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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. Betty Sklow papers
1999.A.0269 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0269
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1949
bulk: 1939-1940
… to the United States, and her journey to the United States aboard the SS Pennland in 1940. The papers also include photographs of Betty Sklow and her…
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 …. The papers also include photographs of Betty Sklow and her husband Hermann Sklow, as well as a printed cabin plan for the MS St. Louis, February 1939…
4. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
undated: 
…The Mandel family papers include biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family…
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 … biographical material, restitution files, photographs, and family documents relating to Yehuda Mandel and his family’s experiences prewar in Latvia and Hungary…
5. Leon and Rebeka Ilutovich collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.22.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1911-1983
bulk: 1930-1948
… the Executive Committee of Polish War Refugees in Shanghai. From 1945 to 1946, he worked as the Secretary of the World Jewish Congress in China. He…
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 … records, identification records, newspapers, printed notices, ephemera, photographs, and photograph albums. The collection also includes photographs of the…
6. Solomon Bogard photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.132.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… World War II veteran Solomon Bogard. The bulk of the photographs were taken and released by the United States Army Signal Corps, Supreme Headquarters…
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 …, survivors, victims, liberators, and perpetrators collected by American World War II veteran Solomon Bogard. The bulk of the photographs were taken and…
7. Maria Klein papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.293.1
Date:
1923-1945
…The papers consist of photographs depicting Maria Klein, her mother, Estera Lifszyc, and her brother, Rubin Lifszyc, in Warsaw, Poland, before World…
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 …) and Mina Putterflam (donor’s aunt [Estera Lifszyc’s sister]); survived the War in Paris, returned to Warsaw after the War. .15 Photographic print; black…
8. Joseph Harmatz photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.193
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1948
…The collection consists of twelve photographs relating to Joseph Harmatz and his family before and during World War II and his life after the war…
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 …JOSEPH HARMATZ PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTION, 1920-1948 1999.193 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington…
9. John Daniel Morgan collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.147.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
… members in the Munich area between 1938-1942; one binder of formal and informal photographs of SS officers mounted on notebook paper, including photographs…
10. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
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…) arranged for his escape into Switzerland where he remained for the duration of the war. Peter immigrated to the United States in July 1946 with the aid of…
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 …, diaries, identification papers, photographs, printed materials, and photocopies documenting Feigl’s wartime experiences in summer camps, children’s homes…
11. Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.96
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1944
… Allied Expeditionary Force for "Nich. V.D. Byl." [Gijsbertus Nicholaas Van der Bijl], undated; a photograph of Gijsbertus Van der Bijl at age 24, 1938; and…
12. Edith Hahn-Beer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0079.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1997
… war, Werner was drafted and soon captured by the Russians. He was sent to Siberia as a prisoner of war. Edith fled with her infant daughter to the…
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 … during World War II and several identification documents and photographs. She added other materials relating to post-war experiences and her book, "Ich…
13. Hildegard Simon papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.601.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2013
… (1884-1943) was a World War I veteran and worked as a horse and cattle trader. Selma (née Katz, 1894-1943) was born in Bad Arolson, Germany and was the…
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 … Simon papers include biographical material, correspondence, poesie albums, and photographs relating to Hildegard “Hilde” Hanna Simon and her family…
14. Shraga Weil papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.330.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1948
inclusive: 1968
inclusive: 1992
… Hungary and Shraga was active with the underground and assisted in forging documents. After the war, Shraga left for Palestine in 1947 and became a member…
15. 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…
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 …, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg papers include biographical materials, Nuremberg trials materials, photographs, and printed…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. Wiznitzer and Feuerstein family papers
2012.351.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2012.351.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-2003
…. Feuerstein family photographs depict Edward Firestone, his first wife and their children before the war, and his participation in the Jewish sports club “Dror…
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 … photographs documenting Edward, Julia, and Abe Firestone of Kołomyja, Poland (now Kolomyia, Ukraine), the way they became a family after the war, their…
19. Sirkis family papers
2012.322.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2012.322.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1937-1947
… community and local police. Frida and Theodor returned to Moldova after the war, and Frida wrote a letter to the chief of the NKVD demanding justice for her…
20. 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…
21. Harpuder family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.240.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1952
… California before the war and obtained papers for Ralf, Gerda, Ursula, Max, and Selma to emigrate to the US. While in Shanghai, or possibly in Australia…
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 … Ralph Harpuder’s experiences while living in Shanghai with his family during World War II, undated. 1.6 “Original Photographs from Red Album” consists of…
22. 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…
23. Leo Melamed collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.157.2
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1941
… notebook, a letter signed by Tomlin Bailey, the American vice-consul regarding immigration visas, December 12, 1939; and a photograph identified as a…
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 … photograph identified as a Białystok Bund demonstration, 1934. Languages: Yiddish, Lithuanian, Japanese Administrative Information Access: Collection is open…
24. 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…
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 … respectively, restitutions claims, biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs. Languages: German, English, Czech, Hebrew Administrative Information…
25. Walter Materna papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.159.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1969
… World War II photographs, nine volumes of miscellaneous booklets and ledgers, and loose materials that had been inserted between the pages of the diaries…
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 …-10, 13-17), additional World War II photographs, nine volumes of miscellaneous booklets and ledgers, and loose materials that had been inserted between…
26. 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…
27. 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…
28. Seymour Krieger papers
1986.A.0024.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1986.A.0024.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
Special Collection:
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… resulted in the indictments against Nazis for crimes against Allied soldiers and prisoners of war and for the persecution of Jews. After his service in…
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 … collection also includes military documents relating to Seymour’s service in the United States Army and two photographs of Seymour in Nuremberg and with his…
29. 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…
30. Jozef Weiler papers
2011.346.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2011.346.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1946
Special Collection:
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…The Jozef Weiler papers include biographical material, a diary, and photographs relating to Jozef and Helena Weiler’s pre-war and wartime experiences…
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 … material, a diary, and photographs relating to Jozef and Helena Weiler’s pre-war and wartime experiences in Poland. The collection includes a repatriation…
31. 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:
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…The collection relates to the Gans family, originally of Borken, Germany. It includes photographs of pre-war life, including a photograph album…
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 … 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…
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32. Marianne Karmel collection
1988.51.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.51.1 | RG Number: RG-10.271
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1945
Special Collection:
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… photograph of Dina Servouze taken circa 1938, and photographs taken in August 1944 and 1945, depicting Dina, her husband Monique Grenier, and their daughter…
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 … he is not a Jew, a photograph of Dina Servouze taken ca. 1938, and photographs taken in August 1944 and 1945, depicting Dina, her husband Monique…
33. Otto Herskovic memoir and papers
2015.301.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.301.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1954
undated: 
Special Collection:
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…Diary, handwritten, composed by Otto Herskovic, at the age of 15, immediately following the end of World War II. In it, he recounts his family…
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 …, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Diary, handwritten, composed by Otto Herskovic, at the age of 15, immediately following the end of World War II. In it, he…
34. Rosenberg and Mosler families papers
2017.327.1 BookEnclosure Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2017.327.1
Date:
inclusive: 1888-1987
bulk: 1915-1956
Special Collection:
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…, and Claude Mosler’s United States Army papers. Photographs primarily document pre-war family life and travel in Europe and wartime life in New York. The…
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 …, and Claude Mosler’s United States Army papers. Photographs primarily document pre-war family life and travel in Europe and wartime life in New York. The…
35. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
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… then walk down the hill in waist deep snow to the train depot. After a short truck ride, they marched for six days and nights to prisoner of war camp…
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 …" describing his wartime experiences; and photographs of Acevedo with family, friends, and colleagues before, during, and after the war. Languages: English…
36. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
Special Collection:
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… completely, as they experienced the trauma of war together. In June, the Corps fought in the Adriatic Campaign, including the Battle of Ancona, capturing the…
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 … papers consist of biographical, photographic, and printed materials as well as diaries and short stories documenting Hartry, his pre-World War II education…
37. Itzhak Nachmani papers
2013.491.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 77
Document | Accession Number: 2013.491.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1967
Special Collection:
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…; and photographs depicting Nachmani and his Rumpler and Krzepicki relatives in Poland before the war and in Israel after the war as well as with fellow…
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 … Palestine Identity Card issued to Nachmani; and photographs depicting Nachmani and his Rumpler and Krzepicki relatives in Poland before World War II and in…
38. Martha and Waitstill Sharp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.180 | RG Number: RG-67.017
Date:
inclusive: 1905-2005
bulk: 
Special Collection:
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…Reports, publications, interviews, obituaries, and photographs pertaining to the careers of Martha and Waitstill Sharp. Documents record the Sharps…
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 … wartime photographs taken in Europe. The last section of this binder contains post-war (contemporary) photographs from Camp de Gurs (Gurs concentration camp…
39. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
Special Collection:
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… "Buschi" (Hilde Freudenberg) and a pre-war photograph of her younger brother Walter. The collection also includes two wartime letters from Olga and Emil…
40. Brust family papers
1992.13.11 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1992.13.11
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1955
Special Collection:
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…The collection consists of clothing, documents, photographs, and portraits related to the experiences of Livia, Elek, and Eva Brust, their family…
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 …: The Brust family papers documents the wartime and post-war experiences of Elek Brust, Livia Brust, and their daughter Eva Brust in Hungary and later the…
41. Elizabeth Koenig papers
1989.260.3 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 1989.260.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-1995
bulk: 1939-1942
Special Collection:
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… following the outbreak of World War II. Helen and Elizabeth fled south with other refugees as the Germans advanced on Paris, but were separated en route…
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 … consist of a letter from HIAS-JCA Emigration Association to Fritz Kaufmann; an autograph book including photographs of children in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon…
42. Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers
2004.331.3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.331.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1969
Special Collection:
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…The Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers include biographical material and photographs relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Wiera…
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 … Baksztanska and Sierpinski families papers include biographical material and photographs relating to the pre-war and wartime experiences of Wiera Baksztanska…
43. Frank Meissner papers
2004.692.1 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.692.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1995
Special Collection:
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… 1941, he earned a scholarship to attend an agricultural high school in Denmark. Through these early years of the war, Frank received weekly letters from…
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 … Zionist youth group who fled Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) and attended school in Denmark, Sweden, and England during World War II. The majority of the…
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 …. Completely like war. We are surrounded by mines, and we are not able to destroy them quickly. I also heard something about an attack on Dolfik (our dog), which…
44. Victor Bienstock papers
2016.499.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2016.499.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
bulk: 1938-1945
Special Collection:
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… overseas as a war correspondent, reporting behind the front lines of the Allied Armies from London, Cairo, Italy, and Rome. Since then, he worked for a…
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 …-war and wartime work of journalist Victor Bienstock, as he served as an overseas correspondent for the Overseas News Agency, a subsidiary of the Jewish…
45. Ruth Rappaport papers
2012.431.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2012.431.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1969
Special Collection:
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…The collection consists of a shoulder patch, documents, photographs, and publications relating to the experiences of Ruth Rappaport before the war in…
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 …, correspondence, diaries, and photographs relating to Ruth Rappaport’s pre-war and wartime experiences fleeing Germany and immigrating to the United States. The…
46. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
Special Collection:
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… Strip. He joined the U.S. Army, was sent to Germany in 1944, served as an interpreter with the War Crimes Investigation Team, and translated documents…
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 … of identification, education, immigration, and military papers, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting the flight of…
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  • Series 5: Writings 1939-2014
    • File 3: Diary, Joseph Stripounsky 1941
47. Brunn and Ornstein family photographs and diary
2004.225.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2004.225.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1950 September
Special Collection:
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… Szendrő and Hajdúnánás, Hungary, respectively. Photographs include pre-war and wartime originals and copies of Anna and Paul and their extended family in…
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 … Ornstein, originally of Szendrő and Hajdúnánás, Hungary, respectively. Photographs include mainly pre-war and wartime originals and copies of Anna and Paul…
48. Ita Dimant papers
1998.A.0258.2 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 63
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0258.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1998
Special Collection:
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… wartime and post-war correspondence with the Brust family, who helped protect Ita. Also included are photographs of Ita’s family and her diary, in Polish…
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 … between Ita and her family and wartime and post-war correspondence with the Brust family, who helped protect Ita. Also included are photographs of Ita…
49. Jacob and Rita Litman papers, including Samuel Golfard diary
2008.269.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 2008.269.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1984
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… also includes pre-war and wartime photographs of Jacob and Rita Litman and their family during the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany and in DP camps.…
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 … also includes pre-war and wartime photographs of Jacob and Rita Litman and their family during the 1930’s and 1940’s in Germany and in DP camps. System…
50. Kelhoffer and Pomeranz families papers
2004.706.9 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2004.706.9
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1960
bulk: 1940-1950
Special Collection:
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… families in Borysław, Poland during the Holocaust. The collection contains identification cards, correspondence, pre and post-war photographs of both…
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 …, Poland during the Holocaust. The collection contains identification cards, correspondence, pre and post‐war photographs of both families, and a series of…
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