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1. Selected records relating to concentration camps from the National Archives and Records Administration
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0342 | RG Number: RG-67.034M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Confiscations and contributions--Germany.…
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 … Flossenburg concentration camp in Bavaria, Germany. Dates of arrival are not included but the material would appear to go back to the opening of the camp in…
2. Government Code and Cypher School: German Police Section: Decrypts of German Police Communications during Second World War (HW 16)
Document | Accession Number: 2010.21 | RG Number: RG-59.029M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Prisoners and prisons.…
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 … service--Great Britain. World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Prisoners and prisons. World War, 1939-1945--Atrocities Russia (Feder Bletchley Park (Milton Keynes…
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 …, particularly from 1943 to end of war; evacuation of German settlers from the Crimea to Germany 1941-43; MSGP 37 contains details of GP searches in Ukraine for…
3. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
…Germany.…
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 … (organizer of the anti-fascist platform in West Germany) -- Monachium [Munich?] 1966; a telegram "Komma-Klub" from Munich[?] 1965; a money transfer for Radio…
4. Randolph Braham collection
Document | RG Number: RG-52.000
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2011
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Against Germany. Hungarian historian and archivist Elek Karsai (1922-1986) served as project director. The collection was titled the "I-sorozat" (I-series…
5. Occupation prison files: Selected records from the National Archives in Prague (JAF 1007)
Document | Accession Number: 2004.142 | RG Number: RG-48.010M
Date:
1939-1945
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.…
6. Military-Historical Institute (Prague) records
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0019 | RG Number: RG-48.004M
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1944
…Police--Germany--History--20th century.…
7. Service de recherche de crimes de guerre ennemis de la police judiciaire (SRCGE)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.251.1 | RG Number: RG-43.176
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1949
Alternate Title:
Department for the Investigation of Enemy War Crimes by the French Judiciary Police
… contact with the judicial authorities in the French Occupied Zone of Germany and sent search warrants for individuals having committed crimes in France who…
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 … département or by the country where they are presumed to have occurred (Germany, Austria, Poland), and also by subject matter. Investigated activities include…
8. Seconde Guerre Mondiale records (AJ 72)
Document | Accession Number: 2001.19 | RG Number: RG-43.019M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1980
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Germany.…
9. Missie tot Opsporing van vermiste personen tijdens de bezettingstijd (getuigenverklaringen) (Fond 244)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.12 | RG Number: RG-41.014
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1951
Alternate Title:
Mission to identify missing people during the German occupation (witness statements)
…Germany--Politics and government--1940-1945.…
10. Willi Seitz papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.061 | RG Number: RG-32.008.01
Date:
creation: 1937-1990
…Willi Seitz is a native of Karlsruhe, Germany, and a survivor of the Holocaust. He was expelled from a German school at age 13 or 14 for refusing to…
11. Basel family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0268 | RG Number: RG-19.054
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1975
… Liebgold. David Brodmann was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Rysza and Fela were liberated during a death march in Grimma, Germany. After…
12. Konzentrationslager Buchenwald (GK 127)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.47.1 | RG Number: RG-15.674
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
Alternate Title:
Selected records, Obóz Koncentracyjny w Buchenwaldzie
…. Personal files of prisoners; 7. List of clergy prisoners from Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Protectorate and Poland; 8. List of 908 Jewish…
13. Wspomnienia i pamietniki (Sygn. IZ. Doc II)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.444.1 | RG Number: RG-15.547
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2011
Alternate Title:
Memories and diaries
… 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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 … nationalists with Germany, living conditions in the Dachau, Flossenburg, Weimar-Buchenwald, Ravensbrück camps, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, Ebensee and other…
14. Konzentrationslager (NS 4)
Document | Accession Number: 2000.166 | RG Number: RG-14.023M
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1945
…Bundesarchiv (Germany)…
15. Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0085.1.20 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.20
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1945
bulk: 1937-1945
Alternate Title:
Concentration and POW camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories
…Concentration and POW camps in Germany and the Occupied Territories…
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 …Konzentrations- und Kriegsgefangenenlager in Deutschland und in den besetzen Gebieten (Fond 1367) Concentration and prisoner of war camps in Germany…
16. A. Morton Rosenfield collection
Document | Accession Number: 1989.96 | RG Number: RG-10.347
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1945
…The photographs were created by an unknown photographer, ca. 1941-1945, in Germany. They were given to A. Morton Rosenfield in 1945 at Kibbutz…
17. Judith Bar-Nadav family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0129 | RG Number: RG-10.314
Date:
1938-1972
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Buchenwald--Germany--Photographs.…
18. 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
…Charlotte Alexander (1910-1999?, née Lichtendorf) was born on 22 January 1910 in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany to Regina and Emmanuel Lichtendorf…
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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…
19. Ilse Salomon collection
1988.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.13 | RG Number: RG-10.273
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1958
…Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from the Preungesheim prison in Frankfurt am…
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 … Adam Fielding, March 2020 Biographical note Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from…
20. Walter Stras collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0451 | RG Number: RG-10.150
Date:
1938-1995
…Walter Stras (b. Walter Straass, 1924, Steinbach am Glan, Germany - 1995, Kansas City,Mo.) survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. He…
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 ….150 1996.A.0451 Title: Walter Stras collection, 1938-1995. Extent: 1 folder. Provenance: Walter Stras collected the materials during his time in Germany…
21. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… establish a hospital and bring aid to the area. On April 24, 1945 he was assigned to a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany where he continued his efforts. Lorenz…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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  • Series 2: Buchenwald 1945-1978, Undated
    • File 5: Reports 1945
  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
22. Oskar Brill concentration camp letters
Document | Accession Number: 1991.77.1 | RG Number: RG-04.033.01
Date:
1935-1945
…Ebrach (Germany)…
23. Benjamin Klotz memoirs
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0241 | RG Number: RG-02.166
Date:
1939-1946
…Jews, Polish--Germany.…
24. By order of the Gestapo : a record of life in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps / by Peter Wallner ; translated from the German by Lawrence Wolfe ; with a foreword by Lord Davies.
Publication | Library Call Number: D805.G3 W36 1941
Author/Creator:
Wallner, Peter
Published:
London : J. Murray, 1941
Availability
…Concentration camp inmates--Germany--Biography.…
25. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… overseas in Germany and France.…
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 … forcibly drafted into the French Air Force. He immigrated to the United States in 1951 and became a citizen after serving in the US army overseas in Germany…
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  • Series 1: Philip D. Vock papers 1941-1975, Undated
    • File 4: Journal 1945
26. Louis Oppenheimer papers
1992.49.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1992.49.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Louis Oppenheimer (?-1967) owned a clothing business and lived in Frankfurt, Germany with his wife (?-1967) and two children, Alfred (c. 1915-1991…
27. William and Jean Helmar papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.30
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1945
… reached land at Kiel, Germany, where he was met by the Canadian Army. He spent two weeks recovering in Hamburg, Germany, and then was sent by the British…
28. Anton Kozlowski photograph collection
2018.344.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 51
Document | Accession Number: 2018.344.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Ohrdruf.…
29. Ludwig and Hedwig Stein collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.370.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1961
…Consists of passports, documents, and correspondence related to Ludwig and Hedwig Stein, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Ludwig and his wife…
30. Ronald Leidelmeyer photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.466.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
…Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.…
31. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
…Rudi Dingfelder (later Robert Felder, 1924-1986) was born on April 21, 1924 in Uehlfeld, Germany to Leopold Dingfelder (1886-1943) and Johanna…
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 … family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, a studio…
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  • Series 1: Photographs Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
    • File 1: Dingfelder and Wolff families Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
      • Pages: 5, 7
32. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.3
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
33. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.4
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
34. David Wittner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.165
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
… met Robert Rensch, a former prisoner in Buchenwald, who worked at the city hall in Nuremberg, Germany. Wittner found out that Abraham Weiner had died at…
35. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border…
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 … for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their…
36. Frank Shurman collection
1995.A.0362 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0362
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1994
…Frank Shurman (1915-1999) was born Fritz Schürmann in Hildesheim, Germany to Willy and Alma Schürmann. His father owned a custom-tailoring business…
37. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
2016.287.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.287.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1960
bulk: 1945-1951
… Investigation. In 1945 he joined the United States Army as a fingerprint classifier for the Public Safety division in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His division was…
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 … collection documents Maurice La Kerr’s post-war experiences in Germany and France as a fingerprint analyst with the United States Army. Maurice worked in…
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38. Milton Shurr papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.112.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1945
…'s Candidate School. Corporal Shurr was then sent to military government school to be trained to rebuild postwar Germany. First Lieutenant Shurr and the rest of…
39. Bernard Feingold papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.113
Date:
creation: 1916-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
40. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… at home, but did celebrate the high holidays. On January 30, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and the Nazi regime passed legislation to…
41. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
…Hermann David Naidorf was born in Gelsenkirchen (Horst-Emscher) in Westphalia, Germany, on June 3, 1925, the only child of Simon Arie and Frieda…
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 … (1925‐ ) was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, to Simon and Frieda Naidorf. His family owned a clothing business, while Herman attended school amidst a…
42. Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection
2000.506.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 65
Document | Accession Number: 2000.506.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1949
… with his sisters in the Weiden displaced persons camp in Germany. Abram eventually immigrated to the United States in March, 1947. In 1948 he was…
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 … Gelbart, wearing a concentration camp uniform and a cap. Dated June 1945; location: Altenburg, Germany. 3) Arthur Abram Gelbart, at the age of 16 years…
43. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
…Joseph and Klara (Meyer) Berg lived in the small farming community of Lechenich (Erfstadt), Germany (near Cologne) and had two daughters: Inge (b…
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 …: approximately 1880-1957 Accession number: 1989.232.31 Creator: Berg (Family : Lechenich, Germany) Additional creator: Hermanns (Family : Mönchengladbach, Germany…
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 …, Germany (near Cologne), where her father earned his living as a cattle dealer. The Berg family had lived in that area since the 1600s. Gisela has one older…
44. Buchenwald Standort-Kantine concentration camp scrip, 1 Reichsmark, acquired by a US soldier
1988.168.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.168.1
Date:
issue: after 1938 July-before 1945 April
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
45. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
46. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
…Rudolph Daniel Sichel (1915-1978) was born in Frankfurt, Germany to clothing store owner Ernst Sichel (1874-1962) and Frieda Sichel (nee Oppenheimer…
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 … persecution of his family under Nazi Germany. Languages: English, German, French Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored…
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47. Dr. Willy Katz papers
1990.88.11 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 1990.88.11
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1988
bulk: 1902-1950
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … files, 1929‐1945 Indexing terms Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Dresden. Jewish physicians…
48. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
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 … September 1937. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Częstochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the…
49. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
…Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma, and Ruth. Arthur worked as a draftsman by trade, but as…
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 …. Processing history: Michael Folkerts, July 2015 Biographical note Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma…
50. Felix Kaszub papers
2010.48 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2010.48.3
Date:
inclusive: 1924-1985
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations--Germany.…
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 …-1945)--Poland. Jewish refugees. Restitution and indemnification claims (1933- )--Germany. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for…