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  1. Homeless on the High Seas Book written by the Captain of the MS St. Louis and owned by a passenger and German Jewish refugee

    1. Fred Vendig family collection

    Memoir covering the 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, written and signed by the captain of the ship, Gustav Schroeder, and owned by Fritz Vendig who was a passenger on the ship with his family. Fritz grew up in Germany with his parents, Ernst and Charlotte, his younger brother, Heiner, and his paternal grandmother, Pauline. In the mid-1930s, Ernst’s business was taken from him when it was aryanized, or cleansed of Jews. In November 1938, Ernst was arrested during Kristallnacht. After his release, the family prepared to leave, and on May 13, 1939, they set sail for Cuba on the St. Louis with ...

  2. Silk matzah holder with a handpainted fruit and floral design for Passover created by a Jewish Polish refugee in Bergen-Belsen DP camp

    1. Leopold Schein collection

    Silk matzoh holder with pockets and a hand painted harvest design painted by Poldek (Leopold) Schein in 1948, when he was living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. It is made from parachute silk as a gift for his uncle Jacob who sponsored his immigration. It has an inscription to "Our beloved aunt and uncle Pepi and Leib Schein Belzen 1948." The paints were sent to him by hin uncle from the United States. Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939. Nineteen year old Poldek lived in Krakow with his parents Abraham and Mania, three brothers, Joseph, Herman, and Jacob, and t...

  3. Challah cover with a handpainted crest of lions with a crown with a Star of David created by a Jewish Polish refugee in Bergen-Belsen DP camp

    1. Leopold Schein collection

    Silk hallah cover with a design painted by Poldek (Leopold) Schein in 1948 when he was living in Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp. The cover is made from parachute silk and has an image of two golden lions holding a gold crown topped with a Star of David, with red flower clusters in each corner. The paints were sent to him by his uncle in the United States. Poland was invaded by Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939. Nineteen year old Poldek lived in Krakow with his parents Abraham and Mania, three brothers, Joseph, Herman, and Jacob, and two sisters Esther and Helena. Leopold, his father a...

  4. Set of US Army issue dog tags and a key on a chain belonging to a German Jewish refugee and soldier

    1. Berthold Meier collection

    Dog tags issued to Berthold Meier, a German Jewish refugee, during his service in the United States Army from April 6, 1943 to March 17, 1946. A small key is also attached to the same ball chain holding the dog tags. Berthold grew up in Littfeld, Germany with his mother, Toni. His father, Seligmann, died when Berthold was 8 years old. His mother was killed in the Holocaust after being deported to Poland's Zamosc Ghetto in April 1942. Berthold was working as a butcher in Littfeld when Hitler came to power in January 1933. Following the passage of the Nuremberg Laws in September 1935, Berthol...

  5. [Statement of Special Representative of the War Refugee Board, Roswell D. McLelland, on his knowledge about private rescue efforts during the course of WWII and the Holocaust]

    1. The Alfred Wiener documents collection

    Certification of Roswell D. McLelland, former Special Representative in Switzerland of the War Refugee Board, as to the nature of the measures undertaken to rescue Jews in the last months of the war, the involvement of private Jewish initiatives to save lives as well as the involvement and participation of the SS in such matters during the end of the war

  6. Tefilot Yiśraʼel Siddur Prayers of the Israelites Siddur given as a gift to a young Austrian Jewish refugee girl before her emigration

    1. Herta Griffel Baitch collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn539509
    • English
    • 1867
    • a: Height: 7.375 inches (18.733 cm) | Width: 5.250 inches (13.335 cm) | Depth: 1.125 inches (2.858 cm) b: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) c: Height: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm) | Width: 1.625 inches (4.128 cm)

    Jewish Siddur given to Herta Griffel by her teacher Gertrud Winter in 1940 before Herta’s emigration from Austria. 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 then ...

  7. Five Books of the Torah Die fünf Bücher Mose The Five Books of Moses Chumash brought to the US by a young, female Jewish Austrian refugee

    1. Mathilde Schwarz Rosenblatt collection

    Bound Torah brought to the United States by 16-year-old Mathilde (Tilli) Schwarz (later Rosenblatt) in February 1940, when she emigrated from Vienna, Austria. Pressed between the pages of the book, Mathilde carried photos of her parents, Gershom and Rachel, and two burned fragments of Talmudic commentary she recovered during the Kristallnacht pogrom of November 9-10, 1938. Mathilde lived in Vienna with her parents and older sister, Estera (Bertha.) On March 13, 1938, Germany annexed Austria and created new legislation that restricted Jewish life. In July, Mathilde’s sister, Estera, married ...

  8. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for the New Year (Rosh Hashanah) New Year prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first and second day of Rosh Hashanah that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig, in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in ...

  9. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for Passover Passover prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for the first and second day of Passover that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in Italy,...

  10. Prayer Book for the Holidays Prayer Book for the Feast of Weeks Shavuot prayer book inscribed by the brother of a German Kindertransport refugee

    1. Baer family collection

    Prayer book for Shavuot that belonged to Lore Baer’s brother Max and is inscribed with his name. Lore was living with her father, Hellmuth, and mother, Hedwig in Mannheim, Germany, when on November 10, 1938, during the Kristallnacht pogrom, German SS officers entered the family’s apartment, destroyed their belongings, arrested Hellmuth, and sent him to Dachau concentration camp. Lore’s mother secured his release in December 1938, and got him passage to Shanghai. In May 1939, Lore was sent to England on a Kindertransport. Lore’s brother Max was studying in Italy, and came to visit her in Eng...

  11. Notes written by Saly Mayer regarding the situation of the Jews in France including the transfer of relief to the refugee children in France, the coordination of Swiss relief to the refugee children, new instructions by Heinrich Rothmund, and other matter

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Notes written by Saly Mayer regarding the situation of the Jews in France including the transfer of relief to the refugee children in France, the coordination of Swiss relief to the refugee children, new instructions by Heinrich Rothmund, and other matters, 1944 Notes written by Saly Mayer, 1944, including: - Documentation regarding the situation of the Jews in France; - Documentation regarding Israel Kasztner and the "ARBA" [?] negotiations between SS representatives and Jewish organizations on behalf of the remainder of the Jews in Hungary; - Documentation regarding a report concerning th...

  12. Letter written by a female refugee who left Germany, November 1942, regarding the condition of the Jews in Germany; letter written by Yitzhak David Wasserman while in prison in the Netherlands; sections from letters that arrived from occupied Europe

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    Letter written by a female refugee who left Germany, November 1942, regarding the condition of the Jews in Germany; letter written by Yitzhak David Wasserman while in prison in the Netherlands; sections from letters that arrived from occupied Europe

  13. Circulars issued by the Joint Committee for the Relief of Immigrants from Romania containing testimony from a refugee who escaped from Romania to Eretz Israel regarding a January 1941 pogrom against the Jews of Bucharest, March 1941

    1. M.4 - Bulletins of the Vaad Hahatzalah (Rescue Council) of the Jewish Agency for Eretz Israel, 1937-1959

    Circulars issued by the Joint Committee for the Relief of Immigrants from Romania containing testimony from a refugee who escaped from Romania to Eretz Israel regarding a January 1941 pogrom against the Jews of Bucharest, March 1941 The circulars also contain a survey conducted by Shalom Gottlieb regarding the situation of the Jews in Romania, December 1940 and January 1941.

  14. Testimony of Kurt Schick, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding his experiences as a refugee in Shanghai, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in the Middle East, in Britain and in the Air Force

    1. O.59- Erich Kulka Collection: Documentation and testimonies regarding the struggle of the Jews of Czechoslovakia against the Nazis

    Testimony of Kurt Schick, born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, 1918, regarding his experiences as a refugee in Shanghai, as a soldier in the Czechoslovakian Army in the Middle East, in Britain and in the Air Force Born in Czechoslovakia. Transfer of Jewish refugees from Prague to Shanghai, 1939; Jewish volunteers in Shanghai join Czechoslovakian units in the Middle East and in England, 1940; situation of the Czechoslovakian Air Force in England, 1941; due to heavy losses, more Jewish volunteers admitted; training in British Royal Air Force (RAF) centers; Jewish participation, 1943; percentage of J...

  15. Documentation regarding Jewish refugees in Switzerland, including correspondence by Saly Mayer regarding the administration of the Belmont refugee camp, letters by refugees in Les Avants camp, bills and receipts for the JDC organization's expenses, and ot

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Documentation regarding Jewish refugees in Switzerland, including correspondence by Saly Mayer regarding the administration of the Belmont refugee camp, letters by refugees in Les Avants camp, bills and receipts for the JDC organization's expenses, and other matters, 1942-1947 - Documentation regarding the Jewish refugees who arrived to Switzerland from Bergen-Belsen camp in the context of the "ARBA" [?] negotiations with SS representatives, August 1944; - Lists of names of refugees and the JDC organization's expenses on behalf of the refugees; - Bills and receipts for the JDC organization'...

  16. Notes written by Saly Mayer regarding his activities on behalf of the JDC organization in Switzerland and various countries, a diary of telephone discussions, a children's home for refugee children in Versoix, and additional documentation regarding his ac

    1. P.36 - Saly Mayer Archive: Documentation regarding the activities of Saly Mayer, President of the SIG (Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland), on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)

    Notes written by Saly Mayer regarding his activities on behalf of the JDC organization in Switzerland and various countries, a diary of telephone discussions, a children's home for refugee children in Versoix, and additional documentation regarding his activities, 1943-1944 Notes written by Saly Mayer, regarding his activities on behalf of the JDC organization in Switzerland and various countries, 1943; Diary [apparently titled "Agenda 1943"], written by Saly Mayer in 1943, including: - Listings of brief telephone discussions with various people regarding the transfer of relief to the Jewis...

  17. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Marie Lewinsky, the Organization Rehabilitation Trade (ORT) representative in Switzerland regarding sending help to Josef Jaszunski, ORT Chairman in Warsaw and to the refugee camps in Switzerland

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Marie Lewinsky, the Organization Rehabilitation Trade (ORT) representative in Switzerland regarding sending help to Josef Jaszunski, ORT Chairman in Warsaw and to the refugee camps in Switzerland

  18. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Dr. Maurycy Richter, a Zionist activist and refugee from Poland in Romania, regarding the possibilities of transferring children from Poland to Romania and Hungary, Richter's aliya to Eretz Israel, dif

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with Dr. Maurycy Richter, a Zionist activist and refugee from Poland in Romania, regarding the possibilities of transferring children from Poland to Romania and Hungary, Richter's aliya to Eretz Israel, difficulties in absorption and criticism of the Polish Jewish Legation in Tel Aviv

  19. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Swiss Union of Jewish Assistance Committees (VSIA) and the Association of Swiss Jewish Welfare and Refugee Relief Organizations (VSJF) regarding help to Jewish refugees in Switzerland, transfer of

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with the Swiss Union of Jewish Assistance Committees (VSIA) and the Association of Swiss Jewish Welfare and Refugee Relief Organizations (VSJF) regarding help to Jewish refugees in Switzerland, transfer of money and documents to various countries and searches for relatives Also in the file: - Correspondence with the Social Welfare Department of the Jewish community in Basel regarding the sending of parcels of food to Poland, September-December 1942; - Letter from the Jewish community in Schaffhausen regarding the Vyhne camp in Slovakia, 26 Fe...

  20. Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with VSJF (Association of Swiss Jewish Welfare and Refugee Relief Organizations) in Zurich regarding help to a group of Jewish writers and artists in Shanghai and search for relatives

    1. M.20 - Archive of Dr. Abraham Silberschein, Geneva: Documentation regarding relief to persecuted Jews, 1939-1951

    Dr. Abraham Silberschein Archive: Correspondence with VSJF (Association of Swiss Jewish Welfare and Refugee Relief Organizations) in Zurich regarding help to a group of Jewish writers and artists in Shanghai and search for relatives