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1. Egon Weiss papers
2011.128.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 2011.128.1
Date:
inclusive: 1890-2009
bulk: 1920-1945
Special Collection:
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… British did not to allow passengers to land and instead deport them to Mauritius. Egon was then transferred onto the SS Patria for deportation. Haganna…
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 … describing his 1940 voyage on the SS Milos, the explosion of the SS Patria, his internment in the Atlit detainee camp, and the following years in Jerusalem as…
2. Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers
2003.361.1 Box 2 Folder 8 Image 116
Document | Accession Number: 2003.361.1 | RG Number: RG-24.021
Date:
inclusive: 1879-2001
… German SS. Moritz had secret contacts in the railroad and they soon realized that they were being lied to about the destination of the transports. They…
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 … the Moritz and Hildegard Henschel papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2003 in memory of their grandparents. Related archival…
3. Adler family papers
2016.458.1 Book Enclosure 8 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2016.458.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880 September-2003
… Paris in April 1941 with the assistance of a guide who led him out of the city, and took a train to Marseille. From there, he boarded the S.S. Winnipeg to…
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 … Holocaust experiences of brothers Denis and János Adler, originally of Szeged, Hungary, and members of their extended families. The collection contains…
4. 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
…The Henry F. Kahn collection of Holocaust-era mail primarily consists of envelopes, letters, postcards, and philatelic materials Kahn collected…
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 … donated a demitasse spoon (1992.022.01) from the SS St. Louis to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1992. In 2012, Hal and Robyn Klein donated a…
5. Abraham family papers
1996.126.3 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 1996.126.3
Date:
inclusive: 1916-1960
… and parents. During the Holocaust, the Abraham family evaded capture by hiding in several non-Jewish German homes. The documents consist mainly of…
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 … siblings and parents. During the Holocaust, the Abraham family evaded capture by hiding in several non-Jewish German homes. The documents consist mainly of…
6. Jiří Lauscher collection
1993.A.0003 Box 4 Folder 18 Image 40
Document | Accession Number: 1993.A.0003 | RG Number: RG-35.001
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1989
Special Collection:
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… were waiting for the train to arrive, an SS commander came to get workers to repair a roof recently damaged in a windstorm. Jiri and a few others…
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 … culture of Theresienstadt; and Holocaust-era ghettos and concentration camps. Records documenting the Jüdische Kultusgemeinde in Prague relate to two of the…
7. 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…
8. Michael J. Kraus papers
1995.A.1067.1 Book Enclosure Folder 1 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.1067.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1994
bulk: 1945-1947
Special Collection:
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… England on the S.S. Aquitania and was sent to Montreal where he completed high school and attended McGill University for two years. A cousin had come from…
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 … on the S.S. Aquitania to Canada. Michael completed high school and one year of university in Montreal and in September 1951, immigrated to the United…
9. Hana and Charles Bruml papers
1989.303.57 Box 2 Folder 34 Image 8
Document | Accession Number: 1989.303.57
Date:
inclusive: circa 1880-2001
… Office, which facilitated emigration to Mandate Palestine. In September 1941, Heydrich, SS Chief of RSHA, became Reich Protector, and prioritized the…
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 … Kraemer donated the Hana and Charles Bruml papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1989, 2000, 2001, and 2011. Accessions previously…
10. Gerda Schild Haas papers
1989.048 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 1989.048 | RG Number: RG-02.016
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1946
… memories of life in Berlin during the Holocaust, the Jewish hospital where she worked as a nurse, the organization of transports to Theresienstadt, and the…
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 … Berlin during the Holocaust, the Jewish hospital where she worked as a nurse, the organization of transports to Theresienstadt, and the cruelty of SS…
11. Ansbacher family papers
2015.534.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2015.534.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1875-1990
… December 1946 from Gothenburg, Sweden aboard the SS Drottningholm and was reunited with her parents who had immigrated in July 1946. In 1948 she married Fred…
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 … immigration papers. Sigrid immigrated to New York in December 1946 from Gothenburg, Sweden aboard the SS Drottningholm and was reunited with her parents who had…
12. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
Special Collection:
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… via Sweden aboard the SS Gripsholm. In New York, Truusje lived with her maternal uncle and his wife, Siegfried and Gertrude Katz. They adopted her and…
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 … Abstract: The Trudy Katzer papers contain documents relating to Trudy Katzer and her grandfather, Levi Katz. Levi was a survivor of Theresienstadt, while…
13. Irene and Henry Frank papers
2016.496.1 Box 1 Folder 6 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2016.496.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1992
… the United States. Photographs depict Irene Frank’s arrival in New York aboard the SS Marine Perch, Theresienstadt, Deggendorf, and Holocaust memorials…
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 … United States. Photographs depict Irene Frank’s arrival in New York aboard the SS Marine Perch, Theresienstadt, Deggendorf, and Holocaust memorials…
14. Lilienthal and Fraenkel families papers
Document | Accession Number: 2016.170.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
… emigrate, seeking assistance from relatives of Max who had settled in the United States. They were successful, and left Germany on 16 March 1939 on the S.S…
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 … States, and menus and postcards from the ship that they travelled on, the S.S. Deutschland. Languages: German, English. Administrative Information…
15. Zvi and Eva Schloss papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.391.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1945
… arrival. Those able to walk, including Minni, were sent on a forced march. After the SS fled, Eva raided the storerooms for food, clothing, and blankets. A…
16. Lenneberg and Brünell families papers
2004.566.4 Book Enclosure 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2004.566.4
Date:
inclusive: 1926-1947
Special Collection:
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… given the wrong inmate count. They had to stand at attention for hours in the rain guarded by SS with machine guns as other guards beat and screamed at…
17. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937-1949
Document | Accession Number: 2016.146.1 | RG Number: RG-68.191M
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1949
… support for refugees passing through Turkey en route to Palestine and to passengers on the SS Drottningholm, a rescue ship used for repatriation of…
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 … RG‐68.191M Reel List RG‐68.191M: 2016.146.1. Records of the Istanbul Office of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, 1937…
18. Out of the hell of Minsk into the 'paradise' of Theresienstadt
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.039 | RG Number: RG-02.048
… imprisonment. Among the things described are the deportation of Jews from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to the camp, the role of the SS in the camp…
19. Aus der Hölle Minsk in der 'Paradies' Theresiendstadt
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0039 | RG Number: RG-04.012.01
Date:
creation: 1957
Alternate Title:
Out of the Hell of Minsk into the 'Paradise' of Theresienstadt
… and Moravia to the camp, the role of the SS in the camp administration, the "self administration" of the Jewish elders, the treatment of children and…
20. Selected records from police departments in the German occupied countries (R 70)
Document | Accession Number: 2004.560 | RG Number: RG-68.048M
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
…This collection includes Security Service (SD) decrees and reports relating to the treatment of forced laborers; concentration camp Hertogenbosch…
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 … Staatsvolk - Deutsche Volksgruppe 5 [p. 121-1251 Nov. 42-09.12.44 Betr.: Wsung der Zigeuner.frage in der Slowakei fp, 142-1471 6 ~, (4 J L 1940-1945 8 &. ,ß…