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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. Edith Horn family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.573.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2000
bulk: 1949-1963
…Karl and Max Horn were brothers, two of the sons of Benjamin and Elfriede (née Schreiber) Horn, originally of Vorst, Germany. The family was…
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 … representing the Horn family in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Germany, between 1949 and 1981. Also included is family correspondence from a relative in Kibbutz Givat…
4. 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…
5. Leo Spellman photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.602.1
Date:
creation: circa 1926-circa 1955
…, Germany, circa 1945-1950. Pictured in the group photograph are musicians, including (seated left to right) unidentified, Jonas Turkow, Diana Blumenfeld, and…
6. 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…
7. Edward Anders papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0231
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1973
… received an induction notice from the Waffen-SS but was given a deferment because of his non-Aryan background; their escape to Germany in 1944 where they…
8. Lindheim family papers
2014.206.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2014.206.1
Date:
inclusive: 1923-2012
…Fred Lindheim was born on July 3, 1932 to Berthold Lindheim (1895-1973) and Hertha (née Frankel, 1897-1992) Lindheim in Frankfurt am Main, Germany…
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 ….206.1 Creator: Lindheim family (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Extent: 7 folders Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg…
9. Susi Cohn Podgurski papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0045 | RG Number: RG-10.286
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1992
bulk: 1938-1947
…, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. Martin Cohn was a dentist and served in World War I. Prior to June 1939, Eugen Hirschfeld lost his home. He moved in with the…
10. 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…
11. Small, yellow warning pennant with a skull and crossbones acquired by a US soldier
2013.453.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.453.7
Date:
found: 1945-1946
use: 1941 July-1945
… following day the United States declared war on Japan, and on December 11, Germany declared war on the United States. On October 31, 1942 Harold was drafted…
12. Sigall family papers
2017.237.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2017.237.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1949
…Emmy Loeb (1923-2015) was born Emmy Hanna Sigall in Darmstadt, Germany, on 31 May 1923, the daughter of Hermann Nathan Sigall (1898-1941), a furrier…
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 … Darmstadt, Germany, on a “Kindertransport” to Britain in 1939; her settlement in Britain; and the efforts of her parents, Hermann and Natalie Sigall, and…
13. 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…
14. Henry Hirschmann papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.205.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2013
…Henry Hirschmann was born Heinz Hirschmann in Grossauheim, Germany, on August 5, 1920. His parents, Maier and Ida Hahn Hirschmann, had three sons…
15. 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…
16. 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…
17. 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.…
18. 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.…
19. 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…
20. Tom Hardisty collection
2012.246.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2012.246.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1947
…The collection consists of a poster, correspondence, and documents relating to the activities and administration of the Nazi Party in Germany and…
21. Günther and Kohlmann families correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2015.551.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1999
bulk: 1937-1941
… Isidor’s butcher shop. In 1937, Camilla left Germany for New York, where she subsequently met and married Walter Kohlmann. Camilla’s sister, Henny and…
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 …, family tree, articles and copies of photographs, related to the family of Camilla Günther-Kohlmann, originally of Brodenbach a.d. Mosel, Germany, and her…
22. 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…
23. Hedwig Goldmann papers
Document | Accession Number: 2000.403.1
Date:
creation: 1939-1946
… Deggendorf.Germany, displaced persons camp; a certificate of labor performed in the Theresienstadt ghetto, issued in July 1945 to Hedwig Goldmann; a letter…
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 …, thanking her for her usefulness and wishes her a successful future. 2. Identification card issued to Hedwig Goldmann; No. G08285467, Deggendorf, Germany…
24. 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…
25. 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…
26. Sender Wajsman papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0024 | RG Number: RG-26.001
Date:
1936-1991
…Germany. Gestapo…
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 … arranged chronologically. Indexing Terms Wajsman, Sender. Germany. -- Geheime Staatspolizei. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Lithuania -- Vilnius…
27. Ann Benjamin Goldberg papers
1999.34.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.34.3
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1949
…, Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and Chana fled eastwards from Zetel with a group of her schoolmates. She eventually arrived in Aktyubinsk in southern…
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 … Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection consists of a health card, certificate issued in Bremen, Germany, and photographs…
28. 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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29. 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…
30. 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…
31. 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…
32. 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…
33. 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…
34. Moshe Sheps photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.439.1
Date:
creation: circa 1925-1946
…" in Gersfeld, Germany and in Italy awaiting immigration to Palestine; four family photographs from Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland; and three photographs of…
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 ….” 18. Photograph of a group of Jewish survivors during their stay in “Kibbutz Buchenwald,” Germany, November 27, 1945. Inscribed in Polish: “Stride in…
35. Mikhail Lev collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.12 | RG Number: RG-68.118
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2008
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Ukraine--Personal narratives, Jewish. Geography: Germany. Israel. Minsk (Belarus)--History--20th century. Poland. Ravensbrück…
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 …- 1964 Inquiries to various official institutions and individuals in Poland, France, Germany and received responses 17 pp. Correspondence of editor of…
36. Tajna Policja Państwowa w Łodzi. Oddział w Łodzi (Sygn. 201)
Document | Accession Number: 2013.32 | RG Number: RG-15.260M
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1954
Alternate Title:
Geheime Staatspolizei Staatspolizeistelle in Litzmannstadt
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei…
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 … number: 2013.32 Creator: Germany. Geheime Staatspolizei Extent: 9 microfilm reels Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul…
37. Lilienthal and Fraenkel families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.170.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
…Dr. Eugen Lilienthal (1876-1947?) was born in Cologne, Germany on 24 July 1876. After obtaining his medical degree from the University of Freiburg…
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 … husband, Max, when they left Germany in 1939 and immigrated to the United States, including German passports, affidavits from sponsors in the United…
38. Harry and Helen Berger papers
2017.596.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2017.596.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1972
…, postwar identification papers documenting Harry’s and Helen’s status as displaced persons in Germany, marriage records, immigration papers documenting Helen…
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 … as displaced persons in Germany, marriage records, immigration papers documenting Helen’s immigration and naturalization, and restitution papers…
39. 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…
40. von Halle family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.177 | RG Number: RG-10.166
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1947
…Oscar Louis von Halle (1886-1944) was born on October 1, 1886 in Hamburg, Germany. He served in the military during World War I. After the war, he…
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 … history: Katelynn Vance, July 2020. Biographical note Oscar Louis von Halle (1886-1944) was born on October 1, 1886 in Hamburg, Germany. He served in the…
41. George Schwab photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.94.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1948
… his mother in Berlin in May 1946 and left Germany for New York on the American troop carrier “Marine Perch” in February 1947. A resident of New York…
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 …, Germany, fall 1945. 2. Photograph of a Chris Lerman standing outside, two soldiers and a man walking behind her, a car is seen parked on the street, a…
42. 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…
43. Richard Towne collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.447.8
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1972
… the persecution of Jews in Germany. Also includes Richard H. Towne's notes on his memories of the relationship between Ebhardt and Towne's father, as…
44. 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.…
45. Rosenfeld family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2003.223.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-circa 1979
…Adolf Rosenfeld (1898-1942) was born on June 16, 1898 in Korb, Germany. He married Katherine Rosenfeld (née Lemberger, 1899-1942) who was born on…
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 … Catalog number: 2003.223.2 Creator: Rosenfeld (Family: Adelsheim, Germany) Extent: 1 box, 1 oversize box Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum…
46. Ruth Wertheim papers
2004.676.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2004.676.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1946
bulk: 1945-1946
…Ruth Wertheim (later Bacow, 1927-1994) was born in Giesen, Germany on March 28, 1927 to Leopold (1891-1944) and Emma Wertheim (1896-1944). Before the…
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 … gewiss.” Since he was handicapped our chances of getting out of Germany were nil when anti semitism reared it’s ugly head. In 1933 I started my first…
47. Metis family papers
2004.575.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2004.575.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1967
bulk: 1939
…Annette Virginia Metis (later Gallagher) was born on December 20, 1930, in Grunberg, Germany, to Felix and Lotte Metis. Felix (1989-1984) was born in…
48. 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…
49. Meir Shapiro family photographs
2013.227.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2013.227.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1947
…Photographs relating to the experiences of Meir Shapiro and his family surrounding the Holocaust in Poland and Germany. Included are pre-war…
50. Antoni Czerniewski papers
Document | Accession Number: 2011.396.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1996
bulk: 1930-1956
… in the Polish Army taken POW and imprisoned in Oflag XI B in Germany; his older brother, Dr. Aleksander Czerniewski was executed by the Soviets in…