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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. 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…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. Arbeiter family papers
2006.4 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2006.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1974
…The Arbeiter family papers consist of wartime correspondence, a newspaper clipping, and pre-war family photographs relating to the Arbeiter family…
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 … collection The Arbeiter family papers consist of wartime correspondence, a newspaper clipping, and pre-war family photographs relating to the Arbeiter family…
7. The Archives of the World ORT Union Head Office
Document | Accession Number: 2019.190.1 | RG Number: RG-68.219
Date:
inclusive: 1880-1970
bulk: 1920-1970
… Russian Jews by instructing them in trades and agriculture, including farming, sewing, and mechanics. During World War I (1914-1918), ORT provided…
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 … ORT-54 ORT collection Reports and memoranda on Jewish relief and rehabilitation (not necessarily ORT) after World War I ~1918-1931 eng ger yid rus ger…
8. Archiv Horst von Wächter
Document | Accession Number: 2014.103 | RG Number: RG-17.049
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1984
… city. Identified as a war criminal since 1942, he evaded capture, went into hiding in Rome, protected by the Austrian bishop Alois Hudal, and died there…
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 …, postcards, photographs, private documents, diaries and other archival material created by the donor's parents, Otto von Wächter and Charlotte von Wächter (b…
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 … Rübelt, Austrian sports photographer and friend of Otto Wächter, recorded by Charlotte Wächter (CW) in the late 1970s about Rübelt's relationship with Otto…
9. Asriel and Mascha Berkmann papers
2016.202.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.202.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1989
bulk: 1945-1948
…’s parents, Hershel and Rachel Rutstein; and post-war photographs of Asriel and Mascha Berkmann along with pre-war photographs of unidentified friends and…
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 … document stating that no paperwork exists regarding Mascha’s parents, Hershel and Rachel Rutstein; and post‐war photographs of Asriel and Mascha Berkmann…
10. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers include biographical material and photographs relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Wiera…
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 … Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers include biographical material and photographs relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Wiera Baksztanska…
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. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. Bramson family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2012.495.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1960
…Consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Bramson family, originally of Ostrov, Russia, taken between 1923-1956. The bulk of the…
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. Breisacher family photographs
2018.275.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2018.275.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
…'s pre-war lives in Breisach am Rhein and their wartime and post-war lives in the United States after emigration from Germany in 1938. Wartime photographs…
18. Bruno and Jetka (Jessie) Korn papers
2013.456.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 2013.456.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1972
bulk: 1939-1946
…, the war broke out and they could no longer go to France. They went to Genoa, where Bruno was arrested. He was sent to southern Italy by train. In July…
19. Brust family papers
1992.13.11 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.13.11
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The collection consists of clothing, documents, photographs, and portraits related to the experiences of Livia, Elek, and Eva Brust, their family…
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 …: The Brust family papers documents the wartime and post-war experiences of Elek Brust, Livia Brust, and their daughter Eva Brust in Hungary and later the…
20. Bujakowski and Brager families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.513.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-1972
… with them to New York, and naturalization certificates of Hans and Auguste. Photographs include pre-war depictions of Hans and his family, including his…
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 … August 1938, an inventory of items brought with them to New York, and naturalization certificates of Hans and Auguste. Photographs include pre-war…
21. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… photographs of World War I era German soldiers, and a photo album and scrapbook documenting Julius Oppenheimer’s World War I military service, including in…
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 … Weiler. Photographic materials include prewar family photographs, loose photographs of World War I era German soldiers, and a photo album and scrapbook…
22. 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…
23. 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…
24. 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…
25. 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…
26. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
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 … papers consist of biographical, photographic, and printed materials as well as diaries and short stories documenting Hartry, his pre-World War II education…
27. 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…
28. 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…
29. Emil Oettinger papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.634
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1963
bulk: 1936-1939
…The Emil Oettinger papers consist primarily of correspondence and photographs documenting the family of Emil Oettinger from Hamburg, Germany, and his…
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 … friends, in prewar Germany. Most of the photographs date from the 19th century, World War I, and the interwar years. System of arrangement The Emil…
30. Epstein family collection
2013.457.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2013.457.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1979
bulk: circa 1920-1947
… war as well as photographs of French survivors working in an ORT workshop. The Epstein family collection, circa 1920-1979, includes official documents…
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 … photographs relating to the family’s experiences during World War II. The majority of the collection relates to Julian Epstein (1889-1943), a Jewish opera…
31. Ernest Steen papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.300.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1967
bulk: 1930-1948
… Levistein (1881-1935). He had one sister Erna (b. 1907, later Erna Oppenheim). Prior to the war, Ernest worked for R. & W. Nathan, a women’s and children…
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 …, Germany, including his employment in Frankfurt, immigration to the United States in 1940, and service during World War II in the United States Army…
32. Ernst Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.128.1 | RG Number: RG-58.053
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1989
Alternate Title:
Einzelbestand Ernst Fink
… completing studies in business, he opened specialist orthopedic stores in Zurich and Basel. He served in the military during World War II, performing 193 days…
33. 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…
34. 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…
35. 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…
36. Fred Lifschutz papers
2015.541. 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.541.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1975
…The Fred Lifschutz papers consist of biographical materials, a personal narrative, photographs, postcards, and three photograph albums documenting…
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 … personal narrative, photographs, postcards, and photograph albums documenting Fred Lifschutz from Vienna, Austria, his family and friends, and his…
37. 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…
38. 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…
39. 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…
40. 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…
41. Fuld family papers
2018.353.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2018.353.1
Date:
inclusive: 1881-1985
… Ursula Gertrud Erftemeier in 1949. Included are identification papers, army records, birth certificates, historical family documents, post-war archival…
42. 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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43. 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…
44. 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…
45. Goldschmied family papers
2018.96.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2018.96.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1852-1985
… Katarina Pick Goldschmied, and Bernhard and Rosa Loewnthal Ohs. Includes correspondence, documents, photographs, books and publications, an autograph book, a…
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 … several photographs Renée Rizzoni loaned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum can be viewed through the Museum’s catalog. Accruals: Accruals may…
46. Goldstein and Thebner families papers
2002.245.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2002.245.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1917-1958
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… their attempts to emigrate from Germany as well as pre-war family photographs. The collection also includes a diary written by Ilse Szinberger, Arthur…
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 … relating to their attempts to emigrate from Germany as well as pre-war family photographs. The collection also includes a diary written by Ilse Szinberger…
47. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…The Goldstein family papers, 1914-1982, contain photographic postcards of Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) serving as a German soldier in World War I…
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 …) serving as a German soldier in World War I; four photographs of Herman, Rita, and Heinz Goldstein (b. 1928) at a celebration aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939…
48. 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…
49. Gutmann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1194.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1986
bulk: 1938-1965
… Friedmann (1891-1919). Numerous relatives of Clara, including her brother Abraham Friedmann, lived in the United States prior to the start of World War II…
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 … respectively, restitutions claims, biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs. Languages: German, English, Czech, Hebrew Administrative Information…
50. Haber family papers
2015.236.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.236.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-circa 1990
bulk: 1897-1954
…, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children documenting their trip on board the SS President Harding and arrival to the…
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 … American immigration of fifty Jewish children from Nazi- occupied Vienna in May, 1939. Included are photographs and clippings of Fritz and the other children…