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  1. Cunard White Star blue luggage tag used by a Polish Jewish prewar emigre

    1. Rita Tewel Newberg Weiger collection

    Cunard White Star blue luggage tag used by 28 year old Ryfka (Rita) Tewel when she left Bartkowka, Poland, for the United States in July 1938. Ryfka's US visa was sponsored by a maternal aunt and her husband in Pittsburgh, and Ryfka settled there. In 1941, Rita married Benjamin Newberg, who agreed to help bring her brother and four sisters to the United States. They sent money to Rita’s siblings, but never heard from them again. On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland. The war ended with Germany's surrender on May 7, 1945. During the German occupation, at least three million Jewis...

  2. Hillel Storch papers

    The Hillel Storch papers consist of correspondence, photographic negatives, personal papers, printed materials, and subject files documenting Storch’s work on behalf of the World Jewish Congress in Sweden to rescue Jews during the Holocaust and to resettle survivors after the Holocaust. Records document his missions, activities, and meetings with Nazi leaders to save Jews from the extermination camps, and include materials about his work with Heinrich Himmler’s assistant Franz Goering and physical therapist Felix Kersten, and SS Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg about the “White Buses” oper...

  3. Prewar Jewish family in Ošelín, Czechoslovakia

    Walter with his sister Irma Rauscher Eisner and their mother Clementine Schnurmacher walk towards the camera in Ošelín around 1937-1938. Walter opens a car door with Czechoslovak license plate. Irma’s husband, Leo Eisner, embraces her. Headstone for Oskar Rauscher in the Jewish cemetery in Stříbro [Mies]: “Oskar Rauscher Aus Oschelin” with the dates March 17, 1887 to June 4, 1936. Walter eats kumquat from tree. Irma with nurse holding baby girl, Hana Miriam Eisner (later Hanna Eaton, born March 23, 1937). Several family members across generations hold baby Hanna and smile at the camera in t...

  4. Rita Sloan collection

    The collection documents the pre-war, wartime, and post-war experiences of the Slepian family of Warsaw, Poland. Included are documents, photographs, and a photograph album related to the Wasseralfingen displaced persons camp where Nathan Slepian was the director.

  5. Palestine as a haven from persecution

    Bad quality footage at first. Scenes from World War II: planes, bombs falling, explosions, tanks, soldiers running across battlefields. Narrator describes it as "the face of war," and discusses the soldiers who fought. Images of Allied soldiers. A picture of an elderly Jewish man is shown, which the narrator describes as "more horrible still than even the face of warr," as it calls to mind the horrors of the Holocaust, the horrors of the deaths of millions, innocent and defenseless. Liberation of Nordhausen and other concentration camps. 01:04:02 Superimposed over a color map of Europe are ...

  6. Levy family papers

    1. Alfred and Meta Mayer Levy family collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust experiences of the Levy family of Saarlouis (present day Saarlouis, Germany). Included are identification papers; birth, marriage, and death certificates; immigration and travel documents; and family books that document the movements and lives of Alfred, his wife Meta (née Mayer), and their children Marlyse and Theo as they encountered increasing Nazi persecution in the pre-war and wartime years in the French cities of Saarlouis, Saarbrücken, Thionville, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, as well as Luxembourg. Also included are photographs depicting Alfred Lev...

  7. Rosenwald and Stahl families papers

    1. Rosenwald and Stahl families collection

    The Rosenwald and Stahl families papers consists of correspondence, identification and travel documents, postcards, photographs, an autograph album, financial documents and restitution files, and other similar materials related to the emigration of the family of Otto and Elfriede Rosenwald, and their daughter, Helen, from Germany in 1936, to escape Nazi persecution, as well as the later emigration of Otto’s father, Simon. Includes selected photographs and documents related to the family of Helen Rosenwald Stahl's husband, Gerhard (Gerald) Stahl, documenting their own lives in pre-war German...

  8. Hauptmann family papers

    1. Hauptmann family collection

    The collection documents the post-war experiences of Ignaz, Etta, and Karolina Hauptmann, including their life in the Ulm displaced persons camp from 1946-1949, immigration to the United States in 1949, and testimony in the trial against SS Officer Friedrich Hildebrandt. Included are Ulm DP camp identification cards, Karolina’s report cards, affidavits and testimony about the family’s Holocaust experiences, restitution paperwork, declarations of intention and naturalization certificates, documents and correspondence related to Ignaz and Etta’s testimony during the Bremen county trial agains...

  9. Rose Greenbaum papers

    1. Rose Greenbaum collection

    The Rose Greenbaum papers consists of 16 photographs depicting the Feldafing displaced persons camp in Germany; an identification card issued to Rose Eisman (Rose Greenbaum’s mother) in the ghetto in Łódź (Litzmannstadt), Poland; an identification card issued to Rose Greenbaum at the Feldafing DP camp; and postcards sent to Rose Greenbaum's family in the Soviet Union from the Litzmannstadt ghetto.

  10. Ohringer and Weil families papers

    1. Ohringer and Weil family collection

    The Ohringer and Weil families papers include biographical material, correspondence, subject files, and photographs relating primarily to the wartime experiences of the Ohringer and Weil families. The collection includes identification documents, immigration material, and photographs relating to the Weil family as well as a family tree and letters Julius and Klara Weil wrote from Camp de Gurs. The collection also includes identification documents, immigration material, correspondence, a family tree, and restitution files relating to the Ohringer family. Biographical materials include family...

  11. Irving Newman papers

    1. Irving Newman collection

    The Irving Newman papers are comprised primarily of newspaper clippings of articles Irving wrote for the Jidisze Cajtung while living in displaced persons camps in West Germany between 1945 and 1949. These articles are primarily in Yiddish and describe the situations of surviving Jews in Germany, relations with Germany, and preparations for relocation to Israel. Included among the newspaper clippings is correspondence soliciting articles, acknowledging the receipt of articles, and one letter written by Irving in which he describes his detainment. This collection also includes a series of ph...

  12. Emanuel Scherer papers

    1. Emanuel Scherer collection

    The Emanuel Scherer papers include documents, correspondence, and photographic material documenting Emanuel Scherer’s work as a member of the International Jewish Bund during the Holocaust. The papers include two false Swedish passports used by Scherer and his wife; notes on the participation of the Jewish Bund in the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by Tomasz Arciszewski (Socialist, Roman Catholic, Prime Minister of Poland from 1944-1947); a list of Polish fighters in the Warsaw ghetto uprising, including Bund members; and a 1963 speech by Scherer about the Bund’s positions on disarmament, peac...

  13. Winter family papers

    1. Winter family collection

    The collection documents the experiences of Max and Anna Winter, along with their children Marianne and Stephen, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria in 1938 and immigrated to the United States in 1939 with the assistance of Joseph Bomberger, the father of Marianne’s pen pal Jane Bomberger in Reading, PA. The collection consists of immigration paperwork for the Winter family, including Austrian and Czechoslovakian passports, affidavits, and ship tickets; correspondence between the Winters and Bombergers; a small amount of biographical material related to Marianne; and photographs. Also included i...

  14. Susi Cohn Podgurski papers

    1. Susi Podgurski collection

    The Susi Cohn Podgurski collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and other documents relating to Susi Cohn Podgurski, a Kindertransport child, and her family remaining in Berlin, Germany. All postcards and letters are addressed to Susi Cohn unless otherwise indicated. Letters are arranged in the order of receipt by Susi Cohn Podgurski. The collection also includes documents related to Martin Cohn’s dental practice.

  15. Armband with a royal coat of arms worn by Danish resistance fighter

    Blue, red, and white armband with a medallion worn by Mogens Høirup, a Danish resistance fighter, after the war. This style of armband was issued by the Danish Freedom Council on May 4 and 5, 1945. The armbands, which appeared abruptly throughout Denmark, were issued by the Danish Freedom Council, Denmark's unofficial government-in-exile in England from July 1944 to May 1945. The armbands were meant to identify resistance members as legitimate combatants, rather than guerilla forces, to ensure they were protected under Geneva Convention rules defining combatants and how they should be treat...

  16. Georg and Margarethe Weiss family papers

    The Georg and Margarethe Weiss family papers include two passports ("Reisepass") issued in Vienna, Austria, to Georg and Margarethe Weiss and affidavits and correspondence from Louis Weiss regarding his support of Georg and Margarethe’s immigration to the United States. Louis was not related to the Weiss family. The collection also includes a diary written by Peter Weiss, Georg and Margarethe’s son, from 1938-1940. Peter began his diary when he fled to Belgium in 1938 and his last entry was in June 1940, after arriving in the United States. In his diary Peter writes about boy scouts, leavin...

  17. Ruth Eldar photographs

    1. Ruth Eldar collection

    The Ruth Eldar photograph collection consists of 62 images depicting the Fajtlowicz and Berlinski families in Łódź, Poland, before and after World War II, and images of the Englander Eldar family in Warsaw, Poland, before World War II and in the Soviet Union during the war.

  18. Hana Evyatar papers

    1. Hana Evyatar collection

    Consists of two letters from Edouard Robert, who helped rescue Hana Evyatar.

  19. Hena Evyatar papers

    1. Hana Evyatar collection

    Papers consist of a group of letters written to Hena Kohn [donor] during and immediately following World War II by Father Edouard Robert; a false identification card used by Kohn; and a false identification card issued to "Andre Goedweert" that was used by Azriel Gutwirth [donor's husband] while in hiding. Also includes 33 photographs that document Kohn's pre-war and wartime experiences.

  20. Strange Catholic Bishop Word of the Week Nazi propaganda poster denouncing the United States for criticizing Germany's Jewish policies

    1. German poster collection

    German propaganda poster, likely issued the week of January 19 to January 25, 1939, from the Parole der Woche (Word of the Week) series. This poster depicts a picture of Bishop Stephan Donahue, an auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Donahue was one of several American religious leaders to openly rebuke the Nazis for their persecution of Jews and other groups. The German text criticizes the United States for its discrimination against African and Asian Americans, and implies that Donahue is a hypocrite for not rebuking these policies as well. The text also reminds the r...