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  1. Pro-Vichy propaganda handbill acquired by a Jewish emigre in US Army

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    Pro-Vichy government handbill acquired by Joseph Strip (originally Striponsky) who was sent to Germany by the United States Army in 1944. Joseph and his parents Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky, and brother Astriel fled Antwerp, Belgium, in May 1940 for France. A year later, they received American visas, and traveling via Spain and Portugal, left for New York in May 1941.

  2. Green patch with a paintbrush and palette acquired by a Jewish emigre serving in the US Army

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    Badge with a painter's palette and brush owned Joseph Strip (originally Striponsky) who was sent to Germany by the United States Army in 1944. Joseph and his parents Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky, and brother Astriel fled Antwerp, Belgium, in May 1940 for France. A year later, they received American visas, and traveling via Spain and Portugal, left for New York in May 1941.

  3. Green patch with a red tent acquired by a Jewish emigre in US Army

    1. Joseph Strip family collection

    Badge with an embroidered red tent owned by Joseph Strip (originally Striponsky) who was sent to Germany by the United States Army in 1944. Joseph and his parents Menachem Nathan and Regina Stripounsky, and brother Astriel fled Antwerp, Belgium, in May 1940 for France. A year later, they received American visas, and traveling via Spain and Portugal, left for New York in May 1941.

  7. Memorial and Nazis marching in Munich

    “NAZI MEMORIAL.” People outside Felderrnhalle, a landmark in the Odeonsplatz. Nazi soldiers stand guard in front of the Mahnmal der Bewegung monument at Felderrnhalle. Pedestrians walk by and heil. “RECENT CONVERTS.” Soldiers march in neat rows on the side of the street. “MARIENPLATZ” German civilians in the street by Old Town Hall. MS, New Town Hall in Marienplatz. “VON DER TANN STRASSE” Large banner across Von der Tann Strasse: “Unsere Ziele find Arbeit, Freiheit, Brot und ein Frieden der cher” [Our goals are work, freedom, bread and peace] Nazi flags. Men ride bicycles. A traffic officer...

  8. This small piece of history: the escape from Germany and three years later the successful immigration to the United States

    Account of the Lenkway family’s life in Cologne, Germany: persecution under the Nazis, escape from Germany in 1938, their odyssey through several European countries before emigrating to the US in 1941.

  11. Nadia Gould collection

    The memoir describes her parents' families; her childhood in the French countryside; the German occupation of France; her and her mother's escape to join her father in unoccupied France; her family's escape from Marseille, France, to Portugal via Spain; her immigration to the United States and reunion with her parents; her assimilation into American culture and her activities while in high school and in college; and some of her experiences afterwards. The collection also includes picture postcards illustrated with Gould's art work depict both geometric and human forms.

  20. Papers of C.C. Aronsfeld on Spanish Jewry

    Research materials collected by Aronsfeld relating to Spanish Jewry, twentieth century (8 files)