1938 in Munich, and her mother remained in Germany to care for his ailing mother, Pauline Mayer Marx…
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 … United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened…
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8. Ney and Grundmann families papers
2017.247.1 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2017.247.1
Date:
inclusive: 1867-2010
bulk: 1910-1950
… married in Augsburg, Germany on 15 December 1908, and but returned to Metz, where Sigmund worked as a lawyer. Sigmund served in the Germany Army during…
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 … material, audiovisual recordings, and other related materials, documenting the history of the families of Herbert Ney (Neu), originally of Munich, Germany…
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9. Oral history interview with Alex Krasheninnikow
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.111 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0111
Date:
interview: 1989 December 18
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… car to Brätz (Brójce) concentration camp near Schwiebus, Germany (Świebodzin, Poland); how the guards beat them with clubs and separated men from women…
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 … stations that now that the war began Germany has broken a https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this…
10. Oral history interview with Amalie Petranker Salsitz
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.389.1 | RG Number: RG-50.030.0198
Date:
interview: 1990 May 15
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Amalie Petranker Salsitz, born in 1922 in Munich, Germany, describes growing up in a Zionist family; moving to Stanislav, Poland (now Ivano-Frankivs…
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 … October 21st, 1922 in Munich, Germany, but I was just born there. Why? It was an accident. My mother was visiting there, but I was raised, brought up and…
11. Oral history interview with Anatole Gorko
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.10 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0010
Date:
interview: 1985 August 20
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, when Germany invaded Poland; fighting in the Polish Army for three weeks; being taken to a prisoner-of-war camp for a few weeks; living with his family…
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 … Germany invaded Poland. He fought in the Polish Army for 3 weeks, after being in the Reserves was taken in a prisoner of war camp for a few weeks. He found…
12. Oral history interview with Anna Weiss
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.89 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0089
Date:
interview: 1990 November 02
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Anna Weiss (née Loewi), born on January 26, 1911 in Gratz, Austria, describes attending medical school in Munich, Germany in 1932; returning after…
13. Oral history interview with Ann Frum
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0087.21 | RG Number: RG-50.091.0021
Date:
interview: 1984 August 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany, where she was forced to dig trenches for the burial of other Jews; being sent to Bergau (Burgau) and Turkine (Türkheim), smaller concentration…
14. Oral history interview with Bernhard Witkop
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0095.95 | RG Number: RG-50.163.0095
Date:
interview: 1989 May 30
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Bernhard Witkop, born on May 9, 1917 in Freiburg, Germany, describes being raised by a Catholic father and Jewish mother; being baptized as a…
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 …Bernhard Witkop RG-50.163*0095 May 9, 1917 - Born in Freiburg, Germany Father - Catholic, Mother - Jewish Bernhard baptized as a Catholic 1935…
15. Oral history interview with Bernie Bratt
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.182 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0182
Date:
interview: 1988 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…, Germany to see his brother and sister in October 1945; immigrating to Israel; and immigrating to the United States in November 1956.…
16. Oral history interview with Billy Taylor
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.40 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0040
Date:
interview: 1989 September 29
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Rhine River at Worms, Germany; taking Mannheim, Germany; coming across a training camp for German youth and a compound of imported food; being northwest…
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 … 522 field artillery and sent us north, up into France and Germany, to make the push into Germany with our artillery. And that's when we separated. And…
17. Oral history interview with Caroline Blumenthal
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1997.A.0441.175 | RG Number: RG-50.462.0175
Date:
interview: 1981 February 05
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Caroline Blumenthal (née Schoenfeld), born in September 1900 in Cologne, Germany, discusses her family; having good relations with the non-Jewish…
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 … Restrictions: None SUMMARY Caroline1 Blumenthal, nee Schoenfeld, was born in Cologne, Germany in September 1900. Her family lived peacefully with the non-Jewish…
18. Oral history interview with Clara Dan
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Oral History | RG Number: RG-50.232.0019
Date:
interview: 1982 July 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… Bergen-Belsen; being liberated by the British Army; being placed with her sister in a displaced persons camp in Celle, Germany, where they were reunited…
19. Oral history interview with Dina Weinreb Jacoud
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1993.A.0088.64 | RG Number: RG-50.002.0064
Date:
interview: 1987 April 09
interview: 1987 April 27
interview: 1987 June 01
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… prisoner; performing forced labor at Auschwitz; performing slave labor at a bulb factory in Plauen, Germany, and her liberation from Plauen; life in…
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 …:10:18,230 came to Békéscsaba, because that was closer to Romania. 196 00:10:18,230 --> 00:10:21,500 And Romania wasn't under Germany yet. 197 00:10:21…
20. Oral history interview with Don Shimazu
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Oral History | Accession Number: 1990.481.36 | RG Number: RG-50.062.0036
Date:
interview: 1987 December 21
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
… the 63rd, 45th, 44th, and the 101st to assist in the Allied crossing of the Rhine; travelling through Mannheim, Germany and the Siegfried Line; entering…
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 … concentration camps in Germany. Strike that. OK, go on. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection…