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1. 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…
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 … documents the wartime and post-war experiences of the Strauss family as they fled Nazi persecution in Marburg, Germany to Amsterdam, the Netherlands; their…
2. 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…
3. 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…
4. 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…
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. 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…
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 …: Photographs, approximately 1905‐1975  Series 4: Printed materials, 1941‐1948  Series 5: Sermons, approximately 1924‐1956 Indexing terms World War…
7. Theodor Kleinsorge papers
2015.587.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.587.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-1979
bulk: 1914-1955
… a teacher. Theodor was a veteran of World War I, and was a prisoner-of-war in France. After the war he studied mining engineering and worked in…
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 …‐1945‐‐Claims‐‐Germany. World War, 1939‐1945 Prisoners and prisons, German. Geography: Munich (Germany) Genre/Form: Photographs. Correspondence…
8. Levy family papers
2015.415.1 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.415.1
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1981
bulk: 1924-1969
… Joséphine (née Schmitt) Levy. He had one sister, Julie. Alfred was a veteran of World War I, and studied law afterwards. Meta Mayer Levy (born Meta Eve Mayer…
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 …, as well as Luxembourg. Also included are photographs depicting Alfred Levy as a soldier in World War I and a Supreme Court justice in Saarlouis and…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. 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…
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 …—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…
12. Robert M.W. and Ruth Benedicta Kempner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.62.1 | RG Number: RG-71.001
Date:
1935-1993
… the war and served as assistant U.S. chief counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, heading the Defense Rebuttal Section. His…
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 …, prosecution and defense records, research files, and interrogation reports. The collection also includes photographs, scrapbooks, and sound and video recordings…
13. Teilnachlass Louis Haefliger (1904-1993)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.217 | RG Number: RG-58.013
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1996
Alternate Title:
Louis Haefliger papers
…Consists of reports and newspaper clippings, 1945-1995, pertaining to the rescue of Mauthausen concentration camp inmates. Includes photographs…
14. 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…
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 … Nations for saving Tanya Viroviciene during the war. Wartime material includes photographs depicting Sara with the “Death to Occupiers” partisan group in…
15. 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…
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 …, displaced persons files, photographs, subject files, writings, speeches, and interviews primarily documenting Fierst’s work on displaced persons issues at…
16. 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…
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 … correspondence, documents, photographs, and research notes related to the Morgenthau family. The collection includes material related to the Ottoman Empire and…
17. Richard Schifter family papers
2016.502.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 2016.502.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1994
bulk: 1939-1948
… World War II. Includes family photographs, postcards and correspondence from Paul Schifter during his service in the Austrian Army during World War I…
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 … subsequent service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Includes family photographs, postcards and correspondence from Paul Schifter during his service in the…
18. 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…
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 …, a diary, correspondence, and photographs relating to the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Ruth Mueller and her family, originally of…
19. Vera Feldman collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0128 | RG Number: RG-10.181
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1986
…The collection consists of personal papers and photographs of the donor's extended family, many of whom perished in the Holocaust. Items include…
20. 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…