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1. Burned fragments Talmudic commentary recovered during Kristallnacht by a Jewish Austrian girl
2015.337.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2015.337.2 a-b
Date:
found: 1938 November 09-1938 November 11
emigration: 1940 February 10-1940 February 22
…Burned fragments Talmudic commentary recovered during Kristallnacht by a Jewish Austrian girl…
2. Friedler family papers
1999.47.3 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1999.47.3
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1959
… agricultural farms in preparation for eventual emigration to Israel. He was beaten during Kristallnacht and escaped with his cousin to England, where he worked…
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 … preparation for eventual emigration to Israel. He was beaten during Kristallnacht and escaped with his cousin to England, where he worked for the Jewish…
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3. Reinhold and Singer families papers
1999.A.0042 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0042
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1999
… during Kristallnacht. In January 1939 Feodora Singer arrived in England on a Kindertransport, joining her sister, Ruth, who was already there, and lived…
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 …). The bakery was destroyed and part of the apartment damaged during Kristallnacht. In January 1939 Feodora Singer arrived in England on a…
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4. Celia and Arthur Stern papers
2006.36.1 Oversize 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2006.36.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1945
… lived in Vienna, until the Kristallnacht in 1938, when SS officers came into their home and stole her jewelry and smashed her windows. Soon after that…
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 … travel documents relating to Celia and Arthur Stern, a married Jewish couple living in Vienna, Austria during the Kristallnacht, and their subsequent…
5. Weinmann family papers
1995.A.1056 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1056 | RG Number: RG-10.135
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1965
… continued to serve as the head of the Tariffs department. During the Kristallnacht in November 1938, he was arrested and sent to Dachau until December 22…
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 … International Gertreide Handels AG, where he continued to serve as the head of the Tariffs department. During the Kristallnacht in November 1938, he was…
6. Kleinfeld family papers
2018.640.1 Box 2 Folder 15 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2018.640.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-1963
… Kristallnacht, Regina had a non-Jewish relative pick up Hedda and Liane from school. Isidor and his brother Leonard were arrested and released on 18 November on…
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 … Kleinfeld and their children Hedda and Liane in Vienna, Austria including Isidor’s arrest after Kristallnacht and his brief imprisonment in the Dachau…
7. Ignaz Ferber papers
1988.87 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1988.87 | RG Number: RG-10.262
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1938
… and her husband also immigrated to the U.S. in 1938, and his parents followed in 1939. During Kristallnacht his brother Fred was arrested and sent to…
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 … immigrated to the U.S. in 1938, and his parents followed in 1939. During Kristallnacht his brother Fred was arrested and sent to Dachau. In order to obtain his…
8. Walter Saunders papers
1995.A.0383 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0383
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1944
bulk: 1938-1944
…. Walter grew up to become an electrician, while Kurt became a tailor. Soon after the Kristallnacht, the brothers obtained visas to the United States. They…
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 … one brother, Kurt, born in 1919. Walter grew up to become an electrician, while Kurt became a tailor. Soon after the Kristallnacht, the brothers…
9. Kurt (Chaim) Flaschner papers
2014.277.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2014.277.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1950
…, descriptions of conditions in Vienna in the months following Kristallnacht, discussions of acquaintances who had emigrated from Austria, and efforts to obtain an…
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 … of conditions in Vienna in the months following Kristallnacht, discussions of acquaintances who had emigrated from Austria, and efforts to obtain an…
10. Eric Bergtraun papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.24.37
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1953
bulk: 1944-1948
… Austria for Shanghai shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938 and was forced to live in the Hongkew Ghetto for three years as the war intensified. Eric was…
11. Berg family papers
2015.312.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2015.312.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1948
…. During Kristallnacht, Alfred’s father was arrested and taken to the police precinct where his head was shaved, he was only released because he was the…
12. Arthur Kerdemann papers
1995.A.0217.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0217.3
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1994
… Kristallnacht, while his family was away, Arthur was taken from his home by police, arrested and sent to Dachau by cattle car with thousands of other Jews. He…
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 …. During the Kristallnacht, while his family was away, Arthur was taken from his home by police and sent to Dachau by cattle car with thousands of other…
13. Ackner and Geller families collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.611.1
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1981
… Zurawno, Poland on April 25, 1890 and served in World War I. Sheldon and his parents relocated to Riga before Kristallnacht in November 1938. He immigrated…
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 … veteran. Sheldon and his parents relocated to Riga before Kristallnacht in November 1938. He immigrated the United States, sailing from Gothenburg, Sweden…
14. Ruth B. Mandel papers
1989.55.11 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.55.11
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1947
… in Dachau during Kristallnacht, and Lea managed to secure his release by obtaining a visa for him to emigrate to Shanghai. In the meantime, Lea…
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 … Kristallnacht, and Lea managed to secure his release by obtaining a visa for him to immigrate to Shanghai. Mechel attempted to flee to Belgium and join his…
15. Bartfeld family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.520.1
Date:
inclusive: 1896-2003
bulk: 1925-1940
… Palestine in September 1938 on a small Yugoslav ship. He lived in a small agricultural religious community before moving to Tel Aviv. On Kristallnacht, Max…
16. Serebrenik family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.559.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-circa 2018
…, in Vienna. Steven’s parents married in Vienna in 1931. During Kristallnacht in November 1938, Lili’s parents’ store was destroyed. The family soon…
17. Appenzeller and Dukes families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.517.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-1998
…’s gentile maid could no longer work for them, and the Montessori school that Erna attended was shut down. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 10, Jews…
18. Metric wooden ruler owned by a young Austrian Jewish refugee girl
2017.517.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.517.2
Date:
use: approximately 1938
…’s gentile maid could no longer work for them, and the Montessori school that Erna attended was shut down. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 10, Jews…
19. Razdowitz and Lehr families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.31.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2001
bulk: 1934-1949
… prior to Kristallnacht (November 1938), including Gisa’s parents, her sister Meta and brother Hans, and Adolf’s mother Antonia. Gisa’s brother David…
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 …). The family lived in Paris, and were joined by several relatives prior to Kristallnacht (November 1938), including Gisa’s parents, her sister Meta and…
20. Manfred Haber family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1963
bulk: 1938-1946
… typesetter. Manfred had one sister, Gertrude (Trudy, b. 1929). During Kristallnacht in November 1938, Raphael was arrested and imprisoned in Dachau. After his…
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 … Kristallnacht in November 1938, Raphael was arrested and imprisoned in Dachau. After his release, Raphael arranged for Manfred and Trudy to go from Vienna to…