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1. 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…
2. Helen Mermelstein and Esther Mermelstein Weiss papers
2014.471.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 2014.471.1
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1961
undated: 
Special Collection:
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… including Auschwitz, munitions factory Christianstadt, a sub-camp of Gross Rosen, in Poland, and Bergen-Belsen in Germany where they were liberated. They were…
3. 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.…
4. 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:
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…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…
5. 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…
6. von Halle family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.177 | RG Number: RG-10.166
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1947
…Oscar Louis von Halle (1886-1944) was born on October 1, 1886 in Hamburg, Germany. He served in the military during World War I. After the war, he…
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 … history: Katelynn Vance, July 2020. Biographical note Oscar Louis von Halle (1886-1944) was born on October 1, 1886 in Hamburg, Germany. He served in the…
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. William C. Alston Jr. papers
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0140 | RG Number: RG-04.047
Date:
creation: 1945
… camp; a news article describing war-time activities of the U.S. 45th Infantry Division in Aschaffenburg, Germany; a photocopy of an American army medical…
9. 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…
10. 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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11. 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…
12. Walter Hamann collection
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0071 | RG Number: RG-32.015
Date:
1992
…Jehovah's Witnesses--Germany--Photographs.…
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
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… 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. 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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15. Hinsel family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2004.721.1
Date:
inclusive: 1904-1960
…Luneberg, Germany, and Theresienstadt ghetto/labor camp documents and realia collection…
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 …: Hinsel (Family : Lüneburg, Germany) Extent: 1.2 linear feet (2 boxes, 2 oversize folders) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100…
16. Elise Schapira papers
1991.157.5 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1991.157.5
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1991
…Elise Schapira (1920-1998) was born in Bad Brückenau, Germany to Max Goldschmidt (1892-?) and Sibylla Goldschmidt (nee Klein, 1891-?). When Jews…
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 … brief testimony recounting her family life in Germany, her escape to England, her immigration to the United States, and the loss of her brother and…
17. Ellen Kaufmann Boucher papers
2018.38.2 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 2018.38.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1900-2014
…Ellen Kaufmann Boucher (1920-2014) was born to Hermann (1882-1942) and Ella (née Barth, 1890-1920) Kaufmann in Mainz, Germany. Hermann Kaufmann, a…
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 …, prewar and wartime photographs of her family in Mainz, Germany, and a transcript of an interview she gave in 1995. Languages: English, German…
18. Anthony Acevedo papers
2010.440.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2010.440.1
Date:
inclusive: 1935-2012
Special Collection:
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…, Stalag IX-B, in Bad Orb, Germany. Tony was prisoner number 27016. He was interrogated for several hours by a German officer in English and Spanish, and…
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 …, and was ordered to surrender. They were taken to Stalag IX‐B in Bad Orb, Germany, where conditions were terrible. He was selected as part of a group…
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  • Series 1: Anthony Acevedo papers Circa 1935-Circa 2012
    • File 1: Diary 1945
19. Trudy Katzer papers
2005.175.1 Box 1 Folder 10 Image 203
Document | Accession Number: 2005.175.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1976
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… (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…
20. Fred and Ruth Cohen papers
Document | Accession Number: 2019.398.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1992
bulk: 1920-1942
…Fred (Fritz) Cohen (1914-1981) was born on October 12, 1914 in Eschwege, Germany to David and Martha Cohen. David was born on October 15, 1988 near…