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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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...

  4. 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.

  5. 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...

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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.

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. Button from a World War I British military uniform found in the sand 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...

  14. Casting of the helm from the Haganah ship "Medinat Ha’Yehudim"

    Painted, epoxy resin casting of the wheel from the Aliyah Bet (clandestine immigration) ship "Medinat Ha’Yehudim" (“The Jewish State”), commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for installation in the museum’s permanent exhibition. The ship was commissioned by the United States Coast Guard in 1927, as the ice cutter “USCGC Northland (WPG-49)”. Following the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, the Northland was refitted for patrol along the coast of Greenland. In September 1941, the Northland achieved the first American naval capture of the war by seizing the Germa...

  15. Fried and Faktor family papers

    1. Fried and Faktor families collection

    The Fried and Faktor families papers consist of biographical materials and photographs documenting Ann Fried Buchsbaum, originally of Vienna, Austria; her parents, Bernard (Judka) Fried and Laura Dickmann Fried Faktor; and her stepfather, Alois (Lou) Faktor, originally of Prague, and his family. The records are chiefly related to their lives in prewar Vienna, their efforts to leave Austria following German annexation, Ann’s time at a children’s dormitory in Holland (1938-1939), and Laura and Alois’ time in London and Prague. Also included are photographs of Ann’s husband, Walter Buchsbaum, ...

  16. Miniature ivory penknife carried by an Austrian refugee family

    1. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    Miniature penknife given to 13 year old Elisabeth Ornstein by her parents Hilda and Paul after they were reunited in New York in 1940 during the war. Elisabeth and her family were from Vienna where the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 led to severe anti-Semitic persecution. Although they were practicing Catholics and did not identify themselves as Jews, they were Jews under Nazi law. After Kristallnacht in November 9, 1938, Elisabeth's parents decided to send the children out of the country. Elisabeth and Georg, 9 years, were given passage on a Kindertransport to England by the Quak...

  17. Silver locket with an engraved monogram and an infant's photo saved by an Austrian refugee family

    1. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    Locket with her baby photo and her mother's initials given to 13 year old Elisabeth [Liesl] Ornstein by her mother Hilda after they were reunited in New York in 1940 during the war. Elisabeth and her family were from Vienna where the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 led to severe anti-Semitic persecution. Although they were practicing Catholics and did not identify themselves as Jews, they were Jews under Nazi law. After Kristallnacht in November 9, 1938, Elisabeth's parents decided to send the children out of the country. Elisabeth and Georg, 9 years, were given passage on a Kinder...

  18. Miniature mother of pearl compass carried by an Austrian refugee family

    1. Elisabeth Orsten family collection

    Miniature compass given to Elisabeth [Liesl] Ornstein, 13, by her parents Hilda and Paul after they were reunited in New York in 1940 during the war. Elisabeth and her family were from Vienna where the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938 led to severe anti-Jewish persecution. Although they were practicing Catholics and did not identify themselves as Jews, they were Jews under Nazi law. After Kristallnacht in November 9, 1938, Elisabeth's parents decided to send the children out of the country. Elisabeth and Georg, 9, were given passage on a Kindertransport to England by the Quakers in ...

  19. Reunion of Kindertransport documents

    This collection is the second of two deposits made with the library concerning the reunion of the former children of the Kindertransports. It represents the bulk of the material in the possession of Bertha Leverton, founder and primary administrator of the Reunion of the Kindertransport (ROK) organization. The collection concerns her work planning reunions; writing and editing monthly newsletters; acting as a liaison to Kinder and those interested in the Kindertransport; conducting educational lectures on the history of the Kindertransport; and generally promoting its story. Most of these d...

  20. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen, acquired by Kindertransport refugee

    1. Gustav J. Meyer collection

    Scrip, valued at 2 [zwei] kronen, of the type distributed in German occupied Czechoslovakia acquired by Gustav Meyer. Gustav was sent to safety on a Kindertransport from Germany to Great Britain ca. 1938. Inmates in Theresienstadt were not allowed to have currency. The SS ordered the Jewish Council to design scrip for use only in the camp. Notes were printed in 7 denominations: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100. The scrip was issued to create a false appearance of normalcy. There was little to obtain with it. The camp was in operation from November 24, 1941 until early May 1945. Approximately 140,00...