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1. 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:
Save Their Stories
…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…
2. 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.…
3. Charlene Schiff papers
Document | Accession Number: 1987.A.0028.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2004
bulk: 1945-1951
… Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
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 … Poland in September 1939, Horochów was occupied by the Russians. In June 1941 Germany declared war on the Soviet Union, and Horochów was occupied by German…
4. Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig postwar based on his experiences in an internment camp
1988.5.10 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.10
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
Lazarett im Camp de Noé
Alternate Title:
Hospital in Camp Noe
…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…
5. Drawing created by Karl Schwesig postwar based upon his experiences as a political prisoner
1988.5.11 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.11
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
In Camp de Noé (altes paar im gesprach)
Alternate Title:
In Camp Noé (Old Couple Talking)
…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…
6. Drawing created by Karl Schwesig postwar depicting a beating he witnessed in a concentration camp
1988.5.12 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.12
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
Der Schlag ins Gesicht
Alternate Title:
Slap in the Face
…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…
7. Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig postwar of Jewish prisoners in a concentration camp
1988.5.13 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.13
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
Badenser Jüdinnen im Camp de Noé
…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…
8. Watercolor created by Karl Schwesig with a scene of soldiers and inmates in a concentration camp
1988.5.14 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.14
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
Essen-Ausgabe
Alternate Title:
Food Distribution
…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…
9. Etching by Karl Schwesig of 3 inmates at work under an armed guard in a prison camp
1988.5.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.15
Date:
creation: 1948-1949
Artwork Title:
Trabajar (Arbeiten)
Alternate Title:
Work (Working)
…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…
10. Etching by Karl Schwesig showing inmates bartering bread and cigarettes in a concentration camp
1988.5.16 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.16
Date:
creation: 1948
Artwork Title:
Tabak gegen Brot
…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…
11. Etching by Karl Schwesig showing one legged inmates going to work in a concentration camp
1988.5.17 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.17
Date:
creation: 1948-1949
Artwork Title:
Zur arbeit
Alternate Title:
To Work
…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…
12. Ink drawing by Karl Schwesig showing one legged inmates working in a field in a concentration camp
1988.5.18 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.18
Date:
creation: 1948-1949
Artwork Title:
Feldarbeit
Alternate Title:
Fieldwork
…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…
13. Etching by Karl Schwesig showing a fellow prisoner writing in a concentration camp
1988.5.19 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.19
Date:
creation: 1948-1949
Artwork Title:
Heimweh
…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…
14. Satirical etching by Karl Schwesig showing men in academic robes saluting a corpse
1988.5.20 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.5.20
Date:
creation: 1949
Artwork Title:
Der Ermordete ist schuldig
Alternate Title:
The Murdered is Guilty
…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…
15. 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…
16. Post-liberation photographs of a German concentration camp
Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0031 | RG Number: RG-04.073
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1946
…George Manias collected the photographs while in Germany after World War II. His sister, Mary Stratis, donated them to the United States Holocaust…
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 …, DC Acquisition information: George Manias collected the photographs while in Germany after World War II. His sister, Mary Stratis, donated them to the…
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. Autobiographical sketch created in a DP camp of a Ghetto evacuation
Object | Accession Number: 1988.14.1
Date:
creation: 1946
Artwork Title:
Clearing the Ghetto
… Neuengamme). After liberation, he spent two years in various displaced persons camps in Germany before immigrating to the United States in 1948. While serving…
19. Autobiographical sketch created in a DP camp of an execution at a mass grave
Object | Accession Number: 1988.14.2
Date:
creation: 1946
Artwork Title:
Execution
… Neuengamme). After liberation, he spent two years in various displaced persons camps in Germany before immigrating to the United States in 1948. While serving…
20. Watercolor created in a DP camp of an execution at a mass grave
1988.14.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.14.3
Date:
creation: 1946
Artwork Title:
3 in a series of 3
… Neuengamme). After liberation, he spent two years in various displaced persons camps in Germany before immigrating to the United States in 1948. While serving…
21. Friedrich and Ruth Frankenthal papers
1988.26.2 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 37
Document | Accession Number: 1988.26.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1875-2002
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … materials, 1900‐1944  Series 2: Photograph album, approximately 1875‐2002 Indexing terms Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Berlin. Jewish families‐‐Germany‐‐Genealogy…
22. Ernst and Johanna Weihs collection
1988.43.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1988.43.1 | RG Number: RG-10.272
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
…Dachau (Germany : Refugee camp)…
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 …) Theresienstadt (Concentration camp) 3 Topical Subject: Jews--Austria--Vienna. Holocaust survivors--Austria. Geography: Vienna (Austria) Dachau (Germany : Refugee…
23. The Spiegel family papers
1988.57.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1988.57.1 | RG Number: RG-10.257
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1949
… (Bertha), and Sam. Originally from Poland, the Spiegel family moved to Leipzig, Germany in the 1920s. Upon the rise of the Nazi regime, the Spiegel brothers…
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 … Leipzig, Germany and the Soviet Union between 1938 and 1949. These documents largely described family member’s emigration and eventual deaths in…
24. Harry Goldsmith collection, Book 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.64.3
Date:
1946-1948
…Laufen (Germany)…
25. Louis J. Walinsky papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.72
Date:
circa 1947
… relating to the experiences of Louis J. Walinsky while he was Director of the World ORT vocational schools in displaced persons camps in Germany in 1947.…
26. Handmade wooden checkers set presented to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.1
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
27. Hand cast ORT bookends presented to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.2_a-b front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.2 a-b
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
28. Glass bowl etched ORT presented to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.3 top
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.3
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
29. Black leather case presented to the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.4
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
30. Cigarette lighter with Polish coins given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.5
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
31. ORT stickpin presented to Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.6 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.6
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
32. ORT shoulder badge owned by the Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.7 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.7
Date:
use: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
33. Book
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.20
Date:
publication/distribution: 1948 November
Title:
ORT in US-Zone Germany
…ORT in US-Zone Germany…
34. Monogrammed leather binder made for Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps
1988.72.22 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.22
Date:
creation: 1947
received: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
35. Silver brooch of a 3 masted ship given to Director, ORT schools, DP camps
1988.72.23 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.72.23
Date:
creation: 1947
… 1932, he studied at the University of Berlin. In January 1933, Hitler came into power in Germany. Louis left Germany that March because of rising anti…
36. Ann West papers
1988.82.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1988.82.9
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1988
bulk: 1943-1946
…Anny Neumann (later Ann West) was born in 1920 in Leipzig, Germany, to Leo and Johanna Neumann. She and her boyfriend Heinz Rosenhain joined the…
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 …‐1988 (bulk 1943‐1946) Indexing terms Jews‐‐Germany‐‐Leipzig. Holocaust survivors‐‐Germany‐‐Correspondence. Holocaust survivors‐‐Identification…
37. 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…
38. Schönberger family papers
1988.108.192 Book Enclosure 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1988.108.192
Date:
inclusive: 1887-1967
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 …--France. World War, 1939-1945--Jews--Rescue. Jews--Hungary-- Sárvár. Jews--Germany--Frankfurt am Main. Jewish families--Austria--Vienna. Austria--Emigration…
39. William and Helen Luksenburg photograph collection
1988.132.4 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.132.4
Date:
interview: circa 1918-circa 1949
… by classmates, and taunted with antisemitic slurs, such as "Christ killer." Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Welek watched German soldiers…
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 … Afterwards, he worked cleaning soldiers’ barracks. Eventually he returned to his uncle’s house in Bayreuth, Germany where he learned of the death of his family…
40. Edith Jacoby letter regarding the Warsaw ghetto
Document | Accession Number: 1988.152 | RG Number: RG-05.003.01
Date:
inclusive: 1943-1946
…Edith Jacoby was born in Worms, Germany, ca. 1899. She married Kurt Jacoby in the 1920s. Instead of attempting to emigrate to the US, the Jacobys…
41. 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
…Kurt Joseph Schlesinger (1885-1946) was born in Berlin, Germany, to Max (1853-1898) and Harriet Holz (1862-1929) Schlesinger. The couple married on…
42. Gerber Ezriel letter
Document | Accession Number: 1988.163.1 | RG Number: RG-10.357
Date:
creation: 1947 April 25
…The letter was written by Gerber Ezriel from a DP camp in Germany to Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the United Nations, asking for assistance with…
43. Herbert C. Durkee papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.175
Date:
1945-1953
… when he served as a guard at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.…
44. Plaid handkerchief monogrammed HG given by Hermann Goering to an American guard at Nuremberg
Object | Accession Number: 1988.175.3
Date:
received: 1945 August-1946 January
… part of a field artillery unit. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945. On May 16, Durkee was promoted to first lieutenant. In August…
45. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of a man with a Star of David badge eating in a Łódź Ghetto food hall
1988.182.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.3
Date:
creation: 1947
depiction: 1941 October-1944 August
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Public Kitchen in the Łódź Ghetto
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
46. Autobiographical oil painting by David Friedman of freed prisoners homeward bound
1988.182.4 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.4 a-b
Date:
creation: 1946
depiction: 1945 January
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
From Concentration Camps to Liberty
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
47. Autobiographical charcoal drawing by David Friedman of mothers, ordered to undress, who stare at their executioners as they march with their children into a mass grave
1988.182.5 front
Object | Accession Number: 1988.182.5
Date:
depiction: approximately 1944 August-1944 December
creation: approximately 1946-1948
Series Title:
Because They Were Jews!
Artwork Title:
Mass Grave
… artist, creating sketches on the frontlines. Following his return to Berlin, Friedmann exhibited at numerous galleries throughout Germany and…
48. German State criminal police warrant disc acquired by a Jewish American soldier
1989.4.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.4.1
Date:
found: after 1945 April 26-before 1946 January 23
… school. He worked at an Austrian paper export company. On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Walter and his family had their citizenship…
49. Brass knuckles acquired by a Jewish American soldier
1989.4.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.4.2
Date:
found: after 1945 April 26-before 1946 January 23
… school. He worked at an Austrian paper export company. On March 12, 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria. Walter and his family had their citizenship…
50. Portfolio
1989.19.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 1989.19.1
Date:
publication/distribution: 1947
Series Title:
12 puvodnich litografii z nemeckych koncentracnich taboru Leo Haas
… Silesia. Leo was the oldest of four children in a Jewish family. He received art training while a youth. In 1919, Haas moved to Karlsruhe, Germany, to…