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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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 … following Kristallnacht, identification cards of Charlotte’s from Leipzig, Germany and Shanghai, China, and a photograph of Herbert’ tombstone in Shanghai…
2. Heinz Praeger papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0187.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-2018
bulk: 1939-1947
… Kristallnacht and sent to Dachau, where Mr. Oppenheimer died. Karl Heinz was released at the end of January 1939 after his parents paid for his release and…
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 … 1938. The Jewish men of Kitzingen, including Karl Heinz and the Oppenheimers, were arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Dachau, where Mr. Oppenheimer…
3. Alfred and Ellen Lewis papers
1995.A.0250 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0250
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-circa 1959
…Ellen Katz (1923 - ) was born to Martin and Edith Katz in Berlin, Germany. She was a student at the time of the Kristallnacht, when her parents…
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 … document the journey of Alfred Lewy and Ellen Katz, two German Jews who immigrated with their families to Shanghai, China soon after the Kristallnacht…
4. Cohn, Heinemann, and Rhée families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.210.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2016
…, 1926-2000). In 1933, Hans immigrated to England and Robert went to the Netherlands. Shortly after Kristallnacht, Eva and her parents went to England with…
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 … Lüneburg in 2015 for objects acquired by the museum after Marcus’s assets were seized after Kristallnacht. Included are biographical materials, immigration…
5. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
…, officials instigated pogroms against Jews and their property throughout Germany, known as Kristallnacht. The local synagogue was set on fire, but since Isidor…
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 … Přerov, Czech Republic), had also fled to Shanghai after Kristallnacht with his wife, Ida (1898‐1988) and worked with the Jüdische Gemeinde and American…
6. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.3
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
… as Kristallnacht. During the pogroms, 30,000 Jewish men were incarcerated and held in German concentration camps until they promised to leave Germany…
7. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.4
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
… as Kristallnacht. During the pogroms, 30,000 Jewish men were incarcerated and held in German concentration camps until they promised to leave Germany…
8. Eric Bergtraun papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.24.37
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1953
bulk: 1944-1948
… Austria for Shanghai shortly after Kristallnacht in 1938 and was forced to live in the Hongkew Ghetto for three years as the war intensified. Eric was…
9. Chaim and Rita Wind collection
2017.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2017.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1952
… arrest during roundups of Polish Jews, as a consequence they were not taken into custody during Kristallnacht. Yaakov Wind, however, was arrested and…
10. Erwin Marx papers
1990.283.13 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.283.13 | RG Number: RG-28.011
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1970
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… arrested during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, and interned in Dachau concentration camp until December. His business and all his assets was confiscated…
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 … Kristallnacht in 1938, his business was liquidated by the Nazi government in December 1938, and he fled to Shanghai in 1939. He immigrated to the United States…
11. Charnitzki family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.415.1
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1956
bulk: 1939-1947
… (b. 1937). Erich was arrested on Kristallnacht but was released, leaving by ship for Shanghai in early 1939. Six months later, Paula and her two…
12. Ernst and Hildegard Israel papers
1998.109.4 Oversize 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1998.109.4
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-1943
… Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938. They traveled to Genoa, Italy, and then sailed to Shanghai, China, arriving in January 1939. There she met Ernst Israel, age 32…
13. Linden family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0240 | RG Number: RG-10.172
Date:
1939-1995
bulk: 1939-1947
… destroyed by Nazi Party supporters during the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938. Fritz arranged for his family to flee Germany shortly afterwards…
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 … during Kristallnacht in November 1938. Fred arranged for his family to flee Germany shortly thereafter. The family left Germany in April 1939 for Shanghai…
14. 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
… uncle, Ernst Malsch (b. 1887), were imprisoned at Dachau and Sachsenhausen respectively after Kristallnacht. His parents perished in the Holocaust, but…
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 …), were imprisoned at Dachau and Sachsenhausen respectively after Kristallnacht. His parents perished in the Holocaust, but sources differ as to whether…
15. 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…
16. Rudolf Abraham papers
1995.A.0335.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0335.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… family members were able to flee the country, but Rudolf was unable to obtain a visa. During the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, Rudolf was…
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 …. Some family members were able to flee the country, but Rudolf was unable to obtain a visa. During the Kristallnacht, he was arrested and sent to…
17. Löwenstein and Stern families papers
2017.661.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 6a
Document | Accession Number: 2017.661.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1981
…. When she was fourteen, she was expelled from school for being Jewish. During Kristallnacht, Hugo was arrested in Erfurt and Käthe and Lisa were arrested…
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 … school for being Jewish. During Kristallnacht, Hugo was arrested in Erfurt and Käthe and Lisa were arrested in Nordhausen. After they were released, they…
18. 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
… two. On November 8, 1938, during Kristallnacht, Lola spent the night at the hospital caring for the Jewish men who had been injured. Her father, Hugo…
19. 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
…, officials instigated pogroms against Jews and their property throughout Germany, known as Kristallnacht. The local synagogue was set on fire, but since Isidor…
20. 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
…, officials instigated pogroms against Jews and their property throughout Germany, known as Kristallnacht. The local synagogue was set on fire, but since Isidor…