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1. Bierzonski family papers
2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Gerda Bikales (née Bierzonski b. 1931) was born in Breslau, Germany to Viktor (b. 1897) and Bronia (b. Bilma Lefkowitz in 1906) Bierzonski. Gerda had…
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 ….605.2 Creator: Bierzonski (Family: Breslau, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
2. Charles Vogel papers
2010.500.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2010.500.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1937-2001
undated: 
bulk: 1945-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… camp, in Bad Orb, Germany. He was one of 350 American soldiers sent to the forced labor camp Berga an der Elster, a sub-camp of Buchenwald concentration…
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 … material: Mark and Martin Vogel also donated three issues of The Cub of the Golden Lion and a map of Germany with International boundaries as of January 1938…
3. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
…, where she became fluent in French. She returned to Germany where she became a student of the Gottingen philosopher Leonard Nelson and the educator Minna…
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 …. She returned to Germany where she became a student of the Gottingen philosopher Leonard Nelson and the educator Minna Specht. Along with her oldest…
4. Decorated porcelain teacup saved by a German Jewish prewar refugee
2008.204.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.204.2
Date:
emigration: 1939 March
manufacture: 1815-1924
…Gertrude Loewenberg (1898-1986, later Wiesenthal) was born in Berlin, Germany, to an assimilated Jewish family. Gertrude’s father, Caesar, had been…
5. Windmueller and Wasserman families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.360.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1975
…The Windmueller and Wasserman families collection documents the Windmueller and Wasserman families of Berlin and Cologne, Germany, who immigrated to…
6. Goldmann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.639.32
Date:
inclusive: 1876-1974
…Kurt Goldmann (1921-2003) was born in Eschwege, Germany on September 8, 1921 to Paul (1883-1958) and Hedwig “Hede” (née Baum, 1892-1959) Goldmann…
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 ….org Descriptive summary Title: Goldmann family papers Dates: 1876-1974 Accession number: 2018.639.32 Creator: Goldmann (Family: Eschwege, Germany) Extent: 5…
7. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
8. Identification case used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
2015.533.2 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2015.533.2
Date:
use: 1939-1941
…Fritz (later Fred) Strauss (1926-2013) was born in Miehlen, Germany, the only child of Albert (?-1926) and Martha (or Marta) Strauss (nee Strauss…
9. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport
Object | Accession Number: 2016.553.2 a-c
Date:
use: 1939 March 08-1941
…Fritz (later Fred) Strauss (1926-2013) was born in Miehlen, Germany, the only child of Albert (?-1926) and Martha (or Marta) Strauss (nee Strauss…
10. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
11. Electrotherapy machine used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451 open
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.5
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…Bruno Bernhard Lambert (1910-2013) was born in Andernach, Germany, to Simon (1878-1942) and Lina (nee Löwensberg 1882-1942) Lambert. He had two…
12. Ann Strauss-Salfield collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0515 | RG Number: RG-10.194
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1990
…Ann Strauss-Salfield (1922-1996) was born Anneliese Babette Schloss on 2 March 1922 in Stuttgart, Germany to Lini (1896-1929) and Joseph (1888-1937…
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 …-Salfield (née Schloss), originally of Stuttgart, Germany. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence between Ann, who fled to England in 1939, and…
13. Nazi propaganda poster denouncing the United States for criticizing Germany's Jewish policies
1990.333.47 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.47
Date:
publication/distribution: 1939 January 19-1939 January 25
Title:
Ein merkwürdiger katholischer Bischof...
Series Title:
Parole der Woche
Alternate Title:
Strange Catholic Bishop
Word of the Week
…Nazi propaganda poster denouncing the United States for criticizing Germany's Jewish policies…
14. The Archives of the World ORT Union Head Office
Document | Accession Number: 2019.190.1 | RG Number: RG-68.219
Date:
inclusive: 1880-1970
bulk: 1920-1970
… Union was established in Berlin. In 1922, the American ORT Society was founded. World War II began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. ORT…
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 … Facts 1930-1936", Paris, 1938 ~1930-1936 65 p + XI p (2 copies) 4944523 ORT-27 ORT collection ORT statutes: drafts and printed versions in France, Germany…
15. Children’s songbook brought with a German Jewish prewar refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2012.493.6
Date:
publication: 1891 February 15
emigration: 1939
Title:
Kinder-Lieder fur zwei Kleine
Alternate Title:
Children’s Songs for Two Little Ones
…Nellie Wiesenthal (b. 1930, later Fink) was born in Berlin, Germany, to father, Fritz (1893-?) and Gertrude Loewenberg (1898-1986) Wiesenthal. Both…
16. Antisemitic poster featuring supposed warnings about Jews from Benjamin Franklin
1990.333.48 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.333.48
Date:
publication/distribution: 1939 February 09-1939 February 15
Title:
Vor 150 Jahren: “Ich warne Sie, meine Herren ...!” Hat der große Franklin Amerika vergeblich gewarnt?
Series Title:
Parole der Woche
Alternate Title:
150 years ago, I warn you gentlemen ... Has the great Franklin warned America in vain?
Word of the Week
…Munich (Germany)…
17. White cloth armband worn by a Roman Catholic Polish firefighter in Warsaw
2014.450.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.3
Date:
use: 1939 September 27-1944 August 07
… countryside villa with his mother and brother when Germany invaded western Poland on September 1, 1939. They could hear bombs being dropped, and decided to…
18. Eva and Jack Lewin family papers
2000.550.5 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.550.5
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1999
…Eva Lewin was born in Swinemünde, Germany in 1925 to merchant Theodor Lifschitz (1888-1942) and Selma Rothstein (1898-1942). Her parents arranged for…
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 …-1999 (bulk 1934-1970) Accession number: 2000.550.5 Creator: Lewin (Family: Berlin, Germany) Extent: 1 linear foot (1 box) Repository: United States…
19. Ruth Loewenstein papers
2017.613.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.613.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1963
…Ruth Loewenstein was born in Munich, Germany in 1929 to Willy Loewenstein (1894-1957) and Annie Cahen Loewenstein (1902-1992) and had one younger…
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 …, Germany in 1929 to Willy Loewenstein (1894-1957) and Annie Cahen Loewenstein (1902-1992) and had one younger sister named Marianne (“Janne,” 1932-2008…
20. Hess and Spier families papers
2016.461.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.461.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-2010
…Hannah Spier Hess was born on 12 February 1934 in Hannover, Germany, the daughter of Alfred Spier (1900-1937), a teacher, and Ruth (née Steinberg…
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 …, Germany, and his wife, Hannah Spier Hess, originally of Wolfenbüttel, Germany, relating the experiences of their families who fled Germany in 1939 due to…