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  1. Hans Praschkauer papers

    1. Hans Praschkauer collection

    The Hans Praschkauer papers include biographical material, scrapbooks, writings, and printed material relating to Hans Praschkauer and his family’s pre-war life in Breslau, Germany (currently Wrocław, Poland) and their experiences in Shanghai after fleeing Germany in 1939. The collection also includes applications, medical and financial records, and ship information relating to their immigration to the United States in 1949. Biographical material includes vaccination certificates, membership cards, a birth certificate, identification cards, and photographs for Hans Praschkauer. The negative...

  2. Elizabeth Margosches family papers

    1. Elizabeth Margosches family collection

    The Elizabeth Margosches family papers consist of biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, books and other printed materials, design artwork, immigration files, restitution files, and subject files documenting the lives of the Margosches and Reik families in Czechoslovakia, France, England, the United States, and Brazil before, during, and after World War II. The papers are particularly strong in documenting Karl and Irene Margosches’ efforts to leave Czechoslovakia and eventually immigrate to the United States. The papers also contain a unique diary that Helene Reik composed in...

  3. Moshe and Fela Galek papers

    1. Rose Galek Brunswic family collection

    The papers consist of a letter of authentication for the collection from Marceli Kochanowski and two photographs of Moshe and Fela Galek (donor's parents).

  4. 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.

  5. Colored pencil drawing of barracks at Gurs internment camp made by an inmate

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Colored pencil and ink drawing made for 16 year old Johanna Hirsch by E. Ettlinger, another prisoner in Camp de Gurs, France, where she was interned from 1940-1941. It depicts the Red Cross building and two barracks at the camp. See 2004.233.4 and 5 for other drawing by Ettlinger. For Hanne, one of the worst things about the camp was that there was nothing for the inmates to do. Many crafted items to fight the tedium, and also to possibly earn a few pennies or barter with the items. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs in October 1940. In September 1941, ...

  6. Watercolor scene of barracks and snowy mountains at Gurs internment camp made by an inmate

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Watercolor made for 16 year old Johanna Hirsch by another prisoner, E. Ettlinger, in Camp de Gurs, France, where she was interned from 1940-1941. It depicts barracks with laundry and trash outside and barbed wire fence poles receding towards distant snowcovered mountains. See 2004.233.4 and 5 for other drawing by Ettlinger. For Hanne, one of the worst things about the camp was that there was nothing for the inmates to do. Many crafted items to fight the tedium, and also to possibly earn a few pennies or barter with the items. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, Germany, ...

  7. Small straw purse made in Gurs internment camp for a German Jewish prisoner

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Small woven straw purse owned by Johanna Hirsch Liebmann made by her mother Ella wile imprisoned in Gurs internment camp in France. It was given to one fo Ella's sisters, Helene Goldstein or Rose Traub, when were also interned in Camp de Gurs. Hanne, 16, also was an inmate of Gurs from 1940-1941. For Hanne, one of the worst things about the camp was that there was nothing for the inmates to do. Many crafted items to fight the tedium, and also to possibly earn a few pennies or barter with the items. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs in October 1940. In ...

  8. Epitaph and drawing of tombstones of friends buried at Gurs internment camp made by an inmate

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Colored pencil and ink drawing made for 16 year old Johanna Hirsch by another prisoner, E. Ettlinger, in Camp de Gurs, France, where she was interned from 1940-1941. It depicts the tombstones of three friends who died at the camp, Rosa Adler, Herbert Mecklenberg, and Peter Meier. See 2004.233.4 and 5 for other drawing by Ettlinger. For Hanne, one of the worst things about the camp was that there was nothing for the inmates to do. Many crafted items to fight the tedium, and also to possibly earn a few pennies or barter with the items. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, G...

  9. Ziegler family photograph collection

    1. Miriam Ziegler collection

    The collection consists of nine photographs depicting Miriam Ziegler's (née Frydman) family before World War II in Ostrowiec, Poland, and Miriam Ziegler in the Bindermichl displaced persons camp and the Strobel children's home near Salzburg, Austria, after liberation.

  10. Upright domed traveling wardrobe trunk used by an Austrian Jewish family

    1. Isidor and Fanny Bieder collection

    Trunk used by Fanny and Isidor Bieder and their daughters, 14 year old Frieda and 10 year old Gertrude, when they were forced to leave Vienna, Austria in January 1939. They shipped it to Haifa, Palestine, from Vienna in 1939 and used it when they eventually emigrated to the United States. It was purchased by them in 1933 for a cruise to Italy and Haifa, Palestine. After the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in March 1938, anti-Jewish laws were passed and Jews were targeted for persecution. Germans raided the family’s apartment, taking most of their valuables, and a little later, Isidor’...

  11. Blue crocheted change purse made in Gurs internment camp for a German Jewish prisoner

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Small crocheted blue wool coin purse made for 16 year old Johanna Hirsch by an unknown woman in Camp de Gurs, France, where she was interned from 1940-1941. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs in October 1940. In September 1941, Hanne was rescued from the camp by OSE (Oeuvre Secours aux Enfants/ Aid to Children) which placed her in a children's home in Le Chambon. When the Germans started rounding up Jews in the countryside, OSE found Hanne hiding places on two farms. In 1943, Hanne obtained false identity papers and escaped over the Alps to Switzerland....

  12. Straw purse with crocheted trim acquired in Gurs internment camp by a German Jewish prisoner

    1. Johanna Hirsch Liebmann collection

    Small woven straw bag with a crocheted strip made for 16 year old Johanna Hirsch by an unknown woman in Camp de Gurs, France, where she was interned from 1940-1941. Hanne and her mother Ella were deported from Karlsruhe, Germany, to Gurs in October 1940. In September 1941, Hanne was rescued from the camp by OSE (Oeuvre Secours aux Enfants/ Aid to Children) which placed her in a children's home in Le Chambon. When the Germans started rounding up Jews in the countryside, OSE moved Hanne to hiding places on two farms. In 1943, Hanne obtained false identity papers and escaped over the Alps to S...

  13. Morgenstern and Merkur families papers

    1. Morgenstern and Merkur families collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Morgenstern family of Barycz, Poland and Vienna, Austria, and the Merkur family of Vienna. The Morgenstern family materials include identification papers of Regina Morgenstern, who took a Kindertransport from Vienna to England in 1938; letters from her parents Taube and Mendel Morgenstern to her in London; and her diary from 1945. Also included are photographs of the Morgenstern family, including a photograph of Regina, Bernhard, and Helli Morgenstern reunited in Vienna after the war. The Merkur family materials include a book and lo...

  14. Itzkowic-Goldberg family. Collection

    This collection contains: a pre-war photo of Salomon Itzkowic posing with friends in a car ; one postcard and four letters sent by Esther Goldberg and her children Achim Itzkowic, Berthold Siegmund Itzkowic and Arthur Itzkowic in Antwerp to their husband and father Salomon Itzkowic in the Saint-Cyprien and Argelès-sur-Mer internment camps in France (August to December 1940) ; Salomon Itzkowic's certificate of registration in the United Kingdom, 1946 ; a post-war statement by Salomon Itzkowic on his family history.

  15. Ruth Danzig Rauch papers

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    The Ruth Danzig Rauch papers primarily contain biographical materials, correspondence, and emigration and immigration materials related to Ruth Danzig’s escape from Munich, Germany to Great Britain on the Kindertransport in 1939, her immigration to the United States in 1944, and the Danzig and Frank family’s life in Munich from 1939-1942. The biographical materials include documents from the International Tracing Service about Emanuel and Gerda Danzig, archival research on the fates of members of the Bravmann, Winter, and Danzig families in Germany, and school records for Ruth Danzig Rauch....

  16. 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...

  17. 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...

  18. 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...

  19. 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...

  20. Book

    1. Ruth Danzig Rauch collection

    Religion, Natural and Revealed, a book given to 12 year old Ruth Danzig by her foster family in England upon her departure for the US in October 1944. There is a handwritten inscription on the inside cover. When Ruth was 6, 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,...