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  1. Exodus Jews in France

    INTs of refugees sleeping on cots, of floor, rough conditions (too dark). Refugees sleeping on cots outdoors, in trucks (police trucks). Shot of harbor. "Ocean Vigour," the "Runnymede Park," and the "Empire Valour" in harbor. Small boats go up to ship. Shots of refugees on ship (Runnymede) with barbed wire. Sailors on ship, more refugees. French Red Cross on shore, give water to refugees.

  2. Ba-derekh Cammino

    1. Miriam Brysk collection

    Consists of newspapers, in Hebrew, published in Italy (perhaps in a Displaced Persons camp) in 1947.

  3. Juan Jorge and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer collection

    Documents, photographs and artifacts relating to the experiences of Juan Jorge Schäffer (b. Vienna) and Inge Kalbermann Schäffer (b. Mannheim), both of whom fled Nazi occupation and immgrated to Uruguay. The collection includes photographs of the extended Schäffer family, school documents, restitution papers as well as a clock brought to Uruguay by a German Jewish refugee and a pre-war Viennese dance card.

  4. Sosua collection

    Collection of research materials concerning the refugee settlement of Sosua in the Dominican Republic. Includes several copies of "La Voz" [Our Voice] or Sosua, a weekly newsletter published by the Jewish community living there; also included are copies of "Sosua Berlin" and "El Boletin" a Jewish monthly newsletter.

  5. I Know Why | Chattanooga Choo Choo

    1. Music study collection

    Music from the Fox 20th century 1941 musical "Sun Valley Serenade" about a big band "adopting" a young woman refugee. The film was a favorite in Jewish Displaced Persons Camps in the aftermath of the Holocaust, with the film's light entertainment and quick adaptation of Sonja Henie's character to American life a potential model for Jewish Displaced Persons' futures. Bluebird. Glenn Miller and His Orchestra Side A, Track 1, I Know Why Side B, Track 1, Chattanooga Choo Choo

  6. Paul Friedhoff papers

    1. Paul Friedhoff collection

    Collection contains a continuance of correspondence between Paul Friedhoff, a German-Jewish refugee in the United States, and Dr. Emil Georg Sold, a German Catholic.

  7. Habibi | Im hupalnu

    Side A: Habibi (Hebrew Tango). Music: E. Egan, text: S. Fisher; published 1945. Side B: Im hupalnu - a Hebrew song that references the refugee ships Struma and Patria. Music, Menashe Baharav, text: Ya'akov Orland; published 1946. [disc label on this side is misprinted with the song title, Madagascar] Piano (both sides): Jascha Galperin. RCA Victor recording.

  8. Vicki Miles collection

    Contains photographs taken in the Buchenwald concentration camp soon after liberation; Overseas Service Certificates issued by American National Red Cross to William Swannie; newspaper page with an article entitled “The Nazis Sent Me to a Concentration Camp,” with the testimony of an Austrian refugee, published in The Sunday Oregonian, May 21, 1939.

  9. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe papers

    1. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe collection

    The papers consist of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Löwenstein in January 1939 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and one British travel document issued in London, England, to Margaret Pappenheimer [donor], a refugee from Nazi Germany.

  10. Kenneth and Margaret Lowe collection

    The collection consists of a German passport ("Reisepass") issued to Kurt Löwenstein in January 1939 in Düsseldorf, Germany, and one British travel document issued in London, England, to Margaret Pappenheimer [donor], a refugee from Nazi Germany. It also contains additional documents, a wallet and a badge.

  11. Shulamit Klebanov papers

    Correspondence received by Shulamit Klebanov, while she was working on behalf of the Jewish Agency, providing assistance to Holocaust survivors in displaced persons camps in Europe following World War II. Most of the letters are from fellow aid workers, describing their work with Holocaust survivors and vocational courses offered to them by ORT.

  12. Israel Ellen photographs

    1. Israel Ellen collection

    The collection consists of five photographs from the displaced persons camp in Landsberg am Lech, Germany.

  13. British Pathé (Unissued/Unused) -- Refugees are given clothing and food

    Titles read: "ALLIES FEED AND CLOTHE REFUGEES FROM WAR ZONES". Refugees (probably from Eastern Europe) carry bundles on their backs and heads walk to and from a building guarded by soldiers (unknown location). CUs of refugee adults and children outside the building. INT, women and children are given clothing. Refugees sit at long tables and eat. General view of refugees milling about outside the building.

  14. Gerd Ledermann: letter regarding life in Nepal

    This collection contains a letter of a former Kindertransportee Gerd Ledermann reflecting on his new life in Nepal between 1986 and 1989.

  16. Ruth Mondschein Zimbler collection

    The collection consists of three handkerchiefs, a cloth case, three children's books, Jewish prayer books, correspondence, documents, and photographs relating to the experiences of Ruth Mondschein and her family in Vienna, Austria, and as a Kindertransport refugee in the Netherlands with her younger brother before the Holocaust, as well as the family's separate journeys to the United States in 1939.

  17. Excerpts from the journal of Breckinridge Long, the Assistant United States Secretary of State, 1940-1943

    1. O.91 - Mordechai Friedman Collection

    Excerpts from the journal of Breckinridge Long, the Assistant United States Secretary of State, 1940-1943 - Delegations of Jews requesting to meet with him; - Attitude towards the Jews; - Emigration; - Tightening of the laws of emigration to the United States; - The Bermuda Conference; - Establishment of a refugee camp, and Jews and non-Jews in Morocco.

  18. Documentation containing protocols and reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Hungary, 1944

    1. P.32 - Collection of Hansi and Joel Brand, activists in the Relief and Rescue Committee in Budapest during World War II

    Documentation containing protocols and reports regarding the situation of the Jews in Hungary, 1944 Deportation of Jews; murder of Jews; underground activities; rescue possibilities; possibilities of aliya to Eretz Israel; situation of refugee Jews in Hungary.

  19. Manuscript of the book written by Heiner Lichtenstein, "Warum Auschwitz Nicht Bombdiert Wurde", 1944

    1. P.26 - Heiner Lichtenstein Collection - Documentation collected by a Journalist who wrote about the Holocaust and about Trials of Nazi War Criminals, 1952-1987

    Manuscript of the book written by Heiner Lichtenstein, "Warum Auschwitz Nicht Bombdiert Wurde", 1944 Photocopy of a memorandum by J. W. Pehle, including a summary of the activities of the War Refugee Board, 15 July 1944.

  20. Memoirs of M. Blobstein, regarding his experiences in the Pulawy Ghetto and the Soviet Union during the war

    1. O.39 - Collection of memoirs written by survivors as part of a competition held by Yad Vashem, 1957

    Memoirs of M. Blobstein, regarding his experiences in the Pulawy Ghetto and the Soviet Union during the war Escape from the Pulawy Ghetto; move to the Soviet Union; life as a refugee; deportation to Siberia.