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1. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) was born on June 29, 1889 in Herford, Germany to Veterinarian and Eugenie Goldstein. He had two brothers, Arthur and…
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 …: Goldstein family (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.1 (4 folders, 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
2. Elsa and Selmar Biener papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.65.1
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1968
bulk: 1936-1941
…Selmar Biener (1906-1988) was born on May 15, 1906 in Magdeburg, Germany to Philip Biener (b. 1870) and Regina Biener (née Sternberg, b. 1876). He…
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 … (1906-1988) was born on May 15, 1906 in Magdeburg, Germany to Philip Biener (b. 1870) and Regina Biener (née Sternberg, b. 1876). He had three brothers…
3. 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…
4. 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
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… 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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5. George Schwab photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.94.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1948
… his mother in Berlin in May 1946 and left Germany for New York on the American troop carrier “Marine Perch” in February 1947. A resident of New York…
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 …, Germany, fall 1945. 2. Photograph of a Chris Lerman standing outside, two soldiers and a man walking behind her, a car is seen parked on the street, a…
6. Rosenfeld family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.223.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1979
…Adolf Rosenfeld (1898-1942) was born on June 16, 1898 in Korb, Germany. He married Katherine Rosenfeld (née Lemberger, 1899-1942) who was born on…
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 … Catalog number: 2003.223.2 Creator: Rosenfeld (Family: Adelsheim, Germany) Extent: 1 box, 1 oversize box Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
7. Susi Cohn Podgurski papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-10.286
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1992
bulk: 1938-1947
…, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. Martin Cohn was a dentist and served in World War I. Prior to June 1939, Eugen Hirschfeld lost his home. He moved in with the…
8. Hans Posner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.240.1
Date:
creation: 1920-1950
…Hans Joachim Posner was born on January 22, 1927 in Dresden, Germany, to Georg Josef Posner (d. 1936) and Fanny Leschziner Posner (d. 1943). Georg…
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 …, Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland), 1929-1930. 2. Photograph of Hans Joachim Posner and his brother, Freddy Posner, Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland…
9. Harpuder family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.240.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1952
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
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 …-2126 Abstract: The Harpuder family papers documents the experiences of the Harpuder family in Berlin, Germany and Shanghai, China, 1915-1952; as well as…
10. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
… September 27, 1938. The family lived in Nuremberg, Germany. During the war, Josef Baur worked as a member of the Police Battalion 131 and the 14th SS Police…
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 … married Agnes Baur who was born on December 27, 1910. Their son, Josef Baur, was born on September 27, 1938. The family lived in Nuremberg, Germany. During…
11. Gabryela Bromberg collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.201.1
Date:
creation: 1880-1968
…The Gabryela Bromberg collection consists of seven pre-war family photographs of the Bromberg family in Lublin, Poland and Berlin, Germany, and the…
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 … Krępiec, villa “Regina” dated 1927; Krępiec, near Lublin, Poland; in Polish. 2. Photograph of Gitla Gustawa Bromberg, Berlin, Germany, circa 1880. Printed…
12. Annelise B. Hoffman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0257
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1998
bulk: 1938-1942
… experiences of the Bernhardt family, Ernst, Ella, and their children Erika, Annelise, and Hans, of Berlin, Germany, during the early years of the Third Reich…
13. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
…Henry Oertelt (born Arthur Karl Heinz Oertelt, 1921-2011) was born on 13 January 1921 in Berlin, Germany to Arthur and Else Oertelt. He had one…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Henry Oertelt of Berlin, Germany…
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14. Holländer family papers
2017.182.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.182.1
Date:
inclusive: 1889-1959
bulk: 1930-1945
…Jenny Lea Renzer (later Jenny Holländer, 1910-1974) was born on 4 September 1910 in Berlin, Germany to Golde (born Chaja Golde Friedwald, 1865-1915…
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 … number: 2017.182.1 Creator: Holländer (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 17 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
15. Bier family papers
2016.522. 1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2016.522.1
Date:
inclusive: 1891-2008
… linen store. They immigrated to the United States with 1941. Siegfried lived in Berlin since 1929, and fled Germany in late 1938 for France. He was…
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 …: Bier (Family: Berlin, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington…
16. Hertha Wolff Hellmann papers
1994.62 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1994.62
Date:
inclusive: 1899-1952
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … collection http://collections.ushmm.org Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish refugees‐‐China‐‐Shanghai. Jewish children in the Holocaust‐‐China‐‐Shanghai…
17. Dorothy Isaacsohn papers
2002.474.18 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2002.474.18
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1949
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
18. Windmueller and Wasserman families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.360.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1975
…The Windmueller and Wasserman families collection documents the Windmueller and Wasserman families of Berlin and Cologne, Germany, who immigrated to…
19. Loewy family papers
2016.167.1 Box 1 Folder 37 Image 112
Document | Accession Number: 2016.167.1
Date:
inclusive: 1836-2014
bulk: 1904-1948
…Paul Loewy (born Alfred Paul Loewy, 1905-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany to Hermann and Else (born Sara, née Lasker) Loewy. He had three siblings…
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 ….167.1 Creator: Loewy family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box; 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
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20. Harold Fishbein collection
2003.116 Box 3 Folder 20 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2003.116 | RG Number: RG-19.062
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1949
…, Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration's (UNNRA) Schlachtensee displaced persons camp near Berlin, Germany, after the war.…
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 …: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Topical Subject: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Germany…
21. Letters concerning Betty Katz and the home for the blind in Terezin
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0086 | RG Number: RG-04.025.01
Date:
1943-1991
…Betty Katz was the director of the Institute for Jewish Blinds in Berlin-Steglitz, Germany, before the Holocaust. She was deported to the Terezín…
22. Regina and Siegfried Keil papers, 1942-1947
1997.A.0245 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0245
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1947
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
23. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
…Karl Weiler was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on July 31, 1904, to Friedrich (Fritz) and Ella Ederheimer Weiler. Fritz was born on April 11…
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 … Germany. Emigration and immigration files include affidavits, forms, supporting documentation, packing lists, and correspondence with government agencies…
24. Bujakowski and Brager families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.513.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-1972
… married Auguste Brager on 16 March 1923 in Berlin, Germany. Auguste Bujakowski (b. 1898, née Brager, later Augusta Boyer) was born on 15 August 1898 in…
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 … Bujakowski and Brager families of Poland and Germany, including the medical career of Hans Adolf Bujakowski (later Henry Adolph Boyer) and his family…
25. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
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… from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany. When Lau continued his diary in 1944, he describes the end of the war, when he and his father went to Germany…
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 … school because he was half-Jewish, and his mother being forced into the ghetto. There is a gap in the diaries from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany…
26. Paul Tauchner document collection
1996.7.11 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1996.7.11
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1946
… army propaganda leaflet, documents regarding restrictions on Rosa Block (1867-1942) as a Jewish woman in Germany, and it also includes photographs of…
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 … primarily documents restrictions on Rosa Block (1867‐ 1942) as a Jewish woman in Germany, and it also includes photographs of Karl Hermann Frank, a postcard…
27. Ofner family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.371.1
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2000
…Peter Ofner was born in 1923 in Berlin, Germany, to Curt (Kurt) and Betzi (nee Leon) Ofner. Curt was a veteran of the German Army in World War and…
28. Pistiner family papers
2016.187.1 Box 3 Folder 2 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2016.187.1
Date:
inclusive: 1899-2000
bulk: 1908-1972
…Jewish families--Germany--Berlin.…
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 …: 2016.187.1 Creator: Pistiner family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: 4 boxes (1.25 linear feet) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives…
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29. Frederic Zeller papers
2017.576.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 71
Document | Accession Number: 2017.576.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1990
bulk: 1939-1948
…Frederic Zeller (nicknamed Fredi, 1924-1994) was born on 20 May 1924 in Berlin, Germany to Heinrich and Fanny Zeller. He had one sister, Lilian. His…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Frederic Zeller of Berlin, Germany including…
30. Falik family papers
2016.303.4 Box 4 Folder 1 Image 50
Document | Accession Number: 2016.303.4
Date:
inclusive: 1927-2000
bulk: 1930-1947
…, Deborah, and one brother, Eli. Leon studied medicine in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and Warsaw, Poland. He worked in Warsaw until 1939 when Germany invaded…
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 … photographs of post-war Germany and Europe, and the WAC. Languages: Polish, English, Russian, German, Yiddish, Hebrew Administrative Information Access…
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31. Max Schmeidler papers
2004.88.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2004.88.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1963
… experiences of Max Schmeidler who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China, during the Holocaust.…
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 … Schmeidler, Max, 1920-1981 Shanghai (China)--Municipal Police. Jews--Germany--Berlin. Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai. Jewish police officers--China--Shanghai…
32. Abraham family papers
1996.126.3 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.126.3
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1960
…Walter Abraham (1906-1979) was born in Frankenthal, Germany to a secular Jewish couple, Elsa and Julius Abraham. He was a partner in his father…
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 … Frankenthal, Germany to a secular Jewish couple, Elsa and Julius Abraham. He was a partner in his father’s furniture business and later became a partner at the…
33. Fluss and Lipow families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.598.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2002
…Helga Fluss (later Helga Lipow, 1923-2004) was born on October 7, 1923 in Berlin, Germany to Max Fluss (1894-1961) and Lucia Fluss (née Berlowitz…
34. Sobibor perpetrator collection
Document | Accession Number: 2020.8.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1970
…Johann Niemann (1913-1943) was born August 4, 1913 in Völlen, Germany to farmer and milkman Klaas Johann Niemann (b. 1882) and farmer and housewife…
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 … Völlen, Germany to farmer and milkman Klaas Johann Niemann (b. 1882) and farmer and housewife Bilda Johanna Niemann (b. 1879). He was the middle of nine…
35. Hauer and Honig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.439.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-1976
bulk: 1930-1947
…Gunter Hauer was born on 7 May 1919 in Berlin, Germany to Dagobert and Gertrud Hauer. Dagobert (b. 1873) was born in Vandsburg, Germany (Więcbork…
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 … (bulk 1930-1947) Accession number: 2019.439.1 Creator: Hauer (Family : Berlin, Germany) Additional creator: Honig (Family : Berlin, Germany) Extent: .5…
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36. Bramson family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2012.495.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1960
… photographs are portraits of the Bramson family, taken in Berlin, Germany; Leningrad, Russia (now St. Petersburg); and Ostrov, Russia. One photograph depicts…
37. Ruth Miller papers
2006.473.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 109
Document | Accession Number: 2006.473.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1893-2003
…Ruth Kittel was born on July 21, 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to Josef and Marie (Maria) Ritter Kittel. Josef Kittel, a businessman and World War I…
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 … Germany, and in America. The third album also include photographs of the Kittel family, their ancestors, Josef Kittel in uniform during World War I (with…
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38. Hannah Kastan Weiss papers
1996.23 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1996.23
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1950
…Hannah Kastan Weiss was born on November 23, 1938 in Berlin, Germany, to Günter (1914-1945) and Charlotte Sonja Kastan (née Kogen, 1913-1943…
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 …, correspondence, and printed materials documenting the Kastan family of Berlin, Germany, including Hannah Kastan; her father Günter, who performed forced labor at…
39. Harry Markowicz photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.382.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1949
bulk: 1940-1949
…Harry Markowicz was born on August 9, 1937 in Berlin, Germany to Max (born in Łask, Poland) and Marja Markowicz (born in Wlodawa, Poland). Harry was…
40. Alice and John Fink papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.247.13
Date:
inclusive: circa 1926-2003
…Alice Redlich was born August 12, 1920, in Berlin, Germany, to Georg and Ella Messer Redlich. Georg, born on August 8, 1884, was a salesman and World…
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 … Germany, Alice’s nursing education and work in England, John’s survival in concentration camps during the Holocaust, and the couple’s work at the Bergen…
41. Aenni and Eric Kaufman papers
2013.124.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2013.124.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1972
bulk: 1945-1972
…Aenni Karoline Ehrlich (later Aenni Kaufman, 1894-1952) was born on 24 August 1894 in Berlin, Germany to Paula (née Kaufmann, 1868-1942) and Emanuel…
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 … lawsuits brought forth by Aenni and Eric Kaufman, originally of Berlin, Germany, to recover ownership of shares of I.G. Chemie (later known as Interhandel…
42. Ruth Haas Sadovnik collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.498.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1966
…Ruth Haas Sadovnik (1927-2007) was born in 1927 in Berlin, Germany to Gustav and Martha Haas. She had an older sister, Jeannette Haas. On July 3…
43. Fritz Gluckstein papers
1991.141.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1991.141.9
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1948
…Fritz Gluckstein was born on January 24, 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Georg and Hedwig Gluckstein. His father…
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 … Gluckstein papers, 1942‐1948 Indexing terms Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish children in the Holocaust‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Children of interfaith marriage…
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 … Berlin, Germany, where his father, a lawyer by training, served as a district judge. Following the Nazi seizure of power, Georg was dismissed from his…
44. Axelrod and Gross families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.502.2
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1949
…Refugees--Germany--Schlachtensee (Berlin)--1940-1950.…
45. Irene and Henry Frank papers
2016.496.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.496.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1992
…Irene Frank (nee Silberstein, b. 1927) was born in Berlin, Germany to Dr. Friedrich (Fritz) Silberstein (1890-1944) and Lotte Frank Silberstein (1903…
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 … helped a lot of Jewish families leave Germany, but ultimately it became too late for him and his family to get out. In 1941, Irene’s mother, Lotte, was…
46. Kim family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.360.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1983
bulk: 1929-1941
… United States. Jacob, aware of rising Antisemitism in Germany, was concerned about the family’s safety and was insistent that the Kims, particularly Betty…
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 ….360.1 Creator: Kim (Family : Berlin, Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box, 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
47. Margot Schlesinger papers
2013.224.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2013.224.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
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…Margot Wind was born July 24, 1919 in Berlin, Germany to Yakov and Sabina Wind. She had four brothers: Eduard (b. 1909), Heinrich “Hy” (b. 1910…
48. Gerda and Sylva Löwenstein papers
1995.56.5 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1995.56.5
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1951
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… 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…
49. 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…
50. Rolnik family photograph collection
2016.508.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2016.508.1
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1988
… with an old friend, Malka Milchtajch, and they married in 1946 at the Tempelhof displaced persons camp, Berlin, Germany. Soon after, they immigrated to…
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 … Milchtajch, and they married in 1946 at the Tempelhof displaced persons camp, Berlin, Germany. Soon after, they immigrated to Bolivia and then to Brazil. David…
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