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1. Lola and Walter Kaufman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.54.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1978
… nursery school. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland and on September 17, the Soviet Union invaded eastern Poland, including Czortkow. Lola and…
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 …. They lived in a Jewish area of the city. They kept kosher and spoke Yiddish and Polish. Lola attended a nursery school. On September 1, 1939, Germany…
2. Hans Robert Levy papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.162
Date:
inclusive: circa 1927-1948
…Hans Robert Levy was born on February 2, 1927 to Salomon (Sally) Levy and Helene Levy (nee Weinberg) in Gladbeck, Germany where his parents owned a…
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 …; location: Gladbeck, Germany; in German 2 Declaration; handwritten in black ink; statement attesting that Salomon Levy and Helene Levy grant permission to…
3. Sender and Helen Spielman papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.316.2
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1986
… optician and founded the International Optical Syndicate. Sender married Helen Hudes (1905-1979) in Germany and had four children: Bernard (Bernhard, b. 1932…
4. Silver clothes brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.3
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
…Frieda Lewin Fromm was born on December 4, 1882, in Ortelsburg, Germany (Szczytno, Poland). She married her sister Henriette's husband, Meyer Fromm…
5. Silver hair brush used by a German Jewish woman while in hiding
2005.600.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 2005.600.4
Date:
use: before 1936-1945
…Frieda Lewin Fromm was born on December 4, 1882, in Ortelsburg, Germany (Szczytno, Poland). She married her sister Henriette's husband, Meyer Fromm…
6. Rolf and Hannah Wartenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.221.12
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2004
…Rolf Wartenberg (1912-1996) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912 to Ernst (1878-1934) and Hedy (née Zender, 1884-1975) Wartenberg and had a brother…
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 …: Julie Schweitzer, September 2015; Revised by Morgan Voth, January 2024 Biographical note Rolf Wartenberg (1912-1996) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912…
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 …, September 2015; Revised by Morgan Voth, January 2024 Biographical note Rolf Wartenberg (1912-1996) was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912 to Ernst (1878-1934…
7. American Friends Service Committee Refugee Assistance Case Files
Document | Accession Number: 2002.296
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1963
bulk: 1938-1958
… 1920s the AFSC sought to relieve suffering by operating child feeding programs across Europe, most notably in Germany. Quaker International centers, run…
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 … by operating child feeding programs across Europe, most notably in Germany. Quaker International centers, run jointly by American and British Friends…
8. Jack Zimmermann papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.22
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1951
… Zimmermann, and Cesia Zimmermann at the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany and of the Zimmermann family after they immigrated to the United…
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 …: “World ORT Union/Germany” around outside, “c/o/UNRRA/U.S. Zone HQ/District/Office/Landsberg/(Lech)” on inside; dated May 25, 1946; Landsberg, Germany; in…
9. Heinz Praeger papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0187.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1918-2018
bulk: 1939-1947
…Karl Heinz Praeger (1911-1997) was born on July 7, 1911 in Berlin, Germany to Siegfried (1880-1943) and Rosa Praeger (1877-1939). He had an older…
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 … Abstract: The Heinz Praeger papers include biographical materials, photographs, and printed materials documenting Heinz Praeger, his prewar life in Germany…
10. Booklet
Object | Accession Number: 2006.481.24
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942
Title:
Wehrmachtdisziplinarstrafordnung, Vom 6. Juni 1942
…Berlin (Germany)…
11. Book
Object | Accession Number: 2006.481.19
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942
Title:
Die Wehrmacht-disziplinarstrafordnung
…Berlin (Germany)…
12. Book
Object | Accession Number: 2006.481.11
Date:
publication/distribution: 1942
Title:
Der grossdeutsche Freiheitskampf, III. Band, Reden Adolf Hitlers vom 16.Marz 1941 bis 15.Marz 1942
Series Title:
Reden des Führers
…Munich (Germany)…
13. Painting
2010.502.50 front
Object | Accession Number: 2010.502.50
Date:
depiction: 1940 June-1943 September
…, Germany, where Lazar built a plywood import business. After graduating, Jacob attended the University of Berlin where he met Sonia Finkel (1904-1973), a…
14. Korant and Schwalbe families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.367.1
Date:
inclusive: 1888-2019
bulk: 1888-1988
…Herbert Schwalbe (1899-1963) was born in 1899 in Germany. At age 17, he volunteered and served in the German military in WWI and earned the Cross of…
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 …, March 2024 Biographical note Herbert Schwalbe (1899-1963) was born in 1899 in Germany. At age 17, he volunteered and served in the German military in WWI…
15. Adler and Gumpert family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.202.2
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1966
…Robert Leopold Adler (19 May 1895 - 3 November 1952) was born in Heilbronn, Germany, the son of Johanna Adler. As an adult, he was trained in and…
16. Margot Lichtenstein collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.192.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2005
bulk: 1936-1947
…Margot Schoenherz Lichtenstein was born on June 17, 1908 to Wilhelm and Rosalie Schoenherz in Berlin, Germany. When she was thirteen, Rosalie died…
17. Klaus Zwilsky papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.200.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1946
…Klaus Werner Max Zwilsky (1932- ) was born in Berlin, Germany on August 16, 1932. He is the only son of Ruth Herzberg Zwilsky and Ehrich Erich…
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 … during World War I. 2. Photograph of Ehrich Zwilsky, Berlin, Germany, circa 1933. 3. Photograph of Samuel Zwilsky’s fabric store in Landsberg, East Prussia…
18. Gold ring taken by a Jewish youth when he escaped Treblinka death camp
1995.72.1 side
Object | Accession Number: 1995.72.1
Date:
found: 1942 September
…. Losice was bombed during the September 1939 invasion of Poland by Germany. In August 1940, the Germans began conscripting Jews for forced labor. Yidl built…
19. Identification tag that exempted a Jewish child from deportation
2006.446.2 back
Object | Accession Number: 2006.446.2
Date:
use: 1942 September 05-1942 September 12
…. Germany invaded and occupied Poland in early September 1939. In February, the families were forced into a Jewish ghetto. Bella and Marek lived with their…
20. Unser Kind
Document | Accession Number: 2010.200.3
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1946
…Klaus Werner Max Zwilsky (1932- ) was born in Berlin, Germany on August 16, 1932. He is the only son of Ruth Herzberg Zwilsky and Ehrich Erich…
21. Drevich family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.341
Date:
1942-1998
… photographs were taken in the Föhrenwald displaced persons camp in Germany between 1946 and 1948.…
22. Pocket watch with chain traded for food by a concentration camp inmate and recovered postwar
2006.450.1 open
Object | Accession Number: 2006.450.1
Date:
use: 1942-1945
… Germany. Ana left Dora with her only surviving sister, Mele, and traveled for ten days through bombed roads and rail lines to see him. They did not…
23. Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers
1996.A.0391.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1966
bulk: 1945-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, when they went to Germany and ultimately escaped from the Russian sector of Germany to the American zone of Berlin. Lucy and her family settled in Berlin…
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 … Poland, Morris went to Germany with the hope of immigrating to the United States. By 1948, he had finished dental school in Munich and opened an office…
24. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1994
Special Collection:
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…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …, Ernst, 1888‐1942. Feigl, Agnes, 1904‐1942. American Friends Service Committee. Drancy (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jews, German…
25. Jäckel and Wetterhahn family papers
2017.297.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.297.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2002
Special Collection:
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…Julius Wetterhahn (1901-1991) was born in Hersfeld, Germany to Max (1870-1942) and Matilda (née Neuhof, 1876-1943) Wetterhahn. Julius went to the…
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 … Accession number: 2017.297.1 Creator: Jäckel (Family : Herzfeld, Germany) Additional creator: Wetterhahn (Family : Kassel, Germany) Extent: 1.5 linear feet (1…
26. Gad Beck papers
2000.416 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2000.416
Date:
circa 1942
Special Collection:
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…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
27. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
Special Collection:
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…Manfred Gans was born on April 27, 1922, in Borken, Germany, to Moritz and Else Fraenkel Gans. His family had been in Borken for over 300 years…
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 … family of Moritz and Else Gans, originally of Borken, Germany, who were living in Zandvoort in the Netherlands. Prior to the war, Moritz and Else emigrated…
28. Rosenberg and Mosler families papers
2017.327.1 BookEnclosure Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2017.327.1
Date:
inclusive: 1888-1987
bulk: 1915-1956
Special Collection:
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…Hermann Rosenberg (1887-1957) was born in Kleve, Germany on 7 March 1887 to Michaelis and Lenore (née Salomon) Rosenberg. He had three brothers, Karl…
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 … (bulk 1915-1956) Accession number: 2017.327.1 Creator: Rosenberg (Family : Hamburg, Germany) Mosler (Family : Berlin, Germany) Extent: 5.59 linear feet (9…
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29. Susan Warsinger papers
1995.A.0470.2 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 43
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0470.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1949
Special Collection:
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…Susi (Susan) Hilsenrath was born on May 27, 1929, in Bad Kreuznach, Germany, to Israel (August 24, 1902- March 1984) and Hanna (Annie) Drimmer…
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 …’s Holocaust experiences as a Jewish child from Bad Kreuznach, Germany who took refuge in France from 1939 until she immigrated to the United States in 1941…
30. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, Stalag IX-B, in Bad Orb, Germany. Tony was prisoner number 27016. He was interrogated for several hours by a German officer in English and Spanish, and…
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 …, and was ordered to surrender. They were taken to Stalag IX‐B in Bad Orb, Germany, where conditions were terrible. He was selected as part of a group…
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  • Series 1: Anthony Acevedo papers Circa 1935-Circa 2012
    • File 1: Diary 1945
31. Eva Ostwalt papers
2008.86.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2008.86.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-2007
bulk: 1905-2007
Special Collection:
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…Eva Ostwalt (1902-2010) was born in Cologne, Germany to Emil Lippmann and Else Ballin Lippmann. Eva had two younger sisters, Kate and Trude…
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 … father Emil and her ex-husband Karl, and some newspapers. Languages: English, Germany Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is…
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32. David Siegel papers
2003.92 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 92
Document | Accession Number: 2003.92
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1983
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… immigration of Jewish displaced persons to Canada. David served in Europe in 1948 and 1949, visiting various displaced persons camps in Germany, Austria, and…
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 … facilitate immigration of Jewish displaced persons to Canada. David served in Europe in 1948 and 1949, visiting various displaced persons camps in Germany…
33. Edwin Allan diary and photographs
2017.236.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2017.236.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1942-1944
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Prisoners of war--Germany--Diaries.…
34. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
Special Collection:
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…Ursula Lenneberg was born on April 24, 1926, in Dortmund, Germany, but raised in Aplerbeck. Her father, Otto, was Jewish and her mother, Caroline…
35. Seymour Krieger papers
1986.A.0024.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1986.A.0024.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.…
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 … material: The Museum’s Library hold a copy of Nazi Germany's war against the Jews (D810.J4 N39 1947), prepared and complied by Seymour Krieger. Accruals…
36. Seymour Z. Mann collection
1995.A.0090 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 375
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0090 | RG Number: RG-10.142
Date:
inclusive: circa 1902-1946
Special Collection:
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… Public Safety Division of the Office of Military Government, U.S. (OMGUS) in Ludwigsburg, Germany.…
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 …, Germany before, during, and after the Nazi years and Nazi cultural programming in Ludwigsburg during World War II. Adolf Dörrfuss materials document the…
37. Bernard Frum papers
1994.A.0136 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0136 | RG Number: RG-10.152
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1960
Special Collection:
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…Bernard Frum (b. Bernhard, 1914-1975) was born in Berlin, Germany to Gershon (1878-c.1944) and Lea Frum (née Polinkowsky, 1877-c.1944) and had two…
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 …, a diary, and immigration documents relating to Bernard Frum and his wife Lucy Frum’s escape from Germany to Shanghai during the Holocaust as well as…
38. Wacław Głouszek papers
1998.116.15 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1998.116.15
Date:
inclusive: circa 1942-1968
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…). In September 1939, Germany invaded Poland. In 1942, Waclaw was arrested by the Gestapo in Krakow as a non-Jewish political prisoner. He was sent to…
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 … camp) Bergen‐Belsen (Concentration camp) Polish people‐‐Ukraine‐‐Kovel’. Political prisoners‐‐Poland. Political prisoners‐‐Germany. Holocaust…
39. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… children. In the mid-1930s, Henry’s older brother, Alfred, left Germany with the hopes of training at a Zionist-sponsored camp in Yugoslavia, in order to…
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 … currency from Poland and Germany from the 1910s and 1920s; and luggage tags and labels used when Henry Wachs immigrated to the United States in 1938…
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40. Aharon Lazer papers
2017.302.5 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 64
Document | Accession Number: 2017.302.5
Date:
circa 1942-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, Germany, and other locations in Europe.…
41. Klaus Langer papers
1994.A.0322 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0322
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1942
Special Collection:
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…, Klaus, his parents, and his grandmother Mina settled in Essen, Germany, in 1936. Klaus was a member of a Zionist youth group and, at times, his membership…
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 … in March 1937 while living in Essen, Germany. In his diary Klaus writes about daily life, family, friends, and his involvement in a Zionist…
42. Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers
2010.171.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image
Document | Accession Number: 2010.171.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1953
Special Collection:
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… towns in Germany until liberation followed by a return trip home to Užhorod after the war. The diary also includes an allegory titled Inventory and dated…
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 … Schwarzenberg, and other towns in Germany until liberation followed by a return trip home to Užhorod after the war. The diary also includes an allegory titled…
43. Gerda and Sylva Löwenstein papers
1995.56.5 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1995.56.5
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1951
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… volunteered to join her father on an October 1944 transport that was supposed to be a work transport to Germany but that really went to Auschwitz, where her…
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 … transport that was supposed to be a work transport to Germany but that really went to Auschwitz, where her parents were immediately sent to the gas chamber…
44. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… overseas in Germany and France.…
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 … forcibly drafted into the French Air Force. He immigrated to the United States in 1951 and became a citizen after serving in the US army overseas in Germany…
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  • Series 1: Philip D. Vock papers 1941-1975, Undated
    • File 4: Journal 1945
45. Curt Gutsmuth papers
2000.566.3 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2000.566.3
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1959
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… Avraham (also Abraham or Alfred, b. 1912), and a sister, Erna (b. 1907). They lived near Giessen, Germany and his father owned a fabric business. Curt…
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 …, a photograph, and printed material relating to Curt and Nelly Gutsmuth and their family’s experiences escaping Germany and hiding in the Netherlands…
46. Ruth Rappaport papers
2012.431.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2012.431.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1969
Special Collection:
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…Ruth Rappaport (1923-2010) was born in Leipzig, Germany to Chaja Helene Rubenstein (1885-1943) and Mendel Rappaport (1877-1944). Helene was born in…
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 …, correspondence, diaries, and photographs relating to Ruth Rappaport’s pre-war and wartime experiences fleeing Germany and immigrating to the United States. The…
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47. Susie Greenbaum Schwarz papers
1990.30.10 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1990.30.10
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1946
Special Collection:
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…Susie Schwarz was born Suse Grünbaum in 1931 in Schlüchtern, Germany to Max Grünbaum and Kate Kahn. Her family moved to the Netherlands in 1933 to…
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 … Suse Grünbaum in 1931 in Schlüchtern, Germany to Max Grünbaum and Kate Kahn. Her family moved to the Netherlands in 1933 to escape Nazi oppression and…
48. Bierzonski family papers
2004.605.2 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.605.2
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Gerda Bikales (née Bierzonski b. 1931) was born in Breslau, Germany to Viktor (b. 1897) and Bronia (b. Bilma Lefkowitz in 1906) Bierzonski. Gerda had…
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 ….605.2 Creator: Bierzonski (Family: Breslau, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
49. Jacob and Rita Litman papers, including Samuel Golfard diary
2008.269.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 2008.269.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1984
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… also helped Litman escape from the forced labor camp and go into hiding. After the war, Litman found his way to Germany, where he worked in a displaced…
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 …, restitution files, and photographs primarily documenting Jacob and Rita Litman’s experiences at the displaced persons camp at Bayerisch Gmain, Germany, from…
50. Hess family papers
2000.130.2 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 34
Document | Accession Number: 2000.130.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-1944
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… camp during Kristallnacht in 1938. He was released four weeks later after promising to leave Germany. Vera and her family left for Cuba aboard the MS St…
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 … Accession number: 2000.130.2 Creator: Hess (Family : Berga, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear feet (5 folders and 3 oversize folders) Repository: United States…