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1. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…. Following the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, at the request of the German Jewish Community, Norbert helped arrange and escort twenty transports that took…
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 …th anniversary of Kristallnacht; lists of valuables to be returned to their Jewish owners; lists of Jews living in Lübeck in 1946; charitable organizations…
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2. Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers
1995.A.0250 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0250
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-circa 1959
…Ellen Katz (1923 - ) was born to Martin and Edith Katz in Berlin, Germany. She was a student at the time of the Kristallnacht, when her parents…
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 … document the journey of Alfred Lewy and Ellen Katz, two German Jews who immigrated with their families to Shanghai, China soon after the Kristallnacht…
3. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
…, 1926-2000). In 1933, Hans immigrated to England and Robert went to the Netherlands. Shortly after Kristallnacht, Eva and her parents went to England with…
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 … Lüneburg in 2015 for objects acquired by the museum after Marcus’s assets were seized after Kristallnacht. Included are biographical materials, immigration…
4. Bookburning
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Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3526 | Film ID: 149
Film Title:
Der gelbe Stern [The Yellow Star] (excerpts)
Date:
Event: 1933-1945
Duration:
00:06:29
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… photographs of men. Shots out of Nazi train, men heiling, swastikas. At Dusseldorf train station. CU, drums, parade, marching. Funeral. Looting. Kristallnacht…
5. Eva Fisher collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0130 | RG Number: RG-10.182
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1978
…Eva Fisher (née Cohen) was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, in 1936. After Kristallnacht, she and her family moved into the Jüdisches…
6. Carl and Robert Gamer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.528.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1965
… in Berlin during Kristallnacht, Gamer was in the hospital, though he writes about what his hearing from doctors and nurses. His dissertation drafts…
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 …, including his diaries from October 1938- June 1942. Though he was in Berlin during Kristallnacht, Gamer was in the hospital, though he writes about what his…
7. Goebbels re: bookburning and boycott; crowds in street; Reichstag fire trial; Nuremberg Laws; vom Rath's funeral
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Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.0098 | Film ID: 144
Date:
Event: May 10, 1933
Duration:
00:04:08
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… 1938: Funeral procession for Ernst vom Rath (German diplomat assassinated by Grynspan, whose death was used to justify Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938…
8. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
… attempt to escape into Holland after the Kristallnacht. He was placed in a refugee camp, and was eventually sent to Westerbork. There he met and married…
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 … worked in a factory during the war. Their son, Kurt, was successful in his attempt to escape into Holland after the Kristallnacht. He was placed in a…
9. Chaim and Rita Wind collection
2017.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2017.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1952
… arrest during roundups of Polish Jews, as a consequence they were not taken into custody during Kristallnacht. Yaakov Wind, however, was arrested and…
10. Klopstock family papers
1997.12 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.12
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1945
… Klaus (b. 1894) and had two daughters Ruth (b. 1922) and Liselotte (b. 1931) On Kristallnacht, Norbert was arrested and imprisoned at Sachsenhausen…
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 … had two daughters Ruth (b. 1922) and Liselotte (b. 1931) On Kristallnacht, Norbert was arrested and imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp…
11. Das Erwachende Berlin [Book]
Object | Accession Number: 2007.456.9
Date:
publication: 1934
Title:
Das Erwachende Berlin
… the Führer and racial purity, and the persecution of Jews and other “dissident” groups. Goebbels was a chief instigator of Kristallnacht, the violent…
12. Ofner family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.371.1
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2000
…, established for Jewish students. On Kristallnacht, Curt was arrested and spent a month in Sachsenhausen. Upon his release, he was motivated to escape to safety…
13. Rosenfeld family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.223.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1979
… Ruth were sent to live with their aunt Friederika Lemberger in Aachen, Germany where they attended a Jewish school. During Kristallnacht, the girls…
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 … Aachen, Germany where they attended a Jewish school. During Kristallnacht, the girls witnessed the burning of their synagogue and were informed that their…
14. Wedding dress shipped to the United States by a German Jewish woman murdered at Riga
2018.58.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.58.2
Date:
use: after 1930-before 1941
…. On November 9 and 10, 1938, German officials instigated pogroms of violence and destruction against Jews and their property, known as Kristallnacht…
15. Charlotte Dunwiddie papers, 1907-1995
1997.A.0286 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0286
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1995
…. Adolf Hanau was imprisoned for a month in Sachsenhausen following Kristallnacht and perished at Auschwitz in November 1942. Else Klein died in the Jewish…
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 … the first woman president of the National Sculpture Society. Adolf Hanau was imprisoned for a month in Sachsenhausen following Kristallnacht and…
16. Hans Posner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.240.1
Date:
creation: 1920-1950
…, Georg Posner died of a heart attack. During Kristallnacht in November 1938, Hans’ grandfather, Wilhelm Leschziner was arrested and sent to Dachau…
17. Loewenstein family papers
2001.65.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2001.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1943
… imprisoned in Dachau for about six weeks following Kristallnacht. He and Hede arranged for their sons to be relocated via Kindertransport to Antwerp…
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 … imprisoned in Dachau for about six weeks following Kristallnacht. He and Hede arranged for their sons to be relocated via Kindertransport…
18. Judith Cromwell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1990
bulk: 1914-1950
… practice. By 1938 John and Charlotte had applied for visas to immigrate to the United States, but had yet to receive them. During Kristallnacht (9-10…
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 … 1938 John and Charlotte had applied for visas to immigrate to the United States, but had yet to receive them. During Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938…
19. Frederic Zeller papers
2017.576.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 71
Document | Accession Number: 2017.576.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1990
bulk: 1939-1948
… 1938, the Zellers lost their Austrian citizenship. Several relatives began to emigrate from Germany. After Kristallnacht, Frederic’s family tried to get…
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 … Kristallnacht, Frederic’s family tried to get him on a Kindertranport. After several failed attempts, Frederic, along with his cousin Norbert and several other…
20. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
… Heinz to a Kinderheim in Potsdam, Germany. During Kristallnacht 1938, a group of Hitler Youth stormed the camp and terrorized the children. Heinz, who had…
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 … parents sent Heinz to a Kinderheim in Potsdam, Germany. During Kristallnacht 1938, a group of Hitler Youth stormed the camp and terrorized the children…