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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. 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…
5. 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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6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. 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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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. 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…
15. 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…
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. 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…
18. 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: 
Special Collection:
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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…
19. 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…
20. 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…
21. 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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22. 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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23. Stendal, Germany, information and photograph album
Document | Accession Number: 2006.142
Date:
1890-1998
…Stendal, Germany, information and photograph album…
24. 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…
25. Pistiner family papers
2016.187.1 Box 3 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2016.187.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-2000
bulk: 1908-1972
…Jewish families--Germany--Berlin.…
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 …: 2016.187.1 Creator: Pistiner family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: 4 boxes (1.25 linear feet) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives…
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26. 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…
27. 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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28. 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…
29. Levinson and Stern family papers
2015.606.1 Box 2 Folder 39 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.606.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1995
bulk: 1875-1958
…Sidney Jack Levinson (1901-1969) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to concert pianist Else Hanff Levinson (1875-1948) and Siegfried Levinson…
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 …-1958) Accession number: 2015.606.1 Creator: Levinson family (Homburg :Germany) Stern family (Kassel :Germany) Extent: 1.25 linear feet (3 boxes, 1…
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30. 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…
31. 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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32. Hildegard Vicktor papers
2015.531.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.531.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-circa 2013
…Hildegard (Hilde) Vicktor (1909-2012) was born in Böchingen, Germany, just outside Landau, to wine merchant Eugene Kern (1877-1935) and his wife…
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 … visits to Germany. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please…
33. Ephraim-Carlebach-Stiftung, Leipzig collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.17 | RG Number: RG-14.059M
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1992
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
34. 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…
35. 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…
36. Holub, Glaser, and Ornstein families papers
2019.320.1 Box 5 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.320.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2006
… Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2. Immigration papers include paperwork related to Arno…
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 … regarding Josef’s life insurance with Assicurazioni Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2…
37. 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…
38. Charlene Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0028.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2004
bulk: 1945-1951
… Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
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 … Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
39. 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…
40. 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…
41. 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…
42. William Malsh papers
1994.A.0027.1 Box 1 Folder 28 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0027.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-circa 1993
bulk: 1937-1941
… sources differ as to whether they were sent to Theresienstadt, Łódź, or Auschwitz. Uncle Ernst managed to escape Germany to Shanghai in 1939.…
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 … William Malsh papers consist of letters his parents sent him from Düsseldorf describing their efforts to escape Nazi Germany. Additional correspondence…
43. 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…
44. Falik family papers
2016.303.4 Box 4 Folder 1 Image 50
Document | Accession Number: 2016.303.4
Date:
inclusive: 1927-2000
bulk: 1930-1947
…, Deborah, and one brother, Eli. Leon studied medicine in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Warsaw, Poland. He worked in Warsaw until 1939 when Germany invaded…
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 … photographs of post-war Germany and Europe, and the WAC. Languages: Polish, English, Russian, German, Yiddish, Hebrew Administrative Information Access…
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45. 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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46. 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.…
47. Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.221.12
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2004
…Rolf Wartenberg (1912-1996) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912 to Ernst (1878-1934) and Hedy (née Zender, 1884-1975) Wartenberg and had a brother…
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 …: Julie Schweitzer, September 2015; Revised by Morgan Voth, January 2024 Biographical note Rolf Wartenberg (1912-1996) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912…
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 …, September 2015; Revised by Morgan Voth, January 2024 Biographical note Rolf Wartenberg (1912-1996) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912 to Ernst (1878-1934…
48. 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…
49. 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…
50. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
…Henry Oertelt (born Arthur Karl Heinz Oertelt, 1921-2011) was born on 13 January 1921 in Berlin, Germany to Arthur and Else Oertelt. He had one…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Henry Oertelt of Berlin, Germany…
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