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1. Spielman family papers
2005.359.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.359.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-circa 1949
bulk: 1940-1948
… Gabersee displaced persons camp in Germany. Included are photographs from Budapest, Bratislava, Gabersee, and a small amount of pre-war family photographs…
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 … small amount of pre-war family photographs. Documents include a Christian identity paper issued by the Polish Ministerium in Hungary to Simon and Czarna…
2. Betty Sklow papers
1999.A.0269 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0269
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1949
bulk: 1939-1940
… to the United States, and her journey to the United States aboard the SS Pennland in 1940. The papers also include photographs of Betty Sklow and her…
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 …. The papers also include photographs of Betty Sklow and her husband Hermann Sklow, as well as a printed cabin plan for the MS St. Louis, February 1939…
3. Adler family papers
2016.458.1 Book Enclosure 8 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.458.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880 September-2003
… photographs primarily document the Adler and Timár families’ pre-war lives in Szeged, but also include some wartime photographs and post-war depictions of…
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 … correspondence, biographical materials, immigration documents, restitution claims, and photographs regarding pre-war family lives; Denis’s emigration from Szeged…
4. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
… Lessing family. The books cover pre-war family history, their Holocaust experiences, and their post-war lives through 2015. Photographs consists of pre-war…
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 … post-war lives through 2015. Photographs consists of pre-war images of Ed with his Jewish scout group and wartime images of him with the Dutch Resistance…
5. Zehngut and Weiss families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.504.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
… Weiss family and their relatives and friends in and around Vienna before World War II. The album also includes photographs of Inge and Kitty and the other…
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 … photograph album primarily depicts the Weiss family and their relatives and friends in and around Vienna before World War II. The album also includes…
6. 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
… Frieda’s mother, Dora Swabacher, and her uncle Anton Schwabacher. Also includes some post-war correspondence with friends and relatives. Photographs…
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 … Swabacher, and her uncle Anton Schwabacher. Also includes some post-war correspondence with friends and relatives. Photographs consist of depictions of the…
7. Friedberg family papers
2016.540.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 2016.540.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1993
… for the rest of the war. Maurice and Simon attended school, and Maurice celebrated his bar mitzvah. After the war, the Friedbergs made their way to…
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 …, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Friedberg family from Jarosław, Poland; the Jam family and their lumberyard in Rzeszów, Poland, before the war…
8. Kessler family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.586.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1869-2015
bulk: 1914-1998
…, there are 10 handwritten recipe books in German. Photographs consist of prints and albums primarily depicting the pre-war lives of the Kessler, Neuhut…
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 …, there are 10 handwritten recipe books in German. Photographs consist of prints and albums primarily depicting the pre-war lives of the Kessler, Neuhut…
9. Territorial collection-Holland (RG-116-Holland)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.335 | RG Number: RG-67.043M
Date:
inclusive: 1790-1980
bulk: 1940-1949
…-1840) and financial records of the Rotterdam community in the 19th century; as well contains the post-war materials: records of the Dutch Red Cross…
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 … used by the Nazis to their great advantage, manufacturing arms and other supplies crucial to the war effort. Many issues concerning Holland and its Jews…
10. Reinhold and Singer families papers
1999.A.0042 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0042
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1999
…The Reinhold and Singer families papers are comprised of biographical materials, a cookbook, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials…
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 … inability to pay. Photographs depict Reinhold and Singer family members and friends and document their pre‐war lives in Germany and Austria, Rosa Reinhold…
11. Beatrice Muchman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0269.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1999
… saved. Beatrice had always felt that her parents abandoned her, and she had kept a diary during the war, but now she could understand her history more…
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 …, correspondence, diary and poetry books, a memoir, photographs, and a prayer book documenting the Westheimer family of Berlin, their flight to Brussels, Beatrix…
12. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
…, Poland). He served with German army on the Russian front during World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross. He married Gertrud Lesser from Erfurt, Germany…
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 … paperwork, and photographs. Documents include papers regarding Dagobert Hauer’s service with the German army during World War I, Gunter Hauer’s identification…
13. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
… collection are facsimiles of the original albums. The photographs include pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Ostwald family, the Strauss family…
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 … collection are facsimiles of the original albums. The photographs include pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Ostwald family, the Strauss family…
14. Szamek family collection
1998.94 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1998.94
Date:
inclusive: circa 1892-1968
bulk: circa 1892-1941
… legally changed her name to Faye Baron. The fate of the extended Szamek family is largely unknown. Prior to the war, Berta Szamek had a daughter Emma…
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 … family collection relates to the pre-war experiences of the Szamek family in Budapest, Hungary. The collection contains studio portraits and informal…
15. Haber family papers
2015.236.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.236.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-circa 1990
bulk: 1897-1954
…, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children documenting their trip on board the SS President Harding and arrival to the…
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 … American immigration of fifty Jewish children from Nazi- occupied Vienna in May, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children…
16. 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
… in World War I, correspondence, photographs, writings, and born-digital material. The collection also documents the pre-war and wartime experiences of…
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 …, photographs, writings, and born-digital material. The collection also documents the pre-war and wartime experiences of the Behr family, primarily of Mainz…
17. 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
…The collection relates to the Gans family, originally of Borken, Germany. It includes photographs of pre-war life, including a photograph album…
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 … they were liberated. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs, and the diary of Moritz and Else Gans from 1945, documenting life in the…
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18. Gerald Schwab papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.327.25
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2012
… the end of the war he was transferred to an intelligence unit and assigned to the U.S. Detailed Interrogation Center (USDIC). At this facility, where…
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 … 20024-2126 Abstract: The Gerald Schwab papers document Schwab’s work for the International Military Tribunal following World War II; research for his…
19. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers
2017.556.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.556.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1830-2016
bulk: 1937-1948
… where he perished. Stephen knew his father had been deported from Berlin in 1942, but did not learn his fate until after the war. Stephen married…
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 … records, and photographs. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact…
20. Israelitischer Frauenverein Zürich Archiv
Document | Accession Number: 2017.42.1 | RG Number: RG-58.033
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2003
Alternate Title:
Jewish Women's Association Zürich Archive
… IFZ undertook to organize the holiday colonies. In the Second World War the home also served as a refugee home for children. E.g. 40 children from the…
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 … konnten die fürsorgerischen Tätigkeiten des Frauenvereins und der Gemeinde besser koordiniert werden. Eine wichtige Aufgabe des IFZ war die Führung des…