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  1. Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Eric Bergtraun collection

  2. Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Eric Bergtraun collection

  3. Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Eric Bergtraun collection

  4. Boy Scout Merit badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Eric Bergtraun collection

  5. Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Eric Bergtraun collection

  6. Boy Scout badge issued to Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Eric Bergtraun collection

  7. Pocket knife with leather case carried by a Jewish refugee

    1. Isaac Ossowski family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn7119
    • English
    • 1910-1938
    • a: Height: 3.620 inches (9.195 cm) | Width: 0.870 inches (2.21 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b: Height: 4.880 inches (12.395 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)

    Folding knife and case that belonged to Isaac Ossowski, a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin who left Germany because of the targeted persecution of Jews by the Nazi government. Rabbi Ossowski was a prominent member of the Jewish community in Berlin. He was head shochet [ritual slaughterer], mohel [practioner of ritual circumcision], sofer [scribe], and hazan [cantor or musical prayer leader] at the Alte Shul [Old Synagogue]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor in 1933, increasingly severe sanctions were enacted against Jews. The Ossowski family was repeatedly questioned b...

  8. Glass thermometer with cardboard case taken with Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Ralph Harpuder family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50296
    • English
    • 1935
    • a: Height: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b: Height: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm)

    Thermometer and case brought by Viktor Stummer to Shanghai, China, when he fled there from Vienna, Austria, circa December 1938, following his release from Dachau concentration camp. He was imprisoned during Kristallnacht that November 9-10 and released after his sister secured him a ticket to Shanghai. He lived in the Hongkew ghetto and worked as a welder. Shanghai was liberated by the US Army on September 3, 1945. In 1949, Viktor emigrated to Canada and the next year he moved to the US where he married a fellow Shanghai refugee, Gerda Harpuder. They met in Hongkew in 1941 when Gerda asked...

  9. Painted tin container base owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Ralph Harpuder family collection

    Tin container, missing the lid, that belonged to Ralph (Ralf) Harpuder who fled Germany in 1939 for Shanghai, China. A ring traveller was a device used with textile spinning looms. Four year old Ralf, his parents, Hans and Gerda, and his 14 year old sister, Ursula, left Berlin following Kristallnacht on November 9-10, 1938. They went to Shanghai because it was an open port with no visa required and arrived in March 1939. Shanghai was controlled by the Japanese military and as the war intensified, they were relocated to the Hongkew ghetto. Food and supplies became extremely difficult to obta...

  10. Engraved wooden Havana cigar box acquired by Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Ralph Harpuder family collection

    Wooden cigar box acquired by Viktor Stummer in Shanghai, China. He fled there from Vienna, Austria, circa December 1938, following his release from Dachau concentration camp. He was imprisoned during Kristallnacht that November 9-10 and released after his sister secured him a ticket to Shanghai. He lived in the Hongkew ghetto and worked as a welder. Shanghai was liberated by the US Army on September 3, 1945. In 1949, Viktor emigrated to Canada and the next year he moved to the US where he married a fellow Shanghai refugee, Gerda Harpuder. They met in Hongkew in 1941 when Gerda asked Viktor ...

  11. Brown leather pouch brought with a Jewish Hungarian refugee

    1. Paul Zilczer family collection

    Brown leather pouch brought with Paul Zilczer when he left Budapest, Hungary, for the United States, in May 1939. Paul, a physicist, and his wife Margit lived in Budapest, when in 1938, the fascist Hungarian government passed laws restricting the rights of Jews. In 1939, Paul and Margit both traveled to England. On May 17, Paul sailed to New York City where he lived with his cousin Emil and his family. Margit returned to Budapest. In November 1940, Hungary entered World War II as a German ally. In March 1944, Germany invaded Hungary to ensure Hungary's continued involvement with the war eff...

  12. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Lilly Bergl found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  13. Personal history of Zdzisław Klimek, a Polish Jewish refugee student

    Report (typescript, carbon copy) by unspecified humanitarian aid agency (possibly UNRRA), post-war, discussing a young Polish boy, Zdzisław Klimek, who showed up at DP camp in Gmund and expressed interest in immigrating to U.S.

  14. A memoir relating to experiences as a refugee in China

    Testimony, typescript, 3 pages, about family's immigration to China from Austria.

  15. Pencil portrait sketch of a German Jewish refugee

    Portrait sketch of Kurt Singer saved by his daughter, Margot. It was drawn by Clara Asscher-Pinkhof in 1942 in Amsterdam when he lived there as a refugee from Nazi Germany. Singer was a neurologist and the Director of the Berlin Opera. Soon after the Nazis came to power in 1933, he lost his position at the Opera due to a law that ousted Jewish civil servants from public positions. In May, he co-founded the Judische Kulturbund, a Jewish cultural organization. In 1938, his daughter, Margot, left for Switzerland, and in 1940, to Palestine. That October, Kurt left for a one year appointment at ...

  16. Calling card brought to the US by an Austrian refugee

    Calling card for Edith Fraenkel/Hamburg found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  17. Refugee Scholars at Black Colleges oral history collection

    Contains fifty-eight soundcassettes of interviews, files for the nineteen institutions that employed refugee scholars, photocopies, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets

  18. Postage stamp, Dominican Republic, 3 cents, commemorating refugee aid efforts

    1. David Pearlman collection

  19. Postage stamp, Austria, 3 schilling, commemorating World Refugee Year

    1. David Pearlman collection

    3 Schillings, issued by the Postal Office of Austria, illustrating the emigration of refugees. It was issued on the occasion of tWorld Refugee Year, 1959-1960.

  20. Records relating to the Committee for Refugee Education

    Contains information about the Committee for Refugee Education, teachers working for the committee, and survivors of the Holocaust who eventually became students in the committee's program.