Berlin (Germany)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Name Authority File
Scope Note: For headings before 1949 and after 1990. Headings for 1949-1990 are found under: Berlin (Germany : East); Berlin (Germany : West). Valid for Berlin as a city and as a state.
Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:
Digitized Photographs, 1940-1945
Sub-Series — Box B333.01.0001: Series B333.01; Series B333.02; Series B333.03; Series B333.04; Series B333.05; Series B333.06; Series B333.07 [Barcode: U186022109723]
Identifier: B333.02.01
Abstract
Photographs of the Loewenstein family.
Dates:
1940-1945
Digitized Photographs, circa 1940
Sub-Series
Identifier: B333.03.01
Abstract
Photographs of the Loewenstein family.
Dates:
circa 1940
Discharge from Wittenauer Sanatorium, 1942 April 11
Item
Identifier: B333.02.0001.0002.00012
Abstract
Letter that served as official discharge papers sent to Marie Loewenstein [Löwenstein in this document] for Dr. Max Loewenstein to leave Wittenauer Heilstätten, Wittenauer Sanatorium. Letter is on official Wittenauer Sanatorium stationary. Max was to be released on April 12, 1942.
Dates:
1942 April 11
Dr. Max Loewenstein, 1945
Item
Identifier: B333.05.01.00002
Abstract
Dr. Max Loewenstein in Berlin, Germany after World War II.
Dates:
1945
Drawing of Max Loewenstein, circa 1945
Item
Identifier: B333.05.01.00001
Abstract
Framed drawing of Dr. Max Loewenstein drawn by Marie Loewenstein.
Dates:
circa 1945
Emigration, between 1946-1947
File
Identifier: B333.06.0001.0006
Abstract
Documents from the Loewensteins' immigration to the United States. File includes Dr. Max and Marie Loewenstein's identification papers, passenger tickets for Max and Marie Loewenstein and Karin Steinberg on the SS Marine Perch, a card from the American Consulate General Visa Division, Dr. Max Loewenstein's embarkation card, a card from the A.J.D.C. National Refugee Service, an International Rescue and Relief Committee card for Marie Loewenstein, instructions to Henry Lowenstein for travel...
Dates:
between 1946-1947
"Encounter" Poem, June 1942
Item
Identifier: B333.02.0001.0002.00017
Abstract
An poem by Thekla Stoll circulated among the Jews in Berlin, Germany. The poem speaks of the despair of the Jews' condition and the hope the author sees in the spirit of the Jews. Translation from Henry Lowenstein: "Today I saw 1,000 disturbed people, Today I saw 1,000 Jews, wandering into oblivion, Into the gray of the cold morning drew the condemned Leaving behind what once was their life. They stepped through the gates, glancing back, As they left everything outside, their homeland,...
Dates:
June 1942
Envelope Contained Łódź Ghetto Letter, 1942 June 11
Item
Identifier: B333.03.0001.0003.00002
Abstract
Envelope with a window front and stamped. Circle with "Berlin N 4, 11.6.42," "2834, J. K. V., N4, Oranienburger Strasse 29," and a square with the Nazi eagle, "003, Deutsche [illegible]." According to the family the envelope contained the letter from Georg and Alice Loewenstein in the Łódź Ghetto.
Dates:
1942 June 11
Erna Eylenburg, between 1937-1939
Item
Identifier: B333.01.0001.0001.00003
Abstract
Studio portrait of Erna Eylenburg, daughter of Loewenstein family friends Drs. Ernst and Elisabeth Eylenburg. Erna, at fifteen years old, and her younger brother Walter, age nine, escaped to the Netherlands on March 30, 1939. Eylenburg was on one of the first transports from the Netherlands to the Auschwitz Concentration Camp and was murdered there in 1942. The rest of the Eylenburg family, Drs. Ernst and Elisabeth, and Walter, were interned in the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp before...
Dates:
between 1937-1939
George and Alexander Tscherny: Escape from Nazi Germany, 2021
Item
Identifier: B452.01.0001.0006
Abstract
In the aftermath of Kristallnacht, in December 1938, two young Jewish boys, ages 12 and 14, boarded a train out of Berlin for Holland, to escape the escalating brutality against Jews in Germany. Arriving in Nijmegen, Holland without documents or family, George and Alexander Tscherny were placed with a family by the Dutch Committee for Jewish Refugees, waiting to be granted asylum from the Queen and then dispatched to a refugee camp.When Germany invaded...
Dates:
2021