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  1. We are Coming Child’s pencil sketch of 2 boys in beds listening to the radio by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Fred Vendig family collection

    Sketch of two boys, possibly Fritz and his brother Heiner, listening to radio reports by Fritz Vendig, 12, when he was living as a refugee from Nazi Germany in Maur, Switzerland, with his parents, Ernst and Charlotte, and younger brother Heiner. In the mid-1930s, Ernst's business was taken from him when it was Aryanized, or cleansed of Jews. In November 1938, Ernst was arrested during Kristallnacht. After his release, they prepared to leave. On May 13, 1939, the family, along with Ernst's mother Pauline, sailed for Cuba on the MS St. Louis. Cuban authorities refused entry to nearly all pass...

  2. Child’s drawing of train tracks approaching a tunnel by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Fred Vendig family collection

    Colored pencil drawing of a train going into a tunnel by Fritz Vendig, 12, when he was living as a refugee from Nazi Germany in Maur, Switzerland, with his parents, Ernst and Charlotte, and younger brother Heiner. In the mid-1930s, Ernst's business was taken from him when it was Aryanized, or cleansed of Jews. In November 1938, Ernst was arrested during Kristallnacht. After his release, they prepared to leave. On May 13, 1939, the family, along with Ernst's mother Pauline, sailed for Cuba on the MS St. Louis. Cuban authorities refused entry to nearly all passengers. Appeals were made to the...

  3. Child's drawing of a large ocean liner by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Fred Vendig family collection

    Drawing of a ship entering port done by Fritz Vendig, 12, while living as a refugee from Nazi Germany in Maur, Switzerland, with his parents, Ernst and Charlotte, younger brother Heiner, and paternal grandmother Pauline. In the mid-1930s, Fritz's father's business was taken from him when it was Aryanized, or cleansed of Jews. In November 1938, Ernst was arrested during Kristallnacht. After his release, the family prepared to leave. On May 13, 1939, Fritz, 7, his parents Ernst and Charlotte, his brother Heiner, 2, and his paternal grandmother Pauline, sailed for Cuba on the MS St. Louis. Cub...

  4. Child's watercolor of a house near a road leading to the Alps by a young Jewish boy

    1. Fred Vendig family collection

    Drawing of hillside cottages by Fritz Vendig, 12, when he was living as a refugee from Nazi Germany in Maur, Switzerland, with his parents, Ernst and Charlotte, and younger brother Heiner. In the mid-1930s, Ernst's business was taken from him when it was Aryanized, or cleansed of Jews. In November 1938, Ernst was arrested during Kristallnacht. After his release, they prepared to leave. On May 13, 1939, the family, along with Ernst's mother Pauline, sailed for Cuba on the MS St. Louis. Cuban authorities refused entry to nearly all passengers. Appeals were made to the Cuban and US governments...

  5. Bronze Marshal Petain medal given to a Jewish girl living as a refugee in France

    1. Renee Kann Silver family collection

    Small, bronze Marshal Petain medal given to 11 year old Renee Kann, a German Jewish refugee from Saarbrucken, Germany, for being a good student at a school in Vichy France circa fall 1940 to June 1942. Renee’s family left Saarland after its 1935 reunification with Germany and settled in France. On May 10, 1940, Germany invaded France, and 7 days later, Renee’s family was arrested by French authorities as enemy aliens. They were sent to Gurs internment camp in southwestern France. On August 14, the family was released and settled in Villeurbanne, Vichy France. In June 1942, Friedel sent Rene...

  6. Blue and white Zionist flag with a Star of David from the ship Exodus 1947

    Blue and white Zionist flag taken down from the mast of the Exodus 1947 on July 18, 1947, by Mike Weiss, a Jewish American crew member, after the ship was forced into the port in Haifa. Weiss removed the flag before the passengers and crew were forced to disembark. This flag design was later adopted as the Flag of the State of Israel, which was created on May 10, 1948. Weiss had volunteered for the clandestine effort to smuggle Holocaust survivors from Europe to Palestine. He was a boatswain-carpenter on the ship, which was under the command of Haganah, an underground Jewish paramilitary or...

  7. "Autobiographies of Hyman and Molly Lader"

    Consists of one typed manuscript, 65 pages with photographs, entitled "Autobiographies of Hyman and Molly Lader," which was put together by the Laders' children in 2001. The manuscript, based on oral and written testimonies of the Laders, is split into two parts. Hyman Lader (born Chaim Lajdor) describes his childhood and family life in Łódź; the immigration of the rest of his family to the United States; working as a professional musician; his escape to the Soviet Union, where he married; his experiences in the Red Army; and post-war immigration with his family to Israel, Canada, and event...

  8. Identification tag with name and birthdate issued to a Jewish refugee child

    1. Vera Lechtman collection

    Identification tag issued to three-year-old Georges Maringer in 1944 while in the care of a children’s home in Switzerland run by Margaret Locher, after escaping France with his mother, Irene, and father, Simon. The tag is engraved with his name and birthdate, the name of his foster parent, and the address of the home. Georges was born in France, to Jewish parents, Simon and Irene Maringer. Simon completed a Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Zurich in 1936, and began attending medical courses in Brussels. Simon and Irene were forced to flee Belgium in 1940, after the German invasion....

  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, 1990.54.2-4, and 1994.a.0250.2 for 7 other badges h...

  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, 1990.54.1-3, and 1994.a.0250.2 for 7 other bad...

  11. 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...

  12. Envelope with a Waffen SS return address found by a Jewish chaplain postwar at Buchenwald

    1. Rabbi Judah Nadich collection

    Unused envelope stamped with a Waffen SS Konzentrationslager Buchenwald return address found by Rabbi Judah Nadich during a visit to the former Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945. Buchenwald was established in 1937 near Weimar, Germany, with 88 subcamps. It supplied forced labor for SS administered German Equipment Works, the camp stone quarry, and local munitions factories. The camp was liberated by US troops on April 11, 1945. Nadich was a Jewish chaplain in the US Army from 1942-1946. He arrived in Paris just after its liberation on August 24, 1944. In August 1945, Lt. Colonel Nadich,...

  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 and 1990.54.1-4 for 7 other badges he received. Nadi...

  14. 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...

  15. 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...

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. Handkerchief

    1. Max Amichai Heppner family collection

    Created by Irene Heppner (donor's mother), 1943.

  19. 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...

  20. Colorful watercolor of the house where the painter lived as a hidden child

    1. Alfred Moritz collection

    Watercolor created by Alfred Moritz in 1994 of the house where he and his family lived in hiding in Ste. Lizaigne, France, from May-September 1940. In May 1940, the Moritz family fled Becherbach, Germany, for France. Alfred, age 10, his brother, Ernst, age 8, and their mother, Klara, were hidden in and near Sainte Lizaigne by Helene and Marthe Forestier for nearly 2 years. When his father, Ludwig, joined them in September after his release from an internment camp, the family could no longer stay in the house in Ste. Lizaigne. They lived in a nearby village until 1942, when the Vichy authori...