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1. Heinrich Stern collection
1995.A.0363 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0363
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1986
bulk: 1909-1944
…. Heinrich became a notary and lawyer, and practiced in Nordhausen. In 1935, after Hitler’s rise to power, Heinrich was not allowed to practice law, and being…
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 …. Other various items include the certificate Heinrich obtained to be a notary and practice law, his disbarment, and handwritten manuscript. Languages…
2. David Wittner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.165
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1945
…David Wittner was investigating the fate of his mother-in-law's nephew, Abraham Weiner, who was imprisoned at Buchenwald concentration camp when he…
3. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… Germans decided to destroy the ghetto. On September 22, Symcho’s mother-in-law was shot in the head by Nazi officials. Symcho’s wife Tonia, 4 year old son…
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 …), a Polish Jew. The papers contain a letter written by Simcha Dimant to Hela and Karl Wargon in New York describing the fates of various family members…
4. Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers
2000.16 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.16
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1982
… discrimination she faced as a Jew living in Hungary. Gustave’s memoirs go into great detail about the family’s historical background. Gustave was a cousin of…
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 … Minnie Berki, the daughter‐in‐law of Piroska Berki. The papers were donated in 1999 and 2001. The 2001 accession was given the number 2001.72, but has…
5. 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
… divorcee Helene Preissler who owned a hat business, H&K Preissler, in Dresden with her sister‐in‐law but had to give it up in 1939 when she, a non‐Jew…
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 … sister‐in‐law but had to give it up in 1939 when she, a non‐Jew, refused to divorce her Jewish husband. Helmut went to England around 1936, survived the…
6. Masha Rolnikaite papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.436.3
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2015
…), was an attorney who earned his law degree with a thesis about constitutional law in the Baltic states, and she grew up in Plunge, Lithuania. When…
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 … July 1927 in Memel, present-day Klaipeda, Lithuania. Her father, Hirsch Rolnik (1898-1973), was an attorney who earned his law degree with a thesis about…
7. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
… the extended family, including Josef’s parents, Klara and Marcus (Max) Berg, and his mother in law, Bertha Meyer. The Bergs purchased a 375-acre farm…
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 … younger brother, Herman Strauss, who worked for a prestigious law firm in Kenya, to help secure visas for the Berg family. Herman Strauss paid the mandatory…
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 … Cologne, asking him to help the family get out of Germany. He, in turn, asked his younger brother, Herman Strauss who worked for a prestigious law firm in…
8. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
…Aleksander (Alexander) Kulisiewicz (1918-1982) was born in Kraków, Poland in 1918. He was a law student in German-occupied Poland when, in October…
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 …, Poland in 1918. He was a law student in German-occupied Poland when, in October 1939, he was denounced for antifascist writings, arrested by https…
9. Randolph Braham collection
Document | RG Number: RG-52.000
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2011
…. Braham and Others, 1944-1987, on 121 microfiche; Series 3: Records Relating to the Destruction of Jews in Northern Transylvania, 1944-2007; Series 4…
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 ….ushmm.org Cases), as chairman of the Cultural Committee of the World Federation of Hungarian Jews, and as member of the Editorial Board of the Comprehensive History…
10. Fred Lubcher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.165.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-2018
bulk: 1932-1948
…. Fred married Shirley Greenberger (1929-2021) in 1953. He received his law degree from New York University in 1955 and later specialized in trusts and…
11. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
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 … instructor would go on about the Jews, then say “not you Rudy.” Thing kept getting worse. When a family was being arrested, the neighbors would standout in the…
12. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Juif, belonging to a Jewish family.
Object | Accession Number: 2014.230.2
Date:
use: approximately 1942 June-1944 August 25
…Jews--Legal status, laws, etc--France.…
13. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
…-1918.) Simon and Frieda owned a clothing business. In 1933, the Nazi regime came to power and passed laws to persecute the Jewish population. Around 1937…
14. 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
… and brother-in-law, and their children. His sister, Elli, was living in Palestine. Another of Hugo’s sisters was married to a non-Jew and survived in…
15. 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
…Jews--Legal status, laws, etc.--Czechoslovakia.…
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 … Reel 1: Box 47 Čs State name list of prisoners from various German prisons Reel 2: Box 69 Name list of deported Jews (Aa, Ab, Ac, Ad, Ae, Ael-9) Reel 3…
16. Armand Eisler papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.086 | RG Number: RG-10.024
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1957
…Armand Eisler (b. May 6, 1880, Paris, France, d. Sept. 16, 1957, Miami, Florida) graduated from the University of Vienna with degrees in law and…
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 …, France, d. September 16, 1957, Miami, Florida) graduated from the University of Vienna with degrees in law and political science. In 1938, Eisler was a…
17. 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
…Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.…
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 … (Austria) Macy's (Firm) Deggendorf (Displaced persons camp) Sheepshead Bay Victory (Steamship) Jewish refugees -- Germany. Holocaust survivors. Jews…
18. Michael Grauman collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.274
Date:
inclusive: 1881-1945
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 …” the latter which was owned, cooperatively, by Erwin Graumann [Michael’s father] and his father-in-law, A. Goldstein, circa 1920’s-1930’s, Germany 12…