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Language of Description: English
Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Silver engraved candelabrum commemorating the Stolp synagogue saved by refugees from Nazi Germany

    1. Olga and Werner Leszynski collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn42971
    • English
    • 1895
    • overall: Height: 22.875 inches (58.103 cm) | Width: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) | Depth: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) a: Height: 14.000 inches (35.56 cm) | Diameter: 3.375 inches (8.573 cm) b: Height: 10.500 inches (26.67 cm) | Width: 15.250 inches (38.735 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) c: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Diameter: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) d: Height: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) | Diameter: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) e: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Diameter: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm)

    Silver engraved candelabrum that Olga and Werner Leszynski brought with them when they fled Nazi Germany in March 1939. It is one of a pair of candelabra dedicated on the 25th Anniversary of the synagogue in Stolp, Germany (Slupsk, Poland). The synagogue, built in 1901-1902, was set on fire and destroyed by Nazi supporters during Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938. In early 1939, the scientific journal for which Werner worked sent him to Prague. He then sent for Olga and their 3 year old daughter, Ruth, who arrived in March. The Bohemia and Moravia region of Czechoslovakia, where Prague was lo...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- World War I memorial at Vimy; French refugees, Belgium

    Several Frenchmen, some of whom wear the uniforms of high-ranking officers and some of whom are in civilian dress, visiting the Canadian World War I memorial at Vimy, France. They survey a vast fortification system dug into the earth and lined with sandbags. The camera focuses on a sign reading "Canadian Front Line, 1917." The scene switches to show soldiers (French?) marching across a town square, then back to the men inspecting the fortification. The men approach a huge structure that serves as the memorial. 01:21:44 Various views of ruins of buildings in the Flanders region of Belgium. C...

  3. "Refugees and Rescuers in Fascist and Post War Italy (1933-1946)"

    Consists of one manuscript, 94 pages, entitled "Refugees and Rescuers in Fascist and Post War Italy (1933-1946)" by Donato Grosser, based on the recollections and documents of his father, Bernardo (Berl) Grosser. In the manuscript, Donato Grosser describes the experience of Italian Jews and Jewish refugees in Italy in the 1930s, including information about the 1938 emigration of his father, Bernardo Grosser, who was from Kamionki Wielkie, but emigrated by way of France. In Italy, Grosser became one of the secretaries of the Genoa office of DELASEM (the Delegazione per l'Assistenz agli Emigr...

  4. Letter, requesting assistance for refugees, addressed to the Finnish Consul General in Yugoslavia

    The handwritten letter in German was written by Robert Klueger, an Austrian Jew from Donji Lapac, Croatia, to Paul Berkes, the donor's husband and Honorary Consul General of Finland in Yugoslavia (later Croatia), requesting assistance.

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees on the move in northern France and Belgium

    Refugees in northern France and Flanders. Refugees, mostly women and children sit in the backs of trucks, looking at the camera. A group of men and women stand with bicycles and wagons in front of the awning of a bar. Horse-drawn wagons drive off. French soldiers march through a town. A few spectators watch their progress and wave at the men. People with bundles strapped to bicycles stand on the street. A group of them move off down the street, watched by other people in the street. A nice shot of people wheeling their bundle-laden bikes past several destroyed buildings. Refugees on an open...

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- French refugees, German prisoners, bombing of Paris

    The French army in action: tanks, soldiers shooting, dead horses by the side of the road. German prisoners behind barbed wire. Close-ups of individuals as they are questioned and registered by their French captors. Scenes of destroyed buildings shot from a moving vehicle; French soldiers attempt to shoot down a plane. Refugees traveling along a road. Women and children are helped from a truck. One woman is carried on a stretcher. Paris being bombed. Burning buildings, dead cows in a field. Badly destroyed houses, shops and cars. People pick their way through the rubble; a woman runs past a ...

  7. Gaumont British Newsreel (Reuters) -- SS Aorangi arrives in Sydney with Jewish refugees

    63 Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria arrive at Sydney harbor in the ship SS Aorangi.

  8. Scourge of Humanity Poster of a giant Jew preparing to whip a line of refugees

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    This poster is one of more than 900 items in the Katz Ehrenthal Collection of antisemitic visual materials.

  9. Personal files of the Zelikowski family, Jewish refugees from France who arrived in Switzerland, June 1944

    Personal files of the Zelikowski family, Jewish refugees from France who arrived in Switzerland, June 1944

  11. Reports on South America as a haven for refugees from Nazi Germany

    This collection of reports focuses on South America as a haven for German Jewish emigration. According to the editor's introduction they were published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Inc. with a view to being published in various (unspecified) newspapers. This particular edition was presumably written for the American market, since the reports are in English and are printed by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, which was, by then, based in New York.The reports cover Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay and discuss the climate, geography, demographics and politics of each country. The first 3 reports...

  13. Personal files of Jewish refugees who were deported back across the border in Geneva, 1940-1944

    Personal files of Jewish refugees who were deported back across the border in Geneva, 1940-1944

  14. Collection of Zwitsersche Weg A, including documents regarding Jewish refugees from the Netherlands, 1940-1944

    Collection of Zwitsersche Weg A, including documents regarding Jewish refugees from the Netherlands, 1940-1944 Treatment of Jewish refugees who are citizens of the Netherlands, in Belgium, Switzerland and Poland, in the context of the persecution of Dutch Jewry and the anti-German underground in the Netherlands and Belgium, 1940-1944; Included in the collection: Letters from the Joodse Coordinatie Commissie [without indication of the addressees], regarding the collection of data concerning Jewish deportees, including children, May-August 1944; List of 281 Jews, titled, "Istanbul Exchanges" ...

  15. Documentation regarding the fate of Jewish refugees in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, 1933-1945

    Documentation regarding the fate of Jewish refugees in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, 1933-1945 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  16. Documentation regarding refugees from Poland who arrived to Mogilev and Bobruysk, 1940

    Documentation regarding refugees from Poland who arrived to Mogilev and Bobruysk, 1940 Included in the collection are lists and questionnaires of Jewish refugees who arrived from Poland during 1939-1940.

  17. Police documentation from the Graubünden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1937-1944

    Police documentation from the Graubünden, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1937-1944 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  18. M.1.Q. - Historical questionnaires completed by refugees in DP camps, 1946-1948

    M.1.Q. - Historical questionnaires completed by refugees in DP camps, 1946-1948 The Central Historical Committee (CHC) in Munich distributed questionnaires among Holocaust survivors from various countries and cities. The purpose of the questionnaires was to gather detailed information regarding the persecution during the Nazi occupation.

  19. Police documentation from the Bern, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1941-1944

    Police documentation from the Bern, Switzerland canton (region) regarding Jewish refugees, 1941-1944 - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.

  20. Police files from the St. Gallen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to refugees and immigrants

    Police files from the St. Gallen, Switzerland canton (region) pertaining to refugees and immigrants - Files of Jewish refugees; - Police documentation.