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1. Lola Byron collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.464.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1963
… Bensheim DP camp in Germany, but soon traveled to Paris to be reunited with Jakob’s two sisters: Zosia and Franka. Jakob worked there as a weaver. In 1949…
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 … and completed her schoolwork, Munich, Germany, February 1, 1951; in German. 7. Personnel File stating that Jakob Papierbuch is employed by International…
2. Child’s coat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.1
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
3. Child’s hat purchased by Dr. Henry Kupfer for his daughter, Tamara Kupferblum
2018.498.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.498.2
Date:
acquired: 1939-1945
… in September, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded Poland. As agreed in the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of August 1939, the two nations divided Poland…
4. False tooth with a cavity for a poison capsule
Object | Accession Number: 2016.561.1
Date:
acquired: approximately 1939-approximately 1945
… to forced labor in Germany along with other Polish men and women. On July 20, 1943 Ita was sent to Göttingen, Germany, and from there to a small farm…
5. German occupation records from the Archive of New Records, Poland (Syg 1335)
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0032 | RG Number: RG-15.008M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 … Against Germany. Accruals: Accruals may have been received since this collection was first processed, see archives catalog at collections.ushmm.org for…
6. German Rentenbank, 1 Rentenmark note, acquired by a Polish Jewish survivor
2014.426.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.426.3
Date:
issue: 1937 January 30
publication/distribution: 1937 January 30-1945
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…
7. Florentyna Kosmider papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.149
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1947
… 1939 the couple left Warsaw for Słonim. They married in 1940 when Słonim was under the Soviet rule. In June 1941 Germany attacked USSR and in December…
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 …. Photograph of Yechiel Henek Kołobielska, Germany, circa 1945; possibly Munich, Germany. 4. Photograph of Yechiel Henek Kołobielska, Germany, August 9, 1945…
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 …. In August 1939 the couple left Warsaw for Słonim. They married in 1940 when Słonim was under the Soviet rule. In June 1941 Germany attacked USSR and in…
8. 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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9. Wanda Zofia Ciecierska papers
2003.385.1 Box 1 Folder 23 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2003.385.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1968
… Ciecierska’s experiences in Nazi-occupied Warsaw and during the Warsaw Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war as…
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 … Uprising, as a forced laborer in Germany, and as a displaced person after the war. The papers also document her husband Stanislaw Ciecierski and his…
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10. Records of the Gendarmerie Kreis Schrimm (Sygn.72)
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0081 | RG Number: RG-15.012M
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
inclusive: 1939-1945
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 … (Sygn. 72) Dates: 1939-1945 RG Number: RG-15.012M Accession Number: 1993.A.0081 Creator: Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei. Extent: 4 microfilm reels (35 mm…
11. Wilhelm Stahl and Walter Lewalter papers
2014.413.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 64
Document | Accession Number: 2014.413.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1956
…Wilhelm Stahl (1890 - ?) was a non-Jewish German born on April 18, 1890 in Sulzheim, Germany to “Marg.” [Schneider] Stahl (d. 1926) and Christoph…
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 … relating to the forced sale of Jewish assets in Frankfurt, Germany, postcards, as well as photographs of Wilhelm Stahl and family, Walter Lewalter, and…
12. Eve Przemyski papers
2010.459.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2010.459.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1964
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… prisoner of war camps in Germany during the Holocaust, and in Italy and England after the Holocaust, of Richard Przemyski in Poland and a prisoner of war…
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 ….ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about this collection https://collections.ushmm.org Prisoners of war--Germany. Holocaust survivors…
13. Walter Rudy Horenstein papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.664.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2002
undated: 
… provided by his father. He learned in June 1941 that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union had started. As a Soviet citizen, he was ordered to report…
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 … father. He learned in June 1941 that the war between Germany and the Soviet Union had started. As a Soviet citizen, he was ordered to report for internment…
14. Tortoiseshell pencil box and lid carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.3 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.3 a-b
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
15. Fanny Auerbach papers
1995.A.0365 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0365
Date:
inclusive: circa 1934-circa 1985
…Fanny Auerbach and her husband John, were German Jews living in Cologne, Germany. As John attended dental school, Fanny worked at the Abram Frank…
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 … German Jew who escaped Germany in 1935, and Malchen Banner, a young woman who Fanny helped raise while Fanny worked at an orphanage in Cologne, Germany…
16. Salad plate with a floral design carried by Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.6
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
17. Regina and Halina Goldwag papers
2014.426.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.426.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-2008
bulk: 1944-1949
… was not aware of the rise of Nazism and persecution of Jews in Germany until the German army invaded Poland on September 1. In response, Ludwik and…
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 … Göppingen, Germany, and depictions of Regina and Halina’s immigration to the United States onboard the SS Marine Flasher in 1946. Languages: Polish, English…
18. Green school box carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.2 closed
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.2
Date:
use: 1939-1945
emigration: 1939 June
…Ina Felczer (b.1929) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Hannah (Hana, née Kempinski, 1894-?) and Victor Awigdor (1892 -?) Felczer. Hannah was born in…
19. Felicia Bryn collection
Document | Accession Number: 2002.137.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-circa 1946
… identification documents issued to Nusyn Gliksman when he lived in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 1934-1935.…
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 …: October 15, 1934; location: Frankfurt a/M, Germany; in German .9 Identification paper and trade permit; issued to Nusen Gliksman, donor’s maternal uncle…
20. Minna Aspler papers
1999.267.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.267.2
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1946
… Wahlwinkel, Germany. She moved to the Landsberg DP camp, married its deputy director, Moe Aspler, from Montreal, and moved home to Canada with him. The couple…
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 … photograph a Warsaw classroom, and one postwar photograph of Minna with friends in Wahlwinkel, Germany. Languages: English, German, Yiddish Administrative…