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1. Maerker and Behr families papers
2017.404.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2017.404.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1873-1983
…, the family sailed out of Hamburg on the SS President Roosevelt to the United States. They settled in Philadelphia, PA. Gerhard was drafted in 1943 and…
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 … Germany. Scope and content of collection The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Willy and Else (née Behr) Maerker, originally of Bernburg…
2. Silver rickshaw and driver figurine owned by a Lithuanian Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.513.7 3/4 view
Object | Accession Number: 2017.513.7
Date:
manufacture: 1870-1948
acquired: 1941 November-1948 December 31
… Vilna ghetto in 1942 or 1943. Eli’s parents likely died in Siberia. On January 1, 1949, Sara, her family, and her uncle Samuel boarded the S.S. General M…
3. Jack Moses papers
1993.43 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1993.43
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1983
bulk: 1915-1947
… comprised of Nazi-era newspapers and booklets. The collection also includes an SS membership booklet and a Nazi Party membership booklet for unrelated men.…
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 …. The collection also includes an SS membership booklet and a Nazi Party membership booklet for unrelated men. Languages: German, English…
4. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
… the S.S. General Blatchford, and settled in Indianapolis, Indiana.…
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 … Holocaust experiences of the Bleier family of Budapest, Hungary and the Weisz family of Baia Mare, Romania. Included are biographical papers, correspondence…
5. Levinson and Stern family papers
2015.606.1 Box 2 Folder 39 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.606.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1995
bulk: 1875-1958
… photograph album, 1932-1940 contains photographs from the Levinsons’ trip to the United States aboard the SS Bremen in 1935 and their life in New York. The…
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 … Levinson donated the Levinson and Stern family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2015. Related archival materials: The Fred…
6. Cohn and Siebenberg families papers
2016.254.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2016.254.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2001
… 1938 and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. He was released in January 1939 and emigrated from Germany on the S.S. Orduna in May 1939 to Cuba. He…
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 … collection documents the experiences of the Cohn family from Leipzig, Germany and the Siebenberg family of Offenbach am Main, Germany during the Holocaust. The…
7. Schultz and Bodnar families papers
2017.336.1 Box 4 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.336.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2015
bulk: 1916-1954
… Academy of Music. Edith immigrated to the United States on the SS Washington in 1939 under the Yugoslav quota, but Zoltan was on the Hungarian quota and…
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 … Immediate Source of Acquisition: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Anita Skolnick, Peter Bodnar, and Paul Bodnar in…
8. Egon Weiss papers
2011.128.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2011.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2009
bulk: 1920-1945
Special Collection:
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… British did not to allow passengers to land and instead deport them to Mauritius. Egon was then transferred onto the SS Patria for deportation. Haganna…
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 … describing his 1940 voyage on the SS Milos, the explosion of the SS Patria, his internment in the Atlit detainee camp, and the following years in Jerusalem as…
9. Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers
2003.361.1 Box 2 Folder 8 Image 116
Document | Accession Number: 2003.361.1 | RG Number: RG-24.021
Date:
inclusive: 1879-2001
… German SS. Moritz had secret contacts in the railroad and they soon realized that they were being lied to about the destination of the transports. They…
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 … the Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 in memory of their grandparents. Related archival…
10. Adler family papers
2016.458.1 Book Enclosure 8 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.458.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880 September-2003
… Paris in April 1941 with the assistance of a guide who led him out of the city, and took a train to Marseille. From there, he boarded the S.S. Winnipeg to…
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 … Holocaust experiences of brothers Denis and János Adler, originally of Szeged, Hungary, and members of their extended families. The collection contains…
11. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
…, and passed his journeyman’s examination. Niemann joined the Nazi Party in 1931 as member number 753,836 and the SS in 1934 as member number 270,600. He…
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 …, his family, and his SS career, culminating in his role as deputy commander of the Sobibor death camp. Niemann was killed by prisoners during the October…
12. Schulhof family papers
2017.133.1 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.133.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1882-1999
bulk: 1903-1948
…The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Joseph, Charlotte, and Peter Schulhof of Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) as refugees in…
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 … were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Peter Schulhof in 2017. Related materials: Plaque and certificate from Lieberman Waelchli…
13. Fellner family papers
2015.563.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.563.1
Date:
inclusive: 1865-circa 2014
bulk: 1901-1957
… Wise. He booked passage on the SS Conte di Savoia, and arrived in New York on September 23, 1939. He settled in Dallas, Texas where he taught music. In…
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 …; and the emigration difficulties Rudolf’s parents Eugen and Stefanie faced when leaving Vienna on the SS Pentcho, which shipwrecked near Greece in 1940…
14. Emil Oettinger papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.634
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1963
bulk: 1936-1939
… affidavit for Emil and Käthe. Emil also investigated leaving for England, India, and Trinidad and Tobago. The couple sailed from Hamburg aboard the SS…
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 … SS President Harding in April 1939 and arrived in New York in May. Scope and content of collection The Emil Oettinger papers consist primarily of…
15. Julius and Bertha Meyerowitz papers
1993.128.16 Box 1 Folder 18 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1993.128.16
Date:
inclusive: 1866-1958
… they waited for a response. When their paperwork was finally in order, the couple traveled to Portugal and Spain, before boarding the SS Marques de…
16. Schwarz and Rosenwald families papers
2017.167.1 Image 5 Box 1 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2017.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1834-2006
bulk: 1920-1960
… in 1936, arriving on the S.S. Washington on 15 October 1936 and settling in Chicago, where members of the Rosenwald family, both individually and…
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 … in 1936, arriving on the S.S. Washington on 15 October 1936 and settling in Chicago, where members of the Rosenwald family, both individually and…
17. Regina and Halina Goldwag papers
2014.426.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.426.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-2008
bulk: 1944-1949
… Goldwag and her daughter Halina in Poland and Germany before, during, and after the Holocaust.…
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 … collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Regina (née Zak) Goldwag and her daughter Halina (later Halina Rosenberg), both of Warsaw, Poland. Both…
18. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…. On April 20, the camp was evacuated and the prisoners marched under SS guard towards an undisclosed location. On the night of May 2, Wollheim fled to…
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 … Holocaust Survivors, the United Jewish Appeal, and the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Languages: German, English, Yiddish, Hebrew, French…
19. Very large Henckels fabric shears from the family capmaking business brought to the US by a Jewish refugee
2004.704.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.704.5
Date:
creation: after 1900-before 1938
… Frieda were too elderly to leave. David, Regina, Edgar, and Robert traveled to Antwerp, Belgium, in early September 1938. They boarded the S.S. Pennland…
20. Ernest Steen papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.300.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1967
bulk: 1930-1948
… Levistein (1881-1935). He had one sister Erna (b. 1907, later Erna Oppenheim). Prior to the war, Ernest worked for R. & W. Nathan, a women’s and children…
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 … February 1942 in the ghetto hospital. Scope and content of collection The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Ernest Steen (born Ernst…