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  12. Fiction film about a German immigrant becoming a US citizen

    16mm film "This is America" Part of a series produced by Frederic Ullman Jr. in the 1940s. This episode, "New Americans," which dates from around the late 1940s, focuses on a German immigrant (or refugee) and his quest to become a United States citizen. Depicted are his arrival in the city via Ellis Island, meetings with immigration officials, and attempts to find housing and a job. He is led to the National Refugee Service where he finds friendly assistance. He perseveres and is eventually sworn in as a United States citizen.

  13. Rella Adler papers

    1. Rella Adler collection

    Contains documents, telegrams, correspondence, receipts illustrating the post-war efforts to bring Rella Hudes from the United Kingdom, where she fled during the Holocaust, to the United States. Includes one receipt dated 1941 for monies sent from Ida Hudes (Rella's Aunt) to her nephew Siegmund in Vienna, Austria; correspondence between individuals and organizations such as the National Refugee Service in New York, the Refugee Children's Movement in England, Rella's aunt Ida Brumberg in New York, and Phillip and Lilian Adams in England, with whom Rella lived from 1939-1946. As early as 1944...

  14. Moiola (Cuneo). Ritratto di ebrei rifugiati tra cui Seigfried Schwarz e Theresia Pories in Burger

    1. Fototeca. Collezione fotografica vittime della Shoah
    2. 5HB

    Nella fotografia si riconoscono in piedi al centro Siegfried Schwarz, seduta davanti a lui Theresia Pories in Burger e in piedi il primo a sinistra il signor Haberman, così come riportato nella didascalia che accompagna la fotografia nel libro "Biancastella" (1997) e reca il seguente testo: "Picture taken in Moiola, Italy, in front of barn Italian farmers provided for Jewish refugees, October 1943. People in top row are, from left, a farmer; a Jewish refugee lady; Seigfried Schwarz (who was executed by the Brigate Nere on the last day of the war); the refugee lady's husband; and another ref...

  15. Philip Freid papers

    1. Philip Freid collection

    Contain two photographs of Philip Freid playing football (soccer) in the Schlachtensee displaced persons camp in Berlin, Germany; a photograph of his sister, Bronka Frajdenzaych, taken in Łódź, Poland, before World War II; two school certificates from the "Herzel" school in the Düppel Center in Schlachtensee; documents and identification cards pertaining to Freid's experiences in the Feldafing and Schlachtensee displaced persons camps; a certificate of incarceration issued by the International Refugee Organization (IRO); and documents pertaining to Freid's experiences in the United States ...

  16. Huisman family collection

    Contains an illustrated photo album created by seventeen-year-old Max Appelbaum. The album uses a grouping of donated family photographs from the Marie Louise Refugee Center in St. Simon, near Toulouse, France to show their appreciation to camp director Jacob Huisman and his wife Judith who lived in the camp with children Michele and Annie (donor's uncle and mother). The photo album is dated 1942 and was presented to the family before they immigrated to Toronto, Canada. Includes a group of loose photographs showing pre-war families' experiences. The Marie Louise Refugee Center, a Belgium an...

  17. Woven diary cover

    1. Eva and Otto Pfister collection

    Blue and white woven cover from the "blue book" diary in the collection. The Eva and Otto Pfister papers consist of diaries, immigration files, and other materials documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee husband Otto Pfister and their socialist colleagues, and the anti-Nazi work of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). Eva’s four diaries document her teenage years in Goldap, her life as a refugee in France separated from Otto, interned in Gurs, waiting in Montauban for her oppor...

  18. Eva and Otto Pfister collection

    The Eva and Otto Pfister papers consist of diaries, immigration files, and other materials documenting German Jewish refugee Eva Pfister’s experiences in France and New York, her efforts on behalf of her non-Jewish German refugee husband Otto Pfister and their socialist colleagues, and the anti-Nazi work of the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK). Eva’s four diaries document her teenage years in Goldap, her life as a refugee in France separated from Otto, interned in Gurs, waiting in Montauban for her opportunity to emigrate, her escape over the Pyrénées to Lisbon, and her immig...

  19. Lewis S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Lewis S., who was born in London, England in 1911 and emigrated to New York with his family in 1917. He recalls becoming a dental technician; serving in the military during the war in that capacity; obtaining a job in 1945 working in ORT schools in displaced persons camps in Europe to train dental technicians; working through UNRRA; living in Pasing, Germany; establishing many schools including in Feldafing, Landsberg, and Heidelberg; improving diet and conditions in DP camps whenever he could; meeting Germans who claimed they knew nothing of concentration camps in sp...

  20. Inter-aid committee: correspondence and papers

    This collection consists of papers, correspondence and minutes of the Inter-Aid Committee for Children from Germany and Austria (Oxford Branch) relating to the placement of Jewish refugee children with families.Correspondence and papers including lists of refugee children awaiting care homes, pamphlets entitled 'The Jews - some plain facts' (1941) (1781/5/1) and 'Benjamin Franklin and the Jews - a forgery exposed' (1718/5/2), and a photograph of one of the children (1718/3/23).English