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1. Anne-Gilberte Stemmer Hercberg collection
2017.192.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.192.1
Date:
creation: circa 1938-1944
…, Charles Salomon Stemmer and Malka Tennebuam. The photographs also include photographs of Jules and Odette Hébrard, who hid Anne-Gilberte during the war by…
2. Gerald Schwab papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.327.25
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2012
… the end of the war he was transferred to an intelligence unit and assigned to the U.S. Detailed Interrogation Center (USDIC). At this facility, where…
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 … 20024-2126 Abstract: The Gerald Schwab papers document Schwab’s work for the International Military Tribunal following World War II; research for his…
3. Ellen Kaidanow papers
2017.525. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 2017.525.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-circa 1998
…, Ukraine). Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Lewiatin family; post war images of Ellen with her paternal uncle’s family in Germany, including in…
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 … (present day Dubno, Ukraine). Photographs include pre-war depictions of the Lewiatin family; post war images of Ellen with her paternal uncle’s family in…
4. Ruth Loewenstein papers
2017.613.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.613.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1963
… sister named Marianne (“Janne,” 1932-2008). Willy Loewenstein served in the German Army during World War I, and his family owned a haberdashery store…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Ruth Loewenstein papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs…
5. 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…
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 …, survival in Theresienstadt, Auschwitz, and the Skarżysko-Kamienna labor camp, and arrival in New York after the war. Photographic materials consist of prewar…
6. Ruth Gellis photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2019.531.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1935-1945
…Pre-war photographs depict Ruth Gellis (born Ruth Wuhl) and her parents, Joel and Clara Wuhl, before they fled Germany and were later forced into…
7. Tartière family papers
1988.93 Box 2 Folder 20 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.93
Date:
interview: 1920-1950
… Flowers near the Entrance: An Experience of World War II” that document his World War II service. The photographs follow his unit’s progress through Nice…
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 … Entrance: An Experience of World War II” that document his World War II service. The photographs follow his unit’s progress through Nice, Beaulieu…
8. Buxbaum family papers
2017.482. 1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.482.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1945
…The collection documents the pre-war lives of Max and Anna Buxbaum and their daughter Inge (later Inge Rosenbaum) in Essen, Germany, and their…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the pre-war lives of Max and Anna Buxbaum and their daughter Inge (later Inge…
9. Lyszka family papers
2015.489.1 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.489.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1974
… fiancée Uncle Alexandre, who also had false identities, in St. Pardoux. Paris was liberated on August 25, 1944, and the war ended in May 1945. Renee…
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 … papers and photographs documenting Renée Lyszka’s (later Renée Lisse Sachs) childhood in France, where she hid in Saint Pardoux with her aunt Renée…
10. Rywek Żytnik photograph collection
1998.91 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1998.91
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1950
…Rywek Żytnik photograph collection…
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 …RYWEK ŻYTNIK PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION, circa 1930-1950 1998.91 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington…
11. Bramson family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2012.495.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1960
…Consists of pre-war and post-war photographs of the Bramson family, originally of Ostrov, Russia, taken between 1923-1956. The bulk of the…
12. Alfred Traum papers
1997.A.0153.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0153.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1997
bulk: 1938-1942
… (March 22, 1926). Elias was severely crippled from injuries sustained in World War I and spent his afternoons playing with and instructing Alfred. The…
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 … papers, a report card, family correspondence from Elias and Gita Traum in Vienna to their children in London, family photographs from Vienna, England, and…
13. Juliette Frisch Haymes papers
1991.156.15 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1991.156.15
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-1947
…Juliette Frisch Haymes was born in Paris in 1926 to Romanian immigrant Michel Frisch (1893‐1942) who had moved to France at the end of World War I…
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 … for military service and his deportation via Drancy to Auschwitz, including his last postcard to his family; and photographs of Juliette Frisch, her…
14. 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…
15. Jacques Schweitzer papers
2017.637.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 80
Document | Accession Number: 2017.637.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-1992
bulk: 1940-1948
…) and one sister, Estelle (later Estelle Seidman, b. 1931). Prior to World War II, Jacques worked for Renault as an apprentice metal worker. His father…
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 …, certificates, and photographs. Many of the photographs document Jacques and his crew aboard the La Moqueuse. Other material includes prewar and wartime family…
16. Edith Simon Rosenthal papers
2005.564.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.564.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and a photograph album relating to the experiences of Edith Simon Rosenthal and her family in…
17. 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…
18. Elfriede Toch collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.243.3
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1968
…The collection consists of a purse, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Elfriede Toch, originally of Austria, who was one of…
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 … States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Photographs, immigration documents, family…
19. Fogel, Mermelstein, and Klarman families photograph collection
2005.132.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.132.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1947
…Fogel, Mermelstein, and Klarman families photograph collection…
20. Miriam Davenport Ebel papers
1991.158.88 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.158.88
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1989
bulk: 1938-1945
… relief, rescue, and refugee organizations. After the war she pursued her career in painting and sculpture and as an instructor in art and French. She…
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 … Ebel papers consist of correspondence, identification papers, mementos, photographs, and printed materials documenting Davenport’s wartime experiences…
21. Hugo Zulawski papers
2015.582. 1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2015.582.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1965
…Consists of photographs, a photograph album, documents, and correspondence, owned by Hugo Zulawski, originally of Vienna, Austria. Mr. Zulawski…
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 …). Includes pre-war, wartime, and post-war family photographs, including photographs Hugo took while in the United States military (1944-1947) and images of his…
22. Krystyna Linden photograph collection
2006.122.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2006.122.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1947
… Kuniegis, directly following the war. The photographs of the Lindenbaum and Kuniegis families taken before the war including photographs of Jerzy Edward…
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 … parents directly following the war. The photographs of the Lindenbaum and Kuniegis families taken before the war including photographs of Jerzy Edward…
23. Hinsel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.721.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1960
…The Hinsel family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and World War I diaries documenting the…
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 … and content of collection The Hinsel family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and World War I…
24. 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…
25. Bujakowski and Brager families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.513.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-1972
… with them to New York, and naturalization certificates of Hans and Auguste. Photographs include pre-war depictions of Hans and his family, including his…
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 … August 1938, an inventory of items brought with them to New York, and naturalization certificates of Hans and Auguste. Photographs include pre-war…
26. Spielman family papers
2005.359.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.359.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-circa 1949
bulk: 1940-1948
… Gabersee displaced persons camp in Germany. Included are photographs from Budapest, Bratislava, Gabersee, and a small amount of pre-war family photographs…
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 … small amount of pre-war family photographs. Documents include a Christian identity paper issued by the Polish Ministerium in Hungary to Simon and Czarna…
27. Merei family papers
2015.571.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.571.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1991
…The collection primarily documents the wartime and post-war experiences of Ernö and Ernestine (née Munk) Merei and their son John of Budapest…
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 … documents the wartime and post‐war experiences of Ernö and Ernestine (née Munk) Merei and their son John of Budapest, Hungary as they fled the country after…
28. Goldschmied family papers
2018.96.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2018.96.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1852-1985
… Katarina Pick Goldschmied, and Bernhard and Rosa Loewnthal Ohs. Includes correspondence, documents, photographs, books and publications, an autograph book, a…
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 … several photographs Renée Rizzoni loaned to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum can be viewed through the Museum’s catalog. Accruals: Accruals may…
29. "Ash Camp" photograph album
2010.516.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.516.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1912-1950
…"Ash Camp" photograph album…
30. 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…
31. Marie Hess Brandes collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0425
Date:
1934-1945
…Consists of photographs taken by Albert Günther Hess during World War II, including photographs taken upon the liberation of the Dachau concentration…
32. Nachlass Ruth von Wild (1912-1983)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.90.1 | RG Number: RG-58.044
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1982
Alternate Title:
Ruth von Wild papers
… Swiss School in Barcelona. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War the school was closed and Wild went to England to earn an English diploma. In Aug…
33. Frederic Zeller papers
2017.576.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 71
Document | Accession Number: 2017.576.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1990
bulk: 1939-1948
… Kindertransport in 1939. He went to Preston, England in July 1939. He remained in England for the duration of the war, and immigrated to the United States in 1957…
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 … illustrated diaries, biographical material, photographs, and correspondence including letters sent by his father Heinrich Zeller from the Gurs and Saint-Cyprien…
34. Hans Fischböck papers
2018.636.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.636.1
Date:
inclusive: 1876-1992
bulk: 1938-1967
… post-war. The photograph album included a depiction of Fischböck in the late 1930s/early 1940s sitting at his desk in his office, most likely either in…
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 … annexation of Austria to Nazi Germany; post-war papers and photographs from Latin America including official documents issued by Latin American authorities…
35. 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…
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 … paperwork, and photographs. Documents include papers regarding Dagobert Hauer’s service with the German army during World War I, Gunter Hauer’s identification…
36. Arbeiter family papers
2006.4 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2006.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1974
…The Arbeiter family papers consist of wartime correspondence, a newspaper clipping, and pre-war family photographs relating to the Arbeiter family…
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 … collection The Arbeiter family papers consist of wartime correspondence, a newspaper clipping, and pre-war family photographs relating to the Arbeiter family…
37. Fred Lubcher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.165.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2018
bulk: 1932-1948
… pre-war depictions of the Lubcher family in Vienna, and a 2018 photograph of Jacob Lubcher’s grave in Vienna, erected after the war by Fred.…
38. Eugeniusz and Irena Wojtas papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.397.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1968
undated: 
… photograph them for his soldier friends. After the war ended in May 1945, Irena lived in a series of displaced persons camps: Wurzburg, Aschaffenburg…
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 … wedding certificates for Eugeniusz and Irena. Photographs include pre-war photographs of Irena in Poland as well as post-war photographs of Irena and…
39. Milton Shurr papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.112.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1945
… United States entered World War II on December 8, 1941, following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Milton was drafted into the US Army and enrolled in Officer…
40. Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers
1993.124.19 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1993.124.19
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1988
…The Sonja Schulmann Schwartz papers consist of an autograph book, diary, biographical materials, Dachau letter, photographic materials, and subject…
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 …, approximately 1935‐1940 1 12 Schulmann family, approximately 1933‐1936 1 13 Schulmann, Hirsch, in a World War I era photograph used with a Time magazine…
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41. Waldmann family papers
2019.17.2 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2019.17.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2021
bulk: 1930-1941
… congratulates him on his bar mitzvah. It was likely the last letter he received from them. Photographs primarily consist of pre-war depictions of the Waldmann…
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 … mitzvah. It was likely the last letter he received from them. Photographs primarily consist of pre-war depictions of the Waldmann family in Bad Windsheim…
42. 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…
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 … Czech unit in Great Britain, family and friends, and post-war experiences in London and the United States. Also included are loose photographs…
43. Robert H. Harlan diary
2000.190 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.190
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
bulk: 1938-1939
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…-1957) in Wuerzburg, Germany between the end of August and September 8, 1938. The collection also includes a color copy of a photograph of Robert Harlan…
44. Beatrice Muchman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0269.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1999
… saved. Beatrice had always felt that her parents abandoned her, and she had kept a diary during the war, but now she could understand her history more…
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 …, correspondence, diary and poetry books, a memoir, photographs, and a prayer book documenting the Westheimer family of Berlin, their flight to Brussels, Beatrix…
45. 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…
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 … Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Mandil Family photograph collection consists of pre-war and post-war photographs…
46. Joseph family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.492.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1997
…Salli Joseph (1886-1943) was born in Neuenbürg, Germany to Manne and Dorothea (née Danziger) Joseph. He served in World War I with the German Army…
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 … Palestine, documents related to Bernard’s internment in Australia, and family photographs from Berlin and Palestine. Languages: German, English, Hebrew…
47. Orban Wales Peters, Jr. papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.294.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1998
… United States Army and served in World War II with the 914th Field Artillery Battalion of the 89th Infantry Division. He was deployed to France in 1945 and…
48. 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…
49. 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…
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 … Benjamin Herson papers consist of correspondence, a memoir, photographs, printed materials, prisoner of war materials, and reference materials documenting…
50. Forced labor book collection, 1938-1945
Document | Accession Number: 2005.506.1 | RG Number: RG-17.009
Date:
1938-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…The collection consists of badges, an armband, savings stamp cards, postcards, documents, photographs, and laborer's work books related to the use of…
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 …. Also contains various documents, photographs and artifacts from various concentration camps. Indexing terms: World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps…