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1. 1918 bank note brought to the United States by a Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany
2014.468.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.468.2
Date:
issue: 1918 September 04-1920 January
…1918 bank note brought to the United States by a Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany…
2. The Archives of the World ORT Union Head Office
Document | Accession Number: 2019.190.1 | RG Number: RG-68.219
Date:
inclusive: 1880-1970
bulk: 1920-1970
… Union was established in Berlin. In 1922, the American ORT Society was founded. World War II began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. ORT…
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 … Facts 1930-1936", Paris, 1938 ~1930-1936 65 p + XI p (2 copies) 4944523 ORT-27 ORT collection ORT statutes: drafts and printed versions in France, Germany…
3. 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
…Betty Sklow (née Behrendt, 1880-1961) was born on October 30, 1880 in Magdeburg, Germany to Adolph and Rosa Jeanette Behrendt. Hermann Sklow (1870…
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 … on October 30, 1880 in Magdeburg, Germany to Adolph and Rosa Jeanette Behrendt. Hermann Sklow (1870-1938) was born on March 14, 1870 to Wolf and…
4. Decorated porcelain teacup saved by a German Jewish prewar refugee
2008.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.204.2
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
manufacture: 1815-1924
…Gertrude Loewenberg (1898-1986, later Wiesenthal) was born in Berlin, Germany, to an assimilated Jewish family. Gertrude’s father, Caesar, had been…
5. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
6. Goldmann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.639.32
Date:
inclusive: 1876-1974
…Kurt Goldmann (1921-2003) was born in Eschwege, Germany on September 8, 1921 to Paul (1883-1958) and Hedwig “Hede” (née Baum, 1892-1959) Goldmann…
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 ….org Descriptive summary Title: Goldmann family papers Dates: 1876-1974 Accession number: 2018.639.32 Creator: Goldmann (Family: Eschwege, Germany) Extent: 5…
7. Hanukkah menorah with rearing lions used by a Polish German survivor
2014.557.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.557.2
Date:
manufacture: 1900-1933
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. The country was quickly occupied, and Herman was among the large portion of Polish soldiers captured as prisoners of…
8. Henckels table knife with a scalloped edge brought with German Jewish prewar refugee
2012.493.3 left
Object | Accession Number: 2012.493.3
Date:
emigration: 1939
manufacture: 1900-1939
…Ernestine Unger (1873-1947, later Wiesenthal) was born in Berlin, Germany, into a Jewish family that had lived in the city for generations. She…
9. Hess and Spier families papers
2016.461.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.461.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-2010
…Hannah Spier Hess was born on 12 February 1934 in Hannover, Germany, the daughter of Alfred Spier (1900-1937), a teacher, and Ruth (née Steinberg…
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 …, Germany, and his wife, Hannah Spier Hess, originally of Wolfenbüttel, Germany, relating the experiences of their families who fled Germany in 1939 due to…
10. Lilienthal family papers
2016.348.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 87
Document | Accession Number: 2016.348.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-circa 2013
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …-approximately 2013 Accession number: 2016.348.1 Creator: Lilienthal (Family : Mönchengladbach, Germany) Extent: 1.0 linear foot (2 boxes) Repository: United…
11. Max and Rose Feld papers
2005.602.1 Oversize 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2005.602.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1989
bulk: 1905-1957
…The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Max Feld and Raisa Steinberg in Germany and Poland…
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 …--France. World War, 1939-1945--Children--France. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--France--Paris. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)—Deaf—Germany Holocaust, Jewish…
12. Ruth Loewenstein papers
2017.613.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.613.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1963
…Ruth Loewenstein was born in Munich, Germany in 1929 to Willy Loewenstein (1894-1957) and Annie Cahen Loewenstein (1902-1992) and had one younger…
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 …, Germany in 1929 to Willy Loewenstein (1894-1957) and Annie Cahen Loewenstein (1902-1992) and had one younger sister named Marianne (“Janne,” 1932-2008…
13. Windmueller and Wasserman families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.360.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1975
…The Windmueller and Wasserman families collection documents the Windmueller and Wasserman families of Berlin and Cologne, Germany, who immigrated to…
14. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
Object | Accession Number: 2014.101.2 a-b
Date:
issue: 1914 August 05-1918
received: after 1914 August 05-before 1918 November 11
…Germany…