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  1. John (Hans) Buchsbaum papers

    Correspondence, documents, photographs, and typescript memoir, of John (Hans) Buchsbaum (1910-1988), originally of Ostrava, Czech Republic, relating primarily to his experiences following his immigration to first Britain, and then the United States in 1939-1941, and to the experiences of his family in Europe during the Holocaust. Includes correspondence from his mother, Clara Buchsbaum, his sister and brother-in-law, Gretel and Hugo Spitzer, and his uncle, Norbert Babad, 1939-1941. Also included are pre-war family photographs, correspondence with tracing services following the war seeking t...

  2. 1939-1945 Star Medal and ribbon awarded to an Austrian Jewish woman for service in the British Auxiliary Territorial Division

    1. Dorit B. Whiteman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41455
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b: Height: 6.875 inches (17.463 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    1939-1945 Star Medal and ribbon awarded to Lilly Feldmann by the British government for her military service in Palestine. In late 1938, 18 year-old Lilly felt forced to leave Vienna, Austria, because of anti-semitism and Nazi fervor. In her diary, she wrote: "It is a curse that I shall miss this home in spite of the fact that it hates and rejects me…I shall cry for you, you stupid, pitiful country.” She escaped to England where she joined the British Army and served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service Division.

  3. Auxiliary Territorial Service cap badge worn by an Austrian Jewish woman in the British Auxiliary

    1. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    Auxiliary Territorial Service cap badge worn by Lilly Feldmann during her service in the British Military in Palestine during World War II. In late 1938, 18 year-old Lilly felt forced to leave Vienna, Austria, because of anti-semitism and Nazi fervor. In her diary, she wrote: “It is a curse that I shall miss this home in spite of the fact that it hates and rejects me…I shall cry for you, you stupid, pitiful country.” She escaped to England where she joined the British Army and served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service Division.

  4. War Medal 1939-1945 and ribbon awarded to an Austrian Jewish woman, British Auxiliary Territorial Division

    1. Dorit B. Whiteman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41452
    • English
    • 1939-1945
    • a: Height: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Width: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 5.875 inches (14.923 cm) | Width: 1.250 inches (3.175 cm)

    War Medal 1939-1945 awarded to Lilly Feldmann by the British government for her military service during World War II in Africa and Palestine. In late 1938, 18 year-old Lilly felt forced to leave Vienna, Austria, because of anti-semitism and Nazi fervor. In her diary, she wrote: “It is a curse that I shall miss this home in spite of the fact that it hates and rejects me…I shall cry for you, you stupid, pitiful country.” She escaped to England where she joined the British Army and served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service Division.

  5. Africa Star Medal and ribbon awarded to an Austrian Jewish woman for service in the British Auxiliary Territorial Division

    1. Dorit B. Whiteman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41454
    • English
    • 1940-1943
    • a: Height: 2.375 inches (6.032 cm) | Width: 2.000 inches (5.08 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) b: Height: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm)

    Africa Star Medal and ribbon awarded to Lilly Feldmann by the British government for military service in North Africa, Abyssinia, Somaliland, Eritrea, Sudan, and Malta between June 10, 1940 and May 12, 1943. In late 1938, 18 year-old Lilly felt forced to leave Vienna, Austria, because of anti-semitism and Nazi fervor. In her diary, she wrote: “It is a curse that I shall miss this home in spite of the fact that it hates and rejects me…I shall cry for you, you stupid, pitiful country.” She escaped to England where she joined the British Army and served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service Div...

  6. Service recognition card for British commemorative medals and ribbons issued to an Austrian Jewish woman in the British Auxiliary

    1. Dorit B. Whiteman collection

    Entitlement card for medals awarded to Lilly Feldmann by the British government for her military service during World War II in Africa and Palestine. In late 1938, 18 year-old Lilly felt forced to leave Vienna, Austria, because of anti-semitism and Nazi fervor. In her diary, her heartbreak is clear: “It is a curse that I shall miss this home in spite of the fact that it hates and rejects me…I shall cry for you, you stupid, pitiful country.” She escaped to England where she joined the British Army and served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service Division.

  7. Black and gray checked blanket given to Kindertransport refugee

    Wool checked travel blanket given to 13 year old Mimi Alice Schleissner by her mother Berta to keep her warm when she left on the Kindertransport in May 1939. Mimi's parents Berta and Julius and her brother Edi, 18, stayed behind in Kolin, Czechoslovakia. Until October 1938, the family resided in the spa town Marienbad [now Marianske Lazne], in the Sudetenland region. It was annexed by Nazi Germany in October 1938 and most of the Jewish population fled. In November, the Marienbader Zeitung ran the headline "Marienbad is Jew-free." After arriving in Great Britain, Mimi joined Hachshara, a Zi...

  8. Engraving of Audley End in Essex, England acquired by to a German Jewish Refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518021
    • English
    • overall: Height: 6.000 inches (15.24 cm) | Width: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) pictorial area: Height: 4.750 inches (12.065 cm) | Width: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm)

    Engraving of a pastoral scene in Audley End in Essex, England, published in the book series The Beauties of England and Wales. Essex, England was the location of the Quaker boarding school Michael Rossmann attended. After Hitler became German Chancellor in 1933, increasingly severe sanctions were enacted against Jews. Michael was subjected to daily discrimination and beatings at school and was classified as a Mischling due to his mother’s Jewish heritage. In December 1938, Michael was sent to a Quaker school in the Netherlands, but returned to Germany in summer 1939. When the war broke out,...

  9. Nelly Rossmann family papers

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    The collection primarily documents Nelly Rossmann’s career as a graphic artist in Frankfurt, Germany. Included are clippings of her artwork that appeared in the Frankfurter Zeitung until she was fired in 1935 for being Jewish; other samples of her artwork including a homemade book of clippings of maps and Friends Worldwide Service pamphlets; family history documents; her diary from 1916-1917; notebooks of hers and her brother Wilhelm (Willy) Schwabacher; family photographs; a post-war photograph album of family life in England; and her son Michael Rossmann’s German passport from 1935. The c...

  10. John and Dorothy Fried Goldmeier papers

    1. John and Dorothy Goldmeier collection

    This collection relates to Hans (John) Goldmeier, who was sent from Germany to England at age 10. Though his older brother emigrated with him, and parents later followed, John was separated from them (due to work, school, and the death of his father) for the majority of the war. He formed strong bonds with those caring for him and his schoolmates at the Stoatley Rough boarding school, many of whom were also Jewish refugees. The collection highlights include John’s schoolwork at Stoatley Rough, where he reflected on the war and his own refugee status, and many reminiscences of other “Roughia...

  11. Silver floral embossed candlestick acquired by a former Kindertransport refugee

    1. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection

    Silver embossed candlestick, one of a pair, with 2013.476.4, owned by John Peter Eden (formerly Hans Eibuschitz), who escaped Czechoslovakia on a Kindertransport in 1939. The candlesticks were possibly brought to the United States before the war by John’s grandmother. After Germany invaded and annexed Czechoslovakia in March 1939, 12 year old Hans, and 9 year old brother Steven were sent to Great Britain on a Kindertransport. Hans was placed in private boarding schools. After graduation, he attended the London School of Economics to study actuarial science. In 1944 or 1945, he began trainin...

  12. Silver floral embossed candlestick acquired by a former Kindertransport refugee

    1. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection

    Silver embossed candlestick, one of a pair, with 2013.476.3, owned by John Peter Eden (formerly Hans Eibuschitz), who escaped Czechoslovakia on a Kindertransport in 1939. The candlesticks were possibly brought to the United States before the war by John’s grandmother and given to him later. After Germany invaded and annexed Czechoslovakia in March 1939, 12 year old Hans, and 9 year old brother Steven were sent to Great Britain on a Kindertransport. Hans was placed in private boarding schools. After graduation, he attended the London School of Economics to study actuarial science. In 1944 or...

  13. Royal Air Force sweetheart's wings pin acquired by a Czech Jewish Kindertransport refugee

    1. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection

    Sterling silver Royal Air Force sweetheart's wings pin acquired by 17 year old Hans Eibuschitz, a Jewish Czech refugee, while he was in training with the British Royal Air Force from about 1944 to 1945. A sweetheart pin was given to loved ones by soldiers, and were not issued by the RAF. After Germany invaded and annexed Czechoslovakia in March 1939, 12 year old Hans, and his 9 year old brother Steven were sent to Great Britain on a Kindertransport. Hans was placed in private boarding schools. After graduation, he attended the London School of Economics to study actuarial science. In 1944 o...

  14. Fritz and Adelaide Kauffmann papers

    1. Adelaide and Fritz Kauffmann collection

    The Fritz and Adelaide Kauffmann papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, printed materials, and restitution files documenting the Kauffmann’s, particularly their time in Shanghai between 1931 and 1949. Biographical materials include address books, financial records, diaries, citizenship records, identification papers, medical records, student records, personal narratives, travel documents, estate documents, and business records for the Kauffmann’s company Merchants & Traders. Correspondence includes letters between Fritz and Adelaide and with their familie...

  15. Pair of modern color proofs of advertisements for the film “Sword in the Desert” (1949)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn692999
    • English
    • .1: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm) .2: Height: 12.000 inches (30.48 cm) | Width: 10.000 inches (25.4 cm)

    Pair of modern printing color proofs for the film, “Sword in the Desert,” released in the United States in August 1949. Color proofs display exactly how the colors will look before the final print job is produced. The film follows an American cargo ship captain who finds himself stranded in a Jewish settlement after smuggling a group of illegal Jewish immigrants to British-controlled Palestine. Initially self-interested and unsympathetic to the refugees, the captain has a change in heart after he is captured, imprisoned, and later escapes with them. “Sword in the Desert” was the first film ...

  16. Insert poster for the film “Sword in the Desert” (1949)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    U.S. insert poster for the film, “Sword in the Desert,” released in the United States in August 1949. Insert posters were a popular size of film posters, often framed and used in special, small displays within a theater lobby. The film follows an American cargo ship captain who finds himself stranded in a Jewish settlement after smuggling a group of illegal Jewish immigrants to British-controlled Palestine. Initially self-interested and unsympathetic to the refugees, the captain has a change in heart after he is captured, imprisoned, and later escapes with them. “Sword in the Desert” was th...

  17. Poster for the film “Sword in the Desert” (1949)

    1. Cinema Judaica collection

    U.S. one sheet poster for the film, “Sword in the Desert,” released in the United States in August 1949. The film follows an American cargo ship captain who finds himself stranded in a Jewish settlement after smuggling a group of illegal Jewish immigrants to British-controlled Palestine. Initially self-interested and unsympathetic to the refugees, the captain has a change in heart after he is captured, imprisoned, and later escapes with them. “Sword in the Desert” was the first film made in Hollywood that depicted the Jewish struggle to establish the state of Israel in May 1948. Britain was...

  18. John Henry Weidner papers

    Correspondence, speeches and writings, government documents, printed matter, audiovisual material and memorabilia, relating to an escape route through the Netherlands and France from Nazi-occupied Europe, for political refugees, Jews, and Allied servicemen, which was under the leadership of John Henry (Johan Hendrik) Weidner (1912-1994). The collection consists of microfilm copies of the originals, which are owned by the Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University.

  19. Button from his military uniform given by a British soldier to a young Jewish refugee

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    Button with the Royal Coat of Arms which a British soldier pulled off his greatcoat and gave to 12 year old old Joseph Schadur on May 16, 1940, in Le Parcq, France. Joseph and his family had just fled Belgium following the Germany invasion.They stopped to consider their route in Le Parcq where they met a large number of British troops. When Joseph's father told one soldier that he was thinking of going toward Dunkirk on the coast, the soldier advised him to go south. He gave him gasoline saying that he did not need it since they were heading across the Channel. Joseph's father, Michel, left...

  20. Button from a World War I British military uniform found by a young Jewish refugee in Belgium

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    Button with the Royal Coat of Arms found by 10 year old old Joseph Schadur in the sand dunes near Oostduinkerke, Belgium, where he and his sister spent summer vacations. The button is from the uniform of a British soldier from the First World War. Joseph's father, Michel, left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it dangerous to live there. His wife, Manja, their 2 children, Joseph and his 4 year old sister, Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. After the Germans occupied Belgium in May 1940, the family was forced t...