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1. Alfred Traum papers
1997.A.0153.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0153.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1997
bulk: 1938-1942
… (March 22, 1926). Elias was severely crippled from injuries sustained in World War I and spent his afternoons playing with and instructing Alfred. The…
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 … papers, a report card, family correspondence from Elias and Gita Traum in Vienna to their children in London, family photographs from Vienna, England, and…
2. Grootkerk family papers
2002.22.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.22.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1951
… and Switzerland during the war, and in the United States with her husband Jack after the war. Accretion: Artifacts and photographs illustrating the pre…
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 … Abstract: The Grootkerk family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, personal narratives, photographs, and printed materials documenting…
3. Edith Brandon papers
1996.A.0070.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0070.1 | RG Number: RG-10.250
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
bulk: 
… Hans. In December 1941 Edith and her mother were transported to Riga as forced laborers and worked unloading war materials at the docks nearby. In the…
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 … Brandon papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and a testimonial narrative documenting Edith Brandon…
4. Hinsel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.721.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1960
…The Hinsel family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and World War I diaries documenting the…
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 … and content of collection The Hinsel family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and World War I…
5. Warsaw Ghetto photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2002.221.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
…Warsaw Ghetto photographs…
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 … deportations of the summer of 1942, Jan was asked to help transfer a secret archive of ghetto photographs taken by a Jewish photographer, known as Edek, to the…
6. Semyon Menyuk papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.282 | RG Number: RG-10.433
Date:
1925-1973
… the Ukraine, awards for outstanding military service, photographs of families, and photographs of an excavation site where 7,000 people were found.…
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 … after war). 15. 1 photoprint: b&w. Photograph of Abel, Rivka, Shimon, and Dwoira Perlmutter (mother’s sister, her husband, their daughter and son, and…
7. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
…, Poland). He served with German army on the Russian front during World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross. He married Gertrud Lesser from Erfurt, Germany…
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 … paperwork, and photographs. Documents include papers regarding Dagobert Hauer’s service with the German army during World War I, Gunter Hauer’s identification…
8. Chaim Posner papers
2017.402.6 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.402.6
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1975
… documents for Chaim and Regina Posner, and announcements for lectures by Posner. The collection further includes an undated photograph of a Hanukkah…
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 … undated photograph of a Hanukkah celebration, a 1940s report titled “Der Weg Nach Palaestina” about the difficulties of Jewish emigration to Palestine…
9. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… documents for James, a photocopy of a letter from James to his Aunt, and original and copy prints of pre-war and post-war photographs. Also included is a…
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 … James to his Aunt, and original and copy prints of pre-war and post-war photographs. Also included is a photocopy of a memoir, with some annotations…
10. Donoff family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.77.108
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1964
… branch, La Sixième, during World War II. Robert Donoff (1912-1944) fabricated false papers for the Resistance. He and his pregnant wife, Nelly Donoff…
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 …, forged documents, photographs, and printed materials documenting the Donoff family's involvement in forgery operations for the Jewish resistance movement…
11. Einzelbestand Franz Zürni (1912-)
Document | Accession Number: 2011.219 | RG Number: RG-58.015
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
Alternate Title:
Franz Zürni papers
… Swiss compulsory military service (“Aktivdienst”). In the aftermath of World War II, Zürni delivered care shipments by truck on behalf of the…
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 … englischen Zone. Insgesamt war Franz Zürni rund neun Monate für das IKRK im Einsatz, danach trat er wieder seine Stelle bei der Firma Welti-Furrer an. Während…
12. Anatole Ponevejsky papers
1999.107.100 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 1999.107.100
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1953
bulk: 1940-1942
… for the United States in November 1941, but became stranded in Manila following the American entry into World War II. Unable to leave the Philippines…
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 … consist of photographs documenting Ponevejsky’s work on behalf of Jewish refugees in Kobe, Japan in the early years of World War II and correspondence…
13. Ernest Steen papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.300.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1967
bulk: 1930-1948
… Levistein (1881-1935). He had one sister Erna (b. 1907, later Erna Oppenheim). Prior to the war, Ernest worked for R. & W. Nathan, a women’s and children…
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 …, Germany, including his employment in Frankfurt, immigration to the United States in 1940, and service during World War II in the United States Army…
14. 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
… Strip. He joined the U.S. Army, was sent to Germany in 1944, served as an interpreter with the War Crimes Investigation Team, and translated documents…
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 … of identification, education, immigration, and military papers, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and writings documenting the flight of…
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  • Series 5: Writings 1939-2014
    • File 3: Diary, Joseph Stripounsky 1941
15. Merei family papers
2015.571.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.571.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1991
…The collection primarily documents the wartime and post-war experiences of Ernö and Ernestine (née Munk) Merei and their son John of Budapest…
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 … documents the wartime and post‐war experiences of Ernö and Ernestine (née Munk) Merei and their son John of Budapest, Hungary as they fled the country after…
16. Beatrice Muchman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0269.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1999
… saved. Beatrice had always felt that her parents abandoned her, and she had kept a diary during the war, but now she could understand her history more…
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 …, correspondence, diary and poetry books, a memoir, photographs, and a prayer book documenting the Westheimer family of Berlin, their flight to Brussels, Beatrix…
17. Robert M.W. and Ruth Benedicta Kempner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.62.1 | RG Number: RG-71.001
Date:
1935-1993
… the war and served as assistant U.S. chief counsel during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, heading the Defense Rebuttal Section. His…
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 …, prosecution and defense records, research files, and interrogation reports. The collection also includes photographs, scrapbooks, and sound and video recordings…
18. Elfriede Toch collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.243.3
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1968
…The collection consists of a purse, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Elfriede Toch, originally of Austria, who was one of…
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 … States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Photographs, immigration documents, family…
19. Hendel and Weissman families papers
2016.497.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 2016.497.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1956
… are also pre-war photographs of the Hendel and Weissman families in Zagreb.…
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 … Rome, Italy, and their experiences as refugees at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York. There are also pre-war photographs of…
20. Schames family Papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.460.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-1984
… letters received from family in Stuttgart. Photographs includes prewar family photographs, depictions of Max Schames during World War I, and depictions of…
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 … Schames during World War I, prewar letters received by Käthe, and wartime letters received from family in Stuttgart. Photographs includes prewar family…