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1681. Edith Simon Rosenthal papers
2005.564.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.564.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-1946
…Edith Simon (1923-2009) was born on February 26, 1923, in Leipzig, Germany, to William and Margaret (Grete) Maerker Simon. Grete’s parents were Louis…
1682. Drawing of a doorway for a planned illustrated book by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2005.546.9
Date:
creation: 1940-1945
Artwork Title:
The door was just as she left it, half-open
…Nelly (Cornelia) Bertha Schwabacher was born on February 14, 1899, in Frankfurt, Germany to Anna Cahn and Heinrich Schwabacher. Her father, a…
1683. Polski Komitet Opiekuńczy w Busku (Sygn. 2170)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.155.1 | RG Number: RG-15.769
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1944
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Polish Care Committee in Busko
…Antisemitism--Germany--20th century.…
1684. Annemarie Warschauer papers
2012.244.1 Box 2 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.244.1
Date:
inclusive: 1896-2003
bulk: 1912-1952
…Annemarie Alexander was born on August 3, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Isadore and Anna Hirschensohn Alexander, who was born in 1890. Isadore, born…
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 …‐2003 (bulk 1912‐1952) Accession number: 2012.244.1 Creator: Warschauer, Anne (Berlin :Germany) Extent: 1 linear foot (3 boxes, 1 oversize…
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1685. Curt Gutsmuth papers
2000.566.3 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2000.566.3
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1959
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Avraham (also Abraham or Alfred, b. 1912), and a sister, Erna (b. 1907). They lived near Giessen, Germany and his father owned a fabric business. Curt…
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 …, a photograph, and printed material relating to Curt and Nelly Gutsmuth and their family’s experiences escaping Germany and hiding in the Netherlands…
1686. US anti-Nazi boycott stamp with a Star of David and a Nazi wolf
2014.505.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.505.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1938-1945
undated: 
… chained gate marked brotherhood of man, guarded by an American eagle. After Hitler came to power in Germany in January 1933, several organizations in the…
1687. Abram Pukacz papers
2007.150.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2007.150.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1955
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org Jews--Poland--Łask. Displaced persons--Germany--Bergen-Belsen. Holocaust survivors--Israel--Ayanot. Łask (Poland) Bergen-Belsen (Germany…
1688. Łódź ghetto scrip, 50 pfennig note, acquired by a Jewish Lithuanian resident
1989.62.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.62.1
Date:
issue: 1940 May 15
found: approximately 1944 July
… soldiers. David relocated to Hannover, Germany on December. 11, 1945. While there, he met his future wife Estelle. She had been deported from Łódź and…
1689. Zvi Griliches photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 1999.83
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1949
… reunited with his sister, Ellen, and his two cousins who were smuggled out of Kovno to Germany by Lea Olitzki, Solly’s sister-in-law. In the summer of 1946…
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 … seated seventh on left side of table is Fanny Olitzki, Zvi’s cousin); verso: black ink inscribed date; dated: February 15, 1946; Munich, Germany .13…
1690. Pencil drawing of a man in a brimmed hat and coat by Jacob J. Barosin
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.31
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
1691. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Jehovah’s Witness inmate
1989.248.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.248.2
Date:
use: 1940 August 10-1945 May 06
… Stossier. On March 12, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. The Nazi regime actively persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses, whose religious convictions led them to refuse…
1692. Thermometer with silver case used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.13_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.13 a-c
Date:
use: approximately 1940-1947
…, born in 1924, and Danuta, born in 1929. Germany invaded Poland in September 1939 and, by November 1940, the family was confined to the ghetto. Nineteen…
1693. 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…
1694. Girl Guide enrollment promise trefoil badge received by a young German Jewish girl rescued on the Kindertransport
Object | Accession Number: 2012.454.5
Date:
received: after 1939 June-before 1944
…Franziska (Ruth) Danzig was born on July 12, 1932, in Munich, Germany, the only child of Emanuel and Gerda Winter Danzig. Emanuel was born on July 29…
1695. Monique Joseph papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.595.1
Date:
inclusive: 1820-2007
bulk: 1920-1951
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…Monique Joseph was born Helga Irene Kaufmann on 3 April 1924 in Cologne, Germany to Sally and Caroline Kaufmann. Her father, Sally Kaufmann (1898…
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 … Monique Joseph (born Helga Kaufmann), originally of Cologne, Germany, her parents Caroline and Sallly Kaufmann, as well as her Husband Theophile Joseph and…
1696. Eugen Heydt papers
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0134 | RG Number: RG-10.317
Date:
1938-1988
…, Florida for the year 1978, and to Eugen Heydt and his child Gisela Heydt who applied for naturalization in 1951. The Heydts left Germany in 1938, to go to…
1697. Red drawstring pouch used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.6
Date:
use: 1940-1947
…, Danuta, born in 1929. Irena attended the Perla Lbinska Gimnazjum. In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Irena and her family were confined to the…
1698. Pencil drawing of a landscape near an internment camp created by a young German Jewish internee
Object | Accession Number: 1998.1.17
Date:
creation: after 1940 October 25-before 1941 March 11
…Manfred Wildmann (b.1930) was born in Karlsruhe, Germany, to Heinrich (1888-1943) and Rebecca (nee Neuburger, 1895-1942). At age six, Heinrich was…
1699. Hans Fischböck papers
2018.636.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.636.1
Date:
inclusive: 1876-1992
bulk: 1938-1967
… said that she was one of the last people to have spoken to him. Around 1960, Hans Fischböck and his wife returned to Germany where Fischböck worked as…
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 … and work in Latin America; and his eventual return to Germany and Austria. Languages: German, Spanish Administrative Information Access: Collection is…
1700. Deutsche Polizeieinrichtungen in den okkupierten Gebieten (Fond 1323)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.15 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.15
Date:
inclusive: 1806-1945
bulk: 1936-1944
Alternate Title:
Records of German Police Agencies in the Occupied Territories
…German Police and Administrative offices in the occupied territories. All police entities in Germany were under the command of the Reichsfurer-SS and…
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 … Scope and content of collection Diverse records of the police offices in Germany and includes plans, minutes, interrogations, bulletins, correspondence…