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1. Norbert Wollheim papers
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0031
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1998
…Norbert Wollheim was born in Berlin, Germany, on April 26, 1913 to Jewish parents. His father was a veteran of World War I, 1914-1918. Norbert was…
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 … Digest, 1951 18.21 World Jewish Congress Press Surveys, 1951-1979 18.22 World Jewish Congress – Isaac I. Schwarzbart, The Story of the Warsaw Ghetto…
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2. Gerda Buchheim Haas photograph and memoir
1999.A.0209 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0209
Date:
inclusive: 1941-1996
… 1939, living in the Jewish ghetto under the Japanese occupation, and immigrating to the United States in 1947.…
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 … growing up in Berlin, fleeing to Czechoslovakia in 1938 and eventually to Shanghai via Italy and France in 1939, living in the Jewish ghetto under the…
3. Frederick Weinstein papers
2008.321.1 Box 1 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2008.321.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1999
bulk: 1944-1947
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…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.…
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 …‐‐Poland‐‐Łódź. Holocaust survivors‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Jewish ghettos‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Hiding places‐‐Poland‐‐Warsaw. Holocaust, Jewish (1939‐1945…
4. John and Harriet Isaack papers
1992.53.45 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1992.53.45
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1991
…John Isaack (1912-2008) was born Johannes Isaack in Berlin to Felix and Rosa Isaack. He worked for the Jewish Kulturbund as a set painter alongside…
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 … of the Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau (DALJEWCIB) Harbin-Shanghai (RG-68.114M) appear to include a file on the Isaacks. Accruals…
5. Carl and Mina Weiler papers
2004.485.1 Box 1 Folder 30 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 2004.485.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-1988
… the community. The Weiler’s were an assimilated but observant Jewish family. The town had a small synagogue for the twenty Jewish families. Fritz…
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 … of Walter Jensen, a German Jewish World War I veteran, actor, and theater director born Walter Jacob in 1887 in Gernsbach who was married to Mina…
6. 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
… Jewish, but not especially observant. After the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in Germany in 1933, anti-Jewish legislation and restrictions became…
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 …--Berlin. Jews--Austria--Vienna. Jewish refugees--China--Shanghai. Jewish refugees--Illinois--Chicago. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Reparations. Vienna…
7. Norbert Landecker family papers
1997.123 Box 1 Folder 14 Image 38
Document | Accession Number: 1997.123
Date:
inclusive: 1912-1992
…Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.…
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 …). Jewish ghettos – Poland – Łódź Holocaust victims' families. Germany – Emigration and immigration – Government policy – 20th century. United States…
8. Chaim and Rita Wind collection
2017.372.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2017.372.1
Date:
inclusive: 1937-1952
… Jewish schools. Throughout the 1930s the Winds experienced growing antisemitism in Germany. In fall 1938, Chaim and his brothers went in to hiding to avoid…
9. James Georg Lau papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.290.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1922-2013
bulk: 1939-1953
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…-Jewish, and his mother Betty was forced into the Liepaja ghetto. James saw his mother for the last time on 14 December 1941. The following day, the Jews of…
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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…
10. Margot Schlesinger papers
2013.224.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 14
Document | Accession Number: 2013.224.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1946
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… increasing restrictions on Jews, so she found a job with a Jewish owned company that manufactured clothing. In 1936, Willie immigrated to Palestine. When the…
11. Harpuder family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2010.240.1
Date:
inclusive: 1915-1952
… ordered that all Jewish refugees move into a ghetto in the Hongkew district. Their landlord, who was a Jewish refugee, with the help of Japanese authorities…
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 … ordered that all Jewish refugees move into a ghetto in the Hongkew district. Their landlord, who was a Jewish refugee, with the help of Japanese authorities…
12. Josef Baur papers
2017.675.1 Box 3 Folder 23 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.675.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1954
…, civilians attending a church service, a group of Jewish men and women wearing armbands and standing in a line, and a German soldier arresting two Jewish women…
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 … a church service, a group of Jewish men and women wearing armbands and standing in a line, and a German soldier arresting two Jewish women. The album…
13. Max Schmeidler papers
2004.88.2 Box 1 Folder 8 Image 20
Document | Accession Number: 2004.88.2
Date:
inclusive: 1927-1963
… survived polio and encephalitis in 1943 and lived in the Hongkew ghetto. He immigrated to the United States in 1947, and his parents, who survived the…
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 … was awarded a Police Distinguished Conduct Medal. He survived polio and encephalitis in 1943 and lived in the Hongkew ghetto. He immigrated to the…
14. Holländer family papers
2017.182.1 Box 1 Folder 17 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2017.182.1
Date:
inclusive: 1889-1959
bulk: 1930-1945
… deported from Berlin to the Warsaw Ghetto where he perished in 1943. Gerson’s entire family was killed in the Holocaust except for his brother Isak.…
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 …. Josef Anghouli was deported from Berlin to the Warsaw Ghetto where he perished in 1943. Gerson’s entire family was killed in the Holocaust except for his…
15. Gershon Kufert papers
1996.165.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.165.1
Date:
creation: 1939
… family was sent to the Łódź ghetto, where Lea died. Her mother, Frieda Kufert either died in the Łódź ghetto in 1939 or Chełmno concentration camp in 1942.…
16. Photograph collection from the Russian State Archive of Film, Video and Photo Records
Document | Accession Number: 1989.1024 | RG Number: RG-22.013
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1961
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Europe.…
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 …, Jewish (1939‐1945)‐‐Europe. Geographic Name Babica (Województwo Małopolskie, Poland) Berlin (Germany) Borisov (Belarus) Borisovka (Belgorodskaia…
17. Fritz Gluckstein papers
1991.141.9 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 10
Document | Accession Number: 1991.141.9
Date:
inclusive: 1942-1948
…Fritz Gluckstein was born on January 24, 1927, in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Georg and Hedwig Gluckstein. His father…
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 … Schweitzer, July 2015 Biographical note Fritz Gluckstein is the son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Georg and Hedwig Gluckstein. He was…
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 …Fritz Gluckstein Fritz Gluckstein is the son of a Jewish father and a Christian mother, Georg and Hedwig Gluckstein. He was born January 24, 1927, in…
18. George Schwab photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2005.94.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1948
… followed by anti-Jewish excesses, mass arrests, and massacres. In a mass action against Jews, Arkadi Jakob Schwab was among those arrested in July 1941…
19. Gabryela Bromberg collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.201.1
Date:
creation: 1880-1968
… the Bromberg family moved to Zamość, Poland. During the liquidation of the Zamość ghetto, the Jewish population was forced into transit camp in Izbica…
20. Helen Zimm photograph collection
Document | Accession Number: 2000.612.1
Date:
creation: circa 1946-1948
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 … flowers at the base, the memorial plaque reads: “19.4.1973-19.4.1948/[Hebrew characters]/To the Martyrs and Heroes/of the Ghetto Uprising.” Inscribed in…