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1. 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…
2. 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…
3. Joseph Rosen papers
Document | Accession Number: 1996.139
Date:
creation: 1945-1946
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
4. Oral history interview with Mendel Herskovitz
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.8 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0008
Date:
interview: 1946 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Concentration camp guards--Germany.…
5. Eugene Berger collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.462.1
Date:
creation: 1945-1946
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … corpses laying on the ground in the Buchenwald concentration camp, Buchenwald, Germany, April 1945. 2. Photograph of men and women standing next to gallows…
6. 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
7. 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…
8. 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.…
9. 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…
10. Oral history interview with Jurek Kestenberg
Oral History | Accession Number: 1998.A.0159.9 | RG Number: RG-50.472.0009
Date:
interview: 1946 July 31
Special Collection:
The Jeff and Toby Herr Oral History Archive
…Children's songs--Germany.…
11. 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…
12. Alwin Steinitz writings
Document | Accession Number: 2011.332.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1947
… his imprisonment as an anti-Nazi journalist, of life in Buchenwald, of liberation, and of post-war Germany.…
13. 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
14. 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…
15. Jan Jozef Gasior papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.581.2
Date:
inclusive: 1945-circa 1950
…Augsburg (Germany)…
16. 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…
17. 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…
18. 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
19. 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.…
20. 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…
21. Concentration camp uniform likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
2012.441.2 a front
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.2 a-b
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… 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…
22. 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…
23. 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…
24. Prisoner badge likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.6
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… 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…
25. Commemorative armband likely acquired postwar by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.7
Date:
acquired: after 1945 April-before 2012
… 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…
26. Alfred Fabian papers
1995.78.11 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.78.11
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1947
…Alfred Fabian was born on May 24, 1910, in Neumark, Germany (now Nowe Miasto Lubawskie, Poland), to a Jewish couple. Alfred’s mother was Erna Leyser…
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 …: Julie Schweitzer, February 2016 Biographical note Alfred Fabian (1910‐1998) was born in Neumark, Kreis Löbau, Germany (Nowa Marchia, Poland). He…
27. Brown plastic wallet with a memorial emblem owned by Natan Caron
Object | Accession Number: 2012.441.5
Date:
received: approximately 1950
… 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…
28. Dr. Hans Stück collection
Document | Accession Number: 2014.347.1
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1948
…Dr. Hans Stück was a lawyer and notary originally of Wiesbaden, Germany. Though he was a member of the Nazi party, he assisted a number of Jews in…
29. 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.…
30. 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…
31. Lt. Col. George R. Snyder papers
2012.391.2 Box 1 Folder 12 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2012.391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1947
… Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg. Subjects include the Camp New Orleans, German and Polish…
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 …. George R. Snyder documenting the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp, Landsberg prison, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, and Luxembourg…
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32. 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…
33. Buchenwald war crimes trial collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.339
Date:
1945-1998
… in Dachau, Germany, in 1947. Includes the official case booklet, photographs of the grounds of the Dachau camp, an album of newspaper clippings related…
34. Judith Bar-Nadav family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0129 | RG Number: RG-10.314
Date:
1938-1972
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Buchenwald--Germany--Photographs.…
35. Carl Heinz Rosner papers
2016.308.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2016.308.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2010
bulk: 1930-1957
…Carl Heinz Rosner (born Karl Heinz Rosner, 1929-) was born on 4 April 1929 in Hamburg, Germany to David and Rachel (née Hausner) Rosner. He had two…
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 … Carl Heinz Rosner of Hamburg, Germany including his stay at a Jewish orphanage from 1937-1942; the deportation of Rosner and his brother Joseph to the…
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36. 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…
37. Selected records of postwar East German investigative court cases and trials to Nazi war crimes
Document | Accession Number: 2004.300 | RG Number: RG-14.068
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1990
Subtitle:
Records ZUV
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.…
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 … Finding Aid RG-14 Germany Revised Sep. 17, 2012 RG-14.068 Acc. 2004.300 Title: Postwar East German Investigative Court Cases and Trials to Nazi War Crimes…
38. 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…
39. Document case owned by a German Jewish refugee in the Shanghai Ghetto
2017.661.2 Cover
Object | Accession Number: 2017.661.2
Date:
emigration: 1939-1947
… at home, but did celebrate the high holidays. On January 30, 1933, Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, and the Nazi regime passed legislation to…
40. Howard Cwick papers
Document | Accession Number: 1989.233 | RG Number: RG-09.069
Date:
inclusive: 1945-2005
… entitled "It Happened in Germany," 21 pages, by Howard Cwick, a sergeant in the Third United States Army. Mr. Cwick participated in the liberation of…
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 … photoprints, and twenty copyprints of the Buchenwald concentration camp at liberation. Also contains a memoir entitled,"It Happened in Germany," 21 pages, by…
41. 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…
42. Abraham Lewent papers
1989.242.32 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1989.242.32
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1950
… Eibeshitz, moved in with them. On September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland. Warsaw was bombed and they had no water, heat, or food. For weeks, they ate only…
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 …, an identification card from the Feldafing displaced persons camp, a membership card for the Council of Warsaw Jews in the American Zone of Germany, a…
43. Maurice and Elisabeth La Kerr papers
2016.287.1 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.287.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1960
bulk: 1945-1951
… Investigation. In 1945 he joined the United States Army as a fingerprint classifier for the Public Safety division in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His division was…
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 … collection documents Maurice La Kerr’s post-war experiences in Germany and France as a fingerprint analyst with the United States Army. Maurice worked in…
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44. Arthur and Rose Gelbart collection
2000.506.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 65
Document | Accession Number: 2000.506.1
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1949
… with his sisters in the Weiden displaced persons camp in Germany. Abram eventually immigrated to the United States in March, 1947. In 1948 he was…
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 … Gelbart, wearing a concentration camp uniform and a cap. Dated June 1945; location: Altenburg, Germany. 3) Arthur Abram Gelbart, at the age of 16 years…
45. Basel family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0268 | RG Number: RG-19.054
Date:
inclusive: 1906-1975
… Liebgold. David Brodmann was liberated from the Buchenwald concentration camp. Rysza and Fela were liberated during a death march in Grimma, Germany. After…
46. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
…Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma, and Ruth. Arthur worked as a draftsman by trade, but as…
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 …. Processing history: Michael Folkerts, July 2015 Biographical note Arthur and Marie Majerowicz lived in Berlin, Germany and had three children: Kurt, Irma…
47. Ludwig and Hedwig Stein collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.370.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1961
…Consists of passports, documents, and correspondence related to Ludwig and Hedwig Stein, originally of Frankfurt, Germany. Ludwig and his wife…
48. Randolph Braham collection
Document | RG Number: RG-52.000
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2011
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … Against Germany. Hungarian historian and archivist Elek Karsai (1922-1986) served as project director. The collection was titled the "I-sorozat" (I-series…
49. Philip D. Vock papers
1997.11.13 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1997.11.13
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1975
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… overseas in Germany and France.…
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 … forcibly drafted into the French Air Force. He immigrated to the United States in 1951 and became a citizen after serving in the US army overseas in Germany…
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  • Series 1: Philip D. Vock papers 1941-1975, Undated
    • File 4: Journal 1945
50. Frank Shurman collection
1995.A.0362 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0362
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1994
…Frank Shurman (1915-1999) was born Fritz Schürmann in Hildesheim, Germany to Willy and Alma Schürmann. His father owned a custom-tailoring business…