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1. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
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…The collection relates to the Gans family, originally of Borken, Germany. It includes photographs of pre-war life, including a photograph album…
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 … they were liberated. Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs, and the diary of Moritz and Else Gans from 1945, documenting life in the…
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2. Otto Herskovic memoir and papers
2015.301.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.301.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1954
undated: 
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…Diary, handwritten, composed by Otto Herskovic, at the age of 15, immediately following the end of World War II. In it, he recounts his family…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Diary, handwritten, composed by Otto Herskovic, at the age of 15, immediately following the end of World War II. In it, he…
3. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1994
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…The Peter Feigl papers consist of correspondence, diaries, identification papers, photographs, printed materials, and photocopies documenting Feigl…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The Peter Feigl papers consist of correspondence, diaries, identification papers, photographs…
4. Charles Vogel papers
2010.500.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2010.500.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1937-2001
undated: 
bulk: 1945-1949
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…Charles Vogel (c.1883-1960) was a World War I veteran and a lawyer in Brooklyn, New York. His brother, Harry, and sister-in-law, Jean Vogel had two…
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 … Abstract: The Charles Vogel papers consist of documents, diaries and testimonies, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings acquired by Charles…
5. Archiv Horst von Wächter
Document | Accession Number: 2014.103 | RG Number: RG-17.049
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1984
… city. Identified as a war criminal since 1942, he evaded capture, went into hiding in Rome, protected by the Austrian bishop Alois Hudal, and died there…
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 …, postcards, photographs, private documents, diaries and other archival material created by the donor's parents, Otto von Wächter and Charlotte von Wächter (b…
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 … Rübelt, Austrian sports photographer and friend of Otto Wächter, recorded by Charlotte Wächter (CW) in the late 1970s about Rübelt's relationship with Otto…
6. Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers
1993.124.19 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1993.124.19
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1988
…The Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers consist of an autograph book, diary, biographical materials, Dachau letter, photographic materials, and subject…
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 …, approximately 1935‐1940 1 12 Schulmann family, approximately 1933‐1936 1 13 Schulmann, Hirsch, in a World War I era photograph used with a Time magazine…
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7. Fonds David Diamant (CMXXV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.20.1 | RG Number: RG-43.160
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1994
… war, he was active in creating a benevolent association to help Jewish refugees from Poland. This became the UJRE and he was President. He also wrote…
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 … newspaper, Naïe Presse (Presse Nouvelle), to gather testimony. After the war, he was active in creating a benevolent association to help Jewish refugees from…
8. Ross Baker collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.265.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2005
bulk: 1933-1938
…, and helped write the merit badge booklet. During World War I (1914-1918), Ross served in the Chemical Warfare Service, specializing in the use of…
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 … relating to the Anschluss; US Coast Guard photographs of Cherbourg and the invasion at Normandy; liberation photographs of Ebensee; and a document specifying…
9. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
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… "Buschi" (Hilde Freudenberg) and a pre-war photograph of her younger brother Walter. The collection also includes two wartime letters from Olga and Emil…
10. Nachlass Pfarrer Paul Vogt (1900-1984)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.86.1 | RG Number: RG-58.040
Date:
inclusive: 1882-2000
Alternate Title:
Pastor Paul Vogt papers
… Swiss Ecclesiastical Auxiliary Committee for Evangelical Refugees. After the war, Vogt fought for an understanding between Christians and Jews. He was the…
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 … Flüchtlinge eingerichtet worden war; Initiant der 1945 gegründeten Arbeitsgemeinschaft von Christen und Juden; Mitglied der Gesellschaft Schweiz-Israel…
11. Jacob and Rita Litman papers, including Samuel Golfard diary
2008.269.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 2008.269.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1984
undated: 
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… also includes pre-war and wartime photographs of Jacob and Rita Litman and their family during the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany and in DP camps.…
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 … also includes pre-war and wartime photographs of Jacob and Rita Litman and their family during the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany and in DP camps. System…
12. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
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… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
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 … papers consist of biographical, photographic, and printed materials as well as diaries and short stories documenting Hartry, his pre-World War II education…
13. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
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… overseas as a war correspondent, reporting behind the front lines of the Allied Armies from London, Cairo, Italy, and Rome. Since then, he worked for a…
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 …-war and wartime work of journalist Victor Bienstock, as he served as an overseas correspondent for the Overseas News Agency, a subsidiary of the Jewish…
14. Robert H. Harlan diary
2000.190 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.190
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
bulk: 1938-1939
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…-1957) in Wuerzburg, Germany between the end of August and September 8, 1938. The collection also includes a color copy of a photograph of Robert Harlan…
15. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
… Lessing family. The books cover pre-war family history, their Holocaust experiences, and their post-war lives through 2015. Photographs consists of pre-war…
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 … post-war lives through 2015. Photographs consists of pre-war images of Ed with his Jewish scout group and wartime images of him with the Dutch Resistance…
16. Nachlass Konsul Carl Lutz (1895-1975)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.95.1 | RG Number: RG-58.049
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1988
Alternate Title:
Carl Lutz papers
… Austrian border. After the war Lutz received a letter of reprimand from authorities in Switzerland for overstepping his authority in helping the Jews of…
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 … Rettungsaktionen beteiligt gewesen war. Dokumente zu Lutz aus ungarischen Archiven, die für das AfZ durch Prof. Dr. László Karsai zusammengetragen wurden, der…
17. Beatrice Muchman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0269.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1999
… saved. Beatrice had always felt that her parents abandoned her, and she had kept a diary during the war, but now she could understand her history more…
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 …, correspondence, diary and poetry books, a memoir, photographs, and a prayer book documenting the Westheimer family of Berlin, their flight to Brussels, Beatrix…
18. Archivalien des ehemaligen Heeresarchivs (Fond 1275)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.13 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.13
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
bulk: 1941-1945
Alternate Title:
Records of the Former Military Archive in Potsdam
… photographs relating to life and work of the commander-in-chief of the 2nd German Army on the German-Soviet front (1942-1943); war diaries of German military…
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 … the International Union of Trade Unions; war diaries from occupied countries and from German-Soviet front; albums of photographs relating to life and…
19. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… seeking visas. While in New York during the war, Eva also worked with the Labor Section of the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS), headed by Arthur…
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 … as Albert Einstein, who knew and could vouch for the character of the refugees who were seeking visas. While in New York during the war, Eva also…
20. Nora Orchan collection
2016.422.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2016.422.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1941
Special Collection:
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…-war photographs of Nora and her family.…