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1. Joseph Harmatz photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.193
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1948
…The collection consists of twelve photographs relating to Joseph Harmatz and his family before and during World War II and his life after the war…
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 …JOSEPH HARMATZ PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION, 1920-1948 1999.193 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington…
2. 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…
3. Otto and Erna Stein family papers
2000.229.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2000.229.1
Date:
inclusive: 1889-2000
…, Lotte Zinner (1924- ). Otto Stein had served in the German army during World War I and spent 33 months in a British POW camp. In May 1938 Zinner and her…
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 … photograph of Lotte Zinner as a baby, correspondence describing family and friends’ efforts to emigrate, letters after the war describing the http…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. Joseph G. Rowley collection
1995.A.0624 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0624
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1946
bulk: 1944-1945
… Security Command. He was stationed in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. During World War II, he participated in campaigns in Normandy, Rhineland, and…
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 …. Abstract: The Joseph G. Rowley collection contains documents and photographs related to Joseph Gilmor Rowley (1915‐2004) a Special Agent with the…
7. Fritz Weinschenk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0291.3
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1998
… publications. A March 1979 letter encloses black and white photographs of Weinschenk at a Jewish War Veterans event. Gestapo Bremen files including Gestapo and…
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 … publications. A March 1979 letter encloses black and white photographs of Weinschenk at a Jewish War Veterans event. Gestapo Bremen files including Gestapo and…
8. 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…
9. Elfriede Toch collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.243.3
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1968
…The collection consists of a purse, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Elfriede Toch, originally of Austria, who was one of…
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 … States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Photographs, immigration documents, family…
10. Fred Lifschutz papers
2015.541. 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.541.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1975
…The Fred Lifschutz papers consist of biographical materials, a personal narrative, photographs, postcards, and three photograph albums documenting…
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 … personal narrative, photographs, postcards, and photograph albums documenting Fred Lifschutz from Vienna, Austria, his family and friends, and his…
11. Aaron Finger papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.317.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1991
bulk: 1943-1947
… went overseas in post-war in fall 1945, and spent time in Germany, including the Flossenbürg concentration camp and Hof, where he worked with his Russian…
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 …. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States. Geography: Hof (Germany : Landkreis) United States--Emigration and immigration. Genre/Form: Photographs…
12. Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.85.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2011
…The Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection consists of copies of documents and photographs, in German and English, related to Friedrich Wilhelm…
13. 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…
14. Lob family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.168.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2015
bulk: 1939-1954
… a small amount of wartime documents and correspondence, post-war Holocaust tracing documents, copies of ITS records, and copies of photographs…
15. Levy family papers
2015.415.1 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.415.1
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1981
bulk: 1924-1969
… Joséphine (née Schmitt) Levy. He had one sister, Julie. Alfred was a veteran of World War I, and studied law afterwards. Meta Mayer Levy (born Meta Eve Mayer…
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 …, as well as Luxembourg. Also included are photographs depicting Alfred Levy as a soldier in World War I and a Supreme Court justice in Saarlouis and…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. Rachel Greene Rottersman papers
2015.110.1 Image 6 Folder 17 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2015.110.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2015
bulk: 1944-1949
… Rottersman during her career with UNRRA and her work at the children’s home at Aglasterhausen, Germany, assisting displaced children after World War II.…
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 …; photographs of children and employees at Aglasterhausen; and printed materials about UNRRA’s work with displaced children. Languages: English, German…
19. Abraham and Mina Winiger papers
1998.34.3 Image 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1998.34.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-1971
…The Abraham and Mina Winiger papers consist of identification papers, correspondence, and photographs documenting Abraham and Mina Winiger’s families…
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 … consist of identification papers, correspondence, and photographs documenting Abraham and Mina Winiger’s families before the Holocaust in Nadwórna, Poland…
20. Morgenthau family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.255.1
Date:
inclusive: 1860-2005
bulk: 1930-1950
… Cleveland, Ohio. The United States declared war on Germany and Japan in December 1941. Morgenthau joined the United States Army. In 1943, he graduated from…
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 … correspondence, documents, photographs, and research notes related to the Morgenthau family. The collection includes material related to the Ottoman Empire and…
21. Judith Cromwell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1990
bulk: 1914-1950
… Irma. There are numerous photographs and a modern photograph album depicting John’s experiences as a doctor during World War I, including images of…
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 … Charlotte’s post-war immigration to the United States in 1950. The bulk of the collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, and photographs…
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22. 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…
23. 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
…, and had at least two brothers and six sisters. Following World War I, Isidor received an iron cross for his service in the German army. He began selling…
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 … include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Ilse Abraham from Rastenburg, Germany, Horst (Harry) Abraham from Leipzig…
24. Herbert A. Fierst papers
2006.8.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2006.8.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-2004
…The Herbert A. Fierst collection consists of biographical materials, displaced persons files, photographs, subject files, writings, speeches, and…
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 …, displaced persons files, photographs, subject files, writings, speeches, and interviews primarily documenting Fierst’s work on displaced persons issues at…
25. Ludwig Hiss collection
2017.124.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.124.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1961
bulk: 1945-1947
…’s story; and two writings of Ludwig describing his experiences during and after the war. Photographs include depictions of the DP camps, Ludwig…
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 … newspaper clipping describing Ludwig’s story; and two writings of Ludwig describing his experiences during and after the war. Photographs include depictions…
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26. 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:
Save Their Stories
… 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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 … relating to their attempts to emigrate from Germany as well as pre-war family photographs. The collection also includes a diary written by Ilse Szinberger…
27. 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…
28. Feiga Scheer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.239.4
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-1965
… to Canada and the United States. Six photographs and one copy print depict the Scheer family before the war in Załoźce, Poland (Zaliztsi, Ukraine) and…
29. Jacob and Rita Litman papers, including Samuel Golfard diary
2008.269.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 2008.269.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1984
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… also includes pre-war and wartime photographs of Jacob and Rita Litman and their family during the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany and in DP camps.…
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 … also includes pre-war and wartime photographs of Jacob and Rita Litman and their family during the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany and in DP camps. System…
30. Hildegard Simon papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.601.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2013
… (1884-1943) was a World War I veteran and worked as a horse and cattle trader. Selma (née Katz, 1894-1943) was born in Bad Arolson, Germany and was the…
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 … Simon papers include biographical material, correspondence, poesie albums, and photographs relating to Hildegard “Hilde” Hanna Simon and her family…
31. 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…
32. Luba Tryszynska-Frederick papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.615.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2005
…, Yudel, and one sister, Lea. She married Hershel Gerceg in 1939 and they had one son, Isaac. Prior to the war, they lived in a village near Kamenets…
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 …. Included in the collection is biographical material, correspondence, writings and clippings about Luba’s story, photographs, and material related to the 50…
33. Efrem Ostrowsky family papers
1995.A.0306.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0306.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
…Efrem Ostrowsky (1919-2009) was the son of artist Samuel and Anna (née Israelson) Ostrowsky. He was a trained artist in sculpture. During World War…
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 …: The collection primarily consists of wartime photographs taken by Efrem Ostrowsky and others as well as liberation photographs taken at the Dachau…
34. Pinchas Paul Hendel family papers
2013.467.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 2013.467.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1928-1956
… 1946, Pinchas was in Glatz, Poland. In May, he went to Ebensee, Austria. Pinchas’s maternal uncle Leib also had survived the war in the Soviet Union. On…
35. Goldschmied family papers
2018.96.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2018.96.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1852-1985
… Katarina Pick Goldschmied, and Bernhard and Rosa Loewnthal Ohs. Includes correspondence, documents, photographs, books and publications, an autograph book, a…
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 … several photographs Renée Rizzoni loaned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum can be viewed through the Museum’s catalog. Accruals: Accruals may…
36. Florence Hodel papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.300.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1973
bulk: 1944-1945
… married Christopher Wagner, but continued to use her maiden name. Their marriage was unhappy, and they divorced shortly after World War II, though they had…
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 …—Rescue. Bern (Switzerland) Washington (D.C.) CONTAINER LIST Box 1: Box Folder 1 1 Photographs, 1925- ca. 1965 1 2 War Refugee Board documents, 1944-1945 1…
37. 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…
38. 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…
39. 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…
40. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers
2018.463.1 Box 2 Folder 17 Image 53
Document | Accession Number: 2018.463.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1906-1993
bulk: 1920-1944
…, Fröhlich, and Porges families and friends in Prague before and during World War II, circa 1906-1940. The photographs include the Czerner family skiing in the…
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 … various candid and professional photographs of the Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families and friends in Prague before and during World War II, circa 1906…
41. Ernest Steen papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.300.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1967
bulk: 1930-1948
… Levistein (1881-1935). He had one sister Erna (b. 1907, later Erna Oppenheim). Prior to the war, Ernest worked for R. & W. Nathan, a women’s and children…
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 …, Germany, including his employment in Frankfurt, immigration to the United States in 1940, and service during World War II in the United States Army…
42. Joseph family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.492.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1997
…Salli Joseph (1886-1943) was born in Neuenbürg, Germany to Manne and Dorothea (née Danziger) Joseph. He served in World War I with the German Army…
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 … Palestine, documents related to Bernard’s internment in Australia, and family photographs from Berlin and Palestine. Languages: German, English, Hebrew…
43. 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…
44. Emil Oettinger papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.634
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1963
bulk: 1936-1939
…The Emil Oettinger papers consist primarily of correspondence and photographs documenting the family of Emil Oettinger from Hamburg, Germany, and his…
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 … friends, in prewar Germany. Most of the photographs date from the 19th century, World War I, and the interwar years. System of arrangement The Emil…
45. 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:
Save Their Stories
…The collection consists of an armband, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Ewa Lada (Eve Przemyski) in Poland and…
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 …, and photographs documenting Eve’s prewar life in Równe, Poland (now Rivne, Ukraine), her internment in prisoner of war camps at Sandbostel and…
46. Joseph Entenberg collection
2002.360.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2002.360.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1946
…Collection of letters and photographs relating to Joseph Entenberg's service with the United States army during World War II, the liberation of…
47. Richard Schifter family papers
2016.502.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2016.502.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1994
bulk: 1939-1948
… World War II. Includes family photographs, postcards and correspondence from Paul Schifter during his service in the Austrian Army during World War I…
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 … subsequent service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Includes family photographs, postcards and correspondence from Paul Schifter during his service in the…
48. 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…
49. Paula Abelow collection
2008.111.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.111.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1957
bulk: 1923-1948
… the United States. After the war ended, news arrived about Eugenie’s sisters. Sophie and Charlotte who had been deported and killed, while Josefa and…
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 … photographs. The albums show the family both at home and on vacation with relatives and friends prior to World War II. Some of the photos follow Paula…
50. 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…