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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. Ita Dimant papers
1998.A.0258.2 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0258.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1998
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… wartime and post-war correspondence with the Brust family, who helped protect Ita. Also included are photographs of Ita’s family and her diary, in Polish…
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 … between Ita and her family and wartime and post-war correspondence with the Brust family, who helped protect Ita. Also included are photographs of Ita…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. Alice and John Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.247.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-2003
… War I veteran from Schlabendorf, Germany. Ella was born on April 9, 1893, in Berlin. Alice's brother Heinz Alfred was born on June 9, 1923. The family…
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 … and John Fink papers include biographical materials, photographs, printed materials, and subject files documenting Alice and John, their families in…
8. 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…
9. Carl Gärtig collection
2007.72 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2007.72
Date:
creation: 1922-1999
…The Carl Gärtig papers consists of color photocopies of photographs, letters, and documents relating Carl Gärtig and his family while he was…
10. 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…
11. 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…
12. Norman Salsitz papers
2003.425.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 2003.425.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1889-2000
… Belzec. The collection also includes photographs of educational, religious, and social groups before the war; compulsory prewar labor brigades (“szarwark…
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 … World War II in and around Kolbuszowa, Poland, and including the Kolbuszowa and Rzeszów ghettos. Most of the photographs date from the 1930s and 1940s and…
13. Nachlass Erich A. Hausmann
Document | Accession Number: 2012.286 | RG Number: RG-58.026
Date:
inclusive: 1915-2000
Alternate Title:
Personal papers of Erich A. Hausmann
… documentation on helping Jewish refugee children and youth during and after the war. Erich A. Hausmann worked with many organizations as the Schweizer Hilfswerk…
14. 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…
15. Reinhold and Singer families papers
1999.A.0042 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0042
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1999
…The Reinhold and Singer families papers are comprised of biographical materials, a cookbook, correspondence, photographs, and printed materials…
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 … inability to pay. Photographs depict Reinhold and Singer family members and friends and document their pre‐war lives in Germany and Austria, Rosa Reinhold…
16. Rachel Greene Rottersman papers
2015.110.1 Image 6 Folder 17 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2015.110.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2015
bulk: 1944-1949
… Rottersman during her career with UNRRA and her work at the children’s home at Aglasterhausen, Germany, assisting displaced children after World War II.…
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 …; photographs of children and employees at Aglasterhausen; and printed materials about UNRRA’s work with displaced children. Languages: English, German…
17. Herman Taube papers
1992.A.0081.2 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0081.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2012
… ended the war working at a hospital in Pomerania. After the war Herman married fellow Holocaust survivor Susan Strauss, and the couple immigrated to the…
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 …, manuscripts, poetry, presentations, and translations by Herman Taube, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, as well as correspondence, photographs, and printed materials…
18. 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…
19. Legacies and papers of Chaim Finkelsztejn (Sygn. S/346)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.144 | RG Number: RG-15.151
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2002
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Chaim Finkelsztejn was born in 1899 in Warsaw and worked before World War II as a journalist in the Zionist newspaper “Haynt;” between 1936 and 1939…
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 …. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1982. Historical Note Chaim Finkelsztejn was born in 1899 in Warsaw and worked before World War II as a journalist…
20. Bronisław Zbigniew Bulkowski papers
2018.555.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.555.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-2005
…, Germany between 1942 and 1945. The collection also includes documents and photographs relating to his post-war experiences as a displaced person working for…
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 … includes documents and photographs relating to his post-war experiences as a displaced person working for the United States Army in the Kassel and Grohn DP…