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1. 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
… in Leipzig. During Kristallnacht Herbert was arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. After his release, the Alexanders fled…
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 … her husband Herbert Alexander, and consists of a postcard written by Herbert to Charlotte during his imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp…
2. Heinz Loewy postcard
Document | Accession Number: 2005.164.1
Date:
creation: 1941 April 17
… imprisoned in several concentration camps including Columbia, Lichtenburg, Dachau, and Buchenwald. He was released from Buchenwald on 4 January 1939. He fled…
3. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.4
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…. On November 11, Max was arrested and imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp. After he was released on January 2, 1939, the entire family began…
4. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.3
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…. On November 11, Max was arrested and imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp. After he was released on January 2, 1939, the entire family began…
5. 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
… while being beaten and herded through the streets by the authorities. Hugo was transported to Buchenwald concentration camp. The doctor there agreed to…
6. Rolf Preuss papers
1999.A.0076 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0076
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1999
bulk: 1939-1947
… in Buchenwald in 1941 and his parents and two other brothers, Philipp, Margarete, Gert, and Martin, were deported to Riga in 1942 and did not survive…
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 … settling in Portland. Adolf Preuss’s brother Lothar died in Buchenwald in 1941 and his parents, Philipp and Margarete, as well as two other brothers, Gert…
7. Eva Hirschel family papers
2016.351.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 2016.351.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2006
bulk: 1914-1975
… the Lichtenburg concentration camp. He was imprisoned again from 9 November-22 December 1938 in the Buchenwald concentration camp. In May 1940 Hedwig…
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 … again from 9 November-22 December 1938 in the Buchenwald concentration camp. In May 1940 Hedwig, Max, Eva, and Horst fled Germany to Shanghai, China on…
8. Meyerstein and Echt families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.393.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2015
bulk: 1930-1983
… to Auschwitz. He was transferred to Buchenwald in January 1945 and then Dachau where he was liberated in April 1945 by the United States Army.…
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 … Neuendorf bei Fürstenwalde until April 1943 when he was deported to Auschwitz. He was transferred to Buchenwald in January 1945 and then Dachau where he was…
9. Lübschütz and Urman families papers
2014.551.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2014.551.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
… school. During Kristallnacht Julius was arrested and sent to Buchenwald where he was detained for 3 weeks. In order to secure her husband's release Else…
10. Hans Praschkauer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.398.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2002
…. On November 11, Max was arrested and imprisoned in Buchenwald concentration camp. After he was released on January 2, 1939, the entire family began…
11. Rabbi William Z. Dalin family papers
2005.108.2 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2005.108.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1872-1968
bulk: 1938-1948
… had previously been imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. In May 1940 he immigrated to the United States and they would not be reunited until…
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 … living in the Kitchener refugee camp. He had previously been imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. In May 1940 he immigrated to the United…
12. Stolz and White families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.447.2
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2003
bulk: 1940-1960
… grandfather, Efraim Stolz, was deported to Buchenwald and died on November 6, 1939 and Gustav disappeared behind Russian lines. Joachim was an ardent Zionist…
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 … Buchenwald and died on November 6, 1939 and Gustav disappeared behind Russian lines. Joachim was an ardent Zionist and signed up for the Kladovo transport to…
13. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
… threats against his wife and baby, Heinz surrendered for arrest, and was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. His wife, Alice, managed to get him released…
14. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
… threats against his wife and baby, Heinz surrendered for arrest, and was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. His wife, Alice, managed to get him released…
15. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.273 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.273
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… threats against his wife and baby, Heinz surrendered for arrest, and was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. His wife, Alice, managed to get him released…
16. Shanghai Volunteer Corps nightstick issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.274 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.274
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… threats against his wife and baby, Heinz surrendered for arrest, and was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. His wife, Alice, managed to get him released…
17. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.272 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.272
Date:
issue: 1940-1941
… threats against his wife and baby, Heinz surrendered for arrest, and was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. His wife, Alice, managed to get him released…
18. The archives of the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB) Harbin-Shanghai
Document | Accession Number: 2010.196 | RG Number: RG-68.114M
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1949
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 … 4192 Schreier Fritz Wien Wien Techniker Gesuch wird von Frau Adelheid Schreier gestellt, da Mann in Weimer-Buchenwald in Haft ist 144 862 ohne Nr…
19. 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
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 … ORT collection Letzte Gruppen aus Buchenwald ~1945 ger fre fre typewriter , manuscript 4946137 ORT-842 ORT collection Amérique Latine (sauf Argentine…
20. William Malsh papers
1994.A.0027.1 Box 1 Folder 28 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0027.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-circa 1993
bulk: 1937-1941
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 … Holocaust Memorial Museum also holds a letter written by Franklin P. Shaw that describes William Malsh's contribution to the liberation of Buchenwald (1995…