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Language of Description: English
Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Tallit katan brought to England by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Tallit katan belonging to Norbert Müller (later Norman Miller), a 15 year old German Jewish refugee who came to London, England in September 1939. A tallit katan is a religious garment worn by Jewish men and boys with their daily dress. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the st...

  2. Rose Galek Brunswic papers

    1. Rose Galek Brunswic family collection

    The papers consist of documents and photographs relating to the persecution of Jewry in Nazi-occupied Poland, assistance rendered to Rose Brunswic by a member of the Polish resistance, Brunswic's deportation as a compulsory laborer to Germany and her life working in Germany under an assumed identity as a Polish Christian, her life as a displaced person in the American Zone of occupied Germany, her emigration to the United States, and her subsequent efforts to gain restitution on the grounds of health and loss of freedom.

  3. Theodora Basch Vrančić Klayman photographs

    1. Theodora Basch Vrančić Klayman collection

    The Theodora Basch Vrančić Klayman photographs consist of photographs of the Apler family, the Deutsch family, and the Basch families in Yugslavia, dating from 1924-1959. The photographs include candid and group photographs of various family members as well as Jewish children in hiding.

  4. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for the New Year (Rosh Hashanah) New Year prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first and second day of Rosh Hashanah that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig, in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in ...

  5. Prayers of the Israelites Yom Kippur prayer book given to a German Kindertransport refugee by her father

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first evening and second day of Yom Kippur inscribed with a message to Lore Baer for her 13th birthday by her father, Hellmuth Baer, while he was in Shanghai, China. Lore was living with her father and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertra...

  6. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for Passover Passover prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first and second day of Passover that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in Italy,...

  7. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for the Evening of Reconciliation (Maariv Yom Kippur) Prayer Book for the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) Gebetbuch für den Versöhnungstag Evening of Reconciliation prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for Yom Kippur that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in Italy, and came to visit her in ...

  8. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for the Feast of Weeks Shavuot prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for Shavuot that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in Italy, and came to visit her in Eng...

  9. Prayers of the Israelites Rosh Hashanah Rosh Hashanah prayer book given to a German Kindertransport refugee by her father

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first and second day of Rosh Hashanah inscribed with a message to Lore Baer for her 13th birthday by her father, Hellmuth Baer, while he was in Shanghai, China. Lore was living with her father and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertranspor...

  10. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer book for Feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) Prayer book for the Closing and Joy Celebration (Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah) Gebetbuch für das Schlusz- und Freudenfest Feast of Tabernacles prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying i...

  11. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 100 cent note

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Voucher, valued at 100 cents, distributed in Westerbork transit camp. While at the camp, inmates were compelled to work, and a special currency was issued to incentivize work output, but the money had no real monetary value outside the camp. Westerbork was established by the Dutch government in October 1939, for Jewish refugees who had crossed the border illegally following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. After Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, the German authorities began using Westerbork as a transit camp, holding internees until they were deported to forced labo...

  12. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 50 cent note

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Voucher, valued at 50 cents, distributed in Westerbork transit camp. While at the camp, inmates were compelled to work, and a special currency was issued to incentivize work output, but the money had no real monetary value outside the camp. Westerbork was established by the Dutch government in October 1939, for Jewish refugees who had crossed the border illegally following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. After Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, the German authorities began using Westerbork as a transit camp, holding internees until they were deported to forced labor...

  13. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 25 cent note

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Voucher, valued at 25 cents, distributed in Westerbork transit camp. While at the camp, inmates were compelled to work, and a special currency was issued to incentivize work output, but the money had no real monetary value outside the camp. Westerbork was established by the Dutch government in October 1939, for Jewish refugees who had crossed the border illegally following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. After Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, the German authorities began using Westerbork as a transit camp, holding internees until they were deported to forced labor...

  14. Westerbork transit camp voucher, 10 cent note

    1. Joel Forman collection

    Voucher, valued at 10 cents, distributed in Westerbork transit camp. While at the camp, inmates were compelled to work, and a special currency was issued to incentivize work output, but the money had no real monetary value outside the camp. Westerbork was established by the Dutch government in October 1939, for Jewish refugees who had crossed the border illegally following the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 1938. After Germany invaded the Netherlands on May 10, 1940, the German authorities began using Westerbork as a transit camp, holding internees until they were deported to forced labor...

  15. Norbert Vos-Obstfeld. Collection

    This collection contains: the French ID card of Chuma Rajzel Galant-Holcman ; pre-war family photos of the extended Obstfeld-Fleischer and Zwaaf-Vos families, including childhood, wedding and vacation photos ; photos of the Obstfeld-Zwaaf family after fleeing to France during the war; photos of Norbert Vos and his mother Lea Zwaaf while hiding in Kortrijk with the Verhage family ; photos of Elisabeth alias Lilly Zwaaf and her husband Maurice Da Cunha living in India during the war ; post-war photos of Norbert, his mother Lea Zwaaf and his stepfather Emiel Vos ; photos of Emiel Vos’s deporte...

  16. Silberman-Holzer family. Collection

    This collection contains: an audio-visual testimony by Myriam Silberman in which she recounts her life during the war, including the experiences of her father Efraim Silberman who was sent to a work camp in Northern France run by Organisation Todt and who escaped transport XVI taking him to Auschwitz-Birkenau, the help Myriam, her sister Anna alias Annie Silberman and their mother Euga alias Augusta Holzer received from their former housekeeper Marie in Antwerp and from Righteous amongst the Nations Charles Ollinger and Odon Dubois who hid the family in Mons under the false name “Steurs”, l...

  17. Charles Benedictus. Collection

    This collection contains: the birth certificate of Esther Benedictus (paternal grandmother of Charles Benedictus), 1840 ; a municipal certificate issued to Samson and Esther Benedictus (paternal grandparents of Charles Benedictus), 1868 ; the wedding booklet of Samson and Esther Benedictus, 1868 ; a Dutch passport issued to Esther Benedictus, 1918 ; pre-war promotional material for cigar factory Primus inter Pares, owned by the Benedictus family, including a deck of cards, a brochure and a catalogue ; a collage of the I. [Isaac] Benedictus - Primus inter Pares brand cigar bands ; a municipa...

  18. Shifra Senderowicz. Collection

    This collection contains one video-interview with Shifra Senderowicz recorded at Kazerne Dossin, one wedding book dating from 1940 of Jenö (Jano) Grünberger and Cecilia Stern, one Belgian passport of Shifra Senderowicz and fifteen photographs of her family members including Jenö (Jano) Grünberger, Cecilia Stern, Chaskel Stern, Miriam Brohner, Marie Grünberger and others.

  19. Rochman-Malberg family. Collection

    This collection contains: pre-war photos of Syma Tema Malberg and her children Chaim Rochman, Szaja alias Charles Rochman, Ruchla Rochman and Bernard Rochman ; pre-war photos of Chaim Rochman, his wife Brajna Mejerzon, their son Joseph Abraham Rochman and other relatives ; pre-war photos of Szaja alias Charles Rochman with comrades such as Emile Lovenvirth and Aba Arhimovici ; two pre-war albums with photos of Szaja alias Charles Rochman and his wife Laja (also Loli or Liliane) Celmanska, including holiday pictures and photos taken during outings with fiends ; pre-war photos of Laja Celmans...

  20. Monique Joseph papers

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of Monique Joseph (born Helga Kaufmann), originally of Cologne, Germany, her parents Caroline and Sallly Kaufmann, as well as her Husband Theophile Joseph and his family. Included are identification papers, false-identity documents, an autograph album, immigration papers, correspondence, memoirs, and photographs. Biographical material related to Monique includes address books, an autograph album, identification papers including a French passport; false-identity documents under the name of Monique Colin; post-war documents regarding her ...