Advanced Search

Learn About The Holocaust

Special Collections

My Saved Research

Login

Register

Help

Skip to main content

Search

Search Results

1. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…. Following the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, at the request of the German Jewish Community, Norbert helped arrange and escort twenty transports that took…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …th anniversary of Kristallnacht; lists of valuables to be returned to their Jewish owners; lists of Jews living in Lübeck in 1946; charitable organizations…
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
2. Paul Frey papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0109 | RG Number: RG-10.059.01
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
…Paul Frey, formerly known as Siegmund Freitag, a Polish Jew, had lived with his family in Essen, Germany prior to 08 Nov. 1938. After Kristallnacht…
3. Eva Fisher collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0130 | RG Number: RG-10.182
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1978
…Eva Fisher (née Cohen) was born to a Jewish family in Berlin, Germany, in 1936. After Kristallnacht, she and her family moved into the Jüdisches…
4. Alfred Büchler papers
1999.119 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.119
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
bulk: 1937-1942
… Brauer). His brother and sister were Heinrich (Henry) and Steffi Büchler. Jacques was arrested during Kristallnacht and imprisoned at Buchenwald, and…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … arrested during Kristallnacht and imprisoned at Buchenwald, and Henry was sent to Buchenwald two days later. Henry joined Steffi in England after his…
5. Reborn
Document | Accession Number: 1986.019.2 | RG Number: RG-02.004.01
Date:
1947-1986
Subtitle:
memoirs of a camp survivor
…Kristallnacht, 1938--Germany.…
6. Postwar Belgian gazette recording the death of a German Jewish concentration camp prisoner
Object | Accession Number: 2017.143.2
Date:
publication/distribution: 1950 January 08
Title:
Moniteur Belge, January 8, 1950
Alternate Title:
Belgisch Staatsblad
Belgian Official Gazette, January 8, 1950
… of Germany, and the Nazi regime passed legislation to disenfranchise the Jewish population. Norbert’s store was destroyed during the Kristallnacht…
7. John and Margot Loewenberg papers
1995.A.0265.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0265.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1947
… attended were closed. She was sent to a children’s home in Cologne, where she learned child care. She stayed there until the Kristallnacht, where many…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … learned child care. She stayed there until the Kristallnacht, where many nearby Jewish synagogues and businesses were destroyed. Margot was then sent…
8. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
2017.101.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2017.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1995
bulk: 1913-1949
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… assistance of a neighbor. During Kristallnacht on 11 November 1938, the family’s store was robbed. Her father had applied for visas to the United States, but…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … of Austria in 1938, Mendel was arrested, and only released with the assistance of a neighbor. During Kristallnacht on 11 November 1938, the family…
9. Abraham family papers
1996.126.3 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.126.3
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1960
…’s furniture business and later became a partner at the Berlin furniture store, Fechner and Preidel, which was destroyed during Kristallnacht. He married Ruth…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Berlin furniture store, Fechner and Preidel, which was destroyed during Kristallnacht. He married Ruth Fromm on December 30, 1938. Ruth Fromm (1913-2003…
10. Gerhard Maschkowski collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.523.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-2005
… implemented across Germany. On November 9-10, 1938, Kristallnacht, Gerhard saw Jewish stores looted and burned. He was beaten up in school for being Jewish and…
11. 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
…Henry F. Kahn (1925-2013) lived in Munich with his parents, Paul and Mimi Kahn. The morning following Kristallnacht, the family drove to Stuttgart to…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 … Henry F. Kahn (1925-2013) lived in Munich with his parents, Paul and Mimi Kahn. The morning following Kristallnacht, the family drove to Stuttgart to…
12. Margot Schwarzschild Wicki papers
2006.464.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2006.464.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-2003
…. In 1938, the sisters were no longer allowed to attend their public school because they were Jewish. During the Kristallnacht pogrom that November 8-9…
Your search appears in a finding aid linked to the detail record:
 …. During the Kristallnacht, their father Richard was arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp, before eventually being released. In October 1940…
13. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, Ursula’s school and synagogue were burned. By 1941-42, all their valuable possessions had been…
14. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.15 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.15
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… known as Kristallnacht, Irene’s school closed, and her parents enrolled her in an American school for diplomats’ children. On September 3, 1939, France…
15. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.16
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… known as Kristallnacht, Irene’s school closed, and her parents enrolled her in an American school for diplomats’ children. On September 3, 1939, France…
16. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.17
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… known as Kristallnacht, Irene’s school closed, and her parents enrolled her in an American school for diplomats’ children. On September 3, 1939, France…
17. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.18
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… known as Kristallnacht, Irene’s school closed, and her parents enrolled her in an American school for diplomats’ children. On September 3, 1939, France…
18. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.14
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… known as Kristallnacht, Irene’s school closed, and her parents enrolled her in an American school for diplomats’ children. On September 3, 1939, France…
19. Czechoslovakian commemorative Theresienstadt Memorial postage stamp, 50h, acquired by a former German Jewish inmate
2016.496.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 2016.496.19
Date:
issue: 1987 September 23
commemoration: 1947
… known as Kristallnacht, Irene’s school closed, and her parents enrolled her in an American school for diplomats’ children. On September 3, 1939, France…
20. First edition of Anne Frank’s Het Achterhuis given to a Dutch couple
Object | Accession Number: 2018.613.2 a-b
Date:
publication: 1947
Title:
Het Achterhuis
Subtitle:
dagboekbrieven van 12 Juni 1942 - 1 Augustus 1944
diary letters from 12 June 1942 - 1 August 1944
Alternate Title:
The Secret Annex
… from the ramifications of the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. Her brothers were able to immigrate to the United States, and in March 1939, her…