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  1. Handmade white flag with a blue Star of David made by a German refugee in Shanghai

    White flag with a blue Star of David sewn by Ruth Linden in 1945 in Shanghai, China, to express her vision of the future flag of Israel. The flag was sewn in the "Ladies Secondhand Store," owned by the Linden family. They provided clothing goods and tailoring services to the community in Shanghai.

  2. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 50 [funfzig] kronen note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Aaron Rauner family collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip for 50 kronen owned by Wolfgang Rauner. The scrip was issued in the camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from inmates upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Theresienstadt was a multi-use camp, acting as a settlement, transit camp, and propaganda tool, for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located near Prague, in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich. Wolfgang and his ...

  3. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 20 kronen note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Aaron Rauner family collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip for 20 kronen owned by Wolfgang Rauner. The scrip was issued in the camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from inmates upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Theresienstadt was a multi-use camp, acting as a settlement, transit camp, and propaganda tool, for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located near Prague, in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany. Wolfgang and his family fled Trier, Germany, for Luxembourg in September 1935 to escape the escalating persec...

  4. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 2 kronen note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Aaron Rauner family collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip for 2 kronen owned by Wolfgang Rauner. The scrip was issued in the camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from inmates upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Theresienstadt was a multi-use camp, acting as a settlement, transit camp, and propaganda tool, for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located near Prague, in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich. Wolfgang and his f...

  5. Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip, 100 kronen note, acquired by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Aaron Rauner family collection

    Theresienstadt ghetto-labor camp scrip for 100 kronen owned by Wolfgang Rauner. The scrip was issued in the camp in 1943. All currency was confiscated from inmates upon entry and replaced with scrip and ration coupons that could be exchanged only in the camp. Theresienstadt was a multi-use camp, acting as a settlement, transit camp, and propaganda tool, for 3.5 years, from November 24, 1941 to May 9, 1945. It was located near Prague, in a region of Czechoslovakia occupied by Germany, renamed the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and made part of the Greater German Reich. Wolfgang and his...

  6. Spanish Refugee Woman Portrait in profile of a woman by a German Jewish internee

    1. Lili Andrieux collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn155
    • English
    • 1940
    • overall: Height: 11.120 inches (28.245 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.620 inches (26.975 cm) | Width: 8.250 inches (20.955 cm)

    Drawing by Lili Andrieux, a German Jewish internee. Lili created over 100 detailed drawings of people and daily life in the internment camps where she was held from May 1940 - September 1942 in France. Alençon was a collection center for transport to Camp de Gurs in Vichy France. After surrendering to Nazi Germany in June 1940, France was divided into two zones: a German military occupation zone and Free France under the Vichy regime. Gurs, built in spring 1939 to hold refugees from Spain, became an internment center for Jewish refugees. Lili, originally from Berlin, moved to Paris in 1938...

  7. Fringed leather jacket with beaded design worn by a Jewish refugee child in Shanghai

    Received by Eva Ungar Grudin from American Jewish Charity (probably HIAS). The leather jacket was made in the United States by Native Americans and worn by Eva in Shanghai, China.

  8. Documents relating to postwar Jewish refugee activities in the United States

    Program (mimeographed) for Hanukkah celebration at "The Haven: Buffalo Jewish Club" in 1947, along with text of speech given there and lyrics of songs.

  9. Checkered dress with heart patches made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration

    1. Herta Griffel Baitch collection

    Girls dress handmade from checkered fabric with decorative heart shaped elements on the front sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a tr...

  10. Embroidered nightgown made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration

    1. Herta Griffel Baitch collection

    Handmade white nightgown with an embroidered geometric design sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men i...

  11. Embroidered blouse made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration

    1. Herta Griffel Baitch collection

    Handmade white blouse with a kaleidoscopic embroidered design sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria, before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men ...

  12. Embroidered dress made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration

    1. Herta Griffel Baitch collection

    Girls handmade white dress with a colorful embroidered design sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men i...

  13. Embroidered apron made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before her emigration

    1. Herta Griffel Baitch collection

    Handmade white embroidered apron with a floral design sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the ne...

  14. Nightgown with floral embroidery made for a young Austrian Jewish refugee before emigration

    1. Herta Griffel Baitch collection

    Handmade white nightgown with embroidered flowers sewn for Herta Griffel by her mother Beila, in Vienna, Austria before Herta’s emigration in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighb...

  15. Large suitcase with a broken handle used by a young Austrian Jewish refugee during emigration

    1. Herta Griffel Baitch collection

    Large rectangular suitcase used by Herta Griffel when she emigrated from Vienna, Austria to the United States in 1940. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every morning a truck took him and the other men in the neighborhood to a labor camp, and t...

  16. Plastic doll with a burgundy dress brought with a young Austrian Jewish refugee

    1. Herta Griffel Baitch collection

    Plastic doll wearing a handmade burgundy dress brought with Herta Griffel from Vienna, Austria to the United States in 1940. The dress and the undergarment on the doll were handmade by Herta's mother. Herta was a young girl living in Vienna, Austria, with her parents, Wolf and Beila Nagel Griffel when Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss on March 13, 1938. German authorities quickly created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. On November 9-10, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, Wolf and Beila’s grocery store was taken from them and Wolf was forced into compulsory labor. Every mor...

  17. Klick-Klack handheld pinball game with box brought with a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Anneliese Centawer Marx family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn90818
    • English
    • a: Height: 6.500 inches (16.51 cm) | Width: 4.250 inches (10.795 cm) | Depth: 1.000 inches (2.54 cm) b: Height: 6.375 inches (16.192 cm) | Width: 4.500 inches (11.43 cm) | Depth: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm)

    Klick Klack, a handheld pinball game brought with 8 year old Anneliese Centawer when she and her parents James and Recha fled Nazi Germany in July 1938. After Hitler and the Nazi regime's seizure of power in 1933, the Jewish population was subjected to increasingly harsh persecution. In 1936, Anneliese's family was forced to move from their home in Nuremberg when their block was declared Judenfrei (Free of Jews.) Anneliese was beaten up on the street by a Hitler Youth who accused the freckled, red haired girl of trying to pass for German. In July 1938, with sponsorship from Recha's half-sib...

  18. Twelve numbered tiles and box for a game brought with a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Anneliese Centawer Marx family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn90819
    • English
    • a-l: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Depth: 0.375 inches (0.953 cm) m: Height: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm) | Width: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) n: Height: 4.125 inches (10.477 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm)

    Game box with twelve numbered wooden tiles brought with 8 year old Anneliese Centawer when she and her parents James and Recha fled Nazi Germany in July 1938. The tile numbers range from 1 to 15, but there is no number 2, 7, or 11. It is similar in appearance to some versions of a game called fifteen puzzle, but there is no board or platform to contain the loose tiles and the box base seems too high to use for this purpose. After Hitler and the Nazi regime's seizure of power in 1933, the Jewish population was subjected to increasingly harsh persecution. In 1936, Anneliese's family was force...

  19. Handmade traffic board game and instructions brought with a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Anneliese Centawer Marx family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn90820
    • English
    • a: Height: 12.500 inches (31.75 cm) | Width: 27.625 inches (70.168 cm) | Depth: 0.125 inches (0.318 cm) b: Height: 0.875 inches (2.223 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) c: Height: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) | Width: 6.875 inches (17.463 cm)

    Board game made from brightly colored cut construction paper brought with 8 year old Anneliese Centawer when she and her parents James and Recha fled Nazi Germany in July 1938. It includes several pages of instructions handwritten in English and German. After Hitler and the Nazi regime's seizure of power in 1933, the Jewish population was subjected to increasingly harsh persecution. In 1936, Anneliese's family was forced to move from their home in Nuremberg when their block was declared Judenfrei (Free of Jews.) Anneliese was beaten up on the street by a Hitler Youth who accused the freckle...

  20. Two decks of Patience cards with 3 boxes brought with a young German Jewish refugee

    1. Anneliese Centawer Marx family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn90821
    • English
    • a: Height: 0.750 inches (1.905 cm) | Width: 4.000 inches (10.16 cm) | Depth: 3.000 inches (7.62 cm) b: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) c-bd: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) be: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm) | Depth: 0.625 inches (1.588 cm) bf-dg: Height: 2.625 inches (6.668 cm) | Width: 1.750 inches (4.445 cm)

    Boxed set of Patience playing cards, one red, one blue, brought with 8 year old Anneliese Centawer when she and her parents James and Recha fled Nazi Germany in July 1938. The ace of hearts in each deck is stamped with a government control stamp with the Nazi eagle. After the Nazi regime's seizure of power in 1933, the Jewish population was persecuted with increasingly severity. In 1936, Anneliese's family was forced to move from their home in Nuremberg when their block was declared Judenfrei (Free of Jews.) Anneliese was beaten up on the street by a Hitler Youth who accused the freckled, r...