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1. Charlotte Sonnenberg papers
1988.41.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.41.1 | RG Number: RG-10.275
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
… in Leipzig. During Kristallnacht Herbert was arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. After his release, the Alexanders fled…
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 … following Kristallnacht, identification cards of Charlotte’s from Leipzig, Germany and Shanghai, China, and a photograph of Herbert’ tombstone in Shanghai…
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. Heinz Praeger papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0187.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-2018
bulk: 1939-1947
… Kristallnacht and sent to Dachau, where Mr. Oppenheimer died. Karl Heinz was released at the end of January 1939 after his parents paid for his release and…
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 … 1938. The Jewish men of Kitzingen, including Karl Heinz and the Oppenheimers, were arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Dachau, where Mr. Oppenheimer…
4. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
…, officials instigated pogroms against Jews and their property throughout Germany, known as Kristallnacht. The local synagogue was set on fire, but since Isidor…
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 … Prerau, Austria (now Přerov, Czech Republic), had also fled to Shanghai after Kristallnacht with his wife, Ida (1898-1988) and worked with the Jüdische…
5. Erwin Marx papers
1990.283.13 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.283.13 | RG Number: RG-28.011
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1970
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… arrested during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, and interned in Dachau concentration camp until December. His business and all his assets was confiscated…
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 … Kristallnacht in 1938, his business was liquidated by the Nazi government in December 1938, and he fled to Shanghai in 1939. He immigrated to the United States…
6. Charnitzki family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.415.1
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1956
bulk: 1939-1947
… (b. 1937). Erich was arrested on Kristallnacht but was released, leaving by ship for Shanghai in early 1939. Six months later, Paula and her two…
7. Linden family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0240 | RG Number: RG-10.172
Date:
1939-1995
bulk: 1939-1947
… destroyed by Nazi Party supporters during the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938. Fritz arranged for his family to flee Germany shortly afterwards…
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 … during Kristallnacht in November 1938. Fred arranged for his family to flee Germany shortly thereafter. The family left Germany in April 1939 for Shanghai…
8. Ernst and Hildegard Israel papers
1998.109.4 Oversize 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1998.109.4
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-1943
… Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938. They traveled to Genoa, Italy, and then sailed to Shanghai, China, arriving in January 1939. There she met Ernst Israel, age 32…
9. Engraved wooden Havana cigar box acquired by Austrian Jewish refugee
2010.240.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.2
Date:
received: 1940 November 27
emigration: 1938 December
… and he applied as an apprentice at Siemens-Schuckertwerke, a German electrical engineering company. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10…
10. Garbor cigarette package wrapper collected in Shanghai by a German Jewish refugee boy
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.15
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
… restrictions became increasingly harsh. Hans’ brothers, Alfred and Erich, emigrated to the United States circa December 1938. After the Kristallnacht pogrom on…