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1. Joe Van Rooyen collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.53 | RG Number: RG-10.496
Date:
inclusive: 1941-2009
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
2. 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:
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…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…
3. 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…
4. My meeting with Heinrich Himmler - April 20/21, 1945
1995.A.0211 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0211
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1993
…Norbert Masur (1901-1971) was born in 1901 in Friedrichstadt, Germany to Leiser and Hanna Masur. He served as a Swedish representative to the World…
5. 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…
6. 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…
7. Jürgen Stroop statement
2019.234.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2019.234.1
Date:
creation: 1946 April 26
…Jürgen Stroop (born Josef Stroop) was born on September 26, 1895 in Detmold, Germany to Konrad and Katherine Stroop. He joined the Nazi party in 1932…
8. Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss papers
2014.471.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.471.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1961
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… including Auschwitz, munitions factory Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen, in Poland, and Bergen-Belsen in Germany where they were liberated. They were…
9. 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…
10. Machtinger family collection
Document | Accession Number: 1988.090.2
Date:
inclusive: 1946-1988
… camp in Germany on July 23, 1946. Ruth married Morton Faller and they had two children, Bryan and Scott Faller. Paul Machtinger died on September 9…
11. Hinsel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.721.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1960
…Luneberg, Germany, and Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp documents and realia collection…
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 …: Hinsel (Family : Lüneburg, Germany) Extent: 1.2 linear feet (2 boxes, 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
12. Fritz Rosenthal family papers
1996.A.0249 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0249
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1995
…Fritz Rosenthal was born in Würzburg, Germany on July 4, 1911 to Dr. Karl Rosenthal and Claire Rosenthal (nee Buschhoff). He attended school in…
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 ….ushmm.org for further information. Processing history: Julie Schweitzer, May 2012 Biographical note Fritz Rosenthal was born in Würzburg, Germany on July 4, 1911…
13. Karl Schwesig manuscript
1988.5.21 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 44
Document | Accession Number: 1988.5.21
Date:
creation: 1948
…Karl Schwesig was born on June 19, 1898, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. His father was a miner. From 1916 to 1918, Schwesig served in the German Army…
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 … (Germany) and studied art in Düsseldorf. He was imprisoned for seventeen months when the Nazis came to power, and sought political asylum in Belgium after…
14. Reborn
Document | Accession Number: 1986.019.2 | RG Number: RG-02.004.01
Date:
1947-1986
Subtitle:
memoirs of a camp survivor
…Kay Gundel (Karla Elkeles) is a native of Berlin, Germany, and a survivor of three concentration camps. She emigrated to the United States in 1947.…
15. Mosheim and Marx families papers
1999.A.0233 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0233
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
… City. Karl Marx had died of natural causes in 1938 in Munich, and her mother remained in Germany to care for his ailing mother, Pauline Mayer Marx…
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 … United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened…
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16. 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:
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… 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
17. 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…
18. Sydney Goodman papers
2011.148.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 2011.148.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1944-2005
bulk: 1944-1999
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… they had three daughters, Karen (b. 1941), Judith, and Barbara. In November 1943 Sydney enlisted into the U.S. Army and was deployed to Germany in August…
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 … Goldberg and they had three daughters, Karen (b. 1941), Judith, and Barbara. In November 1943 Sydney enlisted into the U.S. Army and was deployed to Germany…
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  • Series 1: Diary 1944-1945, Undated
    • File 1: Diary (2 folders) 1944-1945
19. Lehmann family papers
1995.A.0095 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 137
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0095
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1994
bulk: 1941-1946
…Arthur Lehmann was born August 23 1877 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He later grew up in Würzburg, and studied architecture and art. After school he…
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 … history Arthur Lehmann was born August 23 1877 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. He later grew up in Würzburg, and studied architecture and art. After…
20. Seymour Krieger papers
1986.A.0024.2 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1986.A.0024.2
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1946
Special Collection:
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…Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949.…
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 … material: The Museum’s Library hold a copy of Nazi Germany's war against the Jews (D810.J4 N39 1947), prepared and complied by Seymour Krieger. Accruals…
21. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
Special Collection:
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… from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany. When Lau continued his diary in 1944, he describes the end of the war, when he and his father went to Germany…
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 … school because he was half-Jewish, and his mother being forced into the ghetto. There is a gap in the diaries from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany…
22. Peter Mansbacher papers
1998.A.0148 Box 1 Folder 39 Folder 12
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0148
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1991
inclusive: 1934-1991
…Peter Mansbacher (1922-1994) was born Fritz Ludwig Mansbacher in Lübeck, Germany to Martin and Juliane Mansbacher. Concerned for his safety, his…
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 … Mansbacher (1922‐1994) was born Fritz Ludwig Mansbacher in Lübeck, Germany to Martin and Juliane Mansbacher. His mother always called him Peter, and he…
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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. Honig family papers
2002.70.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2002.70.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2002
…Jack (Heinz) Honig (1921-2012) was born in Alsenz, Germany, to Julius (1886-1924) and Rudolfine (née Sternheimer, 1889-1942) Honig. He was imprisoned…
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 … (Family : Alsenz, Germany) Extent: 0.5 linear foot (1 box) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW…
25. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
…Henry Oertelt (born Arthur Karl Heinz Oertelt, 1921-2011) was born on 13 January 1921 in Berlin, Germany to Arthur and Else Oertelt. He had one…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Henry Oertelt of Berlin, Germany…
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26. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
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…, Stalag IX-B, in Bad Orb, Germany. Tony was prisoner number 27016. He was interrogated for several hours by a German officer in English and Spanish, and…
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 …, and was ordered to surrender. They were taken to Stalag IX‐B in Bad Orb, Germany, where conditions were terrible. He was selected as part of a group…
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  • Series 1: Anthony Acevedo papers Circa 1935-Circa 2012
    • File 1: Diary 1945
27. Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers
2018.38.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.38.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
…Ellen Kaufmann Boucher (1920-2014) was born to Hermann (1882-1942) and Ella (née Barth, 1890-1920) Kaufmann in Mainz, Germany. Hermann Kaufmann, a…
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 …, prewar and wartime photographs of her family in Mainz, Germany, and a transcript of an interview she gave in 1995. Languages: English, German…
28. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
Special Collection:
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… (Grete) Katz. Walther was born on December 12, 1906, in Kesselbach, Germany, where his parents, Simon and Malchen Katzenstein Schoenfeld, had a farm. He…
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 … Margareta were living in Germany, but deciding that it would be too dangerous to remain, they moved to Amsterdam in 1936. In 1939, Trudy was born. After the…
29. Jäckel and Wetterhahn family papers
2017.297.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.297.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2002
Special Collection:
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…Julius Wetterhahn (1901-1991) was born in Hersfeld, Germany to Max (1870-1942) and Matilda (née Neuhof, 1876-1943) Wetterhahn. Julius went to the…
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 … Accession number: 2017.297.1 Creator: Jäckel (Family : Herzfeld, Germany) Additional creator: Wetterhahn (Family : Kassel, Germany) Extent: 1.5 linear feet (1…
30. Clara Lefkowitz Kempler papers
2010.171.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image
Document | Accession Number: 2010.171.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1938-1953
Special Collection:
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… towns in Germany until liberation followed by a return trip home to Užhorod after the war. The diary also includes an allegory titled Inventory and dated…
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 … Schwarzenberg, and other towns in Germany until liberation followed by a return trip home to Užhorod after the war. The diary also includes an allegory titled…
31. Gertrude Jorisch papers
2000.529.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2000.529.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-2007
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …‐‐Personal narratives. Holocaust survivors‐‐Germany‐‐Deggendorf. http://collections.ushmm.org Contact reference@ushmm.org for further information about…
32. Abendstern, Fleischmann, and Meyerhoff families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.494.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2016
…Peter Aldin was born Peter Sigo Abendstern on 29 October 1932 in Schwerin, Germany to Otto and Elly Abendstern. His father Otto Abendstern (1904-1942…
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 …, Germany to Otto and Elly Abendstern. His father Otto Abendstern (1904-1942) was born on 5 November 1904 in Stuttgart, Germany to Samuel (d. 1923) and Regina…
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33. Alexander Muller collection
2018.446.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.446.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-1946
…The collection includes a journal, on loose pages, transcribed and recorded by Alexander Muller in a displaced persons camp in Kassel, Germany. The…
34. Wilhelm Coenraad Laros papers
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0053 | RG Number: RG-32.011.01
Date:
1942-1990
…Schwerin (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany)…
35. Éva Josefsson Bász papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0004
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1996
…Germany--Emigration and immigration.…
36. Gina Gotfryd collection
1995.A.0170 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0170
Date:
inclusive: circa 1919-1994
…Jewish refugees--Germany--Stuttgart.…
37. Morris and Lucy Breitbart papers
1996.A.0391.2 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0391.2
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1966
bulk: 1945-1949
Special Collection:
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…, when they went to Germany and ultimately escaped from the Russian sector of Germany to the American zone of Berlin. Lucy and her family settled in Berlin…
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 … Poland, Morris went to Germany with the hope of immigrating to the United States. By 1948, he had finished dental school in Munich and opened an office…
38. Ewa Karpinska papers
Document | Accession Number: 2003.83.1
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1998
…Minna Wiwiecka Wosk was born in Darmstadt, Germany on April 19, 1922. Her father, Maylech Wiwiecka, her mother, Rywka Schottland Wiwiecka, and her…
39. US case files. Auschwitz concentration camp, Record Group 338
Document | Accession Number: 1991.058 | RG Number: RG-06.005.07M
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1947
…Germany. Gestapo…
40. Renata Laqueur papers
1995.A.1169.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1169.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1995
…Refugee camps--Germany.…
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 …‐‐Netherlands. Refugee camps‐‐Germany. Typhus fever. Women concentration camp inmates. World War, 1939‐1945‐‐Hospitals‐‐Germany. World War, 1939‐1945…
41. Gerda Schild Haas papers
1989.048 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1989.048 | RG Number: RG-02.016
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
…Gerda Schild Haas was born in 1922 in Ansbach, Germany to Siegfried and Paula Schild. Her family was forced to sell their home after Kristallnacht…
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 … Jewish persecution in Berlin from 1940‐1943 and correspondence among Gerda’s family members documenting their efforts to leave Germany from 1939‐1941 and…
42. Elise Schapira papers
1991.157.5 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.157.5
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1991
…Elise Schapira (1920-1998) was born in Bad Brückenau, Germany to Max Goldschmidt (1892-?) and Sibylla Goldschmidt (nee Klein, 1891-?). When Jews…
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 … brief testimony recounting her family life in Germany, her escape to England, her immigration to the United States, and the loss of her brother and…
43. "Survival in the Lion's Den"
Document | Accession Number: 1989.121 | RG Number: RG-02.019
Date:
1937-1989
…Fred Angress was born on 14 April 1923 in Berlin, Germany. His family fled to England in 1937 in order to avoid Nazi persecution. Angress and his…
44. Peter Feigl papers
Document | Accession Number: 1992.59
Date:
inclusive: circa 1899-2012
Special Collection:
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…Peter Feigl was born Klaus Feigl on March 1, 1929 in Berlin, Germany to Ernst Feigl and Agnes Feigl (née Bornstein, 1904-1942). His father, Ernst…
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 …. Arrangement and description were updated and revised. August 2024. Biographical Note Peter Feigl was born Klaus Feigl on March 1, 1929 in Berlin, Germany to…
45. Lilli Wolff papers
1999.A.0041 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0041
Date:
inclusive: 1870-1983
… certificate, application for Austrian citizenship, letters of recommendation, and a travel pass document Lilli Wolff’s life in Germany and Austria and her…
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 … Germany and Austria and her immigration to the United States. Three narratives by Lilli Wolff describe her experiences in Nazi Germany and Austria: two…
46. Fred and Ruth Cohen papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.398.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1992
bulk: 1920-1942
…Fred (Fritz) Cohen (1914-1981) was born on October 12, 1914 in Eschwege, Germany to David and Martha Cohen. David was born on October 15, 1988 near…
47. Ernest R. Stiefel papers
1996.A.0134 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 61
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0134
Date:
inclusive: 1938-circa 1996
… business advisor. His maternal grandmother, Amalie Strauss (1862-1949), left Germany for Montevideo in February 1941. His parents were deported east, towards…
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 … emigrated from Germany and of those who stayed behind. Languages: German, English Administrative Information Access: Collection is open for use, but is stored…
48. Rose Silberberg Skier papers
1999.A.0121 Box 1 Folder 11 Image 27
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0121
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1999
bulk: 1929-1958
Special Collection:
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…, Silberberg traveled to Neisse, Germany posing as the daughter of her aunt Sara Wachsman, both passing as Gentiles. They lived in a convent where Wachsman…
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 …, Silberberg traveled to Neisse, Germany posing as the daughter of her aunt Sara Wachsman, both passing as Gentiles. They lived in a convent where Wachsman…
49. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
…Fritz Dieter Vendig (Fred, 1932-2001) was born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, to Charlotte (née Berstein, 1907-1988) and Ernst Vendig (1899-1956). Ernst…
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 … status through Germany, Belgium, France, and Switzerland, their release from Rivesaltes, and their immigration to the United States. The collection further…
50. Notes of U.S. occupation days in Germany
2004.267.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Item 15
Document | Accession Number: 2004.267.1
Date:
1946-1947
Special Collection:
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…Notes of U.S. occupation days in Germany…
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