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34976. Friedler family papers
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... after the war to discover what happened to his parents, and he assisted displaced persons as part of the ... mother in the second district of Vienna, to which Jews had been encouraged to relocate. Trude was sent to ... Germany to perform forced agricultural labor for two months in the spring of 1941, and when she was
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34977. Schoffelen family papers
Collection illustrating the experiences of Jan Marie Schoffelen who was born July 14, 1921 in ... mainly responsible for "transporting, hiding, and freeing" allied pilots shot down and in the area of ... the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Jan lived in Sittard, the Netherlands since the 1930s, and ... three others, was accused of being a spy. He was arrested and sent to the prison in Maastricht. He was
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34978. George Byfield album
The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded ... invaded Poland in September 1939, the beginning of World War II. The Hungarian labor service was put ... under army command in 1940. In spring 1941, Hungary participated in the German invasion of Yugoslavia ... creating over 400 drawings and watercolors. At the end of 1943, Gyorgy was sent back to Budapest. He found
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34979. Henry Knepler papers
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... and Hedwig Moser Knepler (1888‐1962). Hugo Knepler owned the Guttmann Concert Management, one of the ... interned in Huyton and then on the Isle of Man before being transported to Canada in August 1940 aboard the ... Vienna under a false identity with the help of Mela Deutsch‐Brady and others. She immigrated to the
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34980. Schifferes family papers
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... The Schifferes family collection consists of correspondence, emigration and immigration records ... photographs, subject files, publications, and several personal objects documenting the lives of Bertha, Liese ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Judy Shiffers
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34981. Karliner family papers
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... raided the OSE home at Chaumont and arrested all the children over the age of sixteen, including Herbert ... Tayulers which was managed by Zionist members of the Eclaireurs Israelites. The farm had reach its capacity ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Herbert Karliner
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34982. Manfred Lewinnek papers
The collection of consists of correspondence, documents, journals, and publications relating to the ... experiences of Manfred Lewinnek before and during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany as well as his experiences as ... a member of the United States Army while stationed at Camp Cooke, a prisoner of war camp in ... California, where he was responsible for the re-education of German POWs.
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34983. Camillo Adler papers
Paul (1936-2004) was born on 10 March 1936. After the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Camillo joined ... reunited in the village of Neu St. Johan, Nesslau, Toggenburg district of St. Gallen. After the war, they ... autobiographical work related to Adler's life in Lyon, France, from the outbreak of World War II to his enlistment ... in the French Foreign Legion. "Ich bin ein Fluechtling" (I am a Refugee) is an account of Adler
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34984. Joshua (Szyja) Feldman papers
The collection consists of artifacts, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the ... experiences of Szyja (Joshua) and Fela Winter Feldman after the Holocaust, during which Szyja was imprisoned ... World War II. A survivor of the Buchenwald, Dora-Mittelbau, and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, he ... spent the five years after the war recovering from a myriad of illnesses contracted as a concentration
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34985. Bujakowski and Brager families papers
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collection, gift of the family of Helga Bujakowski (Boyer ... Donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2019 by Vivien James, daughter of Helga ... brothers: Walter, Fritz (1901-1943), and Kurt (1902-1942). Hans studied medicine at the Universities of ... the German annexation of Austria in 1938. On 9 September 1942 the family was deported on Transport 30
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34986. Strauss family papers
Documents, correspondence, books and artifacts illustrating the experiences of Siegfried Strauss (b ... sub camp of the Flossenburg concentration camp, where she worked construction of a weapons factory. In ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Daniel Sapir ... The collection primarily documents the wartime and post-war experiences of the Strauss family as
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34987. Brown burlap pouch used to carry money by a hidden Dutch Jewish woman
The cataloging of this artifact has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... The collection consists of two pouches, a presentation box with six medals, a wallet, currency ... vouchers, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Felix and Flora Cohen Levi (later Van ... Netherlands. Flora and Felix went into hiding in June 1942 in the home of Piet Brandsen, a resistance member
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34988. Maier family papers
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... in Karlsruhe, Germany on February 16, 1935. The day of Kristallnacht, Ludwig Maier was rounded up ... May 13, 1939, the Maier family boarded the MS St. Louis bound for Cuba. Members of the Maier family ... ’s sister. The Maier family were part of the 287 total passengers who disembarked the MS St. Louis in
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34989. Hoexter family collection
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... Consists of photographs, postcards, documents, and glass slides related to the Holocaust ... States. He was sponsored by a distant relative Louis [last name unknown]. On the evening of ... Kristallnacht Herbert witnessed the arrest of relative. Thinking he would be safer if he were not at home, he
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34990. Wachtel and Wolf families papers
The collection consists of artifacts, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Max ... Maryland. The courses included methods of interrogation of German POWs and to perform undercover work ... the command of Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow. The "Super Sixth" landed on the Normandy beaches on June 18 ... 1944, six weeks after the D-Day invasion of Western Europe. The unit crossed the Rhine River and
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34991. Peter Feigl papers
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... The accessibility of this collection was made possible by the generous donors to our crowdfunded ... then Brussels in 1938. Ernst was arrested following the German invasion of Belgium, and Peter and his ... ’s home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon (Haute-Loire) under the guidance of Daniel Trocmé. In September he was
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34992. Hillel Storch papers
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection. The acquisition of this collection was made ... Governorate (now Daugavpils, Latvia). He participated in the Zionist movement and became a representative of ... 1941 as part of an agent exchange between Sweden and the Soviet Union. In Sweden, Storch represented ... The Hillel Storch papers consist of correspondence, photographic negatives, personal papers
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34993. Levinson and Stern family papers
related to the Levinson family of Homburg, Saarland, Germany and the Stern family of Kassel, Germany in ... majority of them settled in New York. During the war, Sidney enlisted with the United States Army, and was ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Fred Levinson ... related to the Levinson family of Homburg, Saarland, Germany and the Stern family of Kassel, Germany in
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34994. Pawlowicz family papers
imprisoned in the Lódź ghetto, then at the concentration camps of Salzwedel and Bergen-Belsen in Germany and ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Max and Rose Pohl ... The Pawlowicz family papers, circa 1920s-1950s, focus on the postwar experiences of Max and Rose ... ketubah handwritten in Aramaic and Hebrew certifying the marriage of Yaakov Mordechai ben Aaron and Rachel
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34995. Béla Ingber family papers
Jeff Ingber donated this photograph of his father to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ... Meadow, New York in 1939. He remained in the U.S. after start of World War II and enlisted in the United ... killed on 1 October 1942 while trying to escape. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 ... concentration camp. He was left for dead among a pile of dead bodies after the camp was liberated but was
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34996. Ann West papers
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... The collection consists of badges, an armband, a cloth, scrip, a pamphlet, and personal papers ... Malchow (a subcamp of Ravensbrück) in January 1945. She escaped during the evacuation from Malchow in May ... United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Ann West
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34997. Spielman family papers
escaped to a nearby town, Wola Duchacka, with the help of a Christian acquaintance. As foreign nationals ... food behind for the other Jews to retrieve. The family heard that the Wieliczka ghetto, where many of ... family and succeeded in bringing two younger cousins back with him, but the rest of the family was ... deported. In the summer of 1943 the Spielmans were robbed, and they made plans to escape to Hungary. The
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34998. Edith Hamberg Tarcov papers
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Miriam Tarcov and Nathan Tarcov ... The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Edith Hamberg (Tarcov), originally of ... family book. The immigration documents include copies of the affidavits by her relative Milton Mayer who ... describes the conditions there, including the death of Edith’s father, and the rest of her Holocaust
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34999. Irving Newman papers
The cataloging of this collection has been supported by a grant from the Conference on Jewish ... The collection consists of a prisoner's badge, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs ... relating to the experiences of Irving Newman before and during the Holocaust when he was deported from ... countryside of Lithuania where they stayed in hiding until the war ended. William stayed with a Christian
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35000. Mengele Factory Workers
Memorial Museum purchased the archive of SHOAH outtakes from Mr. Lanzmann on October 11, 1996, and have ... https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/claude-lanzmann-changed-the-history-of-filmmaking-with ... consist of 185 hours of interview outtakes and 35 hours of location filming. The collection is jointly ... owned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Yad Vashem. SHOAH is widely regarded as the