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  1. Eugen and Helene Cohn papers

    The Eugen and Helene Cohn papers include correspondence and certificates documenting the couple’s health and status as refugees and internees in France following their return to Europe aboard the MS St. Louis, their efforts to gather the necessary documentation to emigrate to Cuba via Portugal, and their departure for Cuba aboard the SS Nyassa.

  2. Nussbaum family papers

    The Nussbaum family papers consist of correspondence addressed to Ingeborg and Hans Nussbaum in the United Kingdom, primarily from their parents Toni and Israel Nussbaum in Berlin, Germany, as well as restitution files documenting Ingeborg’s and Hans’ efforts to receive restitution for their Holocaust-era persecution and the murder of their parents.

  3. Brand family papers

    The Brand family papers consists of correspondence, documents, and pre-war photographs illustrating the Brand family of Frankfurt, Germany and the United States. Includes correspondence from Leo and Else Brand in Frankfurt to their older son Horst in the United States, and letters from their younger son Heinz. The documents illustrate the unsuccessful efforts to bring members of the Brand family and Thekla Strauss, Horst's grandmother, to the United States.

  4. Murray Bucher collection

    Photograph album titled "Buchenwald/or a Glance at German 'Kultur'" by Murray Bucher (donor's uncle), creator of the album and a member of the United States Army Air Force, in 1945. Album was created in a blank book notebook, originally from Russia, and contains photographs taken after the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany. Album contains clipped newspaper articles about the camp, all in English, as well as photographs that depict American forces delousing former victims, remains of victims who did not survive, group photographs of child survivors, Jewish ...

  5. Henrikas Kurlavicius photograph collection

    Collection of 25 photographs depicting Jews from Butrimonys, Lithuania. Lisa Lainer-Fagan received the photographs from Henrikas Kurlavicius in Butrimonys, who found them after WWII. The photographs belonged to Domicele Kuralviciene, who was a caregiver for Jewish families in the town from the time she was 10 years old.

  6. Lawrence Miceli photograph collection

    Collection of four photographic prints depicting the Dachau death train with captions by PFC Lawrence A. Miceli of the US Army.

  7. Richard J. Lembach letter from Dachau

    Letter and envelope sent by PFC Richard J. Lembach who served in the Medical Corp, 1st Battalion, 47th Infantry, United States Army, and who was posted at Dachau after the liberation of that camp in 1945. In the letter, dated August 9, 1945, and addressed to Anne Lembach in Milwaukee, Lembach described what he saw in Dachau and what he heard had happened to the prisoners there.

  8. Artie Kaufman photograph collection

    Contains three photographic prints depicting the Dachau death train soon after liberation; captioned on verso in English.

  9. David Title papers

    The collection documents David Title’s involvement with United Apter Relief, a charitable organization that operated from 1942-1952 and provided financial relief and assistance to Jewish immigrants from Opatów, Poland residing in New York, Toronto, Montreal, Palestine, and displaced persons camps. The collection primarily consists of David’s organizational files, which include case files, financial documents, correspondence, notes, newsletters, and a notebook. The case files are interfiled with other materials and include letters, photographs, and documents related to individuals the organi...

  10. Alexander Bachur law office 621-1/82 Alexander Bachur

    Office records of the Jewish lawyer, Dr. Alexander Bachur. Contains only client files.

  11. Edgar Haas law office 621-1/83 Edgar Haas

    Records of the law office of Dr. Edgar Haas, a German Jewish lawyer in Hamburg. Contains only client files.

  12. Ernst Kaufmann law office 621-1/84 Ernst Kaufmann

    Records of the law office of Dr. Ernest Kaufman, a German Jewish lawyer in Hamburg. Contains only client files.

  13. Walter Schüler law office 621-1/85 Walter Schüler

    Records of the law office of Dr. Walter Schüler, a German Jewish lawyer in Hamburg. Contains only client files.

  14. Walter Wulff law office 621-1/87 Walter Wulff

    Records of the law office of Dr. Walter Wulff, a German, Jewish lawyer in Hamburg. Contains only client files. After Dr. Wulff's emigration to Montevideo/Uruguay in September 1939, Dr. Alexander Bachur took over the law office. Dr. Bachur continued to work on many of Dr. Wulff's cases and represented his former clients. It is important that researchers consult both collections.

  15. Court appointed receivership matters 214-1 Gerichtsvollzieherwesen

    Selected records relating to confiscated property of Jewish deportees and emigrants and property of Roma, Polish people, and prisoners. Contains statistics and registers.

  16. Police Disciplinary Chamber 221-9 Polizeidisziplinarkammer

    Administrative records of the Polizeidisziplinarkammer (Police Disciplinary Chamber). Consists of files of Johan Zawadzki, Carl Schmahl, Gerhard Leonard, and Friedrich Karl Wurster.

  17. 222-10 Erbhofgericht

    Selected auxiliary files of the Erbhofgericht (Hanseatic Higher Regional Court) in Hamburg, Germany.

  18. District Court Hamburg-Supervisory Authority 223-9 Amtsgericht Hamburg-Stiftungsaufsicht

    Selected records of the Amtsgericht Hamburg (District Court Hamburg) relating to finances and activates of the charitable foundations of the Jewish community in Hamburg. Contain mainly correspondence, registers and financial records of the charitable foundations.

  19. Municipal Construction Department 321-2 Baudeputation

    Various registers, protocols and other records relating to construction and administration of the Hamburg yard, fortification and other buildings.

  20. Cemetery Administration 325-1 Friedhofsverwaltung

    Consists of the register and plans of old burial places, and personnel files of the Cemetery Administration in Hamburg.