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  1. Drawing of Roma wagons and their occupants by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518030
    • English
    • 1920-1939
    • overall: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 13.375 inches (33.973 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.875 inches (17.463 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)

    Sketch of 2 Roma carts and their inhabitants by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly still had strong pro...

  2. Drawing of people gathered around a tree by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518032
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.125 inches (25.718 cm) | Width: 8.000 inches (20.32 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) | Width: 7.250 inches (18.415 cm)

    Sketch of men and women assembled in groups underneath a large tree by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nel...

  3. Collage in two sections of a teacher with students by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn518040
    • English
    • 1920-1939
    • a: Height: 8.875 inches (22.543 cm) | Width: 13.875 inches (35.243 cm) b: Height: 8.750 inches (22.225 cm) | Width: 11.625 inches (29.528 cm)

    Multi-colored collage of a teacher with four students on two sheets of cardboard created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left...

  4. View from a bridge over the Ruhrorter Dock Sketch of a dock with a tugboat and barges drawn by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Ink drawing of a harbor in Duisburg, Germany, created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly still had s...

  5. Rectory house in Bodenheim Drawing of a rectory in Bodenheim, Germany by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Ink drawing of a rectory in Bodenheim, Germany created by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Following the Reichstag Fire in late February, Germany became a police state and anti-Jewish legislation was enacted. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish and in 1935, she was fired from her job due to a government decree that Jews could not work in the publishing industry. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for Eng...

  6. Drawing of a store and two houses at an intersection by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Ink drawing depicting a store and houses on a street corner. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Following the Reichstag Fire in late February, Germany became a police state and anti-Jewish legislation was enacted. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish and in 1935, she was fired from her job due to a government decree that Jews could not work in the publishing industry. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nel...

  7. The end of Church Row - Hampstead Drawing of a house and graveyard by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection

    Drawing of a residence and cemetery on Church Row in Hampstead, London by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Following the Reichstag Fire in late February, Germany became a police state and anti-Jewish legislation was enacted. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish and in 1935, she was fired from her job due to a government decree that Jews could not work in the publishing industry. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her pare...

  8. Realistic drawing of a wooden barn by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn517910
    • English
    • 1920-1939
    • a: Height: 7.125 inches (18.098 cm) | Width: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) b: Height: 13.000 inches (33.02 cm) | Width: 14.750 inches (37.465 cm)

    Sketch of a wooden building by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly still had strong pro-German feelings ...

  9. Dettelbach, Lower Franconia, Stairs to the church Drawing of a church and bell tower by a German Jewish refugee

    1. Nelly Rossmann family collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn517911
    • English
    • 1933
    • overall: Height: 13.625 inches (34.608 cm) | Width: 11.375 inches (28.893 cm) pictorial area: Height: 8.625 inches (21.908 cm) | Width: 6.625 inches (16.828 cm)

    Drawing of a church in Dettelbach by Nelly Rossmann. Nelly was a graphic designer for the Frankfurter Zeitung, a progressive newspaper in Frankfurt, Germany, when Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933. Antisemitic legislation soon took away the rights of Jews. Nelly was a Quaker, but she had been born Jewish, and in 1935, she was fired from her job due to a decree that Jews could not work in publishing. Nelly taught children crafts to support her 5 year old son, Michael. After the Kristallnacht pogrom in November 1938, her parents left for England, but Nelly still had strong p...

  10. Hildegard Simon papers

    The Hildegard Simon papers include biographical material, correspondence, poesie albums, and photographs relating to Hildegard “Hilde” Hanna Simon and her family’s prewar and wartime life in Cloppenburg, Germany, Hilde’s Kindertransport, and postwar restitution claims. Biographical material includes certified copies of Hilde’s birth certificates, a certificate of identity for immigration, a declaration of intent to become a naturalized citizen, a vaccination certificate, and a typed personal narrative. Correspondence includes copies of letters from Selma to Hilde and Ruth, a letter from Kar...

  11. Bergen-Belsen

    Contains information about the establishment of health care facilities after liberation, the activities of Hadassah and Josef Rosensaft as leaders in the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp, and the closing of the camp in 1950.

  12. Hans Posner papers

    1. Hans Posner collection

    The Hans Posner papers consists of letters written by Fanny Leschziner Posner and her friend Nils Davidsson, in Berlin, to Hans Posner in Uppsala, Sweden; nineteen photographs depicting Hans Posner and his family in Beuthen, Germany, (now Bytom, Poland) and Dresden, Germany, before he left Germany on a Kindertransport for Sweden; eighteen photographs depicting Hans Posner's life in the Tullgarn children's home in Uppsala, Sweden during World War II; a photograph of the Tullgarn children's home in Uppsala, Sweden; and an article, written by Klaus Tarnowski, the donor's friend and fellow refu...

  13. Transit pass used prewar by a Jewish refugee

    1. Erwin Tepper collection

    Transit pass used by Juda Ber Tepper in prewar Vienna.

  14. Ernst Schlochauer papers

    Certificates, correspondence, memoir, typescript texts, clippings, and ephemera, primarily related to the educational career of German emigre Ernst Schlochauer, after his immigration to the United States in 1941. Includes notes, syllabi, clippings, programs, and correspondence from his years a student at Queens College and Princeton University, and later material from when Schlochauer was a faculty members at Queens College. Extracurricular activities are documented in materials related to Jewish organizations he participated in during his student days, and programs and notes from plays he ...

  15. Friedrich Günser correspondence

    Correspondence sent and received by Friedrich Günser, originally of Vienna, Austria, who was interned by the British as an enemy alien in the early years of World War II, first in Camp Mooragh on the Isle of Man, and then at Camp Tatura in Australia. Includes one postcard from Günser's wife, Lilly (Cölestine), sent from Vienna (August 1940); a letter from Günser to relatives in New York (June 1940); an empty envelope that had contained a letter from Günser's father, Jakob, sent from Vienna (October 1941), and three letters from Günser to his wife Lilly (October 1941, January-February 1943),...

  16. UNRRA selected records AG-018-011 : European Regional Office (ERO). Subject Files

    Selected files relating to displaced persons operations in British Zone (BAOR) and the Australian United Jewish Overseas Relief Team: correspondence, statements of accounts.

  17. Scrapbook

    Includes information about the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, the outbreak of disease at the time of liberation, Josef Kramer and SS guards at the camp, the United Jewish Appeal Conference in Atlantic City, N.J., in December 1945, and the establishment of the Bergen-Belsen liberation memorial.

  18. Jan W. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Jan W., who was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1920. He recounts attending school; his parents' divorce; his father's remarriage; moving to Prague with his mother; attending gymnasium; volunteering for the army; German occupation; anti-Jewish restrictions; his grandmother bribing officials so he could join his father in Yugoslavia; futile attempts to obtain emigration visas in Zagreb; his father and stepmother committing suicide in front of him rather than living under German occupation; fleeing to Italian-occupied Ljubljana, then Trieste; assistance from a Slovak baker;...

  19. Articles relating to the war crimes trial of Bergen-Belsen guards

    Consists of photocopies of newspaper articles relating to the September 1945 war crimes trial of several Bergen-Belsen guards. Included is information about the testimony of Dr. Ada Bimko (a.k.a.Hadassah Rosensaft), selections for the gas chambers at Auschwitz, results of medical experiments on female prisoners, and atrocities committed by the SS guards at Bergen-Belsen.

  20. Publications

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Alphabetical Files

    Consists of publications (Jewish and non-Jewish, WJC and non- WJC), from various countries and organizations. There are also one or two subject files. Additional publications are scattered throughout the other subseries, but these publications were maintained as a separate subseries to preserve their provenance, as they were kept in that manner by WJC staff. Box H372. Folder 28. Great Britain, 1942, 1953 Box H372. Folder 29. Israel, Gesher, 1962 Box H372. Folder 30. Israel, World Conference on Jewish Education; An Interim Report, 1962 Box H373. Folder 1. Japan, The Seventh World Conference ...