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1. Selected records of the Jewish Museum Frankfurt, Germany
Document | Accession Number: 2003.220 | RG Number: RG-14.064M
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1974
bulk: 1933-1945
… contains photographs of events, e.g., Kristallnacht, and buildings such as synagogues, schools and other institutions.…
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 …: HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington DC 20024-2126 Bemerkung Oppenheimer, Alice, Kristallnacht und verschiedene Begebenheiten…
2. Stefi Geisel papers
2005.288.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2005.288.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1870-1956
bulk: 1914-1956
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…, with the plan to emigrate to Palestine. Her father was arrested during the November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom and sent to Dachau, but released. He…
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 … documenting Siegfried’s imprisonment in Dachau following Kristallnacht, and certificates of good conduct for Walter. Correspondence consists primarily of…
3. Carl and Robert Gamer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.528.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1965
… in Berlin during Kristallnacht, Gamer was in the hospital, though he writes about what his hearing from doctors and nurses. His dissertation drafts…
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 …, including his diaries from October 1938- June 1942. Though he was in Berlin during Kristallnacht, Gamer was in the hospital, though he writes about what his…
4. Louis Oppenheimer papers
1992.49.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1992.49.2
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1994
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…) and Eleanor (born Lore, 1919). Alfred immigrated to the United States in 1937. After Kristallnacht, Louis was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp…
5. Erwin Marx papers
1990.283.13 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1990.283.13 | RG Number: RG-28.011
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1970
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… arrested during Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, and interned in Dachau concentration camp until December. His business and all his assets was confiscated…
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 … Kristallnacht in 1938, his business was liquidated by the Nazi government in December 1938, and he fled to Shanghai in 1939. He immigrated to the United States…
6. Werner Kleeman collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.157
Date:
inclusive: 1944-2010
…, sponsored by a distant relative in Nebraska, and was approved in 1938. Before Werner could leave Germany he was arrested during Kristallnacht and imprisoned…
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 … approved in 1938. Before Werner could leave Germany he was arrested during Kristallnacht and imprisoned along with his family members. His father was soon…
7. Jäckel and Wetterhahn family papers
2017.297.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.297.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2002
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…, Julius and Gertrude aboard the SS Washington. Both of their parents stayed in Germany. The day before Kristallnacht, Max was arrested, along with Sigmund…
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 … Gertrud’s family and in 1938, Julius and Gertrude aboard the SS Washington. Both of their parents stayed in Germany. The day before Kristallnacht, Max was…
8. Paul Mayer papers
2019.208.1 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2019.208.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1982
bulk: 1938-1954
… to support the family. After Kristallnacht in November 1938 Fritz was arrested and sent to Buchenwald until his release in February 1939. Despite…
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 … to support the family. After Kristallnacht in November 1938 Fritz was arrested and sent to Buchenwald until his release in February 1939. Despite…
9. Judith Cromwell papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1990
bulk: 1914-1950
… practice. By 1938 John and Charlotte had applied for visas to immigrate to the United States, but had yet to receive them. During Kristallnacht (9-10…
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 … 1938 John and Charlotte had applied for visas to immigrate to the United States, but had yet to receive them. During Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938…
10. Frederic Zeller papers
2017.576.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 71
Document | Accession Number: 2017.576.1
Date:
inclusive: 1922-1990
bulk: 1939-1948
… 1938, the Zellers lost their Austrian citizenship. Several relatives began to emigrate from Germany. After Kristallnacht, Frederic’s family tried to get…
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 … Kristallnacht, Frederic’s family tried to get him on a Kindertranport. After several failed attempts, Frederic, along with his cousin Norbert and several other…
11. Rosenberg and Mosler families papers
2017.327.1 BookEnclosure Folder 1 Image 23
Document | Accession Number: 2017.327.1
Date:
inclusive: 1888-1987
bulk: 1915-1956
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… left Germany for the United States the night after Kristallnacht in 1938. Claude served in the United States Army during World War II. His mother…
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 … and Ernst left Germany for the United States the night after Kristallnacht in 1938. Claude served in the United States Army during World War II. His…
12. Razdowitz and Lehr families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2023.31.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2001
bulk: 1934-1949
… prior to Kristallnacht (November 1938), including Gisa’s parents, her sister Meta and brother Hans, and Adolf’s mother Antonia. Gisa’s brother David…
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 …). The family lived in Paris, and were joined by several relatives prior to Kristallnacht (November 1938), including Gisa’s parents, her sister Meta and…
13. Carl Lenneberg papers
2011.259.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2011.259.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1913-1975
bulk: 1939-1940
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… to the United States in May 1937. Carl and Georg were arrested during Kristallnacht in November 1938 and sent to Dachau concentration camp. They were…
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 … (Hilde, b. 1912 in Ulm) immigrated to the United States in May 1937. Carl and Georg were arrested during Kristallnacht in November 1938 and sent to Dachau…
14. Ruth Rappaport papers
2012.431.1 Box 3 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2012.431.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1929-1969
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… happening. She saw her synagogue on fire and Jewish property being destroyed during the November 9 - 10 Kristallnacht pogrom. Ruth told her parents what she…
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 … Kristallnacht pogrom. Ruth told her parents what she saw, and soon after, the family left for Switzerland. After a short stay, Mendel and Helene decided to return…
15. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers
2017.101.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 39
Document | Accession Number: 2017.101.1
Date:
inclusive: 1913-1995
bulk: 1913-1949
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… assistance of a neighbor. During Kristallnacht on 11 November 1938, the family’s store was robbed. Her father had applied for visas to the United States, but…
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 … of Austria in 1938, Mendel was arrested, and only released with the assistance of a neighbor. During Kristallnacht on 11 November 1938, the family…
16. Nelly Rossmann family papers
2005.546.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2005.546.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-1990
bulk: 1932-1947
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… [mixed race] boy with a Jewish mother, Michael was frequently mistreated in school. Shortly after the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, Nelly…
17. Elisabeth Orsten papers
2000.417.1 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 57
Document | Accession Number: 2000.417.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1936-1953
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…. Elisabeth and Georg were sent to live with their uncles in Frankfurt, Germany, due to the increasing anti-Semitism. The November 1938 Kristallnacht [Night of…
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 … converted to Catholicism, and Elisabeth and her younger brother Georg (1930‐1997) attended Catholic schools. After Kristallnacht, the Ornsteins found…
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 … children to aunts and uncles in Frankfurt. When on November 9, 1938, Kristallnacht, both uncles were arrested and sent to a concentration camp, their mother…
18. Norman A. Miller family papers
2016.203.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2016.203.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-2015
… her daughters’ families immigrated: Bertha’s to the United States and Dina’s to England. On November 9, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German…
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 … the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, when the family’s home was ransacked, the Müllers were forced to relocate to another apartment, and began…
19. Gans family papers
2012.478.3 Book Enclosure 5 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2012.478.3
Date:
inclusive: 1900-2004
bulk: 1938-1950
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… religious activities and socialize with their community. After the November 9 - 10, 1938, Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany, Moritz and Else sent Theo out of…
20. Anne Ranasinghe papers
2018.627.1 Box 2 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2018.627.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2017
bulk: 1936-2017
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… Hatzair Zionist youth group. During Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938), the Katz family witnessed the burning of the Essen synagogue, and Anna and Anne…
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 … religious and regularly attended Synagogue. Anne was also active in the Maccabi Hatzair Zionist youth group. During Kristallnacht (9-10 November 1938), the…