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1. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… photographs of World War I era German soldiers, and a photo album and scrapbook documenting Julius Oppenheimer’s World War I military service, including in…
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 … Weiler. Photographic materials include prewar family photographs, loose photographs of World War I era German soldiers, and a photo album and scrapbook…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Buchenwald and Lorenz. Photographs include originals and copies of Buchenwald during and after the war. Correspondence includes letters, announcements…
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 … Buchenwald and Lorenz. Photographs include originals and copies of Buchenwald during and after the war. Languages: English, German Administrative Information…
9. Einzelbestand Franz Zürni (1912-)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.219 | RG Number: RG-58.015
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
Alternate Title:
Franz Zürni papers
… Swiss compulsory military service (“Aktivdienst”). In the aftermath of World War II, Zürni delivered care shipments by truck on behalf of the…
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 … englischen Zone. Insgesamt war Franz Zürni rund neun Monate für das IKRK im Einsatz, danach trat er wieder seine Stelle bei der Firma Welti-Furrer an. Während…
10. Richard Weilheimer papers
2007.336.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2007.336.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1998
… released in part for his service in the German Army during WWI. After the British and French declared war on Germany, Allied bombers frequently targeted…
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 …, correspondence, a watercolor booklet hand-made in Gurs, and photographic materials documenting the Weilheimer, Wetzler, and Stern families from Ludwigshafen and…
11. 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…
12. Ohringer and Weil families papers
2015.203.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2015.203.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1917-1988
bulk: 1921-1957
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…-war photographs of the Weil family including Alice Hochher (b. 1912), Iles’s sister, and a photographic postcard of Arthur Weil in German army during…
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 … entries written by Arthur Weil about his experiences while aboard the MS St. Louis as well as a translation. Photographs include pre-war photographs of the…
13. Nachlass Erich A. Hausmann
Document | Accession Number: 2012.286 | RG Number: RG-58.026
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2000
Alternate Title:
Personal papers of Erich A. Hausmann
… documentation on helping Jewish refugee children and youth during and after the war. Erich A. Hausmann worked with many organizations as the Schweizer Hilfswerk…
14. 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…
15. Walter Materna papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.159.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1969
… World War II photographs, nine volumes of miscellaneous booklets and ledgers, and loose materials that had been inserted between the pages of the diaries…
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 …-10, 13-17), additional World War II photographs, nine volumes of miscellaneous booklets and ledgers, and loose materials that had been inserted between…
16. Mandil family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1975
bulk: circa 1920-1948
…Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Mandil family, Konfino family, and the Ben-Yosif family all…
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 … Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs…
17. Arbeiter family papers
2006.4 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2006.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1974
…The Arbeiter family papers consist of wartime correspondence, a newspaper clipping, and pre-war family photographs relating to the Arbeiter family…
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 … collection The Arbeiter family papers consist of wartime correspondence, a newspaper clipping, and pre-war family photographs relating to the Arbeiter family…
18. Neuhauser and Groeger families papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.184.1
Date:
1910-1962
… ancestry, photographs and a booklet entitled "Eere Begraafplaats" commemorating the lives of members of the Dutch resistance who died in the Holocaust. The…
19. 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…
20. 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…