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1. Harry Markowicz photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.382.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1949
bulk: 1940-1949
…The Harry Markowicz photograph collection contains pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs and copyprints of Harry Markowicz and his family in…
2. Joan Kent Finkelstein family papers
2009.376.1 front
Document | Accession Number: 2009.376.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2013
… Western Electric (Bell System), where he designed a submarine sonar detection system that aided the war effort and worked in early development of mobile…
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 … remained in Poland during the war, family who emigrated to Palestine and the Soviet Union, and family and friends who emigrated to the United States…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. Nachlass Elsa Lüthi-Ruth
Document | Accession Number: 2012.285 | RG Number: RG-58.025
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1969
Alternate Title:
Personal papers of Elsa Lüthi-Ruth
…Elsa Lüthi-Ruth (1909-2005), was a nurse for the Swiss Red Cross and in various internment camps in France during World War II. After the outbreak…
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 …-1934 Ausbildung zur Krankenschwester in Luzern, Zürich und Bern. Danach reiste sie 1934 in die USA. 1935-1937 war Elsa Ruth im Ospedale Internationale in…
6. Pisker, Fischer, and Altstädter families papers
2014.411.1 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.411.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1987
bulk: 1935-1948
… of the Jasenovac concentration camp, and written testimony from Elvira describing her wartime experiences. The photographs include pre-war family…
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 … include pre-war family photographs primarily of the Pisker family; the Pisker and Fischer families in Italian-occupied Crikvenica, Croatia; Elvira Pisker…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. Joffe family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.183.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1990
…Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Szymon Joffe (later Paul or Sam Jaffe…
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 …, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the pre‐war…
10. Betty Sklow papers
1999.A.0269 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0269
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1949
bulk: 1939-1940
… to the United States, and her journey to the United States aboard the SS Pennland in 1940. The papers also include photographs of Betty Sklow and her…
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 …. The papers also include photographs of Betty Sklow and her husband Hermann Sklow, as well as a printed cabin plan for the MS St. Louis, February 1939…
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. Mendel Grossman photograph collection
2005.214.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2005.214.2
Date:
inclusive: 1919-circa 1970
… his brother Jakub died of appendicitis before the war. Prior to the war, Mendel was a prolific artist and photographer. In 1939, Mendel and his family…
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 … in Łódz,́ Poland prior to and during the war. The prewar photographs document the Grossman family, including Mendel’s sister Rozka, and his parents…
13. Reinhold and Singer families papers
1999.A.0042 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0042
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1999
…The Reinhold and Singer families papers are comprised of biographical materials, a cookbook, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials…
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 … inability to pay. Photographs depict Reinhold and Singer family members and friends and document their pre‐war lives in Germany and Austria, Rosa Reinhold…
14. Fela and Chaim Perelman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.432.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-2001
… Libre de Bruxelles and wrote a doctoral thesis on the Belgian Revolution and Poland in 1830. During the war, she welcomed Jewish children who had been…
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 … Abstract: The Fela and Chaim Perelman papers consists of photographs, correspondence, biographical materials, personal narratives, published works, and…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. Freyer and Lichtenstein families papers
1991.A.0033.2 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0033.2
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1985
bulk: 1938-1953
…The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and Eva…
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 … Abstract: The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and…
18. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
… Lessing family. The books cover pre-war family history, their Holocaust experiences, and their post-war lives through 2015. Photographs consists of pre-war…
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 … post-war lives through 2015. Photographs consists of pre-war images of Ed with his Jewish scout group and wartime images of him with the Dutch Resistance…
19. 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…
20. Herbert Klein papers
2015.529.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.529.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1916-1949
… parents and pre-war, wartime, and post-war financial and restitution documents regarding the expropriation of the family's automobile garage and repair shop…
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 … records related to Herbert Klein of Vienna, Austria and his parents and pre-war, wartime, and post-war financial and restitution documents regarding the…