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1. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
…. He had three brothers, Bruno (b. 1887), Ernst (b.1889), and Julius (b. 1890). Siegfried served in World War I and operated a leather importer and…
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 … documents the wartime and post-war experiences of the Strauss family as they fled Nazi persecution in Marburg, Germany to Amsterdam, the Netherlands; their…
2. 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…
3. Luba Tryszynska-Frederick papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.615.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2005
…, Yudel, and one sister, Lea. She married Hershel Gerceg in 1939 and they had one son, Isaac. Prior to the war, they lived in a village near Kamenets…
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 …. Included in the collection is biographical material, correspondence, writings and clippings about Luba’s story, photographs, and material related to the 50…
4. 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…
5. Frantisek Vohryzek family papers
2013.365.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2013.365.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1991
bulk: 1941-1947
… 1944, the couple was able to enter the United States through Mexico. After the war, Frantisek learned that his parents were deported on September 8, 1942…
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 … was able to enter the United States through Mexico. After the war, Frantisek learned that his parents were deported on September 8, 1942, to…
6. 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…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. Ilona Kellner papers
2017.645.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.645.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2002
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… contains five family photographs (originals and copy prints) from before and after the war, including one of Ilona Kellner and her daughter, Eva Moreimi…
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 … letters from Ilona to her mother. The collection also contains five family photographs (originals and copy prints) from before and after the war, including…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. Heinz Dieter Menge papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.662.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-2002
…Heinz Dieter Menge was born on September 13, 1919 in the Ilten district of Sehnde, Germany, near Hannover. During World War II he was a German…
16. Riesenfeld family papers
2017.389.1 Box 1 Folder 29 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2017.389.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-2001
bulk: 1938-1949
… Frieda’s mother, Dora Swabacher, and her uncle Anton Schwabacher. Also includes some post-war correspondence with friends and relatives. Photographs…
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 … Swabacher, and her uncle Anton Schwabacher. Also includes some post-war correspondence with friends and relatives. Photographs consist of depictions of the…
17. 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…
18. Rosenzweig and Ringelheim families papers
2000.226.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2000.226.1
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1995
… losses. A Rosenzweig family photograph album depicts Marcus Rosen and his family before, during, and after the war, including during his service in the…
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 … losses. A Rosenzweig family photograph album depicts Marcus Rosen and his family before, during, and after the war, including during his service in the…
19. 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…
20. 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…