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1. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…. Following the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, at the request of the German Jewish Community, Norbert helped arrange and escort twenty transports that took…
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 …th anniversary of Kristallnacht; lists of valuables to be returned to their Jewish owners; lists of Jews living in Lübeck in 1946; charitable organizations…
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2. Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers
1995.A.0250 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0250
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-circa 1959
…Ellen Katz (1923 - ) was born to Martin and Edith Katz in Berlin, Germany. She was a student at the time of the Kristallnacht, when her parents…
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 … document the journey of Alfred Lewy and Ellen Katz, two German Jews who immigrated with their families to Shanghai, China soon after the Kristallnacht…
3. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
…, 1926-2000). In 1933, Hans immigrated to England and Robert went to the Netherlands. Shortly after Kristallnacht, Eva and her parents went to England with…
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 … Lüneburg in 2015 for objects acquired by the museum after Marcus’s assets were seized after Kristallnacht. Included are biographical materials, immigration…
4. Bookburning
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Film | Accession Number: 1989.343.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3526 | Film ID: 149
Film Title:
Der gelbe Stern [The Yellow Star] (excerpts)
Date:
Event: 1933-1945
Duration:
00:06:29
Special Collection:
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
… photographs of men. Shots out of Nazi train, men heiling, swastikas. At Dusseldorf train station. CU, drums, parade, marching. Funeral. Looting. Kristallnacht…
5. Eva Fisher collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0130 | RG Number: RG-10.182
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1978
…Eva Fisher (née Cohen) was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, in 1936. After Kristallnacht, she and her family moved into the Jüdisches…
6. Carl and Robert Gamer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.528.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1965
… in Berlin during Kristallnacht, Gamer was in the hospital, though he writes about what his hearing from doctors and nurses. His dissertation drafts…
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 …, including his diaries from October 1938- June 1942. Though he was in Berlin during Kristallnacht, Gamer was in the hospital, though he writes about what his…
7. Checkered dress with heart patches made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.2
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
8. Plastic doll with a burgundy dress brought with a young Austrian Jewish refugee
2016.112.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.10
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
9. Embroidered dress made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.9 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.9
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
10. Embroidered blouse made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.5
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
11. Large suitcase with a broken handle used by a young Austrian Jewish refugee during emigration
2016.112.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.8
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
12. Nightgown with floral embroidery made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before emigration
2016.112.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.3
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
13. Embroidered apron made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.6
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
14. Embroidered nightgown made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration
2016.112.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.112.4
Date:
emigration: 1940 November 23
… were excluded from most professions and were forced to wear a yellow badge to identify themselves as Jews. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht…
15. Gerda Schild Haas papers
1989.048 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1989.048 | RG Number: RG-02.016
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
…Gerda Schild Haas was born in 1922 in Ansbach, Germany to Siegfried and Paula Schild. Her family was forced to sell their home after Kristallnacht…
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 … Schild. Her family was forced to sell their home after Kristallnacht, and they moved to Munich. Siegfried left Germany for the Kitchener Camp in…
16. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
… attempt to escape into Holland after the Kristallnacht. He was placed in a refugee camp, and was eventually sent to Westerbork. There he met and married…
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 … worked in a factory during the war. Their son, Kurt, was successful in his attempt to escape into Holland after the Kristallnacht. He was placed in a…
17. Chaim and Rita Wind collection
2017.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2017.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1952
… arrest during roundups of Polish Jews, as a consequence they were not taken into custody during Kristallnacht. Yaakov Wind, however, was arrested and…
18. Klopstock family papers
1997.12 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.12
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1945
… Klaus (b. 1894) and had two daughters Ruth (b. 1922) and Liselotte (b. 1931) On Kristallnacht, Norbert was arrested and imprisoned at Sachsenhausen…
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 … had two daughters Ruth (b. 1922) and Liselotte (b. 1931) On Kristallnacht, Norbert was arrested and imprisoned at Sachsenhausen concentration camp…
19. Ofner family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.371.1
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2000
…, established for Jewish students. On Kristallnacht, Curt was arrested and spent a month in Sachsenhausen. Upon his release, he was motivated to escape to safety…
20. Rosenfeld family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.223.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1979
… Ruth were sent to live with their aunt Friederika Lemberger in Aachen, Germany where they attended a Jewish school. During Kristallnacht, the girls…
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 … Aachen, Germany where they attended a Jewish school. During Kristallnacht, the girls witnessed the burning of their synagogue and were informed that their…