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Jews -- Persecutions -- Germany

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 149 Collections and/or Records:

Loewenstein-Kahn Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25423
Abstract

This collection contains materials relating to Erna Loewenstein née Kahn and her family. It includes correspondence between family members in New York and Bingen am Rhein, Germany during World War Two, as well as various items such as passports, photographs, and other documents.

Dates: 1912-2009; Majority of material found within 1939-1940

Ludwig Bendix Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3380 / MF 595
Abstract

Articles

Dates: 1912-1965

Ludwig Feuchtwanger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6001 / MF 562
Abstract

Correspondence with individuals, including Alexander Altmann, Werner Cahnmann, Guido Kisch, Raphael Straus, and Max Warburg; business correspondence with publishers and organizations; correspondence with family members, including his brother, the novelist Lion Feuchtwanger.

Dates: 1908-1973

Ludwig Misch Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2073 / MF 1084
Abstract

The Ludwig Misch Collection documents the musical career and life of the musicologist Ludwig Misch. Included in this collection are numerous essays and reviews about several composers, memoirs, personal correspondence and a small amount of family papers. Those documents give an impression of Ludwig Misch's varied activities in the field of music.

Dates: 1933-1967; Majority of material found within 1930s-1940s

Ludwig Neumann Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6374
Abstract

The collection contains primarily documents relating to Ludwig Neumann's attempts to emigrate to a variety of countries, as well as other professional and personal correspondence.

Dates: 1909-1964

Ludwig Oelsner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 5267
Abstract

The collection contains documents pertaining to the life and work of historian Ludwig Oelsner. Included in the collection is bound book of poetry containing 106 handwritten poems by Oelsner; a bound album containing university degrees, certificates, handwritten and signed letters by historian Leopold von Ranke, articles by Oelsner, articles about Oelsner's career, book reviews, obituaries, eulogies, and photograph of Oelsner on the cover; honorary doctoral diploma with seal from the University of Wrocław; and membership certificate of the Freies Deutsches Hochstift. The collection also contains three Red Cross letters between Anna Mottek in London and her brother-in-law Eugen Mottek in Berlin dated between February 1941 and January 1942.

Dates: 1846-1942

Manfred Kornreich Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25268 / MF 1017
Abstract

Official documents pertaining to Manfred Kornreich and his parents, Henoch and Scheindel (Sabina), as well as some private correspondence

Dates: 1898 - 2006

Manfred Saalheimer Collection.

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3616
Abstract

The collection contains various documents relating to the Jewish communities in Chemnitz, Dresden and Hamburg in the late 1930s, as well as biographical information and personal documents regarding Manfred Saalheimer (1907-1967), legal representative of the Dresden Jewish community, and Josef Kahn (1881-?), president of the Chemnitz Jewish community. Also included are tributes to Otto Hirsch (1885-1941), president of Reichsvertretung der Juden in Deutschland.

Dates: 1932-1957

Margarete Berent Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2861 / AR 2862 / MF 592
Abstract

Folder 1 also contains a list of the 90 some-odd members of the Deutscher Juristinnenverein, e.V. (Association for German Women Lawyers) in 1919, with names, position, and addresses. Berent served as treasurer.

Dates: 1906-1965

Margarete Muehsam Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 720
Abstract

This collection contains a few of journalist Margarete Muehsam-Edelheim's personal papers and a number of clippings and manuscripts by Muehsam on law, feminism, Jewish affairs and emigration possibilities, and the German press.

Dates: 1913-1975

Margot Garon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11650
Abstract

The collection contains documents pertaining to Margot Garon née Straus, her father Jakob Straus, and her grandfather Hermann Straus.

Dates: 1868-2008

Marion and Max Wahl Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6303
Abstract

This collection is primarily composed of the correspondence of the Wahl family from the 1930s-1950s.

Dates: 1901-1989; Majority of material found within 1926-1963

Martin and Ursula Eisenstein Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 12090
Abstract

Letters from Martin in Johannesburg to his parents in Stettin and some return letters from Max Eisenstein to his son and daughter-in-law, 1936-1938. Also included are various documents from Germany and South Africa.

Dates: 1932-1938

Max and Irene Würzburger Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25625
Abstract

This collection documents the early years of Max Würzburger and Irene Würzburger, née Rosenfelder (both born in the 1910s), their departure from Ladenburg, Germany, following the Nazi seizure of power, their immigration to the United States, marriage in 1942, and transition from New York City to Kansas City, Missouri, in the mid-1950s. It also documents German efforts at reconciliation through the Würzburgers' interactions with Ladenburg's Arbeitskreis jüdische Geschichte ("Jewish History Working Group") in the 1990s, and ongoing correspondence with individual members.Additionally, the collection includes educational records of Max's and Irene's son, Allen Joel Würzburger, who died at 27 years of age.

Dates: 1925-2003; Majority of material found within 1925-1999

"Meine letzten Jahre in Deutschland"

 Collection
Identifier: ME 287b
Abstract

In this memorial article, Herzfeld offers deep insight into the problems and the predicament for German Jews from 1933 to 1938. He especially describes the creation and the work of “Reichsvertretung der deutschen Juden”, the new organization for German Jews, facing the Nazi-regime.

Dates: 1919-1973

[Memoirs by Peter Schrag, MD]

 Collection
Identifier: DM 287
Abstract

This is a collection of three essays by Dr. Peter Schrag about his family, documenting in selected details his family's transition from being refugees from Nazi Germany to being Americans.

Dates: 2005-2017

Moritz Schweizer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 11789
Abstract

The collection contains documentation of the life of Moritz Schweizer, particularly his persecution during World War II. Included in the collection is a diary excerpt listing concentration camp victims he buried after his liberation; correspondence; documents pertaining to his emigration from Germany to Amsterdam; documents pertaining to his internment in Westerbork and Bergen-Belsen; information kept by Schweizer on children in the orphanage at Bergen-Belsen; and letters of sympathy to his wife after his death.

Dates: undated, 1939-1988

Nadelmann and Wolff Families Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25667
Abstract

The Nadelmann and Wolff Families Collection provides documentation about members of the Nadelmann, Wolff, Lewinsohn, and Kann families, including details on their professions, early lives, the towns from which family members derived, and including details on the emigration and deportation of family members. The collection consists of family correspondence, photographs, genealogical research, and research on family members' hometowns.

Dates: 1809-2016

Nahum Greenberg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 486
Scope and Contents

A collection of newspaper clippings from the American press on antisemitism and Nazism in the U.S. and Germany, 1930s-1940s. Topics include: Father Coughlin, 1938-1942; America First Committee, 1941-1942; antisemitism in England, Oswald Mosley; Jews in Germany, 1938; report of the Anglo-American Palestine Commission, 1946; Nuremberg trial. There is also a series of clippings arranged chronologically, 1933-38.

Dates: 1933 - 1953

Nothmann Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 10492
Abstract

This collection consists of documents of the Nothmann family, including personal correspondence and official documents, such as passports and certificates. A lot of the material is about or from the time of the Nazi persecution.

Dates: 1892-1951; Majority of material found within 1938-1948

November Pogrom 1938 Commemoration Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 6342
Abstract

This collection contains clippings and other published materials, as well as transcripts of speeches and memoirs that were produced in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Kristallnacht, which occurred on November 9-10, 1938. Commemorations were held at the sites of pogroms, as well as by the international community.

Dates: 1986-2001; Majority of material found within November 1988

Palatinate Jewish Community Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 2039
Abstract

Photocopies, clippings, and some original documents pertaining to the history of Jewish communities in the Palatinate, from the 18th to 19th century. The following communities are mentioned in this collection: Altenhof, Aschbach, Babensheim, Biedesheim, Breunigweiler, Essingen, Essweiler, Germersheim, Glan-Münchweiler, Hefersweiler, Hinzweiler, Ingenheim, Kaiserslautern, Koblenz, Kusel, Mainz, Mannheim, Münsterappel, Nuremberg, Odenbach, Oppenheim, Rülzheim, Sembach, and Würzburg.

Dates: 1871-2001

Paul Eppstein Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 804
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings in remembrance (and mostly praise) of Paul Eppstein. Also included are photocopies of official documents pertaining to Eppstein’s academic career.

Dates: 1928-1967; Majority of material found in 1929, 1959

Protest Committee of Non-Jewish Women Against the Persecution of Jews in Germany Broadside

 Collection
Identifier: I-156
Abstract

This broadside was issued by the Protest Committee of Non-Jewish Women Against the Persecution of Jews in Germany, chaired by Carrie Chapman Catt.

Dates: 1933

Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 556
Abstract

TThe file contains various documents pertaining to the activity of the Reich Association of Jews in Germany (Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland) and comprises three folders.

Dates: 1939-1943

Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden Collection

 Collection
Identifier: LBIJER 555
Abstract

The file contains various documents pertaining to the activity of the Reich Representation of German Jews (Reichsvertretung der Deutschen Juden) and comprises ten folders.

Dates: 1933-1939, 1945-1983

Research Foundation for Jewish Immigration.

 Collection
Identifier: MF 540
Abstract

Name files with biographical data of approximately 25,000 individual refugees from Nazi Germany, including alphabetical index and index by categories

Dates: [unknown]

Richard G. Salomon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3862
Abstract

The collection holds the papers of Richard G. Salomon, a historian of eastern European medieval history. The collection contains material documenting his professional life in Germany, his four-month journey to the U.S. in 1936, and his professional life after his emigration. It comprises correspondence, official papers, memoirs as well as articles by and on Richard G. Salomon. Additional elements of the collection are writings by Richard's relatives, e.g. his father Georg Salomon and his son, George Salomon.

Dates: 1848-1990; Majority of material found within 1934-1965

Rimalower Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25529
Abstract

The bulk of the collection contains letters to Harry Rimalower in Argentina from his parents and other family members in Leipzig, Germany, (1936-1940). Included in the letters are updates on family members and friends in Germany, discussion of the ever-worsening situation there, and discussion of efforts to facilitate the emigration of Harry Rimalower's parents from Germany. English-language translations of several letters are included. Also included is a brief history of the Eppstein family of Mannheim and a family tree of the Bernhard Solomon family from the 17th century to 1937, with birth and death dates and locations.

Dates: 1936-2002

Rob Lederer Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 25530
Abstract

The collection contains documents pertaining to various Jewish communities in Hesse (Germany) and Bohemia (Czech Republic), including Oberaula; Blowitz (Blovice); Goltsch Jenikau (Golčův Jeníkov); Burghaun; and Langenschwarz. Included in the collection are photocopies of articles, maps, cemetery records, birth records, census records, family registers, and synagogue registers.

Dates: 1977-2000