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1. Ernest Wachtel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.603.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-2012
bulk: 1943-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
2. Simcha Dimant papers
1993.34.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1993.34.13
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1945
… 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Czestochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the ghetto after it was…
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 … September 1937. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. They occupied Częstochowa on September 3. Symcho and his family were forcibly moved into the…
3. Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail
1990.183.64 Box 2 Folder 4 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1990.183.64
Date:
inclusive: circa 1932-1985
… paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt.…
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 … paternal grandmother, Hedwig Kahn (1862-1943), remained in Germany and perished at Theresienstadt. Scope and content of collection The Henry F. Kahn…
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  • Series 1: Concentration camp mail Approximate 1934-Approximate 1985, 1934-1945 Bulk
    • File 3: Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen Approximate 1938-Approximate 1985
      • Pages: 2
4. Dr. John D. Singer correspondence
2016.283.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.283.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
… 773rd in France and Germany, including heavy fighting in the region of the Moselle and Saar Rivers, where he participated in the capture of a German…
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 … captain, and subsequently as commanding medical officer in that battalion, at the rank of major. He saw action with the 773rd in France and Germany…
5. 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…
6. Aleksander Kulisiewicz collection, 1939-1986
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0034.1 | RG Number: RG-55
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1986
…Germany.…
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 … (organizer of the anti-fascist platform in West Germany) -- Monachium [Munich?] 1966; a telegram "Komma-Klub" from Munich[?] 1965; a money transfer for Radio…
7. Dino A. Brugioni collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.433.2
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2001
… (NPIC). During World War II, Brugioni flew in 66 bombardment missions, as well a number of reconnaissance missions, over North Africa, Italy, Germany…
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 … War II, Brugioni flew in 66 bombardment missions, as well a number of reconnaissance missions, over North Africa, Italy, Germany, Yugoslavia and France…
8. Dingfelder and Wolff families papers
1998.69 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1998.69
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1946
…Rudi Dingfelder (later Robert Felder, 1924-1986) was born on April 21, 1924 in Uehlfeld, Germany to Leopold Dingfelder (1886-1943) and Johanna…
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 … family before World War II in Plauen, Germany, the family aboard the MS St. Louis, a photograph of Rudi Dingfelder after liberation in 1945, a studio…
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  • Series 1: Photographs Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
    • File 1: Dingfelder and Wolff families Approximate 1920-Approximate 1945
      • Pages: 5, 7
9. Henry Zguda papers
2004.374.1 Box 1 Image 14 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.374.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2003
… (Kazio) Szelest, organized a group and retaliated against the other group. When Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Henryk was at work. He headed…
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 …. Water polo coaches – Poland. Belgium. Germany. New York (N.Y.) Poland. United States--Emigration and immigration--History. Correspondence. Photographs…
10. M2121, Langenstein-Zwieberge Concentration Camp Inmate Cards, April 1944-April 1945
Document | Accession Number: 2008.202 | RG Number: RG-67.021M
Date:
inclusive: 1944 April 01-1945 April 30
…World War, 1939-1945--Forced labor--Germany.…
11. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border…
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 … for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their…
12. Bernard Feingold papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.113
Date:
creation: 1916-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
13. Solomon Bogard photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2006.132.2
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Natzweiler-Struthof, Wöbbelin, Flossenbürg, and Vught. Also included are depictions of Germany’s surrender at Reims, France…
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 … depictions of Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Natzweiler-Struthof, Wöbbelin, Flossenbürg, and Vught. Also included are depictions of Germany’s surrender at Reims…
14. Willi Seitz papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.061 | RG Number: RG-32.008.01
Date:
creation: 1937-1990
…Willi Seitz is a native of Karlsruhe, Germany, and a survivor of the Holocaust. He was expelled from a German school at age 13 or 14 for refusing to…
15. Ilse Salomon collection
1988.13 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.13 | RG Number: RG-10.273
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1958
…Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from the Preungesheim prison in Frankfurt am…
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 … Adam Fielding, March 2020 Biographical note Adolf Kaufmann (1873-1942) was born in Ladenburg, Germany to Leopold and Fanny Kaufmann. He was deported from…
16. Buchenwald subcamp scrip, -.50 Reichsmark note for use in Rottleberode
2003.413.35 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.35
Date:
issue: 1944 March 13-1944 October
…Rottleberode (Germany)…
17. Buchenwald subcamp scrip, 2 Reichsmark note for use in Rottleberode
2003.413.32 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.32
Date:
issue: 1944 March 13-1944 October
…Rottleberode (Germany)…
18. Liberation photographs and ration book
Document | Accession Number: 2020.328.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1941-circa 1945
…Dachau (Germany)…
19. Erna Ketchie collection
1999.205.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 1999.205.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1925-1951
… Jewish. The family lived in Frankfurt am Main, Germany prior to World War II where Hans was a hairdresser. During the war, both Hans and Frieda were…
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 … white image of two women standing together, woman on left is holding a book; verso: “Atelier Rembrandt…” printed in black ink; Karlsruhe, Germany; in…
20. Edmund F. Franz papers
2000.6.1 Box 1 Folder 52 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2000.6.1
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1945
… Crimes Branch in Wiesbaden, Germany.…
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 … chief administrator of the U.S. Army's War Crimes Branch in Wiesbaden, Germany. The records include reports and English translations of statements and…
21. Oskar Brill concentration camp letters
Document | Accession Number: 1991.77.1 | RG Number: RG-04.033.01
Date:
1935-1945
…Ebrach (Germany)…
22. Lt Colonel Bruce Hinson photograph album
Document | Accession Number: 2021.124.1
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
… posts in England, Brittany (France), Luxembourg, and Germany (Nuremberg, Bamberg, Passau). There are six photographs taken at Buchenwald the day after…
23. Buchenwald concentration camp scrip, -.50 Reichsmark note, inscribed by an inmate
2003.413.34 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.34
Date:
issue: 1937 July 19-1945 April 11
…Weimar (Thuringia, Germany)…
24. Konzentrationslager Buchenwald (GK 127)
Document | Accession Number: 2020.47.1 | RG Number: RG-15.674
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
Alternate Title:
Selected records, Obóz Koncentracyjny w Buchenwaldzie
…. Personal files of prisoners; 7. List of clergy prisoners from Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the Protectorate and Poland; 8. List of 908 Jewish…
25. Albert Rosenberg papers
1995.A.0606 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0606
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1983
bulk: 1945
…Albert Rosenberg (1918-2014) was born in Göttingen, Germany. Brought up in a well-to-do Jewish family, he attended school and went on to study at…
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 ….ushmm.org for further information. Processing history: Colleen Benoit, February 2016 Biographical note Albert Rosenberg (1918-2014) was born in Gottingen, Germany…
26. Dr. Willy Katz papers
1990.88.11 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 1990.88.11
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1988
bulk: 1902-1950
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … files, 1929‐1945 Indexing terms Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) Buchenwald (Concentration camp) Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Dresden. Jewish physicians…
27. Irene Kedroff Kay photographs
2017.607.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.607.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1946
… acquired the photographs in Germany after the war while employed at one of the Dachau trials.…
28. Jewelry box with a secret compartment used to hide documents belonging to German Jewish prisoners
2019.180.2 a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 2019.180.2 a-b
Date:
creation: after 1944 April-before 1945
…Lore Anthes (b. 1934, later Schwarz) was born in Sprendlingen, Germany, to an Evangelical couple, Georg (1902-?) and Elizabeth Schmidt (1904…
29. Anton Kozlowski photograph collection
2018.344.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 51
Document | Accession Number: 2018.344.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1939-1945
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany--Ohrdruf.…
30. 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…
31. Ralph McComb photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.262.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-circa 1945
…Contains photographs and photographic postcards of Buchenwald, Merxhausen displaced persons camp, and ruins in Germany. The photographs were taken by…
32. Ronald Leidelmeyer photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.466.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
…Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.…
33. List of Roma transported from Auschwitz to Buchenwald
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0093 | RG Number: RG-07.012.01
Date:
1944 August 03
… Headquarters, Berlin. The original records are at the International Tracing Service in Arolsen, Germany. Microfilm copies of Gestapo transport lists exist at the…
34. Drawing of farmhouse and trees done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.4
Date:
creation: 1944 January 06
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
35. Drawing of a man at a spinning wheel done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.2
Date:
creation: 1944 January 10
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
36. Walter Fried papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.118 | RG Number: RG-04.004.01
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1945
… school. He worked at an Austrian paper export company. On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Walter and his family had their citizenship…
37. Buchenwald subcamp scrip, 1 Reichsmark note for use in Rottleberode
2003.413.33 front
Object | Accession Number: 2003.413.33
Date:
issue: 1944 March 13-1944 October
…Rottleberode (Germany)…
38. Lorenz Schmuhl papers
1995.A.1119 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1119 | RG Number: RG-10.137
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1985
bulk: 1939-1945
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… establish a hospital and bring aid to the area. On April 24, 1945 he was assigned to a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany where he continued his efforts. Lorenz…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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  • Series 2: Buchenwald 1945-1978, Undated
    • File 5: Reports 1945
  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
39. Heinrich Stern collection
1995.A.0363 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0363
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1986
bulk: 1909-1944
…Heinrich Stern (1882-1949) was born and lived in Nordhausen, Germany. He would eventually marry Charlotte Herzog, and they had one child, Eva…
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 … and lived in Nordhausen, Germany. He would eventually marry Charlotte Herzog, and they had one child, Eva. Heinrich became a notary and lawyer, and…
40. Zbigniew L. Pankowicz papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.105.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1986
…Concentration camp inmates--Germany--Buchenwald.…
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 … recommendation for Zbigniew Pankowicz. States that he worked as a member of the Polish Liaison Section, Darmstadt Military Post, Darmstadt, Germany, from May until…
41. Drawing of black and white cows in a barn done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.3
Date:
creation: 1944 January 20
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
42. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Polish Jewish prisoner
1995.57.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1995.57.1
Date:
issue: approximately 1944
use: approximately 1944-1945 April 22
… Yiddish and Hebrew. After finishing school, Jakob became a tailor like his father. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland, and the army entered…
43. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.3
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
44. Drawing of a yellow field done in hiding by a Dutch Jewish man
Kitty Piller de Wolff Collection
Object | Accession Number: 2012.113.1
Date:
creation: 1944 January 10
… Soviet forces approached the camp in mid-January 1945, it was evacuated and prisoners were deported to other camps in Germany. By February 10, Abraham was…
45. 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…
46. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
…Joseph and Klara (Meyer) Berg lived in the small farming community of Lechenich (Erfstadt), Germany (near Cologne) and had two daughters: Inge (b…
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 …: approximately 1880-1957 Accession number: 1989.232.31 Creator: Berg (Family : Lechenich, Germany) Additional creator: Hermanns (Family : Mönchengladbach, Germany…
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 …, Germany (near Cologne), where her father earned his living as a cattle dealer. The Berg family had lived in that area since the 1600s. Gisela has one older…
47. Walter Stras collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0451 | RG Number: RG-10.150
Date:
1938-1995
…Walter Stras (b. Walter Straass, 1924, Steinbach am Glan, Germany - 1995, Kansas City,Mo.) survived Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. He…
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 ….150 1996.A.0451 Title: Walter Stras collection, 1938-1995. Extent: 1 folder. Provenance: Walter Stras collected the materials during his time in Germany…
48. Concentration camp uniform pants worn by a Hungarian Jewish prisoner
2011.449.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2011.449.1
Date:
issue: 1944 June 24-1945 April 11
… independent state with an authoritarian government that collaborated closely with Germany. In August 1940, Axis powers Germany and Italy had arbitrated a…
49. NSDAP membership pin acquired by Hans Praschkauer
Object | Accession Number: 2006.398.4
Date:
manufacture: 1934 July-1945 May
acquired: before 1939 May 10
…Heinz Praschkauer (later Hans, 1919-2004) was born in Oels, Germany (now Oleśnica, Poland), to Georg (later George, 1878-1956) and Babetha (later…
50. Irving Newman papers
1995.A.0753.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0753.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1949
… war and reunited in Łódź, Poland in 1945. For four years the family lived in displaced person camps in West Germany, where Irving became active in…
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 … articles Irving wrote for the Jidisze Cajtung, one of the largest displaced persons newspapers while living in displaced persons camps in West Germany…