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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. Ajlkichen and Fleichaker families papers
2016.534.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.534.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2015
bulk: 1923-1953
… counsellors who cared for Roz and François at Beloeil; and post-war family photographs in Belgium.…
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 … who cared for Roz and François at Beloeil; and post-war family photographs in Belgium. Languages: French, English, Hebrew, Polish Administrative…
6. 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…
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. Altenberg family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.360.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-circa 2000
bulk: 1931-1946
… Belgium from Tomaszów Mazowiecki and Kałuszyn, Poland in the interwar period. Anna was born in 1932 in Antwerp, where her father was a photographer and the…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126. Abstract: The Altenberg family papers include photographs, cultural programs and posters, and printed material…
9. 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…
10. Archivo Moskovits
Document | Accession Number: 2018.8.1 | RG Number: RG-72.035
Date:
bulk: 1956-1973
inclusive: 1926-2000
Alternate Title:
Moskovits Archives
…, reports, photographs, printed material, and other documents. Documents and clippings relate to Nazi war criminals who were believed to have or actually had…
11. 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…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. 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…
19. Charles Vogel papers
2010.500.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2010.500.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1937-2001
undated: 
bulk: 1945-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Charles Vogel (c.1883-1960) was a World War I veteran and a lawyer in Brooklyn, New York. His brother, Harry, and sister-in-law, Jean Vogel had two…
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 … Abstract: The Charles Vogel papers consist of documents, diaries and testimonies, correspondence, photographs, and newspaper clippings acquired by Charles…
20. 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…
21. 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…
22. 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…
23. 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…
24. Elizabeth Koenig papers
1989.260.3 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 1989.260.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-1995
bulk: 1939-1942
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… following the outbreak of World War II. Helen and Elizabeth fled south with other refugees as the Germans advanced on Paris, but were separated en route…
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 … consist of a letter from HIAS-JCA Emigration Association to Fritz Kaufmann; an autograph book including photographs of children in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon…
25. 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…
26. Erwin Tepper papers
2015.590.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.590.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2015
undated: 
…The collection consists of correspondence, documents, photographs, and writings related to the experiences of Erwin Tepper and his parents, Juda Ber…
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 … Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: Documents, correspondence, photographs, and writings…
27. 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…
28. 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…
29. Fonds David Diamant (CMXXV)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.20.1 | RG Number: RG-43.160
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1994
… war, he was active in creating a benevolent association to help Jewish refugees from Poland. This became the UJRE and he was President. He also wrote…
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 … newspaper, Naïe Presse (Presse Nouvelle), to gather testimony. After the war, he was active in creating a benevolent association to help Jewish refugees from…
30. 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…
31. 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…
32. 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…
33. Fred Lubcher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.165.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2018
bulk: 1932-1948
… pre-war depictions of the Lubcher family in Vienna, and a 2018 photograph of Jacob Lubcher’s grave in Vienna, erected after the war by Fred.…
34. 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…
35. 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…
36. 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…
37. 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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38. 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…
39. 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…
40. 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…
41. 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…
42. 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…
43. 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…
44. 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…
45. 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…
46. 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…
47. 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…
48. 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…
49. 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…
50. 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…