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1. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… Rezso Kasztner to get the German SS to allow a train of Jews to leave the country in exchange for money. Bela and his family reported to assembly camp in…
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 … Chase, Maryland, between 1989 and 1995 on topics including the Holocaust and Jewish communities in Hungary, the Kasztner train, and Jewish passivity…
2. 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
…, the family sailed out of Hamburg on the SS President Roosevelt to the United States. They settled in Philadelphia, PA. Gerhard was drafted in 1943 and…
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 … Germany. Scope and content of collection The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Willy and Else (née Behr) Maerker, originally of Bernburg…
3. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
…, they sailed on the SS Exeter on February 21, 1941. The Shadur family settled near Michel’s sister Gitta near St. Paul, MN, and Michel changed his name…
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 … the SS Exeter on February 21, 1941. The Shadur family settled near Michel’s sister Gitta near St. Paul, MN, and Michel changed his name to Michael…
4. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of despairing and hungry Jews in the Łódź Ghetto
1988.182.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.1
Date:
creation: 1963 December
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Hunger in Lodzer Ghetto
Alternate Title:
Despairing and hungry Jews in Lodzer ghetto
… danger. He painted a mural across the barracks wall that impressed the SS officers and his life was saved. Even though he was forced to create portraits of…
5. Knud Dyby papers
1989.297.341 Box 2 Folder 31 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1989.297.341
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1992
… antisemitism and Holocaust denial. Photocopied records documenting the German occupation of Denmark include correspondence, warnings, and regulations from the…
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 … Archives, Washington, DC Acquisition information: Knud Dyby donated the Knud Dyby papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989 and 1992…
6. Metz and Oberlaender families papers
2014.478.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 46
Document | Accession Number: 2014.478.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2015
bulk: 1915-1950
… documents related to Gabrielle Metz Oberlaender include her emigration and naturalization documents and menus from the SS Veendam, August 27, 1939-September 4…
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 … to Gabrielle Metz Oberlaender include her emigration and naturalization documents and menus from the SS Veendam, August 27, 1939-September 4, 1939…
7. Hilde and Ruth Simon papers
1998.57 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1998.57
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1943
… extermination camp and murdered. Hilde and Ruth immigrated to the United States in December 1944 aboard the SS Bayano, first arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia…
8. Joseph W. Eaton papers
2009.401.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2009.401.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-2011
1932-2011
… perished in the Holocaust. They divorced after their children left and fled separately to Amsterdam, Netherlands. Flora was a health aide for elderly people…
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 … the Museum. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum also holds an oral history interview with Joseph W. Eaton conducted by Judith Cohen and…
9. Jack Moses papers
1993.43 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1993.43
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1983
bulk: 1915-1947
… comprised of Nazi-era newspapers and booklets. The collection also includes an SS membership booklet and a Nazi Party membership booklet for unrelated men.…
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 …. The collection also includes an SS membership booklet and a Nazi Party membership booklet for unrelated men. Languages: German, English…
10. Eugene Miller collection
1997.A.0240 Oversize Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0240
Date:
inclusive: circa 1941-approximately 1997
…; investigations into the identity and fate of Josef Mengele; Heinrich Himmler; Martin Borman; and SS personnel and organization. Most of these records are…
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 … materials. The collection also includes original photographs of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Poland who studied medicine and science in Germany after the…
11. Schächter family papers
2000.407.2 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.407.2
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1998
bulk: 1938-1947
…The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Filip and Janina (née Hirsch) Schächter (later Philip and Jean Schechter) living in Poland and…
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 … Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Filip and…
12. Hugo Zulawski papers
2015.582. 1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2015.582.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1965
… was the son of Moshe Boruch Zulawski and Chana Deborah Lifschitz. Paula was the daughter of Regina Reifka Wolkowitz and Michael Wolf Wolkowitz. In May…
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 …, Austria, who immigrated to the United States in 1939 as a child on a transport organized by Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus (the "50 children" transport…
13. Erwin Tepper papers
2015.590.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.590.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2015
undated: 
… applied and Erwin was accepted as one of this group. In the spring, Juda left for Great Britain. Erwin left from Germany in May 1939 aboard the S.S…
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 … States, Juda and Schifra applied to have their son Erwin accepted as one of this group, and he was. Erwin left Germany in May 1939, on the S.S. President…
14. Buxbaum family papers
2017.482. 1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.482.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1945
… from the SS Manhattan. Photographs include engagement and wedding photographs of Max and Anna, Anna’s mother Rosa Lazarus, Inge, and a photograph…
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 … Rosenbaum) in Essen, Germany, and their immigration to the United States in 1939 on board the SS Manhattan. Included are biographical materials such as birth…
15. Rabbi Samuel and Ella Freilich papers
2013.184.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.184.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2001
… physical and mental pain that Rabbi Freilich experienced during the Holocaust. Also included are memoirs, papers, and letters written in English and Yiddish…
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 … SS. Again the fear where are we going and what more do they want? We thought it would be better is they shot us right away rather than take us…
16. Bruno and Jetka (Jessie) Korn papers
2013.456.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 2013.456.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1972
bulk: 1939-1946
… assigned prisoner number 22318. Every night, the SS would come into the barracks, take an inmate outside, and beat him to death. Bruno could hear the men…
17. 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
… wife and three children were murdered during the Holocaust. They stayed in Kołomyja until December 1944, when the Soviet authorities allowed them to…
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 … immigration to the United States, and their Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family members who perished during the Holocaust. Languages: English, Polish, German…
18. Wooden awl haft with chuck and ferrule used by a Polish Jewish refugee conscripted as a shoemaker by the Soviet Army
2004.523.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.523.7
Date:
use: 1925-1951
… United States. Prior to leaving, David learned English from a tutor. They left Bremerhaven on the SS General CH Muir and arrived in New York in March 1951…
19. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… families to live in a single room; food quickly became scarce. When German SS and police began mass killings of the Jews in Dokszyce in 1942, Rachel and…
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 … Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection to the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000, 2010, 2015, and 2022. These donations were assigned the…
20. Rabbi Judah Nadich papers
1994.A.0250. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0250.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1997
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Rabbi Judah Nadich and the Estates of Judah Nadich and Martha Hadassah Nadich donated the Rabbi Judah Nadich papers to the United States Holocaust…
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 … Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC 2 Acquisition information: Rabbi Judah Nadich and the Estates of Judah Nadich and Martha Hadassah Nadich…