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61. 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…
62. Inscribed Siddur carried through hiding and slave labor by a Jewish Polish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2018.369.3
Date:
use: approximately 1921-approximately 1998
…-?), Samuel (1916-?), Lana (later Lena Mandelkorn, 1916-?), Etta (1918-?), and Chaia (later Chust, 1920-?). On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded and occupied…
63. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
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 … Afterwards, he worked cleaning soldiers’ barracks. Eventually he returned to his uncle’s house in Bayreuth, Germany where he learned of the death of his family…
64. Antoni Czerniewski papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.396.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1956
… in the Polish Army taken POW and imprisoned in Oflag XI B in Germany; his older brother, Dr. Aleksander Czerniewski was executed by the Soviets in…
65. Lichtenberg and Stein families papers
2014.408.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2014.408.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2001
undated: 
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…Irmgard Stein (Irma, later Lichtenberg, b. 1920) was born to Max (1871-1944, born in Arolsen, Germany) and Hedwig (Johanna, née Benjamin, 1883-1944…
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 … and undated Accession number: 2014.408.1 Creator: Lichtenberg (Family: Hannover, Germany) Additional creator: Stein (Family: Frankfurt, Germany) Extent…
66. Werner Katzenstein postcards
Document | Accession Number: 2014.307.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1948
…Werner Katzenstein was born on April 29, 1922, in Wallensen, Germany. In 1933, the Nazi dictatorship took control of Germany. All the male Jews in…
67. Ernst Berl papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1954
bulk: 1933-1946
…, Germany, where he remained on the faculty until 1933, when the Nazis gained power in Germany, and Jewish faculty members were forced out of their positions…
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 …, and his immigration to the United States in 1933. Included is correspondence with other émigré academics from Austria and Germany during the 1930s and…
68. Sonneborn, Stern, and Bing families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.130.1
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1960
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Netherlands. Ommen (The Netherlands) Germany. Genre / Form: Photographs. Photograph albums. Correspondence. Genealogy. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
69. Gabryela Bromberg collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.201.1
Date:
creation: 1880-1968
…The Gabryela Bromberg collection consists of seven pre-war family photographs of the Bromberg family in Lublin, Poland and Berlin, Germany, and the…
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 … Krępiec, villa “Regina” dated 1927; Krępiec, near Lublin, Poland; in Polish. 2. Photograph of Gitla Gustawa Bromberg, Berlin, Germany, circa 1880. Printed…
70. Hitler Youth flag
Object | Accession Number: 1992.201.1
Date:
use: 1922-1945
…Germany.…
71. Elsa and Selmar Biener papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1968
bulk: 1936-1941
…Selmar Biener (1906-1988) was born on May 15, 1906 in Magdeburg, Germany to Philip Biener (b. 1870) and Regina Biener (née Sternberg, b. 1876). He…
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 … (1906-1988) was born on May 15, 1906 in Magdeburg, Germany to Philip Biener (b. 1870) and Regina Biener (née Sternberg, b. 1876). He had three brothers…
72. Mayer and Mané family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.347
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1992
…Eugene (Eugen) Mané (1901-1968) was born in Geinsheim, Germany on February 28, 1901 to Isador (Isadore, 1870-1941) and Emilie (née Lehmann, 1875…
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 … Caroline went back to Saarbrücken, Germany and died there. Blanca Mane and Joseph Gugenheim: Blanche moved to Paris in 1938. She and her husband were rounded…
73. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
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… children. In the mid-1930s, Henry’s older brother, Alfred, left Germany with the hopes of training at a Zionist-sponsored camp in Yugoslavia, in order to…
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 … currency from Poland and Germany from the 1910s and 1920s; and luggage tags and labels used when Henry Wachs immigrated to the United States in 1938…
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74. Reichskanzlei I (R 43 I)
Document | Accession Number: 2000.143 | RG Number: RG-14.020M
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Bundesarchiv (Germany)…
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 … of the chancellor. It was the site of business with the cabinet, Reichstag deputies, regional officials, and public interest groups in Imperial Germany…
75. Kraicer family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2000.291.1
Date:
creation: 1917-1950
… Zychlin to apprentice as a barber. He participated in Poaley Zion, a Zionist youth organization. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded and occupied Poland…
76. Bosch engine component placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.15
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1900-before 1943
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…
77. Susi Cohn Podgurski papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-10.286
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1992
bulk: 1938-1947
…, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. Martin Cohn was a dentist and served in World War I. Prior to June 1939, Eugen Hirschfeld lost his home. He moved in with the…
78. Edwin Dutkiewicz papers
2014.74.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2014.74.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1980
bulk: 1941-1947
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…Organisation Todt (Germany)…
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 … 1: The Edwin Dutkiewicz papers Indexing terms Dutkiewicz, Edwin Organisation Todt (Germany) World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Bydgoszcz. World War, 1939…
79. Print of the Zülz synagogue brought to the US by German Jewish refugees
Object | Accession Number: 2004.482.2
Date:
1920-1945 May 09
Artwork Title:
Synagoge Zülz
…Donald Harry Hirschberg (later Harter, 1933-2019) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland), to Harry Morton (1899-1957) and Lenore Evelyne…
80. Kollander family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.415.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1971
…Consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the Kollander family, originally of Leipzig, Germany. The bulk of the collection is…