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1. Wartime SS officer's diary
2003.107 Box 1 Folder 1 Item 72
Document | Accession Number: 2003.107
Date:
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…The wartime diary of an SS officer is written in German and is arranged chronologically although the year is unknown. The diary includes descriptions…
2. Alfred and Hertha Friedheim collection
2014.322.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 25
Document | Accession Number: 2014.322.1
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…United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of the Family of Alfred and Hertha Friedheim.…
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 … a draft): “Having been a passenger on the SS St. Louis, which should have disembarked in Havana (Cuba) and which brought me back to France on June 20…
3. Rabbi Judah Nadich papers
1994.A.0250. 3 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1994.A.0250.3
Date:
inclusive: 1939-1997
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…Rabbi Judah Nadich and the Estates of Judah Nadich and Martha Hadassah Nadich donated the Rabbi Judah Nadich papers to the United States Holocaust…
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 … Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, Washington, DC 2 Acquisition information: Rabbi Judah Nadich and the Estates of Judah Nadich and Martha Hadassah Nadich…
4. Levinson and Stern family papers
2015.606.1 Box 2 Folder 39 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2015.606.1
Date:
inclusive: 1875-1995
bulk: 1875-1958
… photograph album, 1932-1940 contains photographs from the Levinsons’ trip to the United States aboard the SS Bremen in 1935 and their life in New York. The…
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 … Levinson donated the Levinson and Stern family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in October 2015. Related archival materials: The Fred…
5. Stripounsky family papers
2016.322.18 Box 2 Folder 2 Image 15
Document | Accession Number: 2016.322.18
Date:
inclusive: 1912-2014
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… experiences of the Stripounsky (later Strip) family: Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky and their sons Joseph and Asriel during the Holocaust when they fled…
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 … information: Eliane and David Strip donated the Stripounsky family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2016 and an accretion in 2018 on…
6. Leo Yeni papers
2012.483.1 Book Enclosure 5 Image 37
Document | Accession Number: 2012.483.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-2010
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… northern Italy, where Milan was located. The German SS took over the police functions and began preparations to deport the Jewish residents in Italy to…
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 …, diaries, writings, photographs, and printed materials documenting Leo Yeni from Milan, his escape into Switzerland during the Holocaust, his detention in…
7. Mirjam Zelwer Papers
2015.235.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 49
Document | Accession Number: 2015.235.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1947-1952
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… 1947 aboard the SS Exodus and participated in the onboard resistance when British soldiers boarded the ship and ordered refugees to disembark and return…
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 … post-war documents relating to Marie Zelwer’s post-war experiences aboard the SS Exodus in 1947 and her life in Germany at the Bad Aibling IRO Children…
8. 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
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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…
9. Archiv Horst von Wächter
Document | Accession Number: 2014.103 | RG Number: RG-17.049
Date:
inclusive: 1901-1984
… office in Germany in January 1933, Wächter had married Charlotte Bleckmann, joined the SS and worked as a lawyer for the Austrian Nazi Party. In 1934 he…
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 … party and an SS officer who rose to the ranks of the District Governor of Kraków, Poland and later District Governor of Galicia. Languages: German…
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 … SS Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt, and also Otto Wächter; the attempt to come up with a new war strategy based on "reasonable politics" instead of Hitler…
10. Nina Merrick papers
1988.70.3 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 4
Document | Accession Number: 1988.70.3
Date:
inclusive: 1945-1949
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… of the village seemed to switch from one armed faction to another. Soon, SS personnel arrived and harsh anti-Jewish measures were enacted. Nechama and…
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 … the Nina Merrick papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1988 and 1989. The accession previously cataloged as 1989.277 has been…
11. Edward Herzbaum Hartry papers
2012.471.1 Box 1 Folder 24 Image 6
Document | Accession Number: 2012.471.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-1955
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…Edward Henryk Herzbaum (later Hartry) was born on October 6, 1920, in Vienna, Austria. He was the only son of a Jewish couple, Dr. Alexander and…
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 …) Repository: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives, 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW, Washington, DC 20024-2126 Abstract: The Edward Herzbaum Hartry…
12. Klara Süss papers
2007.344.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 22
Document | Accession Number: 2007.344.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1947
… that their visas to the United States were granted and, with the assistance of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, passage was booked on the SS Navemar…
13. Otto Eidlitz diaries
2017.121.1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 44
Document | Accession Number: 2017.121.1
Date:
inclusive: 1940-1943
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… April 1943, Otto and his brothers left from Lisbon, Portugal aboard the SS Serpa Pinto to the United States. They were sponsored by their uncle, Moritz…
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 …, he sold everything to help get his brothers out. In April 1943, Otto and his brothers left from Lisbon, Portugal aboard the SS Serpa Pinto to the…
14. Jäckel and Wetterhahn family papers
2017.297.1 Book Enclosure 1 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 2017.297.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1920-2002
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…, Julius and Gertrude aboard the SS Washington. Both of their parents stayed in Germany. The day before Kristallnacht, Max was arrested, along with Sigmund…
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 …’s children, donated the Jäckel and Wetterhahn family papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2017. Separated material: An oral history…
15. 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
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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…
16. 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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… were hiding after it was set on fire by SS guards in retaliation for the Warsaw ghetto uprising in early 1944. Fryderyk and his father spent the…
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 … hiding for part of the war and his family in the years during and after the Holocaust. Materials include certification of slave labor, identification…
17. Felix and Flory Van Beek collection
1990.23.241 Box 1 Folder 25 Image 13
Document | Accession Number: 1990.23.241
Date:
inclusive: circa 1930-1990
… take Flora with him to save her life. On November 17, 1939, they sailed on the SS Simon Bolivar. The next day, the ship hit two German mines and sunk…
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 … personal narrative, photographs, and printed materials documenting a German‐Dutch couple, their thwarted efforts to escape Europe on the SS Simon Bolivar…
18. Malcolm A. Vendig papers
1990.107.88 Box 2 Folder 7 Image 2
Document | Accession Number: 1990.107.88
Date:
inclusive: 1932-1967
bulk: 1944-1945
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…Material(s) in this collection may be protected by copyright and/or related rights. You do not require further permission from the Museum to use this…
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 … United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990. The Malcolm A. Vendig papers (1990.107.88) is comprised of two accessions, 1990.107 and 1991.A.0006…
19. Wellisch and Auerbach families papers
2018.646.1 Box 2 Folder 27 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2018.646.1
Date:
inclusive: 1925-1961
…’s representative; at one point Laura owned a fashionable clothing store. Kurt attended the Wasa Gymnasium and then the University of Vienna, graduating with a…
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 …, donated the Wellisch and Auerbach families papers to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2018. Separated material: Fred Wellisch also donated two…
20. Wolf and Schlesinger families papers
2016.160.1 Box 6 Folder 16 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2016.160.1
Date:
inclusive: 1846-2008
bulk: 1924-1972
… immigrated to the United States on the S.S. Statendam in 1938. They divorced in 1942, and she married Rudolf the same year. Gretel’s parents, Paul and Alice…
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 … information: The collection was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Katherine H. Page in 2016. Katherine is the daughter of Rudolf and…