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1. 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…
2. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families papers
2016.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2016
bulk: 1938-1945
… War, was eventually promoted to Second Lieutenant in the Military Intelligence Reserve, and spent 25 years in Germany as an Intelligence Officer for the…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families papers include photographs, family trees…
3. Herman Yablokoff papers
1989.58.152 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1989.58.152
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1964
…The collection consists of documents and photographs relating to the experiences of Herman Yablokoff after World War II…
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 … refugees‐‐Europe. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Refugees‐‐Europe. Refugee camps‐‐Europe. Photographs. CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Correspondence, 1947…
4. Abraham Atsmon papers
1999.A.0151 Box 4 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1994
… a list of Brigade members who died during the war. Photographs depict Abraham Atsmon, his family members, friends, fellow partisans, and David…
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 …, biographies, correspondence, reports, narratives, photographs, newspapers, protocols, and minutes documenting Atsmon’s family and pre-war life in Poland, his…
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. Breisacher family photographs
2018.275.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2018.275.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
…'s pre-war lives in Breisach am Rhein and their wartime and post-war lives in the United States after emigration from Germany in 1938. Wartime photographs…
7. Henry Knepler papers
2004.683.1 Box 3 Folder 12 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.683.1 | RG Number: RG-10.458
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2004
…, where he completed his PhD in Chicago. He became a citizen in 1956. Hedwig Knepler survived the war in hiding in Vienna under a false identity with the…
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 … from approximately 1850‐2004. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and writings documenting Henry Knepler and his…
8. Ruth Mueller papers
2017.651.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 2017.651.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1986
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The Ruth Mueller papers include biographical material, a diary, correspondence, and photographs relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war…
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 …, a diary, correspondence, and photographs relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Ruth Mueller and her family, originally of…
9. 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…
10. Szamek family collection
1998.94 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1998.94
Date:
inclusive: circa 1892-1968
bulk: circa 1892-1941
… legally changed her name to Faye Baron. The fate of the extended Szamek family is largely unknown. Prior to the war, Berta Szamek had a daughter Emma…
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 … family collection relates to the pre-war experiences of the Szamek family in Budapest, Hungary. The collection contains studio portraits and informal…
11. Schultz and Bodnar families papers
2017.336.1 Box 4 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.336.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2015
bulk: 1916-1954
… States and their families in Budapest; and pre-war family photographs. The collection also documents the death of Zoltan Schultz, Edith’s brother, who was…
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 …; wartime correspondence between John and Edith (née Schultz) Bodnar in the United States and their families in Budapest; and pre-war family photographs. The…
12. Morgenthau family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.255.1
Date:
inclusive: 1860-2005
bulk: 1930-1950
… Cleveland, Ohio. The United States declared war on Germany and Japan in December 1941. Morgenthau joined the United States Army. In 1943, he graduated from…
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 … correspondence, documents, photographs, and research notes related to the Morgenthau family. The collection includes material related to the Ottoman Empire and…
13. 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…
14. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
… collection are facsimiles of the original albums. The photographs include pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Ostwald family, the Strauss family…
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 … collection are facsimiles of the original albums. The photographs include pre-war, wartime, and post-war photographs of the Ostwald family, the Strauss family…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. Hanoch Gerstel papers
1999.52.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1999.52.1
Date:
inclusive: 1854-1975
…The Hanoch Gerstel papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence files, photographic materials, printed materials, and sermons documenting…
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 …: Photographs, approximately 1905‐1975  Series 4: Printed materials, 1941‐1948  Series 5: Sermons, approximately 1924‐1956 Indexing terms World War…
18. Nathan and Edith Litvin papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.493.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1999
bulk: 1945-1946
…. Includes pre-war and post-war photographs of the Festinger family, documents related to Edith's immediate post-war life, and correspondence, documents and…
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 …, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook pages documenting the experiences of Nathan Litvin and Edith Festinger Litvin. Includes pre‐war and post‐war…
19. Ofner family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.371.1
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2000
…Peter Ofner was born in 1923 in Berlin, Germany, to Curt (Kurt) and Betzi (nee Leon) Ofner. Curt was a veteran of the German Army in World War and…
20. Paula Abelow collection
2008.111.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.111.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1957
bulk: 1923-1948
… the United States. After the war ended, news arrived about Eugenie’s sisters. Sophie and Charlotte who had been deported and killed, while Josefa and…
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 … photographs. The albums show the family both at home and on vacation with relatives and friends prior to World War II. Some of the photos follow Paula…