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1. Zyzniewski family papers
2014.451.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2014.451.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1957
… Zyzniewski family before the war in Poland. The album includes photographs of the children playing, riding bikes, sledding in the snow; the family posing in…
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 … photograph album, 1928-1929, contains photographs of the Zyzniewski family before the war in Poland. The album includes photographs of the children playing…
2. 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…
3. Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family papers
2012.351.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2012.351.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-2003
…. Feuerstein family photographs depict Edward Firestone, his first wife and their children before the war, and his participation in the Jewish sports club “Dror…
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 … photographs documenting Edward, Julia, and Abe Firestone of Kołomyja, Poland (now Kolomyia, Ukraine), the way they became a family after the war, their…
4. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
…The William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of relatives of the Luksenburg and…
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 … William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection consists of pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of relatives of the Luksenburg and Chilewicz…
5. Wertheimer family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.258.1
Date:
1925-1961
…The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to Samuel and Frajdla Wertheimer and their families in Mińsk Mazowiecki, Poland; Warsaw…
6. Wellisch and Auerbach families papers
2018.646.1 Box 2 Folder 27 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.646.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1961
…’s father Samu was already in Zurich by the time Kurt, Frieda and Heinz arrived there. He remained in Switzerland during the war and then immigrated to the…
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 …: The Auerbach and Wellisch families papers include biographical materials, correspondence, a photocopy of a diary, and photographs. The records document…
7. Weil family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.415.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1928-1981
… photographs depict pre-war family life, Anne Weil onboard the MS. St. Louis, and a photograph album of Anne’s that depicts life in Mannheim and the United…
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 … trying to locate and learn the fate of her family; and restitution paperwork. The photographs depict pre‐war family life, Anne Weil onboard the MS. St…
8. Weil and Wolf families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.628.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1997
bulk: 1916-1945
… and Joseph. Photographs include pre-war photographs of the Weil and Wolf families in Germany and the United States. Weil family photographs depict Eric…
9. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers
2003.385.1 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2003.385.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1968
… Ciecierski and Weber relatives after the war. Photographic materials include two photographs albums documenting Stanislaw and Wanda Zofia Ciecierski in Poland…
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 … series primarily consists of postcards exchanged among Ciecierski and Weber relatives after the war. Photographic materials include two photographs albums…
10. Walter Saunders papers
1995.A.0383 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1944
bulk: 1938-1944
… letters, naturalization certificate, and an Austrian citizenship certificate. The photographs include portraits of Paul and Klara while at Auschwitz, a…
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 … Auschwitz. Included in the papers are correspondence with Walter’s parents, photographs, reference letters and naturalization papers. Languages: German…
11. Walter Kamlet papers
2014.332.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 255
Document | Accession Number: 2014.332.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2007
bulk: 1940-1956
…Consists of original pre-war, wartime, and post-war documents, restitution paperwork, and photographs related to the life and Holocaust experiences…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Consists of original pre-war, wartime, and post-war documents, restitution paperwork, and photographs related to the life…
12. Walter Feibelman papers
1996.134.10 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1996.134.10
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1993
bulk: 1917-1949
… War I service, Walter’s student records, his parents’ passports, and tracing documents following Otto and Addi Feibelmann and Emma Klein. Subject files…
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 …. Photographs CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Biographical materials, 1917‐1949 Folder Title 1 Feibelmann, Bernhard, Military records, war bonds, and…
13. Waldmann family papers
2019.17.2 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2019.17.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2021
bulk: 1930-1941
… congratulates him on his bar mitzvah. It was likely the last letter he received from them. Photographs primarily consist of pre-war depictions of the Waldmann…
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 … mitzvah. It was likely the last letter he received from them. Photographs primarily consist of pre-war depictions of the Waldmann family in Bad Windsheim…
14. Wald and Breuer families papers
2015.473.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2015.473.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1946
undated: 
… prisoner of war camp in the United States, and was discharged on 26 June 1945 to join the United States Army.…
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 … identification documents of Julius and his sister Leonore, photographs of Julius with the other 50 children arriving in New York, and family correspondence. Also…
15. 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…
16. Vladimir Lewin papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.361.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2018
… from Lazar written to his wife Judyta’s sisters in Israel in 1945. Photographs consist of pre-war family photographs including the Lewin family and…
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 … consist of pre-war family photographs including the Lewin family and Vladimir with his classmates. Languages: Polish, Russian, Hebrew, Yiddish, German…
17. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… overseas as a war correspondent, reporting behind the front lines of the Allied Armies from London, Cairo, Italy, and Rome. Since then, he worked for a…
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 …-war and wartime work of journalist Victor Bienstock, as he served as an overseas correspondent for the Overseas News Agency, a subsidiary of the Jewish…
18. 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…
19. 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…
20. Trompetter family papers
1993.4.13 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1993.4.13
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1949
… underground resistance movement, Else Jansen), post-war documents authorizing Femma Trompetter to travel with her children, photographs of Auschwitz survivor…
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 … arrested and imprisoned in Auschwitz and Ebensee. After the war, the family reunited. The Trompetter family papers contain primarily records relating to…
21. Theodor Kleinsorge papers
2015.587.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.587.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-1979
bulk: 1914-1955
… a teacher. Theodor was a veteran of World War I, and was a prisoner-of-war in France. After the war he studied mining engineering and worked in…
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 …‐1945‐‐Claims‐‐Germany. World War, 1939‐1945 Prisoners and prisons, German. Geography: Munich (Germany) Genre/Form: Photographs. Correspondence…
22. 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…
23. Teodor Diamant papers
2017.557. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.557.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2017
bulk: 1939-1952
…Teodor Diamant was born on 10 November 1908 in Turčiansky Svätý Martin (Martin, Slovakia). Prior to the war he worked as an electrician. Trying to…
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 … Czech unit in Great Britain, family and friends, and post-war experiences in London and the United States. Also included are loose photographs…
24. Tartière family papers
1988.93 Box 2 Folder 20 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.93
Date:
interview: 1920-1950
… Flowers near the Entrance: An Experience of World War II” that document his World War II service. The photographs follow his unit’s progress through Nice…
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 … Entrance: An Experience of World War II” that document his World War II service. The photographs follow his unit’s progress through Nice, Beaulieu…
25. Szlama Kleiner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.306
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1947
…The papers consist of photographs and six documents relating to the Kleiner and Wajsfus families before World War II, during the war in the ghettos…
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 … of two women holding a baby; on right is Chana Wajsfus Nechemja; this photograph was sent after the war as a postcard addressed to Cvi Wajsfus in…
26. 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…
27. 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…
28. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Strip. He joined the U.S. Army, was sent to Germany in 1944, served as an interpreter with the War Crimes Investigation Team, and translated documents…
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 … of identification, education, immigration, and military papers, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting the flight of…
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  • Series 5: Writings 1939-2014
    • File 3: Diary, Joseph Stripounsky 1941
29. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
…. He had three brothers, Bruno (b. 1887), Ernst (b.1889), and Julius (b. 1890). Siegfried served in World War I and operated a leather importer and…
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 … documents the wartime and post-war experiences of the Strauss family as they fled Nazi persecution in Marburg, Germany to Amsterdam, the Netherlands; their…
30. Stephen Lerman papers
1991.105 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1991.105
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…The Stephen Lerman papers consists of six photographs of Lerman’s family and himself. All but one of the photographs capture images of Lerman…
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 … Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The Stephen Lerman (Szlama Lermann) papers consists primarily of photographs of his family in Zambrow…
31. 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…
32. Stefi Geisel papers
2005.288.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2005.288.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1956
bulk: 1914-1956
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Freidel had cousins. After war was declared between Great Britain and Germany in September 1939, Siegfried was imprisoned as an enemy alien on the Isle of…
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 … SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Stefi Geisel papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographic materials, printed…
33. 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…
34. Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers
1993.124.19 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1993.124.19
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1988
…The Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers consist of an autograph book, diary, biographical materials, Dachau letter, photographic materials, and subject…
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 …, approximately 1935‐1940 1 12 Schulmann family, approximately 1933‐1936 1 13 Schulmann, Hirsch, in a World War I era photograph used with a Time magazine…
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35. Simone Weil Lipman papers
1990.184.84 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1990.184.84
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
… war she helped reopen the OSE home in Montintin and establish the Petit Monde children’s home near Paris. She lived temporarily in the United States in…
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 … materials and photographs documenting Lipman’s work rescuing Jewish children with the Œuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE) in Rivesaltes, Poulouzat, and…
36. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… troops. Just after the war, Symcho worked for the Allied Expeditionary Force, traveling through Germany gathering information on refugees from…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Simcha Dimant papers, 1936-1945, relate to the Holocaust and immediate post-war experiences of Simcha Dimant (1914-1983…
37. Sigmund Neuberger papers
2017.435. 1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.435.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1946
… papers, German Army papers from World War I, German passports, and photographs. Also included are German military documents from his brother in law, Moritz…
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 … Zurich, immigration papers, German Army papers from World War I, German passports, and photographs. Also included are German military documents from his…
38. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… to Michael. After the war, Michel joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. He was sent to Germany and served as a supply…
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 … cards, and other various material. Also included are photographs, records concerning Michael’s time serving with the United Nations Relief and…
39. Seymour Krieger papers
1986.A.0024.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1986.A.0024.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… resulted in the indictments against Nazis for crimes against Allied soldiers and prisoners of war and for the persecution of Jews. After his service in…
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 … collection also includes military documents relating to Seymour’s service in the United States Army and two photographs of Seymour in Nuremberg and with his…
40. 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…
41. 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…
42. 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…
43. 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…
44. 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…
45. 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…
46. Schönberger family papers
1988.108.192 Book Enclosure 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1988.108.192
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1967
…The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs related to the experiences of Moritz, Helene, and Bianka Schoenberger, including…
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 …, correspondence, immigration files, photographic materials, printed materials, and French internment camp songs documenting the Schönberger family of Vienna; Helene…
47. 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
… Photograph series contains primarily pre-war images of members of the Schwarz and Rosenwald families in Germany, but also contains a few later photographs…
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 … pre-war images of members of the Schwarz and Rosenwald families in Germany, but also contains a few later photographs, including those taken at a…
48. 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
… States and their families in Budapest; and pre-war family photographs. The collection also documents the death of Zoltan Schultz, Edith’s brother, who was…
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 …) Bodnar in the United States and their families in Budapest; and pre-war family photographs. The collection also documents the death of Zoltan Schultz…
49. Schischa family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.454.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1950
… Hackney hostel in London, but soon transferred to Cockley Cley estate in Swaffham, Norfolk. She worked as a seamstress. The war ended with Germany…
50. Schames family Papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.460.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-1984
… letters received from family in Stuttgart. Photographs includes prewar family photographs, depictions of Max Schames during World War I, and depictions of…
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 … Schames during World War I, prewar letters received by Käthe, and wartime letters received from family in Stuttgart. Photographs includes prewar family…