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1. Leopold Levy family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0017 | RG Number: RG-10.050
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1960
…Erica Levy (born Gudrun Erika Levy, 1931-2007) was born in Viersen, Germany to Leopold (b. 1895) and Laura (née Liffgens, 1895-1975) Levy and had two…
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 … Viersen, Germany. In 1938, she moved to Brussels, Belgium, with her sister, Karola, where she attended a convent school. She eventually reunited with her…
2. Dingfelder family papers
1994.A.0024 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0024 | RG Number: RG-10.105
Date:
inclusive: circa 1884-1966
bulk: circa 1914-1966
…Sigbert Dingfelder (1891-1978) was born Neustadt an der Aisch in Bavaria, Germany to Emma (née Gunderheimer, b. 1865) and August Dingfelder (b. 1862…
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 …-1966) Accession number: 1994.A.0024 Creator: Dingfelder family (Nürnberg :Germany) Neu family (Nürnberg :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (2 boxes, 1…
3. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… establish a hospital and bring aid to the area. On April 24, 1945 he was assigned to a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany where he continued his efforts. Lorenz…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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  • Series 2: Buchenwald 1945-1978, Undated
    • File 5: Reports 1945
  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
4. 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…
5. Sonja Abelson collection
Document | Accession Number: 2001.9 | RG Number: RG-10.209
Date:
1926-1976
… to the escape of parents of the donor from the Nazi Germany in the mid 1930s. The collection also contains correspondence through ICRC with Mr. and…
6. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
…Ernst Günther Heppner (later, Ernest Guenter,1921-2004) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), to Isidor (1878-c.1942) and Hilda (nee…
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 … Settlement) – Volunteer Corps Jews – Germany – History – 1933‐1945. Jews – Austria – History – 20th century. Jewish refugees – Germany. Jewish refugees…
7. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection
1995.A.0106 Box 4 Folder 11 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.237
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1986
bulk: 1937-1954
…Joseph and Caroline Schiffmann of Hoppstaedten, Germany had three children: Gustav Schiffmann, Isaak Schiffmann (1856-1910), and Johanna Schiffmann…
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 …, Alabama) Additional creator: Marx (Family: Germany) Extent: 4 boxes Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place…
8. The Spiegel family papers
1988.57.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1988.57.1 | RG Number: RG-10.257
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1949
… (Bertha), and Sam. Originally from Poland, the Spiegel family moved to Leipzig, Germany in the 1920s. Upon the rise of the Nazi regime, the Spiegel brothers…
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 … Leipzig, Germany and the Soviet Union between 1938 and 1949. These documents largely described family member’s emigration and eventual deaths in…
9. 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…
10. Klapholz and Schlesinger family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0156 | RG Number: RG-10.290
Date:
inclusive: 1885-1945
…Irene Schlesinger (later Woods Hofstein, 1921-2016) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Kurt Joseph (1885-1946) and Erna Meier Pelz (1897-1991…
11. Horst Biesold collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0133 | RG Number: RG-10.320
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1988
…The collection includes original and photocopies of documents relating to Bertholdt Jacobs and Margarete Crohn who lived in Berlin, Germany and fled…
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 … Bavarian television for the hearing impaired about Kristallnacht and subsequent developments in Germany with special emphasis on the Nazis dealings with the…
12. Joseph Spitz papers
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0036 | RG Number: RG-10.327
Date:
1930-1946
…Refugees, Jewish--Germany.…
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 … Judith, who perished in Auschwitz in 1944. 4. 1 photoprint: b&w. Photograph of Joseph Spitz taken in the Weilheim Displaced Persons camp in Germany, 1946…
13. Margaret Klug photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1990.71 | RG Number: RG-10.400
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1978
…Margaret Klug (née Grete Jastrow) was born on June 8, 1923, in Posen, Germany (now Poznaân, Poland). She was jailed in Berlin, Germany, and the day…
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 … born on June 8, 1923, in Posen, Germany (now Poznaân, Poland). She was jailed in Berlin, Germany, and the day before her assigned transport left for the…
14. Werner Goldsmith papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.198 | RG Number: RG-10.424
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1989
…Werner Goldsmith was born in Erfurt, Germany, on Nov. 13, 1928. Werner's father, a textile salesman, died in 1938, and Werner and his mother moved…
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 … and documents. The first photograph was taken in Berlin, Germany, and depicts Werner Goldsmith at age 10. A few months after this photograph was taken…
15. Albert Martin photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1990.253 | RG Number: RG-10.426
Date:
1923-1935
…The collection consists of six propaganda photographs documenting Adolf Hitler's rise to power in Germany. Captions are printed on the verso in…
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 … Branch. Scope and content note: The collection consists of propaganda photographs documenting Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. Captions are printed…
16. Friedl Wollmerstedt papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.89.1 | RG Number: RG-10.438
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1975
bulk: 1939-1960
…Friedl Wollmerstedt was born Frieda Herzfeld in Kelsterbach, Germany on December 9, 1915. Her father Herz (Hugo) Herzfeld (son of Moses Herzfeld and…
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 … arrangement: The collection is organized into eight series: RG-10.438*01: Documents from prewar Germany, 1916-1939; RG-10.438*02: Correspondence between Martha…
17. Henry Landman papers
1997.A.0175.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0175.1 | RG Number: RG-10.476
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1992
bulk: 1935-1945
…Henry Landman was born Heinz Landmann in Augsburg, Germany, in 1920 to Josef Landmann (1895- 1964) and Regina (Recha) Landmann, née Grünebaum. After…
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 … 2013, revised January 2018 Biographical note Henry Landman was born Heinz Landmann in Augsburg, Germany, in 1920 to Josef Landmann (1895- 1964) and…
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18. Ralph Mayer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.347 | RG Number: RG-10.494
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1945
… home in Krefeld, Germany, while the other shows the interior of the family's cardboard factory in Krefeld. Also includes five identity documents for Rolf…
19. Dr. Leonore Goldschmidt papers
2005.484 Box 4 Folder 8 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2005.484 | RG Number: RG-10.526
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2005
bulk: 1920-1960
…Dr. Leonore (Lore) Goldschmidt (1897-1983) was born in Gosda, Germany, near Klinge, to Wilhelm and Jenny (Marcuse) Zweig and had one sister, Martha…
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 … Goldschmidt, in Berlin, Germany and Folkestone, England before and during WWII, as well as Leonore’s professional career as an educator. The collection also…
20. Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Fond 500)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.2 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.01
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1945
bulk: 1936-1944
Alternate Title:
Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) Berlin
… was to fight all "enemies of the Reich" inside and outside the borders of Nazi Germany. The RSHA was created by Himmler on 27 September 1939. Himmler…
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 …; similar material from outside Germany; directives and other documents of the Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland; Amt IV activity reports…