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21. Mauser P38 pistol found buried in the Kampinos Forest near Warsaw
1992.134.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1992.134.4
Date:
manufacture: after 1941-before 1944
found: after 1960-before 1965
…Oberndorf am Neckar (Germany)…
22. 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…
23. White cloth armband worn by a Roman Catholic Polish firefighter in Warsaw
2014.450.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2014.450.3
Date:
use: 1939 September 27-1944 August 07
… countryside villa with his mother and brother when Germany invaded western Poland on September 1, 1939. They could hear bombs being dropped, and decided to…
24. Edith Brandon papers
1996.A.0070.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 18
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0070.1 | RG Number: RG-10.250
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
bulk: 
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. World War, 1939-1945--Deportations. Forced labor--Latvia--Rīga. Jews--Germany--Minden (North Rhine-Westphalia). Minden…
25. Blake and Anna Schiff papers
2018.407.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.407.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1999
…Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Germany--History--20th century.…
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 … family. Trials (Crimes against humanity)--Germany--History--20th century. Identification cards--Forgeries--Poland. Geography: Warsaw (Poland) Hrodna…
26. 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…
27. Zbiór „Z” (akt zebranych przez Główną Komisję Badania Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce) zawierający fragmenty akt niemieckich i materiały powojenne dotyczące miejsc i faktów zbrodni hitlerowskich (GK 166)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.34.1 | RG Number: RG-15.678
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1969
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Collection "Z" (materials collected by the Main Commission for Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland) containing fragments of German files and post-war materials regarding the places and facts of Nazi crimes
…World War, 1939-1945--Deportations from Germany.…
28. 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…
29. Dr. Eugenia Pinski papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.301.1
Date:
inclusive: 1880-1956
…, Germany in May 1943. The German supervisor, Mr. Krall, arranged for her to have a somewhat easier job performing housework and taking care of the chickens…
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 … Prawer’s school friend from the Fürstenberg Gymnasium in Będzin. 29. Photograph of Genia Prawer taken in Eisleben, Germany in the labor bureau for…
30. Shames family collection
2018.649.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2018.649.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-circa 1948
… had two children: Henchke and Avraham. Chana was living in Warsaw when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. She and her best friend Dina decided…
31. 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…
32. Floral pillow cover carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2005.492.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.12
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…
33. Small cap placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.33
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…
34. Leo Arnfeld papers
1990.16.99 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 17
Document | Accession Number: 1990.16.99
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1958
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … (Poland) Hongkou Qu (Shanghai, China) Kōbe-shi (Japan) Munich (Germany) Vilnius (Lithuania) Photographs. CONTAINER LIST Series 1: Biographical materials…
35. 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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36. Siemens-Schuckert generator placed on a workbench used to conceal a Jewish family’s hiding place
Object | Accession Number: 1992.240.20
Date:
use: 1943-1944 September 11
manufacture: after 1902-before 1943
…. Stefan was Greek Catholic and his wife was Roman Catholic. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and much of the country was under aerial…
37. Sieraczek family papers
2015.569. 1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2015.569.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1953
… in Germany where they lived in the Zeilsheim DP camp. After the camp was dissolved, they lived in Frankfurt, Germany until 1951 when Henryk and Jerzy…
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 … to the American occupied zone in Germany where they lived in the Zeilsheim DP camp. After the camp was dissolved, they lived in Frankfurt, Germany…
38. Theresa Cahn-Tober papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.45.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1946
…Munich (Germany)…
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 …. Geography: Lʹviv (Ukraine) Warsaw (Poland) Munich (Germany) Katowice (Poland) Genre/Form: Identification documents. Report cards. PRELIMINARY INVENTORY…
39. White handkerchief with a fan design carried by a Kindertransport refugee
2006.492.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.492.11
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…
40. Kriminaldirektion Warschau (GK 714)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.60.1 | RG Number: RG-15.701
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1944
Alternate Title:
Dyrekcja Policji Kryminalnej w Warszawie
…Germany--Politics and government--1933-1945.…