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21. Bier family papers
2016.522. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2016.522.1
Date:
inclusive: 1891-2008
… linen store. They immigrated to the United States with 1941. Siegfried lived in Berlin since 1929, and fled Germany in late 1938 for France. He was…
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 …: Bier (Family: Berlin, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington…
22. Klestadt family papers
2014.481.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.481.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
bulk: 1919-1942
…Thea Löwenstein was born December 19, 1912 in Düsseldorf, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Emil and Erna Flechtheim Löwenstein. She had an older sister…
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 … 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection primarily documents the prewar experiences of Fred and Thea Klestadt, originally of Düsseldorf, Germany, prior to…
23. Rothschild and Weyl families papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0088.12
Date:
inclusive: 1874-2017
bulk: 1912-1954
…Walter Henry Rothschild (1912-1956) was born in Frankfurt, Germany to Carl (1879-1969) and Alice (née Klein, 1888-1977) Rothschild. In March 1936…
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 … records, and photographs relating to Walter H. Rothschild and his family’s prewar life in Frankfurt, Germany, their immigration to the United States in 1936…
24. Gerald Schwab papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.327.25
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2012
…Gerald (Gerd) Abraham Schwab (1925-2014) was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany to David and Paula Kleefeld Schwab (d. 1995). His father owned an…
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 … Freiburg, Germany. David Schwab owned a plumbing supply company that required travel to Switzerland. After the boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, the…
25. Max and Lotte Wertheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.185.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2002
bulk: 1929-1944
…Max Wertheim (b. 1891) was born on 2 June 1891 in the village of Helmarshausen, Germany to Joseph and Johanne (née Hecht) Wertheim. He had three…
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 … documents the prewar and wartime lives of Max and Lotte Wertheim and their son Stanley Wertheim, originally of Warburg, Germany, including their immigration…
26. 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
… aunt, Wilhelm and Flora Stein, in Berlin-Neukölln, London, and then Chicago. These letters describe immigration efforts and life in Nazi Germany…
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 … in Nazi Germany Additional correspondence files include postcards congratulating Justine Selig and her family upon her engagement in 1896 and letters…
27. Edith Hahn-Beer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0079.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1997
… 1939 Edith and her mother were forced to move into the Jewish ghetto in Vienna. In April 1941 she was sent to a farm in Osterburg, Germany where she was…
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 … Vienna, Austria, including forced-labor in Osterburg and Aschersleben, Germany, living in Munich and Brandenburg an der Havel under the false-identity of…
28. Blumenthal family papers
1993.104.11 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1993.104.11
Date:
inclusive: 1901-circa 1993
bulk: 1901-1956
…Bernhard Blumenthal (b. 1863, Germany) was a farmer born in Hüttengesäß, Germany (a district in Ronneburg) to Moses and Jette Blumenthal. Bernhard…
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 … Dates: 1901‐approximately 1993 (bulk 1901‐1956) Accession number: 1993.104.11 Creator: Blumenthal (Family : Hüttengesäß, Germany) Extent: 0…
29. Abendstern, Fleischmann, and Meyerhoff families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.494.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
…Peter Aldin was born Peter Sigo Abendstern on 29 October 1932 in Schwerin, Germany to Otto and Elly Abendstern. His father Otto Abendstern (1904-1942…
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 …, Germany to Otto and Elly Abendstern. His father Otto Abendstern (1904-1942) was born on 5 November 1904 in Stuttgart, Germany to Samuel (d. 1923) and Regina…
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30. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
…Else Henriette Rhée (née Heinemann, 1887-1978) was born on 25 October 1887 in Lüneburg, Germany to Robert Simon (1856-1920) and Selma (née Sternau, d…
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 …: circa 1890-2016 Accession number: 2019.210.2 Creator: Cohn (Family : Berlin, Germany) Additional creator: Heinemann (Family : Lüneburg, Germany…
31. Gerald Rosenstein family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.313.1
Date:
inclusive: 1845-2009
…Gerald Rosenstein (1927-2016) was born Gerhard Rosenstein on May 21, 1927 in Bensheim, Germany to Max Rosenstein (1893-1959) and Sophie Rosenstein…
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 …, originally of Bensheim, Germany, who was a survivor of Gleiwitz III subcamp of Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau). The collection also documents his parents Max…
32. Cohn and Siebenberg families papers
2016.254.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2016.254.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2001
…, Germany. He had two brothers, Walter (1912-1962) and Gerhard Werner (1905-1940). Georg worked in a fur factory prior to the war. He was arrested in November…
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 … number: 2016.254.1 Creator: Cohn family (Leipzig :Germany) Siebenberg family (Offenbach am Main :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box, 1 oversize box, 1…
33. Harry Lindauer papers
2017.555.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.555.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2001
… settled in Buttenhausen, Germany in 1787, one of twenty-five Jewish families who received the right to do so from Freiherr Philipp Friedrich von Liebenstein…
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 … (born Heinz Lindauer), including his childhood in Buttenhausen and Darmstadt, Germany, his immigration to the United States in 1936, his military…
34. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
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…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
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 … family of Moritz and Else Gans, originally of Borken, Germany, who were living in Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Prior to the war, Moritz and Else emigrated…
35. Richard Weilheimer papers
2007.336.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2007.336.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1998
…Richard Weilheimer was born November 21, 1931 in Ludwigshafen, Germany. His parents, Maximilian (Max) Weilheimer (who was secretary of the Jewish…
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 … Mannheim, Germany. Documents reflect the families’ prewar lives in Germany, their deportation to the Gurs concentration camp in southern France in 1940…
36. Eva Ostwalt papers
2008.86.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.86.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-2007
bulk: 1905-2007
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…Eva Ostwalt (1902-2010) was born in Cologne, Germany to Emil Lippmann and Else Ballin Lippmann. Eva had two younger sisters, Kate and Trude…
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 … father Emil and her ex-husband Karl, and some newspapers. Languages: English, Germany Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is…
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37. Levi, Kronthal, and Eis families papers
2012.444.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.444.1
Date:
inclusive: 1867-2010
… completed his high school education in Germany, pursued aviation studies in the Netherlands, and immigrated to the United States in 1936. He served with the…
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 …, sermons, writings, speeches, and books documenting the lives of the Kronthal, Levi, and Eis families as they were forced to flee Germany and immigrate to…
38. Sendzischew and Mottes family papers
2015.594.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2015.594.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1995
… Sosnowiec. David and Sala, who knew each other prior to the war, reunited in Sosnowiec, and they were married on May 1, 1945. They moved to Erding, Germany…
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 … members and friends of the Sendzischew and Mottes families; David, Sala, and Israel Jacob Sendzischew; a photograph album of the family from Erding, Germany…
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39. Ruth Miller papers
2006.473.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2006.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-2003
…Ruth Kittel was born on July 21, 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to Josef and Marie (Maria) Ritter Kittel. Josef Kittel, a businessman and World War I…
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 … Germany, and in America. The third album also include photographs of the Kittel family, their ancestors, Josef Kittel in uniform during World War I (with…
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40. Hans Praschkauer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.398.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2002
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
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 …, writings, and printed material relating to Hans Praschkauer and his family’s pre-war life in Breslau, Germany (currently Wrocław, Poland) and their…