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1. Advocate for the doomed : the diaries and papers of James G. McDonald, 1932-1935 / edited by Richard Breitman, Barbara McDonald Stewart, and Severin Hochberg.
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Publication | Library Call Number: E748.M1475 A3 2007
Uniform Title:
Diaries. Selections
Author/Creator:
McDonald, James G. (James Grover), 1886-1964
Published:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2007]
©2007
Availability
…Germany--History--1933-1945--Sources.…
2. Aharon Lazer papers
2017.302.5 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 64
Document | Accession Number: 2017.302.5
Date:
circa 1942-1945
Special Collection:
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…, Germany, and other locations in Europe.…
3. 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…
4. Alfred Rosenberg diary
2001.62.14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2001.62.14 | RG Number: RG-71
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1944
…-aggression pact, the invasion of Poland, Germany’s relations with other countries prior to the war (Romania, Spain, Afghanistan, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy…
5. Angela Schwartz diary
2017.515.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.515.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
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…Women concentration camp inmates--Germany--Sömmerda.…
6. Anne Ranasinghe papers
2018.627.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2018.627.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2017
bulk: 1936-2017
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…Anne Ranasinghe (1925-2016) was born Anneliese Henriette Katz on 2 October 1925 in Essen, Germany to Jewish parents Emil and Anna Katz. Emil Katz…
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 …, writings, and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Anne Ranasinghe (born Anneliese Katz), originally of Essen, Germany, including her…
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7. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
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…, Stalag IX-B, in Bad Orb, Germany. Tony was prisoner number 27016. He was interrogated for several hours by a German officer in English and Spanish, and…
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 …, and was ordered to surrender. They were taken to Stalag IX‐B in Bad Orb, Germany, where conditions were terrible. He was selected as part of a group…
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  • Series 1: Anthony Acevedo papers Circa 1935-Circa 2012
    • File 1: Diary 1945
8. Bachmann family papers
2010.256.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.256.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-circa 1962
…). He lived in Göttingen, Germany. Erika Grafenberg Bachmann (1909-1983) was born on 19 August 1909 in Offenbach, Germany to Richard (1870-1951) and Anne…
9. Bernard Frum papers
1994.A.0136 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0136 | RG Number: RG-10.152
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1960
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…Bernard Frum (b. Bernhard, 1914-1975) was born in Berlin, Germany to Gershon (1878-c.1944) and Lea Frum (née Polinkowsky, 1877-c.1944) and had two…
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 …, a diary, and immigration documents relating to Bernard Frum and his wife Lucy Frum’s escape from Germany to Shanghai during the Holocaust as well as…
10. Bierzonski family papers
2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
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…Gerda Bikales (née Bierzonski b. 1931) was born in Breslau, Germany to Viktor (b. 1897) and Bronia (b. Bilma Lefkowitz in 1906) Bierzonski. Gerda had…
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 ….605.2 Creator: Bierzonski (Family: Breslau, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
11. Bronisław Zbigniew Bulkowski papers
2018.555.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.555.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-2005
… forced laborer to the German National Railway Authorities (Deutsche Reichsbahn) in Altena, Germany between 1942 and 1945. After the war, he worked as a…
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 …, when the same bread in the stores would go for 0.60 rm. 30. 7 Sept. First time in Germany, a “vehicle” comes at 9.30 in the evening. 31. 10 Sept. We…
12. Charles Phillip Sharp collection
2004.664.3 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 73
Document | Accession Number: 2004.664.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1993
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… commander, Lt. Colonel W.H. Mather. Great Britain declared war on Germany on September 3, 1939, following the September 1 invasion of Poland. Philip…
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 … over from Germany. As one of the few soldiers that had received a second typhus vaccination, Major Sharp was one of the first British soldiers to enter…
13. Charles Vogel papers
2010.500.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2010.500.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1937-2001
undated: 
bulk: 1945-1949
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… camp, in Bad Orb, Germany. He was one of 350 American soldiers sent to the forced labor camp Berga an der Elster, a sub-camp of Buchenwald concentration…
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 … material: Mark and Martin Vogel also donated three issues of The Cub of the Golden Lion and a map of Germany with International boundaries as of January 1938…
14. Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers
2010.171.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image
Document | Accession Number: 2010.171.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1953
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… towns in Germany until liberation followed by a return trip home to Užhorod after the war. The diary also includes an allegory titled Inventory and dated…
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 … Schwarzenberg, and other towns in Germany until liberation followed by a return trip home to Užhorod after the war. The diary also includes an allegory titled…
15. Curt Gutsmuth papers
2000.566.3 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2000.566.3
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1959
undated: 
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… Avraham (also Abraham or Alfred, b. 1912), and a sister, Erna (b. 1907). They lived near Giessen, Germany and his father owned a fabric business. Curt…
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 …, a photograph, and printed material relating to Curt and Nelly Gutsmuth and their family’s experiences escaping Germany and hiding in the Netherlands…
16. David Siegel papers
2003.92 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 92
Document | Accession Number: 2003.92
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1983
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… immigration of Jewish displaced persons to Canada. David served in Europe in 1948 and 1949, visiting various displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria, and…
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 … facilitate immigration of Jewish displaced persons to Canada. David served in Europe in 1948 and 1949, visiting various displaced persons camps in Germany…
17. David Weyl diaries
2017.523.1 BookEnclosure Folder 1 Image 45
Document | Accession Number: 2017.523.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
Special Collection:
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…David Weyl (1873-1948) was born on 11 October 1873 in Erkelenz, Germany to Anselm (1831-1897) and Flora (née Leffmann, 1844-1919) Weyl. He had 15…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection consists of three diaries kept by David Weyl, originally of Erkelenz, Germany…
18. The diary of a survivor : by Herbert R. Ert ; with collaboration by Lore Ert and Eileen Ert.
Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.U43 R448 1992
Author/Creator:
Ert, Herbert R., 1920-2016
Published:
1992
©1992
Special Collection:
Claims Conference Holocaust Survivor Memoir Collection (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Availability
…Access to this digital memoir made possible by USHMM on behalf of and with the support of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
19. Die Tagebücher von Joseph Goebbels : sämtliche Fragmente / herausgegeben von Elke Fröhlich, im Auftrag des Instituts für Zeitgeschichte und in Verbindung mit dem Bundesarchiv.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DD247.G6 A26 1987 T.1/v.1-4, T.1/v.1 pt. 2, T.1a/v.1 pt.1, pt. 3, v. 2 pt.2, pt. 3, v. 3 pt. 2, v.4-9, T.1(index), T.2/v.1-15, T. 3, v. 1-3
Uniform Title:
Diaries
Author/Creator:
Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945
Published:
München ; New York : K.G. Saur, 1987-<2008>
Availability
…Institut für Zeitgeschichte (Munich, Germany)…
20. Dublon family papers
2000.106.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.106.2
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1939
Special Collection:
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… lived in Erfurt, Germany where Willi owned Salamander Schuhe, a local shoe store and Erna was a housewife. In 1938 the family applied for visas to the…
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 …-1944?) had two daughters, Lore (1927-1994?) and Eva (1933-1944?). The family lived in Erfurt, Germany where Willi owned Salamander Schuhe, a local shoe…
21. Edwin Allan diary and photographs
2017.236.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2017.236.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1942-1944
Special Collection:
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…Prisoners of war--Germany--Diaries.…
22. Edwin Dutkiewicz papers
2014.74.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2014.74.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1980
bulk: 1941-1947
Special Collection:
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…Organisation Todt (Germany)…
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 … 1: The Edwin Dutkiewicz papers Indexing terms Dutkiewicz, Edwin Organisation Todt (Germany) World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Bydgoszcz. World War, 1939…
23. 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…
24. Erwin Marx papers
1990.283.13 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.283.13 | RG Number: RG-28.011
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1970
Special Collection:
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…Erwin Marx was born in 1895 in Freiburg, Germany, to Julius Marx (1865-1925) and Anna Schoenthal Marx (1870-1941). Erwin waa textile merchant. He was…
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 …, and restitutions papers documenting Erwin Marx, a merchant from Freiburg, Germany, his refuge in Shanghai, and his efforts to obtain restitution after…
25. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
…, where she became fluent in French. She returned to Germany where she became a student of the Gottingen philosopher Leonard Nelson and the educator Minna…
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 …. She returned to Germany where she became a student of the Gottingen philosopher Leonard Nelson and the educator Minna Specht. Along with her oldest…
26. Eve Przemyski papers
2010.459.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.459.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1964
Special Collection:
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… prisoner of war camps in Germany during the Holocaust, and in Italy and England after the Holocaust, of Richard Przemyski in Poland and a prisoner of war…
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 ….ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org Prisoners of war--Germany. Holocaust survivors…
27. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection
1990.23.241 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.23.241
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1990
…Felix Levi was born on May 2, 1912, in Sennfeld, Germany, to Maier and Jette Aufhauser Levi. He had several siblings, including two brothers and a…
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 … history: Julie Schweitzer, April 2015 Biographical note Felix Van Beek (1912‐2010) was born Felix Levi in Sennfeld, Germany (Schweinfurt district…
28. Felix Librach papers
2012.469.6 Box 1 Folder 31 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2012.469.6
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1965
…Felix (Shraga) Librach was born in 1919 in Halle, Germany, to Avram (Abram/Adolf) Librach (1891-1941) and Gutta (Gitel/Gizela) Librach (1891-1942…
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 … records, and kibbutz records documenting Felix, Martin, and Sophie Librach's emigration from Germany and Poland to Palestine in the 1930s, their lives in…
29. Francis Akos papers
1990.174 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 53
Document | Accession Number: 1990.174
Date:
1944-1951
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…Bombing, Aerial--Germany--Lübeck Bay.…
30. Francis M. Shea journal
1998.A.0014 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0014
Date:
inclusive: 1945 July 12-1945 October 29
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
31. Frederick Weinstein papers
2008.321.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2008.321.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1999
bulk: 1944-1947
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… family lived in Łódź and all three children attended Jewish schools. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Winnykamien family fled Łódź for Warsaw…
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 … three children attended Jewish schools. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Winnykamien family fled Łódź for Warsaw, with the intention of escaping…
32. Frederic Zeller papers
2017.576.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 71
Document | Accession Number: 2017.576.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1990
bulk: 1939-1948
…Frederic Zeller (nicknamed Fredi, 1924-1994) was born on 20 May 1924 in Berlin, Germany to Heinrich and Fanny Zeller. He had one sister, Lilian. His…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Frederic Zeller of Berlin, Germany including…
33. Frieda and Max Reinach diary
1999.A.0215 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 29
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0215 | RG Number: RG-10.249
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1942
Special Collection:
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…Germany.…
34. Fritz Buff papers
2007.121.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2007.121.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1940
Special Collection:
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…Fritz (now Fred) Buff (1921-2017) was the son of Julius and Emma Buff. He was born on July 26, 1921 in Krumbach, Germany, a small Bavarian town where…
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 …, Germany, his voyage aboard the MS St. Louis to Cuba in 1939, the ship’s forced return to Europe, his life as a refugee in Brussels, Belgium, and his…
35. From day to day / by Odd Nansen ; translated by Katherine John.
Publication | Library Call Number: D805.G3 N3513 1949
Uniform Title:
Fra dag til dag. English
Author/Creator:
Nansen, Odd, 1901-1973
Published:
New York : Putnam's Sons, [1949]
©1949
Availability
…Internment camp inmates--Germany--Diaries.…
36. Gad Beck papers
2000.416 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2000.416
Date:
circa 1942
Special Collection:
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…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
37. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
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…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
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 … family of Moritz and Else Gans, originally of Borken, Germany, who were living in Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Prior to the war, Moritz and Else emigrated…
38. Gerda and Sylva Löwenstein papers
1995.56.5 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1995.56.5
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1951
Special Collection:
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… volunteered to join her father on an October 1944 transport that was supposed to be a work transport to Germany but that really went to Auschwitz, where her…
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 … transport that was supposed to be a work transport to Germany but that really went to Auschwitz, where her parents were immediately sent to the gas chamber…
39. The Goebbels diaries, 1942-1943 / edited, translated, and with an introduction by Louis P. Lochner.
Publication | Library Call Number: DD247.G6 A25 1948
Uniform Title:
Diaries. Selections. English
Author/Creator:
Goebbels, Joseph, 1897-1945
Published:
Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1948
Availability
…World War, 1939-1945--Germany.…
40. Goldstein and Thebner families papers
2002.245.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2002.245.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1917-1958
Special Collection:
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… their attempts to emigrate from Germany as well as pre-war family photographs. The collection also includes a diary written by Ilse Szinberger, Arthur…
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 …: approximately 1917-1958 Accession number: 2002.245.1 Creator: Goldstein (Family: Berlin, Germany) Additional creator: Thebner (Family: Vienna, Austria) Extent: .4…
41. Guttentag family papers
2001.42 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 67
Document | Accession Number: 2001.42 | RG Number: RG-10.216
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1942
Special Collection:
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…Contains one diary written by Dr. Adolf Guttentag in Berlin, Germany in 1942. In the diary, Dr. Guttentag described his experiences as a Jew in…
42. Hank Freedman collection
2014.352.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Item 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.352.1
Date:
creation: 1945
Special Collection:
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…The collection includes a color copy of a journal written by Hank Freedman while a POW in Germany, first at Stalag IXB in Bad Orb and then Stalag IXA…
43. Helen Kulka Fanta collection
2007.195.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2007.195.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1997
Special Collection:
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… detachment while stationed in Eutin, Germany. After the war, Helen moved to England, where she met her future Husband Erich Fanta. In 1952, the couple…
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 … was liberated, before serving as a secretary and interpreter for the same detachment while stationed in Eutin, Germany. After the war, Helen moved to…
44. Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss papers
2014.471.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.471.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1961
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… including Auschwitz, munitions factory Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen, in Poland, and Bergen-Belsen in Germany where they were liberated. They were…
45. Hess family papers
2000.130.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2000.130.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1944
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… camp during Kristallnacht in 1938. He was released four weeks later after promising to leave Germany. Vera and her family left for Cuba aboard the MS St…
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 … Accession number: 2000.130.2 Creator: Hess (Family : Berga, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear feet (5 folders and 3 oversize folders) Repository: United States…
46. Hilzenrad family papers
2011.287.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 2011.287.1
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… traveling to Leipheim, Germany where the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration) had a large refugee camp. They left Leipheim in 1947…
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 … they stayed for a few months before illegally traveling to Leipheim, Germany where the UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration…
47. Hirschfeld family papers
2012.337.1 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2012.337.1
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1970
…Hans Hirschfeld (born Naumann Hans Horst Hirschfeld; 1919-1969) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) to Alfred (1894-1953) and Maria…
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 ….337.1 Creator: Hirschfeld family (Breslau :Germany) Extent: 2.34 linear feet (6 boxes, 4 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
48. Holub, Glaser, and Ornstein families papers
2019.320.1 Box 5 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.320.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2006
… Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2. Immigration papers include paperwork related to Arno…
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 … regarding Josef’s life insurance with Assicurazioni Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2…
49. Imre Patai diaries and albums
2000.155 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.155
Date:
inclusive: circa 1924-1995
bulk: 1924-1949
Special Collection:
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…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 …, approximately 1920s-1995 Series 2: Diaries, 1924-1949 Indexing terms Patai, Imre, d. 1949 Jambor, Agi. Biophysicists. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany…
50. I will bear witness : a diary of the Nazi years / Victor Klemperer ; translated by Martin Chalmers.
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Publication | Library Call Number: DS135.G3315 K54513 1998 v. 1-2
Uniform Title:
Ich will Zeugnis ablegen bis zum letzten. English
Author/Creator:
Klemperer, Victor, 1881-1960
Published:
New York : Random House, 1998-
Availability
…Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.…