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1. Ludwig and Hedwig Stein collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.370.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1961
… Hedwig were able to emigrate to the United States after Ludwig, who was arrested on Kristallnacht, was released from Buchenwald. Includes documents related…
2. Heinrich Stern collection
1995.A.0363 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0363
Date:
inclusive: 1909-1986
bulk: 1909-1944
… forced to close his business, he later turned to work in a factory as a bookkeeper. During the Kristallnacht, Heinrich along with 50 other Jews from…
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 … primarily immigration documents related to Heinrich and Charlotte Stern. Heinrich was a lawyer who was arrested on Kristallnacht and sent to Buchenwald. He…
3. White, monogrammed tablecloth belonging to the family of a German Rabbi
2018.290.1 side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.290.1
Date:
use: before 1959
… Kristallnacht. The following morning, the SA (or Sturmabteilung, a paramilitary organization) went to Georg’s synagogue, burned the Holy texts, looted valuables…
4. Alfred Büchler papers
1999.119 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1999.119
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1960
bulk: 1937-1942
… Brauer). His brother and sister were Heinrich (Henry) and Steffi Büchler. Jacques was arrested during Kristallnacht and imprisoned at Buchenwald, and…
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 … arrested during Kristallnacht and imprisoned at Buchenwald, and Henry was sent to Buchenwald two days later. Henry joined Steffi in England after his…
5. Louis Oppenheimer papers
1992.49.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1992.49.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…) and Eleanor (born Lore, 1919). Alfred immigrated to the United States in 1937. After Kristallnacht, Louis was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp…
6. Monogrammed silver napkin rings owned by a German Rabbi
2018.290.2 a side a
Object | Accession Number: 2018.290.2 a-b
Date:
use: before 1959
… Kristallnacht. The following morning, the SA (or Sturmabteilung, a paramilitary organization) went to Georg’s synagogue, burned the Holy texts, looted valuables…
7. Majerowicz family papers
1995.A.0151 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0151
Date:
inclusive: 1911-1991
… attempt to escape into Holland after the Kristallnacht. He was placed in a refugee camp, and was eventually sent to Westerbork. There he met and married…
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 … worked in a factory during the war. Their son, Kurt, was successful in his attempt to escape into Holland after the Kristallnacht. He was placed in a…
8. Frank Shurman collection
1995.A.0362 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 9
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0362
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1994
… States. During the Kristallnacht, Frank and his father were arrested and sent to Buchenwald, where they were incarcerated for several weeks. In June of…
9. Ernest Wachtel collection
Document | Accession Number: 2004.603.1
Date:
inclusive: 1943-2012
bulk: 1943-1945
…. The family escaped Austria after Kristallnacht. Ernest married Rose Nussbaum in 1947. They have three daughters. Cheryl Wachtel married Mark Friedman…
10. Rudolph Daniel Sichel papers
2003.149.1 Box 6 Folder 15 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2003.149.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1903-1978
bulk: 1934-1952
…. He worked for R.H. Macy & Co from 1936 to 1943. His father was arrested during Kristallnacht, sent to Buchenwald for a couple of months, forced to sell…
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 … & Co from 1936 to 1943. His father was arrested during Kristallnacht, sent to Buchenwald for a couple of months, forced to sell his store at a loss, and…
11. 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
…Henry F. Kahn (1925-2013) lived in Munich with his parents, Paul and Mimi Kahn. The morning following Kristallnacht, the family drove to Stuttgart to…
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 … Henry F. Kahn (1925-2013) lived in Munich with his parents, Paul and Mimi Kahn. The morning following Kristallnacht, the family drove to Stuttgart to…
12. Berg and Hermanns families papers
1989.232.31 front
Document | Accession Number: 1989.232.31
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-1957
…. 1929) and Gisela (b. 1933). They hid in Cologne after Kristallnacht, and Joseph Berg, his brother, George, and their cousin, Ernest, fled to Holland…
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 … the area since the 1600s. They had two daughters: Inge (b. 1929, now Inge Katzenstein) and Gisela (b. 1933, now Jill Pauly). After the Kristallnacht…
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 … sibling, Inge (b. 1929, now Inge Katzenstein). After the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938, the family hid in Cologne. The following week, Gisela…
13. 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
Your search appears on the following linked inventory items:
  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945