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41. Charlene Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0028.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2004
bulk: 1945-1951
… Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
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 … Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
42. Gerald Schwab papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.327.25
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2012
…Gerald (Gerd) Abraham Schwab (1925-2014) was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany to David and Paula Kleefeld Schwab (d. 1995). His father owned an…
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 … Freiburg, Germany. David Schwab owned a plumbing supply company that required travel to Switzerland. After the boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, the…
43. Riesenfeld family papers
2017.389.1 Box 1 Folder 29 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2017.389.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-2001
bulk: 1938-1949
…Bruno Kurt Riesenfeld (1899-1974) was born on 27 October 1899 in Würzburg, Germany to Alfred (1866-1936) and Jenny (née Brauer, 1866-1938) Riesenfeld…
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 … number: 2017.389.1 Creator: Riesenfeld (Family : Würzburg, Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
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44. Fritz Weinschenk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0291.3
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1998
…Fritz Weinschenk (1920-2012) was born in Mainz, Germany but left in 1935 because of Nazi persecution. He volunteered for the U.S. Army immediately…
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 … assistance obtaining witness testimony related to war crimes proceedings in Germany. The case files contain correspondence, witness lists and testimony…
45. Hess and Spier families papers
2016.461.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.461.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-2010
…Hannah Spier Hess was born on 12 February 1934 in Hannover, Germany, the daughter of Alfred Spier (1900-1937), a teacher, and Ruth (née Steinberg…
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 …, Germany, and his wife, Hannah Spier Hess, originally of Wolfenbüttel, Germany, relating the experiences of their families who fled Germany in 1939 due to…
46. Klestadt family papers
2014.481.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.481.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
bulk: 1919-1942
…Thea Löwenstein was born December 19, 1912 in Düsseldorf, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Emil and Erna Flechtheim Löwenstein. She had an older sister…
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 … 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection primarily documents the prewar experiences of Fred and Thea Klestadt, originally of Düsseldorf, Germany, prior to…
47. Rothschild and Weyl families papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0088.12
Date:
inclusive: 1874-2017
bulk: 1912-1954
…Walter Henry Rothschild (1912-1956) was born in Frankfurt, Germany to Carl (1879-1969) and Alice (née Klein, 1888-1977) Rothschild. In March 1936…
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 … records, and photographs relating to Walter H. Rothschild and his family’s prewar life in Frankfurt, Germany, their immigration to the United States in 1936…
48. Fred and Ruth Cohen papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.398.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1992
bulk: 1920-1942
…Fred (Fritz) Cohen (1914-1981) was born on October 12, 1914 in Eschwege, Germany to David and Martha Cohen. David was born on October 15, 1988 near…
49. Gina Gotfryd collection
1995.A.0170 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0170
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1994
…Jewish refugees--Germany--Stuttgart.…
50. Bier family papers
2016.522. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2016.522.1
Date:
inclusive: 1891-2008
… linen store. They immigrated to the United States with 1941. Siegfried lived in Berlin since 1929, and fled Germany in late 1938 for France. He was…
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 …: Bier (Family: Berlin, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington…
51. Blumenthal family papers
1993.104.11 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1993.104.11
Date:
inclusive: 1901-circa 1993
bulk: 1901-1956
…Bernhard Blumenthal (b. 1863, Germany) was a farmer born in Hüttengesäß, Germany (a district in Ronneburg) to Moses and Jette Blumenthal. Bernhard…
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 … Dates: 1901‐approximately 1993 (bulk 1901‐1956) Accession number: 1993.104.11 Creator: Blumenthal (Family : Hüttengesäß, Germany) Extent: 0…
52. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
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 … Britain. Wollheim continued to work for the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Union of Jews in Germany). In 1941 he was drafted to perform forced…
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53. Ofner family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.371.1
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2000
…Peter Ofner was born in 1923 in Berlin, Germany, to Curt (Kurt) and Betzi (nee Leon) Ofner. Curt was a veteran of the German Army in World War and…
54. Richard Weilheimer papers
2007.336.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2007.336.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1998
…Richard Weilheimer was born November 21, 1931 in Ludwigshafen, Germany. His parents, Maximilian (Max) Weilheimer (who was secretary of the Jewish…
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 … Mannheim, Germany. Documents reflect the families’ prewar lives in Germany, their deportation to the Gurs concentration camp in southern France in 1940…
55. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…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…
56. John and Dorothy Fried Goldmeier papers
2014.101.1 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 121
Document | Accession Number: 2014.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2002
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Hans Goldmeier was born on July 20, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Isidor and Erna Lippmann Goldmeier. Hans had an older brother, Rolf. In…
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 … Main, Germany, to England as part of the Kindertransport, his schooling at the Stoatley Rough boarding school with other refugee children, his post-war…
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  • File 1: Loose photographs 1908-2005
    • Pages: 9
57. Harry Lindauer papers
2017.555.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.555.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2001
… settled in Buttenhausen, Germany in 1787, one of twenty-five Jewish families who received the right to do so from Freiherr Philipp Friedrich von Liebenstein…
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 … (born Heinz Lindauer), including his childhood in Buttenhausen and Darmstadt, Germany, his immigration to the United States in 1936, his military…
58. Charlotte Dunwiddie papers, 1907-1995
1997.A.0286 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0286
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1995
… property in Germany that had been held in trust for her stepfather during the war so that it would not be seized as Jewish property; and four family…
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 … Dunwiddie’s efforts to receive compensation for inherited property in Germany that had been held in trust for her stepfather during the war so that it would…
59. Ilse and Horst Abraham papers
2016.538.10 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2016.538.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-2011
…Ilse Brilling (1927-2016) was born to Hedwig (nee, Finkenstein, 1891-1959) and Isidor (1895-1939) Brilling in Rastenburg, Germany (now Kętrzyn…
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 … include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Ilse Abraham from Rastenburg, Germany, Horst (Harry) Abraham from Leipzig…
60. Hannah Deutch papers
2006.498.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2006.498.1
Date:
inclusive: 1884-2005
…Hannelore (Hannah) Kronheim was born in Dusseldorf, Germany, on July 3, 1922, to Alfred and Ella Paula (born 1896) Kronheim. When she was two, the…
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 … Abstract: The Hannah Deutch papers consist of photographs and personal items relating to Hannah’s family prior to World War II. Hannah escaped Germany via a…
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  • Series 3: Postwar 1995-2005
    • File 2: Information on Bochum, Germany 1995-2002 [On Campus Only]