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1. Josef Helfgott papers
Document | Accession Number: 2020.301.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1992
… Hannover, Germany in July 1945. He immigrated to the United States in November 1950 via Bremerhaven and settled in New York. Josef’s parents and his…
2. Service de recherche de crimes de guerre ennemis de la police judiciaire (SRCGE)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.251.1 | RG Number: RG-43.176
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1949
Alternate Title:
Department for the Investigation of Enemy War Crimes by the French Judiciary Police
… contact with the judicial authorities in the French Occupied Zone of Germany and sent search warrants for individuals having committed crimes in France who…
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 … département or by the country where they are presumed to have occurred (Germany, Austria, Poland), and also by subject matter. Investigated activities include…
3. Poselstwo Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Sztokholmie (GK 186)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.43.1 | RG Number: RG-15.686
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1945
Alternate Title:
Selected records of the Legation of the Republic of Poland in Stockholm
…Crimes against humanity--Germany--History--20th century.…
4. Holub, Glaser, and Ornstein families papers
2019.320.1 Box 5 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2019.320.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-2006
… Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2. Immigration papers include paperwork related to Arno…
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 … regarding Josef’s life insurance with Assicurazioni Generali and paperwork with the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany, Inc. Series 2…
5. Weil and Wolf families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.628.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1997
bulk: 1916-1945
…Eric Weil (Erich, 1913-2001) was born in Mannheim, Germany to Max Weil and Jenny Weil (née Meyer) and had a sister Hannah. Max owned a liquor…
6. Łódź (Litzmannstadt) ghetto scrip, 5 mark note issued to a Polish Jewish woman
2018.31.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2018.31.2
Date:
issue: 1940 July-1944 August 21
… that Germany had invaded Poland. One week later, the German army occupied Łódź and immediately instigated violence and anti-Semitic policies. Jews were…
7. Brown leather belt worn by a Dutch Jewish political prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau
2017.608.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2017.608.3
Date:
use: approximately 1941 October-approximately 1945 May 08
… France declared war on Germany. The Netherlands planned to stay neutral in this war, as they had done in World War I. Adolf Hitler, Germany’s chancellor…
8. Wspomnienia i pamietniki (Sygn. IZ. Doc II)
Document | Accession Number: 2017.444.1 | RG Number: RG-15.547
Date:
inclusive: 1939-2011
Alternate Title:
Memories and diaries
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … nationalists with Germany, living conditions in the Dachau, Flossenburg, Weimar-Buchenwald, Ravensbrück camps, Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Melk, Ebensee and other…
9. Strauss family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.565.1
Date:
inclusive: 1792-2003
bulk: 1844-1966
…Siegfried Strauss (later Fred Strauss, 1898-1956) was born in Marburg, Germany to Hermann (1856-1934) and Johanna (née Wertheim, 1859-1942) Strauss…
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 …: 2016.565.1 Creator: Strauss family (Marburg :Germany) Extent: 1.33 linear feet (2 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 2 book enclosures, 2 oversize folders…
10. Josef and Ruth Rosenberg papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.456.4
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1997
bulk: 1945-1971
… Main, Germany by 1947. Their daughter, Bella, was born in 1950. In 1952, they immigrated to the United States on board the RMS Queen Mary and settled in…
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 … in Bergen-Belsen (there are also documents that date their marriage to 1949 in Frankfurt), and moved to Frankfurt am Main, Germany by 1947. Their…
11. Brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish prisoner
2016.151.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.151.2
Date:
use: after 1941 December-1949 September
… Yiddish and Hebrew. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and on September 4, the German army entered Będzin. The soldiers burned the Great…
12. Ansbacher family papers
2015.534.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.534.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1875-1990
…Sigrid Ansbacher (later Jean Strauss, b. 1928) was born in Dinkelsbühl, Germany to Selma Schlossberger (1897-?) and Ludwig Ansbacher (1888-1950) and…
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 … Accession number: 2015.534.2 Creator: Ansbacher (Family : Dinkelsbühl, Germany) Extent: 1.2 linear feet (2 boxes, 2 oversize folders) Repository: United…
13. Missie tot Opsporing van vermiste personen tijdens de bezettingstijd (getuigenverklaringen) (Fond 244)
Document | Accession Number: 2015.12 | RG Number: RG-41.014
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1951
Alternate Title:
Mission to identify missing people during the German occupation (witness statements)
…Germany--Politics and government--1940-1945.…
14. 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
… deported on convoy 8 to Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in German-occupied Poland. He arrived there on July 23 and was killed. In mid-September, Germany…
15. Gerhard Maschkowski collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.523.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2005
…Gerhard Maschkowski was born on May 19, 1925 in Elbing, Germany, (now Elbląg, Poland) to Jewish parents, Arthur and Herta Imber Maschkowski. Arthur…
16. Margot Schlesinger papers
2013.224.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2013.224.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
undated: 
…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…
17. Myron and Dottie Miller collection
2013.39.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.39.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1948
… Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany, Palestine, and Switzerland.…
18. Moses Adam papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.445.1
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1988
…Restitution--Germany.…
19. Nathan Chorowicz documents
Document | Accession Number: 2012.441.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
… Yiddish. Natan attended private school and was a good student. He did not experience anti-Semitism. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded Belgium. The Chorowicz…
20. Serafina and Bola Friedler papers
2011.158.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2011.158.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1966
… Jewish home around the Silesian region of central Europe. In late 1945, they were sent to a displaced persons camp in Bad Reichenhall, Germany through…
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 … were sent to a displaced persons camp in Bad Reichenhall, Germany through arrangements made by the UNRA. Serafina and Bola stayed in that camp for…