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1. Two handicapped Jewish prisoners photographed for propaganda purposes who arrived after Kristallnacht.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 13133
Date:
1938
…Two handicapped Jewish prisoners photographed for propaganda purposes who arrived after Kristallnacht.…
2. Five handicapped Jewish prisoners, photographed for propaganda purposes, who arrived in Buchenwald after Kristallnacht.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 13132
Date:
1938
…Five handicapped Jewish prisoners, photographed for propaganda purposes, who arrived in Buchenwald after Kristallnacht.…
3. Newly arrived prisoners, still in their civilian clothes, and after shaving and disinfection, stand at roll call in Buchenwald concentration camp shortly after Kristallnacht.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 13128
Date:
1938
… shortly after Kristallnacht.…
4. Charlotte Sonnenberg papers
1988.41.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1988.41.1 | RG Number: RG-10.275
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
… in Leipzig. During Kristallnacht Herbert was arrested and imprisoned in the Buchenwald concentration camp. After his release, the Alexanders fled…
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 … following Kristallnacht, identification cards of Charlotte’s from Leipzig, Germany and Shanghai, China, and a photograph of Herbert’ tombstone in Shanghai…
5. 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…
6. Alfred Fabian papers
1995.78.11 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.78.11
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1947
… daughter, Ingrid Johanna. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht, Alfred witnessed the synagogue being destroyed. On September 1, 1941, Jews over the age…
7. 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…
8. 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…
9. 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…
10. 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…
11. 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
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  • Series 4: Photographs Approximate 1937-Approximate 1962
    • File 1: Buchenwald (5 folders) (Pressed flowers and negatives stored separately) Approximate 1937-Approximate 1945
12. Newly arrived prisoners, with shaven-heads, stand at attention in their civilian clothes during a roll call in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 79914
Date:
Circa 1938 November 10
… Kristallnacht pogrom (November 9-10, 1938) and sent to Buchenwald. Another 20,000 German-Jews arrested at the same time were imprisoned in Dachau and…
13. Close-up portrait of a German-Jewish man with a shaved head shortly after his release from four weeks in the Buchenwald concentration camp.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 71146
Date:
December 1938
… passed his non-Jewish schoolmates stopped playing with him. On the night of Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, Ludwig's synagogue was destroyed. The next…
14. Felix Goldschmidt, director of the Versailles children's home for religious teenagers, reads aloud inside the home's synagogue.
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Photograph | Photograph Number: 79292
Date:
Circa 1947 - 1949
… little René. On the night of crystal (Kristallnacht), November 10, 1938, SA Brown shirts broke into the Goldschmidt home breaking furniture and destroying…