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  1. Rectangular cutting template brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection

    Cardboard cutting template brought with Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. Isidor, a master furrier, used this rectangular template to shape sections of animal fur for use in handcrafted garments. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he escaped before he was deported. Ida’s mother, Rosa Rubel, helped Isidor, Id...

  2. Set of scale weights brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn562199
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Depth: 2.500 inches (6.35 cm) b: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Depth: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) c: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) d: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) e: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) f: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) g: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) h: Height: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) i: Height: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)

    A set of 7 metric, silver and brass colored metal apothecary weights in a fitted wooden box brought with master furrier Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. The weights were used to measure small quantities of bulk goods on a balance scale. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he escaped before he was deported. I...

  3. Rittershausen fur sewing machine brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor Muschel collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn519158
    • English
    • 1911-1938
    • a: Height: 10.250 inches (26.035 cm) | Width: 11.000 inches (27.94 cm) | Depth: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) b: Height: 26.750 inches (67.945 cm) | Width: 35.750 inches (90.805 cm) | Depth: 19.875 inches (50.483 cm) c: Height: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) | Width: 4.625 inches (11.747 cm) | Depth: 13.125 inches (33.338 cm)

    Rittershausen furrier’s sewing machine and table brought with master furrier Isidor Muschel, his wife, Ida, and their daughter, Dorit, when they left Vienna, Austria, for the United States in 1938. This durable sewing machine was designed to join several heavy animal pelts into a garment using thick, treated thread and a heavy duty, horizontal needle. On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria. New legislation was created that quickly restricted Jewish life. Not long after, Isidor was publically humiliated in the street and later, he was arrested and taken to the train station where he esca...

  4. UJRA Refugee Case Files 1939-1947 A-Z

    1. UNITED JEWISH RELIEF AGENCIES (UJRA)
    2. UJRA Refugee Case Files

    Vocational placement, location service, loans for transportation, farm settlement, immigration, hospitalization. Names beginning A-S.

  5. Czech refugee in Great Britain: report of flight into exile

    Report which documents the flight into exile of a Czech civil servant and his wife via Katovice, Poland, thence to England. The deposit comprises a manuscript version in German and a typescript version in English. The report offers a valuable insight into the difficulties encountered by Czech emigrés in the immediate aftermath of the German occupation in 1939.

  6. Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children: index

    These index cards are evidence of the activities of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Care Committee for Refugee Children in connection with the Movement for the Care of Children from Germany (British Inter-Aid Committee). The index cards of the children contain personal data and passport photographs. It seems that the cards were produced following a British Government initiative to simplify admittance procedures for children up to the age of 17 years.There are essentially 3 types of index card. One gives the particulars of the child, including the fate of the parents, and often has passport phot...

  7. Prayerbook belonging to a Jewish refugee hiding in Poland

    1. Henrik Roth family collection

    Part of three prayerbooks, two in Poland with Henrik Rath during WWII and one probably given to Henrik in Paris while he and his wife Celina and children lived between 1947-1951. Henrik and Celina were in Poland and Hungary on false IDs during the war.

  8. Prayerbook belonging to a Jewish refugee hiding in Poland

    1. Henrik Roth family collection

    Part of three prayerbooks, two in Poland with Henrik Rath during WWII and one probably given to Henrik in Paris while he and his wife Celina and children lived between 1947-1951. Henrik and Celina were in Poland and Hungary on false IDs during the war.

  9. Photograph album depicting refugee children in post-war Switzerland

    1. Douglas Smith collection

    Consists of one brown photograph album depicting life in an unknown refugee home for children in Switzerland, circa 1945-1947. The album documents their education and recreational activities, as well as the preparations, ceremony, and departure of members of the group for Palestine. One of the pages includes a small leather badge with Hebrew lettering.

  10. [Labor and Refugee Camps in Switzerland during World War II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various memoranda concerning the treatment of and legal rules of behavior for war and Nazi prosecution victims seeking refuge in Switzerland for the duration of World War II, while being interned in labor and refugee camps.

  11. [Labor and Refugee Camps in Switzerland during World War II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various memoranda concerning the treatment of and legal rules of behavior for war and Nazi prosecution victims seeking refuge in Switzerland for the duration of World War II, while being interned in labor and refugee camps.

  12. [Labor and Refugee Camps in Switzerland during World War II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various memoranda concerning the treatment of and legal rules of behavior for war and Nazi prosecution victims seeking refuge in Switzerland for the duration of World War II, while being interned in labor and refugee camps.

  13. [Labor and Refugee Camps in Switzerland during World War II]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    The file contains various memoranda concerning the treatment of and legal rules of behavior for war and Nazi prosecution victims seeking refuge in Switzerland for the duration of World War II, while being interned in labor and refugee camps.

  14. Pakolaistilastoja ym. pakolaisia ja kulkureita koskevia

    • Refugee statistics and other records concerning refugees and vagrants

    The records concern refugees (also Jewish) in Finland in the 1920s-1940s. The records include correspondence and lists of refugees. Some records concern deportation of Jews from Finland to Germany.

  15. Arbetarrörelsens flyktinghjälp

    • Fackliga och politiska emigranters hjälpkommitté
    • Labour Movement Refugee Relief

    The series E/1/12 contains correspondence with the Matteotti Committee in Copenhagen, the refugee committees in Oslo and Helsinki regarding the entry and support of German and Sudeten German refugees 1938-1944, and with Social Democratic refugee aid committees and other organizations in France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, Belgium, and Poland 1938-1939. Some of the refugees that the organization corresponded with and about were Jews. The archive also contains personal files from the period 1933–1961, some of which contain documents about Jewish refugees in Sweden.

  16. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940 The collection contains correspondence of Joseph Thon and Theodor Grubner, representatives of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva. There are also personal letters from relatives of Jews in Poland to the Polish Jews in Geneva, reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland and lists of Jews from Poland.

  17. Leather suitcase used by a German Jewish boy while on a refugee transport

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn549447
    • English
    • a: Height: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Width: 19.500 inches (49.53 cm) | Depth: 11.750 inches (29.845 cm) b: Height: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Width: 20.500 inches (52.07 cm) | Depth: 12.250 inches (31.115 cm) c: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Width: 6.125 inches (15.558 cm) | Depth: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm)

    Small brown leather suitcase used by Fritz (later Fred) Strauss while part of a refugee transport of children from Germany between 1939 and 1941. In response to the 1935 Nuremberg Laws and growing anti-Semitism in their small town, Fritz’s mother sent him, in 1936, to Frankfurt to attend school at a large Jewish orphanage. Within three years, anti-Semitism in Frankfurt had grown, and on March 8, 1939, Fritz was sent on a transport to Paris, France, with ten other children. Fritz and the other Orthodox children moved to new towns multiple times in the area around Paris, but managed to contin...

  18. Book written by an Austrian Jewish refugee rescued as a child and brought to the US

    Copy of a book written by Peter Linhard, who, as a six year old, was one of "50 children" brought to America from Vienna, Austria, in 1939 by Eleanor and Gilbert Kraus of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

  19. Small leather case with a detached lid used by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Walter Gumpert family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn85720
    • English
    • a: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 13.625 inches (34.608 cm) | Depth: 3.250 inches (8.255 cm) b: Height: 9.000 inches (22.86 cm) | Width: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    Small leather attache case with a detached lid used by Walter Gumpert to store letters from relatives, including his father Isidor, still in Germany. As anti-Semitism increased under the Nazi dictatorship, Walter and his wife Erna left for Montevideo, Uruguay, in spring 1936. Isidor was later imprisoned in Sachsenhausen concentration camp and released on November 29, 1938. Walter received four Red Cross telegrams from Isidor from Berlin. The last was sent on December 23, 1942. Some family members believed that Isidor was killed in Auschwitz in 1943.

  20. Henckels table knife with a scalloped edge brought with German Jewish prewar refugee

    1. Nellie Wiesenthal Fink family collection

    J.A. Henckels table knife taken with Ernestine Wiesenthal when she emigrated from Berlin, Germany, to London, England in 1939. A partially worn maker’s mark bearing twins with arched legs and interlocking arms is engraved on the blade. This iteration of the Henckels mark was utilized from 1900 until well into the middle of the Twentieth century. The knife matches another knife in the same collection (.3), and the handle is likely silver, though it does not bear any marks to confirm that. On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany. Following the passage of the Nuremb...