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1. Richard Towne collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.447.8
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1972
… the persecution of Jews in Germany. Also includes Richard H. Towne's notes on his memories of the relationship between Ebhardt and Towne's father, as…
2. Heilborn and Fassberg family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.339.1
Date:
inclusive: 1840-2009
bulk: 1933-1946
…Theodor Heilborn (1883-1969) was born on September 8, 1883 in Berlin, Germany, to Siegfried (1843-1923) and Jenny Heilborn (née Cohn, 1853-1934…
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 … Berlin, Germany and Harold Fassberg, from Ohio. Administrative Information Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material. Reproduction…
3. 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…
4. Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.85.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2011
…Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling (1902-1939) was born on February 12, 1902 near Leipzig, Germany to Karl Schilling (1874-1958) and Luise Schilling (née…
5. Karliner family papers
1999.3.32 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1999.3.32
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1951
…The Karliner family lived in Peiskretscham (Silesia), Germany, now Pyskowice, Poland. Joseph Karliner (Josef, 1898-1943) married Martha Weissler (d…
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 ….3.32 Creator: Karliner family (Peiskretscham, Germany) Extent: 0.2 linear foot (3 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
6. Greta Braude Heiman photographs
2003.246.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2003.246.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1952
… Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following their immigration to the United States. Photographs depict Greta, her parents…
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 … prints of Greta Braude Heiman and her Meyer and Michel relatives and friends in Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following…
7. Rosenwald and Stahl families papers
2017.222.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.222.1
Date:
inclusive: 1885-1980
bulk: 1920-1955
…Gerhard (later Gerald) Stahl was born on 3 May 1922, to Martin and Sofie (née Bauer) Stahl, in Nuremberg, Germany. He left for Britain (on a…
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 … of Otto and Elfriede Rosenwald, and their daughter, Helene, from Germany in 1936, to escape Nazi persecution. Includes materials from their extended…
8. Simon Slivka photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.596.1
Date:
creation: circa 1920-1946
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … stay in the Bergen Belsen DP camp, Germany, April 29, 1946. Inscribed in Polish: “To my dear friend I give my photograph, Erna Izak.” 6. Photograph of an…
9. 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…
10. Reichskanzlei II ( R 43)
Document | Accession Number: 2000.144 | RG Number: RG-14.021M
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Bundesarchiv (Germany)…
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 … II, Bundesarchiv Berlin, Germany. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's International Programs Division purchased the microfiche from the…
11. Heinz Dieter Menge papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.662.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-2002
…Heinz Dieter Menge was born on September 13, 1919 in the Ilten district of Sehnde, Germany, near Hannover. During World War II he was a German…
12. Pinchas Shaar photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2005.456.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1975
… Szwarc (nee Zychlinska, 1892‐?). He had two brothers, Josef and Lajb, and a sister, Ester Ita. When Germany invaded Poland, Pinchas escaped with his…
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 … photographs of Pinchas Shaar and his family in the Łódź ghetto and after the war in Germany, France, and Israel; photographs of life in the Łódź ghetto by…
13. 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
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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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14. 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…
15. Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany
1990.272.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.272.1.4
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: after 1900-1945
…Staedtler pencil from a carrying case containing anthropometry instruments used in Nazi Germany…
16. Vollweiler family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.353.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1994
…Else Rosenbaum Vollweiler was born on September 14, 1914 in Treuchtlingen, Germany to Issak Rosenbaum (d. 1930) and Pauline Rosenbaum. Her father…
17. Political cartoon depicting terrorism in Europe created by an American journalist
2018.298.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.298.2
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Artwork Title:
At Large
… and reporter for the Chattanooga Times Free Press. In January 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Anti-Jewish decrees were soon…
18. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
…Rudi Dingfelder (later Robert Felder, 1924-1986) was born on April 21, 1924 in Uehlfeld, Germany to Leopold Dingfelder (1886-1943) and Johanna…
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 … family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, a studio…
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  • Series 1: Photographs Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
    • File 1: Dingfelder and Wolff families Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
      • Pages: 5, 7
19. Porcelain tobacco bowl with an image of three Jewish hareskin dealers painted on the front
2016.184.114 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.114
Date:
creation: 1829-1940
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
20. 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…
21. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) was born on June 29, 1889 in Herford, Germany to Veterinarian and Eugenie Goldstein. He had two brothers, Arthur and…
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 …: Goldstein family (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.1 (4 folders, 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
22. Rosenfeld family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.223.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1979
…Adolf Rosenfeld (1898-1942) was born on June 16, 1898 in Korb, Germany. He married Katherine Rosenfeld (née Lemberger, 1899-1942) who was born on…
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 … Catalog number: 2003.223.2 Creator: Rosenfeld (Family: Adelsheim, Germany) Extent: 1 box, 1 oversize box Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
23. Salpeter family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.322.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1983
… Issler, b. 1891) was born on April 28, 1891 in Radomyśl. Oskar and Brunhilde Salpeter married in Dortmund, Germany on August 26, 1919. They moved to…
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 … number: 2015.322.1 Creator: Salpeter family (Düsseldorf, Germany) Extent: 1 box Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
24. Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
1990.300.1_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.300.1 b
Date:
use: approximately 1933-1945
manufacture: 1928-1945
…Case for hair color tool used in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
25. Coat design, Basel, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.16
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Basel
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
26. Jablow family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.442.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1975
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
27. Radio battery eliminator placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.16
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1928-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…
28. Asynchronous motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.10
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: 1889-1942
…Allgemeine Elektricita?ts-Gesellschaft (Germany)…
29. Lustig and Katz family collections
Document | Accession Number: 2012.400.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2006
…Consists of identity cards, documents, and correspondence related to Albert and Erna Lustig, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes paperwork…
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 … correspondence related to Albert and Erna Lustig, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes paperwork related to the Lustigs' emigration to the United States in…
30. Ullrich Remak papers
2014.425.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.425.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1973
bulk: 1939-1944
… children were sent to Britain, Nanni Remak continued her efforts to emigrate from Germany, initialing applying for a visa to immigrate to the United States…
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 …, immigration documents, newsletters, and other documents related to the immigration of Ullrich Remak from Breslau, Germany to Scotland on a Kindertransport in…
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31. 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…
32. Coat design, Mia, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.17
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Mia
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
33. Bernard Feingold papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.113
Date:
creation: 1916-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
34. Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany
Object | Accession Number: 2017.355.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1930-1945
use: approximately 1930-1945
…Tool used to classify eye color in racial studies conducted in Nazi Germany…
35. Chaim Melamed papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.252.1
Date:
inclusive: after 1916-1947
… brought to Heiderhorst for recovery. From there he went to Finnhorst, outside Hannover, Germany, where he met Maryla Krause, a fellow survivor from Łódź…
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 …, Germany, circa 1946. 4. Photograph of Isuchor Melamed, a pre-war portrait. Isuchor Melamed did not survive the Holocaust. 5. Photograph of Fajga Frymet…
36. Morris Berk papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.456.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1958
…Moritz Berk was born on April 9, 1891, in Schwanfeld, Germany, to Jewish parents, Adolf and Sophie (Sofie) Maier Berk. Adolf was born in…
37. Coat design, Ulla, created by a German Jewish man and saved by his wife in hiding
Object | Accession Number: 2002.474.10
Date:
creation: 1930-1943
Title:
Ulla
…Julius Isaacsohn was born on November 19, 1891, in Berlin, Germany, to Herrman Benjamin and Ernestine Kaiser Isaacsohn. He had several brothers…
38. AEG motor placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.12
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1887-before 1943
…Allgemeine Elektricita?ts-Gesellschaft (Germany)…
39. Ester Ajzen Lewin family photographs
2004.396 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.396
Date:
creation: circa 1927-circa 1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
40. Harpuder family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.240.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1952
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
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 …-2126 Abstract: The Harpuder family papers documents the experiences of the Harpuder family in Berlin, Germany and Shanghai, China, 1915-1952; as well as…
41. Ann Benjamin Goldberg papers
1999.34.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.34.3
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1949
…, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and Chana fled eastwards from Zetel with a group of her schoolmates. She eventually arrived in Aktyubinsk in southern…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection consists of a health card, certificate issued in Bremen, Germany, and photographs…
42. Baby doll owned by a Jewish Yugoslavian girl in hiding
2019.20.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.20.1
Date:
manufacture: approximately 1908-before 1945
… forces and was partitioned between Germany, Italy, Hungary and Bulgaria, with Skopje falling under Bulgarian control. Bulgarian authorities passed many…
43. Hitler Youth flag
Object | Accession Number: 1992.201.1
Date:
use: 1922-1945
…Germany.…
44. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border…
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 … for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their…
45. Leo Spellman photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.602.1
Date:
creation: circa 1926-circa 1955
…, Germany, circa 1945-1950. Pictured in the group photograph are musicians, including (seated left to right) unidentified, Jonas Turkow, Diana Blumenfeld, and…
46. G. Boulitte brand manual aneroid sphygmomanometer and case
1990.80.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 1990.80.2 a-d
Date:
use: approximately 1900-approximately 1945
…Germany.…
47. Renate Fleischer Fajer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.415.1
Date:
creation: 1915-1957
… born in Posen, Germany (today: Poznan, Poland) on September 28, 1904. She was the oldest child of Else Bieber Kroner (b. October 14, 1879) and Robert…
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 … Army during World War I, 1915. 2. Photograph of Else and Robert Kroner, parents of Ilse Kroner, Breslau, Germany, circa 1935. 3. Photograph of Suzi…
48. Lenore Khan collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.370.1
Date:
creation: 1875-1951
… Neustaetter family of Munich and Stuttgart, Germany.…
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 …. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: reference@ushmm.org Lenore Khan Collection Inventory 1. Photograph of man and woman, Germany, 1907; inscribed on both sides in…
49. Annelise B. Hoffman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0257
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1998
bulk: 1938-1942
… experiences of the Bernhardt family, Ernst, Ella, and their children Erika, Annelise, and Hans, of Berlin, Germany, during the early years of the Third Reich…
50. 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…