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1. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Buchenwald and Lorenz. Photographs include originals and copies of Buchenwald during and after the war. Correspondence includes letters, announcements…
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 … Buchenwald and Lorenz. Photographs include originals and copies of Buchenwald during and after the war. Languages: English, German Administrative Information…
2. 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…
3. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection
1995.A.0106 Box 4 Folder 11 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.237
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1986
bulk: 1937-1954
… camp but was eventually released. The family survived the war and on June 28, 1946, Lawrence Goldsmith signed an affidavit of support for the family…
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 … Jewish Relief Committee, 1917-1922. The collection include family photographs as well as genealogy and research materials related to Jewish history in…
4. 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…
5. 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…
6. Utwory literackie (Sygn. 266)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.264 | RG Number: RG-15.231
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1999
Alternate Title:
Literary works
… Łódź ghetto, and some personal photographs. This collection consists of both original work (mostly from the Ghetto Litzmannstadt (Łódź)) and their…
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 … in Łódź ghetto, and some personal photographs. Most of these literary works were already published. System of Arrangement The system of arrangement of…
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 … Archive remains unknown. It consists of both original works (mostly the works coming from the Ghetto Litzmannstadt (Lodz)) and their post-war copies. Most…
7. Zbiór rękopisów (Sygn. 205)
Document | Accession Number: 2016.329.1 | RG Number: RG-15.484
Date:
inclusive: 1799-circa 1975
bulk: 1939-1961
Alternate Title:
Collection of manuscripts
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…The collection contains memoirs, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, clippings documenting the experiences of Poles and Polish Jews who lived in…
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. 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…
10. 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…
11. Nachlass Avner W. Less papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.214 | RG Number: RG-58.010
Date:
inclusive: 1902-2007
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Contains correspondence, memos, diaries, newspaper clippings, lectures, articles, photographs, transcripts of the Israeli Police, case studies…
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 …; 1960/61 als Polizeihauptmann in Jerusalem Leiter des Verhörs von Adolf Eichmann. Nach dem Prozess war Less ein vielbefragter Zeitzeuge und…
12. 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…
13. 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…
14. 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…
15. 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…
16. Israelitischer Frauenverein Zürich Archiv
Document | Accession Number: 2017.42.1 | RG Number: RG-58.033
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2003
Alternate Title:
Jewish Women's Association Zürich Archive
… IFZ undertook to organize the holiday colonies. In the Second World War the home also served as a refugee home for children. E.g. 40 children from the…
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 … konnten die fürsorgerischen Tätigkeiten des Frauenvereins und der Gemeinde besser koordiniert werden. Eine wichtige Aufgabe des IFZ war die Führung des…
17. Nachlass Dr. iur. Georg Guggenheim (1897-1987)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.43.1 | RG Number: RG-58.034
Date:
inclusive: 1872-2005
Alternate Title:
Georg Guggenheim papers
… and articles 1942-1975, and documentation on his activities, 1915-1978. Also contains photographs, portraits, landscape and architectural drawings.…
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 … Schweizerischen Israelitischen Gemeindebundes, SIG, 1904-1914) und Leonide Guggenheim-Nordmann; sein jüngerer Bruder war Staatsrechtsprofessor Prof. Dr. Paul…
18. Nachlass Otto H. und Régine Heim (1896-1978/1907-2004)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.44.1 | RG Number: RG-58.035
Date:
inclusive: 1906-2004
Alternate Title:
Otto and Régine Heim papers
… his father, also was active on the board of the association of the Swiss textile wholesale trade. During the Second World War, Otto Heinrich Heim was…
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 … / Klassifikation Die Dossierbildung erfolgte grösstenteils in Anlehnung an die bestehende Vorordnung. Die Korrespondenz war verstreut überliefert und wurde in…
19. Nachlass Kurt Bigler (ehem. Kurt Bergheimer) (1925-2007)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.45.1 | RG Number: RG-58.036
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2011
Alternate Title:
Kurt Bigler papers
…, and unpublished manuscripts, a collection of color photographs (albums and loose photos) with detailed handwritten description.…
20. Nachlass Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet (1916-2010)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.47.1 | RG Number: RG-58.038
Date:
inclusive: 1916-2007
Alternate Title:
Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet papers
…, photographs, audiovisual documentation from everyday life at the Château de La Hille, correspondence at the time of the Second World War, correspondence in…
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 …21.06.2016 Seite 2 Der Bestand war grösstenteils von Anne-Marie Im Hof-Piguet vorgeordnet. Diese Ordnung wurde möglichst beibehalten und wenn vorhanden mit den von…