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Item type: Archival Descriptions

  1. Portrait photograph by Judy Glickman of a Jewish Danish refugee

    1. Judith Ellis Glickman collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn41832
    • English
    • 1992
    • overall: Height: 13.500 inches (34.29 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) pictorial area: Height: 6.120 inches (15.545 cm) | Width: 9.380 inches (23.825 cm)

    Black and white photographic print taken by Judy Glickman in 1992 of Victor Borge, a Danish humorist and pianist. Throughout the 1930s, Victor toured Europe; he played music and told anti-Nazi jokes. When the Germans invaded Denmark, Victor was performing in Sweden. He did not return to Denmark, but sailed from Finland on the USS American Legion, arriving in the United States on August 28, 1940. Germany occupied Denmark on April 9, 1940, but allowed the Danish government to retain control of domestic affairs. Jews were not molested and the German presence was limited. After the Germans inva...

  3. "We Came to America: Memories of a Refugee Child"

    Consists of one memoir, 81 pages with appendices, entitled "We Came to America: Memories of a Refugee Child" by Marlies Wolf Plotnik, written in 2005. In the memoir, Mrs. Plotnik describes her childhood in Darmstadt, Germany, her memories of Kristallnacht, her family history, her family's immigration to the United States through England in 1939,and her life in the United States. Includes copies of photographs, documents, and family trees.

  4. Metal hand stamp monogram brought with a German Jewish refugee

    1. Lewin and Levi family collection

    Hand stamp with the intertwined letters S and L brought with Simon Lewin when, with his wife Violet, their daughter Marion, and Violet's son, Rolf, fled Berlin, Germany, in late December 1938 for the United States.

  5. Internationale Vluchtelingen Organisatie [International Refugee Organization IRO] Internationale Vluchtelingen Organisatie

    • Nationaal archief
    • Z21075
    • Dutch
    • 1945-1953
    • 3.90 meter; 203 inventarisnummers.

    Het archief van de Nederlandse Delegatie van het Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees bevat voor de periode 1947-1957 gegevens over diverse aspecten van migratie en opvang. Het betreft stukken over de status van Joodse, Hongaarse en andere vluchtelingen en displaced persons; de opvang van vluchtelingen in Nederland; hulpverlening; rechtsherstel en rechtspositie; emigratiefaciliteiten in Zuid-Amerika, Canada en Nieuw-Zeeland; de regelingen t.a.v. vluchtelingen in de verschillende Duitse bezettingszones; richtlijnen voor de schadeloosstelling van Nazivervolgden; correspondentie en rapporte...

  7. More refugee children arrive from Germany - in time ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    More refugee children arrive from Germany - in time for Christmas. Small refugees with their packs and bundles on arrival at Liverpool Street.

  8. Comfort in three stages ........ A little boy refugee ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Comfort in three stages ........ A little boy refugee looks sympathetically at a little girl who gave way to tears at Southampton.

  9. Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from Vienna seek shelter in England. Girl refugees with their bundles on arrival at Harwich.

  10. More refugee children arrive from Germany - in time ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    More refugee children arrive from Germany - in time for Christmas. Small refugees with their packs and bundles on arrival at Liverpool Street.

  11. Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from Vienna seek shelter in England. A little girl refugee inspecting the label worn by a little boy at Harwich.

  12. Medical examination for second batch of refugee children ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Medical examination for second batch of refugee children at Harwich. A doctor examining some of the child refugees on board the ship at Harwich.

  13. First batch of refugee children arrive in England from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    First batch of refugee children arrive in England from Germany. Little refugees sleeping among their baggage on their arrival at Harwich (Essex) in the early morning.

  14. First batch of refugee children arrive in England from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    First batch of refugee children arrive in England from Germany. Young refugees tired out on their arrival at Harwich (Essex) in the early morning.

  15. Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from Vienna seek shelter in England. A policeman talking with young refugees as they were about to disembark at Harwich.

  16. Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    Second party of refugee children arrives - 500 from Vienna seek shelter in England. The young refugees aboard the "Prague" at Harwich.

  17. First batch of refugee children arrive in England from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    First batch of refugee children arrive in England from Germany. A little girl refugee clutching a favourite doll and with her other belongings in a bag on arrival at Harwich (Essex) in the early morning.

  18. First batch of refugee children arrive in England from ...

    1. Image Collection NIOD

    First batch of refugee children arrive in England from Germany. A thoughtful little refugee on her arrival at Harwich (Essex) in the early morning.

  19. Book I: Munich 1933 - 1938; Book II: Refugee 1938 - 1946

    1. Manuskripte
    2. Erinnerungen, Erlebnisberichte, Autobiographien

    Der erste Teil enthält die persönlichen Erinnerungen des Verfassers an seinen Schulalltag als jüdischer Junge in München 1933-1938; der zweite Teil beschreibt seinen Aufenthalt in der Schweiz, seine Bemühungen um ein Ausreisevisa, den Aufenthalt im Lager Bremgarten, Ausreise und Aufenthalt in der Dominikanischen Republik (1938-1946); im Anhang Dokumente; (1933-1946)Mschr., Fotokopie, engl.

  20. Beige patch embroidered with Czechoslovakia owned by a Jewish refugee

    1. Ruth Rappaport collection

    Cloth badge embroidered with Czechoslovakia acquired by Ruth Rappaport, possibly when she worked as a foreign correspondent in Israel from 1948-1950. On November 8, 1938, one night before the Kristallnacht pogrom, Ruth’s non-Jewish neighbors in Leipzig, Germany, warned her parents, Mendel and Helene, not to leave their house the following day. Sixteen year old Ruth went out and witnessed the burning of her synagogue and other brutal acts against the Jewish population. Ruth and her parents soon left for Switzerland. After a few months, Mendel and Helene decided to return to Leipzig, but Ruth...