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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. Box owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Norbert Wollheim collection

    Box 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...

  4. Box owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Norbert Wollheim collection

    Box 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...

  5. Box owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Norbert Wollheim collection

    Box 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...

  6. Refugee soldier of World War II

    Testimony: Photocopy of typescript, 76 pages plus copy, titled "Refugee Soldier of World War II," describing experiences of Jack Hochwald, who fled from Austria as a 14 year old with his family in 1938, was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942, and assigned to an "Austrian Battalion."

  7. War Refugee Board report on Auschwitz

    Consists of the November 1944 published report of the War Refugee Board which contains the testimony of two Slovak Jews and a non-Jewish Polish soldier. The report involves eyewitness testimony of conditions in Auschwitz and other concentration camps during their years of operation. Among the topics discussed are methods of killing, succession of identification numbers, and transports from various ghettos and Nazi camps.

  8. Papers of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund

    Case files and related papers, c.1940-7.

  9. Portrait of a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hockenheimer, Loewenthal, Fraenkel, and Brock families collection

    Watercolor and pencil portrait of Rudi Hockenheimer (later Ralph Hockley) painted by G.W. Mooy, another refugee in 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. Rudi, his parents, Julius and Lilli, and his sister Marianne escaped from Nazi Germany to Marseille, France. Julius was held in Les Milles and Gurs internment camps of Les Milles and Gurs. But in 1940, the family left for the United States on the ship Winnipeg, sailing by way of Trinidad.

  10. Leather pouch brought with Jewish refugee family

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    Small leather bag brought with the Bieder family, Isador and Fanny, and their daughters Gertrude, 10, and Frieda, 14, who were forced to leave Vienna, Austria, in 1939. After the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, anti-Jewish laws were passed and Jews were targeted for persecution. Germans raided the family’s apartment, taking most of their valuables. A short while later, Isidor’s retail business was confiscated. During Kristallnacht on November 9-10, 1938, Isidor was arrested and beaten. As a condition of his release from prison, he agreed to leave Austria with his family...

  11. 18. "Inter - Governmental Committee on Refugee"

    1. Lelio Vittorio Valobra
    2. Delasem Svizzera. Corrispondenza con i collaboratori e con enti di soccorso internazionale

    Minute su velina della corrispondenza di Lelio Vittorio Valobra da Zurigo con sir Clifford Heastcote-Smith, dell' Inter - Governmental Committee on Refugee presso il Foreing Office di Londra. Si segnala: Relazione sui trasferimenti bancari tra l'Inghilterra e paesi appartenenti al blocco della sterlina e la Svizzera (13 ottobre 1944); Lettera di Valobra a Heastcote-Smith relativa a proposte di intervento a favore degli ebrei in Italia, attraverso la Nunziatura ed il Vaticano (31 ottobre 1944); Lista dattiloscritta di persone di cui si cercano notizie (31 ottobre 1944); "Short relation about...

  12. Pencil brought with an Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Marcelle Faust collection

    Pencil from the Gerson family's company in Vienna.

  13. International Refugee Organization Internationale Vluchtelingen Organisatie

    Records of the Dutch Delegation of the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees relating to various aspects of migration and relief work for the period 1947-1957. It concerns documents on the status of Jewish, Hungarian, Polish and other refugees and displaced persons; the reception of refugees in the Netherlands; assistance; restoration of rights and legal status; emigration facilities in South America, Canada and New Zealand; the arrangements regarding refugees in the various German occupation zones; guidelines for the compensation of Nazi followers; correspondence and reports from charita...

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. Trunk used by a German Jewish refugee

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

  19. 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.

  20. 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.