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151. Klestadt family papers
2014.481.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.481.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2005
bulk: 1919-1942
…Thea Löwenstein was born December 19, 1912 in Düsseldorf, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Emil and Erna Flechtheim Löwenstein. She had an older sister…
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 … 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection primarily documents the prewar experiences of Fred and Thea Klestadt, originally of Düsseldorf, Germany, prior to…
152. Koplowitz and Shlafer families papers
2018.326.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.326.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1921-1994
bulk: 1948-1949
… except Abraham Joel. All of Dina's sibling perished during the Holocaust. After the war, Michael and Dina went to Germany where they lived in the Hessisch…
153. 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…
154. Kovary and Neuhaus families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2009.364.15
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2013
… their attackers. Slovakia under Jozef Tiso aligned itself with Nazi Germany, and Tibor and Ernö were arrested and accused of attacking innocent passersby…
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 … number: 2009.364.15 Creator: Kovary (Family : Bratislava, Czechoslovakia) Additional creator: Neuhaus (Family : Hamburg, Germany) Extent: 11.5 linear feet…
155. Laura Sternberger and Adolf Preizler papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.362.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
… time in German displaced persons camps at Feldafing and Prien. His uncle Shulem Einhorn, who was living in England, found Albert in Germany, and put him…
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 … persons camps at Feldafing and Prien. His uncle Shulem Einhorn, who was living in England, found Albert in Germany, and put him in touch with his uncle Sam…
156. Lehmann family papers
1995.A.0095 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 137
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0095
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1994
bulk: 1941-1946
…Arthur Lehmann was born August 23 1877 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He later grew up in Würzburg, and studied architecture and art. After school he…
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 … history Arthur Lehmann was born August 23 1877 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He later grew up in Würzburg, and studied architecture and art. After…
157. Leonard Lauder collection
Document | Accession Number: 2001.146
Date:
1890-1994
…The Leonard Lauder collection consists of materials documenting anti‐Semitism in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, particularly during…
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 … materials documenting anti‐Semitism in Germany in the first half of the 20th century, particularly during the Nazi era, that Lauder acquired from private…
158. Leopold Guttman collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.427.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2014
…Wünsdorf (Germany)…
159. 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…
160. Levi, Kronthal, and Eis families papers
2012.444.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.444.1
Date:
inclusive: 1867-2010
… completed his high school education in Germany, pursued aviation studies in the Netherlands, and immigrated to the United States in 1936. He served with the…
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 …, sermons, writings, speeches, and books documenting the lives of the Kronthal, Levi, and Eis families as they were forced to flee Germany and immigrate to…
161. Levinson and Stern family papers
2015.606.1 Box 2 Folder 39 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.606.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1995
bulk: 1875-1958
…Sidney Jack Levinson (1901-1969) was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany to concert pianist Else Hanff Levinson (1875-1948) and Siegfried Levinson…
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 …-1958) Accession number: 2015.606.1 Creator: Levinson family (Homburg :Germany) Stern family (Kassel :Germany) Extent: 1.25 linear feet (3 boxes, 1…
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162. Levy and Lustig families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2017.554.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1825-2004
…Fritz Levy (Friedrich Levy, 1890-1954) was born on 1 May 1890 in Cologne, Germany to Siegmund (1848-1920) and Bertha (née Lowenberg, 1856-1915) Levy…
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 … Accession number: 2017.554.2 Creator: Levy (Family : Cologne, Germany) Additional creator: Lustig (Family : Leipzig, Germany) Extent: 22 linear feet (10 boxes…
163. Lichtenberg and Stein families papers
2014.408.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2014.408.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2001
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Irmgard Stein (Irma, later Lichtenberg, b. 1920) was born to Max (1871-1944, born in Arolsen, Germany) and Hedwig (Johanna, née Benjamin, 1883-1944…
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 … and undated Accession number: 2014.408.1 Creator: Lichtenberg (Family: Hannover, Germany) Additional creator: Stein (Family: Frankfurt, Germany) Extent…
164. Liesl Joseph Loeb papers
1991.164.118 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1991.164.118
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1993
bulk: 1938-1945
…Liesl Joseph was born in Rheydt, Germany, on June 17,1928, the only child of Josef, born November 9, 1882, in Altenbamberg, and Lilly Salmon Joseph…
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 … Germany and voyage on the St. Louis, the Passenger Committee’s work to find refuge for the ship’s passengers, and the Joseph family’s arrival in England…
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165. Lilienthal family papers
2016.348.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 87
Document | Accession Number: 2016.348.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-circa 2013
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …-approximately 2013 Accession number: 2016.348.1 Creator: Lilienthal (Family : Mönchengladbach, Germany) Extent: 1.0 linear foot (2 boxes) Repository: United…
166. Lindheim family papers
2014.206.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2014.206.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2012
…Fred Lindheim was born on July 3, 1932 to Berthold Lindheim (1895-1973) and Hertha (née Frankel, 1897-1992) Lindheim in Frankfurt am Main, Germany…
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 ….206.1 Creator: Lindheim family (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
167. Lista Family papers
2017.522.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.522.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1992
bulk: 1945-1956
…The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Jerry Lista (born Israel Cymbalista) in displaced persons camps near Munich, Germany; his…
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 … (born Israel Cymbalista) in displaced persons camps near Munich, Germany; his immigration to the United States in 1951; his marriage to Gyta Szmulewicz…
168. 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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169. Lothar Kahn papers
1995.125.14 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1995.125.14
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2004
…Louis Hane (1910‐1979) was born Lothar Kahn in Lollar, Germany, to Albert and Regina Kahn and had an older sister named Leni. He became a Social…
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 … materials, a personal narrative, and photographs documenting Louis Hane, born Lothar Kahn, of Lollar, Germany, his marriage to Maria Dort, who was not…
170. Lotte Seligmann family papers
2019.129.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.129.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1916-1995
bulk: 1924-1944
…Lotte Seligmann (1912-1994) was born on 1 January 1912 in Marsberg, Germany to Adolf (b. 1878) and Emma (née Weitzenkorn, b. 1883). She had one…
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 … material and photographs primarily documenting the pre-war life of Lotte Seligmann of Marsberg, Germany, including her studies and career as a nurse in…
171. Louis Oppenheimer papers
1992.49.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1992.49.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Louis Oppenheimer (?-1967) owned a clothing business and lived in Frankfurt, Germany with his wife (?-1967) and two children, Alfred (c. 1915-1991…
172. Lustig and Katz family collections
Document | Accession Number: 2012.400.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2006
…Consists of identity cards, documents, and correspondence related to Albert and Erna Lustig, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes paperwork…
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 … correspondence related to Albert and Erna Lustig, originally of Mannheim, Germany. Includes paperwork related to the Lustigs' emigration to the United States in…
173. Lyda Bagriansky Geist and Edwin Geist collection
2013.503.2 Box 2 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2013.503.2
Date:
inclusive: 1919-2013
… in Germany, Lithuania, and the United States in the years since.…
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 …. His works have been performed in Germany, Lithuania, and the United States in the years since. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm…
174. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
…Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma, and Ruth. Arthur worked as a draftsman by trade, but as…
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 …. Processing history: Michael Folkerts, July 2015 Biographical note Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma…
175. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
undated: 
…Judaism--Germany--Customs and practices--History--20th century.…
176. Mannsbach and Goldschmidt families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.180
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1995
undated: 
…Lilly Goldschmidt (1903-1995) was born Lilly Mannsbach on 12 December 1903 in Beverungen, Germany to Karl and Luise Mannsbach. Her father Karl…
177. Marcus family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.340.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1998
bulk: 1939-1942
…Erich Marcus (1889-1972) was born in Prenzlau, Germany, to Emil (1859-1940) and Margarethe (1867-1940) Zippert Marcus. Erich had a sister, Charlotte…
178. Margaret Iglauer collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0193 | RG Number: RG-10.241
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1994
bulk: 1937-1946
…Margaret Iglauer was born on 2 December 1910 in Nürnberg, Germany, and married Ernest Iglauer in 1936. She and her husband lived in Nürnberg until…
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 … Germany. 3. Miscellaneous documents. Language: Dutch, German, French, and English. Preferred Citation: Standard citation for the United States Holocaust…
179. Margolies and Zetterberg Nuremberg papers
2004.390.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2004.390.4
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1999
…Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.…
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 …: International Military Tribunal. United States Army. Topical Subject: Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949. Legal documents. Lawyers--Germany…
180. 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…
181. Margot Schwarzschild Wicki papers
2006.464.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2006.464.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-2003
…Margot Schwarzschild was born on November 20, 1931, in Kaiserslautern, Germany, to a Jewish father, Richard, born on December 12, 1898, in…
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 … Folkerts, April 2015 Biographical note Margot Schwarzschild (1931‐ ) was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany to a Jewish father, Richard, and a Catholic…
182. Marianne Cohn Roberts collection
2012.191.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.191.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2011
… Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, for the United States in 1939.…
183. Markheim, Feldman, Orzech, and Silberspitz families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.319.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2000
…Regensburg (Germany : Refugee camp)…
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 …-1945)--Reparations. Geography: Kraków (Poland) Bochnia (Poland) Regensburg (Germany : Refugee camp) Tel Aviv (Israel) https://collections…
184. Martin C. Dean papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.449.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1999
bulk: 1960-1976
…, Germany, to assist him in preparing an expert witness statement for a case against Alfons Götzfrid (b. 1919 in Rastatt/Poretschje Ukraine), who served in…
185. Martin Steinberger papers
Document | Accession Number: 2014.368.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1996
…Consists of original and copies of documents and translations related to Martin Steinberger, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Includes his…
186. Max and Lotte Wertheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.185.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2002
bulk: 1929-1944
…Max Wertheim (b. 1891) was born on 2 June 1891 in the village of Helmarshausen, Germany to Joseph and Johanne (née Hecht) Wertheim. He had three…
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 … documents the prewar and wartime lives of Max and Lotte Wertheim and their son Stanley Wertheim, originally of Warburg, Germany, including their immigration…
187. Max and Mathilde Maier family papers
1998.A.0065 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0056
Date:
inclusive: 1866-1998
… Weimar Germany. He married Anna Margarete Grätz in 1914, and the couple had three children: Hanna (1915‐2003), Heinrich (Henry, 1918‐2005), and Margarete…
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 … (1889‐ 1937) was a lawyer and prominent figure in social reform and welfare in Weimar Germany. He married Anna Margarete Grätz in 1914, and the couple…
188. Mayer and Mané family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.347
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1992
…Eugene (Eugen) Mané (1901-1968) was born in Geinsheim, Germany on February 28, 1901 to Isador (Isadore, 1870-1941) and Emilie (née Lehmann, 1875…
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 … Caroline went back to Saarbrücken, Germany and died there. Blanca Mane and Joseph Gugenheim: Blanche moved to Paris in 1938. She and her husband were rounded…
189. Mayer, Bierig, and Ehrmann families papers
2013.477.1 Box 1 Folder 28 Image 47
Document | Accession Number: 2013.477.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-2012
bulk: 1928-1969
…Hugo Mayer (1864-1942) and his wife Karoline Bierig Mayer (1879-1944) lived in Leimen, Germany, with their three children, Friedel (1909-2003…
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 … Ehrmann families papers Dates: 1928‐2012 (bulk 1928‐1969) Accession number: 2013.477.1 Creator: Mayer (Family : Leimen, Germany) Additional…
190. Metz and Oberlaender families papers
2014.478.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 46
Document | Accession Number: 2014.478.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2015
bulk: 1915-1950
…Bernhard (Hardy) Oberlaender (1912-2000) was born in Fürth, Germany, to Joseph and Felicia (née Fuchs) Oberlaender. He had two brothers, Siegfried…
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 …, originally of Frankfurt am Main, Germany and correspondence, biographical materials, and immigration materials related to the Oberlaender family, originally of…
191. Meyerstein and Echt families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.393.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-2015
bulk: 1930-1983
…Werner Meyerstein (1919-2001) was born on 24 July 1919 in Bremke, Germany to Hermann and Selma (née Wolff) Meyerstein. He had one sister, Gerda…
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 … 1930-1983) Accession number: 2019.393.1 Creator: Meyerstein (Family : Bremke, Germany) Additional creator: Echt (Family : Primorye, Kaliningrad Oblast…
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192. Mikhail Lev collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.12 | RG Number: RG-68.118
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2008
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Ukraine--Personal narratives, Jewish. Geography: Germany. Israel. Minsk (Belarus)--History--20th century. Poland. Ravensbrück…
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 …- 1964 Inquiries to various official institutions and individuals in Poland, France, Germany and received responses 17 pp. Correspondence of editor of…
193. Mixed media painting of Jewish children behind a ghetto fence, painted by a Polish Jewish artist
Object | Accession Number: 2018.398.4
Date:
creation: 1996
depiction: 1941 September-1943 September
Title:
Behind the Wooden Fence
… accordance with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, Germany and the Soviet Union invaded and partitioned Poland. Vilna was in the Soviet zone, but was exchanged with…
194. Monique Joseph papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.595.1
Date:
inclusive: 1820-2007
bulk: 1920-1951
undated: 
…Monique Joseph was born Helga Irene Kaufmann on 3 April 1924 in Cologne, Germany to Sally and Caroline Kaufmann. Her father, Sally Kaufmann (1898…
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 … Monique Joseph (born Helga Kaufmann), originally of Cologne, Germany, her parents Caroline and Sallly Kaufmann, as well as her Husband Theophile Joseph and…
195. Mordechai Shenhabi personal archives, Mishmar ha-ʻEmeḳ (Israel) (RG-95-3)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.134 | RG Number: RG-68.183
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1994
Subtitle:
מרדכי שנהבי - ארכיון אישי
…, England, Switzerland, Germany, Austria (1933-1938), correspondence with Haim Weizman (1940-1962). Also includes an interview of Mordechai Shenhabi conducted…
196. Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers
2003.361.1 Box 2 Folder 8 Image 116
Document | Accession Number: 2003.361.1 | RG Number: RG-24.021
Date:
inclusive: 1879-2001
…Moritz Henschel was born on February 17, 1879, in Breslau, Germany (Wroclaw, Poland), to Karl and Emma Deutsch Henschel. In January 1910, he…
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 … (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Czech Republic. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945), in art. Holocaust, Jewish (1939…
197. Morris B. Parloff papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.495.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
creation: 2001
… earliest missions involved going to Aachen, Germany, where he interrogated German soldiers and civilians, and subsequently he worked in various locations in…
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 … Corps of the U.S. Army, from 1942-1945, including his service in occupied Germany in 1944-1945, and his training in counter intelligence at Camp Ritchie…
198. Mosheim and Marx families papers
1999.A.0233 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0233
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
… City. Karl Marx had died of natural causes in 1938 in Munich, and her mother remained in Germany to care for his ailing mother, Pauline Mayer Marx…
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 … United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened…
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199. Nachlass Albert Mülli (1916-1997) NL
Document | Accession Number: 2010.321 | RG Number: RG-58.005
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1997
Alternate Title:
Estate of Albert Mülli
…Political prisoners--Germany--History--20th century--Sources.…
200. Nachlass Avner W. Less papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.214 | RG Number: RG-58.010
Date:
inclusive: 1902-2007
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Avner Less (Dec.18,1916 - Jan.7,1987), an Israeli police captain and interrogator of Adolf Eichmann, born in Berlin, Germany. In 1933 emigrates in to…
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 …, SS, NSKK 185 Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: Papers concerning the treatment of German Nationals in Germany, 1938-1939, London, 1939, TS (Kopie…