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  1. Medal and a ribbon bar pin awarded to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn951
    • English
    • 1941-1945
    • a: Height: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) | Diameter: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) b: Height: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm) | Width: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm)

    Badge awarded around 1945 by the British Boy Scouts Association to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner, a Jewish refugee in Shanghai. It was awarded by the British Red Cross for his direct (bed-to-bed) blood transfusion to a British woman, saving her life. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else. He also had an older half-brother, Heinz (Henry), who lived with his wife and young child. Following the Kristallnacht program and Heinz’s subsequent arrest in November 1938, the family began looking at emigration options. Seventeen-y...

  2. Red enamel permit tag in leather holder issued to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection

    Metal and leather identification tag issued to Moritz Sondheimer when he lived in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, from 1941-1945. The tag permitted the bearer to leave the ghetto for work and was color coded to denote the term of valid use. The pass would also include an identification photograph. Moritz, his wife, Setty, and their children, 17 year old Hanni and 14 year old Karl fled Kaunas, Lithuania, in February 1941 following the Soviet occupation in 1940. They planned to emigrate to the United States, but visa restrictions made them take a difficult route through Russia to Japan...

  3. Red enamel permit tag in leather holder issued to a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection

    Metal and leather identification tag issued to 17 year old Hanni Sondheimer when she lived in the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai, China, from 1941-1945. The tag permitted the bearer to leave the ghetto for work and was color coded to denote the term of valid use. The pass would also include an identification photograph. Hanni, her parents, Moritz and Setty, and her 14 year old brother, Karl, fled Kaunas, Lithuania, in February 1941 following the Soviet occupation in 1940. They planned to emigrate to the United States, but visa restrictions made them take a difficult route through Russia to Japa...

  4. Pao Chia red striped armband worn by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Hanni Sondheimer Vogelweid family collection

    Armband issued to Moritz Sondheimer by the Japanese occupation authorities of the Hongkew ghetto in Shanghai where he lived from 1941-1945. Moritz was required to serve in Pao Chia, a civil and ghetto defense force composed of foreign and Chinese males, aged 20 to 45. Moritz, his wife, Setty, and their children, 17 year old Hanni and 14 year old Karl fled Kaunas, Lithuania, in February 1941 following the Soviet occupation in 1940. They planned to emigrate to the United States, but visa restrictions made them take a difficult route through Russia to Japan. Classified as stateless refugees wh...

  5. Albert Dov Sigal gouache and gold leaf painting of a seated man gazing at a large golden lion and another man with his finger raised in admonishment

    1. Albert Dov Sigal collection

    Gouache created by Albert Dov Sigal when he lived in Israel from 1948-1958. The stylized, abstract composition in gold and brown has an image of a man seated before a large golden lion with a cloth in its bared teeth. Next to the lion stands a man with his forearm raised, finger pointing upward. In 1939, Sigal was arrested by the fascist, antisemitic Romanian government and assigned to a forced labor battalion that repaired and built roads and railways. He started an underground art school with a group of friends and was active in the Romanian resistance. On December 27, 1947, the family sa...

  6. UNRRA selected records AG-018-009 : Italy Mission

    Correspondence, memos, statistics, publications, circulars, bulletins, financial documents, and reports relating to the Displaced Persons Operations, medical care, education and recreation, vocational trainings, emigration and resettlement.

  7. Direction générale de la Sûreté Publique. Office des Étrangers (et précurseurs en droit). Surveillance des frontières.

    Ce fonds est divisé en séries portant sur le cadre juridique de la surveillance des frontières, des instructions générales, des visas et du contrôle à proprement parler des frontières, des dossiers classés par pays frontalier, par moyen de transport comme la voie terrestre, le chemin de fer, les voies aériennes et maritimes, ainsi que des documents concernant le contrôle effectué en collaboration avec d’autres services comme la gendarmerie et la douane. Les dossiers suivants sont de grand intérêt : n°28 : dossiers présentant les instructions aux gouvernements locaux et centraux concernant l...

  8. extraditions n° 147 à 163 147. note résumée du dossier du Cabinet diplomatique du 24 janvier 1941 : demande d'extradition de certains réfugiés espagnols 148. note remise par la Cour d'Appel de Rabat au sujet des extraditions 149. lettre du procureur général de Rabat au Garde des Sceaux concernant les demandes d'extradition formées par le Gouvernement espagnol, 28 janvier 1942 150. liste des Espagnols réfugiés en zone française du Maroc qui ont été réclamés par le Gouvernement espagnol 151. arrêté résidentiel accordant l'extradition de Cipriano Mera Sanz, 3 février 1942 152. procès-verbal de remise de l'extradé ci-dessus aux autorités espagnoles, 20 février 1942 153. transmission du procès-verbal ci-dessus, 7 mars 1942 154. procès-verbal d'audition à la Cour d'Appel de Rabat d'Antonio Ferrer, José Colomar Juan, Marcos Torrès Colomar, objets de demande d'extradition, 14 mai 1941 155. arrêté résidentiel accordant l'extradition des trois ressortissants ci-dessus, 3 juin 1941 156-158. documents concernant la remise des trois ressortissants ci-dessus aux autorités expagnoles le 25 juin 1941 159. lettre du procureur général au Résident général signalant l'avis défavorable de la Cour d'Appel à l'extradition de José Vivas Lopez présenté à la place de José Vivas Pueyo, 14 janvier 1943 160. arrêt de la Cour d'Appel de Rabat émettant un avis défavorable à l'extradition de Antonio Perez Y Torreblanca, 29 septembre 1943 161. idem, avis défavorable à l'extradition de Alonzo Y Maillol José, 29 septembre 1943 162. idem, avis défavorable à l'extradition de Molina Diego, 29 septembre 1943 163. idem avis défavorable à l'extradition de Vidarte Y Rodriguez Joaquin, 29 septembre 1943

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 8 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 8 : 3w/251-3w/276
    2. général NOGUES résident général de France au Maroc
    3. Général Noguès. Dossier IV. Documents provenant de l'exécution de la commission rogatoire du 31 mai 1945 (voir 3W 260, n° 83)

  9. chemise intitulée "François en transit" (copies) 1 opinion du Maréchal Pétain sur Piétri 2 opinion de Laval sur Piétri 3 lettre de remerciement adressée à Piétri par le médecin capitaine Borch au nom des Français reçus à l'Ambassade le 14 juillet 1943 4 tg de Piétri à Laval concernant le comportement espagnol vis à vis des réfugiés français, 11 juin 1943 5 note verbale au ministère des Affaires extérieures à Madrid : remerciements pour la libération des internés français du camp de Miranda, intervention en faveur de 18 jeunes gens français internés à la prison de Lerida, 28 avril 1943 6 note verbale du ministère des Affaires extérieures espagnol à l'Ambassade de France à Madrid concernant l'ordre de fermeture absolue de la frontière à tous ceux qui ne sont pas en règle, 25 mars 1943 7 note téléphonique : dispositions concernant les Français inter nés de moins de 18 ans et de plus de 45 ans, 6 février (sans date d'année) 8 lettre de Piétri au ministre de la Guerre espagnol, s.d. 9 lettre de Piétri au comte de La Granja, délégué de la Croix Rouge espagnole, 1° février 1943 10 lettre de l'ambassadeur de France en Espagne au consul général de France à Saint Sébastien, 22 janvier 1943 11 visite de l'ambassadeur de France au ministre de l'Intérieur espagnol le 13 janvier 1943 12 tg de Piétri concernant l'aide apportée aux prisonniers de guerre évadés d'Allemagne par l'Union légionnaire d'Espagne, 26 novembre 1942 13 note verbale au ministère des Affaires extérieures à Madrid concernant la situation des ressortissants français entrés clandestinement en Espagne, 12 décembre 1942 14 note de l'ambassadeur de France en Espagne pour les consuls de France de Barcelone, Saint-Sébastien, Saragosse faisant part des déclarations du ministre de l'Intérieur espagnol relatives aux réfugiés français, 23 novembre 1942 15 réponse verbale du ministre de la Gobernacion à M. Piétri, même sujet, 24 novembre 1942

    1. Haute Cour de justice. Volume 10 Haute Cour de justice. Rép. num. détaillé dact., par M.-Th. Chabord, 11 vol., 2420 p. Volume 10 : 3w/310-3w/334
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    3. Pièces après clôture information

  10. Italie : Union des communautés israélites d'Italie (UCII)

    Le Fonds UCII-UCEI comporte une riche collection d'archives émanant de plusieurs œuvres de secours et organisations d'assistance (dont la DELASEM) engagées dans l'aide matérielle aux émigrants et réfugiés juifs. La correspondance entretenue par l'institution centrale des communautés israélites italiennes avec l'establishment du gouvernement fasciste et les institutions de l'Etat italien concerne notamment l'exécution des lois raciales en 1938 et ses effets sur la vie des Juifs italiens. Les archives d'après-guerre reflètent l'envergure des recherches menées dès la Libération pour reconstitu...

  11. Section 14ZA - Etiquette "Kommandantur Saint-Symphorien"

    1. Inventaire de la série ZA : archives des services allemands saisies ou abandonnées à Tours à partir du 21 août 1944

    Documents recueillis à l'école normale de filles de Saint-Symphorien, avant-dernier refuge de la Kommandantur 788 de Tours (on sait que le dernier refuge, avant et après l'évacuation de Tours le 1er septembre 1944, fut celui de Chambray où aucun papier ne fut emporté). Le 6 septembre 1944, je puis voir dans une pièce du 1er étage de l'école normale de filles d'importants rayonnages encore en place ; quelques reliures électriques étaient encore sur rayons : celles que les Allemands jugeaient d'un contenu inoffensif ; d'autres étaient par terre, dépouillées de leur contenu, et ce contenu avai...

  12. Blue and silver HIAS pin worn by a Jewish Latvian youth postwar

    1. Jack Ratz collection

    HIAS badge worn by 19 year old Isaak Racs (later Jack Ratz) during his October 1947 journey from Bremen to the United States. On July 1, 1941, Germany invaded Latvia. That summer, Isaak was forced into the Riga ghetto with his parents, Moses and Tema, and three younger brothers, Rafael, Chona, and Aron. On December 8, his mother and brothers were executed during the liquidation of the ghetto. Isaak and his father were forced laborers in the small ghetto, until they were sent to Lenta labor camp in 1943. Around August 1944, Isaak and Moses were sent to Stutthof concentration camp. In October...

  13. Max Amichai Heppner papers

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    The Max Amichai Heppner papers consist of address books and calendars, correspondence, lessons and notes, personal and travel narratives, photographs, printed materials, scrapbooks titled “Remembrance of the Holocaust,” subject files, and writings documenting the Heppner family from Berlin, their prewar refuge in Amsterdam, their wartime refuge on Harry and Dina Janssen’s farm, their liberation, their immigration to the United States, and their efforts to assist and publicly recognize the Janssen family. Address books and calendars include wartime calendars and address books used by the Hep...

  14. Shanghai Volunteer Corps nightstick issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Wooden truncheon issued to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner, in late 1940, as a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC). Founded in 1854, the SVC was under the command of British officers and reinforced the International Settlement’s municipal police. He became a driver for the transport company. Even though he had no prior driving experience, Ernst passed his test at the end of 1940. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, and Hein...

  15. Blanket issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Blanket issued to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner in Shanghai, China, by the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in August 1945. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht program in November 1938, and Heinz’s subsequent arrest, the family began looking at emigration options. Eighteen-year-old Ernst and his mother secured passage on a ship to Shanghai, China, where they arrived in March 1939. Ernst soon got a job working for a toy store...

  16. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Badge issued to Ernest G. Heppner, in late 1940 or early 1941, as a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC). Founded in 1854, the SVC was under the command of British officers and reinforced the International Settlement’s municipal police. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht program in November 1938, and Heinz’s subsequent arrest, the family began looking at emigration options. Eighteen-year-old Ernst and his mother secured passage on a ship t...

  17. Shanghai Volunteer Corps badge issued to a Jewish refugee in Shanghai

    1. Ernest G. Heppner collection

    Badge issued to Ernst (Ernest) Heppner, in late 1940 or 1941, as a member of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC). Founded in 1854, the SVC was under the command of British officers and reinforced the International Settlement’s municipal police. He became a driver for the transport company. Even though he had no prior driving experience, Ernst passed his test at the end of 1940. Ernst was living in Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), with his parents, Isidor and Hilda, his half-sister, Else, and near his half-brother, Heinz. Following the Kristallnacht program in November 1938, and Heinz’...

  18. Hilbert Margol papers

    The Hilbert and Howard Margol papers consist of Margol family wartime correspondence and German postcards acquired by Howard and Hilbert Margol after VE Day. The Margol family correspondence consists of a letter with envelope sent to Mrs. Sarah Margol from US Army Major General Edwin M. Watson, Secretary to the President, in response to her letter sent on June 8, 1944 with concerns about the assignments of her twin sons. The letter is written on White House stationary and dated June 12, 1944. Also included are photocopies of two letters sent to Mrs. Margol in response to her June 8, 1944 le...

  19. UNRRA red felt patch with acronym worn by a refugee aid worker

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    Patch worn by Michel Shadur when he worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Germany from 1945-1947. He worked as a supply officer for the Wurttemburg district and as director of a displaced persons camp for Jewish refugees in Backnang. Michel left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it difficult and dangerous to live and work there. His wife, their 2 children, 8 year old Joseph and 4 year old Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. However, after the Germans occupied Belgium ...

  20. UNRRA red cloth patch with acronym worn by a refugee aid worker

    1. Michel Shadur family collection

    Patch worn by Michel Shadur when he worked for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Germany from 1945-1947. He worked as a supply officer for the Wurttemburg district and as a director of a displaced persons camp for Jewish refugees in Backnang. Michel left Germany in 1935 because the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policies were making it difficult and dangerous to live and work there. His wife, their 2 children, 8 year old Joseph and 4 year old Benita, and his mother joined him in Antwerp, Belgium, in January 1936. However, after the Germans occupied Belgiu...