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1. Erwin Tepper papers
2015.590.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.590.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2015
undated: 
… applied and Erwin was accepted as one of this group. In the spring, Juda left for Great Britain. Erwin left from Germany in May 1939 aboard the S.S…
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 … States, Juda and Schifra applied to have their son Erwin accepted as one of this group, and he was. Erwin left Germany in May 1939, on the S.S. President…
2. Bleier and Weisz families papers
2016.162.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.162.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1898-2005
… the S.S. General Blatchford, and settled in Indianapolis, Indiana.…
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 … Holocaust experiences of the Bleier family of Budapest, Hungary and the Weisz family of Baia Mare, Romania. Included are biographical papers, correspondence…
3. Langer family papers
2017.616.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.616.1
Date:
inclusive: 1906-2009
… 1938. They survived the Holocaust in Shanghai and later immigrated to the United States. Ignatz Langer (1893-1960) was born on 22 April 1893 in Lwów…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Robert Langer and his parents Igantz…
4. Henry Blumenstein family papers
2000.388.1 Box 1 Folder 35 Image 153
Document | Accession Number: 2000.388.1
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1994
…Henry Blumenstein donated the Henry Blumenstein family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 and 2002. The accession…
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 ….ushmm.org Acquisition information: Henry Blumenstein donated the Henry Blumenstein family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2000 and 2002. The…
5. Fellner family papers
2015.563.1 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2015.563.1
Date:
inclusive: 1865-circa 2014
bulk: 1901-1957
… Wise. He booked passage on the SS Conte di Savoia, and arrived in New York on September 23, 1939. He settled in Dallas, Texas where he taught music. In…
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 …; and the emigration difficulties Rudolf’s parents Eugen and Stefanie faced when leaving Vienna on the SS Pentcho, which shipwrecked near Greece in 1940…
6. Haber family papers
2015.236.1 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.236.1
Date:
inclusive: 1897-circa 1990
bulk: 1897-1954
… negotiated American visas. They sailed out of Hamburg, Germany on 23 May 1939 on the SS President Harding and the children initially lived in the Brith…
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 … documenting their trip on board the SS President Harding and arrival to the United States; identification papers of Fritz’s parents Joseph and Grete Haber…
7. Schulder and Sons furrier’s knife brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.3 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.3
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
… had missed had been shot by Nazis. On October 29, 1938, Isidor, his wife Ida, and their young daughter, Dorit, boarded the SS Pennland in Vlissingen…
8. Combination fur scraper and stretching block brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee
2006.511.2 front
Object | Accession Number: 2006.511.2
Date:
use: approximately 1924-1996
… had missed had been shot by Nazis. On October 29, 1938, Isidor, his wife Ida, and their young daughter, Dorit, boarded the SS Pennland in Vlissingen…
9. Peter and Berta Victor papers
1990.114.74 Box 1 Folder 27 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1990.114.74
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1991
…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Estate of Peter M. Victor and in memory of Carl and Elsa Victor and Berta Neidermann…
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 … Acquisition information: Peter Victor donated the Peter and Berta Victor papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990, 1992, 1994, and 2004…
10. Braunwasser family papers
2016.89.1 Box 1 Folder 9 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.89.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
…, where she spent the next decade. Her parents immigrated to the United States in December 1939 aboard the S.S. Veendam and joined their daughter and…
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 … in December 1939 aboard the S.S. Veendam and joined their daughter and relatives in Texas. Simon Braunwasser, who was a salesman in Vienna, established…
11. Bernhard Wiesenfeld papers
2015.602.1 Box 3 Folder 14 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.602.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-circa 2015
bulk: 1913-1946
… Jaroslaw, Poland before moving to Vienna, Austria. He studied to be an inventor and mechanical engineer at the Vienna University of Technology. During his…
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 …, photographs, and papers related to the engineering career of Bernhard Wiesenfeld (1907-1994) in Vienna, Austria and his status as a refugee in the Kitchener…
12. Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers
1998.A.0297 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 28
Document | Accession Number: 1998.A.0297
Date:
inclusive: 1934-1978
… Mathilde Goldstein and Olga Weiss, who perished in the Holocaust.…
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 …, and Mathilde Goldstein and Olga Weiss, who perished in the Holocaust. System of arrangement The Joseph and Margaret Weiss family papers are arranged as…
13. Gertrude and William Nagel papers
2017.527.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2017.527.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-circa 2000
bulk: 1938-1946
… for Italy. In March 1940 William left Italy for the United States sailing about the SS Vulcania. His parents, Fritz and Helene, remained in Europe…
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 … Evil: A Photo- Record of Axis Crime, 1945, which was transferred to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Library and cataloged under call number D…
14. Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers
2000.16 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2000.16
Date:
inclusive: 1873-1982
…, Nathan Blau (Balog), from 1873, and the embarkation card for Piroska Berki on her voyage to the United States via the S.S. Marine Marlin.…
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 … Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024‐2126 Abstract: The Piroska Berki and Gustave Balog family papers…
15. Erwin Schattner family papers
2015.595.2 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 29
Document | Accession Number: 2015.595.2
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1998
bulk: 1920-1948
… England until May 1940, when they immigrated to the United States, leaving Liverpool on the S.S. Samaria, and rejoining Schattner's brother, Marcus Schatner…
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 … Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: Documents and correspondence related to the career of…
16. Kurt and Hennie Reiner papers
2018.299.1 Box 1 Folder 13 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2018.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1996
undated: 
… and Hennie went to Fischamend, a combination labor camp and Zionist training camp under the auspices of Hashomer Hazair (and monitored by the Nazi SS…
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 … Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection includes documents, correspondence, and…
17. Emil Schattner papers
Document | Accession Number: 2021.129.1
Date:
inclusive: 1910-2005
… brother Shimon, and Krynica-Zdrój, Poland with her brother Israel. On 12 October 1938 the family sailed from Gdynia, Poland to New York aboard the SS Batory…
18. Lisbeth Modley Kornreich papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.246.1
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1984
bulk: 1912-1945
…The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Lisbeth Modley Kornreich and her parents Augusta and Wilhelm Modley of Vienna, Austria…
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 … seamstress work until they were able to leave Austria on 22 May 1941. They went to Lisbon, Portugal and sailed from there on the SS Mouzinho to the United…
19. Freud family papers
2010.401.1 BookEnclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2010.401.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2004
bulk: 1919-1954
undated: 
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… the Jewish community. In September 1942, Sophie and Esti left Casablanca for Lisbon, Portugal, and on October 23, 1942, they boarded the SS Carvalho…
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 … Esti left Casablanca for Lisbon, Portugal, and on October 23, 1942, they boarded the SS Carvalho Arjuo for the United States. The ship docked in…
20. Robert Kaldeck papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.125.2
Date:
inclusive: 1929-1984
… other Austrians boarded the SS Orizaba to Mexico and Cuba, but despite having valid paperwork, they were denied entry into Mexico. Future Cuban president…
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 …, his efforts to rescue his parents Moriz and Ella Kohn and sister Alice Kohn from Austria during the Holocaust, and the post-war search for their fate…