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1. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
… to Lübeck, where he helped to organize a community of 800 Jewish displaced persons. He was informed that 30,000 survivors lived in the nearby Bergen…
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 … Holocaust Survivors, the United Jewish Appeal, and the World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. Languages: German, English, Yiddish, Hebrew, French…
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2. Groszman family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.95.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2010
… June 1944, as persecution of Jews in Budapest increased, József, Margit, and Gabriel were forced to move into a house shared by several other Jewish…
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 … Holocaust--Hungary--Budapest. Jewish refugees. Holocaust survivors. Geography: Vámosmikola (Hungary) Budapest (Hungary) Trnava (Slovakia) Vienna (Austria…
3. Rachel Greene Rottersman papers
2015.110.1 Image 6 Folder 17 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2015.110.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2015
bulk: 1944-1949
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …--Germany--Aglasterhausen. Holocaust survivors--Germany--Aglasterhausen. Orphanages--Germany--Aglasterhausen. Jewish children in the Holocaust. World War…
4. Levi, Kronthal, and Eis families papers
2012.444.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.444.1
Date:
inclusive: 1867-2010
… neighboring Wiesloch. He studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary in Breslau where he was appointed second rabbi at the New Synagogue. He married Margarete…
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 … family of Sali Levi, last rabbi of the old Jewish community of Mainz, as well as the families of his wife Margarete Levi, nee Weissmann, his sister-in-law…
5. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Indexing terms Strip, Joseph, 1923-2014. Stripounsky, Menachem (Nathan) Stripounsky, Regina. Stripounsky, Asriel. Jews--Belgium--Antwerp. Jewish children…
6. Czerner, Fröhlich, and Porges families papers
2018.463.1 Box 2 Folder 17 Image 53
Document | Accession Number: 2018.463.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1906-1993
bulk: 1920-1944
… from Russia to escape conscription in the Russian Army. Benjamin was later caught by the Russians, but was ransomed by the Jewish Community. Max…
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 … ransomed by the Jewish Community. Max’s brothers immigrated to Vienna, Austria where they sang in the opera. In 1914, Max arrived in Prague with his mother…
7. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
… brother, Kurt (later Kurt Messerschmidt). Henry’s father died when he was two years old, and his mother worked as a seamstress. As Jewish persecution…
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 … camp) Golleschau (Concentration camp) Death march survivors. Topical Subject: Jewish families--Germany--Berlin. Holocaust (1939-1945)--Personal…
8. Tadek Korn papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.647.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1997
… antisemitism convinced them to flee further west. HIAS settled them at the Zeilsheim displaced persons camp, and fellow survivor Perec (Percy) Brand taught Tadek…
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 …. Corporate Name Zeilsheim (Displaced persons camp) Topical terms Jewish families--Poland--Mińsk Mazowiecki. Holocaust survivors--Germany--Zeilsheim (Frankfurt…
9. Hannah Deutch papers
2006.498.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2006.498.1
Date:
inclusive: 1884-2005
… anti-Jewish vandals. They were also smashing windows of nearby Jewish owned businesses. Their home was not vandalized, possibly because all the…
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 … (Rescue operations)--England. Unaccompanied refugee children--England. Jewish refugees--England. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Port…
10. Frederick Weinstein papers
2008.321.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2008.321.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1999
bulk: 1944-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… family lived in Łódź and all three children attended Jewish schools. After Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the Winnykamien family fled Łódź for Warsaw…
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 …‐‐Poland‐‐Łódź. Holocaust survivors‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Jewish ghettos‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Hiding places‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945…
11. Sendzischew and Mottes family papers
2015.594.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2015.594.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-1995
…. After the war, he joined a council of survivors to help returning Jews in Sosnowiec. David’s parents and siblings were also taken to concentration camps…
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 …: Restitution and imdemnification claims (1933-) Emigration & immigration--United States--1940-1950. Holocaust survivors--Poland. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945…
12. Lista Family papers
2017.522.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.522.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1992
bulk: 1945-1956
…Holocaust survivors--Germany.…
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 … chronologically. Indexing terms Person: Lista, Jerry, 1927-2017. Lista, Judy, 1928- Topical Subject: Holocaust survivors--Germany. Refugees, Jewish--Germany--Munich…
13. The Blue Card, Inc. Records
2016.161.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.161.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2015
…The Blue Card was established by the Jewish community in Germany in 1934, as a means of helping Jews in Germany who were being persecuted by the Nazi…
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 … material, documenting the history of The Blue Card, Inc., in particular its role as a New York- based charity that aided Jewish-German emigres who had fled…
14. Fela and Chaim Perelman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.432.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-2001
… Libre de Bruxelles and wrote a doctoral thesis on the Belgian Revolution and Poland in 1830. During the war, she welcomed Jewish children who had been…
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 … War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue--Belgium. Displaced person--Belgium. Holocaust survivors. Jewish refugees. Palestine--Emigration and immigration…
15. Carl Heinz Rosner papers
2016.308.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2016.308.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2010
bulk: 1930-1957
…. Rachel sent Elliot on a Kindertransport to Sweden around 1937, and she followed by 1939. In 1937, Carl and Joseph were sent to a Jewish orphanage in…
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 … families--Lithuania--Vilnius. Jewish orphanages--Germany. Holocaust survivors--Germany. Holocaust survivors--Poland. Refugee children--Germany. Refugees…
16. Charles and Ruth Terner papers
2002.488 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2002.488
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1995
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Kindertransports (Rescue operations) – England. Holocaust survivors. Holocaust victims. Holocaust victims' families. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945) Holocaust…
17. Markheim, Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.319.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2000
… Sylvia Tolstonog, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen. They married in 1951 and immigrated to the United States in 1953. Michael’s relative Anna Silberspitz (born…
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 … (Concentration camp). Topical Subject: Jews--Poland--Bochnia. Jews--Poland--Kraków. Displaced persons camps. Holocaust survivors. Weddings. Holocaust, Jewish (1939…
18. Liliane S. Dockett papers
1999.A.0088.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0088.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1998
bulk: 1942
… as part of a Jewish family in occupied France.Identification papers include identification cards for Nety Hirsch (made in the name “Sarah Hirsch”) and…
19. Masha Rolnikaite papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.436.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2015
…, after they were published in the post-war years. During the occupation, her father, endangered both due to his Jewish background but also because of…
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 … son of Dmitry Galperin and survivor of the Kovno ghetto; Mira, Masha’s older sister and survivor of the Vilna ghetto; and Yaakov Bunka, a Jewish…
20. Lajbman family papers
2002.304.2 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.304.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2007
bulk: 1939-1953
… Łódź ghetto (copyprint), Jewish soldiers in the Polish Army (Abram’s brother is second from right), the Quintin family, and the death notice for Philippe…
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 …--Forgeries--Belgium. Jewish families--Belgium. Holocaust survivors--Belgium. Geography: United States--Emigration and immigration. Belgium. Genre/Form…