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1. Ruth Salm Perlman collection
2014.314.1 BookEnclosure Folder 1 Image 80
Document | Accession Number: 2014.314.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2009
bulk: 1942-1954
… during the war; and a post-war book with photographs, compiled by Aage Davidsen, and describing their wartime experiences. Also includes pre-war family…
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 … document from the Danish Red Cross, attesting to her arrest and interment during the war; and a post-war book with photographs, compiled by Aage Davidsen…
2. Jacques Schweitzer papers
2017.637.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 80
Document | Accession Number: 2017.637.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-1992
bulk: 1940-1948
…) and one sister, Estelle (later Estelle Seidman, b. 1931). Prior to World War II, Jacques worked for Renault as an apprentice metal worker. His father…
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 …, certificates, and photographs. Many of the photographs document Jacques and his crew aboard the La Moqueuse. Other material includes prewar and wartime family…
3. 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…
4. Grootkerk family papers
2002.22.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.22.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1951
… and Switzerland during the war, and in the United States with her husband Jack after the war. Accretion: Artifacts and photographs illustrating the pre…
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 … Abstract: The Grootkerk family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, personal narratives, photographs, and printed materials documenting…
5. Marcel Wolf Zyto papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.172.2
Date:
inclusive: 1926-2009
… the false identity “Marcel Benoît” and joined the resistance. His parents survived the war in hiding. Following the liberation of France in 1944, Marcel…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Marcel Wolf Zyto papers include pre-war, wartime, and post-war records documenting…
6. 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…
7. Nathan and Edith Litvin papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.493.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1999
bulk: 1945-1946
…. Includes pre-war and post-war photographs of the Festinger family, documents related to Edith's immediate post-war life, and correspondence, documents and…
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 …, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook pages documenting the experiences of Nathan Litvin and Edith Festinger Litvin. Includes pre‐war and post‐war…
8. Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.221.12
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2004
… the International Tribunal in Nuremberg in 1946, and, as a civilian, as Senior Interrogator for the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes at Nuremberg on the…
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 …, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg papers include biographical materials, Nuremberg trials materials, photographs, and printed…
9. 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…
10. Teodor Diamant papers
2017.557. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.557.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2017
bulk: 1939-1952
…Teodor Diamant was born on 10 November 1908 in Turčiansky Svätý Martin (Martin, Slovakia). Prior to the war he worked as an electrician. Trying to…
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 … Czech unit in Great Britain, family and friends, and post-war experiences in London and the United States. Also included are loose photographs…
11. Waldmann family papers
2019.17.2 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2019.17.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2021
bulk: 1930-1941
… congratulates him on his bar mitzvah. It was likely the last letter he received from them. Photographs primarily consist of pre-war depictions of the Waldmann…
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 … mitzvah. It was likely the last letter he received from them. Photographs primarily consist of pre-war depictions of the Waldmann family in Bad Windsheim…
12. 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…
13. Frank Meissner papers
2004.692.1 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.692.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1995
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 1941, he earned a scholarship to attend an agricultural high school in Denmark. Through these early years of the war, Frank received weekly letters from…
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 … Zionist youth group who fled Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) and attended school in Denmark, Sweden, and England during World War II. The majority of the…
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 …. Completely like war. We are surrounded by mines, and we are not able to destroy them quickly. I also heard something about an attack on Dolfik (our dog), which…
14. Records relating to the experiences of Danish Jews
Document | Accession Number: 2014.184.1 | RG Number: RG-44.002
Date:
inclusive: 1888-2010
…This collection contains interviews, photo albums, and scrapbooks relating to the experiences of Danish Jews during the war, including escape to…
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 …, December 2015. Scope and content of collection Photo albums, scrapbooks and diaries relating to the experiences of Danish Jews during the war…
15. 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…
16. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
undated: 
…The Mandel family papers include biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family…
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 … biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family’s experiences prewar in Latvia and Hungary…
17. Richard Schifter family papers
2016.502.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2016.502.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1994
bulk: 1939-1948
… World War II. Includes family photographs, postcards and correspondence from Paul Schifter during his service in the Austrian Army during World War I…
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 … subsequent service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Includes family photographs, postcards and correspondence from Paul Schifter during his service in the…
18. Otto and Erna Stein family papers
2000.229.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2000.229.1
Date:
inclusive: 1889-2000
…, Lotte Zinner (1924- ). Otto Stein had served in the German army during World War I and spent 33 months in a British POW camp. In May 1938 Zinner and her…
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 … photograph of Lotte Zinner as a baby, correspondence describing family and friends’ efforts to emigrate, letters after the war describing the http…
19. 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…
20. Herbert A. Fierst papers
2006.8.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2006.8.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-2004
…The Herbert A. Fierst collection consists of biographical materials, displaced persons files, photographs, subject files, writings, speeches, and…
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 …, displaced persons files, photographs, subject files, writings, speeches, and interviews primarily documenting Fierst’s work on displaced persons issues at…