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1. Aaron Finger papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.317.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1991
bulk: 1943-1947
… went overseas in post-war in fall 1945, and spent time in Germany, including the Flossenbürg concentration camp and Hof, where he worked with his Russian…
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 …. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States. Geography: Hof (Germany : Landkreis) United States--Emigration and immigration. Genre/Form: Photographs…
2. Abraham Atsmon papers
1999.A.0151 Box 4 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1907-1994
… a list of Brigade members who died during the war. Photographs depict Abraham Atsmon, his family members, friends, fellow partisans, and David…
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 …, biographies, correspondence, reports, narratives, photographs, newspapers, protocols, and minutes documenting Atsmon’s family and pre-war life in Poland, his…
3. Adler family papers
2016.458.1 Book Enclosure 8 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.458.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880 September-2003
… photographs primarily document the Adler and Timár families’ pre-war lives in Szeged, but also include some wartime photographs and post-war depictions of…
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 … correspondence, biographical materials, immigration documents, restitution claims, and photographs regarding pre-war family lives; Denis’s emigration from Szeged…
4. Ajke family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2001.88 | RG Number: RG-10.226
Date:
1910-1999
…Contains photocopies of legal documents and genealogical information for Marek and Susana Ajke, copies of 27 black and white photographs of prisoners…
5. 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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 …, diary and poetry books, a memoir, photographs, and a prayer book documenting the Westheimer family of Berlin, their flight to Brussels, Beatrix Westheimer…
6. Bella and Benjamin Herson papers
1999.106.27 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1999.106.27
Date:
inclusive: circa 1907-2006
…The Bella and Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of war materials, a plaque, an…
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 … Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of war materials, and reference materials documenting…
7. Benjamin B. Ferencz collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0037.21
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1994
…, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, identification documents, essays, memoranda, reports, photographs, and other records related to war crimes in general, and the…
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 …, primarily, to the life and career of Ferencz, World War II, and the Nuremberg Trials. Many of the photographs are annotated, and some are annotated by Ferencz…
8. Blumenthal family papers
1993.104.11 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1993.104.11
Date:
inclusive: 1901-circa 1993
bulk: 1901-1956
… Argentina with his wife and two sons prior to World War II. Sophie Blumenthal suffered from a thyroid condition and was murdered during her time in a hospital…
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 … photographs documenting the Blumenthal family from Hüttengesäß; Albert, Alice, and Ellen Blumenthal’s immigration to the United States before World War II…
9. Braunwasser family papers
2016.89.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.89.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
… friend of the Braunwassers in Vienna, and of Weber’s son, who was killed while serving in the Germany Army during World War II. Additional photographs…
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 … serving in the Germany Army during World War II. Additional photographs depict the Geschwir family, who welcomed Inge to Texas, the Weiss family, and…
10. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers
2018.463.1 Box 2 Folder 17 Image 53
Document | Accession Number: 2018.463.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1906-1993
bulk: 1920-1944
…, Fröhlich, and Porges families and friends in Prague before and during World War II, circa 1906-1940. The photographs include the Czerner family skiing in the…
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 … various candid and professional photographs of the Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families and friends in Prague before and during World War II, circa 1906…
11. Edith Hahn-Beer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0079.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1997
… war, Werner was drafted and soon captured by the Russians. He was sent to Siberia as a prisoner of war. Edith fled with her infant daughter to the…
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 … during World War II and several identification documents and photographs. She added other materials relating to post-war experiences and her book, "Ich…
12. Eichengrün and Stern families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.627.15
Date:
inclusive: 1872-2005
bulk: 1936-1956
…Biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, writings, and photographs documenting the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, writings, and photographs documenting the pre-war, wartime…
13. Einzelbestand Franz Zürni (1912-)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.219 | RG Number: RG-58.015
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
Alternate Title:
Franz Zürni papers
… Swiss compulsory military service (“Aktivdienst”). In the aftermath of World War II, Zürni delivered care shipments by truck on behalf of the…
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 … englischen Zone. Insgesamt war Franz Zürni rund neun Monate für das IKRK im Einsatz, danach trat er wieder seine Stelle bei der Firma Welti-Furrer an. Während…
14. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
… and she had five older sisters and an older brother. The family was forced to move to Riga during World War I (1914-1918), when Liepāja, a Baltic…
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 …, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating to Esther’s wartime experience in the Kovno ghetto, Stuthoff concentration camp, and Leibitsch forced labor…
15. Fela and Chaim Perelman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.432.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-2001
… Libre de Bruxelles and wrote a doctoral thesis on the Belgian Revolution and Poland in 1830. During the war, she welcomed Jewish children who had been…
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 … Abstract: The Fela and Chaim Perelman papers consists of photographs, correspondence, biographical materials, personal narratives, published works, and…
16. Forschungsdokumentationen Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy
Document | Accession Number: 2012.281 | RG Number: RG-58.021
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
Alternate Title:
Research papers of Dr. theol. Theo Tschuy (1990 - 2003)
… 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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 … tätig war. Die Familien blieben während und lange nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg in engem Kontakt. Kurz vor seinem Tod 1975 bat Carl Lutz Theo Tschuy seine…
17. Friedberg family papers
2016.540.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 2016.540.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1993
… for the rest of the war. Maurice and Simon attended school, and Maurice celebrated his bar mitzvah. After the war, the Friedbergs made their way to…
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 …, correspondence, and photographs documenting the Friedberg family from Jarosław, Poland; the Jam family and their lumberyard in Rzeszów, Poland, before the war…
18. Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.85.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2011
…The Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection consists of copies of documents and photographs, in German and English, related to Friedrich Wilhelm…
19. Fritz Weinschenk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0291.3
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1998
… publications. A March 1979 letter encloses black and white photographs of Weinschenk at a Jewish War Veterans event. Gestapo Bremen files including Gestapo and…
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 … publications. A March 1979 letter encloses black and white photographs of Weinschenk at a Jewish War Veterans event. Gestapo Bremen files including Gestapo and…
20. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…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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21. Gerald Schwab papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.327.25
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2012
… the end of the war he was transferred to an intelligence unit and assigned to the U.S. Detailed Interrogation Center (USDIC). At this facility, where…
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 … 20024-2126 Abstract: The Gerald Schwab papers document Schwab’s work for the International Military Tribunal following World War II; research for his…
22. Gertrude and William Nagel papers
2017.527.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.527.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-circa 2000
bulk: 1938-1946
… War. Among other duties his work included interrogation of German prisoners of war in Allied occupied territory. In Late 1945 William was discharged…
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 … Abstract: The Gertrude and William Nagel papers include photographs, birth certificates, education records, correspondence, and passports documenting…
23. Goslinski family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.357.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2016
… and Jane Gnirrep in a basket with a note providing a false name and false story. Bertie lived in multiple locations during the remainder of the war…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Goslinski family papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting the…
24. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
…, survival in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and the Skarżysko-Kamienna labor camp, and arrival in New York after the war. Photographic materials consist of prewar…
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 …, survival in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and the Skarżysko-Kamienna labor camp, and arrival in New York after the war. Photographic materials consist of prewar…
25. Hans Fischböck papers
2018.636.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.636.1
Date:
inclusive: 1876-1992
bulk: 1938-1967
… post-war. The photograph album included a depiction of Fischböck in the late 1930s/early 1940s sitting at his desk in his office, most likely either in…
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 … annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany; post-war papers and photographs from Latin America including official documents issued by Latin American authorities…
26. Hans Praschkauer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.398.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2002
… ongoing Second Sino-Japanese War. It was an impoverished district, with poor sanitary conditions and limited indoor plumbing as well as heat. The climate…
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 …, writings, and printed material relating to Hans Praschkauer and his family’s pre-war life in Breslau, Germany (currently Wrocław, Poland) and their…
27. Harry Lindauer papers
2017.555.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.555.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2001
… to Karl Lindauer in Great Britain from his sister in law Klara Nassauer in Darmstadt via the Red Cross. Photographs include pre-war depictions of…
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 …. Photographs include pre-war depictions of Harry and his family in Darmstadt, Harry in the United States Army, and Buttenhausen and Darmstadt. Army photographs…
28. Hecht family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2021.121.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-1999
… documenting Arthur’s reunification with his parents after their immigration to the United States. Original and copy print photographs include depictions of pre…
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 … 20024-2126 Tel. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: reference@ushmm.org Photograph inventory Pre-war photographs: 1. Rothschild group photograph; Seated in the center…
29. Henny Wenkart papers
2015.578.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2015.578.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-2013
bulk: 1928-1939
… she took refuge in a convent during the war, and after the war joined Henny's uncle, Ignaz Wenkart, who had immigrated to New York in 1938. On her…
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 … Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Passports, postcards, photographs, and printed material, related to the childhood and emigration of Henny…
30. Henry Knepler papers
2004.683.1 Box 3 Folder 12 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2004.683.1 | RG Number: RG-10.458
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2004
…, where he completed his PhD in Chicago. He became a citizen in 1956. Hedwig Knepler survived the war in hiding in Vienna under a false identity with the…
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 … from approximately 1850‐2004. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and writings documenting Henry Knepler and his…
31. 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
…Collection contains correspondence, documents, photographs, leaflets, postcards, and related materials, including a yarmulke, which document the…
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 …” letters, emigration and immigration files, photographs, wartime newspapers and newsletters, World War II memorabilia, writings, restitution files, and…
32. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families papers
2016.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2016
bulk: 1938-1945
… War, was eventually promoted to Second Lieutenant in the Military Intelligence Reserve, and spent 25 years in Germany as an Intelligence Officer for the…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families papers include photographs, family trees…
33. Ilse and Horst Abraham papers
2016.538.10 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2016.538.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-2011
…, and had at least two brothers and six sisters. Following World War I, Isidor received an iron cross for his service in the German army. He began selling…
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 … include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Ilse Abraham from Rastenburg, Germany, Horst (Harry) Abraham from Leipzig…
34. Israelitischer Frauenverein Zürich Archiv
Document | Accession Number: 2017.42.1 | RG Number: RG-58.033
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2003
Alternate Title:
Jewish Women's Association Zürich Archive
… IFZ undertook to organize the holiday colonies. In the Second World War the home also served as a refugee home for children. E.g. 40 children from the…
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 … konnten die fürsorgerischen Tätigkeiten des Frauenvereins und der Gemeinde besser koordiniert werden. Eine wichtige Aufgabe des IFZ war die Führung des…
35. Joan Kent Finkelstein family papers
2009.376.1 front
Document | Accession Number: 2009.376.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2013
… Western Electric (Bell System), where he designed a submarine sonar detection system that aided the war effort and worked in early development of mobile…
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 … remained in Poland during the war, family who emigrated to Palestine and the Soviet Union, and family and friends who emigrated to the United States…
36. Joseph family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.492.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1997
…Salli Joseph (1886-1943) was born in Neuenbürg, Germany to Manne and Dorothea (née Danziger) Joseph. He served in World War I with the German Army…
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 … Palestine, documents related to Bernard’s internment in Australia, and family photographs from Berlin and Palestine. Languages: German, English, Hebrew…
37. Kessler family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.586.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1869-2015
bulk: 1914-1998
…, there are 10 handwritten recipe books in German. Photographs consist of prints and albums primarily depicting the pre-war lives of the Kessler, Neuhut…
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 …, there are 10 handwritten recipe books in German. Photographs consist of prints and albums primarily depicting the pre-war lives of the Kessler, Neuhut…
38. 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…
39. Levy-Saltiel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.144.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1998
…, Dora married Salomon Saltiel, a childhood friend who had been a prisoner of war during World War II. The couple emigrated to the United States in 1955.…
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 … in Bulgaria and returned to him by his cousin after the war. Photo 2 Solomon Saltiel at approx. age of 8 years. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
40. Lob family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.168.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2015
bulk: 1939-1954
… a small amount of wartime documents and correspondence, post-war Holocaust tracing documents, copies of ITS records, and copies of photographs…
41. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
… arrested and placed on a train to a concentration camp, but was able to jump from the train and escape. He spent the rest of the war in hiding. Due to her…
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 …. Other items include affidavits and photographs. Languages: English, German, Dutch. Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for…
42. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
undated: 
… Jews with false documentation papers. He continued working with underground systems until the end of the war and remained in Budapest until its…
43. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.180 | RG Number: RG-67.017
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
bulk: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps…
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 … wartime photographs taken in Europe. The last section of this binder contains post-war (contemporary) photographs from Camp de Gurs (Gurs concentration camp…
44. Max and Mathilde Maier family papers
1998.A.0065 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0056
Date:
inclusive: 1866-1998
…, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting Max Maier’s World War I military service and the couple’s education, marriage, and emigration to…
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 … measure 1.5 linear feet, date from 1866‐1998, and include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting…
45. Merei family papers
2015.571.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.571.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1991
…The collection primarily documents the wartime and post-war experiences of Ernö and Ernestine (née Munk) Merei and their son John of Budapest…
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 … documents the wartime and post‐war experiences of Ernö and Ernestine (née Munk) Merei and their son John of Budapest, Hungary as they fled the country after…
46. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
2017.101.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2017.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1995
bulk: 1913-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, including a photograph of Regina, Bernhard, and Helli Morgenstern reunited in Vienna after the war. The Merkur family materials include a book and loose sheet…
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 … Mendel Morgenstern to her in London; and her diary from 1945. Also included are photographs of the Morgenstern family, including a photograph of Regina…
47. Morgenthau family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.255.1
Date:
inclusive: 1860-2005
bulk: 1930-1950
… Cleveland, Ohio. The United States declared war on Germany and Japan in December 1941. Morgenthau joined the United States Army. In 1943, he graduated from…
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 … correspondence, documents, photographs, and research notes related to the Morgenthau family. The collection includes material related to the Ottoman Empire and…
48. Nachlass Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.47.1 | RG Number: RG-58.038
Date:
inclusive: 1916-2007
Alternate Title:
Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet papers
…, photographs, audiovisual documentation from everyday life at the Château de La Hille, correspondence at the time of the Second World War, correspondence in…
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 …21.06.2016 Seite 2 Der Bestand war grösstenteils von Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet vorgeordnet. Diese Ordnung wurde möglichst beibehalten und wenn vorhanden mit den von…
49. Nachlass Avner W. Less papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.214 | RG Number: RG-58.010
Date:
inclusive: 1902-2007
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Contains correspondence, memos, diaries, newspaper clippings, lectures, articles, photographs, transcripts of the Israeli Police, case studies…
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 …; 1960/61 als Polizeihauptmann in Jerusalem Leiter des Verhörs von Adolf Eichmann. Nach dem Prozess war Less ein vielbefragter Zeitzeuge und…
50. Nachlass Dr. iur. Benjamin Sagalowitz (1901-1970)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.216 | RG Number: RG-58.012
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1999
Alternate Title:
Benjamin Sagalowitz papers
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…This collection relates to Benjamin Sagalowitz’s activities as a journalist and includes records on several trials relevant to World War II and the…
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 …, bei welcher Benjamin Sagalowitz behilflich war 31 Goldmann, Nahum [Nachum], Genf (Kopien) 1964 - 1966 32 Goldschmidt, Hermann Levin, Zürich 1958 - 1959…