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  1. Metal needle case with cap brought with German Jewish refugees

    1. Lewin and Levi family collection

    Metal needle case with removable cap brought with Simon and Violet Lewin, their daughter Marion, and Violet's son, Rolf, who fled Berlin, Germany, in late December 1938 for the United States.United States.

  2. Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews

    1. P.49- Archive of Leni Yahil, Holocaust Researcher, 1904-2002

    Leni Yahil Personal Archive: Correspondence regarding refugees and rescuing Jews In the file: - Correspondence with people and institutions in the United States and Great Britain, the Red Cross and others regarding Jewish refugees and rescuing Jews.

  3. Lists of Ichud members who are refugees in Switzerland

    1. P.7- Archive of Marc Jarblum, Zionist Leader and one of the leaders of the Jewish underground in France, 1941-1967

    Lists of Ichud members who are refugees in Switzerland Also in the file: Addresses of Jewish organizations and personalities and receipts from the Swiss post.

  4. List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Romania

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

    List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Romania The list is organized alphabetically and includes name, place of birth, age, occupation and current place of residence; list compiled by the Committee for Relief of the War Stricken Jewish Population ]sponsored by] the World Jewish Congress in Geneva.

  5. List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Vilna

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

    List of Jewish refugees from Poland who are in Vilna The list is organized alphabetically and includes name, place of birth, age, occupation and current place of residence; list compiled by the Committee for Relief of the War Stricken Jewish Population [sponsored by] the World Jewish Congress in Geneva; Included in the file: A list containing names of Jewish refugees in Vilna who are not originally from Poland.

  8. Jews (Refugees? Deportees?) moving along a city street with belongings

    Wartime. Large group of Jews being moved along a city street with bundles, children, scarves, etc. Busy, a lot of activity. Medium close view of 2 or 3 people in a closed space, presumably refugees or deportees. People moving along a train platform, German military man in foreground.

  9. Aluminum suitcase used by Jewish Polish postwar refugees

    1. Regina and Samuel Spiegel collection

    Silver aluminum suitcase used by Regina and Shmuel Spiegel when they emigrated in October 1947 from Germany to the United States. In April 1941, Regina Gutman, 15, escaped the Radom ghetto in German occupied Poland to join her sister Rozia in Pionki. She worked in a munitions factory, where she met Shmuel, 20. He had left Kozienice ghetto in September 1942 to work in Pionki labor camp. In fall 1944, the inmates were transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. They promised to meet in Kozienice if they survived the war. Men and women were separated upon arrival. Regina was transfer...

  13. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1939-1956

  14. Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950

    Personal files of Jewish refugees in Switzerland, 1930-1950 The files are located in the N-Serie section in the Police department of the Swiss Ministry of Justice and the Police; the section contains approximately 45,000 personal files of civilian refugees who were absorbed by Switzerland from 1936 and until after World War II; approximately half of the refugees were Jews.

  15. Jews and other refugees moving into the USSR

    Shot of a Soviet border guard on a bridge at the border between the Soviet Union and Romania after the Soviet Union seized northern Bukovina in 1940. Long shot of a mass of refugees waiting to cross the border into the Soviet Union. Refugees, including Jews, move across a bridge from Romania to what is now the Soviet Union. Close-up on a Jewish family as they show their papers to a guard before they cross the bridge. The guard smiles and shakes hands with the couple. Shot of refugees running across the bridge.

  16. Jewish refugees celebrate Purim in the Philippines, 1940

    "A Children's Party" shows Alex and Corinne Frieder and their children at a Purim celebration on March 24, 1940 at Mariquina Hall in Manila, the land donated by President Quezon for Jewish refugees. Many of the people at the party are German and Austrian Jewish refugees who were given visas to come to the Philippines. Children dressed in costumes at outdoor party, eating cakes. 01:00:41 Adults converse. Alex Frieder, wearing a white suit, smokes a cigar. Children and adults mingle and eat. 01:01:06 Cantor Joseph Cysner with camera around his neck leads a parade of costumed children to a mak...

  17. 19th century illustration of Jewish refugees waiting to immigrate

    1. Katz Ehrenthal collection

    Newsprint illustration, Judische Emigraten in Brody (Galizien), Jewish emigrants in Brody (Galicia) with 6 detailed, captioned vignettes of Jewish life in Brody, circa 1882, when it was a gateway to the west for thousands of Jews seeking to leave Eastern Europe. By May 1882, there were around 12,000 Jewish refugees in Brody. In 1772, Brody was annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire; from 1919-1939, it was part of Poland, and since the end of the war in 1945, it has been part of Ukraine. In 1880, Jews made up 75 percent of the population and it was an intellectual center and a thriving tradi...

  18. March of Time -- outtakes -- Jewish Refugees in Paris

    ORT, Jewish Society, Paris, France, 12 Rue des Saules. VS in the nursery of the society. Nurses giving children cod liver oil. Toddlers playing in indoor jungle gym. CU of children eating in dining hall. VS of class listening to lecture on wireless. CU portrait of Joseph Meyerovitch, founder of lecture courses at ORT. MS, dressmaking class. Young Jewish women learn to make artificial flowers, instructor hands flowers to Mr. Leon Frenkel, the ORT inspector general of professional instruction.

  19. March of Time -- outtakes -- Refugees; Jewish shelter; London, England

    Jewish shelter on Mansell Street, Whitechapel, London, England. Permanent institution for helping poor Jews, housing approximately 120 refugees (mostly Austrian). Dining hall, crowded, free meals. Adolph and Sarah Michaelson, the Superintendant and Matron of the shelter from about 1912 until 1940, appear in this sequence (Adolph is the gentleman with the mustache standing at 04:00:05 and at right at 04:00:26. Sarah wears a lace collar in the doorway at 04:01:31. Their daughter, Esther (known as Elsie, b. 1915), is the third serving person in a white coat who comes into the dining room at 04...

  20. Handmade wooden hanukiah with Hebrew inscription made by Kindertransport refugees

    8-branched Hanukkah menorah with central holder for the 9th candle made for Louis Judah and Etty Cohen by 3 male student refugees at the Whittingehame Farm School in East Lothian, Scotland. One evening, the students requested that Mr. Cohen and his family come to the school and, in a heartfelt ceremony, presented the handcrafted menorah to the couple to thank them for what they had done for them. Judah and Etty were governors of the school, and members of the Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation which established the school in 1939. Its mission was to care for German and Austrian Jewish children a...