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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Hand sewn green skirt and matching jacket saved from Berlin and worn by a Kindertransport refugee

    1. Anni Zajac Leist collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn514630
    • English
    • 1937
    • a: Height: 14.500 inches (36.83 cm) | Width: 29.500 inches (74.93 cm) b: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 23.500 inches (59.69 cm)

    Dark green skirt suit worn by Anna Zajac that was being made by her mother Dora when she died of tuberculosis on January 5, 1938, in Berlin, Germany. Anna retrieved it after her mother's funeral and her sister Lydia finished the hem. She also had it altered to fit her better and wore it on Yom Kippur for the next several years. Anna, her parents Dora and Wolf, and 9 siblings were living in Berlin when, in 1933, the Nazi regime came to power. In 1935, her father, a tailor, was deported to his native Poland by the government in its efforts to cleanse Germany of Jews. In 1936, the children, ex...

  2. Red leather purse used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Red leather shoulder bag given to 6 year old Franziska (Ruth) Danzig by her mother Gerda before she was sent from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parent found a Jewish foster family, the Pastern...

  3. Brown leather luggage tag used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Leather luggage tag used by 6 year old Franziska (Ruth) Danzig when her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parent found a Jewish foster family, the Pastern...

  4. Brown leather luggage tag used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Leather luggage tag used by 6 year old Franziska (Ruth) Danzig when her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parent found a Jewish foster family, the Pastern...

  5. Leather luggage tag used by a young German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Leather luggage tag used by 6 year old Franziska (Ruth) Danzig when her parents, Gerda and Emanuel, sent her from Munich, Germany, to London, England, in June 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. After Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the government actively persecuted the Jewish population. During Kristallnacht, on November 9-10, 1938, the family’s apartment was searched by the Gestapo. In spring 1939, Ruth’s cousin, Bianca, was sent on a Kindertransport to stay with a Jewish foster family in London. Ruth’s parent found a Jewish foster family, the Pastern...

  6. Schischa family papers

    1. Lilli Schischa Tauber family collection

    The papers contain correspondence between Johanna and Wilhelm Schischa in the ghetto in Opole, Poland, and their daughter, Lilly, in England; photographs of the Schischas and the Opole ghetto; documents concerning Lilly's emigration to London, England, from Vienna, Austria, on the Kindertransport in 1939; and correspondence between Lilly and her elder brother, Edi, who immigrated to Palestine in the early 1930s.

  7. Lilly Geringer Drukker memoir

    Consists of one typed memoir, circa 95 pages, written by Lilly Geringer Drukker, originally of Vienna, Austria. In the memoir, she describes the history of her parents' families in Poland, Greece, and Austria, her own childhood in Vienna, the effects of the German annexation of Austria on her family, her emigration to Great Britain in 1939 as part of a Kindertransport, and her emigration to the United States in 1940 at age 13. In addition, she describes her family's life in New York during the 1940s, her brothers' service in the military, and her father's search for work as a musician. She ...

  8. Frank Steiner: Family papers

    This collection comprises the following folders: (1869/1) Correspondence from parents to Willi and Franz, 1938-1939; (1869/2) Correspondence between parents, Willi and Franz and Max Steiner (1874-1942), father's eldest brother, 1938-1942; (1869/3) Correspondence from parents to Franz and Willi, 1938-1943; (1869/4) Correspondence from Julian Halberstam to Willi and Franz, 1939-1951, also biographical material on the family; (1869/5) Correspondence from Julian Halberstam in Saanen, Switzerland, to Willi and Franz, 1951-1956; (1869/6) Correspondence from parents in Budapest to Willi and Franz,...

  9. Koreshige Inuzuka papers

    1. Koreshige Inuzuka collection

    Collection of documents, correspondence, and photographs relating to the experiences of Koreshige Inuzuka who was in charge of the Bureau of Jewish Refugee Affairs in Shanghai.

  10. Certificate of Citizenship document case belonging to a German Jewish refugee couple

    1. Manfred and Anita Lamm Gans family collection

    “Certificate of Citizenship” document case owned by Anita Lamm and Manfred Gans, German-Jewish refugees who became United States citizens in 1945 and 1955. In 1938, to escape Nazi-controlled Germany, Manfred’s father helped Anita and her parents immigrate to the United States, and Manfred immigrated to England. After Great Britain declared war against Germany on September 3, 1939, he was classified as an enemy alien, arrested, and sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man. Manfred later enlisted in the British Army, where he spent two years assigned to a labor unit before being recruite...

  11. Black suitcase with leather trim used by a German Jewish Kindertransport refugee

    1. Bertl Rosenfeld Esenstad collection

    Suitcase used by 14 year old Bertl Rosenfelt when she and two younger sisters, Edith, 13, and Ruth, 9, left Nazi Germany in March 1939 on a Kindertransport to Great Britain. After Hitler assumed power in Germany in 1933, Jews were subjected to increasingly punitive restrictions. Bertl's extended family tried to get visas for the US, but were unsuccessful because of the strict US quotas. Bertl, Edith, and Ruth were sent to Aachen to live with Friederika in 1937 to attend the Jewish school. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, they passed the burning synagogue and were told...

  12. Gold engraved pocket watch owned by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Pocket watch that belonged to Heinrich Schawbacher. As part of his preparation to leave Frankfurt, Germany, following the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, the watch and his and his wife's weddings rings were sent to Christian friends in Amsterdam for safekeeping. Jewish refugees were not allowed to take valuable property or currency with them when they left the country. The watch was later sent by registered mail to England after the emigration of the Schawbacher's and their daughter, Nelly Rossmann, and her son, Michael, in 1939.

  13. Engraved gold wedding band that belonged to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Wedding band that belonged to Heinrich and Anna Schwabacher. As part of their preparation to leave Germany following the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, the ring was sent to friends in Amsterdam for safekeeping. Jewish refugees were not allowed to take valuable property with them when they left the country. This ring and its companion ring, 2005.546.5, were sent later by registered mail to England after the emigration of the Schwabacher's and their daughter, Nelly Rossmann and her son, Michael, to that country.

  14. Engraved gold wedding band that belonged to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Wedding band that belonged to Heinrich and Anna Schwabacher. As part of their preparation to leave Germany following the rise of the Nazi dictatorship in 1933, the ring was sent to friends in Amsterdam for safekeeping. Jewish refugees were not allowed to take valuable property with them when they left the country. This ring and its companion ring, 2005.546.5, were sent later by registered mail to England after the emigration of the Schwabacher's and their daughter, Nelly Rossmann and her son, Michael, to that country.

  15. Intelligence Corps cap badge worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Intelligence Corps cap badge worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with his parents, Sebald and Laura, younger sister, Suse, and grandmother, Clara Jüngster, was ransacked by local men with axes. In late August 1939, Norbert, managed to leave Germany for London, with a Kindertransport [Children's Transport] two days prior to the start of World War II. Norbert was able to exchange letters with his family ...

  16. Circular identification tag worn by a British soldier and Kindertransport refugee

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    Circular, compressed asbestos fiber dog tag worn by Norman Miller (previously Norbert Müller), a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the British Army from 1944 to 1947. Each soldier was issued 2 tags, hexagonal green and circular red, stamped with identical identifying information, including religion. The green tag was worn on a long neck cord with the red one attached to it on a short cord that could easily be removed without disturbing the other tag when a death had to be reported. On November 9, 1938, during Kristallnacht in Nuremberg, Germany, the apartment Norbert shared with ...

  17. World War I German medal awarded for Tapferkeit [Bravery]

    1. Ludwig Friedrich Sussman collection

    Medal awarded to Ludwig Sussmann for bravery during his service in the German Army during World War I. The Sussman family, Ludwig, his wife, Selma, and daughter, Lore, 10, emigrated from Germany to the United States, to escape the escalating anti-Semitism. During their first attempt to leave, the boat was forced to return because of preparations for the Munich Conference. This Conference, held on September 29-30, 1938, led to the agreement by representatives from Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy to the German annexation of the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia, in exchange fo...

  18. Nazis advance to the Balkans and Russia; France falls; Atlantic charter agreement

    A Castle Films showcase of news events for the year 1941 with English titles: "War-Five Years! China fights on as tension in Pacific grows!" "Siege of Tobruk! British guns repel year-long Axis attack!" 01:01:04 "Balkan crisis! Nazis overwhelm heroic Greeks!" Ruins, shocked civilians, wounded. Crowds of troops. 01:01:25 "Germans halted! Capture of Iraq stops Hitler's march toward Suez!" Air warfare, bombing, automobiles. "British and Free French capture nearby Syria from Vichy forces!" Scenes of occupied Syria, fighting. Injured military officer exits military vehicle. "France's tragic fate!...

  19. Erica S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Erica S., who was born in Leipzig, Germany in 1909, one of two children. She recounts attending boarding school in Frankfurt am Main; meeting her future husband in Wiesbaden; marriage in 1932 after he completed dental school; the births of two children; laws prohibiting her husband from practicing; his trip to London to arrange for their emigration; sending their children to stay with her parents in September 1938; Kristallnacht; her father's arrest; her husband's deportation to Buchenwald when she went to get the children; obtaining his release (her uncle died there)...

  20. Eva and Frank S. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Eva and her husband Frank S., both of whom are from Germany. Mrs. S. describes her childhood in a well-to-do assimilated Jewish family in Berlin; her vivid recollection of the day that Hitler came to power; the changes that took place in Nazi Germany, particularly as they affected her in school; Kristallnacht; her emigration to England, as part of a children's transport; and her life in England. Mr. S. speaks of his childhood and youth in Breslau; experiences with antisemitism in school, beginning shortly before Hitler came to power; and the patriotism of German Jews ...