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1. Hans Praschkauer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2006.398.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2002
… record. The series also includes passenger pamphlets, ship maps, itineraries, tickets, a clipping, pamphlets, and passenger instructions from the SS Conte…
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 …. He fled from Germany to Shanghai in March 1939 aboard the SS Conte Verde and worked as a tailor. His parents arrived in Shanghai in August 1940. In…
2. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai
1989.243.71_b front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.71 a-b
Date:
received: 1941-1945
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
3. Eva Hirschel family papers
2016.351.1 Box 1 Folder 22 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 2016.351.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2006
bulk: 1914-1975
…, Max, Eva, and Horst fled Germany to Shanghai, China on the Italian ship the SS Conte Verde. While in Shanghai, Max worked in several butchers shops…
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 … Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the pre-war and Holocaust-era experiences of Hedwig…
4. Jakob Ascher papers
2011.403.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2011.403.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1960
… because Fanny’s heath was decreasing. In March 1947 they boarded the SS Marine Carp and while crossing the Atlantic, Esther met and fell in love with…
5. Vereinigung der Verfolgten des Naziregimes (VVN)
Document | Accession Number: 2009.110 | RG Number: RG-14.096M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1955
Alternate Title:
Records of the Association of Victims of the Nazi Regime
…Contains two main components: organizational records of the record group VVN, and materials it collected on Holocaust victims and survivors, forced…
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 … Nazi Regime (WN) After the end of World War II, former victims of the Holocaust and the Nazi era organ- ized themselves in committees called "Victims of…
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 … / Ermittlungen gegen den früheren SS-Angehörigen Kurt Hansen im Zusammenhang mit der Ermordung 352 Juden; Zwangsarbeit; Euthanasie DY 55 V 278/4 Nr. 17 DY 55 V 278…
6. Zarząd Prowincjonalny Górnego Śląska w Katowicach (Sygn. 118)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.54.1 | RG Number: RG-15.582M
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
Alternate Title:
Provinzialverwaltung Oberschlesien in Kattowitz
Selected records of the Provincial Government of the Upper Silesia in Katowice
…]; 3. Correspondence, general and organizational issues of the activity of the SS Sturm in Opole, Racibórz and Wrocław, 1933-1938 [File 6998]…
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 … [File 6997]; 3. Correspondence, general and organizational issues of the activity of the SS Sturm in Opole, Racibórz and Wrocław, 1933-1938 [File 6998…
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 … of the Provincial Government of the Upper Silesia in Katowice FINDING AID Archiwum Państwowe w Katowicach (State Archive in Katowice) Zespół zawiera…
7. Kotlewski family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2015.610.1
Date:
1921-2012
… the hospital, Irena Zientalowa, had a brother who worked for the railways and let Irena know that the German SS were coming. The Zientalowa family…
8. Ernest G. Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.243.322 | RG Number: RG-10.236
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1980
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
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 ….243.273, 1989.243.271, and 1989.243.54-1989.243.61. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum also holds three oral history interviews with Ernest Heppner dated…
9. Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski papers
2014.469.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2014.469.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1983
… with his father, and SS officers came around collecting wallets, IDs, cash, and jewelry. One of the officers made Zbigniew go with the women who had…
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 …, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Zbigniew Antonii Piotrowski papers consist of biographical materials and…
10. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 10 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.57 back
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.57
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
11. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.60 back
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.60
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
12. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 5 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.56 back
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.56
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
13. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.61 back
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.61
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
14. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.59 back
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.59
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
15. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 1 krone note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.54 back
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.54
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
16. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.55 back
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.55
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
17. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, acquired by a Jewish refugee
1989.243.58 back
Object | Accession Number: 1989.243.58
Date:
issue: 1943 January 01
… to hide from the SS officers who came through their neighborhood, while his father and brother were shielded at the factory. The following day, fearing…
18. Mali Lamm, a Jew in hiding, poses with her rescuer's daughter and a group of men.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 67134
Date:
1943 - 1945
… younger sisters stayed at home. On February 18, 1943 Mali set out for work at 6:00 a.m. and saw the ghetto filled with SS men using speakers and telling…
19. Rescuer Elfrieda Kreisse poses outside with her daughter Gerda.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 67128
Date:
Circa 1943 - 1945
… younger sisters stayed at home. On February 18, 1943 Mali set out for work at 6:00 a.m. and saw the ghetto filled with SS men using speakers and telling…