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1. Alfred Traum papers
1997.A.0153.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0153.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1997
bulk: 1938-1942
… (March 22, 1926). Elias was severely crippled from injuries sustained in World War I and spent his afternoons playing with and instructing Alfred. The…
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 … papers, a report card, family correspondence from Elias and Gita Traum in Vienna to their children in London, family photographs from Vienna, England, and…
2. Bela Gondos family papers
1989.202. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1989.202.3
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1995
… Montreux and lived in a resort hotel. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. Bela, Anna, and Judit learned that most of their family had…
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 … authorization signed by Dr. Polgar in Bergen-Belsen allowing Bela Gondos to receive wood for shoe soles. Photographs depict the Gondos family, their friends, and…
3. Szlama Kleiner photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.256.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1952
…Szlama Kleiner photograph collection…
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 … persons before the war and twenty one after the war); name of photographer embossed in right lower corner; verso: blue ink inscription; dated: 1952…
4. Ruth B. Mandel papers
1989.55.11 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.55.11
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1947
…The Ruth B. Mandel papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting the Blumenstock family from Vienna, their effort to immigrate…
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 … Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The Ruth B. Mandel papers consist of biographical materials and photographs…
5. Fogel, Mermelstein, and Klarman families photograph collection
2005.132.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.132.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1947
…Fogel, Mermelstein, and Klarman families photograph collection…
6. Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection
2000.481.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2000.481.1
Date:
creation: 1938-1944
…The Gertrude Heller Fischbach collection consists of six photographs relating to the family of Gertrude Fischbach (née Heller). Pictured in the…
7. 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…
8. Ellen Kaidanow papers
2017.525. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 2017.525.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-circa 1998
…, Ukraine). Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Lewiatin family; post war images of Ellen with her paternal uncle’s family in Germany, including in…
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 … (present day Dubno, Ukraine). Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Lewiatin family; post war images of Ellen with her paternal uncle’s family in…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. Carl H. Knuemann photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1989.325 | RG Number: RG-10.335
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1945
…Carl H. Knuemann photograph collection…
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 … photograph collection, 1935-1945. Extent: 9 photographs 2 folders Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this collection…
12. Joffe family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.183.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1990
…Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Szymon Joffe (later Paul or Sam Jaffe…
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 …, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: Consists of documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the pre‐war…
13. Edith Simon Rosenthal papers
2005.564.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.564.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Edith Simon Rosenthal and her family in…
14. Chaim Posner papers
2017.402.6 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.402.6
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1975
… documents for Chaim and Regina Posner, and announcements for lectures by Posner. The collection further includes an undated photograph of a Hanukkah…
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 … undated photograph of a Hanukkah celebration, a 1940s report titled “Der Weg Nach Palaestina” about the difficulties of Jewish emigration to Palestine…
15. Marcus family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.340.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1998
bulk: 1939-1942
… (1890-1968) and the family owned a houseware factory. Erich served in the German cavalry during World War I. After the war, he married Phyllis Lewek (also…
16. 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…
17. Wald and Breuer families papers
2015.473.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2015.473.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1946
undated: 
… prisoner of war camp in the United States, and was discharged on 26 June 1945 to join the United States Army.…
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 … identification documents of Julius and his sister Leonore, photographs of Julius with the other 50 children arriving in New York, and family correspondence. Also…
18. Freyer and Lichtenstein families papers
1991.A.0033.2 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0033.2
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1985
bulk: 1938-1953
…The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and Eva…
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 … Abstract: The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and…
19. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… troops. Just after the war, Symcho worked for the Allied Expeditionary Force, traveling through Germany gathering information on refugees from…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Simcha Dimant papers, 1936-1945, relate to the Holocaust and immediate post-war experiences of Simcha Dimant (1914-1983…
20. Lindenbaum and Landau families collection
2006.226.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2006.226.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1945
… survive the Holocaust. After the war, they raised their niece, Kystyna Linden, as their daughter. Son: Leon Lutek Lindenbaum (Leon, 1910-1943) married…
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 … photographs of the Lindenbaum and Landau families, circa 1900s-1945. The family photographs were taken in Łódź, Poland; Warsaw, Poland; the Warsaw ghetto; and…
21. Herbert Klein papers
2015.529.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.529.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1916-1949
… parents and pre-war, wartime, and post-war financial and restitution documents regarding the expropriation of the family's automobile garage and repair shop…
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 … records related to Herbert Klein of Vienna, Austria and his parents and pre-war, wartime, and post-war financial and restitution documents regarding the…
22. Louis Brandsdorfer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.145
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1945
…The collection consists of a diamond ring found at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 and seven photographs depicting a massacre in Bolesławiec…
23. 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…
24. Charles Deibel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.469.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1951
bulk: 1946-1951
… during most of World War II, but was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Third Army in early 1945. Soon after the war ended, Deibel was sent to Germany…
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 …--Dachau. Military occupation. Dachau (Germany) CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Photographs, 1930-1950 (Box 1, 2 folders) Box Folder 1 1 Wartime and post-war…
25. Jack Moses papers
1993.43 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1993.43
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1983
bulk: 1915-1947
…The Jack Moses papers consist of correspondence, identification papers, and photographs documenting Jack Moses, his family’s immigration to the…
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 …. This series also includes a World War I photograph of Julius Moses. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information…
26. Robert L. Tumler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.358.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1945
…The collection consists of wartime and postwar photographs, postcards, a typed report on Ebensee (Mimeograph copy) and a German map on which Tumler…
27. Anne-Gilberte Stemmer Hercberg collection
2017.192.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.192.1
Date:
creation: circa 1938-1944
…, Charles Salomon Stemmer and Malka Tennebuam. The photographs also include photographs of Jules and Odette Hébrard, who hid Anne-Gilberte during the war by…
28. Herlinger family papers
2005.331.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 64
Document | Accession Number: 2005.331.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1956
bulk: 1923-1956
…The collection consists of a Leica camera, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Elsa, Ivo, and Lea Herlinger before the…
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 … Ivo and Elsa Herlinger, who lived as refugees from the Nazis in Italy during World War II, and later immigrated to the United States. The majority of…
29. 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…
30. 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…
31. Juliette Frisch Haymes papers
1991.156.15 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1991.156.15
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-1947
…Juliette Frisch Haymes was born in Paris in 1926 to Romanian immigrant Michel Frisch (1893‐1942) who had moved to France at the end of World War I…
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 … for military service and his deportation via Drancy to Auschwitz, including his last postcard to his family; and photographs of Juliette Frisch, her…
32. Robert M.W. and Ruth Benedicta Kempner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.62.1 | RG Number: RG-71.001
Date:
1935-1993
… the war and served as assistant U.S. chief counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, heading the Defense Rebuttal Section. His…
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 … Military Tribunal Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949 Ministries Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, 1948-1949 Correspondence. Photographs…
33. Rosenfeld family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.223.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1979
…. The photograph series includes photographs of the Rosenfeld family and friends in Germany and England before, during, and after World War II. The…
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 … Esther Starobin. The photograph series includes photographs of the Rosenfeld family and friends in Germany and England before, during, and after World War…
34. Adam and Roma Zandel papers
2005.545.1 Box 1 Folder 21 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.545.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1985
bulk: 1920-1946
… to help establish the new factory. As war loomed, Adam applied for visas to leave the country. Along with several friends, Adam was able to procure a…
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 … to France to help establish the new factory. As war loomed, Adam applied for visas to leave the country. Along with several friends, Adam was able to…
35. Aron Straser photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.654.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1945
…Aron Straser photograph collection…
36. Correspondence of Jewish citizens (Fond 247)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.29 | RG Number: RG-41.018
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1945
…User Declaration for the Netherland State Institute for War Documenation…
37. Sammlung Benjamin Murmelstein (P151)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.147.1 | RG Number: RG-68.194M
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1950
… photographs, articles and manuscripts written by Benjamin Murmelstein.…
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 … Murmelstein and his family: correspondence, official reports and documents from the Jewish Community Vienna, family photographs, articles and manuscripts…
38. Immigration Department of the Jewish Agency, Office in Istanbul (L15)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.102 | RG Number: RG-68.125M
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1949
…Passport photographs.…
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 …) Hias-Ica Emigration Association. Merkas Olami of the Hechaluz. Makhon le-mishar huts. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Refugees, Jewish--Europe…
39. Stephen J. Fraenkel papers
2017.556.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2017.556.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1830-2016
bulk: 1937-1948
… where he perished. Stephen knew his father had been deported from Berlin in 1942, but did not learn his fate until after the war. Stephen married…
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 … records, and photographs. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please contact…
40. 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
… Kindertransport in 1939. He went to Preston, England in July 1939. He remained in England for the duration of the war, and immigrated to the United States in 1957…
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 … illustrated diaries, biographical material, photographs, and correspondence including letters sent by his father Heinrich Zeller from the Gurs and Saint-Cyprien…
41. 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…
42. Irving Newman papers
1995.A.0753.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0753.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1949
… 1936 and Boris (William) born April 1939. In the years leading up to World War II, Irving tried to obtain papers in order to flee Lithuania, but was…
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 … is correspondence written in the post‐war period between 1945 and 1948 and family photographs that document the Newman family before the war and their…
43. Ruth Szmarag papers
2002.404 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2002.404
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1948
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The Ruth Szmarag papers include poems, plays, a diary, and photographs relating to Ruth Szmarag’s pre-war and wartime experiences in Vienna and in…
44. Walter Materna papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.159.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1969
… World War II photographs, nine volumes of miscellaneous booklets and ledgers, and loose materials that had been inserted between the pages of the diaries…
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 …-10, 13-17), additional World War II photographs, nine volumes of miscellaneous booklets and ledgers, and loose materials that had been inserted between…
45. 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…
46. Warsaw Ghetto photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.221.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
…Warsaw Ghetto photographs…
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 … deportations of the summer of 1942, Jan was asked to help transfer a secret archive of ghetto photographs taken by a Jewish photographer, known as Edek, to the…
47. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… then walk down the hill in waist deep snow to the train depot. After a short truck ride, they marched for six days and nights to prisoner of war camp…
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 …" describing his wartime experiences; and photographs of Acevedo with family, friends, and colleagues before, during, and after the war. Languages: English…
48. Susan Camis papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.543.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1980
…The papers consist of three photographs, two letters, a telegram, and two certificates documenting the Kollmann family during the Holocaust. Includes…
49. Blinshteyn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.166.2
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1945
bulk: 1944-1945
… Red Army, in which he served for the duration of the war. In the early days of the occupation, many family members were killed. In January 1942…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Correspondence, documents, and photographs related to Semyon and Velya Blinshteyn, and…
50. Dr. Eugenia Pinski papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.301.1
Date:
inclusive: 1880-1956
… Kamionka. Luba heard that it was possible to obtain Honduran passports. She mailed photographs of herself and Genia to Switzerland and they received the…
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 ….” Stefa Prawer was the wife of Chaim Prawer, oldest brother of Israel Arie Prawer. Stefa Prawer died before the start of World War II. 3. Photographic…