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  1. Anne Ranasinghe papers

    1. Anne Ranasinghe collection

    The collection consists of biographical material, correspondence, writings, and photographs documenting the Holocaust-era experiences of Anne Ranasinghe (born Anneliese Katz), originally of Essen, Germany, including her immigration to England as a refugee in January 1939, and her post-war career as a poet and writer in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The papers include research regarding the fates of her parents Anna and Emil Katz, letters to Anne from her parents in Essen from 1939-1940, Anne’s wartime diary, post-war correspondence, poems, essays, and related writings, and family photographs. Biograp...

  2. Numbered ID sign issued to a Jewish Austrian boy for the Kindertransport

    1. Henry Schmelzer collection

    Identification tag issued to 14 year-old Henry (Heinrich) Schmelzer in December 1938, for his emigration from Vienna, Austria, to England aboard a kindertransport. He was among 150 children who were taken to an estate in Scotland, which was leased to the Whittingehame Farm School, a combination boarding school and Zionist training center for eventual immigration to Palestine. In 1940, after two years at Whittingehame, Henry was interned for three months as an enemy alien. After his release, Henry worked various jobs and moved around Britain multiple times. In August 1943, when enemy aliens ...

  3. Blue felt hat worn by a German Jewish girl on the Kindertransport

    Blue felt hat worn by 11 year old Lilly Cohn when her parents, Margarete and Ernst, sent her from Halberstadt, Germany, to Rochdale, England, in July 1939, on the Kindertransport [Children’s Transport]. Lilly wears the hat in photographs in the collection taken with her parents and older brother Werner at the train station. During the Kristallnacht pogrom on November 9-10, 1938, Lilly’s father Ernst was arrested and send to Buchenwald concentration camp. He was released after 5 weeks and the family began preparing to leave. Lilly and Werner were registered for the Kindertransport. In July, ...

  4. Set of four manicure tools in a red case brought by a German Jewish girl on a Kindertransport

    1. John and Gisela Marx Eden collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn90827
    • English
    • a: Height: 3.500 inches (8.89 cm) | Width: 5.750 inches (14.605 cm) | Depth: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) b: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) c: Height: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Width: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) d: Height: 5.000 inches (12.7 cm) | Width: 0.500 inches (1.27 cm) | Depth: 0.250 inches (0.635 cm) e: Height: 3.625 inches (9.208 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm)

    Cuticle cutters and pusher, a nail file, and manicure scissors in a fitted red leather case brought by 14 year old Gisela Marx on a Kindertransport from Dulken, Germany, to Great Britain in August 1939. Her parents Erna and Leopold purchased the manicure set for her to take on her journey. The Nazi regime, in power since 1933, persecuted the Jewish population. Leopold, a former diplomat and WWI veteran, and Erna, a member of a wealthy, landowning family, thought their status would protect them, but in 1939, they decided to send Gisela to safety. The friend paid to care for her never showed ...

  5. Passover Prayer Book, German translation Book

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection

    1832 German translation of a Passover prayer book recorded in Hebrew owned by Norbert Müller (later Norman Miller), a 15 year old German Jewish refugee who came to London, England in September 1939. The front cover is inscribed by Norbert’s maternal great grandmother, Sara Jacobs. 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 [C...

  6. My Struggle Wedding edition of Mein Kampf with slipcase confiscated by a British soldier and German Jewish emigre

    1. Norman A. Miller family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn555443
    • English
    • 1939
    • a: Height: 7.500 inches (19.05 cm) | Width: 5.125 inches (13.018 cm) | Depth: 1.375 inches (3.493 cm) b: Height: 7.750 inches (19.685 cm) | Width: 5.375 inches (13.653 cm) | Depth: 1.500 inches (3.81 cm)

    Wedding presentation edition of Hitler's Mein Kampf with slipcase acquired 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 ...

  7. Unused Star of David badge with Juif acquired by a Jewish chaplain, US Army

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Cloth rectangle with a Star of David badge imprinted Juif given to Rabbi Judah Nadich in Paris after liberation. Seeking out surviving members of the Jewish community, Nadich drove his jeep with his Jewish chaplain's insignia into the prewar Jewish neighborhood and soon a crowd gathered. Most had survived the war in hiding and Nadich was their first contact with the outside Jewish world. They gave him a batch of the yellow star badges that Jews in France had been forced to wear as a mark of humiliation from March 27, 1942. See 1988.39.1-3, 1990.54.2-4, and 1994.a.0250.2 for 7 other badges h...

  8. Unused Star of David badge with Juif acquired by a Jewish chaplain, US Army

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Cloth rectangle with a Star of David badge imprinted Juif given to Rabbi Judah Nadich in Paris after liberation. Seeking out surviving members of the Jewish community, Nadich drove his jeep with his Jewish chaplain's insignia into the prewar Jewish neighborhood and soon a crowd gathered. Most had survived the war in hiding and Nadich was their first contact with the outside Jewish world. They gave him a batch of the yellow star badges that Jews in France had been forced to wear as a mark of humiliation from March 27, 1942. See 1988.39.1& 3, 1990.54.1-3, and 1994.a.0250.2 for 7 other bad...

  9. Unused Star of David badge with Juif acquired by a Jewish chaplain, US Army

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Cloth rectangle with a Star of David badge imprinted Juif given to Rabbi Judah Nadich in Paris after liberation. Seeking out surviving members of the Jewish community, Nadich drove his jeep with his Jewish chaplain's insignia into the prewar Jewish neighborhood and soon a crowd gathered. Most had survived the war in hiding and Nadich was their first contact with the outside Jewish world. They gave him a batch of the yellow star badges that Jews in France had been forced to wear as a mark of humiliation from March 27, 1942. See 1988.39.1& 3, 1990.54.1-3, and 1994.a.0250.2 for 7 other bad...

  10. Unused Star of David badge with Juif acquired by a Jewish chaplain, US Army

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Cloth rectangle with a Star of David badge imprinted Juif given to Rabbi Judah Nadich in Paris after liberation. Seeking out surviving members of the Jewish community, Nadich drove his jeep with his Jewish chaplain's insignia into the prewar Jewish neighborhood and soon a crowd gathered. Most had survived the war in hiding and Nadich was their first contact with the outside Jewish world. They gave him a batch of the yellow star badges that Jews in France had been forced to wear as a mark of humiliation from March 27, 1942. See 1988.39.1-3 and 1990.54.1-4 for 7 other badges he received. Nadi...

  11. Child Care Division

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Box D71. Folder 1. Rescue, 1942-1944 May Box D71. Folder 2. Rescue, 1944 June-1946 February Box D71. Folder 3. Gutman, William, report on destitute children, 1945 May Box D71. Folder 4. Rescue of children in France, reports by Riegner, Gerhart M., and list of children, 1945 Box D71. Folder 5. Jewish children in Christian homes, Poland, Besserman case, 1945-1950 Box D71. Folder 6. Jewish children in non-Jewish homes, 1945-1953 Box D71. Folder 7. Correspondence, 1945-1946 Box D71. Folder 8. Minutes, agendas, correspondence, reports, lists, 1945-1948 Box D71. Folder 9. Correspondence and minut...

  12. Unused Star of David badge with Juif acquired by a Jewish chaplain, US Army

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Cloth rectangle with a Star of David badge imprinted Juif given to Rabbi Judah Nadich in Paris after liberation. Seeking out surviving members of the Jewish community, Nadich drove his jeep with his Jewish chaplain's insignia into the prewar Jewish neighborhood and soon a crowd gathered. Most had survived the war in hiding and Nadich was their first contact with the outside Jewish world. They gave him a batch of the yellow star badges that Jews in France had been forced to wear as a mark of humiliation from March 27, 1942. See 1988.39.1& 2, 1990.54.1-4, and 1994.a.0250.2 for 7 other bad...

  13. Unused Star of David badge with Juif acquired by a Jewish chaplain, US Army

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Cloth rectangle with a Star of David badge imprinted Juif given to Rabbi Judah Nadich in Paris after liberation. Seeking out surviving members of the Jewish community, Nadich drove his jeep with his Jewish chaplain's insignia into the prewar Jewish neighborhood and soon a crowd gathered. Most had survived the war in hiding and Nadich was their first contact with the outside Jewish world. They gave him a batch of the yellow star badges that Jews in France had been forced to wear as a mark of humiliation from March 27, 1942. See 1988.39.1& 3, 1990.54.1-4, and 1994.a.0250.2 for 7 other bad...

  14. Unused Star of David badge with Juif acquired by a Jewish chaplain, US Army

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Cloth rectangle with a Star of David badge imprinted Juif given to Rabbi Judah Nadich in Paris after liberation. Seeking out surviving members of the Jewish community, Nadich drove his jeep with his Jewish chaplain's insignia into the prewar Jewish neighborhood and soon a crowd gathered. Most had survived the war in hiding and Nadich was their first contact with the outside Jewish world. They gave him a batch of the yellow star badges that Jews in France had been forced to wear as a mark of humiliation from March 27, 1942. See 1988.39.2-3, 1990.54.1-4, and 1994.a.0250.2 for 7 other badges h...

  15. Table knife with a swastika given to a Polish Jewish girl during forced labor farm service

    1. Rose Galek Brunswic collection

    Dinner knife with an engraved swastika given to 25 year old Raszka Galek by Karl Beck, an SS officer, on whose farm she worked as a non-Jewish Polish forced labor from June 1943-April 1945 in Krummhardt, Germany. In November 1940, Raszka, her parents, Moshe and Fela, and her sisters Deana and Sala were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In April 1943, Raszka’s parents were shot and her sisters were deported to a concentration camp. Raszka later escaped and went into hiding. She received false identity papers for a Polish Catholic named Maria Kowalczyk from the Polish underground. Jan Majewski, ...

  16. Eichengrün and Stern families papers

    1. Hedwig E. Stern family collection

    Biographical material, immigration paperwork, correspondence, writings, and photographs documenting the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of Fritz and Hedi Stern, including their lives in Munich, Germany, their previous marriages, Fritz’s medical career in Munich, their immigration to the United States in 1936, attempts to help Hedi’s father Sally Eichengrün and his second wife Alice immigrate to the United States from Switzerland, and their son Walter’s death while serving with the United States Army. The papers also include material regarding Fritz and Hedi’s children from previo...

  17. Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yagur

    Documentation collected in the context of the "Research project regarding the contribution of Holocaust survivors to the State of Israel", from Kibbutz Yagur Documents (photocopy): I. Regarding the Teheran Children: 17/11/1942 - Yagur Diary, meeting of the secretariat and the administration of the school regarding accepting the Teheran Children; 15/12//1942 - Diary entry 1376 - Draft of Ada to organize the absorption of the refugee children arriving from Iran; 29/12/1942 - Diary entry 1382 - General meeting in which it was decided to draft Ada; 11/01/1943 - Diary entry 1390 - Meeting regard...

  18. Tefillin pair kept through the war by a Jewish Polish man

    1. Michael M. Garber collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn514535
    • English
    • a: Height: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Width: 1.875 inches (4.763 cm) | Depth: 3.125 inches (7.938 cm) b: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 2.375 inches (6.033 cm) | Depth: 2.875 inches (7.303 cm)

    Tefillin set taken by Michael [Mojsej] Garber, 21, when he fled Warsaw, Poland, for Soviet territory soon after the September 1939 German invasion. Tefillin are small boxes containing prayers attached to leather straps and worn on the arm and the head by Jewish males during morning prayers. Michael received these tefillin from his parents when he was a 12 year old boy preparing for bar mitzvah. He kept them in a small pouch and took them with him, along with his prayer book, when he escaped. The Soviet authorities sent him to a labor camp but when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in June 19...

  19. Forced labor badge, yellow with a purple P, worn by a Polish Jewish woman in hiding as a Catholic

    1. Rose Galek Brunswic collection

    Forced labor badge with a purple P on a yellow field, worn by 23 year old Raszka Galek to mark her as a Polish forced laborer on a farm in Krummhardt, Germany, from June 1943 to April 1945. At this time, Raszka, who was Jewish, was hiding under the assumed identity of a Polish Catholic named Maria Kowalczyk. She was required to wear the badge at all times. She was caught twice without it and was severely beaten by a police officer and taken to court and fined. In November 1940, about a year after the German occupation of Poland, Rose, her parents Moshe and Fela, and sister Deana and Sala we...

  20. Monogrammed leather binder made for Director, ORT vocational schools, DP camps

    1. Louis J. Walinsky collection

    Brown leather secretary's notebook presented to Louis J. Walinsky, Director of ORT vocational training schools in Europe in 1947. It contains blotting paper and was made in an ORT Esslingen displaced persons camp class in Germany, and stamped with the camp name and his initials. After the war, ORT opened vocational training schools in displaced persons camps, the first in Landsberg am Lech in August 1945. The schools trained Holocaust survivors in practical skills such as metalworking, carpentry, dress making, and mechanics, so they could establish new lives after they immigrated. Louis, a ...