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  1. Sewing box with accessories carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn515005
    • English
    • a: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) b: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm) | Depth: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) c: Height: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm) d: Height: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) e: Height: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) f: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) g: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) h: Height: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Width: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) i: Height: 2.250 inches (5.715 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) j: Height: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) k: Height: 50.750 inches (128.905 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) l: Height: 18.375 inches (46.673 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) m: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Diameter: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) n: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Width: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) o: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) | Diameter: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) p: Height: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) | Diameter: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) q: Height: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Diameter: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) r: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Diameter: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) s: Height: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) t-ap: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)

    Travel sewing kit with 19 items, such as a thimble, snaps, needles, and thread bought for 11 year old Lilli (Karoline) Schischa to take on the Kindertransport from Austria to Great Britain on July 13, 1939. In March 1938, Nazi Germany marched into Austria and made it part of the Third Reich. Jewish persecution. The clothing store owned by Lilli's parents, Wilhelm and Johanna, in Wiener Neustadt was seized. Lilli's brother, Edi, age 24, left for Palestine in October 1938. Her father was arrested during the Kristallnacht pogrom that November, but released after ten days. Her parents were able...

  2. Dark blue paper covered suitcase used by a Jewish refugee

    1. Ernest and Ruth Chambre collection

    Dark blue suitcase used by Ernest Chambre, a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany. In 1933, Ernest, originally from Belgium, was a law student in Berlin when Hitler was appointed Chancellor. The persecution of Jews by the Nazi government caused him to flee to Belgium and then, in 1934/1935, to Palestine. Ernest left for Spain, presumably to get to the US, but was imprisoned in Miranda de Ebro internment camp. After his release, he returned to Palestine and married Ruth Elsoffer, a fellow refugee, in 1937. Ruth emigrated to the United States in 1946; Ernest arrived in October 1947.

  3. Green wool blanket acquired by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    Green wool US Army blanket given to Peter Victor in Shanghai, China, by US troops who liberated the city in 1945. Peter, age 18, had left Berlin, Germany, in 1938 to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. With the aid of the American Joint Distribution Committee, Peter emigrated to America in December 1947.

  4. Black cloth cap owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    Black cloth collapsible cap that belonged to Peter Victor, who lived as a Jewish refugee from Berlin to Shanghai, China, from 1938-1947. Peter, age 18, left to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government in 1938. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. With the aid of the American Joint Distribution Committee, Peter emigrated to America in December 1947.

  5. White satin yarmulke owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    White satin yarmulke owned by Peter Victor who lived as a Jewish refugee from Berlin to Shanghai, China, from 1938-1947. A yarmulke is a skullcap worn by observant Jewish males. Peter, age 18, left to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government in 1938. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. With the aid of the American Joint Distribution Committee, Peter emigrated to America in December 1947.

  6. Black yarmulke used by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    Black yarmulke owned by Peter Victor who lived as a Jewish refugee from Berlin in Shanghai, China, from 1938-1947. A yarmulke is a skullcap worn by observant Jewish males. Peter, age 18, left to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. With the aid of the American Joint Distribution Committee, Peter emigrated to America in December 1947.

  7. Black yarmulke used by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    Black yarmulke owned by Peter Victor who lived as a Jewish refugee from Berlin in Shanghai, China, from 1938-1947. A yarmulke is a skullcap worn by observant Jewish males. Peter, age 18, left to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. With the aid of the American Joint Distribution Committee, Peter emigrated to America in December 1947.

  8. Brown leather briefcase brought by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Peter Victor family collection

    Dark brown leather briefcase used by 18 year old Peter Victor in 1938 when he left Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China. Peter left to escape the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi-led government. His parents, Carl and Elsa, arrived in Shanghai in 1939. Carl died in 1940 and Elsa in 1942. Shanghai was liberated by the United States Army on September 3, 1945. With the aid of the American Joint Distribution Committee, Peter emigrated to America in December 1947.

  9. Dark brown leather satchel used by a Polish Jewish refugee

    1. Harry Ray collection

    Briefcase used by Harry Ray (Herszl Rabinowicz) to keep the correspondence from his family, including his brother, the cantor Pinchas Rabinowicz, from the Warsaw ghetto in Poland and the Soviet Union during the Holocaust. When the war ended in 1945, several family members relocated to the Hasenecke displaced persons camp near Kassel, Germany. In June 1949, due to Harry's efforts, they were able to emigrate to the United States. Harry, his wife, and their daughter had emigrated from Warsaw to the United States in August 1938.

  10. Nazi armband owned by a deaf Jewish refugee to Shanghai

    1. Hans Praschkauer collection

    Nazi armband that belonged to Hans (Heinz) Praschkauer. Hans, a deaf German Jew, and his parents escaped Breslau, Germany, for Shanghai in 1939 on the Italian ship, Conte Verde. He worked as a tailor in Shanghai until 1949, when he and his parents joined his brother in the United States.

  11. Tourist map of Kyoto used by Jewish refugee family

    1. Honigberg family collection

    The Kobe Municipal Office issued an English-language tourist guide to Kobe and its environs. The guide included this map used by Jewish refugees in Kobe.

  12. Tourist brochure for Kyoto used by Jewish refugee family

    1. Honigberg family collection

    The Kobe Municipal Office issued this English-language tourist guide to Kobe and its environs. Jewish refugees in Kobe used such pieces of information. Kobe, Japan, 1940-1941.

  13. Handmade stationery folder brought with a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Anna Leist collection

    Handcrafted stationery portfolio given to Anna Zajac, 13, by her elder brother, Felix, in October 1938, after he was notified that he was being deported from Berlin, Germany, to Poland. Felix made the folder when he was 13 at summer camp circa 1935. Their father, Wolf, was deported in 1935. The nine siblings and their mother, Dora, were expected to join him. But Dora was ill with tuberculosis and, except for the two eldest, Felix and Samuel, the children were placed in the Ahawah orphanage in 1936. Dora died on January 5, 1938. Samuel then left for Poland. After Felix was deported, he and S...

  14. Records relating to the Committee for Refugee Education

    Includes essay written by refugee students studying English in a program provided by the Committee for Refugee Education after World War II. The essays describe experiences of new life in the United States, memories of persecution and imprisonment in concentration camps, and liberation. Also included are samples of teaching materials used in the English lessons and a 18 December 1949 letter written by one of the English instructors.

  15. Black patterned silk necktie owned by a Jewish refugee

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    Necktie owned by Isidor Bieder who was forced to leave Vienna, Austria, with his wife, Fanny, and their two daughters, 14 year old Frieda, and 10 year old Gertrude, in January 1939. After the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, anti-Jewish laws were passed and Jews were targeted for persecution. Germans raided the family’s apartment, taking most of their valuables, and a little later, Isidor’s business was confiscated. During the November Kristallnacht pogrom, Isidor was arrested and beaten. As a condition of Isidor’s release from prison, he agreed to leave Austria with his...

  16. Calligraphy samples and portfolio by a refugee from Nazi Germany

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Portfolio containing samples of calligraphy created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly still had str...

  17. Drawing of a storeroom by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Ink drawing of a storeroom interior created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Germany became a police state and anti-Jewish legislation was enacted. Nelly was a Quaker, but had been born Jewish. In 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in the publishing industry. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly still had strong pro-German feelings and was not ready to leave. In 1939,...

  18. Illustrated handmade children's book by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Illustrated handmade book with a children's story created by Nelly Rossmann. The cover has a collage of marching boys dressed as soldiers. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in ...

  19. Gold engraved pocket watch owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Pocket watch that belonged to Heinrich Schawbacher. As part of his preparation to leave Frankfurt, Germany, following the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, the watch and his and his wife's weddings rings were sent to Christian friends in Amsterdam for safekeeping. Jewish refugees were not allowed to take valuable property or currency with them when they left the country. The watch was later sent by registered mail to England after the emigration of the Schawbacher's and their daughter, Nelly Rossmann, and her son, Michael, in 1939.

  20. Handmade raffia bags made by a Jewish refugee woman

    1. Emilie Boit collection

    Handmade raffia bag made by a Jewish refugee woman at the Coteau Fleuri during the war and given to Emilie Boit when the woman left Le Chambon.