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61. Isidor Gross papers
2012.433.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.433.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1997
bulk: 1936-1945
…Isidore (later Edward) Gross was born on October 31, 1921, in Aachen, Germany, to Markus and Ida Reiter Gross. Markus was born on July 27, 1895, in…
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 …, Germany for the United States and successfully rescued his mother and two younger siblings from a holding camp. Included in this collection are several…
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62. Cohn and Siebenberg families papers
2016.254.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2016.254.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2001
…, Germany. He had two brothers, Walter (1912-1962) and Gerhard Werner (1905-1940). Georg worked in a fur factory prior to the war. He was arrested in November…
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 … number: 2016.254.1 Creator: Cohn family (Leipzig :Germany) Siebenberg family (Offenbach am Main :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box, 1 oversize box, 1…
63. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
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 … Britain. Wollheim continued to work for the Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (Union of Jews in Germany). In 1941 he was drafted to perform forced…
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64. Bier family papers
2016.522. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2016.522.1
Date:
inclusive: 1891-2008
… linen store. They immigrated to the United States with 1941. Siegfried lived in Berlin since 1929, and fled Germany in late 1938 for France. He was…
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 …: Bier (Family: Berlin, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington…
65. Otto and Erna Stein family papers
2000.229.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2000.229.1
Date:
inclusive: 1889-2000
… aunt, Wilhelm and Flora Stein, in Berlin-Neukölln, London, and then Chicago. These letters describe immigration efforts and life in Nazi Germany…
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 … in Nazi Germany Additional correspondence files include postcards congratulating Justine Selig and her family upon her engagement in 1896 and letters…
66. Oscar Reiss papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.467.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1997
…Oscar K. Reiss (1921-2019) was born Oskar Reiss on May 6, 1921 in Bad Dürkheim, Germany to Richard Reiss (b. 1890) and Irma Reiss (b. 1925, née…
67. Sonja Speyer Echt papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.260.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-2014
…Sonja Speyer Echt (born Sofie Speyer or Speier, 1926-) was born on 20 August 1926 in Guxhagen, Germany to Emanuel and Betty Speyer. Emanuel (1884…
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 …, originally of Guxhagen, Germany, including her childhood in Guxhagen, immigration to the United States in February 1938 on a Kindertransport, and her efforts…
68. Helen Kulka Fanta collection
2007.195.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2007.195.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1997
Special Collection:
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… detachment while stationed in Eutin, Germany. After the war, Helen moved to England, where she met her future Husband Erich Fanta. In 1952, the couple…
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 … was liberated, before serving as a secretary and interpreter for the same detachment while stationed in Eutin, Germany. After the war, Helen moved to…
69. Klestadt family papers
2014.481.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.481.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
bulk: 1919-1942
…Thea Löwenstein was born December 19, 1912 in Düsseldorf, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Emil and Erna Flechtheim Löwenstein. She had an older sister…
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 … 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection primarily documents the prewar experiences of Fred and Thea Klestadt, originally of Düsseldorf, Germany, prior to…
70. Marianne Cohn Roberts collection
2012.191.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.191.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2011
… Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, for the United States in 1939.…
71. Hans Praschkauer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.398.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2002
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
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 …, writings, and printed material relating to Hans Praschkauer and his family’s pre-war life in Breslau, Germany (currently Wrocław, Poland) and their…
72. 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
…Ralph Hockley was born Rudolf (Rudi or Rudy) Hockenheimer on October 17, 1925, in Karlsruhe, Germany to Julius (Jules, b. October 22, 1886 in…
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 …, and Brock families papers Dates: 1886-2016 Accession number: 2016.500.1 Creator: Hockenheimer (Family : Karlsruhe, Germany) Additional creator: Fraenkel…
73. Chambré and Elsoffer families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.286.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1994
bulk: 1920-1950
…Ernest Chambre was born on November 4, 1909, in Belgium. In 1922, he celebrated his Bar Mitzvah in Germany. In 1933, Ernest was a law student in…
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 … Elsoffer families in and around Giessen, Germany, including their lives prior to the rise of the Nazis, and their experiences of persecution by the Nazis…
74. 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…
75. Anne Ranasinghe papers
2018.627.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2018.627.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2017
bulk: 1936-2017
Special Collection:
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…Anne Ranasinghe (1925-2016) was born Anneliese Henriette Katz on 2 October 1925 in Essen, Germany to Jewish parents Emil and Anna Katz. Emil Katz…
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 …, writings, and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Anne Ranasinghe (born Anneliese Katz), originally of Essen, Germany, including her…
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76. Nass family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.464.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2018
bulk: 1931-1944
…Max Nass (1905-1977) was born on 16 February 1905 in Straubing, Germany to Abraham and Rosa Nass. His father, Abraham (also known as Adolf, 1870-1943…
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 … number: 2019.464.2 Creator: Nass (Family : Regensburg, Germany) Additional creator: Goldmeier (Family : Lichtenfels, Germany) Extent: 9 folders Repository…
77. Honig family papers
2002.70.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.70.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2002
…Jack (Heinz) Honig (1921-2012) was born in Alsenz, Germany, to Julius (1886-1924) and Rudolfine (née Sternheimer, 1889-1942) Honig. He was imprisoned…
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 … (Family : Alsenz, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear foot (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
78. Lotte Seligmann family papers
2019.129.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.129.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1916-1995
bulk: 1924-1944
…Lotte Seligmann (1912-1994) was born on 1 January 1912 in Marsberg, Germany to Adolf (b. 1878) and Emma (née Weitzenkorn, b. 1883). She had one…
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 … material and photographs primarily documenting the pre-war life of Lotte Seligmann of Marsberg, Germany, including her studies and career as a nurse in…
79. Irene and Henry Frank papers
2016.496.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.496.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1992
…Irene Frank (nee Silberstein, b. 1927) was born in Berlin, Germany to Dr. Friedrich (Fritz) Silberstein (1890-1944) and Lotte Frank Silberstein (1903…
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 … helped a lot of Jewish families leave Germany, but ultimately it became too late for him and his family to get out. In 1941, Irene’s mother, Lotte, was…
80. Edith Hahn-Beer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0079.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1997
… 1939 Edith and her mother were forced to move into the Jewish ghetto in Vienna. In April 1941 she was sent to a farm in Osterburg, Germany where she was…
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 … Vienna, Austria, including forced-labor in Osterburg and Aschersleben, Germany, living in Munich and Brandenburg an der Havel under the false-identity of…