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1. Metz and Oberlaender families papers
2014.478.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 46
Document | Accession Number: 2014.478.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2015
bulk: 1915-1950
… documents related to Gabrielle Metz Oberlaender include her emigration and naturalization documents and menus from the SS Veendam, August 27, 1939-September 4…
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 … to Gabrielle Metz Oberlaender include her emigration and naturalization documents and menus from the SS Veendam, August 27, 1939-September 4, 1939…
2. Henry Blumenstein family papers
2000.388.1 Box 1 Folder 35 Image 153
Document | Accession Number: 2000.388.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1994
…Henry Blumenstein donated the Henry Blumenstein family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 and 2002. The accession…
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 ….ushmm.org Acquisition information: Henry Blumenstein donated the Henry Blumenstein family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 and 2002. The…
3. Haim Roet papers
2010.137.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.137.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1981
…, public transportation, and public school. In 1941 Haim’s grandfather was widowed and the family moved in with him in the center of Amsterdam. In 1942, SS…
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 … center of Amsterdam. In 1942, SS and Dutch Police confined Haim’s family in the Jewish Theatre with more than a thousand Jews waiting for transfer to…
4. Aenni and Eric Kaufman papers
2013.124.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2013.124.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1972
bulk: 1945-1972
…Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2013 by Ruth Bernstein, daughter of Erich and Anni Kaufman. An accretion of additional…
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 …: (Identification of item), Aenni and Eric Kaufman papers (2013.124.1), United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC Acquisition information: The…
5. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection
1990.23.241 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.23.241
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1990
… take Flora with him to save her life. On November 17, 1939, they sailed on the SS Simon Bolivar. The next day, the ship hit two German mines and sunk…
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 … personal narrative, photographs, and printed materials documenting a German‐Dutch couple, their thwarted efforts to escape Europe on the SS Simon Bolivar…
6. Wellisch and Auerbach families papers
2018.646.1 Box 2 Folder 27 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.646.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1961
…’s representative; at one point Laura owned a fashionable clothing store. Kurt attended the Wasa Gymnasium and then the University of Vienna, graduating with a…
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 …, donated the Wellisch and Auerbach families papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018. Separated material: Fred Wellisch also donated two…
7. Betty Sklow papers
1999.A.0269 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0269
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1949
bulk: 1939-1940
… of her son-in-law, and his family. On April 26, 1940, Betty departed Antwerp, Belgium on the SS Pennland and arrived in New York on May 16, 1940. The…
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 … disembarkation in the Netherlands, her experiences negotiating travel to the United States, and her journey to the United States aboard the SS Pennland in 1940…
8. Adler and Cohn families papers
2018.393.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 77
Document | Accession Number: 2018.393.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2018
…. They immigrated to the United States aboard the SS Rotterdam in May 1947 and settled in Forest Hills, New York. In 1963 Ernst co-founded Loew-Cornell, a…
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 … one sister, Erna (d. 1977). Aron worked in politics prior to the Holocaust. Ernst and Frieda married in 1935 and lived in Münster. In 1938, Frieda and…
9. Ursula Klau papers
2006.410.2 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 2006.410.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1867-2006
… to circumnavigate tracks destroyed by Allied bombs. The transport’s SS guards abandoned the train near Tröbitz as the Red Army advanced, and the…
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 ….410.1, 2008.115.1, and 2008.115.2 have been incorporated into this collection. Related archival materials: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum also…
10. Zonligt family papers
2017.669.1 Book Enclose 1 Image 58
Document | Accession Number: 2017.669.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1947
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… around 1932 in Meemen. Gerard Zonligt owned a small advertising firm. The Zonligt and Blitz families left Belgium in May 1940 and spent a year in Ambert…
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 …. cigarettes: 20 p. etc. We've started a small store in the camp and now the people are more interested in doing their work. This afternoon picked up in S.S…
11. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… via Sweden aboard the SS Gripsholm. In New York, Truusje lived with her maternal uncle and his wife, Siegfried and Gertrude Katz. They adopted her and…
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 … Abstract: The Trudy Katzer papers contain documents relating to Trudy Katzer and her grandfather, Levi Katz. Levi was a survivor of Theresienstadt, while…
12. 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
… only person from the Secret Annex to survive the Holocaust. He returned to Amsterdam on June 3, 1945, and moved in with Miep and Jan Gies. After learning…
13. Renata Laqueur papers
1995.A.1169.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1169.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1995
… and, when their home was raided by the SS, held false identity papers for Renata and Paul. Due to the efforts of Renata’s father, Paul and Renata were…
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 … information for Renata Laqueur, a Holocaust survivor. The diaries were written while Renata and her husband were imprisoned in Bergen‐Belsen. Also included…
14. Territorial collection-Holland (RG-116-Holland)
Document | Accession Number: 2014.335 | RG Number: RG-67.043M
Date:
inclusive: 1790-1980
bulk: 1940-1949
…, and subsequent to the Holocaust. Included are records of the Joodsche Raad (Judenrat), the Nazi-appointed Jewish councils in Amsterdam, the Hague and…
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 … on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (New York), and with the support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC). Copyright…
15. Kurz family papers
2011.281.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2011.281.1
Date:
inclusive: 1903-circa 2011
bulk: 1903-1959
… cancer, and Alfred and Doriane soon moved to Stockholm, Sweden. They emigrated from Goteborg, Sweden to the United States aboard the SS Gripsholm in July…
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 … correspondence of Doriane and Alfred relate to their immigration to the United States from Sweden on the SS Gripsholm. The emigration and immigration papers…
16. Max Amichai Heppner papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.307.13
Date:
inclusive: 1918-1989
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
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 … notes, personal and travel narratives, photographs, printed materials, scrapbooks titled “Remembrance of the Holocaust,” subject files, and writings…
17. World War I Iron Cross 2nd class combatant’s medal with ribbon awarded to a German Jewish soldier
1988.156.1.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.156.1.2 a-b
Date:
commemoration: 1914-1948
issue: after 1914 August 05
… on their visa and stayed behind in Berlin. Kurt and Irene had a fight, but he still accompanied Irene and Erna to their ship, the S.S. Statendam on…
18. Storage trunk owned by a German Jewish family in hiding
1990.307.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1990.307.2
Date:
use: approximately 1933-approximately 1946
… August, the SS staged a night raid on the Heppner’s block. Albert went to the roof to escape, and when the SS could not find him, they took Irene instead…
19. Wedding portrait of Ina Soep and Jack Polak.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 46343
Date:
January 1946
…Ina Polak (born Catharina Ina Soep) is the daughter of Abraham and Tonie (nee Kaufmann) Soep. Ina was born on January 3, 1923 in Amsterdam where…
20. Studio portrait of Eva Geiringer (later Schloss) after her return to Amsterdam following her liberation from Auschwitz.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 55020
Date:
1948
… save her life. The following month, the Germans began to evacuate the camp. After the SS had left the camp, Eva raided the storerooms and found food…