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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Yarmulke carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection

    Kippah taken by thirteen year old Kurt Rosenbaum when he was sent by his parents on Kindertransport to Belgium in March 1939.

  2. Tallit carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection

    Tallit taken by thirteen year old Kurt Rosenbaum when he was sent by his parents on a Kindertransport to Belgium in March 1939.

  3. Tallit bag carried by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Kurt (Rosenbaum) Goldsmith family collection

    Tallit bag taken by Kurt Rosenbaum as he was sent by his parents on a Kindertransport to Belgium in March 1939.

  4. Documentation of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in the Netherlands, 1947-1953

    Documentation of the International Refugee Organization (IRO) in the Netherlands, 1947-1953 Stichting Vijfhonderd joodse kinderen (Fund for 500 Jewish Children): 500 Jewish children, who were displaced persons, were brought to the Netherlands from the camps in Eastern Europe and given refuge in the De Biezen home in Barneveld; Included in the collection: Documents related to the Stichting Vijfhonderd Joodse kinderen fund, for the rescue of 500 Jewish children.

  5. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee

    Trunk used by Ruth Linz's husband when he immigrated from Nazi Germany to the United States.

  6. Jewish refugee children, England, play in park

    Jewish refugee children playing in a park. MLS of kids dancing in a circle. Girl with a hoop. Group of children playing leapfrog. Children indoors with toys at table. CU girl with doll. CU boy writing letter. High angle view of long table and children eating soup. Eating at table.

  7. Ribbon commemorating the Pentcho refugee ship

    1. Pentcho collection

    Blue and white striped fabric ribbon with image of the Pentcho ship and the dates 1940-1980. Safety pin attached.

  8. Ribbon commemorating the Pentcho refugee ship

    1. Pentcho collection

    Blue and white striped fabric ribbon with image of the Pentcho ship and the dates 1940-1980. Safety pin attached.

  9. "The autobiography of a Jewish refugee"

    1. Charles Leigh collection

    Memoir, 169 pages, about Charles Leigh's family history, his experiences in Germany as a child, and his later escape to England on a Kindertransport.

  10. Refugee children in the Middle East

    In Egypt, a tent city with Polish children. Daily activities in the tent city. Children at the beach, engaging in athletic activities, eating bread, playing, studying, working, etc. Field school. Polish soldiers. Refugees in tents. Sign: "TEHERAN 3 KM/WARSAWY 4,371 KM." Sign: "SZKOLA POWSZECHNA NO. 3." Visit by officials, CUs. Stage performance, children and adults performing Polish dances. Detailed cescription with original narration: 01:38:05 Narration begins in Polish: "One key responsibility of the Polish Army in the East is the caretaking of Polish children in exile. Thanks to whom wil...

  11. International Refugee Organization, Bad Kissingen: reports

    These papers consist of information sheets; administrative and provisional orders; and printed IRO statistics on the occupational skills of refugees.

  13. Autograph album used by an Austrian refugee

    1. Irene Rosenthal Gibian family collection

    Autograph album owned by Irene Rosenthal. The leather cover is decorated with Stars of David. Irene fled Nazi ruled Austria for the United States in March 1940. German troops marched over the border into Austria in March 1938. The next day, Austria was annexed to Nazi Germany. Anti-Jewish legislation was enacted to strip Jews of their civil rights. The November 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom vandalized Jewish businesses and homes and destroyed most of the synagogues in Austria. Irene received a visa to leave Austria in March and sailed that month from Genoa, Italy, to New York.

  14. Jewish refugee children from Belsen in London

    Jewish teenage survivors of Belsen arrive at refugee center in London. Children eating in dining hall, dancing the Hora outside, arriving at Red Cross building, in classes.

  15. Shofar saved by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Gusti and Julius Ackermann collection

    Shofar brought by Julius Ackermann when he emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1938. It had been used by his family for years.

  16. The Danish Refugee Administration in Sweden

    • Rigsarkivet
    • Den Danske Flygtningeadministration i Sverige
    • Danish, English
    • 782 parcels

    The General Department handled the assistance to refugees who were not in work and not stayed in barracks/ garrison: clothing assistance, lodging, maintenance, social assistance for elderly, mothers with children, pregnant women, medical and dental assistance, help in illness, death, help to the Danish Brigade personnel and its families. Legal assistance was transferred to the Refugee Office Secretariat.

  18. Suitcase used by German Jewish refugee family

    1. Wolf and Dreisel Bienstock family collection

    Suitcase relating to Wolf and Dreisel Bienstock and their children Joseph and Martha (donor's mother) and their flight from Nazi Germany via Holland, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal to the United States, and their successful post-war attempts for financial resitution for their family business in Dortmund, which had been confiscated because they were Jewish.

  19. Pen owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Norbert Wollheim collection

    Pen owned by Norbert Wollheim. Due to the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi dictatorship that ruled Germany beginning in 1933, Norbert, 20, who lived in Berlin, was expelled from law school in 1933 and fired from his job in 1938. That year, he helped arrange for Jewish children to escape Germany on kindertransports. In February 1942, he and his wife Rose and 3 year old son Uriel were deported to Auschwitz where Rose and Uriel were killed. Norbert was sent to Auschwitz III-Monowitz (Buna) as slave labor for I.G. Farben. On January 18, 1945, he underwent a death march from Auschwitz to Gleiwit...

  20. Award issued to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Norbert Wollheim collection

    Award issued to Norbert Wollheim. Due to the anti-Jewish policies of the Nazi dictatorship that ruled Germany beginning in 1933, Norbert, 20, who lived in Berlin, was expelled from law school in 1933 and fired from his job in 1938. That year, he helped arrange for Jewish children to escape Germany on kindertransports. In February 1942, he and his wife Rose and 3 year old son Uriel were deported to Auschwitz where Rose and Uriel were killed. Norbert was sent to Auschwitz III-Monowitz (Buna) as slave labor for I.G. Farben. On January 18, 1945, he underwent a death march from Auschwitz to Glei...