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1. Interior page of a passport granted to Hans Ehrenfeld and stamped with Nazi seals. The passport was dated the day before Kristallnacht.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 99250
Date:
1938 November 08
…Interior page of a passport granted to Hans Ehrenfeld and stamped with Nazi seals. The passport was dated the day before Kristallnacht.…
2. Selected records of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany
Document | Accession Number: 2003.220 | RG Number: RG-14.064M
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1974
bulk: 1933-1945
… contains photographs of events, e.g., Kristallnacht, and buildings such as synagogues, schools and other institutions.…
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 …: HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington DC 20024-2126 Bemerkung Oppenheimer, Alice, Kristallnacht und verschiedene Begebenheiten…
3. May and Wolff families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.19.1
Date:
1938-1946
… arrested after Kristallnacht in November 1938 in Munich, Germany and deported to the Dachau concentration camp. After some weeks he was released and…
4. Sommer family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.197.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1963
…, Richard and Alfred, both of whom had immigrated overseas (to the United States and London, respectively). After Kristallnacht, Sommer was able to leave…
5. Georg and Elise Anthes papers
2019.180.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2019.180.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1944
… these documents to his friends Georg and Elise Anthes for safe keeping. He died at Buchenwald in November 1938 following Kristallnacht.…
6. Carl and Robert Gamer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.528.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1965
… in Berlin during Kristallnacht, Gamer was in the hospital, though he writes about what his hearing from doctors and nurses. His dissertation drafts…
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 …, including his diaries from October 1938- June 1942. Though he was in Berlin during Kristallnacht, Gamer was in the hospital, though he writes about what his…
7. Rose family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.199.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1948
… had one brother, Lother Rose (1928-1986). Her father worked as a cattle dealer in Kassel, Germany. During Kristallnacht in November 1938, Isidor and…
8. Fred Manasse collection
2007.116.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2007.116.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1945
…. During Kristallnacht, the Manasse’s witnessed their synagogue burn down, and Alfred was briefly imprisoned at Buchenwald. After Kristallnacht, Alfred began…
9. John and Margot Loewenberg papers
1995.A.0265.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0265.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… attended were closed. She was sent to a children’s home in Cologne, where she learned child care. She stayed there until the Kristallnacht, where many…
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 … learned child care. She stayed there until the Kristallnacht, where many nearby Jewish synagogues and businesses were destroyed. Margot was then sent…
10. Paul Mayer papers
2019.208.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2019.208.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1982
bulk: 1938-1954
… to support the family. After Kristallnacht in November 1938 Fritz was arrested and sent to Buchenwald until his release in February 1939. Despite…
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 … to support the family. After Kristallnacht in November 1938 Fritz was arrested and sent to Buchenwald until his release in February 1939. Despite…
11. Lindheim family papers
2014.206.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2014.206.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2012
… education. After Kristallnacht, Berthold was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. The family was also forced to leave their apartment in…
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 … continue his education. After Kristallnacht, Berthold was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp. The family was also forced to leave their…
12. Loeb family papers
1997.74.49 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1997.74.49
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1939
…. In 1938, Olga and Hans moved to Frankfurt, Germany where Hans attended school and Olga trained as a laboratory technician. On Kristallnacht, November…
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 … New Jersey. In 1938, Olga and Hans moved to Frankfurt, Germany where Hans attended school and Olga trained as a laboratory technician. On Kristallnacht…
13. Hans Benjamin Marx papers
2018.427.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 2018.427.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-1946
…, and Hans and Claire had to travel nearly an hour by bus and streetcar to get to their new school. On November 9 and 10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom…
14. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
…. He worked for R.H. Macy & Co from 1936 to 1943. His father was arrested during Kristallnacht, sent to Buchenwald for a couple of months, forced to sell…
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 … & Co from 1936 to 1943. His father was arrested during Kristallnacht, sent to Buchenwald for a couple of months, forced to sell his store at a loss, and…
15. Fred Strauss papers
2015.533.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2015.533.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1947
… had grown, and during the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, all of the teachers at the orphanage were arrested. While Fritz was in Frankfurt, his…
16. View of the Breuer yeshiva in Frankfurt am Main.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 89735
Date:
1934 - 1938
…View of the Breuer yeshiva in Frankfurt am Main. The yeshiva was headed by Rabbi Doctor Joseph Breuer. After Kristallnacht, the yeshiva was…
17. Announcement for a benefit concert by the Jewish Musicians of Frankfurt at the Westend Synagogue in Frankfurt.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 62665
Date:
1938 April 27
…, arriving four weeks before Kristallnacht. Martel began studying piano as a child and always wanted to pursue a musical career. In addition to attending the…
18. Two rabbis hold a conversation outside the Breuer Yeshiva in Frankfurt.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 62995
Date:
1936 - 1938
… the Breuer yeshiva in Frankfurt. A year later he began his studies at the Wuerzburg Jewish teachers seminary. On the night of Kristallnacht the…
19. Rabbi Doctor Joseph Breuer.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 89717
Date:
1935 - 1938
… assumed his post after his death in 1926. Following Kristallnacht, the Nazis shut down the yeshiva, and Rabbi Breuer immigrated to the United States by way…
20. Hans Ehrenfeld looks out the top window of his home at Stettenstrasse 4, in Frankfurt.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 48128
Date:
1938
… assistance of Ernst Leitz, the head of Leica cameras. Paul was trained at the Leitz factory in Wetzlar. In August 1938, three months before Kristallnacht…