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1301. Bruno and Jetka (Jessie) Korn papers
2013.456.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 2013.456.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1972
bulk: 1939-1946
…Bruno Korn was born on October 2, 1911, in Hindenburg, Germany (Zabrze, Poland), to Simon and Jetka Jakobwitz Korn. His older brother, Rudolf, was…
1302. Beatrice Pappenheimer papers
1990.153 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1990.153
Date:
inclusive: circa 1941-1990
…Beatrice Pappenheimer was born in 1932 in Lauterbach, Germany, to Moritz (1900-1942) and Rosa (nee Gottlieb, 1900-1942) Stern, and her sister Susan…
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 …, Germany, to Moritz (1900‐1942) and Rosa (nee Gottlieb, 1900‐1942) Stern, and her sister Susan (Suse) was born in 1935. Her family moved to Karlsruhe…
1303. Toni Heller collection
1995.A.0176 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 56
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0176
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1990
…) in 1937. The couple owned a small wares business, which was completely destroyed during the Kristallnacht. Soon after, they decided to leave Germany…
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 … couple owned a small wares business, which was completely destroyed during the Kristallnacht. Soon after, they decided to leave Germany for the…
1304. Nachlass Avner W. Less papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.214 | RG Number: RG-58.010
Date:
inclusive: 1902-2007
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Avner Less (Dec.18,1916 - Jan.7,1987), an Israeli police captain and interrogator of Adolf Eichmann, born in Berlin, Germany. In 1933 emigrates in to…
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 …, SS, NSKK 185 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: Papers concerning the treatment of German Nationals in Germany, 1938-1939, London, 1939, TS (Kopie…
1305. Pressed tin cap badge of a Reichsadler acquired by a US soldier
2011.75.8 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.75.8
Date:
found: 1945-1946
issue: 1936-1945
…, he enlisted in the US Army and was assigned to the 102nd Combat Infantry Division, nicknamed the Ozarks Division. He was deployed to Germany in…
1306. Lilo Goldstone papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.69
Date:
creation: 1930-1958
…Lilo Goldstone was born in 1938, to Alfred Heldenmuth (b. May 27, 1894, Wetzlar, Germany) and Selma Heldenmuth (b. July 14, 1908, Erfelden, Germany…
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 …, England, circa 1940-1949. 4. Photograph of the former home of the Heldenmuth family in Plettenberg, Germany, September 1958. 5. Photograph of a cattle ranch…
1307. Japanese propaganda matchbox cover with a bayonet with a Japanese flag dominating the world acquired by a German Jewish refugee
Object | Accession Number: 2010.240.21
Date:
use: after 1939 March-before 1947 March
publication/distribution: approximately 1942
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
1308. Janine Gimpelman Sokolov papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.131.1
Date:
1932-1952
…, Germany, where her father was a merchant and her mother, a sales clerk. In 1932 the family moved to Frankenhausen and applied for American visas. They…
1309. Jacob and Rita Litman papers, including Samuel Golfard diary
2008.269.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 2008.269.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1984
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… also helped Litman escape from the forced labor camp and go into hiding. After the war, Litman found his way to Germany, where he worked in a displaced…
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 …, restitution files, and photographs primarily documenting Jacob and Rita Litman’s experiences at the displaced persons camp at Bayerisch Gmain, Germany, from…
1310. Military ribbon bar awarded to a Jewish American soldier
2007.475.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2007.475.3
Date:
commemoration: 1941-1945
… Regiment on Governor’s Island, New York. A few months later he was shipped to Germany as a sergeant in the 60th Infantry Regiment, 9th Infantry Division. He…
1311. Red plaid handkerchief used in the Warsaw ghetto
2008.228.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2008.228.5
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…
1312. 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…
1313. The Archives of the World ORT Union Head Office
Document | Accession Number: 2019.190.1 | RG Number: RG-68.219
Date:
inclusive: 1880-1970
bulk: 1920-1970
… Union was established in Berlin. In 1922, the American ORT Society was founded. World War II began when Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. ORT…
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 … Facts 1930-1936", Paris, 1938 ~1930-1936 65 p + XI p (2 copies) 4944523 ORT-27 ORT collection ORT statutes: drafts and printed versions in France, Germany…
1314. Paul Fairbrook collection
Document | Accession Number: 2021.161.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-circa 2010
… Yugoslavia. After a few months they left to meet him in Amsterdam. They still had German passports and Lotte booked their train travel through Germany. At the…
1315. Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers
2003.361.1 Box 2 Folder 8 Image 116
Document | Accession Number: 2003.361.1 | RG Number: RG-24.021
Date:
inclusive: 1879-2001
…Moritz Henschel was born on February 17, 1879, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Karl and Emma Deutsch Henschel. In January 1910, he…
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 … (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Czech Republic. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945), in art. Holocaust, Jewish (1939…
1316. Brass knuckles used by a Polish prisoner of war passing as Ukrainian in a German stalag
2004.525.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 2004.525.5
Date:
use: 1941-1945
… landowner, whose land they rented. On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany. Salek was mobilized into the 19th Infantry Battalion, Polish Army…
1317. Polski Czerwony Krzyż-Okręg Lubelski (Sygn. XI)
Document | Accession Number: 2012.111 | RG Number: RG-15.211M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
Alternate Title:
Polish Red Cross, District of Lublin
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany. Accruals: Accruals may have…
1318. Peach floral printed chemise saved by a Hungarian Jewish refugee
2003.198.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.198.6
Date:
received: approximately 1935-1940
use: 1935-1946
… Judit spent the summers visiting Anna’s family in Bekes. Hungary was governed by a fascist regime, allied with Nazi Germany. From 1939, Jewish men were…
1319. Jacob Reimer and Gustawa Zabramna Tenenbaum papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.555.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1933-2000
…Jacob Riemer (1912-1984) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Rywka Rachel (Kampler) Riemer (1884-1944) and Ruben Mendel Riemer (1879-1944…
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 …, March 2023. Biographical note Jacob Riemer (1912-1984) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Rywka Rachel (Kampler) Riemer (1884-1944) and Ruben…
1320. Selected records from Romanian diplomatic missions
Document | Accession Number: 2004.561 | RG Number: RG-25.020
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1950
bulk: 1935-1945
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…