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121. Fred Freuthal papers
2015.527.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 12
Document | Accession Number: 2015.527.1
Date:
inclusive: 1939-circa 1998
… was chosen to go to the United States under the supervision of two Americans, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, as part of a group later known as the "50…
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 …, Fred was chosen to go to the United States under the supervision of two Americans, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus, as part of a group later known as the "50…
122. Snatager family papers
2013.451.1 Box 1 Folder 5 Image 56
Document | Accession Number: 2013.451.1
Date:
inclusive: 1871-1943
Special Collection:
Save Their Stories
… in Amsterdam, but were found and sent to Auschwitz where they perished. After the war Leonie volunteered for an American Jewish organization where she…
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 … perished. After the war Leonie volunteered for an American Jewish organization where she interviewed survivors. Leonie immigrated to the United States in…
123. Rysia Edelman papers
1995.A.0522.2 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 30
Document | Accession Number: 1995.A.0522.2
Date:
inclusive: circa 1945-1995
… the war, they were evacuated in cattle cars. At one of the stations, the trains were under fire from the Americans who did not realize there were Jewish…
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 …, they were evacuated in cattle cars. At one of the stations, the trains were under fire from the Americans who did not realize there were Jewish prisoners…
124. "Zichronot Me-ha-Shoah, 1944-1945"
Document | Accession Number: 2000.105
Date:
1999
… Buchenwald. In January 1945, Lazar was sent to a crematorium in Buchenwald where he was eventually liberated by the American army in April. Following his…
125. Kann family papers
Document | Accession Number: 2012.424.1
Date:
inclusive: 1908-2007
bulk: 1942-1945
…Elizabeth Gerson Kann (born 1905) was the American-born wife of Johan Kann, a banker from The Hague, Netherlands. The two had met when Johan Kann…
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 … Elizabeth Gerson Kann (born 1905) was the American‐born wife of Johan Kann, a banker from The Hague, Netherlands. The two had met when Johan Kann was on a…
126. Israel (Laszlo) Lazar papers
Document | Accession Number: 1997.A.0243
… Buchenwald. In January 1945, Lazar was sent to a crematorium in Buchenwald where he was eventually liberated by the American army in April. Following his…
127. Renée Fodor Schwarz writings
1991.A.0095 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 31
Document | Accession Number: 1991.A.0095
Date:
inclusive: 1984-1994
… American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry in New York and at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychotherapy and Counseling.…
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 … American Foundation of Religion and Psychiatry in New York and at the Westchester Institute for Training in Psychotherapy and Counseling. Scope and…
128. Jan Emil Karpiński memoir
Document | Accession Number: 2003.84.1
… electrical company working for the SS. In June 1944 Emil received monetary aid for himself, his sister-in-law, and nephew from the American Joint Distribution…
129. Mosheim and Marx families papers
1999.A.0233 Box 2 Folder 13 Image 48
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0233
Date:
inclusive: 1914-1999
… 1943. Inge met Herbert Mosheim at a New York City social club for new Americans and were married on March 28, 1942. Their daughters Susan and Nancy were…
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 … Americans and were married on March 28, 1942. Their daughters Susan and Nancy were born in Vermont in 1944 and 1946. At some point the family changed their…
130. Fred Vendig papers
1999.A.0089.1 Box 2 Folder 24 Image 5
Document | Accession Number: 1999.A.0089.1
Date:
inclusive: 1859-2002
…, but Cuban authorities denied entry to all but 28 passengers. Despite urgent pleas to the Cuban and American governments, the refugees were denied…
131. 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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… Mauthausen. On April 28, they were put on a nearly forty mile death-march to Gunskirchen concentration camp. On May 5, the German guards fled and American…
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 … Mauthausen. April 28, 1945, Michael went on a 60 kilometer forced march to Gunskirchen. A week later, on May 5, the German guards fled and American troops…
132. Stephan H. Lewy papers
2013.440.1 Box 1 Folder 2 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 2013.440.1
Date:
1939-2012
… and Heinz Americanized his name to Stephan. He got a job in the office of a mining company. Stephan was considered an enemy alien and had to carry a…
133. Pető family papers
1989.250.120 Box 1 Folder 16 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1989.250.120
Date:
inclusive: 1855-1977
… met and married Gus (Gerson) Leiber, an American soldier, sailed with him to America in 1946, and became a famous handbag designer. Meanwhile, her…
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 … parents, and her sister Eva survived the war in Budapest using false papers. After the end of the war she met and married Gus (Gerson) Leiber, an American…
134. Karl Schwesig manuscript
1988.5.21 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 44
Document | Accession Number: 1988.5.21
Date:
creation: 1948
… Ulmer Höhe after American forces captured Dusseldorf on April 17, 1945. The war ended when Germany surrendered on May 7. Schwesig stayed in Dusseldorf. He…
135. Fred Lifschutz papers
2015.541. 1 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 7
Document | Accession Number: 2015.541.1
Date:
inclusive: circa 1910-1975
… two months later. Bertha was able to obtain an American visa, immigrated to the United States in January 1940, and reunited with Fred. In the United…
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 … to obtain an American visa, immigrated to the United States in January 1940, and reunited with Fred. In the United States, Fred attended City College…
136. John and Harriet Isaack papers
1992.53.45 Box 1 Folder 3 Image 24
Document | Accession Number: 1992.53.45
Date:
inclusive: 1930-1991
… became American citizens in 1952. John’s father committed suicide before deportation, and his mother perished in the Holocaust.…
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 …. John and Harriet survived the war, immigrated to California in 1947, and became American citizens in 1952. John’s father committed suicide before…
137. Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation (Centropa) Collection
Document | Accession Number: 2022.254.1
Date:
inclusive: 2000-2019
bulk: 2001-2008
…The Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation (Centropa) was founded in 2000 by Edward Serotta, an American journalist, in Vienna, Austria…
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 … Documentation (Centropa) was founded in 2000 by Edward Serotta, an American journalist, in Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary for the purpose of documenting…
138. Karl Targownik papers
1996.A.0085.1 Box 1 Folder 1 Image 1
Document | Accession Number: 1996.A.0085.1
Date:
inclusive: 1947-1996
… a death march to the main camp at Dachau and was liberated in April 1945. He worked for the American Intelligence Corps of the Army and completed his…
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 … American Intelligence Corps of the Army and completed his medical degree at the University of Heidelberg. He immigrated to the United States in 1949. His…
139. Nachmias family papers
2016.498.1 Box 1 Folder 4 Image 16
Document | Accession Number: 2016.498.1
Date:
inclusive: 1936-2016
… emigrate. Having met an American who befriended him during a business trip to Sweden in 1937, and who subsequently offered to sponsor his immigration…
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 …. Having met an American who befriended him during a business trip to Sweden in 1937, and who subsequently offered to sponsor his immigration, Vitali decided…
140. 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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… UNRRA, AJDC, and HIAS to emigrate to the US on the SS Ernie Pyle. The American Joint Distribution Committee helped them settle in Boston. In 1948, Ursula…