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1. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
…Michel Shadur was born in 1897 in Livani, Latvia. He had an older brother, Isaac, who died in Crimea in 1916, and two younger sisters, Gitta and…
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 … / Administrative history Michel Shadur was born in 1897 in Livani, Latvia. He had an older brother, Isaac, who died in Crimea in 1916, and two younger sisters, Gitta…
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2. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
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 … Latvia until World War 2 A Holocaust Catastrophe in 1944, circa 1880-circa 1993 4.1 Part 2: May 9, 1944 until October 8, 1956, Arrival of Eliazar, Carla…
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3. Passover postcard
Document | Accession Number: 2003.292.1
Date:
1939
…The postcard depicts six children sitting and standing at a table during Passover in Rīga, Latvia, in 1939. The two boys in the picture names…
4. Beitar group photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2011.418.2
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1940
…Consists of thirty-one posed group and individual photographs, printed on postcards, depicting members of the Beitar (Betar) movement in Latvia in…
5. Max Michelson photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.560.1
Date:
creation: circa 1890-1947
… the war in Riga, Latvia and in Moscow, USSR; and photographs relating to Max Michelson's emigration from Germany to the United States in 1947.…
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 … the Hirschfeld sisters posing outside, Riga, Latvia, circa 1890. Seated in the front row: Emma Hirschfeld Michelson (d. 1935) and Rosa Hirschfeld Brande…
6. Wlodek Richter collection
2001.201.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2001.201.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1954
…, Latvia where Ester’s sister Rita lived. Wolf later returned to the family and in 1957 they moved to Warsaw, Poland. Wlodek fled Poland in 1970 after a rise…
7. George Schwab photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.94.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1948
…George David Schwab was born on November 25, 1931 in Libau (Liepaja in the Latvian), Latvia. His father, Arkadi Jakob Aron Schwab, b. 1884, was a…
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 …, Blankenese, Hamburg, Germeny, March 1946. 18. Photograph of a group gathered for a dinner at the home of the Akermanns, Riga, Latvia, circa 1938. Clockwise…
8. Jacobson and David families papers
2014.424. 1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2014.424.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-1959
Special Collection:
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…Moritz and Berta Jacobson lived in Liepāja, Latvia and had five children: Arthur, Jacob, Issie, Necha (Nanny), and Paula. Nanny remained in Liepāja…
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 … 1895-1959 Accession number: 2014.424.1 Creator: Jacobson (Family : Liepāja, Latvia) Additional creator: David (Family : Liepāja, Latvia) Extent: 0…
9. Sia Hertsberg photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2009.408.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1980
…Consists of 22 photographs of the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Sia Izrailewitsch Hertsberg, originally of Riga, Latvia. Includes…
10. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
undated: 
…Emanuel “Manny” Mandel (b. 1936) was born on May 8, 1936, in Riga, Latvia to Yehudah (Lojos or Lewis, 1904-1994) and Gabriella “Ella” Mandel (nee…
11. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
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…James Georg Lau (1927-2011) was born in Riga, Latvia to a German-Latvian, Harry Lau, and a Jewish mother, Betty (née Firkser) Lau. After their…
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 … diaries written by James Georg Lau between 1939- 1941 and 1944-1953, describing his life in Liepāja Latvia, the Soviet occupation, being forced out of…
12. Brenner and Levenstein family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.329.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1940
…Consists of 36 photographs taken of the Brenner family, originally of Riga, Latvia, between 1920-1940. Includes photographs of trips, weddings, and…
13. Nathan Rohloff photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.251.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1946
…Nathan Rohloff (Natan Roloff) was Dagmar Phillips and Aviva Zylberberg’s paternal grandfather. The Roloff family lived in Riga, Latvia and Natan was…
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 … scouts; location: Riga, Latvia; in Latvian .2 Photographic postcard; with symbol of scouts and words of scouts oath; verso: blue ink stamp of photographer…
14. Percy Brand papers
2006.133.4 Box 3 Folder 1 Image 45a
Document | Accession Number: 2006.133.4
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2003
bulk: 1945-1985
…Perec Brandt (later Percy Brand) was born on April 2, 1908, in Liepāja, Latvia, to a Jewish couple, Abram and Basia Brandt. He had one sister named…
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 … Percy (Perec) Brand, a violinist originally from Liepāja, Latvia, who was imprisoned in the Kaiserwald, Stutthof, and Buchenwald concentration camps…
15. Miscellaneous records relating to Ethno-National Questions-Section on the Jewish People of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
Document | Accession Number: 2011.100 | RG Number: RG-88.001M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1945
… declarations from Japanese consulates in Latvia, Lithuania (original Chiune Sugihara lists), Finland, and the Czech Republic (also original lists compiled by…
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 … People from Parts of Europe, 1940 – January 1942." The collection includes declarations from Japanese consulates in Latvia, Lithuania (original Chiune…
16. Edith Hamberg Tarcov papers
2009.298.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Item 3
Document | Accession Number: 2009.298.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-2011
bulk: 1938-1946
… deported to Riga, Latvia on 15 December 1941. Sally was deported to the Salaspils concentration camp where he likely perished in 1942. Minna perished in 1943…
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 … all contact with them by late 1941. Sally and Minna were deported to Riga, Latvia on 15 December 1941. Sally was deported to the Salaspils concentration…
17. Freyer and Lichtenstein families papers
1991.A.0033.2 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0033.2
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1985
bulk: 1938-1953
… received by Marion’s brother-in-law Zalkin Mandelstam from Michails Kan in Riga, Latvia. Photographs include prewar family photographs of the Freyer and…
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 …. Also included are postwar letters received by Marion’s brother-in-law Zalkin Mandelstam from Michails Kan in Riga, Latvia. Photographs include prewar…
18. Hessy Levinsons Taft collection
Document | Accession Number: 1990.32 | RG Number: RG-10.395
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1980
…Hessy Levinsons (now Hessy Levinsons Taft) is the older daughter of Jacob and Pauline (Levine) Levinsons, both talented singers who came from Latvia…
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 … who came from Latvia to Berlin in the 1920s and studied voice at the Hochschule fuer Musik. The two were married in 1928 in Latvia but returned to…
19. Esther Lurie papers
1995.A.0989.1 Box 3 Folder 13 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0989.1 | RG Number: RG-24.022
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1995
…Esther Lurie (1913-1998) was born in Liepaja (formerly Libau), Latvia, to a religious, intellectual Jewish family. Her parents were Josef and Bluma…
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 … history: Morgan Voth, February 2018 Biographical note Esther Lurie (1913-1998) was born in Liepaja, Latvia, to Josef and Bluma Lurie. From 1931-1934, Esther…
20. Central Archives of the Federal Security Services (former KGB) of the Russian Federation records relating to war crime trials in the Soviet Union
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0510 | RG Number: RG-06.025
Date:
1939-1992
bulk: 1945-1947
…War crime trials--Latvia--Rīga.…
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 … Riga (zoological and hygiene)" (copy). 51. Directive (in German and Russian) by the commander of the German State Security Police [Gestapo] for Latvia…