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1. Damaged Soviet Army Ssh40 combat helmet recovered postwar in Latvia
2013.170.1 front
Object | Accession Number: 2013.170.1
Date:
manufacture: 1940-1960
…Damaged Soviet Army Ssh40 combat helmet recovered postwar in Latvia…
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2. Latvian State Archives KGB (State Security Committee) records from Fond 1986 relating to war crime investigations and trials in Latvia
1997.A.0325 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0325 | RG Number: RG-06.027
Date:
1941-1995
bulk: 1944-1966
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
…Latvian State Archives KGB (State Security Committee) records from Fond 1986 relating to war crime investigations and trials in Latvia…
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 … investigations and trials in Latvia, 1941-1995 1 Latvian State Archives of the Former Latvian KGB (State Security Committee) records from Fond 1986 relating to war…
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3. Shadur family papers
1997.A.0316.1 Box 4 Folder 2 Image 62
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0316.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1997
…Michel Shadur was born in 1897 in Livani, Latvia. He had an older brother, Isaac, who died in Crimea in 1916, and two younger sisters, Gitta and…
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 … / Administrative history Michel Shadur was born in 1897 in Livani, Latvia. He had an older brother, Isaac, who died in Crimea in 1916, and two younger sisters, Gitta…
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4. Lessing family papers
2017.642.16 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 2017.642.16
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2017
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 … Latvia until World War 2 A Holocaust Catastrophe in 1944, circa 1880-circa 1993 4.1 Part 2: May 9, 1944 until October 8, 1956, Arrival of Eliazar, Carla…
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5. Salaspils concentration camp collection
Document | Accession Number: 2008.323
Date:
1940-1990
…Consists of information about the Salaspils concentration camp in Latvia. Includes documents written by Margers Vestermanis, a museum director; a…
6. Gottschalk family correspondence
Document | Accession Number: 2011.324.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1948
…The Gottschalk family correspondence consists of correspondence from the Gottschalk family of Libau (Liepaja), Latvia, in the period before, during…
7. Max Michelson photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.560.1
Date:
creation: circa 1890-1947
… the war in Riga, Latvia and in Moscow, USSR; and photographs relating to Max Michelson's emigration from Germany to the United States in 1947.…
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 … the Hirschfeld sisters posing outside, Riga, Latvia, circa 1890. Seated in the front row: Emma Hirschfeld Michelson (d. 1935) and Rosa Hirschfeld Brande…
8. George Schwab photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.94.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1948
…George David Schwab was born on November 25, 1931 in Libau (Liepaja in the Latvian), Latvia. His father, Arkadi Jakob Aron Schwab, b. 1884, was a…
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 …, Blankenese, Hamburg, Germeny, March 1946. 18. Photograph of a group gathered for a dinner at the home of the Akermanns, Riga, Latvia, circa 1938. Clockwise…
9. Wlodek Richter collection
2001.201.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2001.201.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1954
…, Latvia where Ester’s sister Rita lived. Wolf later returned to the family and in 1957 they moved to Warsaw, Poland. Wlodek fled Poland in 1970 after a rise…
10. Aron Lutwak photograph collection
2015.596.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2015.596.1
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1959
…The collection contains photographs and photograph postcards depicting the deportation of Jews from Coesfeld, Germany to Riga, Latvia on 10 December…
11. Jacobson and David families papers
2014.424. 1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2014.424.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1895-1959
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Moritz and Berta Jacobson lived in Liepāja, Latvia and had five children: Arthur, Jacob, Issie, Necha (Nanny), and Paula. Nanny remained in Liepāja…
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 … 1895-1959 Accession number: 2014.424.1 Creator: Jacobson (Family : Liepāja, Latvia) Additional creator: David (Family : Liepāja, Latvia) Extent: 0…
12. Sia Hertsberg photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2009.408.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1980
…Consists of 22 photographs of the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Sia Izrailewitsch Hertsberg, originally of Riga, Latvia. Includes…
13. Tamara Manela and Isaac Sherman papers
2013.149.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2013.149.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1968
… Germany, Italy, and Cuba, and English translations of Izak Sermanis' (Isaac Sherman) divorce papers from his first wife in Latvia, 1938, as well as a letter…
14. Rosenwald family papers
2013.502.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 61
Document | Accession Number: 2013.502.1
Date:
inclusive: 1931-1962
bulk: 1938-1941
… parents and sister were deported to Riga, Latvia. His parents likely perished there, and Liesel was then deported to the Stutthof concentration camp where…
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 …, Latvia. Along with a small amount of correspondence from others, there is also correspondence, affidavits, and other documents regarding Fred…
15. Asociación Filantropica Israelita : Indice
Document | Accession Number: 2012.216 | RG Number: RG-72.019
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1970
Alternate Title:
Jewish Philanthropic Association : Membership Card Index
… Jewish refugees from Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Romania, and other countries in Europe. The card index was periodically updated through the…
16. Mandel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.581.12
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2001
undated: 
…Emanuel “Manny” Mandel (b. 1936) was born on May 8, 1936, in Riga, Latvia to Yehudah (Lojos or Lewis, 1904-1994) and Gabriella “Ella” Mandel (nee…
17. Edward Anders papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0231
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1973
…!," published by a Group of Baltic Survivors in Great Britain and addressed to surviving Jews and non-Jews in Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia; documents and…
18. Peter Black papers
Document | Accession Number: 2008.331.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2014
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 … cards set 2, Books-Latvia – Important names and addresses, approximately 2000 45.3 Index cards set 2, [Misc. Trawniki Concentration Camp Investigations…
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  • Series 5: Subject files and source materials
    • Subseries 4: Index cards Circa 2000 [Not Digital]
      • File 14: Index cards set 2, Books-Latvia – Important names and addresses Circa 2000 [Not Digital]
    19. James Georg Lau papers
    Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
    Date:
    inclusive: circa 1922-2013
    bulk: 1939-1953
    Special Collection:
    Save Their Stories
    …James Georg Lau (1927-2011) was born in Riga, Latvia to a German-Latvian, Harry Lau, and a Jewish mother, Betty (née Firkser) Lau. After their…
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     … diaries written by James Georg Lau between 1939- 1941 and 1944-1953, describing his life in Liepāja Latvia, the Soviet occupation, being forced out of…
    20. Sheva Vapne collection
    Document | Accession Number: 2008.167.1
    Date:
    1920-2008
    …Consists of documents and photographs related to the Holocaust experiences of the family of Sheva Latvinsky Vapne, originally of Riga, Latvia…