Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Search

Search Results

1. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Weiler. Photographic materials include prewar family photographs, loose photographs of World War I era German soldiers, and a photo album and scrapbook…
2. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Goslinski family papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting the…
3. Otto and Erna Stein family papers
2000.229.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2000.229.1
Date:
inclusive: 1889-2000
…, Lotte Zinner (1924- ). Otto Stein had served in the German army during World War I and spent 33 months in a British POW camp. In May 1938 Zinner and her…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … photograph of Lotte Zinner as a baby, correspondence describing family and friends’ efforts to emigrate, letters after the war describing the http…
4. Pisker, Fischer, and Altstädter families papers
2014.411.1 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.411.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1987
bulk: 1935-1948
… of the Jasenovac concentration camp, and written testimony from Elvira describing her wartime experiences. The photographs include pre-war family…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … include pre-war family photographs primarily of the Pisker family; the Pisker and Fischer families in Italian-occupied Crikvenica, Croatia; Elvira Pisker…
5. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …. World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States. Geography: Hof (Germany : Landkreis) United States--Emigration and immigration. Genre/Form: Photographs…
6. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … publications. A March 1979 letter encloses black and white photographs of Weinschenk at a Jewish War Veterans event. Gestapo Bremen files including Gestapo and…
7. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … 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…
8. Lob family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.168.1
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2015
bulk: 1939-1954
… a small amount of wartime documents and correspondence, post-war Holocaust tracing documents, copies of ITS records, and copies of photographs…
9. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … documents the wartime and post-war experiences of the Strauss family as they fled Nazi persecution in Marburg, Germany to Amsterdam, the Netherlands; their…
10. Florence Hodel papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.300.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1973
bulk: 1944-1945
… married Christopher Wagner, but continued to use her maiden name. Their marriage was unhappy, and they divorced shortly after World War II, though they had…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …—Rescue. Bern (Switzerland) Washington (D.C.) CONTAINER LIST Box 1: Box Folder 1 1 Photographs, 1925- ca. 1965 1 2 War Refugee Board documents, 1944-1945 1…
11. Dorothea Dressel collection
1995.A.0186 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0186
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1986
bulk: 1930-1947
…Dorothea (Dora) Dressel (1897-1993) married Fritz Dressel in 1916, and was active politically in Munich during the years following World War I. When…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … 1933. Records include correspondence concerning Friedrich’s death, and post‐war correspondence, including a letter from the writer Oskar Maria Graf…
12. Ruth Mueller papers
2017.651.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 2017.651.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1986
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The Ruth Mueller papers include biographical material, a diary, correspondence, and photographs relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …, a diary, correspondence, and photographs relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Ruth Mueller and her family, originally of…
13. Schames family Papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.460.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-1984
… letters received from family in Stuttgart. Photographs includes prewar family photographs, depictions of Max Schames during World War I, and depictions of…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Schames during World War I, prewar letters received by Käthe, and wartime letters received from family in Stuttgart. Photographs includes prewar family…
14. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid available at the Museum:
 …, bei welcher Benjamin Sagalowitz behilflich war 31 Goldmann, Nahum [Nachum], Genf (Kopien) 1964 - 1966 32 Goldschmidt, Hermann Levin, Zürich 1958 - 1959…
15. Marcus family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.340.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1998
bulk: 1939-1942
… (1890-1968) and the family owned a houseware factory. Erich served in the German cavalry during World War I. After the war, he married Phyllis Lewek (also…
16. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …, survival in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and the Skarżysko-Kamienna labor camp, and arrival in New York after the war. Photographic materials consist of prewar…
17. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … 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…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
18. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
…, Poland). He served with German army on the Russian front during World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross. He married Gertrud Lesser from Erfurt, Germany…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … paperwork, and photographs. Documents include papers regarding Dagobert Hauer’s service with the German army during World War I, Gunter Hauer’s identification…
19. Ilse and Horst Abraham papers
2016.538.10 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2016.538.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-2011
…, and had at least two brothers and six sisters. Following World War I, Isidor received an iron cross for his service in the German army. He began selling…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Ilse Abraham from Rastenburg, Germany, Horst (Harry) Abraham from Leipzig…
20. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Abstract: The Gertrude and William Nagel papers include photographs, birth certificates, education records, correspondence, and passports documenting…
21. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … respectively, restitutions claims, biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs. Languages: German, English, Czech, Hebrew Administrative Information…
22. 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…
23. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of war materials, and reference materials documenting…
24. Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.221.12
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2004
… the International Tribunal in Nuremberg in 1946, and, as a civilian, as Senior Interrogator for the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes at Nuremberg on the…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Abstract: The Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg papers include biographical materials, Nuremberg trials materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting…
Your search appears in a finding aid available at the Museum:
 … Hannah Wartenberg papers include biographical materials, Nuremberg trials materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting Rolf and Hannah…
25. Nachlass Luise Wetter (1917-1991)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.89.1 | RG Number: RG-58.043
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1991
Alternate Title:
Luise Wetter papers
…Luise Wetter (1917-1991) was a teacher and aid worker in Switzerland for refugee children during and after the war..…
Your search appears in a finding aid available at the Museum:
 … Emili (geb. Keller); Geschwister Margrit und Martin (welcher ebenfalls in der Kinderhilfe tätig war); Gymnasium in Winterthur; 1939 Lehrer-Diplom…
26. 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.…
27. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …, correspondence, photographs, and scrapbook pages documenting the experiences of Nathan Litvin and Edith Festinger Litvin. Includes pre‐war and post‐war…
28. Morgenthau family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.255.1
Date:
inclusive: 1860-2005
bulk: 1930-1950
… Cleveland, Ohio. The United States declared war on Germany and Japan in December 1941. Morgenthau joined the United States Army. In 1943, he graduated from…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … correspondence, documents, photographs, and research notes related to the Morgenthau family. The collection includes material related to the Ottoman Empire and…
29. Hanoch Gerstel papers
1999.52.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1999.52.1
Date:
inclusive: 1854-1975
…The Hanoch Gerstel papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence files, photographic materials, printed materials, and sermons documenting…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …: Photographs, approximately 1905‐1975  Series 4: Printed materials, 1941‐1948  Series 5: Sermons, approximately 1924‐1956 Indexing terms World War…
30. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
… to Michael. After the war, Michel joined the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. He was sent to Germany and served as a supply…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … cards, and other various material. Also included are photographs, records concerning Michael’s time serving with the United Nations Relief and…
31. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
2017.101.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2017.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1995
bulk: 1913-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, including a photograph of Regina, Bernhard, and Helli Morgenstern reunited in Vienna after the war. The Merkur family materials include a book and loose sheet…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Mendel Morgenstern to her in London; and her diary from 1945. Also included are photographs of the Morgenstern family, including a photograph of Regina…
32. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Abstract: The collection consists of biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, and photographs documenting the pre-war lives of Leo and…
33. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … losses. A Rosenzweig family photograph album depicts Marcus Rosen and his family before, during, and after the war, including during his service in the…
34. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … from approximately 1850‐2004. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, and writings documenting Henry Knepler and his…
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. Teodor Diamant papers
2017.557. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.557.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2017
bulk: 1939-1952
…Teodor Diamant was born on 10 November 1908 in Turčiansky Svätý Martin (Martin, Slovakia). Prior to the war he worked as an electrician. Trying to…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Czech unit in Great Britain, family and friends, and post-war experiences in London and the United States. Also included are loose photographs…
37. Semyon Menyuk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.282 | RG Number: RG-10.433
Date:
1925-1973
… the Ukraine, awards for outstanding military service, photographs of families, and photographs of an excavation site where 7,000 people were found.…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … after war). 15. 1 photoprint: b&w. Photograph of Abel, Rivka, Shimon, and Dwoira Perlmutter (mother’s sister, her husband, their daughter and son, and…
38. Rothschild and Weyl families papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0088.12
Date:
inclusive: 1874-2017
bulk: 1912-1954
…, Certificates of Naturalization, and war ration books. Photographs include Carl’s World War I albums which include photographic postcards sent to Alice. Walter…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … in preparation for immigrating to the United States in 1938, Certificates of Naturalization, and war ration books. Photographs include Carl’s World War…
39. Mandil family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1975
bulk: circa 1920-1948
…Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Mandil family, Konfino family, and the Ben-Yosif family all…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs…
40. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … serving in the Germany Army during World War II. Additional photographs depict the Geschwir family, who welcomed Inge to Texas, the Weiss family, and…
41. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Abstract: The Fela and Chaim Perelman papers consists of photographs, correspondence, biographical materials, personal narratives, published works, and…
42. Herbert A. Fierst papers
2006.8.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2006.8.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-2004
…The Herbert A. Fierst collection consists of biographical materials, displaced persons files, photographs, subject files, writings, speeches, and…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …, displaced persons files, photographs, subject files, writings, speeches, and interviews primarily documenting Fierst’s work on displaced persons issues at…
43. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid available at the Museum:
 … konnten die fürsorgerischen Tätigkeiten des Frauenvereins und der Gemeinde besser koordiniert werden. Eine wichtige Aufgabe des IFZ war die Führung des…
44. John Koenig papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.127
Date:
1914-1977
…The papers consist of certificates, identification papers, immigration records, and photographs documenting the Koenig family of Budapest, Hungary…
45. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Passports, postcards, photographs, and printed material, related to the childhood and emigration of Henny…
46. Susi Cohn Podgurski papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-10.286
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1992
bulk: 1938-1947
…, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. Martin Cohn was a dentist and served in World War I. Prior to June 1939, Eugen Hirschfeld lost his home. He moved in with the…
47. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …” letters, emigration and immigration files, photographs, wartime newspapers and newsletters, World War II memorabilia, writings, restitution files, and…
48. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … photographs documenting the Blumenthal family from Hüttengesäß; Albert, Alice, and Ellen Blumenthal’s immigration to the United States before World War II…
49. 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…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Swabacher, and her uncle Anton Schwabacher. Also includes some post-war correspondence with friends and relatives. Photographs consist of depictions of the…
50. Sara Ginaitė-Rubinsonienė papers
1996.2.6 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.2.6
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2018
… during World War II. The photographs consist mainly of her family members, with some depicting Sara during her time fighting in the “Death to Occupiers…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … during the war. Wartime material includes photographs depicting Sara with the “Death to Occupiers” partisan group in Lithuania, a certificate issued by the…