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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. Buxbaum family papers
2017.482. 1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.482.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1945
…The collection documents the pre-war lives of Max and Anna Buxbaum and their daughter Inge (later Inge Rosenbaum) in Essen, Germany, and their…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the pre-war lives of Max and Anna Buxbaum and their daughter Inge (later Inge…
3. Alfred Traum papers
1997.A.0153.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0153.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1997
bulk: 1938-1942
… (March 22, 1926). Elias was severely crippled from injuries sustained in World War I and spent his afternoons playing with and instructing Alfred. The…
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 … papers, a report card, family correspondence from Elias and Gita Traum in Vienna to their children in London, family photographs from Vienna, England, and…
4. Grootkerk family papers
2002.22.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.22.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1951
… and Switzerland during the war, and in the United States with her husband Jack after the war. Accretion: Artifacts and photographs illustrating the pre…
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 … Abstract: The Grootkerk family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, personal narratives, photographs, and printed materials documenting…
5. Edith Brandon papers
1996.A.0070.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0070.1 | RG Number: RG-10.250
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
bulk: 
… Hans. In December 1941 Edith and her mother were transported to Riga as forced laborers and worked unloading war materials at the docks nearby. In the…
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 … Brandon papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a testimonial narrative documenting Edith Brandon…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. Chaim Posner papers
2017.402.6 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.402.6
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1975
… documents for Chaim and Regina Posner, and announcements for lectures by Posner. The collection further includes an undated photograph of a Hanukkah…
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 … undated photograph of a Hanukkah celebration, a 1940s report titled “Der Weg Nach Palaestina” about the difficulties of Jewish emigration to Palestine…
9. 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…
10. 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
11. Merei family papers
2015.571.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.571.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1991
…The collection primarily documents the wartime and post-war experiences of Ernö and Ernestine (née Munk) Merei and their son John of Budapest…
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 … documents the wartime and post‐war experiences of Ernö and Ernestine (née Munk) Merei and their son John of Budapest, Hungary as they fled the country after…
12. 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…
13. 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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 …, prosecution and defense records, research files, and interrogation reports. The collection also includes photographs, scrapbooks, and sound and video recordings…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. Hendel and Weissman families papers
2016.497.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 2016.497.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1956
… are also pre-war photographs of the Hendel and Weissman families in Zagreb.…
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 … Rome, Italy, and their experiences as refugees at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York. There are also pre-war photographs of…
17. 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…
18. Miriam Davenport Ebel papers
1991.158.88 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.158.88
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1989
bulk: 1938-1945
… relief, rescue, and refugee organizations. After the war she pursued her career in painting and sculpture and as an instructor in art and French. She…
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 … Ebel papers consist of correspondence, identification papers, mementos, photographs, and printed materials documenting Davenport’s wartime experiences…
19. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
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 … papers consist of biographical, photographic, and printed materials as well as diaries and short stories documenting Hartry, his pre-World War II education…
20. Friedler family papers
1999.47.3 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.47.3
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1959
… both were killed. Moritz returned to Austria after the war to discover what happened to his parents, and he assisted displaced persons as part of the…
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 …. World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Jews--Austria Linz (Austria) Salzburg (Austria) Vienna (Austria) Photographs. Drawings. CONTAINER LIST Series 1: American…