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1. Zvi Griliches photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.83
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1949
… reunited with his sister, Ellen, and his two cousins who were smuggled out of Kovno to Germany by Lea Olitzki, Solly’s sister-in-law. In the summer of 1946…
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 … seated seventh on left side of table is Fanny Olitzki, Zvi’s cousin); verso: black ink inscribed date; dated: February 15, 1946; Munich, Germany .13…
2. Ziegler family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.246.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1982
bulk: 1939-1951
…, the family was taken to the Föhrenwald Displaced Persons camp. Frances resumed school at a Gymnasium in Munich, Germany. Her parents both enrolled in…
3. 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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4. 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…
5. Windmueller and Wasserman families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.360.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1975
…The Windmueller and Wasserman families collection documents the Windmueller and Wasserman families of Berlin and Cologne, Germany, who immigrated to…
6. 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…
7. William Begell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.40.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1947
bulk: 1930-1947
…. There was widespread anti-semitism in Vilna and it increased during the 1930s with the rise to power of the Nazi Party in Germany. There was a boycott on…
8. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
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 … Afterwards, he worked cleaning soldiers’ barracks. Eventually he returned to his uncle’s house in Bayreuth, Germany where he learned of the death of his family…
9. William and Bela Citron and Miriam Citron Burhans papers
2009.157.5 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2009.157.5
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2016
bulk: 1945-1983
… September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. For the first month or two, life was not greatly changed. The Polish zloty was replaced with occupation currency and…
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 … Cytrynblum and Bela Kasztan) and their daughter Miriam Citron (Gela Machla, later Miriam Citron Burhans) in displaced persons camps in Germany prior to their…
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10. Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter papers
2014.413.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 64
Document | Accession Number: 2014.413.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1956
…Wilhelm Stahl (1890 - ?) was a non-Jewish German born on April 18, 1890 in Sulzheim, Germany to “Marg.” [Schneider] Stahl (d. 1926) and Christoph…
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 … relating to the forced sale of Jewish assets in Frankfurt, Germany, postcards, as well as photographs of Wilhelm Stahl and family, Walter Lewalter, and…
11. 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…
12. Weinschenk and Levi families papers
2013.508.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2013.508.1
Date:
inclusive: 1876-1986
bulk: 1888-1942
…Margot (neé Levi) Weinschenk (1912-1996) was born in Stuttgart, Germany to Nellie (neé Strauss; b. 1888) and Max Levi (b. 1886). She had one brother…
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 …-1942) Accession number: 2013.508.1 Creator: Weinschenk family (Nuremberg :Germany) Levi family (Stuttgart :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box, 1…
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13. Weil family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.415.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1928-1981
…Annelise Franziska Weil (later Anne Wascou, 1921-2011) was born on 23 August 1921 in Karlsruhe, Germany to Elfriede (née Meyer, born in Mannheim…
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 … Accession number: 2005.415.1 Creator: Weil family, Mannheim, Germany. Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial…
14. Weil and Wolf families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.628.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1997
bulk: 1916-1945
…Eric Weil (Erich, 1913-2001) was born in Mannheim, Germany to Max Weil and Jenny Weil (née Meyer) and had a sister Hannah. Max owned a liquor…
15. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers
2003.385.1 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2003.385.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1968
… Ciecierska’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war as…
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 … Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war. The papers also document her husband Stanislaw Ciecierski and his…
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16. 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…
17. Walter Keller papers
2004.64.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2004.64.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1974
… and Caroline Keller, their lives in prewar Germany, their immigration to the United States, and the reestablishment of their medical and nursing careers…
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 … personal narrative, and photographs documenting Walter and Caroline Keller, their lives in prewar Germany, their immigration to the United States, and the…
18. Walter Kamlet papers
2014.332.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 255
Document | Accession Number: 2014.332.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2007
bulk: 1940-1956
…Walter Kamlet was born in Berlin, Germany, on October 22, 1922, to Benno and Mila Kamlet. He had a younger brother, Manfred. Benno Kamlet owned a…
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 … and Holocaust experiences of Walter Kamlet, originally of Berlin, Germany. The collection includes information regarding Kamlet's life as a teenager at…
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19. Walter Feibelman papers
1996.134.10 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1996.134.10
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1993
bulk: 1917-1949
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …: Biographical materials, 1917‐1949  Series 2: Subject files, 1939‐1993 (bulk 1939‐1941) Indexing terms Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. World War, 1914‐1918…
20. Walter and Elizabeth Richards family papers
1996.A.0444 Box 1 Folder 42 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0444
Date:
inclusive: 1877-1998
… Brookline. Ellie emigrated to Palestine, and Arthur emigrated to India although he returned to Germany with his family after the war.…
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 … then Brookline. Ellie emigrated to Palestine, and Arthur emigrated to India although he returned to Germany with his family after the war. Scope…