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  1. The Psalms of David German prayer book, carried to Ecuador by a German Jewish refugee family

    1. Ilse and Horst (Harry) Abraham collection

    Die Psalmen Davids book, owned by a member of Ilse Brilling or Horst Abraham’s family, and carried from Germany to Ecuador in the late 1930s. Following Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933, anti-Jewish decrees and persecution made life in Germany increasingly difficult. Horst Abraham immigrated to Ecuador from Leipzig, Germany, in 1937, after hearing a rumor that he might be arrested. His parents, Nanette and David, and one of his two brothers, Kurt, joined him there later. In 1939, Ilse Brilling left Rastenburg, Germany and immigrated to Chambo, Ecuador with ...

  2. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

    1. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    SS cap badge with an eagle and oak wreath owned by Hans Hirschfeld, who left Germany at age twenty in 1939 for the US and later served in the US Army. From 1936 to 1945, this type of cap badge was worn by the SS-Ordnungspolizei, or order police, the regular uniformed police force in Germany, which included municipal and rural police, firemen, and the coast guard. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Hans and his parents, Alfred and Maria, lived in Breslau, Germany, where Alfred was Director of the Chamber of Commerce. Maria was Protestant and Alfred was Jewish and Hans identified hims...

  3. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

    1. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    SS cap badge with an eagle and oak wreath owned by Hans Hirschfeld, who left Germany at age twenty in 1939 for the US and, from 1941-1945, served in the US Army. From 1936 to 1945, this type of cap badge was worn by the SS-Ordnungspolizei, or order police, the regular uniformed police force in Germany, which included municipal and rural police, firemen, and the coast guard. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Hans and his parents, Alfred and Maria, lived in Breslau, Germany, where Alfred was Director of the Chamber of Commerce. Maria was Protestant and Alfred was Jewish and Hans iden...

  4. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

    1. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    SS cap badge with an eagle and oak wreath owned by Hans Hirschfeld, who left Germany at age twenty in 1939 for the US and later served in the US Army. From 1936 to 1945, this type of cap badge was worn by the SS-Ordnungspolizei, or order police, the regular uniformed police force in Germany, which included municipal and rural police, firemen, and the coast guard. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Hans and his parents, Alfred and Maria, lived in Breslau, Germany, where Alfred was Director of the Chamber of Commerce. Maria was Protestant and Alfred was Jewish and Hans identified hims...

  5. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

    1. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    SS cap badge with an eagle and oak wreath owned by Hans Hirschfeld, who left Germany at age twenty in 1939 for the US and later served in the US Army. From 1936 to 1945, this type of cap badge was worn by the SS-Ordnungspolizei, or order police, the regular uniformed police force in Germany, which included municipal and rural police, firemen, and the coast guard. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Hans and his parents, Alfred and Maria, lived in Breslau, Germany, where Alfred was Director of the Chamber of Commerce. Maria was Protestant and Alfred was Jewish and Hans identified hims...

  6. Pressed aluminum cap badge with Nazi insignia acquired by a German Jewish refugee and US soldier

    1. Alfred Hirschfeld family collection

    SS cap badge with an eagle and oak wreath owned by Hans Hirschfeld, who left Germany at age twenty in 1939 for the US and later served in the US Army. From 1936 to 1945, this type of cap badge was worn by the SS-Ordnungspolizei, or order police, the regular uniformed police force in Germany, which included municipal and rural police, firemen, and the coast guard. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Hans and his parents, Alfred and Maria, lived in Breslau, Germany, where Alfred was Director of the Chamber of Commerce. Maria was Protestant and Alfred was Jewish and Hans identified hims...

  7. Chinese travel permit tag issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Leo Arnfeld collection

  8. Factory-printed Star of David badge printed with Jood, belonging to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Factory-printed Star of David badge worn by a member of Max Heppner’s family in Amsterdam, Netherlands, after the occupying Nazi administration mandated them on April 28,1942. Max was living with his German parents, Albert and Irene, in Amsterdam, when Germany occupied the Netherlands in May 1940. The new civil administration run by the SS gradually tightened control on the residents, and required Jews to register their business assets. Albert’s work permit was rescinded in 1940, but he continued dealing illegally on a small scale. In 1942, the authorities raided their home for valuables on...

  14. Dried pressed flower brought to the US by an Austrian Jewish refugee

    Dried pressed flower found in the autograph album, 1994.53.6.1, owned by Irene Rosenthal. 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.

  15. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 100 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  16. Chinese paper currency note, 1000 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 1000 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  17. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 100 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  18. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 100 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  19. Chinese paper currency note, 100 yuan, acquired by a German refugee

    1. Max Schmeidler family collection

    Chinese bank note, 100 yuan, owned by Max Schmeidler, who fled Berlin, Germany, for Shanghai, China.

  20. Nazi Germany, 10 reichspfennig coin brought with a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Dorit Isaacsohn family collection

    German 10 pfennig coin brought with 16 year old Dorit Isaacsohn and her mother Gertrud during their November 1949 emigration from Berlin, Germany, to the United States. By the late 1930’s, Dorit’s parents had lost their livelihood because of the anti-Semitic policies of the Nazi regime. Dorit, age 6, was sent to Brussels on a Kindertransport in 1939. Germany invaded Belgium in May 1940 and Dorit was returned to her parents in Berlin in 1941. On February 27, 1943, Dorit and her family had to separate to go into hiding. Dorit stayed with a family friend, a cousin, and her father Julius in Ber...