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You searched for: Subject Germany. Remove constraint Subject: Germany. Dates 1971-1990 Remove constraint Dates: 1971-1990 Personal Stories Memoirs Remove constraint Personal Stories: Memoirs Text All Remove constraint Text: All Holding Institutions United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Remove constraint Holding Institutions: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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1. Alison Owings papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.67.1
Date:
inclusive: 1984-2013
bulk: 1984-1997
… University of Freiburg in Germany. Following college, she worked in television news, primarily with the CBS network, where she worked as a writer for…
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 … journalism, and during her studies, she spent a year at the University of Freiburg in Germany. Following college, she worked in television news, primarily with…
2. Lichtenberg and Stein families papers
2014.408.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 2014.408.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1901-2001
undated: 
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…Irmgard Stein (Irma, later Lichtenberg, b. 1920) was born to Max (1871-1944, born in Arolsen, Germany) and Hedwig (Johanna, née Benjamin, 1883-1944…
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 … and undated Accession number: 2014.408.1 Creator: Lichtenberg (Family: Hannover, Germany) Additional creator: Stein (Family: Frankfurt, Germany) Extent…
3. My meeting with Heinrich Himmler - April 20/21, 1945
1995.A.0211 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 26
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0211
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1993
…Norbert Masur (1901-1971) was born in 1901 in Friedrichstadt, Germany to Leiser and Hanna Masur. He served as a Swedish representative to the World…
4. Henry Hirschmann papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.205.1
Date:
inclusive: 1934-2013
…Henry Hirschmann was born Heinz Hirschmann in Grossauheim, Germany, on August 5, 1920. His parents, Maier and Ida Hahn Hirschmann, had three sons…
5. Joe Van Rooyen collection
Document | Accession Number: 2010.53 | RG Number: RG-10.496
Date:
inclusive: 1941-2009
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
6. Rachel and Harvey Goldfarb collection
2000.421.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2000.421.2
Date:
inclusive: 1918-2005
… inhabitants were Jewish. Beryl Mutterperl (d. 1937) was a businessman who bought cattle and farm products for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border…
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 … for export to Germany or for the nearby Polish border garrison. Dina owned a thriving fabric store. The Mutterperls lived in the center of town. Their…
7. 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…
8. Mikhail Lev collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.12 | RG Number: RG-68.118
Date:
inclusive: 1940-2008
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … resistance. World War, 1939-1945--Ukraine--Personal narratives, Jewish. Geography: Germany. Israel. Minsk (Belarus)--History--20th century. Poland. Ravensbrück…
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 …- 1964 Inquiries to various official institutions and individuals in Poland, France, Germany and received responses 17 pp. Correspondence of editor of…
9. Oertelt and Fromm families papers
2016.412.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 2016.412.1
Date:
inclusive: 1924-2008
…Henry Oertelt (born Arthur Karl Heinz Oertelt, 1921-2011) was born on 13 January 1921 in Berlin, Germany to Arthur and Else Oertelt. He had one…
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 … Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of Henry Oertelt of Berlin, Germany…
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10. 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.…
11. Mosheim and Marx families papers
1999.A.0233 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0233
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
… City. Karl Marx had died of natural causes in 1938 in Munich, and her mother remained in Germany to care for his ailing mother, Pauline Mayer Marx…
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 … United States, the unsuccessful immigration efforts of the families they left behind in Munich and Vlotho, Germany, and efforts to find out what happened…
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12. 1981 International Liberators Conference collection
Document | RG Number: RG-09.005.22
Date:
1981
Subtitle:
Kaufering
…Contains a letter by Bernard D. Fox, February 28, 1981, relating to the liberation of an unspecified camp at Kaufering, Germany, (a number of Dachau…
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
… establish a hospital and bring aid to the area. On April 24, 1945 he was assigned to a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany where he continued his efforts. Lorenz…
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 … the first American commander of the Buchenwald concentration camp after liberation and his work at a DP camp in Wiesbaden, Germany. The collection also…
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  • Series 2: Buchenwald 1945-1978, Undated
    • File 5: Reports 1945
  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
14. Fritz Rosenthal family papers
1996.A.0249 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0249
Date:
inclusive: 1900-1995
…Fritz Rosenthal was born in Würzburg, Germany on July 4, 1911 to Dr. Karl Rosenthal and Claire Rosenthal (nee Buschhoff). He attended school in…
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 ….ushmm.org for further information. Processing history: Julie Schweitzer, May 2012 Biographical note Fritz Rosenthal was born in Würzburg, Germany on July 4, 1911…
15. Albert Rosenberg papers
1995.A.0606 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0606
Date:
inclusive: 1944-1983
bulk: 1945
…Albert Rosenberg (1918-2014) was born in Göttingen, Germany. Brought up in a well-to-do Jewish family, he attended school and went on to study at…
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 ….ushmm.org for further information. Processing history: Colleen Benoit, February 2016 Biographical note Albert Rosenberg (1918-2014) was born in Gottingen, Germany…
16. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany. When Lau continued his diary in 1944, he describes the end of the war, when he and his father went to Germany…
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 … school because he was half-Jewish, and his mother being forced into the ghetto. There is a gap in the diaries from 1941-1944 while James was in Germany…
17. Ruth Oppenheim memoirs
1995.A.0607 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0607
Date:
inclusive: 1985-1994
…Ruth Heimann Oppenheim was born in 1927 in Werne, Germany to Albert and Rosa Heimann. She had three siblings: Julia, Hannah, and Herbert. Her…
18. Stephan H. Lewy papers
2013.440.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.440.1
Date:
1939-2012
…Heinz Stephan Lewy was born on March 11, 1925, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and Protestant mother, Arthur and Gertrude Puls Lewy. Arthur…
19. "I saw Buchenwald"
Document | Accession Number: 1991.064 | RG Number: RG-09.009
Date:
1985
…World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation--Germany.…
20. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… (Grete) Katz. Walther was born on December 12, 1906, in Kesselbach, Germany, where his parents, Simon and Malchen Katzenstein Schoenfeld, had a farm. He…
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 … Margareta were living in Germany, but deciding that it would be too dangerous to remain, they moved to Amsterdam in 1936. In 1939, Trudy was born. After the…