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1. 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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2. 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…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. John M. Steiner collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.566.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-2014
… State Prison. In 1962, he moved to Germany to pursue his doctorate at the University of Freiburg, examining social structures of the National Socialist…
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 … during his research. Reflections on experiences in Nazi death camps, DS135.C97 S735 2001 Power politics and social change in National Socialist Germany : a…
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. Lindheim family papers
2014.206.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2014.206.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2012
…Fred Lindheim was born on July 3, 1932 to Berthold Lindheim (1895-1973) and Hertha (née Frankel, 1897-1992) Lindheim in Frankfurt am Main, Germany…
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 ….206.1 Creator: Lindheim family (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
13. Edith Horn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.573.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2000
bulk: 1949-1963
…Karl and Max Horn were brothers, two of the sons of Benjamin and Elfriede (née Schreiber) Horn, originally of Vorst, Germany. The family was…
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 … representing the Horn family in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Germany, between 1949 and 1981. Also included is family correspondence from a relative in Kibbutz Givat…
14. Chaim Kamelmacher collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.404.1
Date:
bulk: 1944-1952
inclusive: 1913-2013
…Holocaust survivors--Germany--Landsberg am Lech.…
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 … (Displaced persons camp) Displaced person. Holocaust survivors—Germany—Landsberg am Lech. Manevyt︠s︡ ʹkyĭ raĭon (Ukraine) CONTAINER LIST Box Folder 1 1…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
… (June 6, 1884-September 7, 1943) married Hedwig Strauss (November 27, 1889-October 1944) on December 19, 1920 in Dortmund, Germany. They had two children…
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 …: 1890s-1950s Accession number: 2018.663.1 Creator: Ostwald (Family: Dortmund, Germany) Additional creator: Strauss family Additional creator: Tendlau…
18. Abe Weiss papers
1996.A.0081 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0081 | RG Number: RG-10.173
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1996
…-Semitic harassment, efforts to emigrate from Germany and Poland, Salomon Nachbar’s and Max Birnberg’s imprisonment in concentration camps, Chaim Dudowicz…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org report on anti-Semitic harassment, efforts to emigrate from Germany and Poland, Salomon Nachbar’s and Max Birnberg’s imprisonment in…
19. Erna Rettberg Bauer papers
1995.A.0962 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0962
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1995
bulk: 1991-1995
… 1927 the family returned to Germany for what was meant to be a three-month visit to check in on an investment property belonging to Julius and Anna. The…
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 … Rettberg Bauer, a United States citizen living in Nazi Germany with her parents in the years leading up to World War II, and her quest to regain ownership of…
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20. Fritz Rosenthal family papers
1996.A.0249 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0249
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1995
…Fritz Rosenthal was born in Würzburg, Germany on July 4, 1911 to Dr. Karl Rosenthal and Claire Rosenthal (nee Buschhoff). He attended school in…
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 ….ushmm.org for further information. Processing history: Julie Schweitzer, May 2012 Biographical note Fritz Rosenthal was born in Würzburg, Germany on July 4, 1911…
21. Stendal, Germany, information and photograph album
Document | Accession Number: 2006.142
Date:
1890-1998
…Stendal, Germany, information and photograph album…
22. Mosheim and Marx families papers
1999.A.0233 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0233
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
… City. Karl Marx had died of natural causes in 1938 in Munich, and her mother remained in Germany to care for his ailing mother, Pauline Mayer Marx…
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 … United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened…
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23. Gerald Schwab papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.327.25
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2012
…Gerald (Gerd) Abraham Schwab (1925-2014) was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany to David and Paula Kleefeld Schwab (d. 1995). His father owned an…
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 … Freiburg, Germany. David Schwab owned a plumbing supply company that required travel to Switzerland. After the boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, the…
24. 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…
25. Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers
2018.38.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.38.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
…Ellen Kaufmann Boucher (1920-2014) was born to Hermann (1882-1942) and Ella (née Barth, 1890-1920) Kaufmann in Mainz, Germany. Hermann Kaufmann, a…
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 …, prewar and wartime photographs of her family in Mainz, Germany, and a transcript of an interview she gave in 1995. Languages: English, German…
26. Alice Samson collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.331.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-2010
…Alice Samson (1926-2010) was born in Edesheim, Germany, the daughter of Karl Samson (1875-1940) and Anna (nee Beissinger) Samson (1890-1942?), and…
27. Gerard Moss collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.389.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2013
… and letter related to the experiences of Dr. Maurice Schweizer of Euskirchen, Germany. Dr. Schweizer was imprisoned in Westerbork, then Bergen-Belsen…
28. Bienstock family papers
2015.501.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2015.501.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1997
bulk: 1940-1958
…, Germany where they owned a men’s clothing business. They had two children: Joseph (b. 1919) and Martha (later Martha Padawer; 1924-2012). In 1938, they were…
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 … (bulk 1940‐1958) Accession number: 2015.501.1 Creator: Bienstock family (Dortmund :Germany) Extent: 8 folders, 1 oversize folder Repository…
29. Sendzischew and Mottes family papers
2015.594.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2015.594.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1995
… Sosnowiec. David and Sala, who knew each other prior to the war, reunited in Sosnowiec, and they were married on May 1, 1945. They moved to Erding, Germany…
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 … members and friends of the Sendzischew and Mottes families; David, Sala, and Israel Jacob Sendzischew; a photograph album of the family from Erding, Germany…
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30. 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…
31. Schwarz and Rosenwald families papers
2017.167.1 Image 5 Box 1 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2017.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1834-2006
bulk: 1920-1960
…Richard Schwarz family (Hannover: Germany)…
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 …: 1834-2006 (bulk, 1920-1960) Accession number: 2017.167.1 Creator: Richard Schwarz family (Hannover: Germany) Extent: 2.92 linear feet (4 boxes, 1…
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32. 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…
33. Winterstein-Reinhardt family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.226.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-2000
bulk: 1921-1955
…Rita Reinhardt was born into a Sinti family on March 3, 1943, in Wurzburg, Germany. She had a twin sister, Rolanda. Their father, Gabriel, was born…
34. Rabbi Wilhelm Weinberg papers
1999.A.0163 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 35
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0163 | RG Number: RG-10.238
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1995
… University of Vienna. He was imprisoned in Berlin between 1935 and 1937 for helping German Jews remove their property from Germany, and he fled to Austria…
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 … University of Vienna. He was imprisoned in Berlin between 1935 and 1937 for helping German Jews remove their property from Germany, and he fled to Austria upon…
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 … science from the University of Vienna. He was imprisoned in Berlin between 1935 and 1937 for helping German Jews remove their property from Germany, and…
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35. Fritz Weinschenk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0291.3
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1998
…Fritz Weinschenk (1920-2012) was born in Mainz, Germany but left in 1935 because of Nazi persecution. He volunteered for the U.S. Army immediately…
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 … assistance obtaining witness testimony related to war crimes proceedings in Germany. The case files contain correspondence, witness lists and testimony…
36. Reinsch family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.402.1
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1994
…-nineteenth century and started a fur export/import business with family remaining in Germany. During World War I, the business was broken up. Issak and Olga…
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 … emigrated to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century and started a fur export/import business with family remaining in Germany. During World War I…
37. Beatrice Neu Melov papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.519.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2002
… daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.…
38. Ephraim-Carlebach-Stiftung, Leipzig collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.17 | RG Number: RG-14.059M
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1992
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… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
39. Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.180
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1995
undated: 
…Lilly Goldschmidt (1903-1995) was born Lilly Mannsbach on 12 December 1903 in Beverungen, Germany to Karl and Luise Mannsbach. Her father Karl…
40. 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…
41. 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…
42. Walter Lubran papers
1993.A.0009.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 59
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0009.2
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2016
…Walter Heinz Lubran (1912-2000) was born Walter Lubranitzki on 29 July 1912 in Sebnitz, Germany to Benno (b. 1860) and Gertrude (née Posner, b. 1885…
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 … Sebnitz, Germany, including his immigration to the United States in 1938, his military career during World War II, and his restitution cases against the…
43. Loewy family papers
2016.167.1 Box 1 Folder 37 Image 112
Document | Accession Number: 2016.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1836-2014
bulk: 1904-1948
…Paul Loewy (born Alfred Paul Loewy, 1905-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany to Hermann and Else (born Sara, née Lasker) Loewy. He had three siblings…
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 ….167.1 Creator: Loewy family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box; 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
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44. Alice and John Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.247.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-2003
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
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 … Germany, Alice’s nursing education and work in England, John’s survival in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and the couple’s work at the Bergen…
45. Wolf and Schlesinger families papers
2016.160.1 Box 6 Folder 16 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.160.1
Date:
inclusive: 1846-2008
bulk: 1924-1972
…Rudolf Wolf (1907-2005) was born in Frankfurt, Germany to Hermann (1877-1970) and Ella (born Gisella Moser, 1886-1972) Wolf. He had one brother…
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 … (bulk 1924-1972) Accession number: 2016.160.1 Creator: Wolf, Rudolf (Frankfurt :Germany) Schlesinger Wolf, Gretel (Frankfurt :Germany) Extent: 3.25 linear…
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46. Rosalie Herman and Max Honigsberg family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.39.5
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2013
…Rosalie Herman (b. December 11, 1929) and Max Honigsberg (b. November 27, 1931) were born in Hamburg, Germany, to Osias (Oscar, 1895-1963) and Hudi…
47. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
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… from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany. When Lau continued his diary in 1944, he describes the end of the war, when he and his father went to Germany…
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 … school because he was half-Jewish, and his mother being forced into the ghetto. There is a gap in the diaries from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany…
48. 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…
49. Max and Lotte Wertheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.185.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2002
bulk: 1929-1944
…Max Wertheim (b. 1891) was born on 2 June 1891 in the village of Helmarshausen, Germany to Joseph and Johanne (née Hecht) Wertheim. He had three…
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 … documents the prewar and wartime lives of Max and Lotte Wertheim and their son Stanley Wertheim, originally of Warburg, Germany, including their immigration…
50. John and Dorothy Fried Goldmeier papers
2014.101.1 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 121
Document | Accession Number: 2014.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2002
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…Hans Goldmeier was born on July 20, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Isidor and Erna Lippmann Goldmeier. Hans had an older brother, Rolf. In…
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 … Main, Germany, to England as part of the Kindertransport, his schooling at the Stoatley Rough boarding school with other refugee children, his post-war…
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