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1. Beatrice Maier papers
1995.A.0290 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0290
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1947
… Staatsanwaltschaft in April 1947, in which he describes events he witnessed during Kristallnacht in Mühlheim, Germany, and identifying by name the perpetrators who…
2. Vollweiler family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2011.353.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-1994
…Else Rosenbaum Vollweiler was born on September 14, 1914 in Treuchtlingen, Germany to Issak Rosenbaum (d. 1930) and Pauline Rosenbaum. Her father…
3. Robert H. Harlan diary
2000.190 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 11
Document | Accession Number: 2000.190
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1946
bulk: 1938-1939
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…-Universitat in Marburg, Germany. Following Kristallnacht, Robert helped his friend Bruno Stern (1880-1957) and his family escape to the United States. Robert…
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. Gerd Leston collection
1995.A.0255 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0255
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1945
…The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
6. Henry Rosenthal collection
Document | Accession Number: 2019.556.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1997
undated: 
…Henry Rosenthal (born Heinz) was born on October 5, 1926 in Erkenschwick, Germany to Georg Rosenthal (b. 1894) and Hedwig Rosenthal (Hete?, née…
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 … (born Heinz) was born on October 5, 1926 in Erkenschwick, Germany to Georg Rosenthal (b. 1894) and Hedwig Rosenthal (Hete?, née Auerbach, b. 1891 to Simon…
7. Kollander family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2012.415.1
Date:
inclusive: 1917-1971
…Consists of correspondence, documents, and photographs related to the Kollander family, originally of Leipzig, Germany. The bulk of the collection is…
8. Irma Gideon collection
1997.A.0096 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 19
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0096
Date:
undated: 
…Irma Gideon (née Frank, 1912-2006) was born on May 27, 1912 in Oberlustadt, Germany to Jacob Frank (April 19, 1876-October 28, 1948) and Bertha Frank…
9. Annelies Sabatowski letters
2005.142 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2005.142
Date:
creation: 1938-1939
…Annelies Sabatowski (1927-1943) was born on October 20, 19127 in Dresden, Germany to Isidor (Izidor, 1897-1943) and Jetka (Jeti) Sabatowski (1903…
10. Under the Nazi regime, 1933-1938
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0351 | RG Number: RG-02.203
…Olympic Games (11th: 1936: Berlin, Germany)…
11. Articles concerning the Hamm Jewish community
Document | Accession Number: 1988.174 | RG Number: RG-03.007.01
…Consists of two articles and three essays relating to several aspects of the Jewish community of Hamm, Germany, at the time of Kristallnacht and…
12. "Eleven Days in the Concentration-Camp Buchenwald"
2014.485.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2014.485.2
Date:
creation: circa 1939
…Rabbi Dr. Georg Wilde (1877-1949) was born to Louis and Therese (nee Bab) Wilde in Meseritz-Stadt, Germany. He had three brothers, Max (1875…
13. Ahronheim and Less family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.153.1
Date:
inclusive: 1933-2012
…Consists of a typed copy of "The Legacy Project: A History of the Ahronheim/Less Family, Lüneburg, Germany" by Margaret McQuillan. The manuscript…
14. 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.…
15. Meinberg family collection
Document | Accession Number: 2009.300.1
Date:
issue: 1915-1938
…Kristallnacht, 1938--Germany.…
16. Liebermensch family papers
Document | Accession Number: 1990.223
Date:
inclusive: circa 1915-circa 1946
…Ruth Liebermensch was born on February 6, 1925, in Mannheim, Germany, to a Jewish couple, Samuel and Gisela Schiff Liebermensch. She had a sister…
17. Gary Heymann photograph collection
2018.544.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.544.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-1979
bulk: 1936-1938
…Gary Heymann (born Gerhard Heymann, 1923-2016) was born in Germany to Hartwig (1896-1993, son of Solms and Adele Heymann) and Helene (née Rosner…
18. "True friends"
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0077 | RG Number: RG-20.010.01
Date:
1991
…Jews--Germany--History--1933-1945.…
19. 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…
20. Edith Simon Babich papers
1994.A.0280 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0280.2
Date:
inclusive: 1935-1984
…Edith Simon Babich (1922-2005) was born Edith Simon on July 1, 1922 in Cloppenburg, Germany to Karl Simon (1884-1943) and Selma Simon (née Katz, 1894…
21. Gerard Moss collection
Document | Accession Number: 2013.389.1
Date:
inclusive: 1929-2013
… and letter related to the experiences of Dr. Maurice Schweizer of Euskirchen, Germany. Dr. Schweizer was imprisoned in Westerbork, then Bergen-Belsen…
22. Carl and Robert Gamer papers
Document | Accession Number: 2013.528.1
Date:
inclusive: 1921-1965
… sister, Helena (1901-1966), who later became a prominent medieval historian. In the early 1909, the family returned to Germany and settled in Wiesbaden…
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 … on the free churches in Germany under National Socialism. This collection contains both his research work and materials he collected while researching…
23. Julius Beer papers
1995.A.0680 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0680
Date:
inclusive: 1993-1995
…Julius Beer was born on June 16, 1922 in Hamburg, Germany to Salka and Robert Beer. He had a sister, Hella Beer. The family moved to Antwerp, Belgium…
24. Josef Broniatowski correspondence
2000.30 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2000.30
Date:
creation: 1938
…Josef Broniatowski was expelled from Germany on October 28, 1938, along with other Polish Jews. He described the experience in letters to his sons…
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 … his family’s expulsion from Germany during the so‐called Polenaktion and the news of Kristallnacht. Languages: German Administrative…
25. Homeless in exile : days of persecution in fall and winter 1938-39
Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0066 | RG Number: RG-02.061.01
Date:
creation: 1939
…Harry Richard Loewenberg was born in 1887 in Posen, Germany. During his career as a journalist, he served as Editor-in-Chief of "Textile Woche" in…
26. Sommer family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2015.197.1
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1963
…Julius Sommer was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany on July 1st, 1876 to Loeser and Bertha Wohl Sommer. At age 14, he began to work a a…
27. Beatrice Neu Melov papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.519.1
Date:
inclusive: 1914-2002
… daughter, Beatrice (later Melov), in Germany and the United States before and during the Holocaust.…
28. "The Life of Alexander Perlberger before, during, and after the Second World War"
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0082 | RG Number: RG-02.040
Date:
creation: 1985
…Germany. Gestapo…
29. Klaus Langer papers
1994.A.0322 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0322
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1942
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
…, Klaus, his parents, and his grandmother Mina settled in Essen, Germany, in 1936. Klaus was a member of a Zionist youth group and, at times, his membership…
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 … in March 1937 while living in Essen, Germany. In his diary Klaus writes about daily life, family, friends, and his involvement in a Zionist…
30. Postcard and newspaper article relating to Kristallnacht
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0021 | RG Number: RG-10.104
Date:
1938-1988
… Chamberlain at Munich, Germany on 29 September 1938. The postcard, which shows images of Hitler, Mussolini, and Chamberlain, has the legend "Zur historischen…
31. "The Crystal Night"
Document | Accession Number: 1989.081 | RG Number: RG-02.018
… Germany.…
32. "Hell and rebirth: my experiences during the time of persecution"
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0059 | RG Number: RG-02.037
…Edith Krasa Kramer (née Liebeck, 1899-1994) was born on 7 October 1899 in Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia). She studied medicine in…
33. Bureaucratic persecution
Document | Accession Number: 1988.A.0079 | RG Number: RG-03.016.01
Date:
creation: 1967
Subtitle:
Jewish life in Frankfurt-am-Main, 1933-1938
…, Germany; organized boycotts of Jewish businesses; Kristallnacht; and Jewish reaction to persecution in Frankfurt am Main.…
34. Gerald Schwab papers
Document | Accession Number: 2002.327.25
Date:
inclusive: 1885-2012
…Gerald (Gerd) Abraham Schwab (1925-2014) was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany to David and Paula Kleefeld Schwab (d. 1995). His father owned an…
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 … Freiburg, Germany. David Schwab owned a plumbing supply company that required travel to Switzerland. After the boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, the…
35. Before the Holocaust
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0025 | RG Number: RG-10.083
Subtitle:
three Jewish lives, 1870-1939
… life in Germany before and after January 30, 1933." The professors were not the authors of the manuscripts. The essays were translated and compiled by…
36. Shulamit Goldstein photograph collection
2012.196.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 2012.196.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938
…Consists of two photographs taken on November 9, 1938 in Oldenburg, Germany. The photographs depict the Nazis arresting Jewish men in Oldenburg as…
37. "My Life Before and After Jan. 30, 1933"
Document | Accession Number: 2003.386
Date:
creation: 1940
…Leo Waldbott (1867-1940) was born on January 28, 1867 in a suburb of Lustadt, Germany to Lazarus and Clara Waldbott (née Neu, d. 1912,). He had two…
38. Anna and Leo Bluethe letters concerning Kristallnacht in Kaiserslautern, Germany
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0157 | RG Number: RG-02.099
Date:
1939
…Anna and Leo Bluethe letters concerning Kristallnacht in Kaiserslautern, Germany…
39. Bulgarian Legation in Berlin (Fond 316)
Document | Accession Number: 2002.378 | RG Number: RG-46.014M
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1944
Special Collection:
Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
… consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.…
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 ….ushmm.org RG-46.014M Rg-46.014M Fond 316. Bulgarian legation in Berlin, 1905-1944 2 File 109-110 Reports regarding the internal situation in Germany, 1933…
40. Landau Kristallnacht synagogue fire photographs
Document | Accession Number: 2021.257.1
Date:
inclusive: 1938-1941
undated: 
…The collection consists of 12 photographs depicting the burning of the synagogue in Landau in der Pfalz, Germany during Kristallnacht. Also included…
41. Henriette Bick Hahn papers
Document | Accession Number: 2018.106.2
Date:
inclusive: 1905-1955
…Henriette Bick Hahn was born Henriette Hick on June 11, 1923 in Munich, Germany to Karl and Emma Bick. Her father Karl Bick (1878-1940) was Jewish…
42. Selected records from archives in Rostock, Dresden, Potsdam, and Leipzig relating to Jews during the Holocaust
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0012 | RG Number: RG-14.006
Date:
inclusive: 1933-1942
…Germany (East). Staatliche Archivverwaltung…
43. Abraham Levi papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.299.1
Date:
inclusive: 
… Mathilde de Beer and their extended family group, the de Levie, Levy, and Seligmann families, originally of Oldenburg, Germany, before, during, and after the…
44. Henry and Grete Salomon collection
1995.A.0370 Box 1 Folder 15 Image 3
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0370
Date:
inclusive: 1928-1961
bulk: 1936-1948
…Heinz “Henry” Salomon (1908-1992) was born in Werne, Germany to Siegmund and Rosa Salomon. His family owned and operated a butcher store, until the…
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 … collection contains primarily identification documents for both Henry Salomon and Grete Nathan Salomon. Both escaped Germany in 1939, and later married in…
45. Marianne Cohn Roberts collection
2012.191.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2012.191.1
Date:
inclusive: 1920-2011
… Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany, for the United States in 1939.…
46. Featured documents from an exhibition at the Staatarchiv Potsdam in 1988 and 1989 to commemorate the November 1938 pogrom (Kristallnacht)
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0057 | RG Number: RG-14.007.01
Date:
1933-1942
…Copied from the holdings of the Staatsarchiv Potsdam, Germany (East) in August 1989 (today the Brandenburg State Archives, Germany).…
47. "Journey Over Glass"
Document | Accession Number: 1989.229.1
Date:
1965 November 07
…Personal recollection of Kristallnacht in Berlin, Germany, printed in the Chicago Tribune, Sunday magazine.…
48. Viktor Neckarsulmer papers
Document | Accession Number: 1988.155.1 | RG Number: RG-10.353
Date:
undated: 
…Contains a four page account of Victor Neckarsulmer's [donor's father] experiences during and after Kristallnacht in Rexingen, Germany. It also…
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 … Neckarsulmer’s [donor’s father] experiences during and after Kristallnacht in Rexingen, Germany. It also includes correspondence and photographs relating to the…
49. 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…
50. "Crystal Night in the Heart of a Jewish Child"
Document | Accession Number: 2010.267
Date:
issue: 2008 November 09
…Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Germany--Berlin--Personal narratives.…