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1. Hans Posner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2001.240.1
Date:
creation: 1920-1950
…Hans Joachim Posner was born on January 22, 1927 in Dresden, Germany, to Georg Josef Posner (d. 1936) and Fanny Leschziner Posner (d. 1943). Georg…
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 …, Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland), 1929-1930. 2. Photograph of Hans Joachim Posner and his brother, Freddy Posner, Beuthen, Germany (now Bytom, Poland…
2. Renate Fleischer Fajer collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.415.1
Date:
creation: 1915-1957
… born in Posen, Germany (today: Poznan, Poland) on September 28, 1904. She was the oldest child of Else Bieber Kroner (b. October 14, 1879) and Robert…
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 … Army during World War I, 1915. 2. Photograph of Else and Robert Kroner, parents of Ilse Kroner, Breslau, Germany, circa 1935. 3. Photograph of Suzi…
3. Ullrich Remak papers
2014.425.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.425.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1973
bulk: 1939-1944
… children were sent to Britain, Nanni Remak continued her efforts to emigrate from Germany, initialing applying for a visa to immigrate to the United States…
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 …, immigration documents, newsletters, and other documents related to the immigration of Ullrich Remak from Breslau, Germany to Scotland on a Kindertransport in…
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4. 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…
5. 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
6. Heilborn and Fassberg family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.339.1
Date:
inclusive: 1840-2009
bulk: 1933-1946
…Theodor Heilborn (1883-1969) was born on September 8, 1883 in Berlin, Germany, to Siegfried (1843-1923) and Jenny Heilborn (née Cohn, 1853-1934…
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 … Berlin, Germany and Harold Fassberg, from Ohio. Administrative Information Access: There are no known restrictions on access to this material. Reproduction…
7. Kraicer family photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2000.291.1
Date:
creation: 1917-1950
… Zychlin to apprentice as a barber. He participated in Poaley Zion, a Zionist youth organization. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded and occupied Poland…
8. Simon Slivka photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.596.1
Date:
creation: circa 1920-1946
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … stay in the Bergen Belsen DP camp, Germany, April 29, 1946. Inscribed in Polish: “To my dear friend I give my photograph, Erna Izak.” 6. Photograph of an…
9. Harpuder family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.240.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1952
…Ralf Heinz Harpuder was born on April 12, 1934, in Berlin, Germany, to Hans (Hern) and Gerda Lewin Harpuder. Hans was born on November 26, 1901, in…
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 …-2126 Abstract: The Harpuder family papers documents the experiences of the Harpuder family in Berlin, Germany and Shanghai, China, 1915-1952; as well as…
10. German Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND): Records related to War Crime Trials, German Federal Archives Koblenz (BND B 206)
Document | Accession Number: 2018.347.1 | RG Number: RG-14.117M
Date:
inclusive: 1919-1945
bulk: 1946-1960
…The Federal Intelligence Service (German: Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinated to the…
11. Rothstern family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.186.3
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1960
… employees. In February 1939, Irma left Germany via the Brenner Pass into Italy, from which she travelled to China, arriving in Shanghai in March of that…
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 … cards, letters of reference, photographs, and other items, that primarily document the lives of Irma Rothstern and her son Heinz, of Hamburg, Germany…
12. Margaret Anne Goldsmith Hanaw collection
1995.A.0106 Box 4 Folder 11 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0106 | RG Number: RG-10.237
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1986
bulk: 1937-1954
…Joseph and Caroline Schiffmann of Hoppstaedten, Germany had three children: Gustav Schiffmann, Isaak Schiffmann (1856-1910), and Johanna Schiffmann…
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 …, Alabama) Additional creator: Marx (Family: Germany) Extent: 4 boxes Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place…
13. 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.…
14. Ernst Berl papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.392.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1954
bulk: 1933-1946
…, Germany, where he remained on the faculty until 1933, when the Nazis gained power in Germany, and Jewish faculty members were forced out of their positions…
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 …, and his immigration to the United States in 1933. Included is correspondence with other émigré academics from Austria and Germany during the 1930s and…
15. 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…
16. Ostwald family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2018.663.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1850-2011
bulk: circa 1890-1959
… (June 6, 1884-September 7, 1943) married Hedwig Strauss (November 27, 1889-October 1944) on December 19, 1920 in Dortmund, Germany. They had two children…
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 …: 1890s-1950s Accession number: 2018.663.1 Creator: Ostwald (Family: Dortmund, Germany) Additional creator: Strauss family Additional creator: Tendlau…
17. Ceramic change holder in the shape of an Orthodox Jewish man
2016.184.4 bottom
Object | Accession Number: 2016.184.4
Date:
manufacture: 1890-1962
Special Collection:
Katz Ehrenthal Collection
…Germany…
18. Rosenwald and Stahl families papers
2017.222.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 21
Document | Accession Number: 2017.222.1
Date:
inclusive: 1885-1980
bulk: 1920-1955
…Gerhard (later Gerald) Stahl was born on 3 May 1922, to Martin and Sofie (née Bauer) Stahl, in Nuremberg, Germany. He left for Britain (on a…
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 … of Otto and Elfriede Rosenwald, and their daughter, Helene, from Germany in 1936, to escape Nazi persecution. Includes materials from their extended…
19. 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…
20. Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.85.1
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2011
…Friedrich Wilhelm Schilling (1902-1939) was born on February 12, 1902 near Leipzig, Germany to Karl Schilling (1874-1958) and Luise Schilling (née…
21. Werner Katzenstein postcards
Document | Accession Number: 2014.307.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1948
…Werner Katzenstein was born on April 29, 1922, in Wallensen, Germany. In 1933, the Nazi dictatorship took control of Germany. All the male Jews in…
22. Sonneborn, Stern, and Bing families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.130.1
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1960
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Netherlands. Ommen (The Netherlands) Germany. Genre / Form: Photographs. Photograph albums. Correspondence. Genealogy. https://collections.ushmm.org Contact…
23. Gabryela Bromberg collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.201.1
Date:
creation: 1880-1968
…The Gabryela Bromberg collection consists of seven pre-war family photographs of the Bromberg family in Lublin, Poland and Berlin, Germany, and the…
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 … Krępiec, villa “Regina” dated 1927; Krępiec, near Lublin, Poland; in Polish. 2. Photograph of Gitla Gustawa Bromberg, Berlin, Germany, circa 1880. Printed…
24. Annelise B. Hoffman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0257
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1998
bulk: 1938-1942
… experiences of the Bernhardt family, Ernst, Ella, and their children Erika, Annelise, and Hans, of Berlin, Germany, during the early years of the Third Reich…
25. Chaim Melamed papers
Document | Accession Number: 2005.252.1
Date:
inclusive: after 1916-1947
… brought to Heiderhorst for recovery. From there he went to Finnhorst, outside Hannover, Germany, where he met Maryla Krause, a fellow survivor from Łódź…
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 …, Germany, circa 1946. 4. Photograph of Isuchor Melamed, a pre-war portrait. Isuchor Melamed did not survive the Holocaust. 5. Photograph of Fajga Frymet…
26. Kollander family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.415.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1971
…Consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the Kollander family, originally of Leipzig, Germany. The bulk of the collection is…
27. Vollweiler family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.353.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1994
…Else Rosenbaum Vollweiler was born on September 14, 1914 in Treuchtlingen, Germany to Issak Rosenbaum (d. 1930) and Pauline Rosenbaum. Her father…
28. 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…
29. Selected records from the collection Ministry of the Interior (Miscellaneous)
Document | Accession Number: 2005.227 | RG Number: RG-25.023M
Date:
inclusive: 1910-1957
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
30. Erika Behr and Rudolf Faller collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.66.1
Date:
inclusive: 1874-1965
bulk: 1874-1942
…. Bernhard Behr died on March 8, 1933. Fanny and Erika Behr immigrated to the United States from Germany on October 12, 1939. Erika Behr married Rudolf Faller…
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 … Germany and their immigration to the United States. Languages: German, English Administrative information Access: Collection is open for use. Reproduction…
31. Lenore Khan collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.370.1
Date:
creation: 1875-1951
… Neustaetter family of Munich and Stuttgart, Germany.…
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 …. (202) 479-9717 e-mail: reference@ushmm.org Lenore Khan Collection Inventory 1. Photograph of man and woman, Germany, 1907; inscribed on both sides in…
32. Humboldt University Archives records
Document | Accession Number: 2001.166 | RG Number: RG-68.009M
Date:
1918-1946
…Racism--Germany--History--20th century.…
33. Goldstein family papers
1989.89 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1989.89
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1982
…Herman Goldstein (1889-1943) was born on June 29, 1889 in Herford, Germany to Veterinarian and Eugenie Goldstein. He had two brothers, Arthur and…
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 …: Goldstein family (Berlin, Germany) Extent: 0.1 (4 folders, 1 oversized folder) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
34. Greta Braude Heiman photographs
2003.246.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2003.246.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1952
… Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following their immigration to the United States. Photographs depict Greta, her parents…
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 … prints of Greta Braude Heiman and her Meyer and Michel relatives and friends in Hamm an der Sieg, Germany before the Holocaust and in Milwaukee following…
35. 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…
36. Teka Lwowska (Sygn. 229)
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0228 | RG Number: RG-15.069M
Date:
1898-1979
bulk: 1941-1945
Alternate Title:
Lwów files
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 … Against Germany. Accruals: Accruals may have been received since this collection was first processed, see the Archives catalog at collections…
37. Pinchas Shaar photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2005.456.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1975
… Szwarc (nee Zychlinska, 1892‐?). He had two brothers, Josef and Lajb, and a sister, Ester Ita. When Germany invaded Poland, Pinchas escaped with his…
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 … photographs of Pinchas Shaar and his family in the Łódź ghetto and after the war in Germany, France, and Israel; photographs of life in the Łódź ghetto by…
38. Morris Berk papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.456.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1914-1958
…Moritz Berk was born on April 9, 1891, in Schwanfeld, Germany, to Jewish parents, Adolf and Sophie (Sofie) Maier Berk. Adolf was born in…
39. Henry (Heinz) Wachs family papers
2016.443.1 Box 3 Folder 27 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.443.1
Date:
inclusive: 1850-2015
bulk: 1920-1950
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… children. In the mid-1930s, Henry’s older brother, Alfred, left Germany with the hopes of training at a Zionist-sponsored camp in Yugoslavia, in order to…
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 … currency from Poland and Germany from the 1910s and 1920s; and luggage tags and labels used when Henry Wachs immigrated to the United States in 1938…
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40. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
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 … Afterwards, he worked cleaning soldiers’ barracks. Eventually he returned to his uncle’s house in Bayreuth, Germany where he learned of the death of his family…
41. Chaim Kamelmacher collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.404.1
Date:
bulk: 1944-1952
inclusive: 1913-2013
…Holocaust survivors--Germany--Landsberg am Lech.…
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 … (Displaced persons camp) Displaced person. Holocaust survivors—Germany—Landsberg am Lech. Manevyt︠s︡ ʹkyĭ raĭon (Ukraine) CONTAINER LIST Box Folder 1 1…
42. Karliner family papers
1999.3.32 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1999.3.32
Date:
inclusive: circa 1909-1951
…The Karliner family lived in Peiskretscham (Silesia), Germany, now Pyskowice, Poland. Joseph Karliner (Josef, 1898-1943) married Martha Weissler (d…
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 ….3.32 Creator: Karliner family (Peiskretscham, Germany) Extent: 0.2 linear foot (3 folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
43. Aussenstelle Dahlwitz-Hoppegarten records : Records ZC
Document | Accession Number: 2009.6 | RG Number: RG-14.095M
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1955
…Bundesarchiv (Germany)…
44. Abe Weiss papers
1996.A.0081 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0081 | RG Number: RG-10.173
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1996
…-Semitic harassment, efforts to emigrate from Germany and Poland, Salomon Nachbar’s and Max Birnberg’s imprisonment in concentration camps, Chaim Dudowicz…
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 …://collections.ushmm.org report on anti-Semitic harassment, efforts to emigrate from Germany and Poland, Salomon Nachbar’s and Max Birnberg’s imprisonment in…
45. 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
…Bundesarchiv (Germany)…
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 … Gestapo Berlin Abteilung 710) from 1935 to 1937) 8 (3) Card indexes on concentration camps in Germany and the occupied territories 9 (4) Card index of the…
46. Erna Rettberg Bauer papers
1995.A.0962 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0962
Date:
inclusive: 1903-1995
bulk: 1991-1995
… 1927 the family returned to Germany for what was meant to be a three-month visit to check in on an investment property belonging to Julius and Anna. The…
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 … Rettberg Bauer, a United States citizen living in Nazi Germany with her parents in the years leading up to World War II, and her quest to regain ownership of…
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47. Reinsch family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.402.1
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1994
…-nineteenth century and started a fur export/import business with family remaining in Germany. During World War I, the business was broken up. Issak and Olga…
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 … emigrated to the United States in the mid-nineteenth century and started a fur export/import business with family remaining in Germany. During World War I…
48. Rosalie Herman and Max Honigsberg family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2022.39.5
Date:
inclusive: circa 1890-2013
…Rosalie Herman (b. December 11, 1929) and Max Honigsberg (b. November 27, 1931) were born in Hamburg, Germany, to Osias (Oscar, 1895-1963) and Hudi…
49. Dorothy Isaacsohn papers
2002.474.18 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2002.474.18
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1949
…Dorothea (Dorit) Isaacsohn (later Dorothy Isaacsohn, 1933-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Julius and Gertrud Koh Isaacsohn. Julius (1891-1943…
50. Theodor Kleinsorge papers
2015.587.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.587.1
Date:
inclusive: 1862-1979
bulk: 1914-1955
…Theodor Wilhelm Kleinsorge (1896-1945) was born on 13 May 1896 in Laßbruch, Germany to Hermann (1867-1926) and Anna Elise (née Schmidt, b. 1870…
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 … arrest of Theodor Kleinsorge, originally of Laßbruch, Germany, as a non‐Jewish political enemy of the Nazis in July 1944; his deportation to the Dachau…
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