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201. Hermann and Charlotte Sperling papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.589.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1948
…Hermann Sperling (1905-1993, later Peter Spalding) was born on March 10, 1905 in Barmen, Germany to Benno Sperling and Rosa Berstein. He married…
202. Herman Neudorf papers
1994.83.2 Box 1 Folder 26 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1994.83.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1949
…Hermann David Naidorf was born in Gelsenkirchen (Horst-Emscher) in Westphalia, Germany, on June 3, 1925, the only child of Simon Arie and Frieda…
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 … (1925‐ ) was born in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, to Simon and Frieda Naidorf. His family owned a clothing business, while Herman attended school amidst a…
203. Hertha Spier collection
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0421
Date:
creation: circa 1993
inclusive: 1923-1946
… toys and gifts to be sent to Germany. Hertha describes her and her sister Gisela Pemper’s (née Gruber) deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp…
204. 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…
205. Hess and Spier families papers
2016.461.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2016.461.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-2010
…Hannah Spier Hess was born on 12 February 1934 in Hannover, Germany, the daughter of Alfred Spier (1900-1937), a teacher, and Ruth (née Steinberg…
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 …, Germany, and his wife, Hannah Spier Hess, originally of Wolfenbüttel, Germany, relating the experiences of their families who fled Germany in 1939 due to…
206. H. Frank Brull papers
2013.377.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2013.377.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1947
… a cousin of his mother's. When that arrangement did not work out, and he was on the verge of being sent back to Germany, the wife of Rabbi Stephen…
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 … back to Germany in early 1934, the wife of Rabbi Stephen Wise arranged for Brull to live with a foster parent in New York. Brull's father was arrested…
207. Hildegard Vicktor papers
2015.531.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.531.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-circa 2013
…Hildegard (Hilde) Vicktor (1909-2012) was born in Böchingen, Germany, just outside Landau, to wine merchant Eugene Kern (1877-1935) and his wife…
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 … visits to Germany. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored offsite. Please…
208. Hinsel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.721.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1960
…Luneberg, Germany, and Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp documents and realia collection…
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 …: Hinsel (Family : Lüneburg, Germany) Extent: 1.2 linear feet (2 boxes, 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
209. Hirschfeld family papers
2012.337.1 Box 6 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2012.337.1
Date:
inclusive: 1894-1970
…Hans Hirschfeld (born Naumann Hans Horst Hirschfeld; 1919-1969) was born in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) to Alfred (1894-1953) and Maria…
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 ….337.1 Creator: Hirschfeld family (Breslau :Germany) Extent: 2.34 linear feet (6 boxes, 4 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
210. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families papers
2016.500.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.500.1
Date:
inclusive: 1886-2016
bulk: 1938-1945
…Ralph Hockley was born Rudolf (Rudi or Rudy) Hockenheimer on October 17, 1925, in Karlsruhe, Germany to Julius (Jules, b. October 22, 1886 in…
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 …, and Brock families papers Dates: 1886-2016 Accession number: 2016.500.1 Creator: Hockenheimer (Family : Karlsruhe, Germany) Additional creator: Fraenkel…
211. 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…
212. Holocaust survivor
Document | Accession Number: 1991.080 | RG Number: RG-02.030
Date:
1920-1975
Subtitle:
A mother writes to her children
…Germany. Gestapo…
213. 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…
214. Honig family papers
2002.70.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.70.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2002
…Jack (Heinz) Honig (1921-2012) was born in Alsenz, Germany, to Julius (1886-1924) and Rudolfine (née Sternheimer, 1889-1942) Honig. He was imprisoned…
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 … (Family : Alsenz, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear foot (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
215. Horst Biesold collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0133 | RG Number: RG-10.320
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1988
…The collection includes original and photocopies of documents relating to Bertholdt Jacobs and Margarete Crohn who lived in Berlin, Germany and fled…
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 … Bavarian television for the hearing impaired about Kristallnacht and subsequent developments in Germany with special emphasis on the Nazis dealings with the…
216. Humboldt University Archives records
Document | Accession Number: 2001.166 | RG Number: RG-68.009M
Date:
1918-1946
…Racism--Germany--History--20th century.…
217. IG Farbenindustrie AG, Frankfurt/Main (Fond 1457)
Document | Accession Number: 2004.756.7 | RG Number: RG-11.001M.78
Date:
inclusive: 1856-1949
bulk: 1938-1945
Alternate Title:
I.G. Farben Corporation
… government contractor after the Nazi takeover of Germany, providing significant material for the German war effort and becoming embroiled in regime policy…
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 … War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany. World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects. Chemical industry--Political aspects--Germany--History. Chemical…
218. Ilona Kellner papers
2017.645.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.645.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2002
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… Czechoslovakia, and became a part of Hungary in approximately 1938. During the 1930s, Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany, and in 1938, Hungary’s fascist regime…
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 …, Pelsöc had become part of Czechoslovakia, and became a part of Hungary in approximately 1938. During the 1930s, Hungary was an ally of Nazi Germany, and in…
219. Ilse and Horst Abraham papers
2016.538.10 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2016.538.10
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-2011
…Ilse Brilling (1927-2016) was born to Hedwig (nee, Finkenstein, 1891-1959) and Isidor (1895-1939) Brilling in Rastenburg, Germany (now Kętrzyn…
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 … include biographical materials, correspondence, and photographs documenting Ilse Abraham from Rastenburg, Germany, Horst (Harry) Abraham from Leipzig…
220. Imre Patai diaries and albums
2000.155 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.155
Date:
inclusive: circa 1924-1995
bulk: 1924-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Personal narratives.…
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 …, approximately 1920s-1995 Series 2: Diaries, 1924-1949 Indexing terms Patai, Imre, d. 1949 Jambor, Agi. Biophysicists. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany…
221. Inscribed Siddur carried through hiding and slave labor by a Jewish Polish survivor
Object | Accession Number: 2018.369.3
Date:
use: approximately 1921-approximately 1998
…-?), Samuel (1916-?), Lana (later Lena Mandelkorn, 1916-?), Etta (1918-?), and Chaia (later Chust, 1920-?). On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded and occupied…
222. 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…
223. Isidor Gross papers
2012.433.1 Box 1 Folder 20 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2012.433.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1997
bulk: 1936-1945
…Isidore (later Edward) Gross was born on October 31, 1921, in Aachen, Germany, to Markus and Ida Reiter Gross. Markus was born on July 27, 1895, in…
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 …, Germany for the United States and successfully rescued his mother and two younger siblings from a holding camp. Included in this collection are several…
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224. Israel Elefant family photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.475.1
Date:
creation: circa 1929-1946
undated: 
…-war family photographs in Łódź, Poland and post-war photographs taken in the Deggendorf DP camp, Germany.…
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 … Elefant in the Łódź ghetto. 3. Identification photograph of Israel Elefant, Deggendorf, Germany, 1946. Israel Elefant (1917-1999) was born in Ostroviec…
225. Jablow family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.442.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-1975
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
226. Jack and Sonia Rubin papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.233
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1946
… Bremenhaven, Germany; and six pre-World War II photographs of Jack Rubin and his family.…
227. Jack Moses papers
1993.43 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1993.43
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1983
bulk: 1915-1947
…Jack Moses (1915-1996) was born in Burg bei Magdeburg, Germany to Julius Moses (1875-1956) and Louise (Liesbeth) Moses (1876-1968). He immigrated to…
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 … collection http://collections.ushmm.org concentration camps of Poland and Germany. The collection previously cataloged as accession 1995.A.0281 has been…
228. Jacob and Rita Litman papers, including Samuel Golfard diary
2008.269.2 Box 1 Folder 19 Image 75
Document | Accession Number: 2008.269.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1984
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… also helped Litman escape from the forced labor camp and go into hiding. After the war, Litman found his way to Germany, where he worked in a displaced…
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 …, restitution files, and photographs primarily documenting Jacob and Rita Litman’s experiences at the displaced persons camp at Bayerisch Gmain, Germany, from…
229. Jacob Robinson papers
2013.506.1 Box 4 Folder 15 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2013.506.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1977
bulk: 1939-1977
… developing the Israeli diplomatic service. In 1952, he drafted the reparations agreement between Israel and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). His brother…
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 … of Germany (FRG). His brother Nehemiah (1898–1964) was also a brilliant lawyer. He was Jacob’s close partner and successor as director of the IJA, and…
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230. Jacoby family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.431.1
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1949
…Contains correspondence from Else and Hermann Jacoby in Küstrin and Berlin in Germany to their only son, Heinz (later Yakov) Jacoby in Palestine…
231. Jakob Ascher papers
2011.403.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 2011.403.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1960
… Abraham (b. August 26, 1928). Jakob served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during WWI and settled in Breslau, Germany (currently Wrocław, Poland) after the war…
232. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… 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…
233. James G. McDonald collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.220.1
Date:
inclusive: 1873-2010
… extensively, making nearly annual trips to Germany and witnessing Hitler's rise to power firsthand. In 1933, McDonald became the League of Nations High…
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 … Commissioner for Refugees from Germany, chairman of President Roosevelt’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, member of the Anglo-American Committee of…
234. Jenny Brody papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.103.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1923-1984
…Berlin (Germany)…
235. John and Dorothy Fried Goldmeier papers
2014.101.1 Box 2 Folder 3 Image 121
Document | Accession Number: 2014.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2002
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Hans Goldmeier was born on July 20, 1928 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, to Isidor and Erna Lippmann Goldmeier. Hans had an older brother, Rolf. In…
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 … Main, Germany, to England as part of the Kindertransport, his schooling at the Stoatley Rough boarding school with other refugee children, his post-war…
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  • File 1: Loose photographs 1908-2005
    • Pages: 9
236. John and Harriet Isaack papers
1992.53.45 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1992.53.45
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1991
… costume seamstress Harriet Bondy (1909-2003), born in Hohenlimburg to Hermann and Olga Bondy. The couple married in 1937 and left Germany for Shanghai…
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 … documenting the Isaack’s escape from Germany, life in occupied Shanghai, and immigration to the United States. Languages: English, German, Chinese…
237. John M. Steiner collection
Document | Accession Number: 2016.566.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-2014
… State Prison. In 1962, he moved to Germany to pursue his doctorate at the University of Freiburg, examining social structures of the National Socialist…
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 … during his research. Reflections on experiences in Nazi death camps, DS135.C97 S735 2001 Power politics and social change in National Socialist Germany : a…
238. John Scott collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.397.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1965
bulk: 1940-1950
… the spring of 1946, he married Emily Salt Scott and went overseas to work for the Counter-Intelligence Corps in Germany. Emily later joined him; the…
239. John William Fisher papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.261.1
Date:
inclusive: 1884-1974
…, Germany to Wilhelm and Hermina (née Lederer, d. 1917) Schwarz. Martha’s father married Klara Löwy (b. 1895) after Hermina died and they had at least one…
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 … Hanus Fischer) and his family, originally from Pilsen, Czechoslovakia, and his mother Martha Fischer’s (née Schwarz) family of Pilsen and Cham, Germany…
240. 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…
241. 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…
242. 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…
243. Josepha Lanzinger collection
2008.248.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2008.248.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1959
… Schachter and her parents Filip and Janina during the Holocaust in Poland and Germany when they lived in hiding under assumed identities, and after the…
244. Joseph and Loeb family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0035 | RG Number: RG-28.013.01
Date:
inclusive: 1902-1963
… marriage and death certificates); documents relating to the Josephs' efforts to emigrate to the United States from Germany, Mrs. Joseph's new life after…
245. Joseph and Rosalie Holler papers
2002.437.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2002.437.1
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1967
…, Austria (now Przemysl, Poland) to Jakob Walker (1876-1941) and Gisela Walker. They lived in Stettin, Germany (now Szczecin, Poland) with their children…
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 …, Germany and their immigration to the United States in 1939. Languages: German, English, Polish, Yiddish, Hebrew Administrative Information…
246. Joseph family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.492.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1997
…Salli Joseph (1886-1943) was born in Neuenbürg, Germany to Manne and Dorothea (née Danziger) Joseph. He served in World War I with the German Army…
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 ….492.1 Creator: Joseph family (Berlin :Germany) Extent: .5 linear feet (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
247. Joseph Spitz papers
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0036 | RG Number: RG-10.327
Date:
1930-1946
…Refugees, Jewish--Germany.…
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 … Judith, who perished in Auschwitz in 1944. 4. 1 photoprint: b&w. Photograph of Joseph Spitz taken in the Weilheim Displaced Persons camp in Germany, 1946…
248. Judith Cromwell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1990
bulk: 1914-1950
…Judith Cromwell was born Judith Hanna Lissauer on 13 November 1935 in Berlin, Germany to John and Charlotte Lissauer. Her father, John Lissauer (1890…
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 …), including John and Charlotte’s medical careers in Berlin, Germany, John’s World War I military service, their immigration to England in 1939, and Judith and…
249. Julia Schor papers
2002.299.15 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2002.299.15
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1999
…, details her mother’s childhood in Meuselwitz and romantic life in Germany and the Netherlands, her own childhood in Amsterdam, the German invasion of the…
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 … born in 1937 in Amsterdam to Rosemarie Schink Ensel (1909-2004), a Christian from Meuselwitz, Germany, and Wilhelm Weinberg (1886-1957), a married Jewish…
250. Julius Strassburger family correspondence
2000.159 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2000.159
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1965
… began to make plans to leave Germany in the summer of 1935. He obtained visas for his family with the help of his cousins Harvey, Eugene, and William…
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 …‐2126 Abstract: The Julius Strassburger family correspondence documents his family’s immigration to the United States from Weinheim, Germany in 1936…