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1. Jacob Kriegel papers
2017.110.1 Box 1 Folder 40 Image 29
Document | Accession Number: 2017.110.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1970
bulk: 1939-1958
… correspondence. There is significant correspondence from Anna and Max Hutt, his only relatives in Europe, along with their daughter Zimmia, who survived the…
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 … Europe, along with their daughter Zimmia, who survived the Holocaust. Other correspondence relates to Kriegel’s involvement with Zionist movements. Also…
2. Martha Bernstein collection
1994.A.0114 Box 1 Folder 2 Item 7
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0114
Date:
inclusive: circa 1940-1944
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… until the camp was liberated in 1945. The surviving members of the Bernstein, Heumann, and Blumenfeld families immigrated to the United States in 1947…
3. Lilienthal family papers
2016.348.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 87
Document | Accession Number: 2016.348.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-circa 2013
…. Carl tried to immigrate via Cuba and then directly but was blocked by policy changes and America’s entry into the war. He survived in England and never…
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 …’s entry into the war. He survived in England and never joined his family in the United States. Scope and content of collection The Lilienthal family papers…
4. David Title papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.109.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-circa 2011
bulk: 1941-1952
… approximately 300 Jewish survivors of the town. Among those who survived was David’s aunt, Regina Teitelbaum. Her late husband, Mortke Teitelbaum (David’s uncle…
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 …. Among those who survived was David’s aunt, Regina Teitelbaum. Her late husband, Mortke Teitelbaum (David’s uncle), had been head of the Judenrat in Opatów…
5. Ann Strauss-Salfield collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0515 | RG Number: RG-10.194
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1990
… arrived in New York on 7 September 1939. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1943. His siblings Berta and Alfred both survived the Holocaust, but…
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 … arrived in New York on 7 September 1939. He was drafted into the United States Army in 1943. His siblings Berta and Alfred both survived the Holocaust, but…
6. Robert and Louise Brunner papers
2002.152 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2002.152
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1956
… deported to Kielce in 1941. Robert’s cousins, Leo Lederer and Fritz Fink, survived the war by fleeing to the United States and Argentina.…
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 … and his mother was deported to Kielce in 1941. Robert’s cousins, Leo Lederer and Fritz Fink, survived the war by fleeing to the United States and…
7. Paula Abelow collection
2008.111.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.111.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1957
bulk: 1923-1948
… Hedwig, both of whom worked at Theresienstadt, had survived. Paula soon met Ira Abelow, and in 1948 they were married.…
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 … Josefa and Hedwig, both of whom worked at Theresienstadt, had survived. Paula soon met Ira Abelow, and in 1948 they were married. Scope and content of…
8. Ruth Engelhardt Spivack Meyers papers
2017.311.1 Box 2 Folder 5 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 2017.311.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2015
… Cleveland with their daughter Sherry. They were told that Ruth's mother would likely not survive the war, and they could adopt Ruth when the war was over. In…
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 … daughter Sherry. They were told that Ruth's mother would likely not survive the war, and they could adopt Ruth when the war was over. In September 1943…
9. Goldmann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.639.32
Date:
inclusive: 1876-1974
… Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Paul’s sister, Edith Doernberg, and her daughter did not survive and Kurt’s cousin, Richard Goldmann, was killed in a…
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 … Mechanical Engineering. Paul’s sister, Edith Doernberg, and her daughter did not survive and Kurt’s cousin, Richard Goldmann, was killed in a concentration…
10. Striped tallit worn by two Hungarian rabbis
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 b
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
… to death in a sanitarium after the nurse who was caring for her began stealing her food. Ferenc, his wife, and daughter survived the war in hiding and…
11. Gertrude and William Nagel papers
2017.527.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.527.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-circa 2000
bulk: 1938-1946
… parents, Fritz and Helene, who had survived the war in Italy, joined their son in the United States. William and Gertrude went on to raise a family and…
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 … later worked for the Department of Commerce. In 1953 his parents, Fritz and Helene, who had survived the war in Italy, joined their son in the United…
12. Hess and Spier families papers
2016.461.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.461.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-2010
…. Although Walter’s immediate family survived via emigration, his grandparents, Moses and Henrietta Hess, were taken in June 1941 from their home in…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org 3 Although Walter’s immediate family survived via emigration, his grandparents, Moses and Henrietta Hess, were taken in June 1941 from…
13. Embroidered purple tallit bag used by two Hungarian rabbis
1990.245.6_a front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.6 a
Date:
received: 1923 December 06
use: 1923 December 06-1952 March 29
… to death in a sanitarium after the nurse who was caring for her began stealing her food. Ferenc, his wife, and daughter survived the war in hiding and…
14. 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
… for survival. ORT was most active in the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania. In Warsaw, the German authorities only allowed…
15. Pelvic calipers used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.4
Date:
acquired: 1932-1945
…. In September, Bruno and Margaret returned to New York, where he opened a private practice. After the war, Bruno learned that his siblings had survived…
16. Electric retinoscope used by a Jewish German US Army medic
2003.451.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.451.3
Date:
manufacture: 1893-1945
acquired: after 1932
…. In September, Bruno and Margaret returned to New York, where he opened a private practice. After the war, Bruno learned that his siblings had survived…
17. Cantor’s black tufted hat worn by a Hungarian rabbi
1990.245.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.7
Date:
use: after 1922-before 1952
… Rottenstein, who had survived in a Jewish hospital. Erna was very ill, and died a short time later. Ferenc’s mother had been in the same sanatorium where he had…
18. Eva and Otto Pfister papers
2018.448.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2018.448.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1950
… French army officers in a prisoner of war camp (“Oflag”) in Silesia. He managed to survive, obtain his release, and find his way back to Paris. He made…
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 … with French army officers in a prisoner of war camp (“Oflag”) in Silesia. He managed to survive, obtain his release, and find his way back to Paris. He…
19. White kittel used by Rabbi Ferenc Hevesi on High Holidays
1990.245.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.245.14 a-b
Date:
use: 1922-1952
… Rottenstein, who had survived in a Jewish hospital. Erna was very ill, and died a short time later. Ferenc’s mother had been in the same sanatorium where he had…
20. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jude, acquired by a German Jewish man
Object | Accession Number: 2014.280.2
Date:
manufacture: after 1941 September 01
… members in Laupheim escaped and survived the war, most of their extended family in other parts of Europe were killed. Although Germany surrendered in May…