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1. "Survival in the Lion's Den"
Document | Accession Number: 1989.121 | RG Number: RG-02.019
Date:
1937-1989
…"Survival in the Lion's Den"…
2. Ullman family papers
2017.654.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2017.654.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
… Ullman, titled "A Stormy Survival" (1976), "Stories by Emily Ullman," the memoir of Leo Ullman, titled "796 Days," family geneaological data, and books and…
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 …-era experiences of Frank, Emily, and Leo Ullman who survived the Holocaust in hiding in and around Amsterdam. The collection included pre-war, wartime…
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3. Metz and Oberlaender families papers
2014.478.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 46
Document | Accession Number: 2014.478.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2015
bulk: 1915-1950
…, although Ernst later returned to Germany. Leopold and Lilly were arrested and interned at the Westerbork concentration camp for two years and survived…
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 … and survived. Oberlaender family members have spelled their name Oberländer, Oberlander, and Oberlaender, and all three spellings are used in this…
4. Grootkerk family papers
2002.22.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.22.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1951
… the Princess Irene Brigade, survived Normandy, and returned to Holland as a liberator to find most of his family had perished in the Holocaust. Hedi…
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 … Princess Irene Brigade, survived Normandy, and returned to Holland as a liberator to find most of his family had perished in the Holocaust. Hedi Grootkerk…
5. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
… sent on a forced-march to Theresienstadt where they were liberated by the Red Army on May 9. Her brother Karl survived the war, but perished shortly…
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 … Theresienstadt where they were liberated by the Red Army on May 9. Her brother Karl survived the war, but perished shortly after being liberated. Marion reunited…
6. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection
1990.23.241 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.23.241
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1990
… eventually legally married. They learned that Flora’s mother and most of her extended family had perished, although her siblings survived. Two of Felix…
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 …, their survival in hiding with two separate Dutch families, their liberation, their immigration to the United States, and the deaths of their family…
7. Barbara Rodbell papers
1990.171 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.171
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1946
… Susanne were deported to Westerbork and then to Auschwitz concentration camp where they were killed. Barbara survived by using the false papers and assisted…
8. Luba Tryszynska-Frederick papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.615.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2005
…. When Bergen-Belsen was liberated in April 1945, 52 of the children had survived. Luba went with some the children she rescued to the Netherlands to help…
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 … get for them with the assistance of other prisoners. When Bergen-Belsen was liberated in April 1945, 52 of the children had survived. Luba went with…
9. Albersheim family papers
2007.18.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2007.18.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2003
… air raid shelter as an airplane plummeted to earth after it was shot down during. During the “Hunger Winter” in 1944, the family survived by trading…
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 … survived by trading cameras for food. People all around the vicinity were dying of starvation, and Edith remembers passing a house where a corpse left dead…
10. Clara Renee Keren Vromen papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.476.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-2005
… Westerbork, but survived the Holocaust. Riek and Gerard Hoefs were named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1977.…
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 … imprisoned in Westerbork, but survived the Holocaust. Riek and Gerard Hoefs were named Righteous Among the Nations by Yad Vashem in 1977. Scope and content of…
11. Loeb family papers
1997.74.49 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1997.74.49
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1939
… Buchenwald concentration camp in attempt to locate family who had been living in Holland but none had survived the Holocaust. On a 30-day furlough Hans…
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 … visited Buchenwald concentration camp in attempt to locate family who had been living in Holland but none had survived the Holocaust. On a 30- day furlough…
12. Adler and Cohn families papers
2018.393.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 77
Document | Accession Number: 2018.393.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2018
… company that manufactured artists’ supplies. Alan would later work with his father. Ernst’s relatives also hid in the Netherlands and survived the Holocaust.…
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 … sister Erna and her husband Julius Hertz. Ernst’s relatives also hid in the Netherlands and survived the Holocaust. Jan Spreij was honored as “Righteous…
13. Haim Roet papers
2010.137.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.137.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1981
… grandfather and uncle Isaac were killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz in 1944, his sister Rozinna died of typhus in Auschwitz, and his sister Adela survived…
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 … in Auschwitz, and his sister Adela survived Auschwitz but succumbed to poor health shortly after liberation. His aunt Hendrika, his adopted brother…
14. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1946
… Irene’s father, Jakob, would not survive the perilous journey, and were forced to leave him in an elder care facility in Amsterdam. For the next month…
15. Max Amichai Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.307.13
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1989
… Irene’s father, Jakob, would not survive the perilous journey, and were forced to leave him in an elder care facility in Amsterdam. For the next month…
16. World War I Honor & Iron Crosses buttonhole ribbon bar with Combatant’s swords awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.1
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: after 1934 July 13-1944
… center in German-occupied Poland. Kurt’s brother, Fritz, and nephew, Klaus, were likely deported to Auschwitz and killed. Fritz’s wife Margarete survived…
17. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 combatant veteran service medal awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.3
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… center in German-occupied Poland. Kurt’s brother, Fritz, and nephew, Klaus, were likely deported to Auschwitz and killed. Fritz’s wife Margarete survived…
18. Honor Cross of the World War 1914/1918 non-combatant veteran service buttonhole ribbon bar awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.4
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1918
issue: 1934 July 13-1944
… center in German-occupied Poland. Kurt’s brother, Fritz, and nephew, Klaus, were likely deported to Auschwitz and killed. Fritz’s wife Margarete survived…
19. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
… center in German-occupied Poland. Kurt’s brother, Fritz, and nephew, Klaus, were likely deported to Auschwitz and killed. Fritz’s wife Margarete survived…
20. Trompetter family papers
1993.4.13 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1993.4.13
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1949
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The Trompetters were a Jewish, Dutch family that survived Nazi occupation in Amsterdam. Femma…