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1. Robert M.W. and Ruth Benedicta Kempner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.62.1 | RG Number: RG-71.001
Date:
1935-1993
… the war and served as assistant U.S. chief counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, heading the Defense Rebuttal Section. His…
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 … Military Tribunal Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949 Ministries Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1948-1949 Correspondence. Photographs…
2. Personal case files from the Australian Jewish Welfare Society, Sydney
Document | Accession Number: 2016.406.1 | RG Number: RG-69.012
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
… war, and family search requests.…
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 … Australian (Nat.) Photographer Co-ord Poland 2 Boston Henry Married 7 March 1929 Australian Electrician Czechoslovakia 2 October 1957 1 Brasch Lewis 17…
3. The Archives of the World ORT Union Head Office
Document | Accession Number: 2019.190.1 | RG Number: RG-68.219
Date:
inclusive: 1880-1970
bulk: 1920-1970
… Russian Jews by instructing them in trades and agriculture, including farming, sewing, and mechanics. During World War I (1914-1918), ORT provided…
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 … ORT-54 ORT collection Reports and memoranda on Jewish relief and rehabilitation (not necessarily ORT) after World War I ~1918-1931 eng ger yid rus ger…
4. Private papers of Eva Michaelis-Stern (A440)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.14.1 | RG Number: RG-68.199M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1989
… Germany, during the 1930s, and director of the Youth Aliyah office in London during the critical years of World War II. From 1933 to 1938 she worked in Nazi…
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 … Aliyah and Youth Services; paper on the Youth Aliyah project at the end of the war; program of the Youth Aliyah 40th anniversary tour to Israel; copy of…
5. Selected records from Massuah Institute for the Study of the Holocaust
Document | Accession Number: 2011.164 | RG Number: RG-68.142M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1970
… (Other Publications), Reel 272-329; 7. PT- פרסומים אחרים (Other Publications), Reel 330-386; 8. PH- תצלומים, אלבומים (Photographs, Albums), Reel 387-397; 9…
6. Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency, Office in Istanbul (L15)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.102 | RG Number: RG-68.125M
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1949
…Passport photographs.…
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 …) Hias-Ica Emigration Association. Merkas Olami of the Hechaluz. Makhon le-mishar huts. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Refugees, Jewish--Europe…
7. 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…
8. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.180 | RG Number: RG-67.017
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
bulk: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps…
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 … wartime photographs taken in Europe. The last section of this binder contains post-war (contemporary) photographs from Camp de Gurs (Gurs concentration camp…
9. Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) records
Document | Accession Number: 2008.19 | RG Number: RG-67.012
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2006
… Service Committee merged into one. During and after World War II, The Unitarian Service Committee aided hundreds of displaced persons in occupied…
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 … United States and abroad during World War II. They include correspondence, a photograph, reports, memoranda, newspaper articles, and other publications…
10. American Friends Service Committee records relating to humanitarian work in France
Document | Accession Number: 2006.86 | RG Number: RG-67.007M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1950
… social justice matters around the world. The AFSC was founded in 1917 in response to the major humanitarian crises related to World War I. Throughout the…
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 … deportees from various southern French camps, and of Axis POWs; prison rosters; school attendance lists; brochures; flyers; press clippings; photographs; art…
11. Selected records of the World ORT Archive (WOA), London
Document | Accession Number: 2018.468.1 | RG Number: RG-59.084
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1983
… Russian Jews by instructing them in trades and agriculture, including farming, sewing, and mechanics. During World War I (1914-1918), ORT provided…
12. Ostrava Jewish Community collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.15 | RG Number: RG-59.082
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2010
… experiences during the war, and in the postwar period, in many cases to the present: including information and photographs of the survivor's families, trips to…
13. Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Kairze (A.50)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.179 | RG Number: RG-59.078
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1939
Alternate Title:
Legation of the Republic of Poland in Cairo
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Photographs.…
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 … after the Second World War to preserve the memory of Polish armed forces in the West and their contribution to World War II, when the communist takeover…
14. Ernst Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.128.1 | RG Number: RG-58.053
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1989
Alternate Title:
Einzelbestand Ernst Fink
… completing studies in business, he opened specialist orthopedic stores in Zurich and Basel. He served in the military during World War II, performing 193 days…
15. Nachlass Konsul Carl Lutz (1895-1975)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.95.1 | RG Number: RG-58.049
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1988
Alternate Title:
Carl Lutz papers
… Austrian border. After the war Lutz received a letter of reprimand from authorities in Switzerland for overstepping his authority in helping the Jews of…
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 … Rettungsaktionen beteiligt gewesen war. Dokumente zu Lutz aus ungarischen Archiven, die für das AfZ durch Prof. Dr. László Karsai zusammengetragen wurden, der…
16. Nachlass Dr. iur. Veit Wyler (1908-2002)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.87.1 | RG Number: RG-58.041
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2002
Alternate Title:
Veit Wyler papers
… delegate. The collection consists of photographs, certificates from schools, doctoral studies, military service records, records of his early activities as a…
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 … aus einem von Eva Walter-Geissler für Veit Wyler erstellten Album. Walter-Geissler war mit dem Schweizer Spanienkämpfer Armin Walter verheiratet und…
17. Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.45.1 | RG Number: RG-58.036
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2011
Alternate Title:
Kurt Bigler papers
…, and unpublished manuscripts, a collection of color photographs (albums and loose photos) with detailed handwritten description.…
18. Nachlass Otto H. und Régine Heim (1896-1978/1907-2004)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.44.1 | RG Number: RG-58.035
Date:
inclusive: 1906-2004
Alternate Title:
Otto and Régine Heim papers
… his father, also was active on the board of the association of the Swiss textile wholesale trade. During the Second World War, Otto Heinrich Heim was…
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 … / Klassifikation Die Dossierbildung erfolgte grösstenteils in Anlehnung an die bestehende Vorordnung. Die Korrespondenz war verstreut überliefert und wurde in…
19. 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…
20. Guerre d'Espagne (C ESCI)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.303 | RG Number: RG-58.031
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1940
Alternate Title:
ICRC, Spanish Civil War
…ICRC, Spanish Civil War…
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 ….org Descriptive summary Title: Guerre d'Espagne 1936‐1940 (C ESCI): Spanish Civil War Dates: 1936‐1940 Accession number: 2014.303 Record Group Number…
21. Procès-verbaux de la Commission d'Espagne (B CR 212 PV)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.302 | RG Number: RG-58.030
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1950
Alternate Title:
Minutes of the Commission of Spain
… given the ICRC a mandate to protect victims of international and internal armed conflicts. Such victims include war wounded, prisoners, refugees…
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 … reports related to the Spanish Civil War, 1936‐1939. Languages: French, Spanish, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open…
22. Nachlass Samuel Jean Richard (1912-2002)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.288 | RG Number: RG-58.028
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2002
… 4, Children's drawings; Series 5, Correspondence; Series 6, Photographs.…
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 … pour l`Enfance victime de la Guerre / International study weeks for child victims of the war / S. E. P. G., Zürich, 10.-29.9.1945 - François, Claude…
23. Selected records from the French Diplomatic Archives Nantes : Embassies and Consulates
Document | Accession Number: 2019.423.1 | RG Number: RG-43.172
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1970
bulk: 1938-1946
… coming to trial for treason in post-war France, application of a Turkish wealth tax especially targeting Jews (the Varlık Vergisi), foreigners and Spanish…
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 … the world, conflict in the Middle East, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and his timely escape before coming to trial for treason in post-war France…
24. Selected records from the French Protectorates of Morocco and Tunisia, Syria and Lebanon under French mandate after WWI until after WWII, and the French Embassy in Madrid.
Document | Accession Number: 2013.65 | RG Number: RG-43.154
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1956
…, postal, military, and municipal records. Military records relate to internment camps, prisoners of war, and censorship. Municipal records document wartime…
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 … works, postal, military, and municipal records. Military records relate to internment camps, prisoners of war, and censorship. Municipal records document…
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 … par la presse (1940) 14 Les Mots croisés pour tous (1941) 15 Journalistes et reporters-photographes (1942) 16 Lectures (1941) 17 Il Messagero (1941) 19…
25. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
… and she had five older sisters and an older brother. The family was forced to move to Riga during World War I (1914-1918), when Liepāja, a Baltic…
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 …, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to Esther’s wartime experience in the Kovno ghetto, Stuthoff concentration camp, and Leibitsch forced labor…
26. Irving Heymont papers
1989.259.3 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 1989.259.3 | RG Number: RG-19.038
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1995
…, 1941, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, drawing the United States into World War II. Heymont returned to the United States with his unit. Heymont was…
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 … on the Landsberg camp, and various mixed media including German cigarette cards, news clippings, and various photographs of Landsberg and the…
27. Akta Ignacego Szwarzbarta (Sygn. 543)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.156.1 | RG Number: RG-15.374
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1940
Alternate Title:
Records of Ignacy Schwarzbart
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… Government-in-Exile during the Second World War, along with Szmul Zygielbojm. Schwarzbart and Zygielbojm played key roles in highlighting reports of Nazi…
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 … the following subjects: Aid rendered by Schwarzbart to the Jewish emigrants and war refugees from Poland; Jewish emigration, editing of the Jewish…
28. Dokumenty Prywatne Więźniów (Sygn.V)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.116 | RG Number: RG-15.213M
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1944
Alternate Title:
KL Lublin-Majdanek, Private documents of prisoners
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Source of acquisition is the Państwowe Muzeum na Majdanku (Majdanek State Museum), Sygn. V. The documents were found after the war on the territory…
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 … (Concentration camp). Concentration camp inmates‐‐Poland‐‐Lublin. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Concentration camps‐‐Europe. Lublin (Poland)‐‐History‐‐Occupation, 1939…
29. Legacies and papers of Chaim Finkelsztejn (Sygn. S/346)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.144 | RG Number: RG-15.151
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2002
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Chaim Finkelsztejn was born in 1899 in Warsaw and worked before World War II as a journalist in the Zionist newspaper “Haynt;” between 1936 and 1939…
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 …. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1982. Historical Note Chaim Finkelsztejn was born in 1899 in Warsaw and worked before World War II as a journalist…
30. Selected records of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany
Document | Accession Number: 2003.220 | RG Number: RG-14.064M
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1974
bulk: 1933-1945
… contains photographs of events, e.g., Kristallnacht, and buildings such as synagogues, schools and other institutions.…
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 … Rosenthal, einer führenden Persönlichkeit, Leiter verschiedener Organisationen und Gemeindevorsitzender in Breslau. Brilling war in den beschriebenen Jahren…
31. Archivalien des ehemaligen Heeresarchivs (Fond 1275)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.13 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.13
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
bulk: 1941-1945
Alternate Title:
Records of the Former Military Archive in Potsdam
… photographs relating to life and work of the commander-in-chief of the 2nd German Army on the German-Soviet front (1942-1943); war diaries of German military…
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 … the International Union of Trade Unions; war diaries from occupied countries and from German-Soviet front; albums of photographs relating to life and…
32. Henry Landman papers
1997.A.0175.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0175.1 | RG Number: RG-10.476
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1992
bulk: 1935-1945
…Collection contains correspondence, documents, photographs, leaflets, postcards, and related materials, including a yarmulke, which document the…
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 …” letters, emigration and immigration files, photographs, wartime newspapers and newsletters, World War II memorabilia, writings, restitution files, and…
33. Henry Knepler papers
2004.683.1 Box 3 Folder 12 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.683.1 | RG Number: RG-10.458
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2004
…, where he completed his PhD in Chicago. He became a citizen in 1956. Hedwig Knepler survived the war in hiding in Vienna under a false identity with the…
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 … from approximately 1850‐2004. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and writings documenting Henry Knepler and his…
34. Semyon Menyuk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.282 | RG Number: RG-10.433
Date:
1925-1973
… the Ukraine, awards for outstanding military service, photographs of families, and photographs of an excavation site where 7,000 people were found.…
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 … after war). 15. 1 photoprint: b&w. Photograph of Abel, Rivka, Shimon, and Dwoira Perlmutter (mother’s sister, her husband, their daughter and son, and…
35. Susi Cohn Podgurski papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-10.286
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1992
bulk: 1938-1947
…, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. Martin Cohn was a dentist and served in World War I. Prior to June 1939, Eugen Hirschfeld lost his home. He moved in with the…
36. Max Neuman collection
1988.30.28 front
Document | Accession Number: 1988.30.1 | RG Number: RG-10.281
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1968
…The collection consists of 20 photographs, a United States naturalization certificate, identification cards, and correspondence related to the life…
37. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection
1995.A.0106 Box 4 Folder 11 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.237
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1986
bulk: 1937-1954
… camp but was eventually released. The family survived the war and on June 28, 1946, Lawrence Goldsmith signed an affidavit of support for the family…
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 … Jewish Relief Committee, 1917-1922. The collection include family photographs as well as genealogy and research materials related to Jewish history in…
38. Vera Feldman collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0128 | RG Number: RG-10.181
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1986
…The collection consists of personal papers and photographs of the donor's extended family, many of whom perished in the Holocaust. Items include…
39. von Halle family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.177 | RG Number: RG-10.166
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1947
…Oscar Louis von Halle (1886-1944) was born on October 1, 1886 in Hamburg, Germany. He served in the military during World War I. After the war, he…
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 … military during World War I. After the war, he became an architect. In the late 1910s, he married Henriette Cohn (Cohen, b. 1896 in Berlin, Germany) and they…
40. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Buchenwald and Lorenz. Photographs include originals and copies of Buchenwald during and after the war. Correspondence includes letters, announcements…
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 … Buchenwald and Lorenz. Photographs include originals and copies of Buchenwald during and after the war. Languages: English, German Administrative Information…
41. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
…, survival in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and the Skarżysko-Kamienna labor camp, and arrival in New York after the war. Photographic materials consist of prewar…
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 …, survival in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and the Skarżysko-Kamienna labor camp, and arrival in New York after the war. Photographic materials consist of prewar…
42. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
…The Dingfelder and Wolff families papers contains photographs of the Dingfelder family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the…
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 … family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, a studio…
43. Eugeniusz and Irena Wojtas papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.397.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1968
undated: 
… photograph them for his soldier friends. After the war ended in May 1945, Irena lived in a series of displaced persons camps: Wurzburg, Aschaffenburg…
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 … wedding certificates for Eugeniusz and Irena. Photographs include pre-war photographs of Irena in Poland as well as post-war photographs of Irena and…
44. Herta Griffel Baitch papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.112.12
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2019
… photograph relating to the experiences of Herta Griffel Baitch and her parents in Vienna, Austria, before and during the Holocaust, and of Herta in the United…
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 … German, and a photograph of Herta and her mother before the Holocaust. Later photographs depict Herta with her cousin Adela Dula in London in 1977 and…
45. Dorit Mandelbaum papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.40
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1960
…The papers consist of 44 photographs and six documents relating to Dorit Mandelbaum's parents, Jakub and Anka Mandelbaum, before and during World War…
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 … Tel. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: reference@ushmm.org Supplemental material: Below is an inventory of the Dorit Mandelbaum papers. 1. Photographic postcard…
46. Gutmann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1194.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1986
bulk: 1938-1965
… Friedmann (1891-1919). Numerous relatives of Clara, including her brother Abraham Friedmann, lived in the United States prior to the start of World War II…
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 … respectively, restitutions claims, biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs. Languages: German, English, Czech, Hebrew Administrative Information…
47. Rothschild and Weyl families papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0088.12
Date:
inclusive: 1874-2017
bulk: 1912-1954
…, Certificates of Naturalization, and war ration books. Photographs include Carl’s World War I albums which include photographic postcards sent to Alice. Walter…
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 … in preparation for immigrating to the United States in 1938, Certificates of Naturalization, and war ration books. Photographs include Carl’s World War…
48. Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.221.12
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2004
… the International Tribunal in Nuremberg in 1946, and, as a civilian, as Senior Interrogator for the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes at Nuremberg on the…
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 … Abstract: The Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg papers include biographical materials, Nuremberg trials materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting…
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 … Hannah Wartenberg papers include biographical materials, Nuremberg trials materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting Rolf and Hannah…
49. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1994
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The Peter Feigl papers consist of correspondence, diaries, identification papers, photographs, printed materials, and photocopies documenting Feigl…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The Peter Feigl papers consist of correspondence, diaries, identification papers, photographs…
50. Rosenberg and Mosler families papers
2017.327.1 BookEnclosure Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2017.327.1
Date:
inclusive: 1888-1987
bulk: 1915-1956
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, and Claude Mosler’s United States Army papers. Photographs primarily document pre-war family life and travel in Europe and wartime life in New York. The…
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 …, and Claude Mosler’s United States Army papers. Photographs primarily document pre-war family life and travel in Europe and wartime life in New York. The…